Former Olympic skating star Ellen Cusack is pondering a new beginning for her career when she starts receiving hate mail from someone calling himself the Ice Man. Soon after, the phone begins ringing in the middle of the night—at first the caller hangs up when Ellen answers, but then he begins to talk to her. The stranger promises Ellen that he will change her life. When gardeners dig up the body of an unidentifiable young woman in Ellen’s garden, panic sets in. And then a videotape arrive...

When ProvLife, a successful life insurance company, expands into health care coverage, Alex Tynan, a young financial analyst employed by the company, becomes suspicious.First of all, the statistics of the policyholders seem contrived and unrealistic. Alex also notices several of her colleagues suddenly make enormous amounts of money, while she must care for her aging mother and support herself on an entry-level salary. Then a company executive is found dead, after behaving bizarrel...

James Gordon Bennett was born in 1841, a spoilt only son who took over as publisher of the New York Herald from his millionaire father. Bennett tirelessly supported pioneering fields of technology and sport, always with speed in mind. In 1899, fascinated by the new motor cars, he instigated the International Gordon Bennett Cup. The inaugural race took place in 1900 between Paris and Lyon. Three countries entered, but this was just the beginning of a massive phenomenon that, thanks to Benne...

LOOK TO YOUR COMPASSHere are eleven tales.Eleven tales of science fiction.Eleven tales that take us to futures near and far,That show us planets and people bothfamiliar and strange.An undercover operative seeking a mysterious girl; a settler on Mars dreaming of open skies; a cop with a short fuse and a robot partner; a man seeking absolution on a distant planet; a couple trying to deal with social media bereavement; prosp...

ALAEDORNIAIt's another world, vast beyond comprehension, and it exists right alongside our own. Amanda Hazel has known this since she was a child. She knows something else about it, too. It's dangerous. And she has been running away from it for years. All the way into adulthood. Now, well over a decade after her first encounter with Alaedornia, she has to go back.It's not just for her own benefit that she must travel there again. She owes her cousin Thom, badly injured when...

NORTH OF MIDNIGHTLOOK TO YOUR COMPASSHere are nine tales.Nine tales of supernatural mystery and weird imagination.Nine tales that take you from the deceptive comfort of the everyday to places strange and unlikely.A troubled neighbour, a woman with the answers to your prayers, a guy walking into a bar, a haunted man embarking on a new relationship, a pair of con artists driving away from their latest mark, a couple in a travelling mar...

LOOK TO YOUR COMPASSHere are ten tales.Ten tales that defy easy categorisation.Ten tales that take a look at the world from peculiar angles and bring a little-seen strangeness into focus.A young woman in an empty hospital; a man trying to hold onto his past; an architect who makes a mistake; a woman with a disconcerting line in conversation; a dying man learning to live; a couple confronting an invisibility virus; a newspaperman chasing the ...

LOOK TO YOUR COMPASSCollected together for the first time in thisomnibus Box Set edition are the four story collectionsmaking up Mark Patrick Lynch'sCardianl Points series.North of Midnight - Ghosts and HorrorsEast of Never - Fantasies and WhimsiesSouth of Strange - Slipstream TalesWest of the Moon - Sceince Fiction StoriesOver 230,000 words of fiction now available

The “philosopher of truth” (Jill Lepore, The New Yorker) shows why truth is an essential democratic value—and how it can be strengthenedDo any of us really care about truth when it comes to politics? Should we? In a world of big lies, denialism, and conspiracy theories, democracies are experiencing two interlocked crises: a loss of confidence in democracy itself and the growing sense among many that politics is only about power—not truth. In this book, Mic...

A CLASH OF ICHOR AND BLOOD.For Rusby Once the house in Splinter Junction is supposed to be a sanctuary, somewhere to recuperate after the dreadful events that happened in London.Somewhere safe. She needs that.But shortly after her arrival her worst fears are confirmed. The Groom is back. And this time he won't fail. This time no one will stop him. He will take Rusby Once. Take her far away from Splinter Junction. Take her through an eerie doorway on...

Do any of us really care about truth when it comes to politics? Should we? In a world of big lies, denialism, and conspiracy theories, democracies are experiencing two interlocked crises: a loss of confidence in democracy itself and the growing sense among many that politics is only about power—not truth. In this book, Michael Patrick Lynch argues that truth not only can—but must—matter in politics. He shows why truth is an essential democratic value—a value we need to sustain our...

East of NeverHere are nine tales.Nine tales of fantasy and strange creatures.Nine tales that take you from the world you thought you knew to places near but subtly different, and to others impossibly far away and beyond the wildest of imaginings.An outcast from Wonderland; a storyteller facing a nightmare; a businessman donw on his luck; a suburban couple waking to an unwelcome surprise; an obssessive determined to complete his life's work; ...