William Walling: 26 books

In American Labor and American Democracy, William English Walling drew on his close association with Samuel Gompers and other leaders of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) to write the authoritative history of the labor movement in the first quarter of the twentieth century.Walling's position...

"Be fruitful," advises Judeo-Christian Scripture, “and multiply, and replenish the earth." Eight centuries BCE global population is inferred to have been roughly five millions, soaring to between 50 and 60 millions when Julius Caesar fell, and escalating in the mid-17th century to...

The 1st of a 2-book series, ARMINIUS relates the early saga of an actual barbarian in antiquity, later a legionary recruit and Roman citizen, and later still an equestrian knight. He is said to have led a coalition of tribal warriors to victory in a famous battle that annihilated three entire Roman...

Perplexed by an unearthly stranger's inexplicable appearances, Cosmologist Roger Shore is dismayed when the alien entity’s provenance becomes obvious by making him unable to do other than respond to any knowledge of faster-than-light spacecraft development. Baffled when only his voice registers...

It is year 142 of the German World Empire, reckoned from 1933 when the vilified Nazi régime was born. Tenured history professor and seasoned retrotemporal researcher Dr. James Silverthorne reluctantly accepts the key role in a desperate conspiracy aimed at obliterating Deutschesweltanreich tyranny...

Colonizing the galaxy’s near reaches, the myriad, mutated children of Earth are loosely governed by Imperium Terrestriana's hierarchy, an elite, long-lived neohuman minority that proactively fosters Convention, a body of interstellar civil law featuring Code Duello; under its precepts, trillions...

Conditioned to enhance his inborn ability to acutely perceive another's emotional state, Klavik, the security director of the massive world Kraan ruled by the sole monarchy in neohuman interstellar society. He investigates the the sovereign's assassination while on holiday in parsecs-distant...

Chin Zhonghua Renmin Gonghehuo, the Peoples Republic of China, achieves a late 21st century technological triumph with a “Great Leap Upward,” the deployment of a “space elevator” rising from an equatorial mountain peak in Kalimantan to an enormous microgravity production satellite in geosynchronous...

A more immediate threat than climate change, the energy shortage dilemma inspires reclusive multi-billionaire Lyman Dysart, called “The Stockholder” by his solely owned comany's numerous employees, to forward the development and advent of controlled nuclear fusion power generation. One plasma...

A “miracle enzyme” enables carbon dioxide-oxygen conversion within the organism, opening the hostile Martian environment to colonization. After a quake, the aqueduct fails; waterless Burroughs Enclave teeters, may become a "lost colony." Former intel op and alpinist Jesperson and his work-partner...

It is lighter than air! Joseph Heller's remarkable novel, Catch-22, used black humor to illustrate the trials and tribulations of men at war. This humorous spoof of the modern U.S. aerospace industry employs plain vanilla humor to satirize the idiocies and frustrations afflicting individuals...

The 1st of a 2-book series (THE VARIAN DISASTER to follow) tells the fictional saga of an actual barbarian Legionary, later a Roman citizen, and later still an equestrian knight, who led a coalition of tribal warriors to victory in a famous battle that annihilated three entire Roman legions. Certain...

"Be fruitful,"  advises Judeo-Christian Scripture, “and multiply, and replenish the earth.’ Eight centuries BCE the global population was inferred to have been roughly five millions, soaring to between 50 and 60 millions when Julius Caesar fell, and escalating in the mid-17th century...

  An obscure biomedical researcher develops Bevvinase, the “miracle enzyme” capable of driving carbon dioxide-oxygen conversion within the cell tissue proper, and thereby opens the hostile Martian environment to permanent colonization. Decades later, the Burroughs Enclave teeters...