New books from San Joaquin Valley Press
Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
Science Fiction and Fantasy both have the ability to take you out of the world you know and into a fun world of "what-ifs". From the "Worlds of Jack Lawson", check out our selection of Science Fiction and Fantasy books.
The Worlds of Jack Lawson
Medflies
By Jack Lawson
The first novel in the Worlds of Jack Lawson, Medflies is serious speculative fiction on a possible future for human interstellar exploration. In Medflies human colonists on the planet Olympus are faced with an alien species that they cannot communicate with. They live in what is apparently peaceful coexistence for several decades, but then the aliens turn hostile. The humans have become pests to the aliens, even as medflies are pests on Earth. What do the humans do? What would you do?
Order Medflies through the website and get the book signed by the author.
Paperback edition $13.99
Perfect bound, 5" X 7", 210 pp.
Free U.S. shipping.
(Medflies is also available as an ebook for $3.99 from Amazon Kindle.
Gabriela (author of A Pirate's Promise) thought Medflies a good read and now she's clamoring for a sequel. Eleazar (designer of our wargame Battles for Prydain) liked the story, especially the action. Another reader, Gonzalo Juarez of Sacramento, echoed Eleazar.
Read it and make your own opinion. And let us know what you think.
Strange New World
By Jack Lawson
The second novel in the Worlds of Jack Lawson takes you on an adventure with gangland executioner Gat Teague as he leaves his world of cops and robbers and enters the Land of the True Magic. He becomes the unwilling guardian of Princess Marissa, protecting her from her evil half-sister, Clotilde, her dragon and her Creatures. Nothing is like the world he knew. After a lifetime being a villain, does he have what it takes to become a true hero?
Order Strange New World through the website and get the book signed by the author.
Paperback edition $13.99
Perfect bound, 5"x7", 272 pp.
Free U.S. Shipping
(Strange New World is also available as an ebook for $3.99 from Amazon Kindle.)
Gabriela thought Strange New World was better than Medflies. She said she roared through it in two days and couldn't put it down!
Affair of State
By Jack Lawson
New!
The third novel in the Worlds of Jack Lawson is a lighthearted swords and sorcery extravaganza. A marriage is contracted between the prince of one kingdom and the princess of another. The thing is, no one wants the marriage to happen, including the princess herself. Join the mayhem in the mountains as the princess gets kidnapped, escapes from one group, and then falls into the hands of another. The madness in the mountains continues when one nobleman conjures a demon to obtain the princess. And the demon is hungry. Join the riotous adventure and decide whose side you are on...
Order Affair of State through the website and get the book signed by the author.
Paperback edition $13.99
Perfect bound, 5"x7", 326 pp.
Free U.S. Shipping
(Affair of State is also available as an ebook for $3.99 from Amazon Kindle.)
Watch our interview with the author: https://youtu.be/fYM_oNAE59c