Patricia Anthony - Happy Policeman [SCIENCE FICTION ANTHONY]

• Life goes on quietly behind the glowing paisley barrier that surrounds the Torku-controlled town of Coomey -- until Loretta Harper, the pudgy Mary Kay rep and perennial Homemaker of the Month, is found dead in the woods.

Daniel da Cruz - Texas Triumphant [SCIENCE FICTION DA CRUZ]

• After two failed attacks on the young Republic of Texas, Moscow has been vaporized and the Russians are really mad.

Stephen Gould - Wildside [SCIENCE FICTION GOULD]

• On a Texas ranch inherited from his Uncle Max, 18-year-old Charlie Newell discovers a gateway to an unspoiled, parallel Earth teeming with extinct wildlife.

Fritz Leiber - A Spector is Haunting Texas [SCIENCE FICTION Fritz Leiber - A Spector is Haunting Texas]

• Two hundred and fifty years from now, after the nuclear wars and the triumph of Texas over the rest of the U.S.A., the land of Lyndon the First is a nightmarish wonderland of politics-by-assassination, cyborg slavery, and fascism in action, where hormone-enhanced Lords rule over Dwarfish peons.

Mark Leon - The Unified Field [PBRACK SCIENCE FICTION]

• Blasting off to the stars on a bizarre quest, Alan Fain and hacker Lew Slack face history-changing circumstances involving the Holy Grail, Atlantis, and an alien goddess shacked up on a ranch outside of Austin.

Ardath Mayhar - The World Ends in Hickory Hollow [SCIENCE FICTION MAYHAR]

• In a world devastated by nuclear holocaust, an East Texas family is threatened by a tribe of harpylike women seduced by madness and driven to bloodlust and violence.

Michael Moorcock - Tales from the Texas Woods [SCIENCE FICTION MOORCOCK]

• The western and the fantastic collide in this larger-than-life collection featuring Sherlock Holmes, the famed Masked Buckaroo, and El Lobo Blanco.

Susan Torian Olan - The Earth Remembers [PBRACK SCIENCE FICTION]

• A wanderer joins forces with a subterranean race of radiant mutants and a tribe of Comanches to destroy the oppressive post-Holocaust government of Tesharka, located at what was once the Texas-Mexican border.

Stanley Shapiro - A Time to Remember [SCIENCE FICTION SHAPIRO]

• David Russell's meticulously planned voyage back through time to prevent the Kennedy assassination -- and his brother's death in Vietnam -- goes terribly wrong.

Mark Shepherd - Elvendude [PBRACK SCIENCE FICTION]

• To preserve him from an attack by evil elves, King Traighthren magically alters his son Aedham's memory and hides him on Earth in a Dallas suburb.

Midori Snyder - The Flight of Michael McBride [SCIENCE FICTION SNYDER]

• Fleeing spirits made visible by his mother's deathbed ritual, Michael finds that the Texas frontier of 1876 is as mysterious -- and as dangerous -- as the nightmare he left behind.

Sean Stewart - Galveston [SCIENCE FICTION STEWART]

• During Mardi Gras in the year 2004, a tidal wave of magic floods the streets of Galveston and the island is forever divided -- between the real city and the city locked in an endless carnival.

Crystal Wood - Fool's Joust [SCIENCE FICTION WOOD]

• At a Texas Renaissance festival, a cattleman joins forces with an old Traveler to thwart the murderous conspiracy of their mutual nemesis.