Andrew Knighton

• Apr-2012
• / Fantasy
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The Bards and Sages Quarterly features original short speculative fiction from both new and established authors. Our writers include first-time authors, Pushcart Prize nominees and Nebula award winners. With each issue, our goal is to bring reader...

• Aug-2014
• / Steampunk
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A steam-powered cowboy with a taste for death.A daring art heist in a moving city.A zeppelin flight through the smoke-filled skies of a Europe torn apart by volcanoes. This collection brings together nine stories of mechanical endeavour and daring ad...

• Sep-2014
• / Historical
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What if someone had conquered the Vikings, someone claiming to be their gods?What if King Arthur's knights met a very different metal-clad warrior?What if you were ordered to execute a statue, and hanging just didn't seem to work?These short stories ...

• Sep-2014
• / Steampunk
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How far would you go for love, or for justice, or for the perfect gearwheel?Thomas Niggle grew up a mudlark, hunting for scrap on the polluted banks of the River Burr. One of the countless poor living in the shadows of Mercer Shackleton’s vast fact...

• Oct-2014
• / Fantasy
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A gladiator painting with manticore blood.A demon detective policing Hell.A ninja who can turn into shadow.Prepare to be swept away to worlds beyond our own in these thirteen short fantasy stories. This collection includes:Live By the Sword - art and...

• Apr-2015
• / Steampunk
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Dirk Dynamo is enjoying a life of learning with the gentlemen adventurers of the Epiphany Club. Joining an expedition to find the Great Library of Alexandria, Dirk finds himself on the island of Hakon, where colonial life is not what it seems. With m...

• May-2015
• / Steampunk
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Adventurer Dirk Dynamo is glad to be back in civilisation, with the first two clues to the location of the Great Library of Alexandria. But when ninjas kidnap his best friend and steal a priceless artefact, Dirk is forced to pursue them across London...

• Sep-2015
• / Fantasy
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An apprentice magician on a Mediterranean pirate galley, Saul is learning the art of controlling demons. Pursued by the armies of Rome, his shipmates fight to retain their freedom, while Saul struggles with oppression at the hands of his master. When...

• Sep-2015
• / Science Fiction
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Foul mouthed detective Holden Flynn is a policeman on the rocks. His marriage has fallen apart, and now he's the only detective in occupied Greykirk, a city scarred by interplanetary war. Trusted by no-one, supported by no-one, Flynn is faced with th...

• Oct-2015
• / Steampunk
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Adventurer Dirk Dynamo is back in Paris, in pursuit of the final clue to the location of the lost Great Library. But Paris is a city at war, with Prussian troops closing in from the east and the King in Shadow preparing to rise up in revolt. As viole...

• Mar-2016
• / Steampunk
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A demon detective and a steam-powered samurai. An engineer from the distant past and a pilot from the far future. Love, loss, pain and triumph in worlds beyond our own. Enjoy brief trips to other realities in these fifty-nine flash stories including ...

• Apr-2016
• / Historical
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Hob was a simple peasant farmer until idealism turned him into a rebel. Now he's an outlaw living in Sherwood Forest, seeking justice at the end of an arrow.Under the leadership of Robert Deyville, Hob enjoys the outlaw life, feasting beneath the sta...

• Oct-2017
• / Steampunk
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In the face of war and betrayal, adventurer Dirk Dynamo is still looking for the clues that will take him to the lost Great Library of Alexandria. Arriving at an isolated German castle, he finds his life threatened not just by the enemies prowling it...

• Feb-2018
• / Science Fiction
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Join a Roman centurion on the road to war, a British diplomat on an alien planet, and an excise agent watching fire fly above the Phoenix Coast. A hundred different characters experience love, loss, pain and triumph in worlds beyond our own. Enjoy br...

• Feb-2018
• / Steampunk
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Adventurer Dirk Dynamo is heading to Egypt in search of the lost Great Library. But others are there ahead of him, people with far less enlightened agendas. As he races spies and criminals through the land of the Pharaohs, Dirk must decide how far...

• Feb-2018
• / Historical
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What if someone had conquered the Vikings, someone claiming to be their gods?What if King Arthur's knights met a very different metal-clad warrior?What if you were ordered to execute a statue, and hanging just didn't seem to work?These short stories ...

• Feb-2018
• / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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""I have no objection to truth," I said, "but I enjoy untruths too, they're the building blocks of human culture. Actors pretending to be kings, singers faking heartbreak or elation, novelists inventing heroes in their heads to escape the mindless"...

• Feb-2018
• / Fantasy
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Ancient history meets epic fantasy in an action packed novella of war, magic and one man's struggle to find himself.Varus is the fiercest soldier in the Roman legion, and the most undisciplined. Fighting Thracian pirates on the high seas, he faces at...

• Feb-2018
• / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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A steam-powered cowboy with a taste for death.A daring art heist in a moving city.A zeppelin flight through the smoke-filled skies of a Europe torn apart by volcanoes.This collection brings together nine stories of mechanical endeavour and daring do ...

• Mar-2018
• / Steampunk
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A magic-wielding card shark living by her wits. A diplomat frustrated by criminal aliens. A private investigator in a city built on rusting machines. Meet these characters and more in fifty short stories set in worlds beyond our own....

• Dec-2018
• / Science Fiction
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A fairy noble hunting for spies. A soldier digging for his life beneath a battlefield. A man learning the cost of renting out his brain. Meet all these characters and more in fifty-two short stories set in worlds beyond our own....

• Dec-2018
• / Steampunk
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Adventurer Dirk Dynamo is back in Paris, in pursuit of the final clue to the location of the lost Great Library. But Paris is a city at war, with Prussian troops closing in from the east and the King in Shadow preparing to rise up in revolt. As viole...

• Sep-2019
• / Thriller
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It’s 1982 but not as we know it. The Cold War has lost its chill and World War III has arrived, threatening to send the whole planet into meltdown.

Vladislav Rakovich is a young, idealistic communist. He dreams of being an officer, leading...

• Dec-2019
• / Science Fiction
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A clockwork city winding down into entropy. A forest where moving statues stand sentry over the dead. A post-apocalyptic garbage heap.Visit all these places and more in fifty-two short stories set in worlds beyond our own....

• Jan-2021
• / Fantasy
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A shipwrecked sailor hunting for a way home from a land of talking animals.A rebel desperate to carve out her own path in a steam-powered city.A casualty from the trenches of World War One looking for a reason to live.A time traveller seeking knowled...

• Feb-2023
• / Fantasy
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In a haunted monastery at the heart of a crumbling empire, a lone priest tends the fires for the dead. A servant bound by the bones of her family, Magdalisa is her people's last link to the wisdom of the past.But as the land around them dies, new arr...

• Apr-2025
• / Fantasy
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Raul has a destiny: claim his birthright as the last surviving heir of King Balbainus and lead his conquered people to freedom.  The signs are all there -- his birthmark, in the shape of Balbainus’ halfmoon and dagger sigil, the...