Dean Wesley Smith: 321 books

Exploring the vastness of space: The mission of the massive Starburst ships. Chairmen Cole and Echo of the Starburst ship Star Trail get wrapped up in finding lost ancient cultures. And in the process find far more than they ever could imagine. Starburst takes the vast Seeders Universe and expands it yet again beyond where humans dare go.

Poker Boy and his team have saved the world countless times. The Ghost of a Chance agency follows a similar charge. Superheroes and ghosts, all working for the greater good. But as two new members join the Ghost of a Chance team, both ghosts and superheroes face a challenge that threatens to...

Poker Boy and his team must stop a possible war between fairies and trolls. A war guaranteed to start at a poker table in the hidden Okey-Doke Casino. So everyone figured who would be better to stop it than Poker Boy. One problem: Poker Boy didn’t even know fairies and trolls existed.

Mark Estes flaunted his money, abused his power, cheated on his wife, and most of all loved to eat. Warned that a dozen sugar cookies would kill him, he ate them anyway. So how would Mark Estes deal with the ultimate diet challenge? A story that answers the simple question: Do diets come from hell?

When you’re a superhero, you don’t often notice pink shoes. Poker Boy is usually far too busy saving the world from evil, saving dogs from sure death, or playing professional poker, his day job that pays the bills of being a superhero. But when Poker Boy sees the pink shoes at the entrance to the Silicon Suckers city, he knows Super Keno is in big trouble.

Tombstone Dan loved his life in the Old West. He loved building a wonderful home in a hidden canyon. Over a hundred years later, known as one of the best forensic historians in the business, Margaret “Maggie” Lund finds herself faced with the impossible task of discovering if Tombstone...

Concord Coaches hold a mythical place in the history of the Old West. Colfax Shaw and Anna Taber, born a hundred years apart, find a compatible interest in one old Concord. Anna studies the math of situations and timelines while Colfax focuses on the history of it all. But both the math...

When a contract comes in on another assassin, Mary Jo must discover why. Assassins don’t kill assassins. With four ancient-order assassins working together, anything becomes possible. Sex, murder, and diamonds. And pretty much in that order. Only Mary Jo Assassin can deliver all three with a smile and a vodka orange juice drink in her hand.

Many light-years away from the safety of the Federation, the Starship Enterprise stands guard over an unstable alien world whose unique natural resources could change the balance of power throughout the Star Trek galaxy. Against all odds, Captain James T. Kirk and his crew have preserved the...

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short Fiction A three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up eighteen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction. No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude,...

Torn from the universe by an insatiable cosmic vortex, Earth is trapped in the grotesque parody of reality called the Maelstrom -- along with thousands of other planets, millions of species, billions of warring creatures...all swirling toward ultimate destruction. ALIEN HORROR It materializes...

Lost in the Delta Quadrant, Captain Janeway and the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656 have been seeking a way home for years. But their quest is interrupted by encounters with an astonishing variety of foes - and a few new friends. This collection contains four tales that exemplify all that''s best...

While contact with explorers, missionaries, and traders made a significant impact on natives of the Eastern Woodlands, Indian peoples cannot be solely understood from the historical record. Here, in Societies in Eclipse, archaeologists combine recent research with insights from anthropology, historiography,...