Fairies are real, but they're not cute winged girls in cobweb dresses. They don't dance in mushroom circles and they certainly don't grant wishes. They're large, angry dragonflies with the ability to drain emotions, and they're massing. A war is coming.At the Australian Nocturnal Academy, the Earth's last dragon is finally starting as an official student. Hoping to make friends his own age, Drago Bethelrath decides to suppress his true aspect and appear as an ordinary were-lizard.

Professor Abbacus has come to the Nocturnal University, a gigantic floating college hidden within a cloud, to teach technomancy and investigate a series of mysterious explosions.With two students, a vampire boy named Malcolm and a tree-girl named Kim, Professor Abbacus learns that there are literally thousands of spirits bound within the machines that keep the school aloft, all in terrible agony and screaming for release. Each time one manages to escape a massive detonation ensues....

Twenty-two year-old Ricky Fielding decides to dress up as a woman so he can accompany his conservative boyfriend, Mark Holland, to a work Christmas party. Unfortunately Ricky drinks too much and accepts a job offer from divorce lawyer Gary Morgan.The next day Mark tells Ricky to reject the job, but Ricky is desperate for work and believes he can not only dress like a woman but act like one too. To make things even more complicated, Mark's 12-year-old daughter, Rachel, comes to stay...

A serious accident at Rhys Kelly's work effectively ends his human existence and he is buried alive. In a near-death coma, Rhys undergoes a bizarre molecular change. Unconsciously he sends out waves of terror to his new race - the Eridons, begging for aid.A small scientific organisation called the Human/Eridon Half-caste Monitoring Team resuscitate Rhys and endeavour to explain what he has become. Unfortunately several factors rise to hinder their efforts. Rhys has lost great chunk...

Alice Dibble has finally made it to the Nocturnal Academy, and is ready to start lessons at the exclusive private school. She believes she is about to be trained to become a nocturnal defender of the Earth against the chaotic hordes of the Immaterium, and is ready to face up to this noble challenge.Unfortunately, when she arrives she discovers that the Nocturnal Academy isn't that different from her old school. Lessons are tedious, equipment is old and broken, bats roosting in the ...

Although he is now a god, Ric Storm tries to return to his old normal life. But he is consumed by strange desires he can no longer control and discovers he can make people do what he wants simply by commanding them. In his subconscious Stormwalker tells him that if he doesn't find some worshippers soon, sealing his position as a god, other deities will snuff him out of existence.Meanwhile, two old men from alternate Earths, a wizard and a priest, set out on separate journeys. They ...

One day at school thirteen year-old Tala Somerset discovers that she can read minds. Mutants of any kind are feared in the Oasis, her futuristic society, and she struggles to hide her new talents.But a cruel gang of youths discover the truth and force her to steal for them. Then she meets the Children of the Mind, a secret organisation of psychic youngsters. With their help, and the aid of two friends, Darryn and Sarula, Tala manages to stop the bad boys.However, Tala soon ...

Worn out after her first three terms at the Nocturnal Academy, Alice Dibble finds she needs help to sleep and concentrate. At a low ebb, she accidentally allows some Immaterial imps to influence her thought patterns, and uses her superior mental powers to push her unhealthy father into exercising. When he collapses from a heart-attack, Alice is immediately overcome with guilt.At the same time, Alice and her vampire friend Milly become involved with a Magick group at the Rainbow Tig...

Gudday - I'm Vincent Knight, and this is my story. It's not every day a guy gets a whole book written about him, but here it is. It's no War and Peace, but so what? I'd never be able to get though such an enormous tome, anyway! Sorry, I'm getting off the point a bit. I've been told 'keep it short and simple, and no swearing!So what's this story about? Well, to put it short and simply – it's all about me! It starts off with me in English, snapping another kid in the head with a rubb...

What would a group of gamers really do if they were somehow transported to a real fantasy world of myth and magic?One Saturday afternoon gamemaster Sue reveals to her players Blake, Damon and Kiara a large, mysterious mirror she purchased from a local junk shop, for use as a prop in their next adventure. What she doesn't realise is that it's actually an extremely powerful magic artefact known as the Mirror of Albiroth.Always theatrical, Sue recites a portal incantation she ...

What would a group of gamers really do if they were somehow transported to a real fantasy world of myth and magic?The eight adventurers; four gamers from the Science Earth and their Magick Earth counterparts, have finally made it to the gates of the vile kingdom known as the Empire of the Undead. Deep within the Emperor’s palace lies the Mirror of Albiroth, an extremely powerful enchanted artefact the Science Earth travellers need so they can finally return home.But first t...

A powerful criminal organisation known as the Syndicate has managed to infiltrate the Australian government and re-introduce the death penalty. Serial killer John Allen Darkin, who left a bloody trail of thirty-six bodies across Australia, is sentenced to die by lethal injection.Dana Neale swears that she will never forget Darkin, the man who murdered her husband. When he is executed Dana rejoices, hoping she that will finally be able to resume a normal life.Two years later...