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  • Last Contact
    Gene Doucette
    Hey you guys, there’s an alien spaceship! In space! Right next to Sunset Station! Obviously, they’re here to speak to the intrepid team of astronauts aboard the station, because otherwise, why would they park right next door? Let’s all just sit back and wait for first contact. Or, hey, there are whole governments with spacefaring technology! Maybe one of them wants to take a cr...
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  • There Is No Cat
    Gene Doucette
    A region of space with different laws of physics. A child’s story about black holes. An interoffice memorandum presaging the end of the world. An alien named Gerald.These are some of the stories you’ll find in There Is No Cat, a collection of short fiction by Gene Doucette. Each story is unique, both in the topic and the telling, as Gene never seems to approach his stories the ...
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  • The Wisdom of Sand
    Gene Doucette
    On a distant islandWrimmad City, the largest settlement on the remote island of Botzis, is in many ways a low technology backwater fishing village, but for one detail: it boasts the seat of Unitism, the world’s second-largest religious order. Polister Calidon, the leader of that order, has lived a politically complicated but otherwise decently tranquil existence, up until the d...
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  • The Wrong Side of Sundown
    Gene Doucette
    It’s Sunset Station! Where astronaut Kris Standard and her crack team of fellow astronauts work tirelessly to bring us the future of space travel for a fraction of the cost! On Sunset Station! cost-effectiveness is baked into in the design specs! Really! 'Ask not how to do it, ask how to do it for less' is our motto! When it comes to Sunset Station! keeping six people alive in ...
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  • Graffiti on the Wall of the Universe
    Gene Doucette
    Annie Collins emerged from the wreckage of the last invasion of Sorrow Falls with a spaceship in her garden, a loud alien idea in her head, and-because returning to college was out of the question-a lot of free time.What she chose to do with the idea, the spaceship, and all that free time, kickstarted a worldwide technological boom. Now, nine years later, it seems as if not a d...
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  • The Ocean in the Sky
    Gene Doucette
    The mystery deepensIn the heart of the authoritarian country of Wivvol, astronaut Xto Djbbit is about to embark on his first mission off-planet when the exiled High Hat of Chnta comes to him with an unusual request: help smuggle a Septal artifact out of Wivvol. It’s an impossible favor to ask of Xto, yet impossible to refuse; the High Hat of Chnta is also his uncle.Awaiting for...
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  • The Madness of Kings
    Gene Doucette
    Welcome to The Middle Kingdom!In the nine Middle Kingdoms it is believed that the royal families are the direct decedents of the gods of Dib: Honus, Javilon, Ho Nita, and Pal. The gifts of the gods are not passed to every member of the royal families, however, and none of these 'unblessed' children can ever become king or queen and, due to the displeasure of the gods, they cann...
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    14,33 €

  • Immortal
    Gene Doucette
    'I’m something like sixty-thousand years old, and I’ve probably thought more about my own death than any living being has thought about any subject, ever. I used to be unduly preoccupied with what might constitute a 'good death', although interestingly, this has always been an after-the-fact analysis. What I mean is, following a near-death experience, I’ll generally perform a q...
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  • Fixer Redux
    Gene Doucette
    Someone’s altering the future, and it isn’t Corrigan BainCorrigan Bain was retired.It wasn’t something he ever thought he’d be able to do. The problem was that the job he wanted to retire from wasn’t actually a job at all: nobody paid him to do it, and nobody else did it. With very few exceptions, nobody even knew he was doing it.Corrigan called himself a fixer, because he fixe...
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    13,43 €

  • Immortal From Hell
    Gene Doucette
    Not all of Adam’s stories have happy endings'Paris is romantic and quests are cool. But the threat of a global pandemic kind of sours the whole thing. The good news was, if all life on Earth were felled by a plague, it looked like this one could take me out too. It’d be pretty lonely otherwise.'--Adam the immortalWhen Adam decides to leave the safety of the island, it’s for a g...
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  • The Frequency of Aliens
    Gene Doucette
    Annie Collins is back!Becoming an overnight celebrity at age sixteen should have been a lot more fun. Yes, there were times when it was extremely cool, but when the newness of it all wore off, Annie Collins was left with a permanent security detail and the kind of constant scrutiny that makes the college experience especially awkward.Not helping matters: she’s the only kid in s...
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  • Immortal Stories
    Gene Doucette
    From the pages of the Immortal book series, it’s Eve.'...if your next question is, what could that possibly make me, if I’m not an angel or a god? The answer is the same as what I said before: many have considered me a god, and probably a few have thought of me as an angel. I’m neither, if those positions are defined by any kind of supernormal magical power. True magic of that ...
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  • Unfiction
    Gene Doucette
    When Oliver Naughton joins the Tenth Avenue Writers Underground, headed by literary wunderkind Wilson Knight, Oliver figures he’ll finally get some of his wild imaginings out of his head and onto paper.But when Wilson takes an intense interest in Oliver’s writing and his genre stories of dragons, aliens, and spies, things get weird. Oliver’s stories don’t just need to be finish...
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  • Immortal and the Island of Impossible Things
    Gene Doucette
    'I thought I’d miss the world.' --Adam the immortalAdam is on vacation in an island paradise, with nothing to do and plenty of time to do nothing.It’s exactly what he needed: beautiful weather, beautiful girlfriend, plenty of books to read, and alcohol to drink. Most importantly, either nobody on the island knows who he is, or, nobody cares.'This probably sounds boring, and may...
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  • Immortal
    Gene Doucette
    'I don’t know how old I am.My earliest memory is something along the lines of fire good, ice bad, so I think I predate written history, but I don’t know by how much. I like to brag that I’ve been there from the beginning, and while this may very well be true, I generally just say it to pick up girls.' --Adam the ImmortalSurviving sixty thousand years takes cunning and more than...
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  • Hellenic Immortal
    Gene Doucette
    'Very occasionally, I will pop up in the historical record. Most of the time I’m not at all easy to spot, because most of the time I’m just a guy who does a thing and then disappears again into the background behind someone-or-other who’s busy doing something much more important. But there are a couple of rare occasions when I get a starring role.' --Adam the ImmortalAn oracle ...
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  • Immortal at the Edge of the World
    Gene Doucette
    'What I was currently doing with my time and money . . . didn’t really deserve anyone else’s attention. If I was feeling romantic about it, I’d call it a quest, but all I was really doing was trying to answer a question I’d been ignoring for a thousand years.'In his very long life, Adam had encountered only one person who seemed to share his longevity: the mysterious red-haired...
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  • Fixer
    Gene Doucette
    Corrigan Bain can see the future... but only about five seconds of it, and only what’s in front of him. He also can’t really control it, and on bad days is pretty positive he’s losing his mind. Still, whether it’s a gift or a curse, Corrigan uses his ability to help people when he can.But when FBI agent Maggie Trent asks for help on a case, Corrigan’s tenuous grip on reality is...
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    13,36 €

  • The Immortal Chronicles
    Gene Doucette
    Adam has a lot of stories to tell, which is fair given he’s been alive for over sixty-thousand years. All of the stories are interesting, many involve alcohol, and five are collected for the first time in The Immortal Chronicles!The books in this collection take Adam from the Barbary Coast of the 1500’s, to England at the turn of the 19th century, Vienna of 1815, Chicago in the...
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    12,91 €

  • The OTHER Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook
    Gene Doucette
    Have you ever wondered:--How to perform an appendectomy?--How to rob a bank?--How to take a bullet?--How to deliver a baby in a manger?--How to summit Mt. Everest?--How to mend a broken heart? ...
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    8,75 €