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Time's Dark Laughter
1982
First Published
3.67
Average Rating
336
Number of Pages

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Five years has passed since Joshua Green the Scribe and Beauty the Centaur had set out across the desert to find the creatures who had destroyed their homes and carried off their wives. But now Beauty’s wife has willingly abandoned him for the pleasures of mind-link with the mysterious Pluggers. Worse, she has taken with her the helmet that protected Joshua from the mental summons of the City with No Name. While Beauty travels once more in search of his wife, Joshua’s fifteen year old brother Ollie, formerly a slave in a Vampire Harem, sets off with the Neuroman Jasmine to rescue the Scribe. Soon they are engulfed in a deadly struggle against the creatures of a riotously mutated future world with no use, and little room, for humankind...

Avg Rating
3.67
Number of Ratings
70
5 STARS
17%
4 STARS
44%
3 STARS
29%
2 STARS
9%
1 STARS
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Author

James Kahn
James Kahn
Author · 10 books

James Kahn is an ER doctor, novelist, TV writer-producer, and singer-songwriter. In addition to many original novels (including the sci-fi trilogy World Enough and Time, Time’s Dark Laughter, and Timefall) he authored the novelizations of Return of the Jedi, Poltergeist, The Goonies and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. His television credits span the genres, from St. Elsewhere, to William Shatner’s TekWar, to Xena: Warrior Princess. He was a Supervising Producer on Star Trek: Voyager, Co-Executive Producer on Melrose Place, Emmy-nominated for his work on All My Children, medical advisor on Spielberg’s ET: The Extraterrestrial; and produced the feature film The Bet, which won Best Feature at the LA Femme Film Festival, 2013. He’s previously released four Americana music CDs, including Waterline, The 12th Elf, Man Walks Into A Bar, and The Meaning of Life. Matamoros is the first simultaneous novel and CD release, and his first foray into deeply researched historical fiction.

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