Product Description: Lloyd Biggie is not only a writer, but also a musician. In THE METALLIC MUSE he has included seven science fiction stories, written over several years, all of which in some way relate to the arts. Thoroughly entertaining and provocative, many of the stories explore the intricate relationship between life and art, and all of them contain very pertinent ideas about present and future experience...read more

The object arrived without warning, tearing a spiral path of devastation across the rural landscape. After the explotion, searchers sifted through the immense pile of debris ... to discover a fantastically instrumented capsule, and a strangely human pilot, stone dead. Bowden Karvel's theory, that the capsule's port of origin lay in the distant future, seemed a plausible explanation. But while investigating, the capsule was accidentally dispatched again through time ... only to reappear with an alien navigator, this time destroying a small French town. One thing seemed imperative: a human operator must man the intricate controls of the capsule, riding it forward to its mysterious point of origin. And Bowden Karvel seemed the perfect choice to make the trip...

In Napoleon Corners, Georgia, an eccentric town where the Civil War is still being fought, detectives J. Pletcher and Raina Lambert investigate the disappearance of the grandson of a wealthy man who thinks he is a Confederate general.

Private Investigator J. Pletcher is hired by casino owners in Las Vegas to find the culprits responsible for rigging the Keno games and murdering an employee at one of the casinos

A teenager who has the ability to kill people without touching them tries to escape from those who want to use his power for their own purposes, and the last true musician on Earth uses his music to fight the enforced mediocrity of the Performers' Guild

When a wealthy Welsh landowner is murdered, Sherlock Holmes' brilliant second assistant, Edward Porter, investigates the crime

When a high school computer genius is murdered after he claims to have written a program that will identify the slasher, who has attacked five local college students, Jay Pletcher is hired to find the killer

Edward Porter Jones completes his apprenticeship to Sherlock Holmes when Holmes involves himself and Porter in something that exposes them to the strange Emmeline Quallsford, a young lady with a crushing burden

Fifty years after the nearly total annihilation of Earth by war and disease, three agents of the galactic federation set out to reopen contact with the closed world and reestablish trade with the planet's shattered civilization