Garrard is a young man unknowingly ahead of his time: a better book-keeper than mage-in-training, he lives for efficiency and accountability in a world where the currency of force is composed magic and steel. Despite his complete lack of promise as a wizard, Garrard is apprenticed to Arnoth the Unstoppable, greatest mage in the world, the one man who has foreseen Garrard's true destiny. Garrard's adventure begins when he accompanies his master, along with the legendary Elsewinde the Immaculate, and Basher the Red, on a quest to discover what mysterious force is felling the world's greatest adventurers within the Realm of Thunder, a dark land of rumbling skies where even the mightiest of heroes has fallen. Garrard is neither wizard nor warrior, healer nor thief. He is but an awkward young bookkeeper whose penchant for precision and love of logic will lead him to power in a world he is about to forever change.

Religion and technology have been leveraged to control the minds and lives of humankind. Truth is a lie. Oppression is the rule. But not for long....

2112: The living spirit of Almighty Harold is alive in Megadon, but its evil is not unopposed. Thomas Ryan starts a daring rebellion, leading an impromptu army from the Lower Levels onward and upward through the city, while Maggie, Robert and Rosella Lifeson make a desperate bid to destroy the Great Computer at Syrinx. As these others make their attacks, young David and Mal carry out their own silent but insidious strike against the monster within the machine.

2049: Harold launches a nuclear holocaust and begins to rebuild the world in his own twisted image. Only Robert and Jimmy Lifeson, along with a handful of free-thinkers, dare to oppose him.

Inspired by the works of Rush, "Red Star 4: Victory" concludes the saga told in "Red Star: Sacred Cities," "Red Star 2: Duty and Destiny" and "Red Star 3: Ascendance," and is sure to thrill Rush-fans and sci-fi readers alike.

THIS WORK HAS NOT BEEN ENDORSED BY RUSH

Welcome to the year 2112.

Religion and technology have been leveraged to control the minds and lives of humankind. Truth is a lie. Oppression is the rule.

2112: The living spirit of Almighty Harold asserts its power in Megadon. The new Vice Chancellor, Thomas O. Ryan, races to save David Lifeson and Mal from the lethal Colonel-become-Bishop Compaq. Surgeon General Wang kidnaps David's mother, Magenta, without any idea who or what she truly is or the danger she represents. Uncle Robert delves into a mysterious file containing a journal describing his brother Billy's perilous journey through the black hole of Cygnus X-1.

2047: Michael Lifeson defends teenaged Harold from assassination attempts while Maggie and Robert strike out to unravel the true motives of the young religious leader and discover in New Imperial Japan the roots of a dark plot with earth-shattering implications.

Inspired by the works of Rush, "Red Star 3: Ascendance" continues the saga told in "Red Star: Sacred Cities" and "Red Star 2: Duty and Destiny," and is sure to thrill Rush-fans and sci-fi readers alike.

THIS WORK HAS NOT BEEN ENDORSED BY RUSH

"Saints of Augustine" is one man's magical odyssey through the spiritual maze that is St. Augustine, Florida. From the Nombre de Dios Mission to St. Augustine Shores, our hero commits to a quest for his own sanity and discovers the hidden true nature of the oldest city in the continental United States. Suffering through a divorce, and beset by an ancient witch whose evil knows no bounds, he is tempted by the one true Fountain of Youth, and aided by saints previously unknown: a Chinese Jesuit automaton called "The Augbot"; a talking dog; a mysterious visitor from the future; a funeral director who re-animates the dead; and a sea-monster known only as Leviathan.

Dennis J. Barton draws upon his experiences in the real St. Augustine to deliver a stunning portrayal of the spirits that inhabit the hidden spaces, the far-out possibilities, the secret beauties and dangers of a place rich in history and steeped in myth.