<p>“A highly original cautionary tale...on more levels than the reader might first suspect.” —Analog “A jaunty, corkscrew ride through a skewed future.” —Alan Dean Foster “First-rate satire, with a serious core" - Library Journal The year is 2110, and the Bank owns everything.. It’s called simply The Bank because its full name is six hundred and sixty-six words long. Over its first ten years it secretly gained controlling interests in Alphabet, Disney, China National Petroleum, Deutsche Bank, Colombia, Fox, CNN, Egypt, and the Mafia—among many other international corporations, cartels, and governments. After the Last War and the Big Overheat, The Bank finally emerged into the open, to exercise what had long been predicted as the final stage of economic evolution: monopoly. By the year 2110 it has owned Earth (et cetera) for four generations. It’s eliminated armies and armaments, governments and war, cash and crime, discrimination and religion. It’s transformed the world genetically, scientifically, culturally, and economically. It employs, is owed by, and so rules everyone. Everyone in the world. Except Monaghan Burlew. Burlew’s styled himself as a freelance poet since the day he completed minimum schooling and became of Working Age. Since that day he’s never earned a currency unit. Therefore, by law—and the Bank is rigidly legalistic— he pays no percentages and owes no taxes. He owns nothing, and buys nothing, so the Bank can’t “assist the client in question to find the most suitable employment”—i.e., tell him where and at what to work. He’s the only man on the planet outside the System. The only one who’s free. He has no idea that very shortly, he will be Earth’s last hope of surviving an interplanetary catastrophe....</p>

Stepfather Bank

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Poyer, D. C.

Science Fiction

Northampton House Press

<p>Before Harry Turtledove and Cherie Priest There was THE SHILOH PROJECT "The uneasy peace that has existed for more than 100 years between the Confederate States and the United States may be over...." -- Civil War Times The South won at Gettysburg in 1863. Today the Mason-Dixon Wall divides Union and Confederacy . . . and many other things are different from the world we know. There was no Russian Revolution and no World War Two. The Wright brothers died in fiery crashes, and gigantic Zeppelins cruise the skies. Nevertheless, a shaky peace has prevailed between North and South. For decades now, steaming endlessly up and down the North American coast from the Antilles to Nova Scotia, the Great Line has been the guarantor of the policy (formulated by Winston Churchill in 1955) of "containment" of the expansionist Yankees and their Czarist Russian allies. Each modern line-of-battle ship takes seventeen years to build and strains the resources of its sponsor government. Only now . . . that ring of guns and steel may be broken. For the Union has a powerful new weapon, tested on Yokohama during the just-concluded Yankee-Japanese War. Unless the Confederacy can obtain its secret for the Empire, the long balance of terror may tip into global disaster. Only Colonel Aubrey Lee Quidley IV, Confederate States Army Intelligence, knows of the Shiloh Project's existence. Until the leak. In a police-state South, there are those who want disaster for their own ends. The vengeful "conditionally emancipated" Resistance . . . the fascist, genocidal Kuklos League . . . and a beautiful Yankee mole inside the highest levels of the Richmond Government. Together, they’ll turn Quidley's mission into a treacherous triangle of conspiracy, betrayal, and chaos. Whoever wins, the Confederacy will never be the same. . . .</p>

The Shiloh Project

Literature & Fiction

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Stepfather Bank

The Shiloh Project