OCTOBER
People are disappearing on the close
archaeological world of Jehornak, including an Odyssey operative’s sister, but
that’s not why he’s there. It seems other people have gone missing, too, people
with relatives rich enough to pay Odyssey to discover exactly what is happening
in the mysterious cavern known as The Ballroom. However, when things go south
on the mission, can Agent Delight keep her reputation, and make sure her
operative comes out alive?
When Melerom escapes the aftermath of his
people’s massacre of the humans on Jehornak, he sets himself up as a wealthy
wanderer on the Odyssey luxury liners, and acquires the one thing every
gentleman needs—a valet—but when his valet begins showing unusually perceptive
spurts of initiative, Melerom realises the man is not everything he seems. The
only question is, can the man be trusted to help him survive multi-billionaire,
Frederico Coleman’s, next party, or betray him?
Being a bodyguard isn’t easy, not even when
you’re the seventh son in a long line of seventh sons, not even when the magic
comes when you call—and especially not when the man you are protecting is a
treacherous, lecherous spoilt son of wealth and privilege, who betrays you for
a pretty girl. Transported to the far north, Seppelitus must extricate himself
from a deal between gargoyles, ogres and a demon lord, and then work out what
he’s going to do about the dragon.
NOVEMBER
When his
flying ship, the Red Horizon, was
shot down, Tescher told no-one he had a woman on board. Three years later, he
returns to the ship wreck and finds Marianna not only survived the crash, but
left him a message. She found what she was looking for aboard his ship, and
she’ll wait for him at the Raptor’s Rest,
but once a year—tonight. Tight flying will get him there in time, but it will
take more for him to navigate clear of the underworld predators circling the
criminal shores on which Marianna has landed.
Rendezvous at Raptor’s Rest is set in the steampunk world of 1840’s
Australia, complete with flying ships, landed gentry, velociraptors and those
who take their tinkering with the ether just a little too far.
When Grey, the colony’s Head Botanist,
disappears, Kiralee worries. When he has not returned after five months, she
goes looking for him, for Grey is more than chief botanist, Grey is a
storyteller at heart, a believer in the importance of the tale—and so was every
single one of those who disappeared before him. Can Kiralee discover where they
went, before the stories are lost forever?
DECEMBER (UPDATED)
What do you do when your brother betrays you, and you
end up on another world, in the employ of a company whose recruiting methods
leave a lot to be desired? Well, I guess you keep your head down, while you try
to figure out a way to get back home.
And
I sure miss home, right now.
366 poems of fantasy, science fiction,
speculation and social comment, exploring the darkness, the future and the
fear.
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