Dai Alanye: 15 books

Readers take note! This book is not a Medieval slasher epic but a serious look at 11th century society and alternate history, containing realistic people and situations. It is character-driven and has minimal sex and gore. In other words, within the limits of fiction, if time travel were feasible...

Frankie, the daughter of Charly Biscoe—heroine of You'll See! and Not That I…—is graduating from high school and [maybe] heading to college. Her strongest field is physics but her mother advises chemistry and her father suggests the Marine Corps. The US is at war, and Frankie's cousin—thwarted...

Valys disguises herself as a boy with the name of Wil to protect her family's interests during an uncle's treasure-hunting expedition. She makes both allies and enemies, the latter including a young man named Gardt who envies Wil "his" status, and demeans Will's red hair. After hard...

The sequel to You'll See! Our hero and heroine continue their unrelenting campaign on the borders of love. Charly gains a wonderful new admirer, seemingly the man of of her dreams. But dreams and nightmares are related, are they not? And the rumors start. Chuck begins to play the field among the lower...

Remember that come-on? Recruiting Now! A team of men and women. Sounded pretty good, didn't it? Especially the mixed company. Perhaps you foresaw romance, eh? How's that going for you? You probably paid no attention to the subtle warnings of sickness and death — simply assumed...

Despite past triumphs the times are still unsettled, and many of our heroes and heroines have either new problems or continuing old ones. Cam is forced to view his fate, while Saipele must build a new life. Jack and Edith have additional difficulties to overcome. Sheila has managed to get herself...

Everyone nowadays seems to have problems—money, health, politics, personal commitment, sexual identity. But if you think things are tough in the present, wait till you experience the Middle Ages. None of that mythical Arthur-Galahad-Merlin stuff but the real thing—harsh laws, unruly peasants,...

Roger Fee had to forfeit his payment after failing to deliver Vera Dardani to her fiance/captor. Vera promised to make it up to him, but her money hasn't shown, so he has no choice but to accept another rescue assignment, even though it's in one of the most vile places in the explored portion of the...

Alien abduction. Three young Marines are plucked from a battlefield of the Korean War by anonymous creatures. A Girl Scout troop is taken from a wilderness area while on a camping trip. They can't view or communicate with their captors, instructions coming only via pictures on a video screen. It looks...

Roger Fee and Vera Dardani travel to the cloud-enshrouded planet of Grenard to search for Vera's former husband, who has foolishly chosen to investigate the aboriginal Dryads, a vicious race of cannibals. They venture individually into the dark jungle, hoping that stealth and camouflage will...

Short stories, essays, excerpts from longer works, poems and doggerel, miscellaneous subjectsTwo mysteries, two historical essays, a short horror story (mild), humorous tales, critiques of two literary genres and an anonymous author, a brief travelogue, a stolen fairytale, a verbal cartoon...

Two losers in the game of love are drawn together by need--not of love but of shelter. He has lost his wife, home and job--she and her child have been abandoned. Both have experienced romance, and neither wants any more of that, thank you. Here is their story, opening as they are about to meet,...

Finding it medically impossible to conceive children, Jancy and her husband take a shortcut to adoption. They find a penniless young woman, pregnant and unwed, and with the help of a pliable midwife, birth the baby in their home. After payment the woman disappears, never to bother them again....

Two naive Terrans of opposite sexes, accidental and unwilling travel companions, each spend their life savings on a journey to a primitive criminal-ridden planet, pursuing different but equally unlikely dreams. These two innocents, these babes in the wood, these pathetically hapless greenhorns are...