Paul E Cooley

Something has survived… Weeks ago, the exploration rig Leaguer was destroyed shortly after sending an oil sample from the M2 trench for analysis. Officially, all hands were lost. Unofficially, the “oil” was a deadly organism responsible for hundreds of deaths both on and offshore.

The Sol Federation Marine Corps vessel S&R Black was sent to recover an ancient derelict from the farthest edge of the Sol system. What they found could spell the end of humanity....

The Sol Federation Marine Corps vessel S&R Black was sent to recover an ancient derelict from the farthest edge of the Sol system. What they found could spell the end of humanity. Days after escaping the derelict ship Mira and Pluto’s destruction....

Shin-Sho Corporation dispatched an emergency engineering team (EET) to the remote ice planet, Xiao 2, to investigate a communications blackout. The Xiao 2 facility, composed of three subsurface ocean stations, awaits his team below hundreds of meters of ice and kilometers underwater....

Their mission was to recover an ancient derelict from the farthest edge of the Sol system. What they've found could spell the end of humanity....

The first book in Paul E Cooley's Parsec Award Winning series, The Black is a suspenseful thriller that puts the horror and action of movies such as Leviathan and Carpenter's The Thing right into listeners' hands....

Fifty years ago, Mira, humanity's last hope to find new resources, exited the solar system bound for Proxima Centauri B....

After fleeing the doomed oil rig Leaguer and the creature that destroyed it, Shawna Sigler and Catfish are rescued by a shadowy government agency. Upon discovering that samples of the M2 substance have survived, they agree to join a classified project to study the creatures and destroy them.

Armored little people riding armored dinosaurs in a full-contact bloodsport? Welcome to Dinolition, the biggest show in the galaxy. Star rider Poughkeepsie Pete and his T-Rex mount “Old Bess” are fixtures of a league struggling to reach profitability and gain intergalactic recognition, to be...

The crew of the deep-sea exploration rig Leaguer discovers oil sweeter, purer, and easier to refine than the fields in Saudi Arabia. To confirm their own analysis of their trillion dollar find, a test barrel is flown from the drill site off the coast of Papua/New Guinea....

It was just another fishing trip for Stew, his wife, and their friends until the storm. Forced off-course to avoid the worst of the swells and lightning, the boat floats into a dead zone filled with large, glowing jellies.

The story of The Roughland Ridgebacks captain, Poughkeepsie Pete, and his favorite mount, Old Bess the Tyrannosaurus Rex. They play dinolition, and they are the best team in the game....

Trapped in the hospital and cut off from the world, a mysterious voice on the radio is all they have to guide them. They're no longer on a mission to quarantine the remaining inhabitants. Instead, they have to destroy a multiplying menace that could infect the world....

Across a thousand battlefields and a million wars, there is always a question. What do you do when all the chips are on the table? Do you run? Or do you stand and fight? On Deadly Ground has 10 stories handling that exact question....

Fires with inexplicable causes begin to assail the city. Each site contains the same mark. Houston has a serial arsonist plaguing the city....

While the neighborhood children see a friendly man serving the treats, Trey sees a frightful demon behind the wheel....

Things couldn't possibly get any worse for Joseph. And then he begins to see sinister-looking mimes around the city of Houston....

While exploring the ruins of the ancient Peruvian Norte Chico civilization, a group of archeologists unearth a mummified corpse buried in the side of a cliff....

From the dawn of civilization, they have lived among us. Their violence matched only by their beauty and ferocious sexual hunger....

In the dead of Antarctica’s frozen wastelands, a rescue mission turns into a survival nightmare. A research team responds to a distress signal from a far-off outpost and discovers a strange infection, a paranoid station chief, and a frightened crew.