Paul Brockman: 8 books

Kidnapping is sanctioned in the Galactic Confederation. They call it Collection. They even have a special department for it. Only aliens are Collected, of course, so that’s all right. Sometimes the Aliens Abduction Administration makes mistakes, though they hate to admit it. To their credit they...

There's going to be trouble. Alien gods have decreed that all the mortals in the Polyverse must be integrated for their own good. Zeus is really upset about it, which doesn't bode well for anyone who gets in his way. Storm clouds are gathering over Mount Olympus. The alien mortals charged with implementing...

Recollections of the author's often amusing and sometimes hair-raising hot-air ballooning experiences. Glimpses into a twenty-six year passion with ballooning that pursues the author from the tranquillity of the English countryside to the Puget Sound region of Western Washington and the high desert of Nevada

The highest form to which matter can aspire is the star; everything else is mere rubble, and the universe is littered with it. Or course there is also a lot of emptiness through which the fast-moving interstellar traveler can safely move, but tearing through the universe at relativistic speed and...

In a depressed mill town, out-of-work history teacher Jonathan Strange has reached a low point in a life liberally pockmarked with low points. On a planet many light-years distant, isolated bands of natives offer human sacrifices to their gods. Deep in the galactic core ancient beings make a decision...

The living do not, in the normal course of events, fraternize with the dead—except on the planet Dirt, where the boundary between them is a lot more frangible. With cunning and a stolen spell the grinfangs, Crum and Ampit, have broken the death barrier and unwittingly revealed its flaw. Though...

Jack Pepper is between adventures and he's bored. When a mysterious hooded man offers him a fortune to undertake an easy job it seems too good to be true. All he has to do is find something that has been sought without success for centuries. Seems simple enough: discover the whereabouts of a lost...

Mythical continents are always mysterious, romantic, and attractive—except of course to the people who already live there. Those indigenous to the undiscovered continents are usually too busy with the day-to-day business of obtaining food and fixing their leaking roofs to worry about the romantic...