The Saga of Terminal City Series

From his den of monitors and super-computers deep beneath Terminal City, statistician Adolphus Siegel has produced the community's first census. Up to date with the most recent released Saga, Siegel's Census records all major and minor characters, summarizes their significance, and lists them both alphabetically, and by book of appearance. Includes an introduction by the eminent Director Siegel. Bio His mind corrupted by childhood exposure to horror movie matinees, but equally enthralled by the atmosphere of old churches, Simon Pole writes cosmic poetry from the location of Vancouver, British Columbia. A graduate of Harvard University, Simon has continued his studies of what is hidden in the dark. Writing is also in his blood, being the great-great-grandson of early Canadian poet Susie Drury.

What if fallen angels got a second chance? In The Saga of Terminal City they do, freed from prison to walk the earth, doing good -- if they can. Friends Fall Out (No. 1) finds ex-angel Robert Hunger on the trail of a ruthless rock band with plans to enslave the city. Who is their mysterious funder, and why do they desire a shy, but special, young woman? 27 chapters, 2200 lines of poetry, all written in modern epic verse. Synopsis The rebels of Heaven, thrown down to earth, as Poor Shepherds styled are, t' accommodate the small, and slyly accost he who rules. To support, from their rent, quarried places, the computer prodigy Harry Shields, rude hacker hijacked on prison release by diabolical priest, Rev'rend Haunts, his special flesh to some repurpose put. Haggard odyssey of recovery opposed is by Krill Linkmaster, failed scribe of entrail-soaked science fiction, and his discovery, the band, Pagan Onslaught, their plan to persecute bloody tyr'nny on Terminal City. Complicated are these ends by actors hard and hearty: the nordic queen Anga, resurrected, Nithroc, corpse-like Lord of Evolution, U.F.O. Gods arrived, and most of all, she who touches all, Summer Anderson, young harbinger of renewal in one. The hidden hand of Lucifer we see, in signs, against whom Robert Hunger leads the ex-angels to soundings undeduced. Bio His mind corrupted by childhood exposure to horror movie matinees, but equally enthralled by the atmosphere of old churches, Simon Pole writes cosmic poetry from the location of Vancouver, British Columbia. A graduate of Harvard University, Simon has continued his studies of what is hidden in the dark. Writing is also in his blood, being the great-great-grandson of early Canadian poet Susie Drury.

What if fallen angels got a second chance? In The Saga of Terminal City they do, freed from prison to walk the earth, doing good -- if they can. Hometown Hero (No. 2) finds the smalltown of Crummburg marked for destruction by resentful native sons. Can vacationing ex-angel Robert Hunger stop the evil, and save the innocent, before the clock strikes doom? 29 Chapters, 2400 lines of poetry, all written in modern epic verse. Synopsis Even angels must take a holiday. To Crummburg, incestuous little town, goes Robert Hunger, its veins depleted of founding gold; now reduced to begging worldly star, Walter Wisdom, to perform, native son who nurses simmering grudge. Simmers also subterranean strain of evil, logs laid down long time ago. There crashes too mysterious vessel of another world, unknown rendezvous to keep from murder-dealing hill-top camp. In town below, the players assume parts: Dr. Daphne Sporg, experimenter in surgery. Ernie Doomstamp, the creep, and unlikely idol of film, worldwide. Staunch alliance of stout mechanics there is, whose beloved pet, Trilby Stash, must contend with admirers of demonic intent. Even the heavenly host, looking down, may intervene in final judgement sprung. Will latent evil and death's dormant deeds condemn the whole, or, will some righteous few remain to broadcast warnings to the world? Bio His mind corrupted by childhood exposure to horror movie matinees, but equally enthralled by the atmosphere of old churches, Simon Pole writes cosmic poetry from the location of Vancouver, British Columbia. A graduate of Harvard University, Simon has continued his studies of what is hidden in the dark. Writing is also in his blood, being the great-great-grandson of early Canadian poet Susie Drury.

What if fallen angels got a second chance? In The Saga of Terminal City they do, freed from prison to walk the earth, doing good -- if they can. Many are the secrets hidden in the Martian dirt. What happens when they are unleashed on an unsuspecting Earth? Find out, along with the Poor Shepherds, in Martian Nights (No. 3) 30 chapters, 2400 lines of poetry, all written in modern epic verse. Synopsis When on the surface of the Martian world, under the weight of Time's crusty mantle, in the red dirt, living ice is dug up, what confusion it promulgates on Earth. Of the many orders of cell-bound life, green plant, wily animal and proud man, a vying begins for supremacy, and sanctity, in Terminal City. The rich politic that sent men to Mars, and returned them home, exploited will be by amoebic Doc Plankton, with teams of conscripted actors and fading starlets, in contest with crooks for hire, including a renegade super-fascist police chief, while opposed they are by Anarchists two, and the first appearance of Poor Shepherd, and jet pilot, Kat Vitko, whose husband at the pinnacle of the effort sits, to lose or save the civic web of life. Immigrants, idjits and iconoclasts also colour the scene, as endless are dire secrets disclosed by the Martian dust, and offered to uncomprehending Earth. Bio His mind corrupted by childhood exposure to horror movie matinees, but equally enthralled by the atmosphere of old churches, Simon Pole writes cosmic poetry from the location of Vancouver, British Columbia. A graduate of Harvard University, Simon has continued his studies of what is hidden in the dark. Writing is also in his blood, being the great-great-grandson of early Canadian poet Susie Drury.

What if fallen angels got a second chance? In The Saga of Terminal City they do, freed from prison to walk the earth, doing good -- if they can. With Anti-Cop (No. 4) the devil has a daughter, and the fate of Terminal City hangs in the balance. Conflict is inevitable, as the forces of good and evil face-off. 30 chapters, 2400 lines of poetry, all written in modern epic verse. Synopsis The devil a daughter has, gestated in strange ways by scraps of infected sin. What hell she heralds: the wayfaring Clowns, who from secret islands pour, to subject and ape the orderly world. Against them, in free arms, the cop Drayton Dreyfus stands, while otherlings their aims in stack pursue: the Accuser of Man, Satan's second, plots proudly; the rich man's son D'Arcy Ash solace seeks when in debt to Dead Jules Hart. The dwarf, the revenant, the earthly squid, agendas all that are in sequence played to civic doom--counterpoised also by, furtive echoes of, the Poor Shepherds' ploys, that are spritely done. But the Bride, life's spouse, in stately rest, a sacred space maintains, a fulcrum that angelic forces tap, that will Clown warfare oppose, and satchels by wizards made long time ago. All this, and more, will to resolutions be brought, where orphans, closet lurkers, and ired wives, nuke-armed ants, and Nithroc the Night-Raven, will the righteous cop his fortitude test. Bio His mind corrupted by childhood exposure to horror movie matinees, but equally enthralled by the atmosphere of old churches, Simon Pole writes cosmic poetry from the location of Vancouver, British Columbia. A graduate of Harvard University, Simon has continued his studies of what is hidden in the dark. Writing is also in his blood, being the great-great-grandson of early Canadian poet Susie Drury.

What if fallen angels got a second chance? In The Saga of Terminal City they do, freed from prison to walk the earth, doing good -- if they can. When a new Satan arises, the Poor Shepherds and their allies must race to prevent his reign. Will mourning or celebration be in store? Find out in City of Cruelty (No. 5). 30 chapters, 2400 lines of poetry, all written in modern epic verse. Synopsis When avatars of evil, of acts willed, and those which of gene and earthquake arise, are, by noxious third party, union-bound, (who was with stables of creeping ink ringed) it will, in quarters of the proud city, a backlash pique. Arise there living stars, who medicinal dances make, inmates of prisons, both mad and in pre-change states, who will to wife all souls take, sovereignly; also, on that high day, the blighted heir, and those who crimes conceal will be washed clean, as from all points heroes and angels glide, while walk loose trees, sentient slimes and chaps. But in cavities deep, a mewling dunce, from split skull in charged cloud makes a bit stew (wove cords networked out), massaging the day, as over him forces fight, virtually. The cousin of man, shaved ape, convert will to review, as belly-born, the new Beast his roll takes, and waits, as civic regimes an end find, before their new flowers plant (though other friends of heinous acts foes seek, and find, in ex-angel Robert Hunger). Bio His mind corrupted by childhood exposure to horror movie matinees, but equally enthralled by the atmosphere of old churches, Simon Pole writes cosmic poetry from the location of Vancouver, British Columbia. A graduate of Harvard University, Simon has continued his studies of what is hidden in the dark. Writing is also in his blood, being the great-great-grandson of early Canadian poet Susie Drury.

What if fallen angels got a second chance? In The Saga of Terminal City they do, freed from prison to walk the earth, doing good -- if they can. Evil forces threaten the blue ark of Earth. Change is coming, but will it be for good or bad? Of history’s relentless march partake, in Evil Ape (No. 6). 30 chapters, 2400 lines of poetry, all written in modern epic verse. Synopsis The fruits of earth, those that bud, good and bad, or indiff’rently, rich temptation are to them in star-heights or hovels dwelling. To distant pastures are they called: the foe, of sky-scraped immensity, his pursuit, those of game-able gist, hardcore train-mates, and he, in augmented, upright glory, the fearsome Ape, who conniving concocts these events. To epoch-evolving springs, in green glens, his loathsome Ape armies troop where also those monitors, ex-angels, embark, aided by artisan allies, an ancient breed, the thumb-thimbled tailor, and meddles too fatherly CEO’s, with stakes in mutable technology. Predictable ruin if life-beds are lost, a leaf-toothed visitor from other worlds intones, and of the people launches two, new Shepherds to be in upcoming times, while to space again most actors return, there to slug out, and embed, new life-lines --though forward points the will of fate, new earths, with new men, to come in founded chapters. Bio His mind corrupted by childhood exposure to horror movie matinees, but equally enthralled by the atmosphere of old churches, Simon Pole writes cosmic poetry from the location of Vancouver, British Columbia. A graduate of Harvard University, Simon has continued his studies of what is hidden in the dark. Writing is also in his blood, being the great-great-grandson of early Canadian poet Susie Drury.

What if fallen angels got a second chance? In The Saga of Terminal City they do, freed from prison to walk the earth, doing good -- if they can. When the fearless, the friendless, and the fiendish converge all at once on the island of the apocalypse, what will happen? Find out, along with the last of the Poor Shepherds, in Second Spring (No. 7). 30 chapters, 2400 lines of poetry, all written in modern epic verse. Synopsis Our tale draws to its close, as the angels, ex and new, to the Island make their way, where, in ruins of clownish peoples past, the final confrontation is begun. A race will there be of enslaved half-men, in tinkered cage, by rebel dentist made, seed soldiers of the lost hero-brother, and too, enforced work fields with stationed guard. From the sea, by the lady pirate led, with her consort, will come cloned twin-plant men, themselves disturbers of buried clown tech. Yet, evil actors too their parts shall play: he of the grooved skull, and lobed lab lurkers who in bunker keeps the two-headed Beast, that which will mirrored Satan reunite. In orbit, massed Hell must war-craft disgorge onto summits where converge the parties, and there, in disturbance of what long slept, the first Poor Shepherd will both rise and rest, his sepulchre revolving city streets, a mobile base, as time marches forthwith to the end long foretold in prophecy, while skinless, street-beaten men drum us out. Bio His mind corrupted by childhood exposure to horror movie matinees, but equally enthralled by the atmosphere of old churches, Simon Pole writes cosmic poetry from the location of Vancouver, British Columbia. A graduate of Harvard University, Simon has continued his studies of what is hidden in the dark. Writing is also in his blood, being the great-great-grandson of early Canadian poet Susie Drury.