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See our complete List for all Clocktower Books Titles.
Runners: Prison Planet - Escape or Die (SF)
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 (by Rémi Metro, Clocktower Books, February 2013)—In the far future, mankind's Dominion is collapsing under the alien Kaarrk onslaught. Prisoners of war Kion Danos and Amela Brunvig choose escape and terror over death, in their quest for their distant home worlds, loved ones, and a fresh chance to fight the Swarm…
Doctor Night: A Compass News Thriller
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(by Victor Branch, Clocktower Books, January 2013)—Jack Breaker is tomorrow's Private Agent of last resort, called in when all else fails. A killer satellite goes missing—stolen by a global terror brokerage network (Black Umbrella), whose maniacal chief (Dr. Night) wants to become ruler of the world…
Autumn of the Republic (Political Thriller)
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(by John T. Cullen, Clocktower Books, January 2013)— The most important (and hugely entertaining) political thriller since Seven Days in May. Manipulated and angry, we call for a Second Constitutional Convention (CON2). This novel is the first to really think it through. CON2 must never happen—it would destroy the USA & the world as we know it…
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 Since 1996: Pioneers in Digital Publishing Clocktower Books launched in 1996 as Clocktower Fiction, the world's third online digital download publisher (interpolating from timelines, like this one, which is missing some important milestones including our own launch). We were pioneers during the halcyon genesis days of the World Wide Web, when digital publishing was as yet virgin territory, and wide open to innovation. We were first in history to release entire proprietary novels (in weekly serial chapters, 1996-1997). For a decade, we published what was then the acclaimed (Web's oldest), professional digital SF/F/H magazine (Deep Outside/Far Sector SFFH)—see [About] and [Museum]. We continue to innovate with the same exciting view of the future.
Inspiration for Clocktower Books. One rainy (rare) San Diego Fall 1996 evening, Brian Callahan and I stood on my sidewalk, noodling about how to set up an umbrella publishing colophon with its own domain name. There was (still is) an unpublished John Argo novel featuring a city of clocktowers, in a kind of retro Metropolis that captured the atmosphere for our ideas. That would be the movie Metropolis of Fritz Lang, Blade Runner, and Dark City. John Argo's novel, which may yet see the light (or night) of day, was 100% the source of inspiration. On another note, one day in 1998 our collaborator A.L. Sirois emailed me across the country, with a link. "You gotta see this." I was amazed and pleased to see we were listed on britannica.com. As I recall, at the time, the ideal was a sort Yahoo-modeled portal, before they remade their website as an online edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. More historical info—see John Labovitz' ancient 'Ezine' List.
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A historic but obscure Catholic women's college in Oldport, Rhode Island, dating to 1666, is a key intersect station for telepathic time travel and other paranormal adventures across time and space. Oldport isn't on the map—but check out Newport, RI as the nexus of Gilded Age power in the Anglo-American world empire. Oh yes, and its buildings, including St. Didacus, source of the name given by girls generations ago, are filled with ghosts. Faculty include Nostradamus as a visiting professor. So this is where he really went during his disappearance from 1534 to 1545, to recover after his wife and children died of plague at Agen, France. We learn the stunning but logical secret of his name (never before revealed to mankind!) and covert organization spanning the ages (it all makes sense now). SDG is smart, cheeky, scary, and at times quite soapy when it's not intriguing and terrifying. Stay tuned for the enchiladan entirety of it all…
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