Metaphoric Media: 6 books

All is not well in Underland. Human Observers are being replaced by Grenlix, and people are losing their memories Claire is being taught magic, which no human should be able to do. Somebody is not happy about this, and about Claire poking her nose into what's behind the missing memories. Things, nasty things, start to happen around Claire.

Underland is a twisted copy of The Real that uses industrialised magic to power a weird mix of stolen technology. It’s just enough like The Real to make travelers over-confident and get them into trouble. Which is just what happened when Claire Stone accidentally falls through rushing home one night....

Shadows and Lies is the third volume of the adventures of Claire Stone, a Year 11 student who finds her way into a realm parallel to ours, but based on stolen technology powered by industrialised magic; Underland. She is offered a job fighting demons that travel through Underland to reach our world,...

Garret is a 14 year old boy living in a waste reprocessing and food recycling plant. His entire world consists of six floors and 500 people, and he knows of nowhere else. His culture says that they are alone and there is not even a beyond, just the rock of the walls going on forever. Everybody does...

They settled their world hundreds of years ago, turning their backs on technology, closing the Gate behind them. When their children began to develop impossible powers they rejoiced and called them Golden – until they took over.  Elanor comes to her powers not as a child, but as a young...

Half the Earth is a smouldering cinder, torched by a raging Sun. A Dagashi starship squats in the ruins of London, doling out food and water in return for broken tech. Jax is ‘Mule’. He gives rides to the Dagashi, using a Halo that lets the aliens hear and feel along with their human hosts....