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ELDRITCH EVOLUTIONS (April 2011)

"Riveting stories with mind-bending ideas - intensely creative!"
-- Catherine Asaro, Nebula-Award winning author of The Ruby Dice

"Everything you want in horror fiction."
-- Scott Edelman, Five-time Nominee for the Bram Stoker Award, Editor of Syfy's Blastr

"An extravagant gift for those of us open to fiction that leaves 'formula' several highway service plazas behind...devastating genius...and oh, that story, Debutante Ball - in a perfect literary landscape it would now be as well-remembered as Shirley Jackson's The Lottery."
-- Adam-Troy Castro, SCI FI, official magazine of the SYFY TV channel

"Lois Gresh writes intensely memorable stories...shocking, funny, disturbing. She is a uniquely gifted writer whose work I have admired for many years. I'm delighted to see her short stories finally collected in book form."
---Charles Platt, former editor at Avon books & senior writer at Wired.

"Lois Gresh is a terrific writer and this collection is a terrific book for anyone who wants to read the best in science fiction, dark fantasy, dark humor, and horror."
---Robert Weinberg, Winner of Lifetime Achievement Award, HWA

"Lois Gresh makes me scared of things I've never been scared of before. In person, Lois seems so nice and ordinary...but in her writing, she's *evil*."
---James Alan Gardner, Winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial award

"Since the early 1990's, Lois H. Gresh has tied quantum physics and math to weird tales of dementia, altered realities, and nanotech-flesh conquests. She believes that our perceptions of reality are anthropomorphic visions, that the unknown far exceeds our self-centered views of the universe. Her earliest published stories merged science with the supernatural, producing acclaimed weird tales such as Snip My Suckers, Psychomildew Love, Let Me Make You Suffer, Digital Pistil, Cafebabe, Algorithms & Nasal Structures, Mandelbrot Moldrot, Where I Go, Mi-Go, and many others.
---Arkham House Catalog, 2011

THE HUNGER GAMES COMPANION (2011)

"...belongs in any collector's or fanatic's library."
--TEEN INK, EDITOR'S CHOICE AWARD: The Hunger Games Companion, an interview with Lois Gresh

BLOOD AND ICE (Jan 2011)

"It's a cliche to call horror stories chilling, but BLOOD AND ICE had me frozen to my seat. A spoonful of Lovecraft, a jigger of Dracula, and a pinch of John Carpenter, all stirred up with sex and neutrinos and served on ice."
--James Alan Gardner, Winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial award

"Vampire fans are in for a treat with BLOOD AND ICE! If you're hoping for surprisingly quirky takes on reality combined with cleverly worded fiction, you're in the right place. Lois Gresh always surprises me. She's one of the cleverest writers out there."
--Nancy Kilpatrick, editor of Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead

"Lois Gresh is one of the most talented writers working these days in the realms of imagination - unique ideas, bizarre plot twists, and fascinating characters! Supremely creative!"
--Robert Weinberg, Winner of Lifetime Achievement Award, HWA

THE TERMINATION NODE (1999)

"[A] breathless computer-driven technothriller."
--The New York Times Book Review

"An exciting plot that boasts enough authentic high-tech detail to make the criminal possibilities of electronic finance seem very real, and just a few mouse clicks away."
--Publishers Weekly

"Breathless Net-scapade of feisty, socially challenged computer adepts."
--Kirkus Reviews

"One step removed from Tom Clancy, one step closer than William Gibson, The Termination Node is a cyberthriller about reality just waiting to happen."
--Kevin J. Anderson, New York Times Best-Selling Author

"The Termination Node is a frightening and exhilarating cautionary tale that rips along like ASCII through a T-1 line."
--F. Paul Wilson, New York Times Best-Selling Author

"An early warning of 21st century crime and terrorism…an intelligent book … Refreshing and frightening… Gresh and Weinberg have done their homework… The technology they describe will inevitably arrive."
--Dr. Howard Frank, former Director, Information Technology Office, DARPA

"An all-too-real world...where a new breed of cyber-predators prowl the global net in search of victims...Gresh and Weinberg entertain and terrify us."
--James Buchanan, Gannett Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology

"Gresh and Weinberg have written a thriller that personalizes the all-too-real danger which could strike anyone. They deftly execute this near-future nightmare with nonstop action, realistic characters of a type you don't often find in thrillers, and writing that never distracts us. Definitely worth reading."
--The New York Review of Science Fiction

"The Termination Node uses cutting-edge tech to deliver old-fashioned excitement. Paced like ever-accelerating modem speeds, this novel paints a vivid picture of a future that has already arrived. It left me amazed about, and terrified of, the capabilities of my innocent-looking laptop. It's a fast-moving jolt of pure cyber-adrenaline."
--Nancy Kress, multiple Nebula-winning author

"The Termination Node is a fine, dark thriller for the coming millennium."
--Joe R. Lansdale, multiple award-winning author

CHUCK FARRIS TRILOGY (2001)

"Lois Gresh, nominated for the Nebula and Bram Stoker awards, and her 12-year-old son have fashioned an interesting and cautionary tale about what can happen when your wishes come true. A well-written fantasy for the tastes of the modern American boy."
--Today's Librarian

"The first in a series of PlayStation2 novels written by a mother-son team, this book is a combination of fantasy story and game hint book, perfect for luring in reluctant boy readers. Written on an easy-to-read level, it will catch them up in the premise of the game world being stronger than reality...a fun story with enough twists to keep the reader engaged. [A] recommended purchase..."
--Gillian Wiseman, Voice of Youth Advocates

"Quite a revolutionary book indeed! That is because this is the first book ever that is written about a video game system and a person's experiences with it. I will say that it is a well written book, and a very good effort for a first time genre. If you really like games, and like action/adventure novels aimed towards the teenage group, then definitely pick this up. There are a few more books coming out in this series, which I expect to be much like this one. So, if you order this and like it, then definitely order the next few!"
--Chris Ludlow, Video Game Nation

THE COMPUTERS OF STAR TREK (2000)

"For the computer illiterate, the Star Trek savvy and all combinations in between, THE COMPUTERS OF STAR TREK is not only a painless examination of the history and future of computers but a highly entertaining one as well. I recommend it to all who are prepared to address the future not only in fiction but in fact."
--Walter Koenig, one of the crew members on the original Star Trek

"The Computers of Star Trek goes where no other Star Trek book has gone, to the mind and logic of the thinking machines of the primal SF TV universe. Gresh and Weinberg have written a funny and amazing book about a 'hidden' world of Trek."
--Matt Costello, author of Mirage and Masque

"The Computers of Star Trek downloads the hard facts of deep cyberspace from each generation of the legendary television show and makes the details of computer science as engaging as a session in the holodeck. Lois Gresh and Bob Weinberg boldly go into the computer world of the future and report how Star Trek has hit and missed the mark. It's the first must-read computer manual."
--E.C. Krupp, Director, Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles

THE SCIENCE OF SUPERHEROES (2002)

"Fantastically hilarious"
--Diamond Galleries SCOOP magazine

"---the book should go down well with the comics' teenage readers: the writing is an accessible style and the authors skillfully manage the difficult gear-shift between describing the heroes and discussing the science."
--New Scientist

"What seemed impossible just sixty years ago during the Golden Age of Comics, now appears increasingly plausible. The Science of Superheroes serves as an entertaining and informative guide to comic book wonders bound to come."
--Julius Schwartz, Editor Emeritus, DC Comics

"I found this book to be a hoot from beginning to end. Ms. Gresh and Mr. Weinberg must have spent some time in institutions for the deranged, because well-balanced minds could not have conceived of this project. But thank God for their derangement, for they have produced a package of pure fun from first page to last. If, like me, you admire superheroes from a distance, or if you are a hardcore fan of them, you will enjoy this book as surely as you would enjoy waking one morning to discover that you are invincible, able to fly, and in possession of a totally cool costume behind which to hide your true identity."
--Dean Koontz, New York Times Best-Selling Author

"We comics fans have known it for years, of course: somewhere, in some nether dimension or on some alternate world, there is an Earth on which superheroes are real...and now Lois Gresh and Bob Weinberg have shown us how that's possible. To paraphrase an old DC Comics feature: Science says you're wrong if you believe that The Science of Superheroes isn't more fun than a barrel of genetically altered winged monkeys."
--Roy Thomas, writer and editor of X-Men, Fantastic Four, The Incredible Hulk, Superman, Justice League of America, Legion of Superheroes, Star Wars, and many other comic book classics

"Weinberg and Gresh tell it like it is -- and how it would be if our favorite comic book characters actually existed. The Science of Superheroes is a fascinating and entertaining examination of everything from astrophysics to genetic biology to the evolution of the 'superhero.'"
--Mark Powers, editor of X-Men and Uncanny X-Men

THE SCIENCE OF STEPHEN KING (2007)

"What a treasure house is this book! Robots, space aliens, Einstein, black holes, time travel -- these themes, and much more, from Stephen King's amazing books are opened up like toy chests. It's tremendous fun, entirely educational, and a great tribute to King."
--Peter Straub

"A fun, fun read."
--F. Paul Wilson

"The Science of Stephen King appeals to both the scientist and the longtime reader of Stephen King in me. Gresh and Weinberg use concepts from King's fiction as launching pads for in-depth explorations of concepts as diverse as ESP, pyrokinesis, time travel, artificial intelligence, quantum chemistry, alternate realities, string theory, and the possibility that we'll be visited by aliens or that we'll face a global pandemic. Much of what Stephen King writes about in his novels is closer to reality than you might think."
--Bev Vincent, PhD, author of The Road to the Dark Tower

"A superb overview of King's use of scientific concepts in his stories. And considering all the scary talk lately about pandemic flu, their chapter on The Stand is timely as hell."
--Stephen Spignesi, author of The Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia

"Just as Sagan and Asimov popularized science to the massses by making it entertaining and informative, so too do Gresh and Weinberg. Compulsively readable and thought-provoking."
--George Beahm, author of The Stephen King Companion

Lois' Book Reviews

Staff novel reviewer - www.scifi.com, Science Fiction Cable Channel, Nov 2004-Dec 2009, RIP