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The United States government discovers, to its horror, that the creatures featured in animated cartoons are not fabrications but real beings. Fearing the social and political consequences of the discovery being made public, they proceed to exile them off Earth to another planet. However, things do not go according to plan... A new novel from Canadian author David Perlmutter
Astounding stories of absurd size and impossible dimension! Mammoth mega-fauna! Apocalyptic adventure! Surreal suspense! Catastrophic comedy! Monstrous metaphysics! Featuring original fiction from around the world and a special film history by Cinescape's Brian Thomas. Winner of the Australian Speculative Fiction Ditmar Award for Best Collection 2005.
THE MERMAID’S TALE In a city of majesty and brutality, of warring races and fragile alliances, a sacred Mermaid has been brutally murdered. An abomination, a soulless Orc is summoned to hunt the killer. As the world around the Orc drifts into war and madness, her search for justice leads her on a journey to discover redemption and even beauty in the midst of chaos. "He said the Arukh only had one word. It was their word for rage and for pain, for fighting and dying. It was a word spoken in sorrow and anger. It was the word they said to a world that didn't want them, that had no place for them. It was loneliness and defiance and in the end it was sorrow and surrender. 'Arrah' he told me, it...
Horror stories by D.G. Valdron, author of ‘The Mermaid's Tale,’ ‘Giant Monsters Sing Sad Songs’ and ‘There Are No Doors in Dark Places.’ ‘The Squad,’ about the army enlisting the men in the masks, horror movie slashers as unstoppable, uncontrollable soldiers; ‘Piggyback’ about the ultimate serial killer; ‘The First Men,’ a Lovecraftian tribute; ‘Silence’ about a thief hiding in the home of a killer; ‘Moonwalker’ and a cyberpunk apocalypse; ‘The Viruses of Quiet Desperation’ about love, choices and things beyond the universe; ‘Time in a Bottle,’ a nondescript physics lab has captured the ultimate monster; ‘Secrets’ where a man accidentally receives a magazine for serial killers; ‘Centipedes’ where a trans-dimensional incursion brings a terrifying response, and many, many more. Melancholy horror, chilling horror, dark visions
Dawn of Cthulthu - A trilogy of speculative fiction essays, exploring the strange corners of the human imagination, mixing genuine science, history and biology with fictional creations. On the Worship of Dark and Monstrous Gods - a fictional chronicle of the history of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Cult, mixed and merged with genuine history, revealing the Cult's humble origins as a trading expedition in the Egyptian New Kingdom, thirty-five hundred years ago, through its break with Egypt, expansion into the Red Sea and along the coasts of the Indian Ocean, the emergence of Azathoth, Yog Sothoth and other Gods, conflicts with Buddhism and Islam. and its struggles with Empires and Civilisations, and fo...
Welcome to the first (but not the last) Pirate's History of Doctor Who. What's a Pirate's History, you ask? Well, there's the official, sanitized, orderly histories that are approved by and all about the powers that be. Then there are the Pirate's histories, the things that they don't want you to know about, or that they don't care about, things that are great and marvellous and intriguing... but unapproved. It's a history of secret and forgotten corners of the Whoniverse. Thrill to the story of the first Woman Doctor, Barbara Benedetti, whose four adventures during the end of the Colin Baker era and the start of the McCoy reign, rivalled the official BBC in quality, and launched an entire s...
A quirky, inventive alternate history written in the style of a fun, funky, pop culture television documentary, The Bear Cavalry, features host, Robin Prufrock, as he travels the world, telling the story of how the Vikings in Iceland domesticated bears for meat and as draft animals, and how the Scandinavian Bear Cavalry eventually evolved to become the most fearsome fighting unit in the Medieval world, along the way are entertaining detours into biology, evolutionary history, the Viking era, Medieval monarchs behaving badly, and the role of Bears in movies, art and culture in this world. BONUS STORY: The Sharebear Apocalypse, they're cute, they're cuddly, all they want to do is hug you, and they may be the end of civilisation.
From the author of ‘Dawn of Cthulhu,’ ‘‘Axis of Andes,' and 'The Bear Cavalry' comes a quartet of exotic novellas that mix and merge strange worlds of fiction and fact. ‘The Fall of Atlantis’ constructs a plausible Atlantis, from geological uplift, to occupation, civilization and the final extinction of its inhabitants. ‘The Retroverse, An Accidental Cinematic Universe,’ explores a secret history of outer space in the hidden patterns and connections between 1950’s and 60’s sci fi movies. ‘When the Romans Sailed to America,’ develops an alternate where the discovery of coffee leads Phoenicians and Romans to the New World; and ‘A Different Greenland, Where the Ice Never Came’ land, explores a strange lost world that never was, a land of mammoths and vikings, and a young civilization that sails the shores of an immense central sea.
Perversions and Infidelities, Trois. The third sensual volume in the series of women's stories of erotic adventure and transgression. Four novellas and two short stories of women breaking free of their normal lives, embarking on transgressive sexual journeys, exploring sexual empowerment and identity, and finding their true selves.. The tales include: Amber Ascendant - Amber, exposed.. Amber submissive. Amber orgasmic. Acting under instructions, following a script, role playing submission, an ordinary housewife goes to a bar to meet her dominant lover, to play and be a plaything. Strangers - A chance glance at a cafe, becomes a tale of increasing interest and arousal, as a man and a woman pu...
Welcome to the hidden histories of Doctor Who, the unauthorized, the ignored, the overlooked, the abandoned and the hidden. This second volume chronicles the record of Doctor Who stage plays, official and independent, from Curse of the Daleks to the Trials of Davros, including the reviews of the recordings and documentaries about these plays. We explore the bizarre copyright and legal structure underlying Doctor Who, that led the BBC to discard two hundred classic episodes to the junk pile in the 70s. And that same copyright structure allowed fans to legally make their own movies in the Doctor Who universe in the 90s using everything but the Doctor himself. And we'll look at many of these pr...