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A short steampunk story regarding a dangerous liaison between the Queen and a particularly unruly and unusual steampunk assassin named Zoë Trope. Part of the stupendous Steaming Pistons series. Chuffing marvellous!

In the first half of the next century, a band of warriors is raised from infancy in ignorance of the real world, raised in a virtual-reality environment of endless battle where they grow into superb soldiers. But as war breaks out in the real world between Japan and China, the puppet masters who control...

It's 1975. Kevin Snopes, a bored teenager from Milton Keynes, secures an art college placement in London, where he encounters safety pins, spitting and punk rock. Kevin sees the punk movement ignite around him. He inadvertently gets involved in seditious scrapes, rowdy gigs, bungled robberies, shambolic...

Set in the same reality as the fantasy novel The Stone Dragon, these three short stories (of over 12,000 words) continue the magic of the novel. "Who Listened to Dragons": "I was a young man who thought I knew the world and owned it—right up to the moment I opened my fist and...

Paths of Darkness is an exciting prelude to The Chronicles of Llars. Shalthazar the dark wizard came to Llars seeking power beyond imagining, and got more than he ever imagined.

An old man is walking his dog on the somerset marshes when a storm approaches. As he flees for home, he is hunted by unnatural figures calling out in a forgotten language... Where did they come from? What are they? And who is really the prey?

Introducing Harry Houdin—one of the most versatile performers you've never heard of. Born decades before the great Harry Houdini, he claimed to be the nephew of Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, the famous French conjurer of the 19th century.Houdin, who billed himself as "The Great Polynational...

A collection of stories, including the Legend of the Wandering Cashier, the roadside diner Angel of Death and the classic tale of the Bathroom on the Bus.

Three stories of a lonely youth. Jimmy Kruzel's bad luck is that his worst enemies are always his best friends, or is it the other way around, and that sometimes his darkest hours seem to come right after the dawn. In tales more bitter than sweet, Jimmy finds that you can attract more flies with honey than you can with vinegar, but really, who wants to attract flies anyway?

Will the world end in the 21st century? In this techno-thriller, astrophysicist Greg Sorensen discovers an inexplicable object, a faint star he intuitively believes to be “Nemesis”—the sun’s twin star, returning to our galaxy after a 13 million year journey. Few scientists, including...

Having survived the Quantrill raid of Lawrence, Kansas in 1863, a young woman turns to the power of her pen to help emancipate slaves and is embroiled in a romantic struggle between two men, one of whom is happily married. After arriving in the nation’s capitol, she meets Walt Whitman, who inspires...

The novel begins in 1920 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where Jessica Radford listens to the very first radio broadcast on KDKA, which broadcasts the presidential election returns. Because of the passage of the 19th Amendment, this is the first time she has ever voted. Many years earlier, she advocated...

Once in a while a story comes along that you can't easily forget. "A Belt Buckle for Camilla" is one of them. Out of money and with no food for the Christmas table, Camilla's mom gets invited to dinner by a stranger. The only thing six-year-old Camilla wants for Christmas is a belt buckle,...