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I am a computer programmer in Marin County, California, with a wife and a teen-age son. Most of my writing is in the realm of speculative, nautical, and science fiction, as well as some poetry, memoirs, and scientific and philosophical essays. In addition to my short fiction, I have written two novels: Toki, a historical novel about the South Pacific kingdom of Tonga, and Isildur, a Tolkien-style fantasy. My stories have been published in the print magazines Bust-Out Stories and Paradox Historical Fiction, and the online journals Slow Trains, e-clips, Clean Sheets, Sedona’s Attic, and Oysters and Chocolate, where my story The Heat won a $500 Grand Prize. My short-short story Heart to Heart won Honorable Mention in the Whim’s Place 2006 Flash Fiction contest, and The Find won Second Prize in their 2007 contest. The Heat will be coming out in May 2009 in a Penguin collection.
I hope you enjoy my stories and would appreciate any comments or suggestions you might have.
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TokiToki (book)
Download: $3.75 Hardcover Print: $50.00 The true story of William Mariner, a 15-year-old English boy who was captured by the Tongans in 1806 and lived there for four years. Extensively researched and annotated. Includes a glossary, bibliography, and appendices. Hardbound edition.
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Print: $19.50 Download: $3.75 The true story of 15-year-old William Mariner of England, who was captured in Tonga in 1806 and lived for four years with the King of Tonga, Finau 'Ulukalala. Paperback edition.
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Print: $13.50 Download: $3.75 Fourteen very unusual and diverse stories by Marin County author Brian K. Crawford. From the desert to the South Pacific, from the creation of life to a space-traveling future, from an intimate conversation with a dead wife to the “loopy” nature of time, these stories will inspire thought and wonder and remain in your head long after you put the book down.
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Print: $14.50 Download: $3.75 Ten stories on a variety of subjects, including:
E Pluribus Unum - A multi-generational starship approaches its destination. Is the crew ready to land on their new planet?
The Case of the Red Herring - Dr Watson mentioned a Holmes case about a politician, a lighthouse, and a cormorant. Now the story can be told.
The House - A man brings his wife and son to see the house he grew up in.
The Luck of the Irish - three convicts escaped from Port Jackson colony are apprehended by a Royal Navy frigate.
The Classic - a young actress meets a young man who knows way too much about her.
The Old One - the last day of the last mammoth.
The Dreamer - a man drifts through a beautiful dream - but what is a dream?
Eternal Flame - a middle-aged man goes to a concert and sees his old college girlfriend - still twenty years old.
Coyote - an Indian medicine man confronts his apprentice who has gone astray.
Eight East - a young hippie, busted for drugs, spends a week on a mental ward.
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PeyotePeyote (book)
Download: $5.00 Hardcover Print: $24.00 Brian Crawford was a twenty-year-old hippie, hitch-hiking around the country sampling every psychedelic experience he could find. One day in Boulder, Colorado, he met a mysterious stranger with something new – peyote, the magic cactus.
With his girlfriend Elissa, the bizarre and paranoid Mike just returned from Vietnam, Sara the seductress, and fellow travelers Sean and Chris, he set off in a red 1947 Cadillac ambulance in an odyssey through the southwest in search of the places where peyote was rumored to grow. They found what they were looking for, and more.
Threatened by vigilantes, busted by Immigration, he and Mike spent a week in jail and met and educated some of the local kids. In the process, he learned as much about himself as the strange world of the psychedelic cactus. Later, he was taken in by a gentle commune in Fort Worth and became part of the local hippie legend. Three illustrations, 160 pages.
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WaranaWarana (book)
Print: $12.50 Download: $3.75 In 1973, American hippie Brian Crawford signed on as navigator of the Australian nuclear protest yacht Warana in the Kingdom of Tonga. With a crew of misfits, they sailed to Fiji, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, and Australia, then took part in the 1973 Sydney-Hobart open ocean race. Filled with interesting characters, nautical adventures, and exotic locations in a more innocent time. Twenty-five illustrations.
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Print: $14.50 Download: $3.75 My twenty months in the "para-naval" group The Summerland Pirates in the early seventies. The group bought and sold military equipment to raise money to buy a schooner in Nova Scotia and sail it to the Caribbean to search for Spanish treasure. Eighteen illustrations.
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Print: $9.97 Download: $3.75 In 1968 Brian Crawford was a traveling hippie. Busted for peyote in South Texas, upon his release he went searching for his guitar, girlfriend, and stash box, and found them in Fort Worth, along with a wonderful community of Texas hippies. Three illustrations.
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Print: $17.47 Views of Marin County California taken by Brian Crawford
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Print: $21.47 Download: $3.75 The memoirs of Reverend Ludwig Mayer. Born in a castle in Bavaria, he immigrated to the US in 1902 and eventually became a minister, serving in numerous churches in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Edited by his grandson, Brian K. Crawford
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Print: $16.00 Download: $3.75 In 1793, teenager Richard Cleveland of Salem became the captain of a ship and set off for Napoleonic Europe to make his fortune in shipping. In the next decades he circled the world many times, giving rich descriptions of revolutionary Europe, China, India, South America, California, and Hawai'i. Illustrated and annotated.
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Print: $10.00 Download: $4.00 The story of Archibald Campbell, a young Scottish seaman who was shipwrecked in the Aleutians in 1807. They built a boat and sailed to Kodiak for help, but were again shipwrecked on their return voyage. Campbell lost both feet to frostbite. He made his way to Hawai'i and found work as a sailmaker to Kamehameha. A remarkable story of survival.
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Print: $10.50 Download: $4.00 In 1796, a young English bricklayer named George Vason sailed to the South Pacific to become a missionary. He settled in the Kingdom of Tonga, but soon abandoned his faith and went native, getting tattooed, marrying a 14-year-old princess, and operating a plantation. After civil war breaks out and some of the missionaries are killed, Vason eventually returns to England, where he wrote this book in 1810 as a warning to other young men proposing to become missionaries.
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Print: $12.00 Download: $5.00 Brian Crawford was a twenty-year-old hippie, hitch-hiking around the country and sampling every psychedelic experience he could find. One day in Boulder, Colorado, he met a mysterious stranger with something new – peyote, the magic cactus.
With his girlfriend Elissa, the bizarre and paranoid Mike just returned from Vietnam, Sara the seductress, and fellow travelers Sean and Chris, he set off in a red 1947 Cadillac ambulance in an odyssey through the southwest in search of the places where peyote was rumored to grow. They found what they were looking for, and more.
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HeatHeat (book)
Print: $10.00 Download: $4.00 Eight short stories designed to arouse and titillate a woman
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