Robert A Boyd: 14 books

The time is fifty years in the future. Ordinary fire ants have mutated: their reproductive rate has skyrocketed, and they are advancing around the world eating everything in their path. Human civilization is crumbling under the onslaught. What's left of the 45th Division struggles against hopeless...

Here is the answer to the degradation wrought upon classic fantasy by role-playing games! From muscle-bound heroes and bumbling wizards to a vegetarian vampire and Hollywood zombies, this tongue-in-cheek anthology rips them all with fine impartiality. Included is the infamous 'Roadquest!', charitably...

The starship was plain to see even in low earth orbit. It was roughly the size and shape of Manhattan Island."Please understand...we never wanted anything like this to happen." The Attorney General was sweating from more than just the summer heat. "This was the act of a madman! We're sincerely...

"The Anthology Goes 'Bump' In The Night" Here is a collection of short stories and articles, sometimes humorous, sometimes informative, sometimes horrifying - and sometimes all three at once - on a theme of the macabre, black humor, and delicious horror. Herein is revealed the awful...

The sad part was that we all meant well... Everyone—us, the humans, the Dreamsingers—really wanted to do the right thing for all concerned. And as usual with good intentions, the results were anything but. You know you're having a bad day when you suffer two political coups, you and all...

It was our first alien contact... ...and it was a crisis right from the start. We avoided an interstellar war by sheer luck, but both sides were still on edge, and the situation was explosive. Now we were trying the uncharted waters of interspecies diplomacy. No one knew what to expect: we had never...

It felt so good to be home again... It took two tumultuous years, but we finally completed the First Accord with the humans. We took honest pride in our achievement, and we were thankful to leave that er'trxxda world behind us. Triumphant, and dragging our tails, we came home to d'enchia. It...

Have you ever pondered the 'might-have-beens' of life? Have you ever wondered if your destiny might have taken a different course? Brenda Hayward, former centerfold model, found herself caught up in such a web of 'might-have-been': an alternate future filled with terror, danger, and sheer, unspeakable...

Brian Adelbard MacKenna - former submarine captain; life-long knight-errant who fought to preserve civilization through the horrors of the Collapse; Admiral of earth's tiny space fleet during the Contact Crisis - dead man. His skills were desperately needed to face a crisis beyond anything the Concord...

Life in 1876 was simple, if unsatisfying. Nate Poole, heavyweight prize fighter, wanted nothing more in life that a reason to live. World-weary and cynical, his life was without meaning - until the far distant future intruded into his world. Now he finds himself plunged headlong into a desperate rebellion...

A Young Adult demi-novel. A new generation comes forth to take up the quest for interspecies harmony...For young E'draMinr, starry-eyed 'Dark Grays' recruit, life isn't nearly as simple as it seemed as a hatchling. His worst nightmare —a self-centered, foul-tempered human...

A Chance To Start Over...R'nemReth was an outcast all her young life. A troubled, unstable youngling, she fled the crèche at an early age to take up a skittish life on the streets. Now she faced a lifetime in a remote penal nest for the crime of surviving by any means necessary.She...

Disaster Is Brewing In Donner Pass...Winter in the High Sierras has always been a challenge, but this time is different. Global warming has spawned an endless series of blizzards the likes of which have never been seen before. Even the proud Union Pacific is reeling from the onslaught.But...

If one is good... War is brewing between the Ic'nichi and the humans. A rising tide of human fanaticism threatens to tear the Concord apart, and the Ic'nichi have just made a stunning discovery: the humans have their own version of Admiral MacKenna! By best estimates, Mac can double the effective...