Michael Warren Lucas

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About Michael Warren Lucas

Author of about forty books, Michael Warren Lucas lives in Detroit, Michigan. Learn more at https://mwl.io.

Once you walk into the twisted imagination of Michael Lucas, you really won’t want to leave… – Kristine Kathryn Rusch, multiple Hugo award winning author of The Retrieval Artist

"Michael Lucas is one of those rare writers who can make nail-biter action and gut-wrenching drama dance together and not have either stepping on the other's toes. Throw this up against a bleak post-apocalyptic world with one of the most original concepts of alien invasion I've come across, and you end up with a hell of a story. Not to mention the beautifully grotesque imagery depicting the strange denizens of this chilling landscape." - Rob Cornell, author of "Darker Things"

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Robots, Androids, Cyborgs, Oh My!: Boundary Shock Quarterly #4 Oct 10, 2018

by Blaze Ward, Michael Warren Lucas, Robert Jeschonek, M. L. Buchman, Bruno Lombardi, Duncan Ellis, M. E. Owen, Michele Callahan, Ron Collins, Joel Ewy

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Join us for the next exciting issue of Boundary Shock Quarterly!

We can make her better than she was. Or build a better one to replace him. What does it mean to be Sentient? Human? Or even alive?

Fifteen stories and essays explore what it means to be sentient in the present and future tense in stories ranging from artificial lifeforms all the way down to the many ways humans might dream about improving themselves, when the future arrives tomorrow.

Welcome to Boundary Shock Quarterly, Issue 004: Robots, Androids, Cyborgs, Oh My!

Be sure to look for Issue 005: The Boneyard of Lost Dreams, coming January 2019.

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Tuesday After Next: Boundary Shock Quarterly #2 Jun 26, 2018

by Blaze Ward, Leah Cutter, M. L. Buchman, Michele Callahan, Joel Ewy, Ron Collins, Robert Jeschonek, Michael Warren Lucas, Charles Eugene Anderson, M. E. Owen

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Science fiction does not have to be about alien planets, galactic exploration, and huge space battles.

Instead, science fiction can cover the future that lurks just around the corner. Science fiction that exists after Dieselpunk and before Cyberpunk, where the Makers and the Hackers dwell, modern rebels and punks, hiding just out of sight.

Eleven authors peer into that short distance into the future to see what lies ahead.

This is Boundary Shock Quarterly, Issue 002: Tuesday After Next. Welcome to another exciting issue in a new quarterly speculative fiction magazine.

Be sure to look for Issue 003: Grand Theft Starship, coming soon!

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Immortal Clay (A Science Fiction Alien Invasion Novel) Nov 3, 2014

by Michael Warren Lucas

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Duplicate. Infiltrate. Exterminate. Liberate?

The alien ate its way out of Antarctica, devouring and duplicating every living thing it found. Humanity turned continents to glass and oceans to poison in a desperate effort to stop it—and failed.

Nobody expected that once the alien copied everyone, once it owned the world, it would set the copies free.

Police detective Kevin Holtzmann fled with his family into the desert, and almost survived. Now a new Kevin must figure out the terrifying new world’s rules before the world eats him alive—again. His life teeters between yesterday’s nightmares and tomorrow’s unknown horrors. But humanity’s best and worst features survived. Life means hope, and terror, and joy, and fear.

New life means new dangers. New threats. New crimes…

Good thing he’s a new Kevin.

(Author's note: this is a very dark book. Consider yourself warned.)

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Butterfly Stomp (Beaks Book 0) Mar 17, 2016

by Michael Warren Lucas

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The story that started Butterfly Stomp Waltz!

50% John McClane
50% Robin Hood
100% trouble

Reeling from the death of her lover and partner, freelance “exfiltration specialist” Billie Carrie Salton breaks into a high-tech, high-security biotechnology firm to steal their sickle cell anemia cure and broadcast it to the world.

In, out, announce. Easy.

Except Salton’s life never works that smoothly...

Spilled Mirovar (Prohibition Orcs Book 1) Sep 2, 2015

by Michael Warren Lucas

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The modern year of 1927, and orcs still have to fight elven asshole bullshit.

Prohibition left exceptions for the church of Men, the Elvish sacraments, even the Dwarfish rituals. But the elves in Congress insist that orcs have no sacraments.

Without the Orcish draught, without the rites, Uruk-Tai’s fine strong boys might grow tall. They might earn respect.

But they will never be Orcs.

And Uruk will not let that happen…

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Forever Falls: a Montague Portal novel Mar 5, 2015

by Michael Warren Lucas

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There’s no grounds for murder. There’s no ground at all.

The people exploring and exploiting alien universes risk everything, including their lives. But Devin Gupper’s death makes no sense. And the more questions security officer Aidan Redding asks, the less rational it seems.

But in a bottomless universe full of impossibilities, one impossible murder begins everything.

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git sync murder (git commit murder Book 2) Jun 23, 2021

by Michael Warren Lucas

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Murder on the Sysadmin Express

After accidentally solving two murders, Dale Whitehead hungers to stay in his apartment, hack virtual memory stacks, and forget the whole thing. Instead, his boss sends him to a technology/sci-fi convention in Detroit. He plans to endure his stint at the vendor table, stumble through his presentation, and escape anonymously.

A dead body ruins everything.

Dale finds himself battling liquid nitrogen ice cream, balky network addressing schemes, the Chaos Machine, and his own reputation, while the corpses pile up.

"Wait to see if it happens again:" Great for troubleshooting IPv6 multicast over wireless. Not so much for murder.

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git commit murder Mar 23, 2017

by Michael Warren Lucas

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“If Agatha Christie ran Unix Conventions”

The BSD North conference draws some of the smartest people in the world. These few days will validate Dale Whitehead’s work—or expose him as a fraud.

When a tragic death devastates the conference, only Dale suspects murder.

Computer geeks care about code.

But do they care enough… to kill?

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Waking Up Yesterday Feb 12, 2014

by Michael Warren Lucas

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He fell asleep a successful forty-six year and woke in his parents’ ramshackle home, decades earlier -- eighteen years old again, with alcoholic parents and a violent brother.

A chance for a better life? Or just another trip through the nightmare?

Sometimes, knowing then what you know now doesn’t help.

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Savaged by Systemd: an Erotic Unix Encounter Sep 5, 2017

by Michael Warren Lucas

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Not your normal Friday night in the computer room.

Not a normal night anywhere.

Terry is the archetypal old-school Unix admin, nurturing servers with care and precision while avoiding the latest trendy garbage. KDE and Gnome on a server? Nope, if you need a GUI use FVWM.

The latest trend Terry refuses? One adopted almost everywhere? Systemd, the replacement init.

So Systemd comes for Terry.

Wearing skin-tight leather pants.

No, not a normal night in the computer room at all…

(Declared "inappropriate for all audiences" by Amazon Advertising!)

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Kipuka Blues (Immortal Clay Book 2) Apr 5, 2016

by Michael Warren Lucas

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After extinction?

Politics.
Monsters.
Murder.

The alien Absolute eradicated Earth’s native life, replacing a fraction of it with alien duplicates. Kevin remembers the life of a police officer, but must find a new life in the bizarrely warped landscape of northern Michigan.
But even astonishingly resilient alien flesh breaks down, with enough effort.
Or enough electricity.

Absolute eradicated humanity. But his copies brought the worst parts of humanity with them…

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Forced to Talk, Like, With Your Mouth: a DevOps Mystery May 9, 2016

by Michael Warren Lucas

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BEYOND CIVILIZATION

Antarctica? Uganda? No place so nice. This crew of Internet professionals, summoned to the isolated Oregon Coast to design a new Web application, find themselves

WITHOUT WIFI

Then things go bad.
Like, dead body bad…

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