AMERICAN OZ MAKER - Adult Science-Fantasy With Horror Elements - 2nd Edition "This debut novel sees Earth's best wielders of magic defending humanity against a space-born evil. Jaded sci-fi and fantasy readers should flock to this fearlessly inventive narrative." - Kirkus Reviews ______________________ THE LAST TO GO WILL SEE THE FIRST TEN MILLION GO BEFORE HER After a hostile and powerful alien from Orion invades Earth and proceeds to play a genocidal cat-and-mouse game with the human race, the 21st century's greatest sorcerers create a network of seven Oz-like city worlds designed to thwart the enemy. But the alien is far more invincible than anyone suspected. Piper Robbin, ancient daughter of Earth's greatest sorcerer, Edison Godfellow, must put aside deadly rivalries and even sacrifice old friends to defeat the implacable force that calls itself "The Witch Empress of Earth," and quickly, before her world becomes only a cold cinder floating among the stars. Once Gleeson cracks open his frothy imagination, all manner of conceptual madness rushes forth. If Thomas Pynchon wrote an episode of Doctor Who, there might be a scene where "the hyper-velocity shells" of Catherine's Glock generated "a blinding burst and a noise loud as July 4th in Disneyland compressed to one second." Jaded sci-fi and fantasy readers should flock to this fearlessly inventive narrative... - Kirkus Review - Top 150 Books of the Fall Season Piper Robbin and the American Oz Maker lives up to the ideal of a refreshingly unique fantasy that incorporates many Oz legends and elements, yet takes them a step further into futuristic encounters and survival struggles. - Midwest Book Review Boisterous and funny, chilling and grim, American Oz Maker is an utterly absorbing adult fantasy with a thing or two to say about the dark devolution going on all around us. - Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Winner and SFF Author This is a strange, action-filled book with so much invention and creativity. Even after battle after battle where the Witch Empress manages to outsmart the good guys, and then after the good guys manage to create some new weapon or inflict some magical anomaly to re-balance the field, you keep reading just to see what happens next, or indeed, what Warwick Gleeson will think of next. If you love fast-paced fantasy-world magic and science battles, and you're willing to enter a world (or worlds) that seems to have few precedents in other fantasy/science fiction, you'll love this book. - Bookgasm Imagine Potter meets Avengers in Emerald city and you're getting close. - Los Angeles Post Examiner Warwick Gleeson's unique style creates a surprising new Best Seller. - The New York Journal Warwick Gleeson's new fantasy novel takes one of America's favorite tales and transforms it into a dark and epic landscape. - Thrive Goal Naturally we're biased. Why? Because Piper Robbin sets a whole new standard of WTF in fantasy. Imagine the best sex scene you've ever read in American or British SFF, then inject hyperbolic steroids with a dash of anti-gravity, methane ocean, and a few million star sprinkles. And that's just for starters. - Del Sol Press Dark and surprising, Gleeson's modern twist on the world-famous classic tale is rich in characters and world building... - Prairies Book Review __________ Piper Robbin and the American Oz Maker  represents a deep need as a writer, and reader, to explore something wildly new in the context of an old trope America dearly loves--Oz. Thus, we have the setting of the new Oz, its beings, lands, beauty and terror. Piper Robbin, on the other hand, epitomizes an SFF heroine with a unique spin to her past and psychology. She's youthful and ancient at once, sprightly and stately by turns. She wants a new life in old New York. She wants to try out for parts on Broadway, and work to willfully humble herself. She desires to forget her past, at least temporarily, but fate dictates otherwise. After her father returns from deep space with a homicidal alien on his tail, Piper must assume her old role as Grand Sorceress, and fight to save the world once more. Will it be worth it?                 - W.W.G.  THE FORGOTTEN CHILD IN PIPER ROBBIN, for the first time that day in the coffee shop, understood the meaning of true panic. Crushing a stone to powder or throwing a javelin half a mile wouldn't fix anything (and neither would anyone in New York care) like in the old days of Ulysses. Muttering spells that made deserts bloom or oceans boil meant less than cooking a burger on the grill. Mortality for all, even the gods and greatest sorcerers, might be just around the corner. People think just because you're a great magical being of some kind you have it made. Nothing could be more wrong. Your hopes and dreams are often spit on, your happiness ruined, your friends killed, and you lose sleep at night, wor