J E Murphy

The story of Gil, a two-bit purse snatcher who gets recruited by a Mexican drug cartel in Miami. Gil moves rapidly up the ranks of the cartel until he is made the mayor of a small but strategic town just across the Mexican border from Arizona. Here, Gil encounters an unusual individual who convinces him to turn against the cartel, resulting in an adventure beyond his imaginings.

When Maarten O'Toole invented the notron wave gun, he could never have predicted the chaos it would unleash, or the hellish future it would create. Now, in a future dominated by intergalactic warfare and devastating alien invasions, Maarten must navigate a treacherous world where humans are slaves to the ultra elite, semi-android repandrs who now control the world. As the advanced technology slowly erodes the barrier between this universe and the next, creatures made of pure energy begin to invade invisibly, and human survival depends on mastering the very technology that brought destruction. 5 Billion Years Alone is a high-stakes journey through ruined cities, hidden alliances, and the ultimate fight for humanity's survival. Brimming with advanced technology, this epic sci-fi thriller pits a lone repandr against forces that could annihilate worlds-or rebuild them.

Literary Speculative FictionJ.E. Murphy's The Last Romanian Frogman is a treasure trove of literary speculative fiction. Each story is a poignant exploration of life's mysteries: from a sculptor's tragic journey to immortality, to a soldier's metaphysical awakening, to a woman's unusual maternal instincts for an alien entity. These tales offer profound insights wrapped in beautiful prose, making them ideal for fans of Margaret Atwood, Kurt Vonnegut, and Ray Bradbury. What drives us to create, love, or rebel against the impossible? The Last Romanian Frogman explores these questions through a kaleidoscope of short fiction. J.E. Murphy delivers tales of heartache, humor, and resilience-be it a reluctant airship technician battling existential nothingness or an unwitting soldier transported into a dreamlike reality. This masterful collection will move you to tears, laughter, and deep introspection.

A Gripping Adventure into the Unknown"Africa's Children" by J.E. Murphy takes readers on a harrowing journey to the heart of Africa, where siblings Deirdre, Phoebe, and Mitch confront their extraordinary past and uncertain future. Raised among apes and steeped in family secrets, their story blends science, suspense, and survival in the wild. An unforgettable tale of human and animal connection that tests the limits of courage. Phoebe, Deirdre, and Mitch, college students working on their primatology and anthropology degrees, set off for Africa to find their father, who has disappeared from a mysterious research station at the edge of an immense forest. After being captured by militant rebels, they begin to travel down different jungle paths to discover things they never imagined existed. "Africa's Children" is a blend of science fiction and adventure, where chimpanzees, family betrayal, and corporate corruption collide. As Deirdre, Phoebe, and Mitch navigate the African jungle, they uncover dark experiments and secrets about human evolution. A riveting narrative for fans of anthropology and edge-of-your-seat thrillers.

An ancient virus is turning animals into people and people into monsters. Two romantically inclined mutants lead a pack of hybridized pilgrims from Miami across Africa to Rome. Their two-fold purpose: stop the cure for the disease that created them, and get the Pope's OK for non-humans to marry in the Church. A virus from billions of years in the past has emerged from ancient salt beds with devastating results. As the virus turns evolution on its head, people are changed into monsters, animals begin to demand their rights, and civilization is brought to its knees. The few remaining humans seek safety in the quarantine of walled cities such as the Vatican. They desperately seek a cure, but the only one they find may have results too horrible to contemplate Judeus and Miranda, recent converts to the phylum Porifera, set out with a werewolfish priest, a planeload of mutating pilgrims, and a sabre-tooth shape-shifting cat on their own journey from Miami to the Vatican. One wants to teach the Pope how to pray in this strange new world. The other wants to stop the cure being developed by the remaining humans. And they both want to get the Pope's final answer on whether non-humans should marry. With their plane shot down over Africa, they learn that strange events are not limited just to the civilized parts of the world. Is the virus God's punishment on the world? Or is there no god but the virus? Or is the virus going to create a new god? Can three sponge-monsters straighten this mess out?

Here is a love story--but not the usual kind of love story. This is about the kind of love that can send the world spinning in new directions without the world even knowing that it was done. A discovered manuscript tells of a life that bridges the spirit world and the physical world. This manuscript tells the story of how, after a near death experience, a young Chinese girl develops the ability to observe and affect events at a distance. Her use of these psychic talents may change the world for good or evil. While traveling out of her body, Xiao Chen becomes involved in the heroic struggle of incarnate spiritual beings to undo a terrible mistake - a mistake of a previous life that is having devastating consequences in this one. A fantastic adventure that takes place in the real world of today, this is a tale of the undercurrents of existence of which we may be totally unaware. This volume includes "The Dakini" and "The Bodhisattva", complete in one volume.