Evie Mickelson is anything but your average hostage negotiator with acute mind control powers— but she is about to discover she's the key to a battle with the demonic forces of evil. And Demoniacs (Book 1 of The Revelationary War) is anything but your average urban fantasy road trip novel with dark angels, ninja nuns and djinns. It is also a speculation on the nature of evil and terrorism. It is a commemoration of the superheroes of popular culture. It is a celebration of family. And it is...

In Superheroes for a Day, three Autistic friends – Max, Daniel, and Natalie – use their unique abilities to save their school from endless maths. They navigate their distinctive traits and reveal them as strengths. This engaging story normalizes the experiences of Autistic kids in an entertaining and accessible way, making them the heroes and offering a refreshing perspective on neurodiversity.

In the last year of his life, Jorgen Jorgensen sits alone in a darkened cell, writing his final life history. This time, he swears, it will be the truth.Of One Blood is a creative re-imagining of the early years of the colony of Van Diemen's Land in the mid-19th Century. It is told largely through the contrasting voices of two of the colony's most enigmatic characters – Jorgen Jorgensen and George Augustus Robinson – both men who invented their own histories.Jorgen...

Thought Antarctica was only for the tough and the strong-willed? Turns out it was also for the dumb and luckless as well. Discover the great Heroic Era of Antarctica Exploration and the extreme measures some explorers went to be first at something. Anything! Who was the first to spend an unplanned winter in Antarctica? Who was the first to play bagpipes there? Did Ernest Shackleton's brother really get arrested for stealing the Irish Crown jewels? What did Amundsen leave in the tent at the...

Shackleton's Drift is a compelling parallel story, comparing the famed Antarctic explorer's epic travails on the ice with those of an author trying to write Shackleton's story. The narrator is struggling to make sense of the uncontrolled drift of his own life in the face of social disintegration and increased terrorism, but finds meaning and consolation in following Shackleton's story, imagining himself on the drifting ice with Shackleton and his men, battling against the elements...

Thought Antarctica was only for the tough and the strong-willed? Turns out it was also for the dumb and luckless as well. Discover the great Heroic Era of Antarctica Exploration and the extreme measures some explorers went to be first at something. Anything! Who was the first to spend an unplanned winter in Antarctica? Who was the first to play bagpipes there? Did Ernest Shackleton’s brother really get arrested for stealing the Irish Crown jewels? What did Amundsen leave in the tent at the...

Antarctica is promoted as the last unspoiled continent on earth – attracting thousands of tourists on cruise ships each you. But at what point is it apparent that the continent is no longer unspoiled? And what happens on such a cruise ship when the outside world drops out of contact, after news of a devastating virus rampaging around the globe was received? And when you discover many of the passengers are determined not to ever go back home? A story of strange world of cruise ships and the...

The Seven Voyages of Captain Cook is a story of first encounters and clashes of cultures. But imagine that Captain Cook visited the Pacific not in the past, but in the future. But haunted by his own ghost from the past? How different might his encounters have been then. A fantastical re-imagining of history, playing with the past, the present and the future.

This story begins with a murder. A German internee is found dead inside a civilian internment camp during World War One, and one young internee, Arno Friedrich, determines to find the killer. But the more he probes into the lives of his fellow internees the more he discovers that little within the old stone prison is as he had imagined. He finds that the Germanic facades and fantasies the men construct hide secrets within secrets. And a killer.

In a land riven with plague, inside the infamous Walled City, two families vie for control: the Medicis with their genius inventor Leonardo; the Lorraines with Galileo, the most brilliant alchemist of his generation.And when two star-crossed lovers, one from either house, threaten the status quo, a third, shadowy power – one that forever seems a step ahead of all of the familial warring – plots and schemes, and bides its time, ready for the moment to attack...Assassination;...

An amusing look at the alternative paths that Australian history might have taken.The What If histories of Australia imagines a very different history of Australia, where the unexpected happens in unexpected ways. Starting by defining the real histories, the book then looks at possible paths of different settlements that history could have taken.What if Captain Cook’s ship sank when it hit the Great Barrier Reef in 1770? And what if the French settled Australia first? And w...

In Your Face = Trigger WarningsThis book contains twenty-two original and reprinted speculative fiction stories dealing with provocative themes. These stories are confronting, but with a firm purpose. They will make you uncomfortable, because they are a bit too hard-hitting or close to the bone. But they will also challenge you, by interrogating these themes and ideas to make a point about the world we live in.CONTENTSAlan Baxter / Bodies of EvidenceAngela Sla...