This sci-fi smorgasbord serves up 9 retro tales inspired by the pulp magazines of the 1920s - 1940s. It drops you into the deco chiseled cities of alternate Americana, airlifts you to exotic locales, then rockets you to the farthest reaches of yesterday’s tomorrows!Witness the otherworldly genesis of Wild Marjoram in a Chicagoland speakeasy as the violence of the all-female Killdeer Gang reaches vigilante-inspired fever pitch in "The Birth."Flying taxis fight for space over...

No mortal has ever sailed to the end of the world and returned to tell the tale. Legend says that the southern seas are full of monsters, lethal storms, and monstrous entities even the gods cannot conceive. Only a brave hero or a reckless fool would ever willingly venture into these deadly waters.Prince Tojas Malock travels to the southern seas in response to the summons from a goddess he has never met. To conquer these seas, Malock recruits the finest crew money can buy: An intell...

It is the longest-running deception in the English language and the most successful. Four hundred years of duping the world.A tale of deceit, corruption, love, passion. Of murder, fixing and bribery, centred on the writing of some of the greatest works known.A tale of two remarkable men, the frenzied times they lived in, and the fixated people that surrounded them.William Shakespeare.Christopher Marlowe.One is the real playwright.The other is the s...

Food doesn't grow easily on New Earth. Much of it arrives on massive supply ships and when one goes missing, the planet’s few thousand inhabitants are in grave peril. Chloe Meeks, a beautiful and gentle soul longing for a human utopia, is a rookie space pilot who doubts her abilities. Putting those insecurities aside, she joins her stern British captain Gordon and Nix, a wise-cracking young man vying for her affections, to find the lost craft. Dodging asteroids and other dangers in a ricke...

After Guinevere's death Camelot has become a sad and quiet place. King Arthur never shows his face in public anymore. The golden age of chivalry has ended. The Order of the Round Table was broken up, its gallant youth dead or have moved on. Shining armours and beautiful horses are hardly ever seen anymore in Camelot until one day when the first proper knight comes to town. His appearance stirs great excitement in Eric, a young working fellow, who often daydreams about knights and the good ...

Set many thousands of years in the future Mankind now inhabits more than one hundred and fifty thousand planets. The planets have long been overcrowded and Man needs to expand to survive. Following the earlier great explorations of thousands of years ago when civilisation was prosperous the Starship Stinedern searches for the descendants of those great explorers – if any remain.

The story of people moving to a new planet to survive a planet that is collapsing. Using Time travel. Love and living on a new planet.

From multiple World Fantasy Award winner and Nebula, Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, Sturgeon, and British Science Fiction Award nominated author Mary Rickert comes a gorgeous and terrifying vision of the Mothers of Voorhisville, who love their babies just as intensely as any mother anywhere. Of course they do! And nothing in this world will change that, even if every single one of those tiny babies was born with an even tinier set of wings.At the Publisher's request, this...

Kendy Laswell and her daughter, Maisey, used to do everything together--until one fateful summer when Maisey witnessed something she shouldn't have, and their relationship fractured. Now, Maisey is back home to get married and Kendy realizes this is her last chance to reconnect with her daughter. Will Kendy and Maisey be able to reclaim the bond they once shared?

Scant years after the Civil War, a mysterious family confronts the legacy that has pursued them across centuries, out of slavery, and finally to the idyllic peace of the town of Rosetree. The shattering consequences of this confrontation echo backwards and forwards in time, even to the present day."There’s so much here to appreciate and admire, fine storytelling with a clearly-realized setting and characters."--LocusAt the Publisher's request, this title is being s...

For busy moms, organizing is something that is always on the to-do list but never gets scratched off. In this new book from a trusted organizing expert, readers discover the key to turning a chaotic house into a clutter-free home in no time at all. In order to do this she teaches three simple concepts: consolidate, condense, containerize. Then, once a house is in its prime, just identify and maintain the most important 20% of household tasks and the house will never be a mess again....

Now with a new afterword by David Drake!They were the toughest fighters in the galaxy-until they got used up.The mission: redemption-or death,The troops were walking dead already,so there wasn't much of a downside.Major Arthur Farrell and the troops of Strike Force Company C41 had seen too much war with the alien Kalendru. They had too many screaming memories to be fit for combat again, but they were far too dangerous to themsel...