Chris Lowry: 7 books

Amateur astronomer Rob Crowe is hand picked by the President to negotiate a peace treaty with invading aliens on the Moon. A special agent is sent to protect and escort him to the meeting, but along the way they are ambushed. It's a race against time, rogue government agencies and double dealing alien spies to get Rob to the Moon to save the world from destruction.

Is it okay to wear kevlar on a blind date? Not your normal decision making process, but then the Marshal of Magic is not a normal kind of guy. He's supposed to be a hardened tough former Battle Mage turned ultimate enforcer of magical law as handed down by the Judge. But he's always...

In Ballast to the White Sea is Malcolm Lowry’s most ambitious work of the mid-1930s. Inspired by his life experience, the novel recounts the story of a Cambridge undergraduate who aspires to be a writer but has come to believe that both his book and, in a sense, his life have already been “written.”...

The 1940 Under the Volcano—hidden for too long in the shadows of Lowry’s 1947 masterpiece—differs from the latter in significant ways. It is a bridge between Lowry’s 1930s fiction (especially In Ballast to the White Sea) and the 1947 Under the Volcano itself. Joining the recently published...

Swinging the Maelstrom is the story of a musician enduring existence in the Bellevue psychiatric hospital in New York. Written during his happiest and most fruitful years, this novella reveals the deep healing influence that the idyllic retreat at Dollarton had on Lowry. This long-overdue...

Galactic omens. Apocalyptic wastelands. 14 mind-bending stories of future worlds and dark fantasy on the brink of oblivion. Fate is never written in the stars. From embattled lunar colonies to inter-dimensional courtrooms and the murky alleyways of Victorian London, there’s no telling when...

In Food and Power in Hawai`i, island scholars and writers from backgrounds in academia, farming, and community organizations discuss new ways of looking at food policy and practices in terms of social justice and sustainability. Each of the nine essays describes Hawai`i’s foodscapes and collectively...