Richard Bowes

Feral Cell — (1987) Publisher: In a New York not unlike the one that exists today, is a Game Master, a designer of entertainment for people with no imaginations of their own. Robert Leal is dying and not doing it really well. Then a friend, Chris Kane, a singer who has been dead for many years, has a career revival. And Leal begins to hear and see hints and fragments of another world. It's called Capricorn. It flickers like candlelight, and it is haunting. Then Leal finds out that he is dying of cancer just as Chris Kane did. But as he dies here in Cancer, he takes on life in Capricorn. Where he is worshipped as a god. And hunted like a stag.

Minions of the Moon — (1999) Publisher: Kevin Grierson has a Shadow with a mind of its own. It likes thrills, it likes power, it likes the rush of drugs and danger. From the suburbs of Boston to the streets of New York, from the false glamour of advertising to the dark glamour of hustling and drug-dealing. Grierson's Shadow keeps him walking the edge of destruction and madness. Then a simple robbery goes horribly wrong. With the help of a flawed saint named Leo Dunn, Grierson struggles to banish his Shadow, and succeeds. Temporarily. Years later, sober and settled, at peace with his world, Kevin Grierson meets his Shadow again. And this time it won't go away.

From the Files of the Time Rangers — (2005) Publisher: Greek gods are posing as humans and pulling humanity's strings in this mosaic novel about time travel, alternate worlds, and the making of a president. The Time Rangers, Apollo's chosen servants, are in charge of preserving the peace and harmony along the Time Stream, the pathway between various worlds and times, but Apollo has given them a new task—to protect Timothy Macauley, the chosen one who must become the president of the United States or else witness the destruction of humankind. Standing in the Rangers's way are other gods: Mercury, who's working his wiles in the world of public relations; Diana, cruising New York City in the guise of an NYPD detective; Pluto, who is in the process of grooming his successor; and Dionysus, who has caused the annihilation of an alternate world. Nonstop action keeps the story rolling from the 1950s to the present day, through this world and others. The author shares his insights into, and the history of, the mosaic novel in the afterworld.