By Michael Marshall Smith First Published: 1994 Call him Stark. If you have to. If you’re lucky, you won’t call him at all. Because if you do, it means you’ve got trouble. Big trouble. And the problem is that before Stark is done fixing something, a whole lot of other things usually get broken. Like laws and lives—and anyone who gets in the way. It’s…
By Adam Smith First Published: 2020 “MAX IS BACK! And the bullets are flying!!!” Since his historic rampage, Max has been elevated to leader of a special forces team called The Reapers. Their mission: Kill every dirtbag the local cops can’t or won’t touch. But when Max gets abducted, he must carve a path through bloody gladiator battles against cyborg animals, resurrected villains, and sword-wielding…
By Adam Smith First Published: 2019 Rating: Very good, also friggin’ hilarious. After the SPPD fires Maxwell Cain, aka “Bloody Rain Cain,” executing one too many dirtbags on the street San Pajita, Max seeks solace in the one thing that brings peace to his all-too-violent life–a meal at his favorite taqueria. Too bad a gang of thugs bust in to the joint and sully his…
By Randall P. Fitzgerald First Published: 2016 “A (possibly upsetting) cyberpunk adventure comedy.” You know how there’s those girls that you know but don’t really know? Marine’s one of those girls. In a stroke of what some people would call amazing luck, a massive corporation stole something from her workshop while she was sleeping. Our protagonist, being the upstanding (and not shiftless, anti-social pervert) citizen…
By Steve Perry First Published: 2000 In the not-so-distant future, Venture Silk is a media spindoc and a pro at twisting the news to serve his corporate masters. When Silk is pulled into a web of lies and intrigue beyond the kind he has learned to spin, his life become a lot more interesting and dangerous. Now spies, rogue agents, and religious fanatics are around…
By Haruka Takachiho First Published: 2018 Yuri and Kay have cornered the largest and most lethal organized crime syndicate in the galaxy–the infamous Lucifa family! But when the shooting starts and things start to explode (as they usually do) space and time is ripped open. The Dirty Pair are hurled into a strange new world and right into unimaginable adventure. Will they survive? Of course.…
By Haruka Takachiho First Published: 2007 Who should have infiltrated the world of heroic fantasy, but Yuri and Kay! And now they have become kings of one country!? Yuri and Kay have gone undercover at The Barbarian Age, the super-popular theme park that has turned an entire continent into a virtual game world! By way of the latest in simulation and holographic technology, the pair…
By Haruka Takachiho First Published: 2006 Yuri and Kay have gone undercover to investigate The Barbarian Age, a popular theme park that uses the latest in virtual and holographic technology to turn a whole continent to a world of heroic fantasy! Dirty Pair in Sword and Sorcery!? Problem is, there a criminal organization has infilrated the operation and now its up up to Yuri and…
By Haruka Takachiho First Published: 2004 When Lily and Kay come out of cold sleep and into the year the year 2294 , the world was supposed to be in a better place. Instead the galaxy is in a state of collapse after a major war. So once again its up to the Dirty Pair, two strongest beauties in in the milky, to save it.…
By Haruka Takachiho First Published: 1997 This time around, Yuri and Kei have been dispatched to planet Amuneal. Because the former dictator there ruled by a declaration of terror, he was overthrown in a revolution. Called a cold-hearted emperor, he was executed and a new government has now been established. The Pair’s mission is to remove the last vestiges of continuing defiant resistance from the…
By Haruka Takachiho First Published: 1992 At the galaxy’s premier girl’s school (the St. Elmo Institute), developed by the Rotchester Foundation, a strange disease has appeared! One by one, beautiful young women are succumbing mysteriously to the illness. So, the Foundation requested the WWWA’s assistance… dispatched were criminal trouble consultants with no connection to the epidemic and such, once again the unconnected Dirty Pair’s Yuri…
By Haruka Takachiho First Published: 1987 Receiving a request to search out the killer criminal high-class sex robot “Akumeroid” from the mayor of Canary City on the ocean planet Dolroy, the Dirty Pair’s Yuri and Kei turn up at the scene. The “Crushers”, charged with planetary reconstruction work, are also staying there by invitation of the planet’s second-generation governorship. Meanwhile, an atmosphere of unrest floats…
By Haruka Takachiho First Published: 1985 Yuri and Kei are sent to the mining planet Chakra, the disgrace of the galaxy, because one of the mining engineers was attacked by an unknown animal. Although he was attacked, the wounds healed in three days. On Chakra, which is complicated by the ulterior motives of its three leaders–the mining owner, the mayor, and the preacher– unexpected facts…
By Haruka Takachiho First Published: 1979 Charged with keeping the peace and investigating crime among the stars, the World Welfare Works Association (WWWA) prides itself on a reputation of safety and regard for life and property. If only someone would tell that to Agents Kei and Yuri, codename “the Lovely Angels,” but better known as the Dirty Pair. Part female James Bond and part walking…
By Bruce Bethke First Published: 1995 Jack Burroughs. Some say he was the best. Some say he was a complete dork. Some call him the coolest cybernetic surfer ever to hang ten on the shoulders of the Great Information Superhighway. Other have claimed that Marsha Vang, that cute little brunette down in Document coding, actually went out on a date with him once, and he…
By Bruce Bethke First Published: 1983 A gang of unruly teenagers cut school and go joy-riding around “the Net” on their hopped-up portable computers, committing casual acts of vandalism and just generally being a$holes. Our hero is a good kid who’s fallen in with a bad crowd; his parents eventually realize something is wrong and try to suppress the relationship. This results in the kid…