Richard T. Schrader

Forty months after the archeological discovery of a hibernating man in a sarcophagus unleashes a rage virus that transforms the entire population of the Earth into infectious ghouls, the Outbreak is over and the infected have won their world war zombie. That is when the Dying Time truly begins. With all organized resistance fallen, the final would-be survivors, armed with their lists of rules, boxes of food, and small caches of weapons, come to discover that their fortified bunkers aren't nearly enough. Three hundred years later, the remnants of mankind survive in orbital space aboard ultra-secure technological habitats. Even with superior science and hard won experience, they can't restore a permanent foothold on their quarantined planet. Mysterious accidents and inexplicable disasters continue to thwart every endeavor. When a prodigy physicist opens a time portal into the past, Captain Critias of the Marshal Service’s Virgil Ludus and his combat android Carmen travel back to join the Dying Time survivors surrounding the fabled King Louie. Once there, they hope to help mankind survive the ultimate extinction cataclysm and make their future survival happen at all.

In a Norse viking age of axes, sorcery, giants, and dragons - world history and cultural mythology are both equally real and taking place. The globe trekking saga of Fastillion Lemonde begins at his childhood home on the Isle of Vinland during the Norse colonization of the Americas in the 11th Century. Fastillion, of mixed race and the adopted orphan son of his village's Christian priest, he is a young man that can move among the diverse cultures both Norse and native, pagan and Christian. Trained in woodcraft by his native mentor and with refined education from his book-learned father, Fastillion has both the mind and skill that can allow him to survive. When an ancient tribal enemy of all returns from nearly disbelieved legend, they come armed with black magics and the cannibalism-fueled immortality of the Windigo shamans. The viking Norsemen and their native Micmac allies must shake off generations of lazy peaceful living to once again take up their warrior ways. From the author of the ten books of the Gravewalkers survival horror series.