FROM THE DARKEST RECESSES OF THE MIND TO THE DARKEST CORNERS OF THE GALAXYThese are tales of the future twisted and turned by the trends of the present. Like a funhouse mirror that reflects imperfectly, these are tales seen through a glass darkly.From a new consciousness birthed in a glitchy computer program, to a warning of the future unheeded by the first emperor of Rome.From the events of H. G. Wells' The Time Machine told from the Morlocks' point of view, to a l...

WILD INCORPORATED is a crime fighting organization whose origin is shrouded in secrecy. Harry Calhoun has become a member of this strange group. Led by the mysterious Morrigan Wild and aided by five talented experts in differing fields, the organization travels the world to right wrongs and battle evildoers. But is Harry Calhoun really cut out to be part of the team?GO, JOHNNY GOHarry goes back to his home town of Toronto, trying to move past Wild Incorporated. Home with wi...

PIRATES, ALIENS, BUREAUCRATS - WHO CAN YOU TRUST?Korax is a colony world beset by problems. Pirates have targeted the world for plunder, a race of wandering alien nomads have made themselves at home and the colony’s new governor seems intent on making enemies of just about everyone.Jefferson Odett would rather be out on the rim, fighting the war for humanity, but a misadventure has landed him here. Now he has to try to secure a planet that does not want its new governor, th...

A SPACE SHIP IS ONLY AS GOOD AS ITS GEAR CREWThat is the mantra that itinerant 'gears' − starship engineers − Franklin and Sri live by. They've just been hired to work aboard a prestigious luxury liner, but their plans are disrupted when an unknown fleet presses a ruthless attack.Fleeing to safety, they and their semi-sentient toolbox organism known as the Quiddle, wind up aboard the Alizarin Crimson, a ship that is barely holding itself together and run by a dysfunctional ...

SOME ENEMIES DO NOT ACCEPT DEFEATThe long conflict between humanity and the Kreoch Empire is over. Humanity has won. The Fleet is victorious. Everything has changed. Kent McLennan commands the Fleet ship Meritorious on a mission to accept the Kreoch surrender. But the Kreoch are not taking defeat so easily.Twenty years ago the greatest hero that the Fleet had ever known, Jack Church, was killed by a misguided assassin. Jack Church's tactical genius was an integral part of t...

Sword of Fire 3 continues the series' tradition of presenting exciting and colorful tales of Sword & Sorcery at the novella length.This volume contains "The Rise of the Bane-Blood" by G. W. Thomas, tales of Malis the swordwoman with the glowing sword and her battles with the temple of assassins that spawned her."The Eye of Sirama" by M. D. Jackson is the first of a new series about Bradik the Slayer."The Brides of Drigoona" by Will Parker is a sea adventure featurin...

These are tales of the darkest fantasy."These are the literary spawn – bastards though some may be – of the stories that one would have read in the pages of Weird Tales, that venerated pulp magazine of the early part of the twentieth century. That pulp rag that birthed the stories of Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, Seabury Quinn, C. L. Moore, and many others.These stories have percolated in those pages as well as through the fiction of Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, Fritz ...

From the southern kingdom of Trigassa come two warriors destined to blaze a path throughout the known civilizations.Sirtago, the Ka of the kingdom and his companion, Poet, battle evil and sorcery throughout the land when it threatens sirtago's family. As young men they defend the empress and emperor against a deadly beast whose secrets threaten to topple a neighbouring kingdom.With Sirtago's mighty sword and Poet's deadly twin daggers, these two adventurers travel the land,...

Ships of Steel is the first in a line of anthologies for the fan of Space Opera, Space Westerns and Science Fiction Adventure stories. Call it what you like, but these four novellas are filled with aliens, robots, spaceships, pirates, assassins all set on far planets or the depths of space."Rolling Stone" by M. D. Jackson introduces the space agent, Steel, and his spaceship Darling."The Hidden Heart" by G. W. Thomas features Sudana and Zaar, characters from his book Whisper...

THREE HEROES - THREE TIMES - A SINGLE DEADLY FOEIn a world of magic one city is the focal point for a desperate struggle that is fought through all of time. Mages harness the powers of different elements – air, fire, ice, metal, even death – and wield that power in their struggle to survive. But one powerful mage can control time itself.Now mages and mortals alike find themselves allied against that power and three heroes, separated by vast gulfs of time, must find a way to ...

Ride the trail to Devil's Gulch, a Western town where strange things lie in the shadows. The Weird West was never weirder in this shared world anthology set in a town haunted by ghosts and worse. "If Music Be the Food of Love" by M. D. Jackson gets things rolling with a man seeking a lost macabre masterpiece. "Dark Raven" by T. Neil Thomas follows hanging Judge Galbraith to a haunted house where he will win (or lose?) a bet. "The Black Lake" by Jack Mackenzie has a quest for the location o...

WILD INCORPORATED is a crime fighting organization whose origin is shrouded in secrecy. Harry Calhoun has become a member of this strange group. Led by the mysterious Morrigan Wild and aided by five talented experts in differing fields, the organization travels the world to right wrongs and battle evildoers. But can Harry Calhoun, a reformed small-time thief, prove to himself that he has what it takes to fight alongside them?MADAME MURDERWhen a retired mobster is brutally st...