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The Ultimate Game Machine is a gargantuan neural processor with nodes in 500 cities around the world. It has access to everything on the internet and everything on any computer connected to the internet. The UGM, usually called the Ugly Machine, was built by Rick Koenig and Gus Byrne to create and play games. It has no other capability. It has no access to the outside world. Everything it gathers from the internet is nothing but extraneous data that it uses to create the games.

Life on the moon is not all it’s cut out to be. Temperatures both day and night are deadly and unbearable. There are few places to hide from the blistering heat and the freezing cold. However, two people are determined to make it work, despite the danger and difficulty that challenges their dreams. Annie Taylor, a law student, came to the moon to harvest Helium 3, a precious element that not only solved the energy crisis, but also prevented World War III.

South Boston Irish Ron Grogan is critically injured in an automobile accident on I 40 in Amarillo Texas. Lying in the Icu at Baptist St. Anthony's Hospital, he wakes up in the parking lot where a Mayan God offers to let him live under one condition. He must promise to convince an Indian Princess to become a Sun Priestess. Ron falls deeply in love with the princess only to find out that if he makes good on his promise, he will never see her again.

Three people have been murdered. One Gypsy and two carnies and no one is being held responsible. Gina Bracken, Allison’s secretary, is angry. Gypsies and carnies are people too - her family was Gypsy. She wants to join a circus to find the killer. Her grandmother says she has to learn to be a Gypsy first and takes her on a houseboat trip up the Little Manatee River. There she meets Vavu, a ruggedly handsome Gypsy with a gigantic mustache.

Bertram Sandell hopped into Allison’s car in heavy traffic, blond hair, blue eyes, a dimple, and a gun. He is being charged with murder, a crime he had nothing to do with. Later, Betsy Bryant is convicted of the murder she did not commit. Following Allison as she solves these miscarriages of justice takes us on a whirlwind tour of Tampa from Ybor City to Hyde Park with a side trip to Longboat Key. It is a hot, sizzling ride with Miss Lillian, New York’s classiest hooker, to Betsy Bryant who burns out husbands like they were wooden matches.

The Black Asteroid is a teen-age coming of age graphic novel. Marty Castillo leaves the Moon in his home brew farm space ship with this wife, Amy, their 16-year-old son, Rusty, and their cow to go to the Black Asteroid looking for diamonds. Rusty was born and brought up in the space ship. He has never seen a live 16-year-old. On the way to the Black Asteroid they rescue Angie, a 16-year-old Apache girl, from a defunct space ship.