Frederick Ross: 4 books

Yakob Ascher is an expert in forbidden computers. When a young engineer in the wilds of the Colorado territory is accused of building one, Ascher is sent to pass judgement on man and machine.

The ghast he was hunting was small. It must have barely imagined itself into existence under the house before he smelled it. He and Aggy had tackled much rougher ones, ghasts which had imagined all kinds of interactions with the world. Buy Aggy was gone, and it wasn’t the same without Aggy.

Kidnapping, blackmail, slander; it's business as usual for the telepathic elite of Minsland. Though the abduction of Alison Yewghast as part of a political dispute is unsurprising, no one expects the kidnappers' telepathic blocker to thrust her into the mind of a young farmer. But Joseph...

"We've got to roll in thirty minutes. The fat one has scars all over his face. He's no use. That thin one's missing teeth. Make sure he doesn't open his mouth. The one with the missing ear needs a hood, not a hat..." Yeah, the elves don't actually work in that old tree anymore, but they still make the stuff. Besides the tree films better than the factory.