Some argue existence is an exercise in futility. They claim there are no winners in life. Ultimately, we are insignificant in the face of vast cosmic intelligences that were old when the Universe began.The best minds gibber at the incomprehensibility of it all. Other minds lose themselves in strange geometries because they can't comprehend any alternative.Whatever. The rest of us have to get up in the morning, feed the cat, and go to work.The Cozy Cosmic contains 3...

As the Black Death drowns medieval Europe in blood and fear, two orphaned heirs are on the run with plague-scarred performers while behind them stalks an immortal flesh‑eater.In plague-ravaged fourteenth-century Europe, Elizabeth Malatesta, a sentient flesh-eater and queen of a growing cult, seeks the blood of her last living kin to halt her decay. The children, Maddalena and Bartolome, flee with a troupe of troubadours.When the Pope in Avignon posts a fort...