Oliver Grey has an unusual existence. His life has become a jumble of puzzle pieces, some of which repeat themselves while others don't fit together properly. Oliver has an unusual family. His grandmother manipulates light. His mother consorts with shadows. Oliver has a problem. He's been drafted into the losing side of an interplanetary war. His chances of survival should be somewhere around zero. But Oliver has a secret weapon.

The first book in a new environmental epic fantasy series set in a world where ships kept afloat by magical hearthfires sail an endless grass sea.On the never-ending, miles-high expanse of prairie grasses known as the Forever Sea, Kindred Greyreach, hearthfire keeper and sailor aboard harvesting vessel The Errant, is just beginning to fit in with the crew of her new ship when she receives devastating news. Her grandmother—The Marchess, legendary captain an...

Part ecological Orpheus and Eurydice myth and part gothic thriller, discover this atmospheric near-future sci-fi novel about fae mysteries deep within strange nature preservesPerfect for readers of Jeff VanderMeer, Chuck Wendig, and Sunyi Dean • “Richly imagined and beautifully written, with a highly original and very creepy magic system.” —R. F. Kuang (on Johnson's The Forever Sea)On the autumnal ...

Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis.All the stories from the month, plus author biographies, interviews, and story originsTable of ContentsThe Demon in the Page – Joshua Phillip JohnsonCat Play – Mari Ness… and now He erases – Rhoads BrazosThe Machinery – Julia WarnerIn the Belly of the Angel – Henry Szabranski

The second book in this environmental epic fantasy series delves into the mysteries of a world where ships kept afloat by magical hearthfires sail an endless grass sea.After setting fire to the Forever Sea and leaving the surface world behind, Kindred Greyreach dives below to find a Seafloor populated by roving bands of scavengers. Among them, Kindred discovers a familiar face working to save the Sea from the continued spread of the Greys and the ravages of the wor...

Beautifully written speculative fiction from Metaphorosis magazine. The best science fiction and fantasy stories from Metaphorosis magazine's first year. Mysterious languages, unusual dogs, solitude, alien communications, and magic. Stories from Joshua Phillip Johnson, Elise Forier Edie, Vanessa Fogg, Gerald Warfield, Meryl Stenhouse, Jeremy Packert Burke, Molly Etta, Jack Noble, Aatif Rashid, L. Chan, Kato Thompson, Jarod K. Anderson, and Octavia Cade. Contents:

Learn programming with Python by creating a text adventure. This book will teach you the fundamentals of programming, how to organize code, and some coding best practices. By the end of the book, you will have a working game that you can play or show off to friends. You will also be able to change the game and make it your own by writing a different story line, including new items, creating new characters, and more.Make your own Python Text Adventure offers a structured ap...

Are We There Yet? Ms. Daly and Room 3 are going on a Field Trip to the world-famous Flinders Ranges. Miss Winn and Room 2 from Lake Windemere Primary School join Room 3 and the Science Rangers on their 3-day excursion. The bus arrived, children and teachers boarded, and the parents, siblings and grandparents waved goodbye. ‘Here we go, here we go’ rang out and the wheels on the bus were going round and round. Everything was going to plan, according to Ms Daly and Miss Winn. However, in the...

The story of Gilberts Dragon introduces the Science Rangers, the teacher Ms. Daly, and the students in Room 3 at Lake Pleasant Primary School. Room 3 has an unannounced visitor join them for the day. The intruder has four legs, a tail and a cheeky smile with a lot of teeth and is usually found in deserts and arid environments. His scientific name is Lophognathus Gilberti, more commonly referred to as Gilberts Dragon. His owner calls him Bertie. The class were engaged in ‘Shared Reading” wh...

Ambush marketing is any attempt to create an unauthorised or false association with an event thereby interfering with the legitimate contractual rights of the event's official marketing partners. Looking at both traditional intellectual property rights (such as trade marks, copyright, and designs) as they relate to sporting events, and event-specific legislation (such as that of the Olympics and Commonwealth Games), this book gives comprehensive and detailed coverage of ambush marketing. A...

When five teenage refugees are stranded in an irradiated Oklahoma wasteland while trying to survive an exodus from the war-torn East Coast, they take shelter in a ghost town that is much more than it seems. The strange, unnatural threats they face there will make them question what they think they know about death, about reality, and especially about family as they learn to rely on each other if they’re ever going to make it to the sanctuary of San Francisco. Written by Eisner Award-nomina...

This insightful study explores the constitutional, institutional, and cultural barriers to harmonisation of the copyright laws of the United States and the European Union. It considers these matters in the real world transnational environment in which copyright law operates and suggests that the reality transcends the differences, offering a framework for meaningful harmonisation.The authors examine in detail and offer a critique of the sporadic and historic attempts at one or anot...