Kaleph squanders his life away in a desert border town, using his wizardry in small ways and easy chores. Then the money changer arrives with an ancient artifact, shrouded in sorcery, and Kaleph’s path veers from safe and ordinary to following a gr...
Horatio entertains people. Up on stage, the thespian channels the great heroes of legend, rescuing princesses, fighting bandits, and slaying dragons. And then one day, he slays a real dragon. Can he discover what it really means to be a hero?...
Wizards, elves, warriors, professional adventurers, and actors trapped in a role. Here is a collection of fantasy short stories set in fantastic worlds: From an Imperial Rome that never was, to forgotten towers on the edge of the Wastelands, to a ma...
Set in an Imperial Rome unlike our own, where centaurs and elves rub shoulders with common Citizens. The oracle gives Suren a quest: Find and rescue a Brigante half-elf from slavery, protect her from her enemies and his, and then convince her to help...
Wizards, warriors, professional adventurers, and actors trapped in a role. Here is a collection of fantasy short stories set in fantastic worlds: From an Imperial Rome that never was, to forgotten towers on the edge of the Wastelands, to a magical mi...
Bob only wants gold. Lots and lots of gold. A new clue on his quest for unbelievable wealth leads him and his team of wizards, elves, and other misfits, to lost ruins at the edge of the Wastelands, where the riches promise to be very rich indeed.But...
A group of professional adventurers must hire a new wizard. Someone recommends Kaleph Sa’id. Can they learn to work together, and to trust each other, before the desert swallows them all up?...
Jesilyria longs to escape her life of peasant drudgery, but she’s a practical girl -- she can’t just run away and leave everyone to pick up the mess. Then one day, she finds the something in a cave. Something astonishing. Something wonderful. Som...
Suren and Enica continue their travels north through the outskirts of Imperial Rome to meet the Queen of the Night Elves, where they encounter a thief far more than he appears to be. Can their magic and determination win out?...
Alicia, just a normal teenage ork girl, spends her time studying magic and goofing around with her friend Ealisaid, until her fate finds her and she discovers a truth that sends her on a grand quest to free the Northern Gods from their ancient prison...
Revisit many of the exciting places you visited in Volume One. Whether it is the meddling of the Gods in their endless games, a magical Imperial Rome, or adventures in the desert, the mountains, and the forest, the tales continue with new heroes retu...
Youngest Brother holds the greatest treasure of his clan: an icon cast of unknown material, bearing words none can read.His quest? Seeking vengeance on those who massacred his family.But for that, he needs a wizard. Even if those with magic have no s...
Tor and Dead-eye confront must outsmart their old foes once again and steal enough treasure to save the Spanish Civil War. In a world of dieselpunk airships and underwater bullet trains good old-fashioned heroes stop the Nazis....
Come with us as we explore Alternate Worlds, places where Science and Fiction intersect. See how the past could have changed, how the present might be greater than you imagine, or how different futures could unfold. Return to the dieselpunk pulp era ...
Someone accesses the outer hatch sealing one of Suvi's information kiosks. She giggles at the prospect of customers. Company. A person. Yay!For an advanced AI, living at 20,000 times faster than humans, not having contact with anyone for 800 plus yea...
Come with us as we explore Alternate Worlds, places where Science and Fiction intersect. See how the past could have changed, how the present might be greater than you imagine, or how different futures could unfold. Return to the dieselpunk pulp era ...
Javier lives quite happily on his long-range scout. Alone. Away from everyone, with his chickens, his fruit trees, and Suvi, an artificial intelligence who keeps him company and runs the ship.When space pirates attack Javier's ship, they get much mor...
After eight years, Angler was finally ready to turn over power and go home. But first, Angler must initiate a new member into the circle of ultimate power, an old foe who will become the most dangerous man in the world when Angler hands him the key...
The importance of tea mugs cannot be overstated. Javier didn't start a war because of one, but only just.Instead, he decides to prove his point by having a special one made, just for him.The Science Officer.Who, though still a slave to the pirates, w...
The tsunami didn’t destroy the Pacific Northwest, but it was bad enough.Rick cooks in a prison work camp during the cleanup, and dreams of opening his own bistro when he gets out.Amaleti is trapped, far from the sea, her scientific mission in tatte...
Henri sets out across space to find the perfect wood for his violins. However, star travel takes time, as humanity still digs itself out of the Great Darkness.On his quest, he gets help both from his shipmates and his muse, the unreachable lady of hi...
If Jessica Keller wants to advance in the Republic of Aquitaine's Navy, she must become more than just Aquitaine's best fighting commander: she must learn diplomacy. The First Lord sends her to a safe backwater ally, Lincolnshire, to learn. However, ...
Jessica Keller has stopped the Red Admiral more than once. Now he intends to go to Ballard and kill Suvi, the last genie in the last bottle, unless Jessica can get there first. Then she must stop an Imperial Battleship with her out-gunned squadron.It...
Javier is still a slave, still paying off a life debt to Zakhar Sokolov and his pirate crew. Then Wilhelmina returns, asking for his help. Now, Javier must rescue his worst enemy, the ship's Dragoon, Djamila Sykora. Will Javier's honor or his hatred ...
Kai Di laments the death of her best friend, who, it turns out, lived a double life as a super villain. A secret life she hid from everyone, including Kai Di.Kai Di’s anger at the world smolders, unquenched by family and the rituals of death.How ca...
Jessica faces her most intimidating, most intriguing invitation: Dinner with the president of the Republic of Aquitaine. The Presidential Palace lives up to its name, along with the stellar company invited for private dinner. All women of the highest...
When the Night Elf assassins come for him, Sleipnir the Centaur must fight for his life against his own kin.But in order to survive, he must give up his entire past and become something else: A hero.Be sure to read the other Brak stories:Meat ShieldT...
An English Barrister’s wife should be faithful and subservient to her husband, even as the Edwardian Age replaces the Victorian and loosens the strangling ties of modern culture. But she finds herself facing the might of His Majesty’s Government ...
You fell in love with Jessica Keller and her crew, now see what they look like.This collection of color plates and descriptions showcases a dozen of your favorite characters, from Jessica and Moirrey to Denis and Dash.Every plate shows a different un...
As Captain Navarre, the Science Officer rescued his greatest enemy and destroyed her captors. Now, someone else wants to hire the ruthless pirate Navarre, and Javier must take Sykora with him to help. Their mission? To raid the most...
Jessica Keller's conquest of an Imperial world drives the Fribourg Empire to seek a 25-year Peace with Aquitaine. Now the harder challenge awaits: an Invitation from the Red Admiral to his youngest daughter's wedding. On the Imperial Capital world of...
Special Agent Eva Kiesler gave up Hollywood fame to battle the Nazis with the assistance of Dr. Slate, a living clone of N. Telsa. Now, British Intelligence has tracked their enemy to a warehouse down on the docks. Eva must lead her team t...
The Nazis thought a secret base in the New York mountains impregnable, but British Intelligence has sent their best team, led by formidable agent Eva Kiesler, once the most beautiful actress on the silver screen, now lethal and implacable.But the sci...
It seemed like a legitimate heist when someone hired Storm Gauntlet and her crew to go hijack some cargo. Pirate ships did that sort of thing. However, whoever hired them didn't count on the Science Officer's sneakiness. Paranoia. Whatever....
Norbert dreams of power. Fame. Respected villainy. Maybe even girls.If his inventions would just work how he wants them to, all that would be his. And more.And there would be toast. A Modern Gods story...
Wet, cold, and tired of every inanimate object trying to talk to her, Anna still walks. Twice during her journey, someone flies overhead. Superhero on patrol? Super villain escaping? Impossible to tell. She travels on, compel...
Kid Lexington wants to be a respected superhero, more than anything. Bad enough that he pretends to be the teenage sidekick of a better-known hero.His teammates must never uncover his true identity.When a message arrives, it looks like a trap. Kid Le...
She disappeared more than eighty years ago. Lost forever to myth and legend like Excalibur tossed into the waters.When The Science Officer leads the crew to the last flagship of the Neu Berne fleet, they must risk awakening a Sentient warship if they...
The old-timers say it started back in the middle somewhere, when hope was still an option. Before some idiot decided the best way to break the back of the Resistance was to use The Bomb. Everything went to hell at that point....
The old-timers say it started back in the middle somewhere, when hope was still an option. Before some idiot decided the best way to break the back of the Resistance was to use The Bomb. Everything went to hell at that point.Dale just wants to be a P...
The Science Officer has done the impossible and stolen the Last Flagship. With the help of his friends, Javier will take his private war to Valko Slavkov and the pirates with a theft so audacious, so brazen, nobody could predict it.And so big that th...
Icy cold revenge. The best kind. Unless it requires the purging fires instead.Javier owns the Land Leviathan. Now, the payoff.Javier and Zakhar’s retribution on Valko Slavkov challenges everyone to take sides: Walvisbaai Industrial, the Concord, an...
Come with us as we explore Alternate Worlds, places where Science and Fiction intersect. See how the past could have changed, how the present might be greater than you imagine, or how different futures could unfold. Return to the Dieselpunk pulp era ...
Petra is a Modern God, a human with superpowers, if weaker than her twin sister or her parents. Learning all the family’s deep secrets just reinforces her intention to make the world a better place. Everyone expected Elise to put on a mask and figh...
Jessica Keller replaces Emmerich Wachturm as The Red Admiral. Her first task: returning home and not only convincing Aquitaine to build her a new fleet, but then to allow her to use it to help the Fribourg Empire.Their common enemy? An A.I. in contro...
For many of us, those opening words “Captain’s Log…†were our introduction to our science fiction dreams. Voyage to explore strange, new worlds, seek out new life, and boldly go. What will we find there when we go? What dangers will we confro...
Science fiction does not have to be about alien planets, galactic exploration, and huge space battles. Instead, science fiction can cover the future that lurks just around the corner. Science fiction that exists after Dieselpunk and before Cyberpunk,...
The future is not always a bright and shining beacon on a hill somewhere. Crime will follow us into space and the future. What will you steal, with the whole galaxy to pick from? Seven syndicate authors let their criminal side out for a joyride on a ...
Two tiny lizardmen scientists/criminals power up their illegal wormhole generator, getting ready to kidnap their next victim by pulling the poor human across the galaxy in an instant, forever trapping him in the Accord of Souls.
Maybe th...
Two tiny lizardmen scientists/criminals power up their illegal wormhole generator, getting ready to kidnap their next victim by pulling the poor human across the galaxy in an instant, forever trapping him in the Accord of Souls.Maybe this human wonâ€...
Come with us as we explore Heroic Worlds, places where larger-than-life superheroes struggle to defeat their enemies, keep their secrets, and live a normal life. Visit the 1950's to help Kid Lexington face down Lady Mockingbird. Delve into the Waterg...
Though the world has changed in the year 2053, some things remain the same.Nilsson and his friends drive from town to town in Belorussia, looking for a good time. Important family connections protect them and provide the necessary social introduction...
Mom’s accidental death let Grandmother declare Angus an orphan, because Dad was an alien, an Aracheed. Worse, the crazy old bitch got custody, and plans to trap Angus on her estate, away from the alien half of the family until Angus reaches eightee...
Carl loves his wife, even if he only sees her occasionally because they both live in the shadows. When she comes to town, and has a job for him, it feels like a setup.Would his own wife burn him and Deke? Worse, if she has been turned by somebody, c...
Handsome Rob, Secret Agent
At least until the Lincolnshire government mucked everything up, reactivating his commission in the space fleet.
Time for another impossible mission: destroy a secret space station set up by a crime syndicate...
Buran returns, a greater raid than ever envisioned striking the Imperial capital and forever changing everything about the war in a single afternoon.Unlikely heroes must rise, in the face of unimaginable tragedy.Jessica Keller must press her personal...
A nav anomaly on RAN Mendocino’s journey home turns into the greatest archaeological find of the modern age. Or their worst nightmare cast in steel and anger.Worse, the ancient warship awakens and invites them aboard.Can Yan Bedrov outwit one of th...
All spaceships, like all travelers, grow old and retire someplace quiet, until someone comes along. What will you find on the old derelict? Or hiding in the junkyard of forgotten starships and lost dreams?Join over a dozen of today's most exciting SF...
They’ve done the crazy, the stupid, and the impossible. Established a secret base behind enemy lines. Stolen a sector supply vessel, a scout, and a pocket warship. Now Phil Kosnett and his crew set their sights on something really ambitious.
...A JumpSail breakdown after the battle at First Severnaya Zemlya and strands CS-405 deep behind enemy lines. One barely-armed scout corvette must cross Buran’s star empire to make it home.But first, they need to commit a little piracy.Part of the Al...
The god disguised as a goldfish doesn't command. Still, Akahana knows better than to refuse his "requests", especially to help a pair of lovebug crabs.Even if it might turn out to be the greatest risk she will ever face."Backwards on the Way"--the se...
Familiars don't survive their master's death, so why did Akahana? She finds that she needs the help of a god disguised as a goldfish to get even. Nobody can stop this tree octopus sorceress from getting her revenge.The Eight-Petaled Rose--...
Six hundred and twenty-seven convictions later, the career criminals Morty and Xiomber have seen the light and joined the good guys. Gareth must go undercover to stop his nemesis from unleashing another crimewave across the Accord of Souls.While the ...
Jessica Keller keeps pushing Buran back, using chaos and surprise as her weapons, as well as the warriors of First Expeditionary Fleet.
When her reinforcements arrive, she pushes even harder, though honestly, it doesn't matter if she wins. S...
A Vanir cop stares back when Gareth St. John Dankworth looks in a mirror these days. However, that will not stop him. He will happily embrace any cost to stop the man who was once his best friend in the solar system from conquering the galaxy.Even if...
Moles.Seriously?Yes. Mostly seriously.Chemists, Zoologists, Dermatologists, Government Agencies, and Mexican Food.Over a dozen modern authors offer their take on an Interpretation of Moles. Every kind, every definition.From silly to sublime, this ant...
Valentinian just wants to make a living hauling cargo between planets and stations. His new charter promises to be profitable, hauling an all-girl-band all over the Dominion. But trouble starts before they take off, and Valentinian has just hired ...
The world is ending.Right here. Right now. How? Why? What’s next?Join us to explore eighteen different interpretations of the end of the world, from the amazingly silly to the darkest nightfall.Be sure not to miss every issue of Boundary Shock Quar...
An alien imposter sneaks into the most secured facility in Earth Force, confronting Earth’s top scientist Royston with his worst nightmares.Gareth’s near death at the hands of the rogue androids fuels his rage to use the Star Dragon to pursuing j...
PEOPLE OF THE EARTH, YOU WILL HEAR ME.The Gods of the Accord of Souls return to judge humanity itself, intend on simply eradicating the species to make the galaxy a safer place.Gareth finally confronts his old enemy again, as well as the very Gods of...
Valentinian and Dave have escaped the Dominion’s Internal Security Bureau. Now they’re fleeing for their lives, heading for systems outside of Dominion control, looking for a place where they can rebuild their lives. Figure out what comes next...
So it turns out Einstein was right. FTL is not possible and we are pretty much stuck here. What happens to humanity when the stars turn out to be unreachable dreams?Join this unusual cast of authors as they explore what it means when your science fic...
The Widow never rests. She takes the ship Dominion-427 across the galaxy to chase down her ex-husband and his friends.
Athanasia and Glaxu duel on far-flung planets, and double-cross one another again and again, until someone dies.
And...
I like my science...mad.How mad, you ask? Come with us on a twisted journey of science gone wrong and gods rising to threaten us all. Of private detectives on the moon and dieselpunk ladies saving the day. Academics making dark pacts and taking venge...
What is science fiction, if not an exploration of who we’ll find when we get out there? What will they be like? Alien life. Alien viewpoints. Alien Dreams.Join us as we explore worlds where humans aren't always the heroes. Maybe the villains. Possi...
Valentinian and his friends never imagined being trapped underground with their worst enemies -- the Widow and her crew.
Above-ground, an entire tribe of sex-crazed cannibal mutants rampages, coming for their souls.
Enemies must make d...
Handsome Rob, Secret Agent. At least until the Lincolnshire government mucked everything up, reactivating his commission in the space fleet.Time for another impossible mission: destroy a secret space station set up by a crime syndicate.Just him....
Zero-dark-thirty and a boot slams into Handsome Rob's front door. He has ten seconds to escape his apartment, as somebody has just arrived to kill him.And the day is just starting.Hunting Handsome Rob is a pulse-pounding race of firefights through th...
Medicine is on the verge of conquering disease and aging. Of making it possible to clone ourselves and make our children super beings.Or morlocks.What will the world be like when science conquers life itself?Join us as we explore all the possible fut...
Daniel has had enough as a chef. The burnout convinces him to sell the restaurant to his Sous Chef, walk out the door, and never come back. A new job takes him into deep space on an adventure he never imagined.Kathra Omezi's star tribe faces poverty ...
Nuns With Guns.Nuns. With Guns.I challenged folks to give me a story with that as their theme. Here are nearly twenty authors who answered that crazy call, ranging from fantasy to science fiction. Modern. Historic. Urban fantasy and gritty realism.Co...
Does a star-born species ever actually die out? Daniel has his ghosts, and a book so ancient that nobody but him can read it. He seeks the truth.Kathra seeks a place for the Mbaysey star tribe to be safe from their former lords in the Sept Empire.Sep...
Time travel stories are as old as science fiction, wandering backwards to change the past or forward like Buck Rogers trapped in that abandoned mine shaft. Perhaps you will step through a mirror darkly. How will the world change? How will you?Join us...
The final struggle looms. Daniel and Ndidi take a captured Ovanii Battlemaster directly to war with the Sept Empire, even as Amirin and Hadi strike for imperial glory and eventually the throne itself. Septagons will be destroyed in their pr...
A surprise arrest sends Handsome Rob, Assassin, off planet after one of the worst arms smugglers known. But he needs a team for this, so Mac comes with him. How deep into their cover identities will they go to catch a criminal? =======...
Crime moves faster than law enforcement can keep up. What will the wild west of the future look like to the men and women who have been tasked with protecting it?Seven stories here explore what it means to wear the badge. To try to make the galaxy a ...
Cloak And Dagger.These words were the inspiration, the dare I put to the writers out there. Create for me art on that theme. They responded with music, words, and excitement.Science fiction, urban fantasy, or sword and sorcery fantasy. Come explore t...
A new mission takes Javier and the crew halfway across the galaxy, looking for friends and trade that will help them face the gathering storm. Places like the ocean world of Ugen where they explore alien seas in a submarine. But danger loom...
Having won, Javier sets out to explore the larger galaxy and maybe avoid the Concord until they get a little less pissed off. But he'll need friends. So he goes looking. A new adventure awaits you with four new Science Officer short stories...
After five hundred years of cryogenic sleep, Mina Teague still seeks the trail of Rama Treadwell. Five years after her rebirth, she has a long-planned date with Javier Aritza, the Science Officer. He won't be there. In his place, a cou...
A dark and violent future awaits us, when technology run rampant threatens the planet and the people. When money divides us into Haves and Have-nots. When life proves cheap and danger lurks around every corner. Seven stories of a twisted future,...
This orc does not fight for glory or treasure. Egon fights because someone has to take up the hammer and the shield, to take a stand against evil.When a dashing Puck and his unlikely friends recruit him to go into the darkwilds, Egon the Bold will di...
Lazarus leaves for Innruld Space with Eha. Addison must take both of their places on Brasilia and convince the High Council to help the aliens start a revolution, before Westphalia steals a march and conquers Innruld Space themselves. The Lazaru...
Space opera is more than just starships boldly going. It is also the grunt on the ground with the rifle, just trying to survive.Come explore seven new stories of the things we might find out there, the battles we might face, and the horrors we need t...
Crime And...I challenged folks to give me a crime story with a one word title that could complete that phrase above.Many answered, and nearly twenty made the final cut, from coziest fun to darkest noir, always with Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment i...
Lazarus returns to Innruld Space with new allies. He must find a way to prevent Westphalia from gaining a toehold that would let them conquer all these species and maybe the entire galaxy.Eha and the Gnashiiley Captain, Carlos Nguema, lead a rag-tag ...
Lazarus and Ajax can crush anything they encounter in Innruld Space, but that won't win the war. He has friends, though, and they will help. When Westphalia launches an invasion of Innruld Space, the entire Species Underground must come together...
Traders and Merchants and Goods, Oh My! From families just trying to eke out a living in space to monsters lurking in the darkness of unlit cargo bays, come with us on a journey through a Baker's Dozen stories of the places and risks that cargo might...
Already famous for accidentally discovering clues of the elder race, Fairchild still just wants to fly.Until a chance encounter on the planet Biysk upends the entire galaxy.Cute, little dragons that live in the forests, no longer than her arm.Oh, and...
Phil Kosnett, Explorer Extraordinaire! Now, as a First Centurion, his mission will take him to the distant west, into the very darkness between the galactic arms. He plans to visit those people who live so far away from Aquitaine as to be merely...
Kaiju and blobs and science gone wrong. Monsters from deep space come to destroy us all or the ones quietly hiding below as colonists and Terraformers arrive.Come explore heroes and horror with fifteen new takes on the things that you might find out ...
Phil's victory at Vilahana opens up the interior of the Balhee Cluster to diplomacy and trade, even as it upends centuries of piracy by all the major players. But the Ingham Syndicate won't go down easy. Basant Utkin—Commander of the pirat...
A hidden map. A mystery that draws Suvi and Bethany into a deep conspiracy. An advanced starship, abandoned forever among the stars like a Flying Dutchman? Javier and the crew must race against their enemies to find it, because nobody ...
The aliens of the Gage Empire rule the galaxy. Humans live as slaves on a single moon of the Gage homeworld, valued for their ability to power starships through warpspace. Not everyone likes that arrangement. When a conspiracy of Humans ste...
Murder. On the Moon. The aliens in charge need the best to solve this case, so they call in Greyson and Rachel. The victim? Utterly perfect in every way, but there's a hitch. Is she even human? The Hunter Bureau, a series about a ...
With Meerut secured, First Centurion Kosnett asks Dalou for permission to present the Captain of Morninghawk with the Republic Cross, at the Dalou capital. This sets in motion a chain of events that threatens to bring down the entire Hegemony, u...
An Ewin attack on Meerut provoked First Centurion Kosnett to strike back. Boldly. Rudely, even. Now, he must travel to the heart of the Ewin Principalities and negotiate a new peace. Except that the King orders an attack that will turn into...
Small Gods.They aren't the earth-shakers, but the quiet ones. Or perhaps the loud, brash ones.We challenged the writers to give us stories without much more than Small Gods.They came through, as usual, ranging all over the spectrum, as well as all ov...
When a Salonnian spy threatens to publish a tell-all memoir, every spy agency around leaps into action. Some want to capture her. Some want to kill her. Handsome Rob wants to see how much damage she can cause. And how he can help. ...
Science fiction also deals with the sea. How will technology allow us to explore those other worlds beneath the waves? Who will we find?Join us for voyages of discovery to the depths, as the Boundary Shock Quarterly writers go sailing....
New worlds, new civilizations. What will we find out there when we go looking? Who might find us?Join us as we go looking for life beyond the farthest star.Be sure to pick up the whole set of Boundary Shock Quarterly at your favorite retailer....
In a snap, the apocalypse descends, wiping out almost everything.Almost.A few survivors struggle in the ruins, fighting until the bitter end.After The Fall (A Blaze Ward Presents Special Edition) brings together twenty different visions: some ...
First Centurion Kosnett takes his fleet to Gloran, to meet the Emperor as his grand journey continues. When a pirate attack on a Gloran world turns into something darker and more sinister, Phil must step in to prevent a general war with Aditi fr...
The Domain of Yaumgan live quiet, contemplative lives in the back corner of the Balhee Cluster. However, under that calm facade lurk ancient and terrible secrets that must be dealt with, when their past catches up with them in the form of an invading...
Strangers arrive to hire Zakhar and Excalibur to help fight pirates. However, they don't understand the full extent of their problem. What they need is something more. Something bigger. Something sharper. They need Captain Navarre.&nbs...
Tessa and her crew want to stay out of debt. Maybe get a little ahead. Even if that involves looting wrecks and occasionally robbing banks. When three new passengers bring a passel of trouble with them, Tessa and the gang must define what family...
A map that shows a world nobody knows has Fin all a-lather to go investigate. He draws the rest of the crew with the craziness. New friends, new enemies, and ghosts before they’re done. Book Two of the Last Stand, a shiny, new space western science...
After capturing their greatest nemesis, Pacific Force retires. When Nathaniel Hoestler breaks out of prison, Jake must convince the gang to come back together. The world needs Pacific Force. The first of a new modern thrill-packed acti...
An old flame from Abigail's past turns up, still holding on the dream that she'll fall madly in love with him. When he won't take no for an answer, things get a little dangerous. Good thing Tessa and her crew are there. Book Three of the Last St...
Auntie just wants a day off. No systems to fix. Nobody breathing her air. Then she runs into the most interesting gentleman in a pub, and finds out just how dangerous love can be. Book Four of the Last Stand, a shiny, new space western scie...
An anarchist assassin threatens all royal families, everywhere. Helpless, His Majesty's Government summons Augustus Dexter Derlyth, metaphysician and scoundrel to solve this trouble. They might be fighting fire with fire. And everyone ...
A spree killer in South London that might be this generation's Ripper. Prostitutes missing and forgotten. Magical troubles. And then someone asks Lady Claudette for help. She turns to Augustus Dexter Derlyth, metaphysician, scoundrel, and killer...
Somewhere, a demon runs amok, loosed in a museum and now free in the London sewers. In desperation, the authorities summon metaphysician Augustus Dexter Derlyth to solve this trouble. Then it gets worse. What evils lurk in the shadows,...
Lost. Abandoned behind enemy lines. On a captured, enemy vessel. Ensign Ulysses Fortier must figure out how to fix the damaged freighter he has taken command of, even though his people are severely outnumbered by the existing crew. And...
Kincaide has led Dashavatara and his crew to freedom. At least for now. When Ildar's latest model finds them across the light-centuries, the chase begins Can Kincaide get to the one star that even the Alvar fear? And what will the...
When a man named Chace Haig dies or retires—and they almost never retire—the next one steps up to replace him, as close a copy as diet, training, and plastic surgery can make him. His first mission? Seduce the woman he fell in love w...
Brianna's past catches up with her, when one of the men who programmed her originally captures her. Wyatt leads the team to rescue her. And things will get ugly before he's done. Book Nine of the Last Stand, a shiny, new space western ...
What will the winter holidays be like in the future? Not just Christmas, but all the ones that revolve around the winter equinox? How will people celebrate?Come explore the holidays with over a dozen different takes on a Science Fiction place there t...
The Corsac Fox returns. Uly intends to convince the merchants of Z'Gosza to hire him. To end piracy. Better than becoming a pirate himself. When they ask him to conquer a notorious pirate enclave, Uly has his work cut out for him. ...
Javier wants to see a megastructure: a small moon hollowed out and turned into a starship. All part of his plans for surviving the Rising Storm.Djamila accidentally meets an old enemy that everyone else in the galaxy has forgotten.Everyone except the...
A new preacher has come to Wabrook to revive the faith. Except that under that disguise, Auntie recognizes the man. And his trouble. Then more trouble bubbles up, and the whole crew must get involved. Book Twelve of the Last Stand, a shiny,...
Jonathan Swift sent Lemuel Gulliver to a variety of interesting places. The lands of giants, tiny people, flying islands, and even Houyhnhnms.Come see what the Boundary Shock Syndicate did when challenged to think about Gulliver's Other Travels and t...
A test run of an experimental weapon turns unexpectedly deadly when Marrakesh and its crew run across a Wronlori Leviathan, who charges in to destroy them. A game of cat and mouse ensues, the two ships hiding in a deep nebula. Captain Boru ...
When a murder interrupts a diplomatic mission, Captain Boru gets called in by the local governor to solve it. Or become the sacrificial goat. The political currents run deep and murky, and Radio Officer Nyssa Taggart must rise to the occasion to...
Harper Morita wants to play in the big leagues. To be invited to the biggest, richest cons against the wealthiest marks. She has the brains and the smile for it. Best of all? The girl has luck. Time and again, she falls into the crap, and someho...
Recruited by A'Zedi Intelligence, Marrakesh heads deep into the interior to scout a nearly-forgotten system. And meet the locals without pushing them to support Wronlori. When a pirate squadron shows up, Marrakesh must dispense with all the subt...
A missing ship, seemingly lost without any emergency signal. Without any trace. Marrakesh is dispatched to discover what happened to the Northwind. And rescue the crew if they can. What they find threatens a whole new front in the ongoing A...
When an Wronlori exile asks the A'Zedi government for exoarchaeological help, Intelligence Services decides to send Marrakesh and Captain Boru. They'll be operating beyond the edge of any maps. There will be no help if something goes wrong. Will...
Uly continues to hunt down and destroy pirates. Meanwhile Lukyan returns to the Ononguli Sphere bearing messages from the Corsac Fox.And inviting the Lords of the Endless Plains themselves to come visit. First, though, he must deal with his own past ...
When a new species of alien pirates decide to raid Uly's Bastion, they draw the ire of the Corsac Fox himself. But Uly also understands mercy, and travels to their homeworld to understand his new neighbors. Thus begins a sail into the very legen...
When Finn gets hired by an Anglo-Persian Princess/Adventurer to fly her to a secret rendezvous in the Egyptian desert, his troubles mount, as the Fascists in Rome and Nazis in Berlin seek to conquer the entire world. Her enemies become his, and ...
Having beaten the Frenchman, Finn and Zareen go into hiding. And sell the airship Cerberus to trade for a stolen Nazi bomber. With surprise on their side, they strive to strike the Italian authorities in Bengasi with a vital blow, and free leade...
The Man With No Face has vanished, hiding somewhere in British Palestine. Worse, the Frenchman has gotten support from the Nazis in Berlin to chase Finn and Zareen across the entire world. In Soviet Central Asia, the double-crosses will see the ...
Finn and Zareen escape from the Frenchman and his Nazi allies in Central Asia. From British India, they attempt to find an alien base, hidden deep in the secret depths of the Tibetan plateau. Nothing, however, can prepare them for what they...
Gunderson, P.I. A tough man in a tough town. He likes Ike, but not many other folks. Los Angeles hides some weird and menacing things in her shadows. If you have the need, and can pay his daily rate plus expenses, maybe you can hire the man...