The story of M÷, the science fiction author and counter-hero of the illusion of movement and cast away your dreams of darkness, continues in the final volume of Peter Raposo's trilogy.Is Artificial Intelligence the image of the Beast as described in the Bible? Will the Machine be our last invention? Are reptilian shape shifters living amongst us? Is time travelling possible and are time travellers visiting us now? Or are we just characters in a game?Set at the start of 2023...

In a small town in Portugal, a group of young people struggle to find their place in the world while holding on to dreams that sometimes seem impossibly far away.William dreams of becoming an author. Trapped in an unhappy home with a mother who constantly bullies and belittles him, he battles depression and suicidal thoughts while longing to return to London, the city of his birth. His life seems destined to remain unchanged—until Laura enters it.Laura is fighting battles o...

There are no books –the machines don't allow us to have them anymore...After the Great War comes to an end the human race starts living side by side with the machines. But some humans have secrets, as do some machines, and sooner or later they will clash, resulting in the last war ever. But before that happens, the greatest detective of the New World must solve one last case while an asexual sky poet tries to warn the world of the dangers of giving too much freedom to the ma...

Michael Ferreira is a failed poet, not to mention depressed as hell. Mentally abused as a child, he spends his time travelling between England and Portugal, with a brief stop in Spain, wondering when he will find his own home, a place he belongs. Wanting so badly to become an author, he spends most of his free time writing little notes in his journals, loving older women and following them wherever they want him to go. But, with time, he gets tired, and he just wants for his journey to end...

Years after the end of the Second World War a Holocaust survivor is invited for lunch at a villa in Argentina only to find out that his host is none other than Adolf Hitler.An eco-friendly billionaire decides to leave everything behind and head into the sea, sailing towards the Hollow Earth, unaware that a Manson Family-like cult wants to capture and sacrifice him to who knows what.Somewhere in Japan, an English teacher is approached by a young woman who wants to show him a...

A struggling writer finds himself trapped in a spiral of depression and intrusive, dangerous thoughts. Cut off from his children and recovering from another breakup after a divorce, he drifts through life looking like a zombie until one strange encounter changes everything.One night in the woods, he witnesses a mysterious woman dragging a coffin through the darkness. The woman is a vampire, beautiful but deadly, with ties to a hidden world beneath the Earth's surface. She takes him ...

Mizael Fairall is a successful author whose life has been shadowed by a horrifying event. At the age of six, he was abducted, held captive for four days, and subjected to abuse before managing to escape. His captor committed suicide before being arrested, robbing him of both justice and answers.Years later, he has built a writing career but lives with unhealed wounds. His world begins to crack when he encounters a face from his past. That encounter pulls him back to the very place w...

Anhedonia is a surreal, interlinked collection of short stories that follows a constellation of artists drifting through the world with ink-stained hands and hollowed hearts. Each narrator is a writer, poet, or dreamer whose devotion to the written word has eclipsed the contours of ordinary life, leaving them brilliant, broken, and strangely weightless.Across continents and languages, an unstable author survives on half-eaten restaurant leftovers, convinced that employment...

In England, a young Jewish writer is trying hard to write a novel along the likes of Marcel Proust, but life, the past, the present, the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe, and so many other things, including Chinese food and friends, keep distracting him, and instead he writes little notes about his friends and family, past and present. Peter Raposo's new book of short stories tells the stories of artists and lovers in search of something, either a dream or a place where they can belong, or ...

Is the Illuminati real? Is the true history of our world nothing but a lie? Will the human race one day be visited and destroyed by a superior race? And what's the deal with the Denver Airport?After starting a whole series of conspiracies' online, Japanese poet Matsutarō Fáfá has gone missing without a trace, leaving behind his wife and son. Oh, and various notes about a secret society that rule our world from behind the scenes and about a group of people called Grounders who live u...

A famous author is invited to a party in the middle of nowhere, a party attended by some of the most powerful people in the world. On the way there, he meets a porn star. Later, when they're already at the party, he watches as the poor woman is taken away because some people want to have fun with her. And why was he invited to that party?Years later, that same writer takes a private flight to New Zealand. One of the passengers on that flight is the billionaire Samuel Obberbrunner. ...

A young Russian Jewish writer finds three postcards on the street, each with a single word written on them, and later he finds the author of those same postcards, a depressive young woman whom he falls in love with, but as their relationship moves at a slow pace he wonders if she loves him or if she's using him. Trying hard to save her and to keep her by his side, he comes to the conclusion that maybe he's fighting a battle that he can't win.The new novella by the author of dUst and...