Speculative fiction helps us to expand our horizons, to imagine "what if" based on present reality.  It is exciting, dramatic, powerful---exploring limitless possibilities.

When I was very young, I went to the library and brought home "Trip to the Mushroom Planet."  It was one of the first real books I ever read.  Wow.  What a great book.  From then on I was a SF fan, and wanna-be writer!

Driving the equation to its limits, one finds out how valid the equation really is.  Speculative fiction allows us to safely do that for Life.

Vicariously, from the safety of our armchair, we can experience the ULTIMATE LIMITS of danger, of evil, and of personal sacrifice and honor.

SF isn't for everybody.  But for those that enjoy thrilling voyages into the past, the future, alternative realities, the distant reaches of the Universe, and the murky depths of one's own mind---it's a great and enjoyable means to exploring personal Significance.              

Real Dracula, Keeper of the Pit   $44.95

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This monumental science fiction/horror novel is 383 pages long.  It is set in the not-too distant future, when the world does not succeed in slipping easily past the coming population crunch.  Instead, the bottom drops out.  In the midst of an irreversible crash in energy and food supplies, war/starvation/disease spread across the globe.  Scientists, world leaders, and military commanders are desperate for anything that has even the remotest chance of reversing the collapse of human society.  An unlikely solution is discovered: the real Dracula, detected in and extracted from deep jungle in the blockaded continent of Africa.  This is no suave, seductive, magical nobleman.  No turning into fogs or bats.  It is, indeed, a very real Monster.  But a monster whose biochemistry and genetics seem to offer unlimited energy, the cure to any disease, and even conquering death itself.  In a desperate race against time, a team of military and civilian scientists struggle to unlock the secrets of a supposedly-comatose, totally-contained Monster.  However, the Creature has plans of its own...plans that involve civil war in the United States, even reaching to the nation's White House.  This book is about the struggle of ordinary men and women to confront and battle the worst, most-terrible type of evil: the horror that lurks in the darkest depths of each person's own heart.   [suggested viewing restriction:  "R"--young people under 17 requiring parental approval to read this book.]

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Real Dracula II: Armageddon   $44.95

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In this fast-paced sequel to Real Dracula I, 311 pages in length, the consequences of Dracula's actions play out, threatening the complete extinction of the human species.  The only way this can possibly be prevented is for the few remaining humans to somehow change history---both in the future and in the past!  To this end, a small band of humans leaps one billion years into the future, while another travels to the 19th Century.  In Elizabethan England, the second team finds and enlists the help of Bram Stoker, the author of the original Dracula book.  In the distant future, the first team encounters a star-faring civilization of evolved, intelligent insects, who are not at all happy to have their ages-long presence on earth jeopardized.  In both situations, the "to be" and the "was" Dracula confront the human time-travelers, intent on their destruction.  To Dracula, the humans are just annoying ants---pesky creatures to be savagely swatted away.  Dracula seems beyond human thought, beyond human achievements, beyond humanity's puny power, and beyond intentional evil---the ultimate, irrevocable, inescapable "grim reaper."  Yet one human trait seems to keep popping up, continuing to endanger Dracula's implacable purpose: unconditional love of a parent for a child.  [suggested viewing restriction:  "R"--young people under 17 requiring parental approval to read this book.]  

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"Clang" (Beyond-Rock & Roll Music CD)   $19.95

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This hour-long, music CD, performed by Green Anaconda, contains potent compositions which go beyond "rock and roll" to a new form of music: "Clang."  The songs are based on chapters and themes from the science-fiction/horror novel "Real Dracula."  It is an ugly, grating, savage noise---but at the same time, strangely beautiful.  It seems to say that beyond the very worst that can happen to individuals and society, something fresh and new has to---must---emerge.  When each of us are forced to look deep into our own souls and confront our own personal darkest nightmare, we may on the one hand be destroyed by guilt and fear---or, perhaps, exorcise the demon: emerging from the ordeal with a crystal-clear perspective, new priorities, and a fresh determination.  [suggested listening restriction: "PG13," young people under 13 requiring parental approval to hear this CD.]

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Reptilian Holiday Greetings   $39.95

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This 313-page book contains fifteen strange, bizarre, science-fiction short stories, each illustrated by a Christmas Holiday-oriented, provocative animal cartoon.   Each story deals with an underlying theme from its cartoon, as to the nature and significance of our holiday gatherings, when humanity tends to exhibit both its best and worst characteristics.  Half of the book deals with the holiday-related adventures of the "Hyperspace Trader Space Kids," a young boy and girl who two thousand years in the future accompany and help their parents as they all travel on their starship in hyperspace throughout the Galaxy, hauling cargo from planet to planet, and trading with many strange life-forms.  In this book, the space kids encounter and struggle with space pirates, giant intelligent snakes, the mysterious Black Hole at the center of the Milky Way, and Humanity's Greatest Treasure locked in a Pyramid in a deserted Washington D.C. mall on mythical Old Earth.  [rating: "G," appropriate for people of all ages.]

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SCIENCE FICTION Art Posters                $19.95 each

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Sixty-two (13 x 19") Art Posters, beautifully arranged and presented as small and full-screen Thumbnails, in the areas of:  REAL DRACULA and CLANG.  All posters tie-into and graphically illustrate key information/concepts from LylePublishing books, CDs, and other products.  Much key information from Real Dracula I & II, and CLANG is encapsulated and presented in large size, vivid color schemes, with powerful pictures---ready to frame and hang on one's wall as a constant reminder of the struggle/difficulty in recognizing and fighting against Evil in our day-to-day life.  [Note that the actual, printed 13 x 19" posters are significantly more colorful, detailed, and sharper than the small and large thumbnails presented on the website.]

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