The Oasis is a wickedly satiric roman a clef about a group of urban American intellectuals who try unsuccessfully to establish a rural utopian colony just as the Cold War is setting in and fear of the atomic bomb is reaching panic proportions. At its appearance a few months later in the U.S., the novel caused a scandel, alienating a number of McCarthy's friends.

—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times

Reginald Humphrey, middle aged and widowed, is a museum researcher whose quiet, bookish life is shattered by obsession. After years of working at the Historical Society in Niccalsetti, New York, he impulsively begins spying on the attractive young woman who moves across the way from his apartment. He soon finds himself invading her life, watching her every move within her tiny rooms.

Into his life walks Dr. HC Siekel, a mysterious, enigmatic seller of glass eyeballs and hi-tech surveillance equipment. Pressured by Siekel, Reginald becomes the ultimate voyeur, a man who puts his life aside in order to spy upon a woman whom he desires but can never have. As his life begins to crumble around him, we watch Reginald struggle to keep his obsession and finally his sanity, in check.

But this is a new world and a new millenium. Reginald soon realizes that he cannot simply turn off the all-seeing eye that rules his life, and his failure brings his story to a devastating conclusion. Chilling, uncompromising and horrifying, "Obsession" offers the reader the dark side of today's technological progress and what may lie behind the end of privacy.

Perhaps a little unsettling, perhaps a little weird, perhaps a little ghastly, perhaps a little scientifically questioning, but easy-to-read entertaining, fun short stories that will charm you while leaving you with time and energy to pursue more serious things in life.

The book opens with a story about lonely ghosts in a town in Germany. Another is about the ghost of a Japanese samurai trying a little too hard to get into samurai heaven. One is about a near alien abduction in a small town in the American West. One is about a military scientist who invents a scent that makes people submissive and aids ants in taking over the world, or is it his guilt? Another concerns a spy with multiple sclerosis trying to hide his illness and his encounter in a German town with something from beyond. And one is about a spore that comes to earth in a meteorite impact in Nevada and delivers a timely message to the inhabitants of our small blue planet.

He remembers racing down a desolate West Texas highway. He remembers a cop who pulled him over for speeding. He remembers a shotgun-brandishing cook chasing him out of a diner. And he remembers a life abandoned, but he cannot put together the jigsaw puzzle that brought him where he is: blind, wanted by the law, and in the company of this invisible stranger.

In the backcountry town of Armbister, Texas, where temperatures hover around a hellish 110 degrees, Paul’s memory, intangible as a heat mirage, lies just beyond his reach, and God may be a coyote.

Kyle Waterman, a mild-mannered insurance agent from Denver, quits his job and leaves his family to hop the first Greyhound to anywhere. He thought he was escaping, but with the help of a drug-laden Indian named Emerson Redcreek and a macho, arrogant wreck named Bill Capresci, Kyle finds himself transported to the world of Portobello: a Naked Lunch-type universe where gophers talk, drugs are king, and Kyle is the leader of a growing anti-establishment cult called Silverdew Gincane. With members joining at every stop, Kyle’s cult quickly becomes one of the greatest enemies of the U.S. government. He relocates his people to Paraguay--only to have an army and the ghosts of his past follow and destroy him.

It begins in the Pacific Northwest. Guthrie decides to take a walk. He doesn't know how far he's going or where he's going. A journey of any length begins with a single step and Guthrie takes it, facing east.

Wonderful things happen as he walks. He begins to draw people to him. The group grows and walks and heals.

The random walk: It never ends, it just changes; it is not the destination which matters, but the journey.

—Harlan Ellison

"One of the most ambitious, subtle novels by an American in the last twenty years."

“These books are a fine series which shows a good historical background.”

—Timothy Lane

“Fantasy that is woven upon a weft of solid classical knowledge, yet is also colored by a creative imagination of great scope and power. An alternate reality that will live inside the mind long after the book is finished.”

The Urban Refugee Camp sits in the shadow of a crystal gray city. Inside are ghosts in cast-off clothing, wrapped in stolen blankets and damp sleeping bags, human detritus left in the wake of a changing world and unseen by the city that grows with no thought of the bones beneath its cornerstones.

For the almost dead, there is nowhere else to go...until an old man and his daughter appear at the gate one evening in early October. The air is just beginning to grow its winter teeth as residents realize how flimsy their clothing is. The old man's voice is rich and thick and sweet, like Turkish coffee with too much raw sugar. The camp has never had a storyteller before...