It's the last semester for five students at the University of San Antonio. Some start working, others attack the administration. Phil Tybalt is a journalism major, whose girlfriend Helena Garza aides the mysterious Nell Stanley in a campaign to strike back at the University. Nell uses oddball Culhwch "Cullen" Esau as a sounding board, but Zaid Tran uses him as a project to teach him how to live a normal life. As their little world turns, events brew globally that will de-rail their expected futures. Starring people from all over San Antonio, they live in an increasingly isolated city, while the outside world seems to be coming to an end...
Imagine San Antonio if the Germans still ran the city, the freeways never got built (because World War II never happened...), and the city was still surrounded by ranch land. Jack Lockwood is an architect in 2004 San Antonio, population 200,000 (versus 1,300,000 or so, today). He must pretend to be German to gain work, but a woman entices him to a job in the booming metropolis of Houston-Galveston. As the seduction grows stronger, Jack feels his connection to "the old town", his family, and his old life slipping away. How will he keep the life he once knew without losing the business that he so desparately needs?
It Usually Starts with a Windmill
A slowly growing collection of short stories about people who settle on a new planet, called Biscay. Each story takes place in a new settlement, village, town, or city. The larger the population, the more stories that reside there. A man often travels through these places, on the Great Plain of Biscay, and may one day settle down. What concerns him, though, as well as other people, is how some people change after a while. There's something about the nearly perfectly flat landscape on that planet that drives people to madness, while the cure for the madness may end up sending people back to Earth.