La Crécerelle a le goût du sang. Mais qui sait pourquoi elle tue ? Pour l’argent, pour le plaisir, ou bien pour servir les puissances de l’outre-monde ?Femme du Sud dans les terres du Nord, experte des arts magiques dans une contrée qui les méprise, la Crécerelle parcourt les cités-États du désert, semant violence et mort sur son passage. Une question demeure... combien de temps encore pourra-t-elle supporter cette vie d’atrocités ?C’est justement en cherchant à se libérer ...

Six petits oiseaux tout beaux et tout fiers...La Crécerelle est l’assassin la plus redoutée de son temps.Mais lorsque Mémoire – son ancienne amie et membre du Conseil des cités-États – la retrouve à la croisée des pistes du désert de Yobanda dans une auberge de caravaniers, la tueuse n’est plus que l’ombre d’elle-même.Mémoire lui propose de tuer cinq mages thaumaturges qui représentent une menace pour la sécurité et la cohésion des cités-États....

Métalya est l’une des nombreuses pacificatrices de la cité de Tal Emmerak. Son boulot, c’est des enquêtes, si possibles pas trop compliquées, et bien payées, ce qui, dans un cas comme dans l’autre, n’arrive pas souvent.Lorsqu’un riche client la contacte pour lui demander de retrouver sa femme disparue, Métalya accepte, appâtée par l’argent. La pacificatrice découvre rapidement que cette femme a en fait été assassiné or, elle était également une scientifique de reno...

The fourteen pieces herein are those sundry writings I have created sandwiched between some forty years of writing novels, penning assessment reports, editing the works of other authors, and trying in general to live as fully and as wisely as possible. Carry On is a collection of fourteen pieces of miscellaneous writings I have created over some forty years. All the works are fanciful, some more than others, and all were written with an eye toward helping me put the world into an understan...

Despite publishing endeavours such as the Ballantine Adult Fantasy Series in the 1970s and Fantasy Masterworks in the early 2000s, the canon of modern fantasy is still very much in flux. This Element examines four key questions raised by the prospect of a fantasy canon: the way in which canon and genre influence each other; the overwhelming presence of Tolkien in any discussion of the classics of fantasy; the multi-media and transmedia nature of the field; and the push for a more inclusive...

Rhianna’s lifeless body lies splayed atop a salt spire on the south shore of Mono Lake. A sapling oak rises from inside the young woman’s abdomen. Murder by tree hugger? Or something more complicated? On the eve of his arrest, the confessed killer walks up to an aspen tree and disappears into it. Heed is his name. A genetic interloper between flora and fauna. A shape shifter. Thus begins the mystery confronting Rhianna’s ex-husband Marlyn, a transgender man, to uncover how a murderer could...

August 1945: A Victory Train bound from Chicago rumbles through the Sierra Nevada stuffed with soldiers celebrating the end of WWII. One is Daniel Rose, scion of a legendary movie studio. Moral turpitude has ended Daniel’s service to his country. In L.A. Daniel meets Cutter, a man fleeing from military service guarding a uranium mine. Their dream is to put the military behind them. A year later they purchase a “coffee-pot” radio station. It is an instant success. They buy a retreat they ca...

Norma Christianstead is the first person raised from conception to adulthood in zero gravity. The year is 2200. She is a temporal savant. The goal is to determine how micro-gravity interacts with physical, intellectual, social and psychological development. Fifteen years later a CRISPR-spawned plague is overtaking Earth. Norma learns there is another goal to the experiment: to respond to the divinations of a secret artifact—a beacon—of an ancient civilization that vacated the Tharsian regi...

Caleb Calder is a cartographer. While out cycling one day, he is hit by a car and suffers traumatic brain injuries. An outgrowth of this is that his ability to feel emotions is rewired in a way that allows the part of his brain he utilizes as a cartographer to become concatenated with the affective part. That is, he discovers that--borrowing from Descartes’s dictum—I map, therefore I am--that mapping is perception captured like an eddy in a stream in which each and every perception is a ma...

Parker buries his loyal yellow Labrador retriever in a century-old and long-neglected pet cemetery in the Wine Country of Northern California, only to find that the graveyard itself is scheduled to be plowed under to make room for an upscale Pinot Noir vineyard. Nearing the end of his own life, Parker vows to keep vigil over his beloved companion until he himself dies or the owners relent. His vow to stay beside his pet until she can rest in peace attracts cohorts from near and far. It is ...

Set in Venice and Asia Minor, Swimming In Stone is the sequel to That Which Bends. It tells the tale of Dusty Rhodes after she and her lover, Bodie Bloom, have won forty million euros in the Italian Lottery, only to see Bodie die shortly afterwards. Heartbroken but rich beyond her wildest imaginings, Dusty embarks on a voyage of hope with Bodie’s estranged family in order to split Bodie’s portion of the winnings in accordance with his last wishes. In the end Dusty and Bodie’s family learn ...

Tadashi is a Basset Hound from Fukushima Japan who loves to eat sushi. Read about his life in a Japanese village as he struggles with a real life tsunami and a nuclear disaster. This is a wonderful story of courage, determination and loyalty. It addresses important topics such as nuclear power, renewable energy and environmental protection. Includes color illustrations.