Marikken hapte naar adem. 'Het zijn onze schapen!' Ze greep in haar buidel en pakte een steen. Het was meteen de zwarte. Ze herkende zijn gladde ronde vorm.'Dat klopt,' zei de monnik. 'Ze blijven ook van jullie. Ik ga er alleen voor zorgen zolang je pa dat zelf niet kan. Zodra hij overeind staat, mogen jullie ze terug. Tegen vergoeding, uiteraard.''Vergoeding?' Marikken voelde het wit worden achter haar ogen, zo kwaad was ze. De steen lag zwaar en glad in haar hand.'Ik...

Captain Berend Ruiter desperately fights to prevent his heavily damaged spaceship from falling into enemy hands.

After Django Mathijsen had won the Unleash Award, a prestigious Dutch story award, twice in a row, a publisher asked him to write this novel. It was published in Dutch in March 2010 and is based on the short story for which Django won his second Unleash Award. This science fiction techno-thriller is set around the year 2040. A programmer of robotic cars loses everything when he is accused of terrorism. Hunted by the police, Mando hides with the real terrorists and discovers a conspiracy fo...

Gerard lands on Spitsbergen to visit the Global seed vault. He poses as Doctor Hamid Büchler of the Leibniz-institute, delivering frozen seeds. But in reality the contents of his cabin trunk are highly explosive. What's his secret mission? Can he stay out of the UN's clutches long enough to complete it, or will he fall for the charm of the white blonde Doctor Kaia Hansen?This exciting and poetic techno thriller was nominated for the Paul Harland Prize 2008. The judges commented: "A ...

Steampunk flash fiction in which Jellana, riding from town to town on her steam tandem, gets in trouble with an unscrupulous traffic cop.

Wilvo, like his father, is a space junk salvager. When his dad recovers a defective satellite, launched in 2241, the Pan-American Information Service pressures him to abort. His father continues. Suddenly he sends a distress signal. What's entangling his spaceship? Can Wilvo, helped by Yaritza from PAIS, save his father? This story was awarded the NCSF-prize 2009: the prize for the best Dutch science fiction story.

Santa has become too heavy for his sleigh. So he takes drastic action. Will he be able to bring the children their presents again? This story and picture is a Christmas present from Django Mathijsen and Anaïd Haen to their readers.

When war breaks out in the Russian Empire, airship captain Stig Rayner has little choice but to bring along the teenage girl he found hiding out in his hangar as he flees the opening skirmishes. He has every intention of just dropping her off in the next port, when he picks up his cargo.Isabelle Feeney Hemsworth has different ideas. Rayner could be her ticket out of the Empire. If she could just get back to London, where her brother still lives, then maybe she can finally get off t...

Self-taught tinkerer Kali McAlister is determined to build an airship and escape the frigid Yukon forever. Unfortunately, she's the heir to the secrets of flash gold, an alchemical energy source that tends to make her a popular target for bandits, gangsters, and pirates.With the help of her bounty-hunting business partner, Cedar, Kali has outwitted and eluded attackers before, and she thinks she's prepared for anything. Then her ex-fiancé strolls into her workshop.As if foo...

The Steampunk Megapack collects 26 tales of high adventure through Victorian and Edwardian eras--past, present, and future! Included are:MIDNIGHT AT VALDOSTA'S, by Jay LakeTHE CASE OF THE PECULIAR SAFECRACKER, by G. D. FalksenTHE ACQUISITION OF MANDRAKES AND ASSISTANTS, by Jillian VentersTHE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS, by H. P. LovecraftTHE BRASS GOGGLE FACTORY WORKER, by John LeavittTHE PATH OF PROGRESS, by Brian StablefordTHE TAILED MEN, by Ar...

Kali has been working toward her dream of building an airship and escaping the frozen Yukon for so long that she can scarcely believe it’s close to becoming a reality. There’s just one problem. Cedar, her friend and business partner (and maybe a little more), is in jail, and the American authorities are on their way to hang him. The Mounties aren’t listening to reason, so the only way to free him may be to break him out of their headquarters—if she can. Even if she succeeds, she’ll be bran...

After being publicly shamed and kicked out of the imperial service academy, Fortis chose to serve in the only other way possible: as a mercenary.Working far from the boundaries of his homeland, he never thought he’d have anything to do with the empire again… until a powerful wizard hires the company to destroy an imperial outpost. Fortis must choose between betraying his captain and comrades or firing on the very men he once dreamed of joining.Degrees of Delusion i...