Discover the charms and challenges of working at Scotland's most northerly mainland veterinary practice.From performing farm animal caesarean sections at all hours to missing special occasions in order to treat much loved family pets in crisis, no two days in the work of vet Guy Gordon and his team are ever the same.Based in Thurso, northern Scotland, the small group of vets and their supporting staff cover a vast area of more than one thousand square miles...

MEET TELZEY AMBERDON-SHE'S NOBODY'S TOYTelzey Amberdon was only in her teens when she discovered that she was a telepath. Not only a telepath, but a xenotelepath, able to communicate mentally not just with humans, but with alien intelligences. And she turned out to be one of the most powerful telepaths in the history of the galactic civilization called the Hub.First she had to deal with an alien race that humans hadn't realized were ...

Fifteen stories told through the recovered pages of diaries/journals.Contents:What Killed Granded? by Ian Gordon (HorrorBabble, 2020)An investigation told through a series of audio logs.The Diary of Alonzo Typer by H. P. Lovecraft (Weird Tales, 1938)An occult researcher disappears without a trace.The Horror in the Lighthouse by E. A. Poe and R. Bloch (Fantastic, 1953)Bloch co...

Brought to you by Penguin.Discover the charms and challenges of working at Scotland's most northerly mainland veterinary practice.From conducting farm animal caesarean sections in the early hours to missing family plans in order to treat critically injured pet dogs, no two days in the work of vet Guy Gordon and his team are ever the same.Based in Thurso, northern Scotland, the small group of vets and their supporting staff cover a v...

IF BUREAUCRACIES HAD STARSHIPSCon games Corrupt governors. Deadly rivalries between departments of the same government. And, of course, the long arm of the Mob. Even in our future among the stars, some things never change-except that the governors run (and ruin) planets, the rivalries are fought with spacecraft and energy bolts, and the mobsters smuggle real illegal aliens and make their getaways with subspace portals. It's all just another day in that bastion of g...

THEY'RE DYNAMITETelzey Amberdon is one of the most powerful xenotelepaths in the known galaxy. Trigger Argee is a crack shot, with reflexes that make lightning look lethargic, and also a top agent of the galaxy's Federation of the Hub. Separately, they have been making life miserable for human criminals, unfriendly aliens, and nefarious members of all species. But when a danger to the entire Hub civilization brought these two together, the galaxy would never be the...

Espionage and Intrigue in theFar Reaches of the Galaxyfrom the Creator of Telzey Amberdonand Trigger ArgeeThe Galaxy was not a nice neighborhood, and most would have laid bets that the Vegan Confederacy was too small and weak to survive, let along prosper. But prosper it did, to the bewilderment of observers, who didn't know about the Vegans' secret weapon.Once, the Galactic Empire had spanned the stars and when it crumbled and fell, star systems were i...

Second entry in a new young adult series by New York Times best seller David Weber, and the prequel to the hugely popular Honor Harrington adult science fiction saga.Fire in the forest—and a cry for help from a trapped and desperate alien mother! Unfortunately, this is one cry no human can hear. Stephanie Harrington, precocious fourteen-year-old Provisional Forest Ranger on the planet Sphinx, knows something is wrong from the uneasy emotion that is flooding into her from h...

New York Times and Publishers Weekly Best Selling Young Adult Series. Book Three by international writing phenomenon David Weber. Two young settlers on a pioneer planet seeks to stop a war and to save the intelligent alien treecats from exploitation by unscrupulous humans.The fires are out, but the trouble’s just beginning for the treecats.On pioneer planet Sphinx, ruined lands and the approach of winter force the now Landless Clan to seek new territory. T...

Stephanie Harrington absolutely hates being confined inside her family's compound on the pioneer planet of Sphinx, a frontier wilderness world populated by dangerous native animals that could easily tear a human to bits and pieces. Yet Stephanie is a young woman determined to make discoveries—and the biggest discovery of all awaits her: an intelligent alien species.Treecats are creatures that resemble a cross between a bobcat and a lemur (but with six legs and much more deadly claw...

New York Times bestselling fantasy author Mercedes Lackey breaks into YA with a dangerous, utterly original futuristic world in which a fearless teen girl leaves behind her close community to be a Hunter in Apex City and finds something worse than the usual monsters.Long ago, the barriers between our world and the Otherworld were ripped open, and it's taken centuries to bring back civilization in the wake of the catastrophe. Now, the lucki...

“The dashing, sword-wielding heroine saves the day . . . Estep hits us with everything she’s got in the explosive conclusion of the Black Blade trilogy.”—Fresh FictionAs a thief, I’m good at three things: hiding in the shadows, getting in and out unseen, and uncovering secrets. I put these skills to work for the Sinclair Family, one of the magical mobs that run the tourist town of Cloudburst Falls...