Welcome to the Cenotaph Road website,
Robert E. Vardeman proprietor

The price on To Demons Bound will go back to $4.99 from $0.99 on February 1. Don't hesitate! Sample the first chapter with the link farther down the page.

As a changeup, check out my paranormal mystery, Resonance of Blood. And you owe it to yourself if you enjoy steampunk to read the short novel launch in the new series Empires of Steam and Rust. The first passage:Gateway to Rust and Ruin, revisits characters from my story "The Transmogrification Ray." (The story is included in the package as a bonus along with notes on the world!) You can't go wrong for a mere $2.99.

A whole lot of reading piling up, including Mike Thompson's mystery, Curse of Al Capone's Gold in actual, fer real, hc. In case you don't know, Mike is a Teddy Roosevelt impersonator. Really.

iPad reading: A short nonfiction piece on The Prisoner by Joseph Dickerson, "The Prisoner Revisted." Snag a free copy RSN from iTunes. This reminded me why The Prisoner is still the best series ever on TV. The radicals of the '60s became the rulers of the '00s and now must face the radicals of the '10s. Prescient. And scary. "Obey me and be free!"

iPad viewing: a couple very bad movies. Insidious was merely ordinary, but Hot Tub Time Machine was ghastly bad. I did track down a low budget western, The Last Rite of Ransom Pride, that was pretty good. No Three Burials of Malquiades Estrada but what is? The plot should have been simpler than it was (not hard to follow, just messy). Last Rites starred Lizzy Caplan of "Party Down" in a slightly miscast role, but Scott Speedman, Cote de Pablo (of NCIS) and Kris Kristofferson were also in there doing good work. Dwight Yoakum was in both Last Rites and 3 Burials and is perfectly cast. And Ray Wiley Hubbard (without the Cowboy Twinkies) did the soundrtrack. Very nice one, too.

Finished! I have completed the rewrite on God of War 2. My life is once more, uh, mine?

My blog. VIPub and sciency stuff and writing hints.

My e-books on the catalog page. Great stuff to read while waiting for the winter heatwave to break.

Go here for the finest in fantasy, sword & sorcery fiction (and sf and mysteries and...) And in the for-free mode, look in on my chain story contribution, "White Fur" either clicking the link above to read online or going here to download your very own copy to read in the bathroom.

Sample Chapter One, To Demons Bound here

Enjoy the first chapter of Alien Death Fleet here!
Read the goshwow first chapter of Genetic Menace here!
Read the spellbinding first chapter of Ogre Castle here!
Read the first chapter of In The Sea Nymph's Lair here!

For my other online fiction, check out my CATALOG page or go straight to Amazon for both Kindle and print.

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About the site. What follows is a glimpse at the science fiction and fantasy writing I've done, including the Cenotaph Road series, God of War™, Star Trek™ and BattleTech™/ MechWarrior™, Vor, what is current, and what might be forthcoming VIPub (Vertically Integrated Publishing) . Be sure to go to the Store link for free fiction and print and e-book publishing. Read ole Karl Lassiter's 2009 NM Book Award nominated novel, Drifter or the 2011 Scribe Award nominated God of War. Don't overlook the 2011 NM Book Award nominee, Sonora Noose.

Enjoy!