Magic is a marriage of hope and rebellion. It's everywhere in the world. Always has been. But in most of the world, it's unknown. People stopped using it, believing in it even, thousands of years ago, and hundreds of years ago, and tens of years ago. It seems that each culture and each generation rejects magic a bit more than the one before. Some cultures more or less than others, but the general trend is to ignore magic and eventually to forget it.In every culture, though, in ever...

FIREFLY meets WAGON TRAIN. Space pioneers, frontier worlds, alien societies, war refugees rebuilding their lives, heroes with heart, loving relationships of many flavors, and a scarily clever ruthless enemy.Tom is a man of color in a social system where the respectable classes are exclusively white. An interstellar freighter captain who flew refugee ships for the resistance during the galactic war, he is tormented by the memory of a terrible tragedy. Never again will he lose a ship...

A science fiction alternative history with alien invaders, spies, and assassins.*spoiler* Trump is still a baddie!Aliens invaded Earth and occupied the UK and the USA. They assumed the roles of the human upper classes, many existing members of which welcomed and collaborated with them in order to maintain personal wealth and power. Resistance movements were formed, but their effectiveness was limited by the constant and deadly threat of an orbiting alien spaceship.T...

In a dangerous world of isolated, steam-powered, island communities, a thousand years after Earth's apocalyptic flood, Princess Victoria and her robot mentor King Henry recruit a ragtag band of airship adventurers to help her fight the military traitors who intend to murder her family and enslave the kingdom.Victoria has spent all of her sixteen years in a secluded palace on Ben Nevis Island under the protection of King Henry, one of the three original robots programmed by the anci...

"DAMAGE CONTROL is action, love and loyalty all wrapped around an intriguing Science Fiction puzzle."–USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR KIM KNOXKath Preston and Jen Stenberg are damage control engineers in the generation starship Romeo, 582 years into its 800-year journey from frozen Earth to humanity's hopeful future on planet Nirvana. When they were schoolgirl best friends, Romeo's population was doubled to 10,000 by taking on survivors from its stricken sister ship Juliet in t...

A year in the life of an old salt who sailed the world and came home to a different place, my memories and me exploring nature and history together in the wooded valley where I have settled as a solitary-practising hedge druid.I wrote this book for myself, obviously, and for readers who like me are:– seekers of spiritual communion with nature, who might follow a religion, or more than one religion, or no religion at all;– survivors of childhood sexual abuse;– p...

End Times is the book of my stage play, narrated by a pagan everyman walking the world after the collapse of human civilisation.This isn't a bad road, as roads go. It hasn't been maintained since the Before, but then few have, especially unused ones in deserted places like this. It would be hard on the suspension of a car—if any cars were still around. It would be hard on my ankles if I wasn't walking carefully, even in these good boots.I found them on a dead man in his sno...

Part-time librarian Molly Matthews lives with the painful and exhausting chronic illness ME. The condition has broken every part of her life, except that she has plenty of time to escape into books. Especially her favourite fantasy series, Tamass the Fearless.And when Molly escapes, she really escapes, because she possesses a rare talent that allows her to enter a book and meet its characters and share their adventures. Molly is a Storywalker.Novelist Paul Best doesn't walk...

Living his life again. Same person, same fishing village, same years. But this time the world shows him a different face.Ken Jackson builds traditional boats in a small Cornish fishing town, where everyone might not have heard everything about everyone else, but if they haven't, it isn't for the want of listening. Which complicates matters for Ken, because he has a secret: he's living his life all over again.It sounds like a dream come true. He's got the chance to make thin...

Genetic engineering, a Bronze Age warrior in the 21st century, a 21st century archaeologist in the Bronze Age, an artist whose creations have a life, dryads, aliens, near-future space flight, distant-future life in Earth's space junk belt, a house of ghosts, fallen angels and demons…These are the worlds explored in this collection of ten stories of science fiction and fantasy from David Bridger.

This second volume completes the Space Train story.A planetary invasion, a brutal occupation enforced by cyber soldiers, and a small non-conformist community at the heart of a secret resistance.More Firefly meets Wagon Train. More interstellar scrambling to escape the shadows of evil. More life and love in every flavor of the rainbow while holding hard to the promise of a new life, far away on a fertile blue planet.

When school-leaver Jessica's reclusive great-grandfather bequeaths her a haunted castle in the Welsh borderlands, she's thrust into a world of hostile strangers, troublesome Romany tenants, and a strange gift that shows her disjointed visions of the past. And that's only the start of it. She thinks she's going mad, until old family stories and the superstitious fears of locals convince her that something sinister really is going on at Kidd Castle, and all the while the gift keeps drawing h...