Mess with Rave Haversham at your own peril!Never call London’s premier Consulting Wizard a witch because she detests girly jobs even more than stupidity. Call her for the hard magical problems--if you can afford her fees.Sometimes she even works for the police. Or the dark side. Or the public good. Or simply for herself.Follow Rave into the supernatural world of wizards and ghosts, druids and werewolfs, dark secrets and murder. A world like no other.

Mathematician Ben might be a bit weird by other people's standards, but he surely knows the difference between reality and fiction. Wizards firmly belong to the latter realm.On holidays in the countryside, Ben rescues a ginger kitten from the cruelty of local children.Little does he suspect that feisty Mischief will open his eyes to an entirely new world.A light-hearted contemporary fantasy for cat-lovers of all persuasions.

Everybody knows some astronauts are queer. No big deal.So why play a game of one foot in the closet?Game's up when ESA Mission Commander Harriet Donnelly and her crew pull off an audacious caper that will make their community proud.A tongue-in-cheek short story for armchair astronauts and diversity champions on this world and beyond.

Welcome to Felicette Space Station, the only place in the solar system granting cats full citizenship.Great felines own this place, you bet.This fabulously fluffy collection includes:"Citizens and Denizens": A policewoman in search of a lost cat, a young mother in search of a better future, and a terrific cat with a mind of her own."Fire on Felicette Station": In the middle of an emergency, a firefighter finds her true calli...

Cities floating in space. Big cities. Huge cities. Strange cities.Discover the unexpected core of an old Lufour custom. With bombs. Bring about HaXXity’s new destiny. With social engineering. Find out Nechtan’s crazy secret. With a total crackpot. Observe the corruption in Paradise City. With murder. Meet a courageous baker in Vesta City. With muffins.Explore the weird and wonderful life of these glittering futuristic cities through the eyes of five thoroughly modern charac...

As any modern witch knows, a woman's life in a world still largely designed by men for men brings a unique set of challenges. With a bit of creativity and the right spell, though, annoyances can be engineered away.Here are five unique magical approaches to situations not only witches encounter time and again.Make It Fit! - All she wanted was to fix a blocked drain, but a girl needs the right tools first.Don't Feed the Trolls - When the trolls from the New Re...

Darren Hobson has built his reputation on writing long, sprawling verse—a blunt, darkly comic voice that refuses to tidy itself up for easy reading. His work moves through territory most writers avoid, written to confront, to unsettle, and to expose the harsh reality beneath modern life.But what happens when a poet who thrives in the darkness deliberately turns his gaze to the mundane?The publication of Just Keeping It Simple is in itself a provoca...

When magic and superpowers emerge in the masses, Wendy Deere is contracted by the government to bag and snag supervillains in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross' Dead Lies Dreaming: A Laundry Files Novel.As Wendy hunts down Imp—the cyberpunk head of a band calling themselves “The Lost Boys”— she is dragged into the schemes of louche billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge. Rupert has discovered that the sole surviving copy of the long-l...

Digital download exclusive novella: a fun and uproarious read from the hilarious Molly Hopkins, ahead of her new novel It Happened in Venice.Give up men for 2 weeks? Impossible!But Evie Dexter has challenged her flirtatious, man-addicted best friend Lulu to do just this. And Lulu never shirks a bet.In a flash of deranged inspiration Lulu books them both on a week's stay at an all-female military-style Boot Camp in the boringly beautiful English countryside ...

前傳在 2005 年 中旬的某個夜晚,大約十一時左右, 由於當時的我已禪定了大約三個多小時 。。。 至感到全身都已達到了一種難以用言語形容的 ' 酥酥麻麻 '、整個身體、心靈及能量都已處在了一個非常舒服的 ' 似有似無 ' 的狀態。這種狀態就有如比您剛泡完三溫暖, 再加上一個四小時的按摩至您全身都已爽及舒服得不得了的狀態, 還要更加倍的舒服及爽快好幾倍的感覺。在此時的心靈及意識就更加的不用說了, 已達到一個 ' 似有非有 ', 超越了大部份人類鮮少能覺受到的 ' 寧靜、喜悅 ' 的感覺, 可以比喻為一個已經超越了人類所可感受到的喜樂的狀態, 是一個從頭到腳、內到外都超級 ' 爽 ' 至似乎一切要消失了的感覺。由於已 ' 爽 ' 了好幾個小時了, 覺得夠了, 當時的我就直接爬上床打算直接入睡 。。。 哪知。。 已躺在床上的我卻仍然處在這超級喜樂的狀態當中, 而且感到身體似乎越來越向下沉 。。。 越來越向下沉 。。。。 在身體越來越向下沉之際, 身體也開始有了一種似乎是全然的、莫明的、自然的振動的感覺。 這振動的幅度似乎越來越大...

A unique blend of espionage thrills and Lovecraftian horror, Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross's Laundry Files continues with Quantum of Nightmares.It’s a brave new Britain under the New Management. The avuncular Prime Minister is an ancient eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and some, no...

When you're commanding a spaceship over a mile long and armed to the teeth you don't exactly expect to be told to get the hell out …