"BE WISE. BE GENTLE. BE HEROIC WITH YOUR POTENTIAL." Rick Tobin

San Antonio, Texas

rtobin@jps.net

Pen Shadow

Works of Rick Tobin...for After Passing, Only My Pen's Shadow Remains

NOVELS (Partial, completed, and some in progress)

SEVEN POINTS: (Draft 15...work in progress) Fantasy Thriller--Military JAG officer becomes entangled in ancient battle between the powers of evil (including an Egyptian vampire and aliens) and the preservers of life (including a Dryad queen who exposes his destiny to him) as they struggle to save the Earth from becoming a scorched husk. (pdf)
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GRANNY GRISTLE BONE'S DANCE GUIDE FOR THE CLUELESS by Cinda Tobin: (Funny and toothsome Texas granny humor and insights book) A gristly guide to hard loving, hard laughing and soft foods. (Draft work in progress.) (pdf)
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TEMPLAR TRILOGY: Outline chapters for three books including published Curse of 8th Buddha (pdf)
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HERNE: Summary of contents of abandoned project regarding the missing years of the life of Jesus. (pdf)
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RED POLICE: Plot outline for a major book about politics, vampires, aliens and a Texas president with two daughters. This was rejected by many publishers in 1986 to 89. One said there would never be another Texan in the White House. Another said the Berlin Wall would never fall in the near future. Finally, one reviewer said no one was interested in vampire stories anymore and I should quit writing them.So, this novel died before I could get it off the ground. (pdf)
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RED POLICIE: Epilogue and Chapter 1 from 1986. Obviously I've learned much since then. This would take some major rewrites to restore and fix. Of course, many of the things I proposed in the outline have already happened, so it would have to be revised for a future date. (pdf)
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LEGEND OF THE TEAR JAR: Research for book about African women around the continent gathering the tears of those who have lost their loved ones in civil wars. When the jar is full, the wars come to an end and Africa becomes a continent of peace and joy. (pdf)
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DROUGHT: Research for novel about the fall of all current Western Civilizations as a three-hundred-year drought destroys societies as we know them. (pdf)
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WRONG PLACE:Biographical novel ideas about strange events I've encountered where I got to see the back story of major events and the dark sides of human activities. (pdf)
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12 DAYS TO DIE:Summary only for medical and political thriller involving small pox outbreak in Northern California and a plot to destroy thousands of Americans to promote a Presidential initiative. (pdf)
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AM I DEAD YET?:Biographical stories of times I should have been killed, and times I did die and have OBEs. (pdf)
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AR:Outline for book Anal Reality--The truth behind everyday bullshit American’s are taught to believe. (pdf)
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SCAVENGERS: Novel concept. Vets secretly protect disaster-ridden cities from looters, until a reporter wants to tell the story, no matter the harm to the public. (pdf)
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TOBIN-- A VISION OF TIME TURNING WITH THE LIGHT: Beginning of my art book explaining my paintings. I have forty other pages ready to insert. (pdf)
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BENEATH:The Shaver Mystery novels of the 50s were true. Abandoned races of aliens who have left millions of years ago exist in the crust below us but are about to be driven out during Earth changes to fight us for control of the surface. (pdf)
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MORE NOVEL CONCEPTS

BUTTERFLY BAKKEN:North Dakota oil fields hit an ancient layer of material that rises to surface, infects workers, turns their children into butterfly species that spread disease/evolution worldwide. Now humans must adapt to their changed children or destroy them. (pdf)
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COVEN TREE :THE CHILDREN OF KORN:Scientists from the Manhattan Project form a secret cabal to raise children who will destroy the nuclear war capacity from within the DOD and Dept of Energy. KORN was the German name for Coventry England that was to be bombed but that information was blocked by Churchill for strategic purposes. They struggle secretly to undermine the mentality that sacrifices civilians for the advantage of nationalism. (pdf)
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DAYMERES:1995 novel summary about a man with visions of the future after an accident that eventually helps him work to prevent a nuclear terroris attack on the U.S. (pdf)
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DOCTOR RAIL: Synopsis for novel about a doctor who uses a velocipede along abandoned rail lines to serve the surviving rural population after the apocalypse. (pdf)
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DRAGONS BOLD:Outline for a new dragon novel starting out in Iceland and tying vampires to their legend as they rise again to destroy mankind. (pdf)
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EMP STRIKE:Synopsis of SyFy novel where Russian attempt to use a space EMP weapon on U.S. backfires with unexpected worldwide consequences where now the remaining adults with adult consciousness are faced with a race of humans reduced to babies. (pdf)
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EVERGREEN:Plot lines for story of two sanctioned Border Patrol agents who are sent to worst wilderness border area and find multiple enemies, including contact with ancient wolves that should not exist. (pdf)
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EXODUS 2:Novel plot for stories about migrants from earthquake-destroyed LA Basin, in four cardinal directions using land, water and air to escape. (pdf)
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DEMON'S GRAVEYARD:Novel chapter outline of middle-class couple in America facing occult and mysterious events and challenges, often secretly fighting evil while living a seemingly normal suburban life. (pdf)
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IPS:SyFy Novel concept and research. Russians release a new form of Ips pini, bark beetles, which not only attack and destroy western forests, but release a chimera virus that dissolves all mammalian life. (pdf)
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MORE NOVEL CONCEPTS

KAYAK PIRATES:Crime thriller. People living in houseboats in Northern California Delta are terrorized by a lone robber who uses a kayak to access their homes. (pdf)
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LAKE TRAVIS TERROR:Novel or silly SyFy horror film concept. An ancient giant gar rises out of Lake Travis, in Austin, and begins eating big fish and then people, right before spring break in Texas when the Lake will be full of paryting students. (pdf)
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LEFTOVERS:Murder mystery involving old case of missing schoolgirls and the community that tries to hide a horrifying secret. (pdf)
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LOST RING:Adventure-thriller. Lost ring of Jesus may have been hidden by Sir Francis Drake in San Francisco Bay Area cave at the direction of the Templars. (pdf)
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LOST RIVER:Adventure SyFy thriller. The story of the vast underground river that allows submarines to travel from the California coast to Idaho. It is a vast ocean of fresh water filled with prehistoric monsters and vast mineral wealth the public is never to be told about and has been kept as one of the Navy's top secret projects for over fifty years. (pdf)
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TEXAS WITCH TRIAL:Mystery novel about what really happened to Loy and Lois Stone who were falsely accused of murder because they were pagans in the Texas panhandle. (pdf)
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TEXAS NAZI GOLD:Concept for book about what happens to researcher who finds tons of hidden Nazi gold in Texas after discovering how it got there, why and the ties to the rise of the Confederacy. (pdf)
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RED ROOM MYSTERY:Detective mystery involving the discovery of blood rites held beneath the streets of the seventh largest city in the U.S. (pdf)
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SPLINTER:Characters, TOC by chapters and 80 pages of a wild SyFy novel with more twists than a pretzel factory...but my co-writer and I had a falling out. Book work stopped in 1996. (pdf)
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CULLING:An exclusive Montana resort may be the secret project center for an ancient cabal planning to survive the next world calamity...but how they plan to do it by manipulating and breeding the world's most influential is unraveled after the death of a young woman employed at the resort's restaurant. (pdf)
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THE FARM:An elliptical zone exists from Nebraska to Saskatchewan where aliens have abducted and manipulated human being DNA for thousands of years, long before the white man's arrival, with the purpose of developing a robust offspring to survive the coming cataclysm and able to withstand space travel. Partially based on my own research and experiences in this zone. (pdf)
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PERALTA STONES HOAX:A mystery novel about how one of the greatest treasure-hunting hoaxes was concocted by a team in California which has led people to search for a fabulous lost gold fortune in the deserts of the Southwest...based on a real encounter I had with the last remaining member of the team. (pdf)
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THE RED HEART ROAD:A positive thoughts book, just intro and start of first chapter. (pdf)
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THE HIDDEN JEWS-- CHILDREN OF MENASHE:An investigator stalks down the truth about a missing tribe of the Jews that may be in Northern India. (pdf)
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BEHOLD THE CHILDREN OF OZYMANDIAS:After a solar flare causes a horrible cataclysm by creating an EMP blast that destroys Earth's technology, it leaves the survivors who were far under water or underground to come back to a Zombie world...not of flesh eaters...but all humans who have been reduced to a childlike state and must be protected and raised again almost like infants. (pdf)
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