The Wild Wild West
Bruce Bethke, Jim Thomas / Mass Market Paperback / Published July 1999
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Now a major motion picture from Warner Bros. premiering the Fourth of July and starring Will Smith, Kevin Kline and Kenneth Branagh. Jim West, hero and hot head, and Artemus Gordon, inventor and master of disguise, team up in 1869 as President Ulysses S. Grant's secret weapon to combat espionage on the western front after the Civil War. They must destroy a twisted genius named Dr. Loveless--if they don't kill each other first. Contains an 8-page photo insert.
Greg Benford, et al / Hardcover / Published August 1998
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Headcrash
Bruce Bethke / Paperback / Published October 1997
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When Jack Burroughs, a brilliant young computer programmer, is given his pink slip, he is offered the opportunity to use his skills for a little industrial espionage. Donning the guise of his online alter ego, Max Kool, Burroughs transforms himself into one of the hippest cybernetic surfers on the InfoBahn. "Bethke has taken the computer industry and thrown it in a blender . . . savagely funny."--Seattle Weekly.
Rebel MoonBruce Bethke, Vox Day (Contributor) / Mass Market Paperback / Published November 1996
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In the wake of a bogus peace treaty on the planet Earth in 2069, fifty thousand desperate rebel lunar colonists turn to techno-geek hacker Dalton Starkiller to lead an impossible revolt.
HeadcrashBruce Bethke / Mass Market Paperback / Published September 1995
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An account of the life of socially inept and information superhighway surfer Jack Burroughs details the truth behind his date with cute brunette Marsha Vang and his association with the ultimate evil of a modern multinational corporation-state.
Bruce Bethke / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
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Seriously, I wrote this one back in '88 or '89, and parts of it still hold up. The premise of the series was that it took place in a previously vacant corner of Asimov's Aurora/Robot universe, used a continuing cast of characters, and Isaac set the author (me, Jerry Oltion, William Wu, and a few others) a one-page description of a problem, which then had to be solved using the Laws of Robotics. [If you're into Asimov's Robot Novels (e.g., I, ROBOT), these books are great fun. If you aren't, they make absolutely no sense at all.] My challenge, for those of you who care, was this: what happens w...