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She is lost on an alien planet. He said he'd help her get home. He lied.Jessica's plane develops engine trouble over the dry Australian inland—and crashes in thick, unfamiliar rainforest.A group she thinks is a search party shows up, but it consists of large-eyed not-quite people who kill all survivors except Jessica and a long-haired hippie named Brian.No one is going to come to rescue her. In fact, they're not even on Earth. While the pair wrestle their way through the forest in search for help, Jessica becomes ever more suspicious of Brian. Why does he know so much about the world where they have ended up? Why is he so insistent on helping her?Jessica has always been able to use her mind to tell animals what to do and now she's hearing voices in her head. Another man is pleading her not to listen to Brian. Except this man can kill someone with a single look, and he uses his mental powers to order people around.In this utterly strange and dangerous world where people seem to want something from her, who can she trust?A gritty survival story in the vein of The Hunger Games, set in a Star Wars locality.

Of all the things ten-year-old Cory Wilson expects to do when he moves to Midway Space Station, saving aliens from humans isn't one. An important conference is about to start at the station, not usually the sort of thing kids care about, not even when the conference is between humans and aliens, and half your family is alien. However, when bullies tease Cory, he ends up in a prohibited area where he overhears some men planning to plant a bomb at the conference. Because the terrorists hide their messages in computer games, no one believes Cory, not even his father, the station director. Kids at school think he's crazy, some even think aliens should be bombed. The conference starts, the aliens have brought a very important person, and Cory's teacher, one of the terrorists, locks Cory in the classroom. Can he get out in time? If he does, will anyone listen?

Continued from book 1Fifteen years ago, a brilliant scientist built a barrier against the dangerous power that radiates from the City of Glass in the southern land, allowing the citizens of Chevakia to live without fear of their lives. Since then, the democracy of Chevakia has prospered, with free-thinking scientists developing steam power and the beginnings of electricity.But the power, which they call sonorics, controls the weather in Chevakia.Senator Sadorius han Chevonian is the country's chief meteorologist. While taking measurements for his job, he is the first to notice a rapid rise of sonorics levels out-of-season. The senate is locked in trivial debate, and to make them listen, he has to take a step he never thought to make.After the huge explosion of the machine they call the Heart of the City, Loriane has fled the southern land with the sorcerer Tandor, who hovers in and out of consciousness. But while Tandor isn't speaking, she cannot confirm her fears that he caused the explosion, and that the child she carries has something to do with his twisted plans to seize power from the Eagle Knights who rule the City of Glass.Just before the explosion, southern queen Jevaithi fled into Chevakia with her young lover Isandor. While they think they're free of the tyranny of the Eagle Knights, it soon becomes clear something very bad has happened in the City of Glass soon after their escape. Something so bad that it sends waves of sonorics into Chevakia, causing even the Chevakians to flee.Several streams of refugees are heading for the Chevakian capital. Southerners by train, Chevakians by road, into a city that is tragically unprepared, a country in turmoil with a leader whose support hangs by the merest thread.

Continued from book 2:Following the destruction of the City of Glass through an explosion of sonorics, huge numbers of refugees have descended upon the Chevakian capital Tiverius.The refugees are mostly members of the rebel group Brotherhood of the Light, supporters of the old royal family. They are injured, scared and hungry, and few speak Chevakian. The young Queen Jevaithi and her lover Isandor are amongst them, safe from the Eagle Knights for now.Young Eagle Knight Carro is waiting in an old farmhouse with his fellow Knights for the order to invade the camp, capture the Queen and deliver her back to his father, where she will continue to live as imprisoned puppet for the Knights' tyranny.The Chevakians know none of this, and struggle to contain the refugee population, and the dangerous sonorics contamination the people have brought from their ravaged country, contamination that defies Chevakian efforts to contain it, and is getting worse, not better.In their struggle for power, the Brotherhood and the Knights disturbed something from an ancient and magic civilisation.The sorcerer Tandor knows what happened, but he is on death row in a Chevakian jail.The southern woman Loriane is aware of the things that are required, but she is amongst Chevakians who can't understand her.The Chevakian proctor Sadorius han Chevonian could put the pieces of the puzzle together, but he is struggling to keep the peace, and besides, Chevakians don't believe in magic.Meanwhile, the massive, and malevolent, sonorics cloud drifts towards the city, hungry for revenge.

Deadly creatures, hostile climate, and that is just the scenery.For many years, mysterious things have happened on the ice world of Tamer, but when a scientist goes missing from Barresh thought to be on Tamer, Cory is forced to take the issue by the horns.Problem is, he is dealing with unexpected side effects of his fertility treatment, and, like his Coldi companions, he's lost much of his night vision, and has trouble tolerating low temperatures.Trouble is, a recent addition to his team has sent shockwaves through his group of loyal companions and things are still sorting themselves out.Not his healthy self, under-resourced, frozen and half-blind, that's not the best preparation to visit a world where humans are not at the top of the food chain, let alone dealing with enemies who will go to any lengths to hide their activities.

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A prisoner, a secret he can't remember, and the military force that will destroy planets to get their hands on it.When Fabio Velazquez arrives on the secretive military base on Jupiter's moon Io, he knows two things: one, that he's had his memories erased and two, that he has a secret. Except because of point one, he can't remember what point two is.The portents aren't good: he's hated by his fellow soldiers, responsible for "e;the greatest f***-up in military history"e;, traitor and human guinea pig. Yet, he managed to be trusted with a secret so big that the military has almost killed him and still haven't gotten their hands on it. Where is it, and who does it belong to?His nickname might be Escape Artist, but in the hostile environment of Io there is no escaping punishment. Or so the military thinks, but they're not the only ones interested in him.A secret base lurks in the cloud tops of Jupiter. They watch. They wait. They will strike.

This collection contains fantasy and Science Fiction short stories that have all been published previously in venues like the Edge of Propinquity, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Byzarium, M-Brane SF, Realms, and many others.Table of Contents:Highway - Infinitas NewsletterBigger Fish - Fantastic Wonder Stories AnthologyBlack Dragon - The Edge of PropinquityMass Extinction - Antipodean SFLegal Aliens - SemaphoreLittle Boy Lost - Midnight EchoThe Ten Days of Madness - Antipodean SFFrom the Parrot's Mouth - Beyond CentauriMetal Dragon - Andromeda Spaceways Inflight MagazineNever on a Birthday - ByzariumOut of Here - M-Brane SFRaven's Call - RealmsTaking back the Words - Ticonderoga OnlineThe Only One He Ever Feared - Fly in AmberThe Weed Eaters - The Fat Man At The End of the World AnthologyStraight through the Heart - ZineWestTo Look at the Sky - Semaphore SFThe Invisible Fleas of the Galaxy - M-Brane SF

Space biologists Jonathan Bartell and Gaby Larsen arrive at Johnson Base at the Moon's south pole for a project with Professor Isaacs that is so secret, he cannot share the details with them. However, the professor does not show up to meet them.Vijay Singh borrowed money from a local council man who uses the debt to make continued threats to Vijay. In his despair to pay it back, Vijay gets involved with one of the most lucrative crime schemes in the solar system.However, the capsule he retrieves from a crater near Johnson Base contains more than smuggled rare elements. But no one is going to talk about it for fear of getting on the wrong side of the crime lords. Even if keeping the secret will endanger the entire base.

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The bundled edition of the first three books in the Ambassador series.1: Seeing Red - Cory Wilson is about to start his new job as representative to gamra, the alien organisation that controls the network for wormhole travel, when a political murder may well end his position before it started.1A: The Sahara Conspiracy - Cory is asked to deal with the alien mafia on Earth, and stumbles across a dangerous plot.2: Raising Hell - the wormhole network goes down, and Cory's friend and leader of the largest populated world Asto is caught off-world. Dangerous politics are afoot on Asto, and Cory decides to help his friend.

A collection of fifteen novellettes and novellas by Patty Jansen. This collection includes the Writers of the Future winning story This Peaceful State Of War, as well as fiction published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact. Many of the stories take place in established worlds. Although the stories all stand alone, they explain aspects that are linked to novels, like the ISF-Allion world. Learn why Charlotte West became the head of an army. See how mischievous Ari is when he is fifteen. Learn what happened to Hadie Kessler on Titan. Or, in the Earth-gamra world, learn how Hedron was settled and why the people there are different. Make sure you don't miss the 40,000-word absurd zombie novella Looking For Daddy.

While space biologists Jonathan Bartell and Gaby Larsen attend a conference held at a base in the asteroid belt, a man approaches Jonathan in great distress.He was asked to take over command of a previously commercial research station, but strange things started happening: plants glowing in the dark, lights turning themselves on and off, computers misbehaving.He discovered the cause, but Section Command issues a gag order on the issue. This is strange, because the Force is investing big in research.Jonathan is left with many questions: who is this man, why does no one want to hear what he says, what is he doing at the conference, and what is the ultimate enemy of humanity?A novella in the Space Agent Jonathan Bartell series, which explores biology in space and what happens when people start messing with it.

Never has there been more at stake for the people on Earth.The referendum question is simple: does Earth join gamra, the organisation that governs the Exchange, the FTL space travel network?While a "e;yes"e; vote would mean big changes, a "e;no"e; vote would leave Earth isolated and alone to face those waiting to fill the void, and those dark forces are already on the prowl.Cory is one of the few people who can see the big picture, not just those campaigning for the "e;no"e; vote, but the off-Earth forces that wait behind them, but he and his team went on a holiday to New Zealand and communication has been mysteriously cut off.Someone is taking control of communication channels, bringing the "e;yes"e; campaign to its knees, and by the time Cory is aware that the race is on, the only avenue open to him is a hard-hitting, negative campaign that requires him to go into the lion's den: the homelands of the obscenely rich members of the Pretoria Cartel, where gun-crazy hunters, lions and elephants are just the start of his problems.

She has a dragon, and she's not afraid to use it.Nellie Dreessen is a kitchen maid in the palace of Regent Bernard of Saardam. She has worked for two kings and two regents, has seen two royal families murdered through magic, has seen ghosts and demons, and kept her head down like a good girl.On her fiftieth birthday, she receives her late father's diary, which describes a magical item that is so evil, it needs to be kept in the church crypt: a box that contains dragon.Problem is, someone has stolen the box.Regent Bernard holds a banquet for his eldest son's sixteenth birthday. Distinguished guests come from far and wide. Because she knows what the box looks like, Nellie discovers it in a nobleman's luggage.Removing the box from a thief's room is not stealing, right? Not if you intend to return it to the rightful owner: the church.But someone poisons the nobleman, and everyone in the kitchen is a suspect. Nellie's friend in the church advises Nellie to flee with the dragon box. The Regent is on a mission to stamp out magic, and Nellie plans to do what she does best: keep her head down and hide.Problem is, the dragon has other ideas.

Six complete dark fantasy novels. Fire & Ice - Patty JansenDarkness Rising - James E. WisherRequiem For The Wolf - Tara SaundersThe Prince's Man - Deborah JayThe Ring And The Flag - William L. HahnRelentless Souls - Ryan Kirk

En route to a job in the asteroid belt, the transport ship that Jonathan and Gaby are travelling on is required to give assistance to a space station in trouble.Astoria Station stopped responding to everything except automated messages. Jonathan and Gaby, familiar with disease and habitat collapse, offer to help.But not even they are prepared for what they find, or the efforts by some to sweep it under the carpet.