James White: 7 books

Kick off your shoes and kick back with this six-pack of sci-fi cool, chock full of thugs, drugs, femme fatales, and cosmic secrets. The Mutagenic Cycle... A thief discovers the drug he stole is more than merely mind-altering, and the designer from whom he stole it more terrible than...

Silvius trusted the wrong friends and stole from the wrong enemies. Now he's one step ahead and on the run in Germany, far from the Indonesian past he cannot escape. Haunted and hunted, what's a harried thief to do? Evolve. But Evolution takes its toll, and the risks may be greater than death. Science fiction biopunk short story, 6,161 words.

Ramon is a small-time gangster with a gat and a ton of 'tude when he meets a stranger who gives him the power to see the future of anyone he touches. Strange as that may seem, it's far less strange than who the man is, and why he gave that power in the first place.Short story. 5,700 words.

Youth and beauty are the color of blood. This youth, this beauty, has a name. That name is Bliss... When a compassionate psychiatrist tries to help a self-mutilating young woman, he discovers that some maladies exist beyond the realm of science, and that some solutions are their own special horror. Short Story: 5,467 words

A journalist trapped in a soul-destroying job. A mysterious code hidden in a series of newspaper articles. One damaged god seeking redemption. All collide in one fateful interview certain to change lives and alter the future in unimaginable ways. "Apeiron, Aziz" is a 6368 word science fiction short story in the vein of Philip K. Dick.

In 1947, just after the end of the second World War, the Central Intelligence Agency began a search for, and counter to, the then-perceived Soviet menace of psychic warfare. The belief was that the Soviets had gained strategic advantage over the U.S. intelligence services by employing psychics in...

When a mysterious and alluring portrait is delivered to Parisian showgirl Pigalle, it signals the beginning of a deadly quest for the portrait’s secrets that will not only change her life, but possibly the balance of power in the world itself. In 19th Century Montmartre, Parisian showgirl...