Search query: lawrence schoen

Product: Barsk (2 Book Series)
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From Book 1:

The Sixth Sense meets Planet of the Apes in a moving science fiction novel set so far in the future, humanity is gone and forgotten in Lawrence M. Schoen's Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard
An historian who speaks with the dead is ensnared by the past. A child who feels no pain and who should not exist sees the future. Between them are truths that will shake worlds.
In a distant future, no remnants of human beings remain, but their successors thrive throughout the galaxy. These are the offspring of humanity's genius-animals uplifted into walking, talking, sentient beings. The Fant are one such species: anthropomorphic elephants ostracized by other races, and long ago exiled to the rainy ghetto world of Barsk. There, they develop medicines upon which all species now depend. The most coveted of these drugs is koph, which allows a small number of users to interact with the recently deceased and learn their secrets.
To break the Fant's control of koph, an offworld shadow group attempts to force the Fant to surrender their knowledge. Jorl, a Fant Speaker with the dead, is compelled to question his deceased best friend, who years ago mysteriously committed suicide. In so doing, Jorl unearths a secret the powers that be would prefer to keep buried forever. Meanwhile, his dead friend's son, a physically challenged young Fant named Pizlo, is driven by disturbing visions to take his first unsteady steps toward an uncertain future.
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Product: Command Performance: the Amazing Conroy Omnibus Edition
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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.