Alan Black

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Alan Black has been writing novels since 1996. His writing tastes are as eclectic as his reading preferences. He is an award winning author with three #1 Amazon best selling SciFi novels. Black is an indie multi-genre writer who has never met a good story he didn't want to tell.

Alan Black's vision statement: "I want my readers amazed they missed sleep because they could not put down one of my books. I want my readers amazed I made them laugh on one page and cry on the next. I want to give my readers a pleasurable respite from the cares of the world for a few hours.

I want to offer stories I would want to read."

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A Planet with No Name Mar 31, 2019

by Alan Black , D.E. Black

( 14 )

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All Veronica Smith and her husband wanted to do was start a new life on a new planet. The Smiths found a compatible group forming on the North American continent and signed a five-year Pioneer Compact short on law and long on freedoms. They planned and fantasized of a paradise while waiting for Earth’s telescopic surveyors to discover a viable planet meeting current Goldilocks zone requirements. Now, Veronica stood in the middle of the muddy street on a planet with no name. The rain washed her tears away while heavy drops plummeted into jumbo-sized puddles splashing murky water onto her ankle length dress. She stared down at Cal, laying dead in the mud. The townspeople of Peaceful Junction ignored her. The Halberds were going to pay. The town was going to pay.

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Chewing Rocks Dec 8, 2013

by Alan Black

( 104 )

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Chastity Snowden Whyte just wanted to mine for rocks, metal and ice in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Rock mining in space was all she knew. It was all she was good at doing. She was comfortable living alone as the captain of her mining ship the Sedona. Normally she managed with only infrequent trips to the planetoid Ceres for resupply.

She didn’t want to have to make extra trips back to base because of equipment failure. She didn’t want to become a mining tutor for a group of newcomers from Earth. And she certainly didn’t want to get entangled in corporate conspiracies, piracy, kidnapping, murder and worst of all…politics.

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Metal Boxes - At the Edge Sep 30, 2016

by Alan Black

( 117 )

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Ensign Stone’s goals were to make his way in the empire’s navy, make his family proud of him, and make love to his fiancée. No matter which way he turned, someone was conspiring against him. Disgraced and humiliated, he is court-martialed, discharged, and abandoned.

Accepting what he thinks is a lowly busy-work position on a beat up old family business space freighter travelling At the Edge of human space, he hopes to earn back the trust and respect he lost. The Empire’s political powers and his family have different goals. Stone faces humanity’s enemies in a do-or-die operation.

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Titanium Texicans Oct 12, 2014

by Alan Black

( 205 )

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Sixteen-Year-old Tasso Menzies just finished burying his grandfather next to his mother and grandmother on the family farm when he receives an order from his estranged uncle to come to Capital City. He doesn’t want to leave the only home he’s ever known. He doesn’t want to be apprenticed on a space freighter crewed by Texas cowboys of Mexican descent. He certainly doesn’t want to be gone for so long that his home and inheritance are stolen. While trying to fit in and still get home he learns what it is like to live in space, what a cheerleader is, how spicy a taco can be, and that Texicans like a good fight as much as he does.

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Larry Goes To Space Jan 20, 2016

by Alan Black

( 125 )

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Larry enjoyed raising cattle on his Kansas farm, until the aliens arrived. He couldn’t help himself; he was going for a ride with aliens from outer space!

The aliens wouldn’t tell him where he was going, how long he would be gone, or if he was ever coming back, but a space trip sounded like more fun than beer and burgers at Benny’s Been There and Done That Bar and Grill. He had to go.

“A BRILLIANT NOVEL!”
says Melanie Tighe, reviewer for The CitySunTimes, Phoenix, Arizona

Larry’s ride into deep space wasn’t just a Sunday jaunt. This space-faring species was in danger of being wiped off the galactic map. They offered Larry a ride because his assistance was vital to their survival, but they were xenophobic to the point of barely tolerating Larry in the same room.

He was willing to help, but what could he do? Could he live long enough to save himself? What skills did Larry have to save an alien species threatened with annihilation? Every time he asked them for information, they stonewalled him.

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The Granite Heart (An Ozark Mountain Series Book 2) Feb 20, 2014

by Alan Black , Bernice Knight

( 10 )

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In the Ozarks in 1920 Susanne Harbowe is shamefully and suddenly ripped from her life as a schoolteacher. She did nothing wrong that justified being fired from her job, evicted from her home and shunned by people she thought were friends. In desperation she joins forces with her young friend, LillieBeth Hazkit.

Susanne and LillieBeth track down the men responsible for ruining Susanne’s life. While she struggles to keep up with her friend’s youthful spirit and undaunting courage she wonders if she will end up in a brothel with nowhere else to go. LillieBeth’s audacity and determination lend strength to Susanne as she seeks to either reclaim her old life or build a new one. But first, they must bring the men who hurt her to justice.

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Steel Walls and Dirt Drops Jun 24, 2014

by Alan Black

( 117 )

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The new commander of the 1392nd Allied Protective Expeditionary Services is Hamisha Ann McPherson and this is her first command of anything larger than a squad. She is a larger-than-life combat veteran and a bonafide war hero. She knows combat. She also knows that combat is one thing and that command is a warthog of a different and dubious color. Misha wonders if she has the necessary skills to turn this group of slackers, petty criminals and losers into an effective fighting unit in the short time she has left before being tossed out the back end of a spacecraft to fight in ground chewing warfare.

APES are supposed to be an armored infantry fighting force. However, this unit’s last commander retired in the saddle leaving his unit to unravel and fend for themselves. Their assigned space forces transport captain is less than no help at all. The war with the Binders is heating up and there are secrets swirling around mixed with gossip about the last big battle against the aliens. Some secrets could mean life or death for the ground pounders who wear metal armor in dirt side warfare.

Combat is on the horizon and even the veteran APES doubt they will be ready for what is coming. All Misha can do is crack a few heads, kick some backsides and see what happens. Her APES might live through the next battle if she is successful. If not…

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Metal Boxes - Trapped Outside Aug 24, 2015

by Alan Black

( 183 )

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The sequel to #1 best selling science fiction novel Metal Boxes. Blackmon Perry Stone hasn't gotten over his fear of being outside and he still hasn't settled into life in the Empire's Navy. After months of legal wrangling over his last assignment, he has been given a new assignment. He was looking forward to getting an new posting on a spaceship or a station. The problem is that his new job is on a planet. Worse, once there, the base is overrun by the enemy aliens and now Stone is trapped outside on a hostile planet, injured, and hunted by aliens bent of killing him.

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The King's Rock (An Ozark Mountain Series Book 6) Dec 16, 2015

by Alan Black

( 8 )

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LillieBeth is determined to find the men responsible for stealing her horses, to stop them and make them pay.

Leota Wikoff finds refuge from her abusive father with LillieBeth Hazkit. Embarrassed by her past and her recent actions, she speaks without thinking and offers to go with her new protector to the edge of the Ozark Mountains, back to her hated Arkansas to hunt down and stop a ring of horse thieves. Leota’s only tether is the tenuous link to her new boss and the odd collection of outcasts LillieBeth gathers around her. Can Leota overcome her own selfish ways and find a tether to the biggest anchor of all?

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The Inconvenient Pebble (An Ozark Mountain Series Book 4) Jun 25, 2015

by Alan Black

( 8 )

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In 1925 in the Ozark Mountains, LillieBeth Hazkit has learned to love where she can, not turn away from those in need, and stand up for herself when she has to. Feeling compelled to obey God’s word and apply what she knows; she stands steadfast and unmoving upon biblical principles. Collecting strays, runaways, and lost souls has become an accidental habit.

Human nature no longer surprises LillieBeth. Protecting her friends from evil men may require using her guns She fights back with every means she has available when moonshiners, racists, and horse thieves invade her life.

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The Heaviest Rock (An Ozark Mountain Series Book 3) Jul 15, 2014

by Alan Black , Bernice Knight

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Grace Grissom’s life is suddenly turned upside down. Her husband is brutally murdered and she finds out first hand that a widow in the 1920 Ozark Mountains has little to no legal standing. Two of her friends, LillieBeth Hazkit and Susanne Harbowe managed to track down two of the men responsible for Clayton’s murder. The rest of the killers are living free and clear in the mountains like nothing happened. No lawmen are seeking them out for the murder.

She teams up with LillieBeth to track down the rest of this band of killers. Grace begins to wonder if she is leading the hunt or if LillieBeth is leading her. LillieBeth’s audacity and determination combine with Grace’s strength and ability in the search for these evil men, attempting to bring them justice when no other men will.

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Metal Boxes - Rusty Hinges Apr 28, 2016

by Alan Black

( 141 )

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Stone’s fist, secure in the combat suit and hidden by camouflage, impacted the Hyrocanian mouth before it closed around the baby. Stone grabbed the helpless piglet with his free hand and tossed it to a startled female. The piglet, the last of her kind on the delivery shuttle, grabbed the baby and ran.

“Ratcheting up the excitement and the stakes, Black nails it again with Rusty Hinges, the latest in his Metal Boxes sci-fi series!”
Melanie Tighe, book reviewer for The City Sun Times, Phoenix, Arizona

Stone twisted his fist, trying his best to break every tooth in the Hyrocanian’s mouth. Hyrocanians have four sets teeth, two for chewing vertically, and two for chewing horizontally. Suddenly, his fist broke free from the shattered teeth. Opening his fist, he felt something soft and squishy at the back of the alien’s throat. He closed his fingers around it and yanked.

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