A lonely, overweight vampire tends a sleazy video store in inner-city Sydney... A multi-billionaire sacrifices everything to become Earth's first ambassador to the stars... A legendary time-travelling assassin finds himself pitted against the greatest detective that never was... A young father goes to extraordinary lengths to save his child after a car accident... A collection of works old and new from the pen of Tasmanian author Dirk Fli...

Michael Devlin is the first of a new breed. The way things are going, he may also be the last.Being infected with an unknown disease is bad. Waking up on a slab in a morgue wearing nothing but a toe-tag is worse, even if it comes with a strange array of new abilities.Medical student Michael Devlin is in trouble. With his flatmates murdered and an international cabal of legendary man-monsters on his trail, Devlin's got nowhere to hide. His only allies are a hot-tempered Sydn...

Six hundred years ago, a group of pilgrims made their way to Canterbury, and Geoffrey Chaucer created one of the great works of English literature. A hundred years from now, a nuclear-powered steam train is stopped by a massive storm on its journey to Canterbury, the new capital of an England struggling to rise from the ashes of the twenty-first century. As the waters rise with the storm's fury, the weird and wonderful passengers tell the stories of a new age… 18 original short s...

In Your Face = Trigger WarningsThis book contains twenty-two original and reprinted speculative fiction stories dealing with provocative themes. These stories are confronting, but with a firm purpose. They will make you uncomfortable, because they are a bit too hard-hitting or close to the bone. But they will also challenge you, by interrogating these themes and ideas to make a point about the world we live in.CONTENTSAlan Baxter / Bodies of EvidenceAngela Sla...