David R. Beshears

A cluster of old buildings sits isolated on a quiet, desolate plain. Overhead, the sky is a smear of reds and purples, a shell enclosing the world....

She is obsessed by her purpose. Such is the failing of a zealot. Aldwyn stood before the portal. I believe the greater danger, by far the greater danger, is the disruption that is created by her efforts....

Lieutenant Connelly is one of six Monitors sent 100,000 years into the past to study the tribes of two recently discovered humanoid species. Each Monitor lives alone in isolated outposts located far apart from one another around Alpha Valley....

Two years have passed since Jim's ordeal on ShadowWorld. Now 15 years old, the son of the governor has spent these intervening years on Kimara, capital of the Frontier Worlds....

A young soldier is injured in Afghanistan. For the next two years, as he is moved around and finally home to Washington State, his family never leaves his side....

John Smith is the first person ever sent downstairs due to a mix-up in the paperwork. While this is sorted out, he is assigned to work at Hades' local television station....

A tenuous truce between Shylmahn and humans had kept the peace for more than five years, but there was never a doubt as to who were the masters of the planet....

A team of scientists travels the 80 floors of a strange black tower, where each floor is an alternate world fraught with danger....

The invasion had ended long ago. The remnants of humanity survived as best they could on reservations or in tiny communities out of sight....

A team of scientists travels the 80 floors of a strange black tower, where each floor is an alternate world fraught with danger.

A team of scientists travels the 80 floors of a strange black tower. Each floor is an alternate world fraught with danger....

A team of scientists travels the 80 floors of a strange black tower, where each floor is an alternate world fraught with danger....

Brings gritty realism to the nightmare of an overwhelming invasion of Earth. This is not "slam-bam-welcome-to-Earth" stuff. This could happen....

A team of scientists travels the eighty floors of a strange black tower, where each floor is an alternate world fraught with danger, striving to reach the top floor and the dark force behind the creation of the looming monolith.

A team of scientists travels the eighty floors of a strange black tower, where each floor is an alternate world fraught with danger, striving to reach the top floor....

The Caravan is just one more tribe traveling a post-apocalyptic landscape, foraging through the dead cities of the past. The tribe is friendly and well-adapted to the nomadic life....

I bequeath to my nephew, Jacob Quigley, all that I own, all that I dream, and all that I am, in the hope that my life's quest will become his quest....

A team of scientists travels the 80 floors of a strange black tower, where each floor is an alternate world fraught with danger, striving to reach the top floor and the dark force....

A team of scientists travels the 80 floors of a strange black tower, where each floor is an alternate world fraught with danger....

December 1960. Thirteen-year-old Jenny Harper is exploring the caves with her brother Bill and their best friend Mike. They see a strange shimmering light up ahead....