Dean Wesley Smith: 321 books

In their first few weeks in space, Captain Jonathan Archer and the crew of the Enterprise™ have already discovered several new species and explored strange new worlds. But each planet brings new discoveries...and new dangers. BY THE BOOK The Fazi, whose ultraregulated culture ranges from strict conversation...

Superheroes in the gambling universe sometimes find themselves helping people who normally don’t need help. Poker Boy met Bob on Christmas Eve and proceeded to take his money at the table because Bob played horrid poker and did so while being a real jerk. But Bob needed that money for a very special and personal reason. A reason Poker Boy found worthwhile.

Weird things happen on Bryant Street. Even when cleaning a double-car garage. Late spring, very little sports on television, weather threatening to rain so no golf for Jack. Time to clean out the garage. Also time to find the old lamp in a pile of garbage. Of course, Jack rubs the lamp...

  Danny needs a voice. Dora needs a way to deliver her jokes besides selling them to other comics. Both write and love comedy. Both love coffee. Their attraction catches them both by surprise. Can they solve each other’s problems? The origin story of the famous crime-solving comedy team, Danny and Dora.

In a casino in Oregon, Poker Boy beats a man fair-and-square at the poker table while a stranger watches, a stranger who knows too much about Poker Boy and his job. It turns out that much of Poker Boy’s future rested on that one hand of cards. A classic Poker Boy story with true heart.

Poker Boy wants nothing more than to be left alone in a good game of poker. But a cherub circles overhead in the poker room wanting to talk. And Poker Boy knows this cherub and knows the little guy represents trouble. Even worse, the question the cherub asks Poker Boy could change a lot of futures. How really, really annoying.

Most of humanity died one ugly day four years before. Now the survivors wanted to rebuild. Angie Park’s job consisted of telling survivors outside of Portland, Oregon, of the plans to rebuild. But some survivors wanted nothing to do with civilization. And some thought killing worth...

Mary Jo kills people for money. After a thousand years, she knows patience and skill and how to cover her tracks. Mary Jo loves her job. She makes a lot of money as a hired assassin. She also loves vodka and orange juice. Passionately, but not in a dangerous way. After a job well done,...

Poker Boy saved the world a number of times, but never from an alien. With the help of his sidekick, Front Desk Girl and Laverne, Lady Luck herself, Poker Boy must do battle with an alien snake across the only battlefield Poker Boy knows: a poker table. The stakes are higher than in the original Garden of Eden. To make matters worse, Poker Boy hates snakes.

A beautiful woman sits down at a poker table and Poker Boy knows instantly everything feels wrong. She seems beautiful, but her appearance hides something far more sinister. Poker Boy, in a fair hand of cards, finds himself in a fight to save an entire table of innocent card players...

  Poker Boy works as a superhero in the gambling side of the world. And he reports to Stan, the God of Poker. Very bothered, Stan comes to Poker Boy with a problem. Very personal and unusual. Another superhero working for Stan faces monster problems, and not the kind of problems...

Editing an anthology can prove tricky business. Wonderful stories sometimes find themselves on the rejection pile simply because they do not fit in the editor’s vision of that anthology. So, editor Mark Leslie decided to save some of those amazing stories for this latest volume of Fiction River:...

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short Fiction Pulphouse Fiction Magazine: Back after over twenty years. A three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, Pulphouse returns with eighteen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction. No genre limitations, no topic...

Even superheroes can’t always save the girl. As one of the greatest superheroes in all of the Gambling Universe, Poker Boy does everything he can to help, but when the damsel in distress refuses to be rescued from her own deadly breasts, what’s a superhero to do? “The Old Girlfriend...