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Product: Command Performance: the Amazing Conroy Omnibus Edition

The Amazing Conroy hypnotizes people. Some of those people are aliens.
Some of those aliens have telepathic powers.

What could possibly go wrong?

Command Performance is an omnibus edition that brings together every tale of the Amazing Conroy that has ever been published to date. Every short story, novelette, all four Nebula Award nominated novellas, and both novels can be found here in one massive volume.

So who is the Amazing Conroy?

Whether he's performing on stage and hypnotizing aliens or attempting to use the omnivorous and adorable alien buffalitos to clean up toxic waste sites or assist archeological digs, Conroy is a good hearted rogue who goes from rags to riches and back again. He's a xenophile and a gourmand, and the highlight of his day is sitting down to a fine meal (provided there's enough to share with Reggie, his faithful alien companion animal).

Invariably something comes along to interrupt even the best planned dinners and Conroy must use guile and hypnosis to get himself out of trouble.

The Amazing Conroy series is an interstellar adventure by a Hugo, Nebula, and Astounding Award-nominated author. Mind control, manipulation, and mayhem abound in this omnibus edition that will keep you brilliantly entertained.

Product: Soup of the Moment: A Tale of BARSK (Tales of Barsk)

★ Return to the award-winning world of Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard and The Moons of Barsk in this prequel that reveals the true story behind the classic bedtime story of Pholo, the Fant who could fly! ★
In the distant future, the galaxy is filled with the descendants of raised mammals created by the long-forgotten human race. Nearly all of these anthropomorphic peoples are furred, except for the Fant — furless beings with enormous ears and bizarre prehensile trunks — who because of their differences were rounded up centuries ago and relocated to Barsk, a wet world no one else wanted.
But the Fant have adapted and prospered in their isolation, having grown accustomed to the near constant rainfall and making the island rainforests of Barsk their home.
On one of these islands lives Pholo, a young scientist with a radical theory: what if you could harness the power of the storms and use it fly‽
To test her theory she has built a prototype, a transduction engine that appears to work, albeit with a sizable radioactive side effect.
Pholo believes she's solved the problems of flying suit but her lovers — a poet named Bindle and a physician named Gavi — are worried about radiation.
Her great great grandmother is concerned she's making a mistake, and is offering her the family soup business if Pholo will just put all this science foolishness aside.
And her therapist fears that Pholo's obsession with flight is blinding her to the importance of the people in her life who truly love her.
Is Pholo's theory right? Can she succeed in flying? And if so, at what cost?