Barry: 2877 books

A hardboiled Hanukkah story set in a dystopian future. Its last line is rather memorable.

First contact did not go well. Survivors are fleeing Earth, into a hostile galaxy where alien intelligence and weaponry rule. Can a deserted planet offer refuge? Or will the genetically engineered Alicians finish the job started on Eden? While Blake fends off attacks, Micah seeks allies, but his plan...

After eighteen years the quarantine that has protected humanity’s survivors on the planet Esperia - including the children who have been genetically upgraded, intellectually surpassing their parents at the age of twelve - is about to end. Mankind won't stand a chance without external help. Yet in...

In 2063, Earth's overheated climate and war-ravaged cities are near breaking point. A new habitable planet named Eden is humanity's last hope, but the first two missions have failed to return. This is the story of the third and final mission to Eden. What really awaits the crew of four as they...

When NASA finally loses its funding and the media claims that the public has turned its back on space, only James Looven and Amy, his daughter’s best friend seem to be outraged. Railing against the world’s stupidity, they soon realize that support for the space program is more widespread than...

Can a hero be made of the unsuspecting? Can mankind place all its hope on the shoulders of one? A halfling by the name of Mateo Hamlik, more versed in the ways of comfort, takes to the road in this epic tale of good versus evil. Leaving the quiet familiarity of his home, Mateo pursues a stranger...

Will Brown and John Smith are friends. Ordinary men with ordinary names... except where John comes from his happens to mean ‘one who yearns for the sweetest cessric pond, even before the third milking of Teuhleuhlah’s teat’. For John is from the planet Tau Ceti 42, and first met Will when abducting...

It's been several years since the Dragon Lord, Damion Omensent, was forced to confront the Dragon God to save his daughter, Leia, causing the Dragon God to break the Pact of the Gods, and allowing the gods to return to the wars that once consumed the world. Now, a new threat arises as Etaz, the God...

It has been several years since Leia, the Princess of Dragons and daughter of the Dragon Lord, Damion Omensent, destroyed the massive horde of dragonspawn that had been threatening the tiny mountain city of Sevria, putting an end to their plans to wage war against mankind. Now, the hordes have reemerged...

Multiple Personality Disorder is a dialogic poem told entirely in free verse. It consists of six entities. Five of them are portions of the principal personality which have fragmented as a result of duress, a similar causation to that theorists suggest brings about multiple personality disorder. These...

On the white painted veranda of a post colonial Bombay hotel, two men meet in the stifling heat of the approaching monsoon. They are a generation apart and their ideologies diverge but they share the same turbulent moment in time; a time of upheaval and monumental shift that is changing their world...

During Queen Victoria’s reign, in the years between 1837 and 1901, Dublin experienced great change. It slipped from its position as second city of the Empire, while at the same time it developed as Ireland’s administrative and commercial centre. The advent of the railway and steam-ship resulted in...

Love is a little word that we make big, and real love is important to everyone. Each stage of our development changes our definition of it. It is our constantly changing barometer about where we are at any moment of our lives. It is a lifelong quest for all of us, male and female, young and...

There are a few moments in history that create the destiny of a nation. For Israel, one of those moments was 1917. This moment of history touched the imagination and sympathy of people. It repaired two millennium of injustice to the Jewish people by restoring them to their ancestral homeland....