Thomas F. Monteleone

Stories on the Mexican border. The protagonists comprise illegal immigrants, policemen, exploited workers, men seeking revenge, bigots and abused women. With an introduction by the author.

The decision was an important one. That's why Sarah left her job in England to visit her grandmother in Spain. There she could think things out - decide whether to marry her childhood sweetheart. She hadn't counted on meeting someone like the darkly handsome Carlos Hastings, and she was hypnotized by his alluring charm. It didn't seem to matter that she was an English nanny and he a man of the world. But it did complicate her decision. Should she settle for the secure life of a doctor's wife, or risk an affair with a man who would never have serious feelings about her?

" ... Henry Hobhouse takes six commercials plants - sugar, tea, cotton, the potato, quinine and the coca plant - and shows how man's need, or greed, for these products has changed the face of history and shaped destinies."

"Return to vampire hunter Anita Blake's thrilling world in the next novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Crimson Death. Anita Blake faces new, even deadlier enemies as she and the people she loves confront major changes in their lives, in the latest thrilling adventure featuring the fan favorite vampire hunter"--

Monteleone, as we have come to expect, creates believable characters who draw the reader into fast-paced, well-plotted narrative written in a deceptively simple dark style. Although the book is cast as a thriller, it deals with the battle of Good versus Evil as much as Stephen King does in The Stand. From the multiple viewpoints of Monteleone's characters -- a cabby, an audio technician, a homemaker, a self-made businesswoman, a secret agent -- we glimpse nightmares in which they all remember dying in the Holocaust, sadistically tortured by Der Klein Engel, a Jewish minion of the monster Mengele. None of the terrified dreamers are Jewish and none were born before World War II. All are experiencing bizarre blackouts. Psychiatrist Dr. J. Michael Keating begins to discover more than synchronicity as patients describe these disturbances. The work of a federally funded Ph.D. uncovers the sickening reality behind the dreams and an FBI agent and a rabbi discover that the dreamers are being shockingly and systematically killed, each with a death-camp tattoo appearing on the bodies.

[The jaunt]( / Stephen King -- The vaporization enthalpy of a peculiar Pakistani Family / Usman T. Malik -- The shaking man / Gene O'Neill -- Dyscrasia / Ashlee Scheuerman -- The Rondelium girl of Rue Marseilles / Emily B. Cataneo -- The angel chaser / Erik T. Johnson -- Psychic shock / Ian Shoebridge -- Peppermint tea in electronic limbo / D.J. Cockburn -- Second chance / John R. Little -- The effigies of Tamber Square / Jon Michael Kelley -- Shades of naught / Lori Michelle -- The prince of faces / James Chambers -- Simulacrum / Jason V. Brock -- Shutdown (Poem) / Marge Simon -- Lead me to multiplicity / Peter Hagelslag -- Cataldo's copy / Christian A. Larsen -- The neighborhood has a barbecue / Max Booth III -- Tomorrow's femme (Poem) / Marge Simon -- The Jenny store / Richard Thomas -- Night guard / Erinn L. Kemper -- A new man / Willima F. Nolan -- Voyeur / John Everson -- Kilroy wasn't there / Pat R. Steiner -- In the nothing-space, I am what you made me / Paul Anderson -- Dura mater / Lucy A. Snyder -- Ruminations / Rena Mason -- Good and faithful servant / Thomas F. Monteleone -- Twelve kilos / Patrick Freivald -- Breathe you in me / Mason Ian Bundschuh -- 18P37-C, after Andrea was arrested / Elizabeth Massie -- No fixed address / Gary A. Braunbeck.

FICTION / illustrated by L.A. Spooner: Robot / Mort Castle -- It can walk and talk, and you'll never have to worry about housework again / Dyer Wilk -- Keepsakes / Hal Bodner -- The cosmic affair / Darren Speegle -- Unity of affect / Jason V Brock -- 101 things to do before you're downloaded / Scott Edelman -- The star-filled sea is smooth tonight / Thomas F. Monteleone -- Hopium den / John Skipp -- Dog at the look / B.E. Scully -- Executive functions / Lucy A. Snyder -- Pink crane girls / Autumn Christian -- The cause / Laura Lee Bahr -- Ditch treasures / Richard Chizmar -- I am the doorway / Stephen King -- The immigrants / Erik T. Johnson -- Key to the city / Cody Goodfellow -- The pretty puppets / Marc Levinthal -- The Goldilocks zone / John R. Little -- The Jupitar drop / Josh Malerman -- The Universe is dying / Paul Michael Anderson -- Fallen faces by the wayside / Gary A. Braunbeck -- What goes up must come down / Janet Harriett -- Gumi-bear / Erinn L. Kemper -- The fourth law / Marge Simon -- POETRY / by Marge Simon, illustrated by Orion Zangara: In accordance with the laws -- Less than human -- Future imperfect: broken laws.

A loint of paw / Isaac Asimov -- The advent on Channel Twelve / C.M. Kornbluth -- Plaything / Larry Niven -- The misfortune cookie / Charles E. Fritch -- I wish I may, I wish I might / Bill Pronzini -- FTA / George R.R. Martin -- Trace / Jerome Bixby -- The ingenious patriot / Ambrose Bierce -- Zoo / Edward D. Hoch -- The destiny of Milton Gomrath / Alexei Panshin -- The devil and the trombone / Martin Gardner -- Upstart / Steven Utley -- How it all went / Gregory Benford -- Harry Protagonist, brain-drainer / Richard Wilson -- Peeping Tommy / Robert F. Young -- Starting from scratch / Robert Sheckley -- Corrida / Roger Zelazny -- Shall the dust praise thee? / Damon Knight -- Bug-getter / R. Bretnor -- The deadly mission of Phineas Snodgrass / Frederik Pohl -- Fire sale / Laurence M. Janifer -- Safe at any speed / Larry Niven -- The masks / James Blish -- Innocence / Joanna Russ -- Kin / Richard Wilson -- The long night / Ray Russell -- Sanity clause / Edward Wellen -- If at first you don't succeed, to hell with it! / Charles E. Fritch -- The question / Laurence M. Janifer and Donald E. Westlake -- The perfect woman / Robert Sheckley -- The system / Ben Bova -- Exile to hell / Isaac Asimov -- Inaugural / Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini -- Martha / Fred Saberhagen -- Kindergarten / Fritz Leiber -- Landscape with sphinxes / Karen Anderson -- The happiest day of your life / Bob Shaw -- The worlds of Monty Willson / William F. Nolan -- Punch / Frederik Pohl -- Doctor / Henry Slesar -- The man from when / Dannie Plachta -- Crying willow / Edward Rager -- January 1975 / Barry N. Malzberg -- Mail supremacy / Hayford Peirce -- Mistake / Larry Niven -- Half-baked publisher's delight / Jeffrey S. Hudson and Issac Asimov -- Far from home / Walter S. Tevis Swords of Ifthan / James Sutherland -- Argent blood / Joe L. Hensley -- Collector's fever / Roger Zelazny -- Sign at the end of the universe / Duane Ackerson -- Stubborn / Stephen Goldin -- The re-creation / Robert E. Toomey, Jr. -- The better man / Ray Russell -- Oom / Martin Gardner -- Merchant / Henry Slesar -- Don't fence me in / Richard Wilson -- The die-hard / Alfred Bester -- The first / Anthony Boucher -- Eripmav / Damon Knight -- Feeding time / Robert Sheckley -- The voice from the curious cube / Nelson Bond -- I'm going to get you / F.M. Busby -- The room / Ray Russell -- Dry spell / Bill Pronzini -- Bohassian learns / William Rotsler -- Star bride / Anthony Boucher -- Latest feature / Maggie Nadler -- Chief / Henry Slesar -- After you've stood on the log at the centre of the universe, what is there left to do? / Grant Carrington -- Maid to measure / Damon Knight -- Eyes do more than see / Isaac Asimov -- Thang / Martin Gardner -- How now purple cow / Bill Pronzini -- Revival meeting / Dannie Plachta -- Prototaph / Keith Laumer -- The rocket of 1955 / C.M. Kornbluth -- Science fiction for telepaths / E. Michael Blake -- Kindergarten / James E. Gunn -- A little knowledge / Paul Dellinger -- A cup of hemlock / Lee Killough -- Present perfect / Thomas F. Monteleone -- A lot to learn / Robert T. Kurosaka -- The amphibious cavalry gap / James E. Thompson -- Not counting bridges / Robert L. Fish -- The man inside / Bruce McAllister -- The Mars stone / Paul Bond -- Source material / Mildred Downey Broxon -- The compleat consummators / Alan E. Nourse -- Examination day / Henry Slesar -- The sky's an oyster; the stars are pearls / Dave Bischoff -- The man who could turn back the clock / Ralph Milne Farley -- Patent rights / Daniel A. Darlington -- Alien cornucopia / Walt Liebscher -- The last paradox / Edward D. Hoch -- Course of empire / Richard Wilson -- Synchronicity / James E. Thompson -- Sweet dreams, Melissa / Stephen Goldin -- The man on top / R. Bretnor -- Rejection slip / K.W. MacAnn.