Novels by Ted Ford Novels by Ted Ford Stories From Distant Reaches of the Imagination Everything underlined is a hyperlink Cover art of published Novels Downloadable novels, virus-free, .exe format (Email if you need files for operating systems other than Windows) Eyes of Glass-- Hearts of Stone Supernatural Thriller, mature, 100,000 words Lori Malcomb is having bad dreams. In the small town of Sorrel, a woman has been murdered, a teenage girl is missing, and Lori's friends suspect a serial killer lurks in the area. To protect her friends and her children, and to avoid becoming another woman quietly and mysteriously vanished from the countryside, Lori will have to pay very close attention to her bad dreams. They forewarn of eyes of glass, and hearts of stone. The Human Touch Science-fiction, mature, 98,000 words An alien probe visits the Earth. To demonstrate its understanding of human nature, it must reconstruct a deceased member of the species and successfully reintroduce it to its former role in life. Its selection of the dead mother of a dying boy and wife of a despondent husband on the verge of self-destruction seems to be a study in hopelessness. Before the probe leaves, Marlene Hartman must regain the love and trust of those convinced that death is final and irrevocable. With powers lent to her by a veritable god, Marlene must relearn first what it means to be human. Lord of Silver Ridge Science-fiction, mature, 75,000 words Evelyn Darker is a imprisoned in her Appalachian home by three abusive brothers engaged in drug running in the small town of Silver Ridge. She has lost forever the only love of her life, Billy Trevor, grandson of the man who built the house on the mountain outside town. When her brothers overstep themselves, their lives are endangered by a man known as King, a madman using his drug empire to smuggle weapons-grade plutonium to facilities manufacturing nuclear warheads for a new form of terrorism, and a new kind of terrorist. Billy returns to Evie with a tale of invaders from the distant future, one of which shares his crippled body. Is his return a dream come true, or the escalation of a waking nightmare? Caterpillar: A Horror Story Horror, mature, 88,000 words The most horrible fate imaginable befalls Caitlin Biggs, abandoned daughter of star-crossed parents. On a summer night, the sky is filled with blazing green meteors. Caterpillars emerge from the fallen meteorites to take some prisoner with their addictive venom, and to summarily exterminate the rest of humanity. Caitlin becomes such an instrument of destruction, a host for an angel of death, but she learns that the worst that can befall a human being are lies and betrayal festering at the core of one's own family, and a man without the courage to confess his love. Maligoth Science-fiction, mature, 78,000 words The existence of a multiverse is the most widely accepted interpretation of quantum mechanics by leading theoretical physicists and cosmologists. Within the multiverse exists literally everything, every variation of every possible reality. Within this multiverse, the Stik emerged as Earth's foremost intelligence eight hundred million years ago. The Stik manage the infinite probabilities of our world, its various geological histories, and the life that has emerged and dominates within them. One of its own kind, Maligoth, lost his world to an asteroid. Illegally, he taps a nearby probability to repopulate his lost species, and later returns for victims to feed his new hybrids. Maligoth, however, makes the mistake of taking the young and beautiful Sasha Shahar Abdul from the life of Wallace McFerguson. Wallace and Sasha become the key to Maligoth's destruction, but only if their love for one another survives a war between alternate Earths and their showdown with Maligoth incarnate and his carefully orchestrated scheme for ultimate victory. Mothwing Science-fiction, general audiences, 84,000 words Myla Rhodes is finding it difficult to be a twelve-year old girl in a world ten thousand years from now. Her people are the Alazhir Alliance, a failing civilization warring with the rogue machine-intelligence, the Chineen Hive. Overlord Khalin Nome, her guardian and leader of the nine cities of Covonia, is trying to force her to accept an avatar, a synthetic body. Considering the Tech way of life an affront to her Naturalist heritage, Myla runs away and encounters an alien who will reveal her to be more than the child she thought herself to be in a universe where the definition of humanity itself is being redefined. Jennifer's Murderer Thriller, mature, 74,000 words Pit an seventeen-year-old girl against a burned-out professional killer, and who wins? Pit her against organized crime and a Satanic cult of despair and how can she possibly survive? But Jennifer has a knack for making friends of those who dwell in the darkest shadows of human society. Jennifer herself is a angel to those who know her, but whether an angel of heaven or a particularly dark and deadly one from elsewhere depends upon one's designs upon her. Virtual Reality Science-fiction, young adult, 40,000 words Five troubled students are trapped overnight in Armstrong High, a school of the next century. Their plight progressively deteriorates to a nightmare within which reality itself is mirroring the disturbed depth of their souls. They are being tested to the breaking point within some form of virtual reality. They can't hope to defend themselves until they know who would inflict so much pain upon them, and why. Doorways, Closing Behind Us This one is free, a way for me to sort out some ideas, and a window for you into the sources for my fiction. Fiction is a synthetic reality, but founded on notions the author considers real and valid, or at least worth expressing. Fiction is, as well, always a form of communication, a part of the struggle we all share in our effort to understand others and be understood. Ideas are never static things for any of us, always alive, dynamic and evolving. I add to Doorways continuously. I'd enjoy any feedback you have to offer on the article. email: wgtedford@mchsi.com Have a good day! Copyright © 2000 William G. Tedford- All Rights Reserved