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Love and Darker Passions

Alexis Brooks de Vita

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Genres: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction

Love and Darker Passions is a collection of provocative short stories by today's up-and-coming authors of dark, urban and Gothic fantasy. Award-winning author Karen Duvall sends a Millennial Alice through a very different looking glass, and acclaimed author Lee Barwood sends the Sight-gifted bard of her upcoming series into the passionate world of faerie to hunt for a child – and find her own destiny. Bestseller C.E. Murphy reworks a favorite fairytale into a stunning perspective on what draws us into the arms of those we think we love.

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Love and Darker Passions

Alexis Brooks de Vita

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Genres: Fantasy, Speculative Fiction

Love and Darker Passions is a collection of provocative short stories by today's up-and-coming authors of dark, urban and Gothic fantasy. Award-winning author Karen Duvall sends a Millennial Alice through a very different looking glass, and acclaimed author Lee Barwood sends the Sight-gifted bard of her upcoming series into the passionate world of faerie to hunt for a child – and find her own destiny. Bestseller C.E. Murphy reworks a favorite fairytale into a stunning perspective on what draws us into the arms of those we think we love.

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It all started with Jane and the other Jane

Friday's Coming

Robert W Castello

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Genres: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction

Jessica Teasdale has a problem. Actually she has several. Jessica is a survivor of the Uptown Fever. Uptown Fever was a whole host of crap that rampaged through Uptown Town on the L-2 colony. The main part was a virus that caused fever that could fry your brain. It also had a whole bunch of other fun stuff that went along for the ride, like uncontrollable bleeding from all sorts of fun places. There was no treatment and no cure.

Some of the victims managed to just sweat it out and survived, but there was damage from being so hot for so long.

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It all started with Jane and the other Jane

Friday's Coming

Robert W Castello

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Genres: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction

Jessica Teasdale has a problem. Actually she has several. Jessica is a survivor of the Uptown Fever. Uptown Fever was a whole host of crap that rampaged through Uptown Town on the L-2 colony. The main part was a virus that caused fever that could fry your brain. It also had a whole bunch of other fun stuff that went along for the ride, like uncontrollable bleeding from all sorts of fun places. There was no treatment and no cure.

Some of the victims managed to just sweat it out and survived, but there was damage from being so hot for so long.

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Common Mode Failure

Ian McKinley

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Genres: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction

In the mid 21st century, common mode failure results from a huge electro-magnetic pulse from the sun, dwarfing anything seen in recorded history. This destroys all unprotected electrical or electronic equipment which, with 70% of the world’s population living in urban areas, effectively removes all services required to support them.

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Common Mode Failure

Ian McKinley

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Genres: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction

In the mid 21st century, common mode failure results from a huge electro-magnetic pulse from the sun, dwarfing anything seen in recorded history. This destroys all unprotected electrical or electronic equipment which, with 70% of the world’s population living in urban areas, effectively removes all services required to support them.

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Some things we don't want to do together... but we do!

Blowing Up

Biff Mitchell

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Genres: Speculative Fiction, Fantasy

Welcome to the World You Live In.

It’s a mess. It’s diseased, polluted, over-populated and too close to the sun. But it’s all we have and we’re losing it fast, so we may as well have a good laugh before the sun reaches out and reclaims us.

In Blowing Up, Biff Mitchell shakes the foundations of a world gone bad with outrageous dollops of inappropriate humor. Nothing is sacred, nothing is spared. Nothing is safe in a world accumulating too much ammunition for too few targets.

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Some things we don't want to do together... but we do!

Blowing Up

Biff Mitchell

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Genres: Speculative Fiction, Fantasy

Welcome to the World You Live In.

It’s a mess. It’s diseased, polluted, over-populated and too close to the sun. But it’s all we have and we’re losing it fast, so we may as well have a good laugh before the sun reaches out and reclaims us.

In Blowing Up, Biff Mitchell shakes the foundations of a world gone bad with outrageous dollops of inappropriate humor. Nothing is sacred, nothing is spared. Nothing is safe in a world accumulating too much ammunition for too few targets.

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Alexis Brooks de Vita

Dante's Inferno

A Wanderer In Hell

Alexis Brooks de Vita

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Genres: Dark Fantasy, Speculative Fiction

For an urban English-speaker in the twenty-first century, the original language of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, the first act of his trilogy, the Comedy, would read like a shockingly accurate critique of today’s globalized society, if we could understand it. Dante’s Inferno: A Wanderer in Hell gives second-millennial English-language readers a chance to share the pathos, the humor, and the raw political aggression of Dante’s vision of Hell.

Dante’s Inferno: A Wanderer in Hell preserves the meaning of Dante’s verses, line by line.

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Alexis Brooks de Vita

Dante's Inferno

A Wanderer In Hell

Alexis Brooks de Vita

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Genres: Dark Fantasy, Speculative Fiction

For an urban English-speaker in the twenty-first century, the original language of Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, the first act of his trilogy, the Comedy, would read like a shockingly accurate critique of today’s globalized society, if we could understand it. Dante’s Inferno: A Wanderer in Hell gives second-millennial English-language readers a chance to share the pathos, the humor, and the raw political aggression of Dante’s vision of Hell.

Dante’s Inferno: A Wanderer in Hell preserves the meaning of Dante’s verses, line by line.

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Alexis Brooks de Vita

Chain Dance

The Third Book Of Joy

Alexis Brooks de Vita

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Genres: Thrillers, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction

The Third Book of Joy: Chain Dance is the second notebook of family lore, the collection of Joy’s magical stories about her enslaved ancestors, researched by Professor Bo Wolfson in Burning Streams; the first notebook was published in Blood of Angels. When Heaven’s heartbroken death in childbirth and Whip Man’s torture at her father’s hands lead her to resurrect herself as a death dancer, magic and terror drive the plantation’s owner off of his land.

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Alexis Brooks de Vita

Chain Dance

The Third Book Of Joy

Alexis Brooks de Vita

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Genres: Thrillers, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction

The Third Book of Joy: Chain Dance is the second notebook of family lore, the collection of Joy’s magical stories about her enslaved ancestors, researched by Professor Bo Wolfson in Burning Streams; the first notebook was published in Blood of Angels. When Heaven’s heartbroken death in childbirth and Whip Man’s torture at her father’s hands lead her to resurrect herself as a death dancer, magic and terror drive the plantation’s owner off of his land.

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Alexis Brooks de Vita

Left Hand Of The Moon

Alexis Brooks de Vita

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Genres: Fantasy, Romance - general, Speculative Fiction

Left Hand of the Moon is an American Romeo and Juliet story about doomed love between the very young. In the early 1800s, as the fledgling United States completes the Louisiana Purchase and marches troops through the newly acquired state, executing by firing squad the freed adult children of enslaved women and their owners, an enslaved teen and her owner’s youngest son run away to live together. They have grown up together and have always trusted and loved each other.

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Left Hand Of The Moon

Alexis Brooks de Vita

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Genres: Fantasy, Romance - general, Speculative Fiction

Left Hand of the Moon is an American Romeo and Juliet story about doomed love between the very young. In the early 1800s, as the fledgling United States completes the Louisiana Purchase and marches troops through the newly acquired state, executing by firing squad the freed adult children of enslaved women and their owners, an enslaved teen and her owner’s youngest son run away to live together. They have grown up together and have always trusted and loved each other.

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Biff Mitchell

Murder by Art

Biff Mitchell

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Genres: Mystery / Crime Fiction, Thrillers, Speculative Fiction

It’s 2060. In Backstreet Records, a brooding audiophile thinks murder. Upstairs at Studio4Ward where skulls, dreams and beer cans are the stuff of art, 300 pounds of human sculpture dangles dead from the wall.

It’s time to call in the notorious super sleuth Boston Jonson to smoke out the murderer with insults and Zen.

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Murder by Art

Biff Mitchell

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Genres: Mystery / Crime Fiction, Thrillers, Speculative Fiction

It’s 2060. In Backstreet Records, a brooding audiophile thinks murder. Upstairs at Studio4Ward where skulls, dreams and beer cans are the stuff of art, 300 pounds of human sculpture dangles dead from the wall.

It’s time to call in the notorious super sleuth Boston Jonson to smoke out the murderer with insults and Zen.

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The Reality Wars

Biff Mitchell

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Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction

Cassie Hayes is the idol of the universe. For a thousand years, she’s been triumphant in the Reality Wars, a deadly series of real and virtual games played every 100 years and broadcast throughout the galaxies. But Cassie, a sentient software program, is tormented by the death of her virtual mother after her human father abandoned them 2000 years earlier. Now he’s back…just in time to abandon her again as he goes off to save the universe with the help of a computer virus that thinks it’s Buddha.

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The Reality Wars

Biff Mitchell

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Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction

Cassie Hayes is the idol of the universe. For a thousand years, she’s been triumphant in the Reality Wars, a deadly series of real and virtual games played every 100 years and broadcast throughout the galaxies. But Cassie, a sentient software program, is tormented by the death of her virtual mother after her human father abandoned them 2000 years earlier. Now he’s back…just in time to abandon her again as he goes off to save the universe with the help of a computer virus that thinks it’s Buddha.

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Biff Mitchell

Team Player

Biff Mitchell

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Genres: Science Fiction, Humour / Speculative, Speculative Fiction

New Book Spoofs Work in the New Millennium

Based on his 25-year roller coaster ride in the Information Technology (IT) industry, Biff Mitchell’s latest novel, Team Player, explores the world of work in the 21st Century. The story is set in an uncomfortably close future where the world is run by homicidal marketing managers who kill for love, company, and the almighty promotion.

Aside from the talking brain cells and the rampaging neutrinos, says Mr.

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Biff Mitchell

Team Player

Biff Mitchell

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Genres: Science Fiction, Humour / Speculative, Speculative Fiction

New Book Spoofs Work in the New Millennium

Based on his 25-year roller coaster ride in the Information Technology (IT) industry, Biff Mitchell’s latest novel, Team Player, explores the world of work in the 21st Century. The story is set in an uncomfortably close future where the world is run by homicidal marketing managers who kill for love, company, and the almighty promotion.

Aside from the talking brain cells and the rampaging neutrinos, says Mr.

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Biff Mitchell

The War Bug

Biff Mitchell

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Genres: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction

In just a few hours, Abner Hayes' wife and daughter are going to die, and the only way he can save their lives is to team up with a deadly computer virus and travel through time and space in a virtual universe that itself has only hours to live. Through suicidal game worlds, virtual landscapes that threaten to devour the unwary, and a series of insidious cyber traps, Abner and the virus must stay one step ahead of sinister forces that will stop at nothing to destroy his family in order to steal their incredible secret.

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The War Bug

Biff Mitchell

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Genres: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction

In just a few hours, Abner Hayes' wife and daughter are going to die, and the only way he can save their lives is to team up with a deadly computer virus and travel through time and space in a virtual universe that itself has only hours to live. Through suicidal game worlds, virtual landscapes that threaten to devour the unwary, and a series of insidious cyber traps, Abner and the virus must stay one step ahead of sinister forces that will stop at nothing to destroy his family in order to steal their incredible secret.

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Blood Of Angels

The Second Book Of Joy

Alexis Brooks de Vita

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Genres: Thrillers, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction

The Second Book of Joy: Blood of Angels is the first notebook of family lore that Professor Bo Wolfson researched in The Books of Joy: Burning Streams. These are the magical tales about their enslaved ancestors that his lover Eva Dennison fought with him to destroy.

In their collected memoirs, nine enslaved women tell how they freed themselves and took over their owners’ Mississippi breeding plantation, using African, African American, and European folktales to describe the magic and willpower that set them free.

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Blood Of Angels

The Second Book Of Joy

Alexis Brooks de Vita

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Genres: Thrillers, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction

The Second Book of Joy: Blood of Angels is the first notebook of family lore that Professor Bo Wolfson researched in The Books of Joy: Burning Streams. These are the magical tales about their enslaved ancestors that his lover Eva Dennison fought with him to destroy.

In their collected memoirs, nine enslaved women tell how they freed themselves and took over their owners’ Mississippi breeding plantation, using African, African American, and European folktales to describe the magic and willpower that set them free.

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Burning Streams

The First Book Of Joy

Alexis Brooks de Vita

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Genres: Thrillers, Dark Fantasy, Speculative Fiction

When Eva Dennison learns that she has inherited the fallow sharecropping plantation in Mississippi that her parents fled to make a new life in L.A., she is eager to escape the big city and explore her historical roots. Eva abandons her dissertation about ancestral memory in African American literature and myth and takes with her Anastasia, her college-age daughter, and Charley, her investment broker cousin. Together, they plan to restore the old mansion and grounds and open a retreat and think-tank for activist women of the hard-hit Gulf region.

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Burning Streams

The First Book Of Joy

Alexis Brooks de Vita

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Genres: Thrillers, Dark Fantasy, Speculative Fiction

When Eva Dennison learns that she has inherited the fallow sharecropping plantation in Mississippi that her parents fled to make a new life in L.A., she is eager to escape the big city and explore her historical roots. Eva abandons her dissertation about ancestral memory in African American literature and myth and takes with her Anastasia, her college-age daughter, and Charley, her investment broker cousin. Together, they plan to restore the old mansion and grounds and open a retreat and think-tank for activist women of the hard-hit Gulf region.