War is brewing.In the time of the Celts, Jasmine's old enemy, Ellyllon, is gathering Irish druids to him in preparation.Desperate to stop him, Jasmine and Seamus join with Drendas, the most powerful druid in Connacht. But Drendas is a disciple of the Tuatha De Danaan Goddess, Brigid, and obsessed with her prophecy.He seems drawn to Jasmine, making her question why, and what exactly she has to do with the prophecy.She has learned also that Iomlan is still growing inside her. She is becoming more powerful than Ellyllon could ever be. But at what cost? As her powers grow stronger and increasingly violent, Jasmine must face her greatest fear: that no power on Earth will be able to stop her from becoming the very thing she is seeking to destroy.
Paris, 1930. Monsieur D'Haricot is a secret agent with a twitchy moustache.Out of sight and mind, a community of refugees has been forced beneath the catacombs by centuries of persecution. They have built their own city, a replica of Paris, and developed advanced technologies and transport systems. With post-WWI Europe in turmoil, now is the time for them to resurface.Monsieur D'Haricot has no problem with this, but a planned invasion is a different story altogether. He is, after all, duty-bound to protect France.Faced with mistaken identities, split personalities, trickery, lies, downright lies, and repugnant bicycles, he will need to engage his complete repertoire of guile and espionage training to prevail. If that fails, well, at least he can rely on a little help from his friends: a sweet-toothed crab and an angel puppeteer.The time is right for revolution, but the clock is not.
Could you condemn one child to save another?In a near-future Europe fracturing under climate change and far-right politics, biologist Lina Stephenson works in the remote Rila Mountains, safely away from London State. When an old enemy dies, Lina's dangerous past resurfaces, putting her family's lives at risk. Trapped with her vulnerable sister alongside the dead man's family, Lina is facing pressure from all sides: her enemy's eldest son is determined to destroy her in his search for vengeance, whilst his youngest carries a sinister secret......But the forest is hiding its own threats and as a catastrophic storm closes in, Lina realises that if she is to save her family, she must become a monster.
A woman walks through a virtual reconstruction of the destroyed streets where she and her lover used to live. A young man trades away his youth, and something of himself, in the plasma extracted from his blood. A clone addresses her dead, doubled 'self' as she tries to understand her personal history. In these uncanny stories of virtual reality, biotech, data surveillance and communications technology, Black Mirror meets M.R. James: unsettling perspectives on contemporary and near-future scenarios are layered with hauntings; borders are blurred between living and non-living, real and not-real.Accompanying the collection is the essay 'Writing the Contemporary Uncanny', an investigation of how the uncanny has shifted in the hundred years since Freud attempted to define it, and how uncanny short fiction can interrogate and illuminate our experiences of science and technology to help us understand what it means to be human in an ever-accelerating technological landscape.'... an indisputably magnificent piece of writing: sensible, practical, hopeful and devastating. Every re-reading allows us to revel in some initially-overlooked nuance or subtle observation.'Aoife Lyall, author of Mother, Nature, on 'Candlemaker Row''When I think of the uncanny I will now always think of this astonishing collection. These stories have inspired, unsettled, and moved me; they haunt me still.'Helen Sedgwick, author of The Comet Seekers and The Growing Season
Fourteen stories, ranging from science fiction to weird, mixing future scenarios (on and off-Earth) and alternate realities, but in fact, they are essentially about one thing: love and its malcontents.A man who refuses to let death erase the memories of his loved ones; two time- travellers leaping through the aeons in a literal love-and-death relationship; a murderer in love with the ghost of his prey - and more. What would you do for love? What lengths, in space and time, would you go to? These characters have done it all.
Halloween is drawing near and Ally is far from the safety of Troutespond. Her attempts at a normal life have netted her a role in a cursed-to-die orchestra club, haunted by its past members. Now, unwittingly tied to thirteen musical ghosts, the more they play, the more their fates are bound to the dead. With the help of Alana, her boyfriend the Piper, and the new friends she's made on campus, Ally must find a way to break the curse, while trying to be a model student, girlfriend and mandolin player.
Aeon is a simulacra, a creation of flesh, clockwork and magic designed to protect their original humans from the deadly attacks of curse-workers. She is an identical copy of her original, Mara, eighth princess of the Tamyin Empire, except for the brands and seals that mark her as artificial. When Mara dies of natural causes, Aeon expects to be killed. After a botched attempt to euthanise her, she is taken in by a family of rogue simulacra living in the city slums. When one of their number dies after injecting a dose of a serum that allows simulacra to change their bodies, Aeon is worried that someone is targeting rogues. A trail of discoveries unearths a deadly conspiracy, where friends and enemies are no longer what they seem.
"e;And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life."e; Job 2:4 Troublesome priest Eve Clements is exiled from her North London parish to remote St Jude's, miles from the nearest village. Carrying childhood demons with her, broken relationships and addiction, she becomes an unwilling pawn in a supernatural battle that keeps her confined within the parish grounds, with a congregation that is not what it seems. Eve must find her purpose if she is to survive, as terrifying apparitions and her own emotional fragility drive her towards breaking point.
In the magical desert of an ancient, altered land called Zabardu, a nameless dread falls across the village, trapping a little girl. The villagers turn to their healer, Bambomiyi, the Broken Witch - a raucous transgender woman who lives in a strange wreck in the desert. She is a veteran of the endless war against invaders from the north, a battle which caused her to lose her powers. What skills she has left, however, are valuable enough for the villagers to tolerate her promiscuity and outrageous behaviour. It helps too that she is a distant descendent of the godlike Daxu, who vanished long ago, leaving her with the gifts of above-average strength and knowledge of the uncanny. And so the wheels of an epic journey are set in motion, as she vows to save the young child.
The Future God of Love is a romance fantasy, set in an African world where stories are essential for the survival of humanity. Jamaaro, a struggling storyteller, is the future god of love and must create a story every full moon for the prosperity of his town. When he falls in love with a strange woman, having known loneliness all his life, he ignores the clues that she might not be what she seems.
John's eyes were manufactured with the purpose of providing sight to those who have lost it. Equipped with the ability to learn, the eyes develop a sense of responsibility for ensuring John's happiness. John's eyes strive to please and, with the power to enhance everything he sees, they soon realise that they are also able to manipulate what he sees. With a skewed sense of emotional intelligence, combined with unquestioning loyalty to their master, the actions of John's eyes lead to devastating consequences.
';Then the City of the Dead shall come to life, and the time of Terrors begin again.'In the shadow of this prophecy, the final game is set to determine the fate of the Estrian empire.Lady Bellina Ressa has gone through the twelve hells and back to retrieve a book the key to bringing the bloody reign of Marmossa to an end. The Radiana Magnifica contains all the forgotten history of the world. It is a puzzle inside a puzzle, created to test those worthy of the knowledge within. As well as cracking the code, she must fight for possession of the relic of the First One, which contains untold quantities of Sortilenergy.She is the most powerful Cognopath in the land, but it is not enough against ancient magic. And so Bellina gathers her army: a newly awakened mage, one with Amlith's blood, a healer, a warrior, a scholar, a thief, a father, a lover, and a fallen king.But as different destinies intertwine, the mission begins to falter. The end is nigh. Join the adventurous finale of The Infinity Machine series, nominated for the Gemmell Awards.
Tanya, Alana, Teb and Ally are celebrating their exam results and planning for an exciting future ahead. The trouble with living in Troutespond though, is that no matter what your plans are, the town will make its own for you.A secret cult of red-robed figures is skulking around town, the Piper has been banished, the dead are reappearing, and being volunteered for human sacrifice seems to be the order of the day. There's plenty of magic, of course. And a dragon!The Troutespond Series is a YA fantasy, working on the premise that if the supernatural did exist, inquisitive teenagers would be the first to notice, and absolutely the worst people ever to interact with it.
Tijaran Tales - The Complete SeriesSet in a distant future, Tijaran Tales follows Scottish teen Julius McCoy during his years on the Moon at the ZED Lunar Academy.Between spaceship piloting, engineering and mind control classes, Julius and his friends will find themselves at the front line of a desperate battle with the Arneshians, a banished sect of humanity seeking to seize control of Earth.Tijaran Tales is a popular SF series for teens of all ages, about the trials of puberty, the joy of friendship, young love, standing up for what's right, and facing up to responsibilities.Growing up is never easy but, in war, choices are even tougher. In the face of adversity, would you follow in Julius' steps? The Academy is recruiting, and they're waiting for you.
Ties That Bind: Love in Fantasy and Science Fiction is the fourth Call for Papers of Academia Lunare, the non-fiction arm of Luna Press Publishing.The papers focus on the theme of love and relationships in fantasy and science fiction, in all their forms, in different media.Featuring papers from Josephine Maria Yanasak- Leszczynski, Cheryl Wollner, Cheryl Morgan, AJ Dalton, Tatiana Fajardo, Christina Lake, Lynn O''Connacht, Steph P. Bianchini, Ezeiyoke Chukwunonso, Barbara Stevenson, Dr. Ester Torredelforth.
In the idyllic village of Touchstone, the birds are singing and everyone is happy. But Ethan knows it's not real. England may be ruined and plagued with riots, but Touchstone is more dangerous still.
The Pleasure of Drowning is a collection of stories based on legends and fairy tales. Fairy tales have been told hundreds of times and have been around for centuries. They are not just something we tell, but something we live.Jean Bürlesk takes us through these familiar paths, tempering the fantastical with a sharp tongue and a satirical vision. Irony and unease go hand in hand in this debut collection by the winner of the Prix d'Encouragement de la Fondation Servais 2019. "Jean Bürlesk is a scoundrel and a charlatan. Members of the public are warned not to approach, or he will regale you with the filth and horror he calls stories." Peadar O¿ Guili¿n, award-winning author of The Call and The Invasion "Alas, my lawyers have informed me that I have no grounds for a lawsuit against The Pleasure of Drowning for trespassing awfully close to the title of my own novel The Art of Starving." Sam J. Miller, Nebula- Award-winning author of Blackfish City and Destroy All Monsters
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