James David Audlin: 16 books

“Poetry,” a friend once wrote, “leads us past the indescribable and submerges us in the experience.” Just as the mountaintop has a natural affinity for the sky it cannot touch, so poetry, as the highest form of word-art, has a natural affinity for that which is beyond words: beauty,...

This ebook is the COMPLETE EDITION, three times the length of the physically published version! "The Circle of Life" presents, in written form, traditional oral Native American sacred teachings from the Iroquois, Lakota, and other traditions. The author, James David Audlin (Distant...

An American who cannot afford to live in his own house escapes to Panamá. Finds himself in Heaven - a beautiful land with wonderful people - but finds corrosive civilization coming ever nearer this fragile alien world. In this travel memoir, novelist James David Audlin tells of his adventures...

The fabric of time and space have been ripped apart by humanity. But nobody seems to care; everyone is involved in the latest fad, an illegal pastime called The Game. Legend speaks of the Unknown King, who supposedly is coming to set things right, but time, literally, is running out. With the...

A retired skater is driven by guilt over her husband's death to return to the village where she was raised, lacking the will to live any longer. But oblivion will not take her; she begins hearing stories whispered to her from walls and floors – from boards of funguswood, taken from a species of...

Young as he is, Adam understands that being king would shackle him more tightly than being the lowest slave. He watches birds and clouds pass by overhead as if this land surrounded by an impassable Wall is less than nothing. What is out there - the destroying chaos they warn him about,...

"Dreams are essential to me. I do my best to pay attention to them. Not only do I often write them down, but I think about them for years afterwards. It is occasionally made clear to me that they are meant to be turned into stories or poems or plays, or even songs. ...Dreams can be funny, irritating,...

The Sun is sputtering and guttering with only a pallid reddish light. Dark night has nearly completed its victory over day. What few human beings are left cower in a last village awaiting the eventual death of the world. Two Hunters struggle for supremacy over a female of a nonhuman race. A...

These stories frequently border on the improbable, if not the outright fantastic; I have been lifelong a writer of stories that leave behind the mundane, ordinary, “realistic” world of our everyday experience, and I believe that such stories can pull our minds out of the ruts of culturally conditioned...

Across a landscape blasted by war, littered with still-crawling body parts and computer-driven fighting machines that continue to fire at random, a former soldier wanders, not really alive and not really dead, finding he has the unwanted power to heal. Accompanied by his dozen despicably loathesome...

From his dreams the most popular virtual realities are constructed – but he has disappeared into the abandoned tunnels beneath the beautiful city. And Alina Nemitz, a top executive with the Nets, will be thrown from her good life unless she finds him. But that forces her to return to her...

Given the wild gift of scrying, Adam is subjugated to a mad emperor and slavers, meets the Prince of the Upper Air, runs from the Assassin's Guild, gets lost in an impassable desert, is overwhelmed by the maddening magic of the East, and finally finds his place among a people literally in the middle...

A sculptor returns from a tired bitter war to Paris - or a dream of Paris - and the glimpsing visions of the actress Argent de Resznay. But then she disappears and in her memory he begins to sculpt her reality. The government, meanwhile, prepares a device that will shut down the unconscious...

A boy turns into an orange to escape his tormentors. A planet with a million gods and only one human. A little deal with the Devil. Shadows haunt a traveller’s night. A young girl whose dolls are alive. The room that shouldn’t be there, beyond the bedroom wall. A living boy rides with the Caravan...