A reunion. A reckoning. A fight to survive.Decades after leaving Most Holy Trinity School, Jeff Campbell and his former classmates return to the abandoned campus that shaped them. What begins as a nostalgic evening soon reveals itself to be a carefully constructed trap.Their host, Chris-a brilliant military engineer carrying a lifetime of resentment-has transformed the school into a fortress. The doors lock. The familiar hallways become battlegrounds. And Chris's most dange...

Our brave new world is here.With modern genetic technologies, science fiction's "what if?" has become the scientist's "why not?" Bioengineering has the potential to remake animals in almost any way we can imagine, and it's being used to solve a range of urgent global problems, including climate change, species extinctions, the destruction of natural habitats, and human health issues.But just because we can do all these things, does that mean we

The Long Weekend Review is a monthly e-zine that allows the writer to do whatever they want, as long as it is written in three days. This month's edition is from Jeff Campbell.Jeff writes this of issue seven. "When I started writing 'A Whole Lot of Nothing' I expected it would be a rather head-y series of reflections that mostly focused on my strange relationship with the concept of nothingness and emptiness that I have cultivated over these last couple years. What I found was that...

Texas has a long, romantic history when it comes to railroads. But even though steam engines and streetcars offer nonstop service to Nostalgia City, there's a dark side to Texas rail. The Black Widow of Fort Worth engineered a fatal double-cross at a railroad crossing. The Mountaineer Madman brought death to the Texas Electric Railway, while the Trolley Bandit terrorized the citizens of El Paso. From a freak accident involving a banana peel to a tragic trip to see Santa Claus, Jeff Campbel...

Texas has nurtured a thriving bluegrass scene since the early 1950s. The Lone Star State boasts the country's first bluegrass college degree and even hosts a Beatles bluegrass cover band. Meet the Pickin' Singin' Professor, the Fiddle Engineer and Blanco's Bluegrass Boy. Hit the trail with cowboys like the Mayfield brothers and go backstage with Grammy-nominated acts like Wood & Wire. Jeff Campbell and Braeden Paul celebrate the musicians who contributed to the harmonious heritage of Texas...

Today, an ancient world is vanishing right before our eyes: the age of giant animals. Over 40,000 years ago, the earth was ruled by megafauna: mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed tigers and giant sloths. Of course, those creatures no longer exist, and there is only one likely reason for that: the evolution and arrival of the earth's only tool-wielding hunter, the wildly adaptive, comparatively pint-sized human species. Many more of the world's biggest and baddest creatures—including the bla...

A must-have book for animal lovers! From renowned ethologist and animal advocate Marc Bekoff and award-winning young-adult author Jeff Campbell comes a powerful and visually stunning exploration of animal emotions-and why they matter. With a foreword by Dr. Jane Goodall.Love in Their Hearts invites young and adult readers alike into the rich inner lives of animals, from dogs to dolphins, octopuses to orangutans, and bees to bears. Through moving, surprisin...

Xiang Li Cheng, the President of the People's Republic of China, has both a problem and a plan in Rick Campbell's thrilling Empire Rising. The problem is that the limited supply of oil available to China is threatening to derail his country's economic growth and prosperity. But to secure access to those resources, he must contend with powerful U.S. Navy and the Pacific Fleet.After a decades-long largely secret military build up, Cheng sets his plan in motion by suddenly in...

Hangdog Days vividly chronicles the era when rock climbing exploded in popularity, attracting a new generation of talented climbers eager to reach new heights via harder routes and faster ascents. This contentious, often entertaining period gave rise to sport climbing, climbing gyms, and competitive climbing—indelibly transforming the sport.Jeff Smoot was one of those brash young climbers, and here he traces the development of traditional climbing "rules," enforced first t...

The Ring of Fire: 25,000 miles of oceanic trenches, volcanic belts, and seismic plates circling the Pacific Ocean. Enough dormant power to reshape the world as we know it waits to be unleashed beneath the Earth's crust. Until now.In a matter of moments entire swaths of America's west coast slide into the ocean. Los Angeles becomes a crumbling ghost town. Refugee camps are littered with flyers for missing loved ones. The city is a scene of utter devastation and despair. Within Holly...

An epic yet personal look at several decades of life, love, and death in the imaginary city of Ambergris—previously chronicled in Jeff VanderMeer’s acclaimed City of Saints & Madmen—Shriek: An Afterword relates the scandalous, heartbreaking, and horrifying secret history of two squabbling siblings and their confidantes, protectors, and enemies.Narrated with flamboyant intensity and under increasingly urgent conditions by ex-society figure Janice Shriek, this after...

Derek Parfit, who died in 2017, is widely believed to have been the best moral philosopher in well over a century. The twenty new essays in this book were written in his honour and have all been inspired by his work--in particular, his work in an area of moral philosophy known as 'population ethics', which is concerned with moral issues raised by causing people to exist. Until Parfit began writing about these issues in the 1970s, there was almost no discussion of them in the entire history...