The unfolding mysteryThree warring worlds attempt to resolve their differences over a disputed planet, but the peace talks upon the central Nexus world of Coronade are thrown into chaos when one of the delegates is brutally murdered. Conciliator Magdi, an empath from Periarch, pursues the killer in a desperate attempt to keep the peace talks alive.Meanwhile, confused rumours circulate about the discoveries made by the Magellanic Cloud, a ship thought lost i...

The complete Triple Stars TrilogyHome WorldThe unfolding mysteryThree warring worlds attempt to resolve their differences over a disputed planet, but the peace talks upon the central Nexus world of Coronade are thrown into chaos when one of the delegates is brutally murdered. Conciliator Magdi, an empath from Periarch, pursues the killer in a desperate attempt to keep the peace talks alive.Meanwhile, confused rumours circula...

Two worlds, one nightmare...Cait Weerd has no idea the undain are hunting her. She doesn’t know the vile creatures need her blood to survive. She doesn’t even know she’s a witch, descended from a long line of witches. Cait Weerd doesn’t know much, but all that’s about to change.At Manchester Central Library, she’s caught in the crossfire between the witches and the undain, two worlds fighting for an old book. Cait takes the book and is told to run,...

A hidden trail among the starsThe galaxy is in flames under the harsh theocratic rule of Concordance, the culture that once thrived among the stars reduced to scattered fragments. Selene Ada, last survivor of an obliterated planet, joins forces with the mysterious renegade, Ondo Lagan.Together they attempt to unravel the mystery of Concordance’s rapid rise to galactic domination. They follow a trail of shattered starship hulks and ancient alien ruins, with ...

The return of an ancient galactic threatSelene and Ondo piece together the secrets of Concordance’s ascension to galactic domination, and the truth of what it was Vulpis encountered at the heart of the galaxy three hundred years previously.They uncover an ancient threat to all life – a threat that Concordance seems intent on reawakening to complete its genocidal aims. But they also follow another trail – one left for them by someone or something unknown, a ...

Some wounds are too wide to heal...The world changes one bright morning in spring. The ageing king of Angere turns to necromancy to prolong his existence, and the price of dark magic is paid in innocent lives. The land descends into chaos as loyalties are tested and friends become bitter foes.For Black Meg, eldest witch of Angere, time is desperately short. She receives a vision from Hyrn, the horned man of the woods. The future is worse than anything she c...

The darkness at the heart of the galaxyFollowing the clues given them by the Aetheral, the Radiant Dragon and Toruk, Selene and Ondo close in on the existential threat to galactic life unleashed by Vulpis.They battle Concordance all the way, aided by unlikely allies and mysterious messages. The trail leads them to more artefacts left behind by the Tok, drawing them ever-closer to the secrets at the heart of the galaxy.But what they find there, and t...

A brutal multinational corporation. A land ruled by necromancers. One girl in their way...The complete Cloven Land Trilogy: Hedge Witch, Wyrm Lord and Witch King, as well as the prequel novella, Hyrn, and bonus short stort The Waters, Dividing the Land.“I loved it. Pulled me into the world and wouldn't let me go ... wonderful.”

This issue, we have our usual eclectic mix. Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken has a new Ecuadoran story by Tom Larsen. We have more original shorts by Michael Haynes, Paula Messina, Simon Kewin, John Leahy, and Veronica Leigh. And classics by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett (who originally wrote as “Mrs. George Corbett”), Ray Cummings, and James H. Schmitz. And there’s a brand new solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles, too.Feel free to read every word, or you can pick and choose. It...

A collection of poems written over many years. The focus shifts from nature, to mythology, to travel, to growing up and growing old, each poem something like an island in an unknowable salt water ocean.For ours is a water world. Our planet's surface is 71% ocean, and we live our lives on islands in that great sea. Our planet should be called Ocean, not Earth. Our planet should be called Salt Water.Salt water is mildly antiseptic and can be used to help cle...

A constellation of wondrous stars...Other Worlds collects together fifty-two science fiction and fantasy stories that graced the pages of some of the planet’s finest speculative fiction magazines and anthologies between 2012 and 2018.Starships and sorcerers, aliens and demons, space exploration and forbidden magics throng these pages, in stories that are thrilling, amusing, thought-provoking, terrifying and delightful.Other worlds await...Fu...

The wheels of the great machine turn again…Three years after the destruction of Engn, Finn is awoken by a shattering earthquake. As the people of the valley flee the ruins, rumours circulate that the machinery of Engn is working once more. Finn is haunted by the thought that Connor desperately needed him to do something. Uncovering buried secrets, Finn sees he has to return to the wreckage of Engn to find the answers to his questions.To him, the events of t...