Douglas Dandridge
Doug Dandridge was born in Venice Florida in 1957, and grew up with a love of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror. After tours in the U S Army and the National Guard, and many years of Study at FSU (BS Psychology and Minor in Biology) and Alabama (Master's in Clinical Psych), he decided to pursue his dream of writing. He has worked as a Therapist, Manager and every odd job you can think of, in Prisons, Mental Health Centers and State Agencies. After fourteen years of writing Doug has decided to try the self publishing route. His love of the fantastic has led him to write in the genres of Science Fiction and Fantasy.
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Doppelganger: A Novel of Refuge
Military fantasy
Kurt von Mannerheim had never wanted to become ruler of the Empire that became. He had enough of leadership during the bloodbath that was the Eastern Front of the Second World War. But the Gods of Refuge had prophesized such, and humans had come to the world in their numbers in fulfillment of that prophecy. And so he had become first King, and then Emperor, welding the disparate peoples together into one Empire. He had not wanted to take on the Nazi Empire of Tarakesh, the evil transplanted from his world by the follower of Hitler, Heinrich Stuppleheim. He had seen enough war, and wished to spare his people the evils of even a winning campaign. And then his bride, the Empress Gwenara Elyssisu von Mannerheim, was kidnapped from his Capital like the merest commoner. Now Kurt must ride the trail of war again, if he wishes to save her from a fate worse than death. And her soul from a fate far worse than damnation.
Kurt must do this alone. But his Immortal friends, Ismael Levine and Paul Mason-Smythe, are determined to stand with him, no matter the cost, no matter his wishes. The fate of the free peoples of the world is at stake. To lose will give Heinrich and the Death Gods he serves the advantage they seek. And that advantage will lead the world down a dark path from which there will be no recovery.
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Kurt von Mannerheim had never wanted to become ruler of the Empire that became. He had enough of leadership during the bloodbath that was the Eastern Front of the Second World War. But the Gods of Refuge had prophesized such, and humans had come to the world in their numbers in fulfillment of that prophecy. And so he had become first King, and then Emperor, welding the disparate peoples together into one Empire. He had not wanted to take on the Nazi Empire of Tarakesh, the evil transplanted from his world by the follower of Hitler, Heinrich Stuppleheim. He had seen enough war, and wished to spare his people the evils of even a winning campaign. And then his bride, the Empress Gwenara Elyssisu von Mannerheim, was kidnapped from his Capital like the merest commoner. Now Kurt must ride the trail of war again, if he wishes to save her from a fate worse than death. And her soul from a fate far worse than damnation.
Kurt must do this alone. But his Immortal friends, Ismael Levine and Paul Mason-Smythe, are determined to stand with him, no matter the cost, no matter his wishes. The fate of the free peoples of the world is at stake. To lose will give Heinrich and the Death Gods he serves the advantage they seek. And that advantage will lead the world down a dark path from which there will be no recovery.
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The Shadows of the Multiverse
Science fiction
No one knew where the gates came from, the wondrous planet sized globes whose millions of facets led to destinations across the Universe. No one knew what had killed the thousands of civilizations that had once roamed space across the billions of years since the origin point. Whatever it was, it was back, with a vengeance, destroying the intelligences that might challenge its hegemony of multi-dimensional space. It is up to a few humans, endowed with the very powers the creatures’ fear, to save sentient life in the Universe, and end the threat forever.
Lucille Yamamoto is a warrior, the captain of an Earth Navy battle-cruiser. Howard Turner is a wealthy scientist, physicist turned archeologist, trying to discover the secrets of the ancients. Siobahn Hunsicker is the child of mercenaries, controlling powers she does not understand. Together the three are the only hope for the extant intelligences of the Universe. If they have the time to survive the learning curve and challenge the weavers of reality.
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No one knew where the gates came from, the wondrous planet sized globes whose millions of facets led to destinations across the Universe. No one knew what had killed the thousands of civilizations that had once roamed space across the billions of years since the origin point. Whatever it was, it was back, with a vengeance, destroying the intelligences that might challenge its hegemony of multi-dimensional space. It is up to a few humans, endowed with the very powers the creatures’ fear, to save sentient life in the Universe, and end the threat forever.
Lucille Yamamoto is a warrior, the captain of an Earth Navy battle-cruiser. Howard Turner is a wealthy scientist, physicist turned archeologist, trying to discover the secrets of the ancients. Siobahn Hunsicker is the child of mercenaries, controlling powers she does not understand. Together the three are the only hope for the extant intelligences of the Universe. If they have the time to survive the learning curve and challenge the weavers of reality.
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The Deep Dark Well
Science Fiction
Pandora Latham was just a country girl from Alabama turned Kuiper Belt miner. The last thing Pandi expected was to run into a ship from the future on the outskirts of Sol system. Even less expected was that the ship would fall apart while she was inside it, the Universe correcting the paradox in time. The wormhole in the center of the ship beckoned, the only possible escape, and Pandi jumped through, forty thousand years into the future.
She arrived on a massive station built around a black hole. Once the center of a Galactic Civilization, the station was used to generate wormhole gates linking the Cosmos. The empty station is now a memorial to the civilization that once was.
One survivor, an immortal being called Watcher, remains, guarding the secrets of the station from those who covet its advanced technology, the rising civilizations of the Galaxy. Watcher, lonely from his self-enforced exile, befriends Pandi. Soon the woman from Alabama discovers that there is more to Watcher than is apparent on the surface. What was Watcher’s part in the fall of civilization? The answer to this question will decide whether Pandora Latham survives in this world, or becomes just one more death to add to the trillions who died before her.
Grand Science Fiction in the tradition of Niven and Anderson, with megastructures use to tap into massive sources of energy. An enigma, a mystery to solve, and a 21st Century girl thrown into the fires, her will to survive the only hope for the future.
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Pandora Latham was just a country girl from Alabama turned Kuiper Belt miner. The last thing Pandi expected was to run into a ship from the future on the outskirts of Sol system. Even less expected was that the ship would fall apart while she was inside it, the Universe correcting the paradox in time. The wormhole in the center of the ship beckoned, the only possible escape, and Pandi jumped through, forty thousand years into the future.
She arrived on a massive station built around a black hole. Once the center of a Galactic Civilization, the station was used to generate wormhole gates linking the Cosmos. The empty station is now a memorial to the civilization that once was.
One survivor, an immortal being called Watcher, remains, guarding the secrets of the station from those who covet its advanced technology, the rising civilizations of the Galaxy. Watcher, lonely from his self-enforced exile, befriends Pandi. Soon the woman from Alabama discovers that there is more to Watcher than is apparent on the surface. What was Watcher’s part in the fall of civilization? The answer to this question will decide whether Pandora Latham survives in this world, or becomes just one more death to add to the trillions who died before her.
Grand Science Fiction in the tradition of Niven and Anderson, with megastructures use to tap into massive sources of energy. An enigma, a mystery to solve, and a 21st Century girl thrown into the fires, her will to survive the only hope for the future.
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The Hunger
Urban Fantasy
Hooker, heroin addict, victim, Lucinda lived her life at the mercy of evil men. After her pimp leaves her for dead she is turned by a passing vampire. Satan’s plan for the undead is to spread like a plague, striking at the innocents of the world and turning them toward evil. When Lucinda’s master is destroyed she becomes a free agent, able to do as she wills. Now she has the power, and she uses it to strike back at the evil men who tormented her in life, while making sure that they do not rise again.
Crime boss George Padillas is dying of cancer. His money and his power make no difference to the disease. His choices for the afterlife unappealing, Padillas decides that the unlife of a vampire is the best way out. He has a plan, using the priest who is chasing Lucinda as his instrument, to become a free agent vampire.
Lucinda must avoid the attentions of an FBI agent, a priest, an ancient vampire, and the failed attempt, the one she killed who rose again, in her quest to take down the crime boss of sunny Tampa. While at the same time controlling the vampire Hunger that urges her toward evil.
The Hunger is a different kind of vampire tale. Like the vampires of Stoker, able to turn into beasts, mist, control weather and people, they live to feed and feed to live. The Heroine, Lucinda, is a different breed, only killing the evil mortals of the world and ensuring that they do not rise. Strong language and sexual situations, as befits the world of the street, the hooker, the pimp and the drug dealer. Not recommended for younger readers.
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Hooker, heroin addict, victim, Lucinda lived her life at the mercy of evil men. After her pimp leaves her for dead she is turned by a passing vampire. Satan’s plan for the undead is to spread like a plague, striking at the innocents of the world and turning them toward evil. When Lucinda’s master is destroyed she becomes a free agent, able to do as she wills. Now she has the power, and she uses it to strike back at the evil men who tormented her in life, while making sure that they do not rise again.
Crime boss George Padillas is dying of cancer. His money and his power make no difference to the disease. His choices for the afterlife unappealing, Padillas decides that the unlife of a vampire is the best way out. He has a plan, using the priest who is chasing Lucinda as his instrument, to become a free agent vampire.
Lucinda must avoid the attentions of an FBI agent, a priest, an ancient vampire, and the failed attempt, the one she killed who rose again, in her quest to take down the crime boss of sunny Tampa. While at the same time controlling the vampire Hunger that urges her toward evil.
The Hunger is a different kind of vampire tale. Like the vampires of Stoker, able to turn into beasts, mist, control weather and people, they live to feed and feed to live. The Heroine, Lucinda, is a different breed, only killing the evil mortals of the world and ensuring that they do not rise. Strong language and sexual situations, as befits the world of the street, the hooker, the pimp and the drug dealer. Not recommended for younger readers.
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The Scorpion
Science Fiction
Kestrel McMann had faced the Scorpion before. While a Ranger officer, a Cyborg, Kestrel had bearded the terrorist in his lair in the deserts of Sudan. The Scorpion had escaped by uploading his mind to a computer network, leaving behind his corpse as a hollow trophy. McMann moved on to Homeland Security, working for a corrupt government led by an insane President, firm in his convictions that the people needed protection no matter who ruled.
Now the Scorpion is back. Cloning people who occupy high level positions and moving the bodies, under the control of his mind, to important targets, the Scorpion is striking back at the Great Satan. High level targets of opportunity are hit, thousands of people are killed, and the nation once again trembles before the name of the Scorpion. It is up to Kestrel, with the aid of a beautiful Massad agent, a cyborg like himself, to once again stop the super terrorist, before he springs his final strike, and knocks Western Civilization back into the Stone Age.
The Scorpion is a Science Fiction Adventure page turner, in which the villain wears many faces, and could be anyone. The United States is on the verge of becoming the world's only superpower. But the world's greatest terrorist is determined to stop that rise with an equally powerful fall.
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Kestrel McMann had faced the Scorpion before. While a Ranger officer, a Cyborg, Kestrel had bearded the terrorist in his lair in the deserts of Sudan. The Scorpion had escaped by uploading his mind to a computer network, leaving behind his corpse as a hollow trophy. McMann moved on to Homeland Security, working for a corrupt government led by an insane President, firm in his convictions that the people needed protection no matter who ruled.
Now the Scorpion is back. Cloning people who occupy high level positions and moving the bodies, under the control of his mind, to important targets, the Scorpion is striking back at the Great Satan. High level targets of opportunity are hit, thousands of people are killed, and the nation once again trembles before the name of the Scorpion. It is up to Kestrel, with the aid of a beautiful Massad agent, a cyborg like himself, to once again stop the super terrorist, before he springs his final strike, and knocks Western Civilization back into the Stone Age.
The Scorpion is a Science Fiction Adventure page turner, in which the villain wears many faces, and could be anyone. The United States is on the verge of becoming the world's only superpower. But the world's greatest terrorist is determined to stop that rise with an equally powerful fall.
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Diamonds In The Sand
Science Fiction
When a perfectly fit scientist falls dead in a closed room of an apparent heart attack, Detective Lieutenant Gary Lariviere is called in to solve the case. Doctor Matheson has been working in the field of nanotechnology, a science that promises great advances, and the potential for great disaster. There are many who would see the scientist fail. Religious fanatics who see the potential for transformation of the human genome as a violation of God’s will. White supremacists angry that a black man of prominence is married to a white woman. International corporations that would like nothing better than to control the secret for themselves. Diamond smuggling crime syndicates with greed in their eyes at the prospect of making diamonds from the sand. And the graduate students who had lived in the shadow of the great man while their own accomplishments were ignored.
Gary must navigate the shady undercurrents of the sunny Florida retirement city, trying to get at the truth. Obstacles are thrown in his way by powers both legal and illegal as he closes in on the secret. Until he runs into the full potential of the new technology, and the full terrors.
This was my first exploration of the Cyborg ex-ranger that evolved into the Homeland Security Agent in The Scorpion. Cyborgs unlike the six million dollar man, with integrated systems that make them more than the match for a normal man, without giving away their secret. Also explores retroactive genetic engineering through nanotech, a subject that is again explored in some of my other works.
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When a perfectly fit scientist falls dead in a closed room of an apparent heart attack, Detective Lieutenant Gary Lariviere is called in to solve the case. Doctor Matheson has been working in the field of nanotechnology, a science that promises great advances, and the potential for great disaster. There are many who would see the scientist fail. Religious fanatics who see the potential for transformation of the human genome as a violation of God’s will. White supremacists angry that a black man of prominence is married to a white woman. International corporations that would like nothing better than to control the secret for themselves. Diamond smuggling crime syndicates with greed in their eyes at the prospect of making diamonds from the sand. And the graduate students who had lived in the shadow of the great man while their own accomplishments were ignored.
Gary must navigate the shady undercurrents of the sunny Florida retirement city, trying to get at the truth. Obstacles are thrown in his way by powers both legal and illegal as he closes in on the secret. Until he runs into the full potential of the new technology, and the full terrors.
This was my first exploration of the Cyborg ex-ranger that evolved into the Homeland Security Agent in The Scorpion. Cyborgs unlike the six million dollar man, with integrated systems that make them more than the match for a normal man, without giving away their secret. Also explores retroactive genetic engineering through nanotech, a subject that is again explored in some of my other works.
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