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The Bottom Line
DREAMS, ROBOTS AND REVOLUTION COLLIDE WHEN A CRANE OPERATOR’S CO-WORKERS GET PAID TO BE OBSOLETE. In the glittering solarpunk metropolis of Toronto 2045, astral projecting crane operator Auden Black clings to a world increasingly dominated by machines. As robot aloos replace his fellow workers and friends are bottom lined, paid to be replaced, Auden's crane becomes both refuge and watchtower. Witness a future where ad-projecting systems blur reality, virtual lives offer escape from unemployment, and the human spirit is tested against the relentless march of progress. Through Auden's eyes, experience life suspended between techno-optimistic utopia and dystopian horror at losing one’s purpose, where every sunrise brings new challenges to what it means to be human in an automated age. After all, what are we if we don’t work?
Dustria
WARRING KINGDOMS, BACKSTABBING IMMORTALS, ADDICTIVE MAGIC & FORBIDDEN LOVE INTERTWINE IN A DARK, BEAUTIFUL FANTASY. What happens when someone kills an Immortal? Gifted young surgeon Sula makes a terrible mistake and flees to Dustria, the land of monsters and broken things; of people too far gone in their addictions, or their crimes. A Prince about to claim his throne is kidnapped, and his sister Princess Radh rides out to save him, whatever the cost - or so she thinks. Both young women encounter monsters and mayhem as Radh is thrust into a mystery of assassinations and treason leading to war, and Sula discovers the tension between love, magic and forgiving oneself enough to save the world. Dustria is a dark and beautiful fantasy with motifs from world folklore, wrapped around Sapphire, an addictive blue liquid which alters magic and the lives of those who drink it, by powerfully emotive author Madhurika Sankar. Set within a vibrant world of warring Kingdoms, backstabbing Immortals and the tension between love and magic, Dustria is an intense intertwined mania wrapped around the cerulean liquid which changed the world.
NEON Lieben
AI meets gene-splicers, when the Idless & the Conglom fight to define artificially intelligent android Lieben and thus, the world. Seven decades later, Aderastos sets the human race against its’ next stage in evolution, if he can survive long enough to rescue his fellows. Two interconnected storylines intersect. Will Lieben help, or hinder? 2085. Dr. Karnak & Baiko’s beloved android Lieben is in danger of becoming mother of the Conglomerate’s artificial slave race. With the Chairman’s assassin Tara’s sights on them, Baiko steals the secret to Lieben’s artificial intelligence and runs to the Idless, anti-label anarchists, who believe Lieben is the key to free the world from corpor...
Usurper Kings
"From her amazingly visceral opening of Let There Be Light to her final haunting echo in the book’s epilogue, Burnell’s voice jumps off the page, much like a microphone-wielding circus MC standing centre ring. [Usurper Kings is] a work of breathtakingly beautiful discovery." Kevin Hogan Sapha Burnell’s stellar poetry collection inspects the feminine through time. From act I’s genesis and the search for meaning within the hunter gatherer mindset, to the existential singularity of a transhumanist future, Usurper Kings is a mind bending cerebral and emotionally rebellious series of poems. Infinitely feminine, mighty and sometimes rebellious, the essence of Usurper Kings is the search to remember feminine might and discover the power to take it back.
Macabre and Monstrous
Engage in eldricht horror, monster terror and a forest of fright with short stories by the trio of We Aren’t Dead Yet. In Emily Armstrong’s debut tales, space truckers Lark and Mech think they've scored the payday of a lifetime when they agree to transport mysterious crates to a remote facility at the edge of the known cosmos. Veteran salvager Corven decides to make one last scrapping run when he boards a derelict starship deep in uncharted space, but he soon discovers the ghostly void-lost vessel is caught in a nightmare outside of time. KS Bishoff frightens with a malevolent demon tree hungering for souls, replacing its victims with eerie doppelgangers nurtured in the old gourd patch. ...
Son of Abel
"I want out." The entire cosmos hiccups around Finnegan the Fae. Mystic Judge Caleb Mauthisen desperately clings to the journals of a 7th Century Catholic Cardinal, obsessed with a magical tattoo that threatens to crumble the Mystic Realms to wrath and war. A place they know and fear too well. Spiralling with only his scheming ex Delilah to 'help', Caleb searches for the elusive way out of the Truce, as he descends through the essence of grief into layers of hell on earth. Finnegan breaks his exile to find Caleb's absentee father Raynar, to wrench Caleb loose before his absence strips the Realms of their Judge and protector. Before Delilah weaves Caleb into plans of her own, and wrath shatters through to the last root of the World Tree. Son of Abel is a cathartic mythpunk & godpunk supernatural fantasy and the second novel in the Judge of Mystics Saga.
Char & Ash
The Mystic Realms keep a tenuous peace after centuries of war. Forged into the Realms’ only Judge, demi-god Caleb Mauthisen is both peace maker and executioner of the Mystic Truce. When Caleb is called to the charred remains of a scorched Sacred Grove outside Dover, rumours reignite tensions as Ares warns of war’s whisper. High Queen Selyka is hiding something in the roots and petals of her Fae Courts, and it smells of char and ash. Someone is burning the Groves planted from the bodies of fallen soldiers, eliminating their chance to rise again as sentient plants: Fae. Blasphemy and act of war in a single matchstick. Is the only Fae-cursed Mystic War Veteran left next in the line of fire?...
MacroMicroCosm: Primordial Edition
"The act of becoming begins with context, body, the swell of a woman’s hip lit by cascading sunlight through a balmy spring window, the touch of heavenly winds across a hot face. We brush our toes into the sandy beaches of our coastlines and rich textures of pleasure seep into our feet. We were made beautifully, wonderfully. Body and mind together, as a single unit. Humankind does not hold license to call its collective body a horrible, ghastly entity rutting itself toward global destruction. As a race we are too hard on ourselves. We implant our newborns with social structures, infantile cooes and gender roles, until they grow enough to ask why." Melissa Ratajczak Ratel, The Beauty of Pri...
Warning Light Calling
Warning Light Calling is also about lost love, and it gives an accurate description of the anatomy of grief. Everything turns into madness, and the world is turned upside down because of the despair and the loneliness of the protagonist, Sputnik. We experience the Sputnik-psychosis of the Covid-19 and the precariat. Dissident Soviet literature, it feels, has been living a reclusive life away from the literary mainstream. Warning Light Calling borrows ideas from dissident Soviet literature in order understand contemporary themes and motifs as the precariat, Covid-19, East and West, capitalism, healthcare, mental issues, the individual in a globalized world and the worrying climate crisis. It is a little treat of fine literature that attempt at leaving a bad taste in the mouth of the world reader - as it seduces her or him into following those forgotten feelings of political Soviet pathos.
My Heart is The Tempest
Trapped in a land of ice, 12 year-old Sycorax dreams of escape to a strange land of darkness and red. As her yearning turns reality upside down, will she learn to master rage and make the land sing with colour again?
