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Explore the Dryco books by Jack Womack in order, with short summaries and a series reading list to help you choose where to start reading.

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Dryco books in publication order

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6 books

1

Ambient

by Jack Womack

1987

In a violent future New York ruled by the corporation Dryco, bodyguard Seamus O’Malley serves its powerful chief while desiring his companion. Corporate schemes and murderous family rivalries transform his private longing into a struggle to stay alive.

2

Terraplane

by Jack Womack

1988

A covert mission to abduct a Soviet scientist sends Luther Biggerstaff and his hit man into an altered 1939 New York. Stranded in a world with a different political history, they seek an improbable route back to their own time.

3

Heathern

by Jack Womack

1990

Corporate leader Thatcher Dryden hopes to market salvation through a schoolteacher reputed to perform miracles. But the would-be messiah resists control, and an unexpected transformation within Dryden’s circle threatens the corporation’s carefully managed plans for belief.

4

Elvissey

by Jack Womack

1993

A troubled couple travels from 2033 to an alternate 1954 to abduct Elvis Presley for the corporation Dryco. Installing him as a future religious figure seems commercially irresistible, but their intended messiah proves far less compliant than expected.

5

Twelve-year-old Lola Hart records her family’s decline as job losses force them from their comfortable Manhattan life. Her diary follows their struggle to adapt while riots, disease and gang violence erode the city and reshape her identity.

6

Going, Going, Gone

by Jack Womack

2000

In an alternate 1968, government freelancer Walter Bullitt tests drugs on himself and unsuspecting citizens. An assignment involving Robert Kennedy gives him pause, then two mysterious women draw him into a mission to save more than one New York.

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