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The Gnome Genome Project by M. W. Clark, Ph.D. A Techno-Sci/Fi-Detective thriller of 70,700 words. Copyright 2006
Their Mission Statement declared, “To bring extinct species back to life.” Death, in the Institute of Molecular Evolution and Species Resuscitation, was thus as complex and confusing as life. Was Dr. Peacock’s death lab accident or murder by Gnome? At the Institute, Gnomes were not imaginary, they were real. They were resuscitated, formerly extinct, giant raccoons of the Ice Age that were as intelligent as a human but with better memories. Police Detective Harold Hancock had to file a report on the death but was as confused by all he found; a Gnome sidekick who was also the mayor of the Gnome Dome, an Indonesian assassin, a Pan-African mercenary and the theft of a set of 10,000 year old fossilized human Hobbit teeth. He didn’t want them to be related, but Harold seldom got his wish.
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Molecular Biology of the Soul: Romance in the Age of Terror by M. W. Clark, Ph.D. A Techno-thriller of 80,000 words. Copyright 2005.
Ego, ambition, passion and power-lust destroy people: their lives, their careers, their relationships. Dr. M.B. Williams, a Los Angeles neuromolecular biologist and media celebrity is attacked by the Scientific Vigilantes, violent anti-technology activists. To them, her success in molecular repair of personality and emotional disorders is dangerous biotechnological mind control. Martin, her lover and colleague, tries to protect her from their and the world’s craziness while maintaining their personal relationship. With worry and forethought Martin only partly succeeds.
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The Ambivalence of Good and Evil, a philosophical-detective thriller
by M. W. Clark, Ph.D. of 80,000 words. Copyright 2006
“Where’s the dog?” A simple but essential question that had a complex and tragic answer. It leads to the end of a series of killings that no one had linked together. An elderly movie producer shot in the head and killed while walking his dog a warm L. A. night. They had found the producers body but not seen the dog again. The Beverly Hills cops haven’t got a clue who or why it was done; another cold – case dead-end to them. The dead-end cases usually found their way to Philosophical Investigations, successful L.A. Security and Detection firm ran by ex-academic Philosopher, Richard F. Marlow, Ph.D. Asking the right question and picking the right target was Marlow’s strengths. Southern Californians’ ethical androgyny provides examples of the worst sides of humanity; the child abusing priest, the corrupt lawyers, accountants, politicians, the committed megalomaniac; America condensed and compacted into one area. This condensation of humanity had brought him to Southern California from Ohio, that and the weather.
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Juggling Broken Glass by Michael W. Clark, Ph.D. A literary novel about success and failure in the late 20th Century Midwestern U.S.A. of 95,600 words in 340 pages. Copyright 2007
A realistic novel about sex and death for lower middle class Ohio Baby-boomers that never boomed. Although success in life can be defined in so many different ways, Samuel Johnson, did make it out of his lower middle class situation which he defined as success, but also there was a self-exile, because the rest of his family didn’t go anywhere. With his Mother’s death, Samuel has to come back and fix this one last thing for the family. His early struggles to get away from this pain-avoidance oriented Ohio life floods back on him, causing him to retrace his road to success. - For more information for certain items
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Pandalai, a fantasy by Max Porter Zasada, Copyright 2007
The young elf Pandalai has become bitter and surly. His life of enslavement to a cruel human master has not been easy. More than most, he feels the scars that centuries of war between the races have left on the world. With growing fanaticism, he dreams of running away to the Great Woods, in whose depths lies the mythic city of Kyléa. Stories say Thorkild the Wise intends to restore his people the elves to their former glory. Signed copies are available!
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