What happens when a computer glitch sends eighty-nine copies of the same scientist (and no one else) to settle a new planet? Or a privateer gets stranded on a slow ship he tried to hijack that’s still years away from its destination and has no food?BRAVE NEW WORLDS presents fifteen original stories that follow humanity’s long dream of traveling to the stars, from heart-wrenching departures from Earth, through the unknown dangers of the long flight through the cold vastness of space...

It’s issue 50 of Luna Station Quarterly!In honor of such a round, resplendent number, the eighteen stories contained within these covers span the breadth and depth of what LSQ has offered you, our loyal readers, through the years.This special, extra length issue has happy stories and sad stories. It has space stories and magick stories and school stories. It has mythological beings and ghosts and a bone key that opens a bone door in the middle of a desert.It even ha...

Issue Five is filled with dreamy apocalypses, unreliable narrators, galaxy brains, and shapeshifting. The stories and poetry in this issue all have a thread of softness running through them. These pieces are rooted in devotion; to a person, to a god, to a fight. Within these works, people are transforming themselves, becoming something or someone new because of their relationships. There may be anger or rage, but you can’t evoke volatile emotions without a yearning for something underneath...

A lively comedy drama about a young boy growing up in 1930s Tyneside with the help of his favourite uncleLecky Ferguson is growing up in a penniless but close-knit family in Jarrow. He relies on his imaginative Uncle Freddie for explanations of the world’s many mysteries. Packed with humour and adventure, this award-winning full-cast drama tells the life of a young man that is far from ordinary.There are adventures with new-fangled electricity and a fistfig...

Forty years ago, a young female veterinary student was abducted and taken against her will to an isolated bush location, where around a campfire party of drugs and booze, was tortured and gang raped prior to being bludgeoned to death.Five years ago there had been a Coronial Inquest into her death. A brief of evidence had exposed a gang with eight prime suspects as being responsible. Five of those suspects had since died, but three were still alive to take the stand and answer quest...

In a sequel to the first book, 'Justice is Personal,' Jamie Wells continues his quest to get justice for his sister Laura. Forty years earlier she had been abducted, gang raped and bludgeoned to death. Five years ago there had finally been an inquest into her death. No one had been charged with her murder, and three suspects out of a gang of eight men named as being responsible, were still alive and walking the streets. The judicial system had failed his family.Taking on the role a...