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In unforgettable stories of the human journey, a combination of storytelling and dialogue underscore an excavation into the deep past of human development and its consequences. Through a first encounter between a Neanderthal woman and the Modern Human she called Traveler, to the emergence and destruction of the world's first cities, Mixed Harvest tells the tale of the Sedentary Divide, the most significant event since modern humans emerged. Ro...

In unforgettable stories of the human journey, a combination of storytelling and dialogue underscore an excavation into the deep past of human development and its consequences. Through a first encounter between a Neanderthal woman and the Modern Human she called Traveler, to the emergence and destruction of the world's first cities, Mixed Harvest tells the tale of the Sedentary Divide, the most significant event since modern humans emerged. Ro...

A Turkish farmer finds a large obsidian mirror on top of a mound. How did it get there? What did it mean for its creator, and what does it mean for us? In this teaching novel by writer Rob Swigart, the story toggles back and forth between a Neolithic villageaand the changing fortunes of the family who finds this wondrous toolaand modern archaeologists whose excavated treasure stirs journalists, governments, and goddess worshippers alike. Throu...

In Vector, Rob Swigart introduced Detective Cobb Nakamura of the Kauai police and microbiologist Chazz Koenig in a potent thriller mixing myth, science and murder. Toxin returns to the tiny Hawaiian island with a gripping novel of a local shooting and international intrigue. The quiet beauty of Kauai is disturbed when a wealthy developer is murdered. Then a satellite carrying an unknown toxin falls onto the island, poisoning several people and...

Chazz Koenig came to Hawaii to take a job, but that was just an excuse. Something had gone wrong with his marriage, he needed retreat to assess the damage and to decide what to do next. What he wanted was to enjoy the lush beauty of the island, quietly do his research, relax and renew his spirit. The problem was that it didn't matter what Chazz wanted. From almost the moment he set foot in Kauai, he found himself at the center of a vortex of m...

As darkness gathers above the Hawaiian island of Kauai, a small ship drifts into harbor, unpowered and in danger of running aground. On board are seven bodies. The murders fall in Lieutenant Cobb Takamura's jurisdiction. He soon traces the death ship's route and the cause of death to an exotic venom. As Takamura navigates the tricky waters of international politics and biologist Chazz Koenig tries to isolate the poison, two women are brutally ...

Originally published as an interactive novel on computer disk in 1986, Portal is the story of an astronaut who returns to earth from a mysteriously aborted mission prematurely awakened from suspended animation. One hundred years have passed, animals and plants thrive, cities stand intact. Every human being, however, has disappeared. With the help of a slowly reviving computer network, the astronaut begins to piece together the events of the la...

YOU THOUGHT THE INQUISITION WAS SCARY THE FIRST TIME AROUND-NOW THEY HAVE MODERN TECHNOLOGY! Papyrologist Lisa Emmer's world flips when the Surete meets her at her Metro station with news of the savage murder of the esteemed Paris historian Dr. Raimond Foix, her friend and mentor in the study of ancient documents. Horrified, Lisa finds clues at the crime scene left behind for her by her mentor-clues to a secret kept hidden for centuries. These...

Professor Van Weathers has just revolutionized the teaching of Maya archaeology. His lifelike computer simulation Xibalbá Gate places his students in the world of the Late Classic Maya, where political strife, overpopulation, warfare, and social disorganization are in evidence in the soon-to-collapse civilization. Weathers' real life is also under strain- his wife is disenchanted, his son a cynic, his students disinterested, his excavation pro...

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The White Pig: A True History in Eight Books follows, though not in perfect order, the terrible curse that haunts four generations of the Depew family of Valhalla, KY, a large city on the Ohio River across from the border between Ohio and Indiana. Corey Depew, scion and the ultimate victim, comes of age in 1957 (exactly 100 years after the curse was uttered). It was the era of the Everly Brothers and existentialism. Along the way he loses much...

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