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WINNER of the 2019 CWA Short Story Dagger: The Dummies’ Guide to Serial Killing and other Fantastic Female Fables is a charity anthology featuring best-selling author, Danuta Reah, and critically acclaimed writer, Mary Brown, alongside the winning entries from our Fantastic Female Fables competition.

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Return To Dust is the third in Stuart Aken’s Generation Mars series. 

The people of Mars live in a paradise, those on Earth suffer chaotic climate change, but both must come together to defeat the controlling Artificial Intelligence that threatens everything alive.

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Written by John Harper under official license from the creators of, and based in the vast universe of, the seminal space trading computer game Elite: Dangerous. 

Robert Garry, ex-military officer, wants nothing more than to maintain his integrity and his team’s safety despite a career change to pirate leader but a cargo freighter he targets proves to be holding much more than he bargained for. Will he escape with his own life, let alone the lives of his crew? He has always shunned the ‘folk hero’ label but is he in danger of becoming an arch villain in the process…

10% of the proceeds of this book will be donated to the Wellington Cancer Society, a local division of a New Zealand wide charity that helps combat cancer with education, prevention, care, support and also runs local projects.

4Gb USB Cards feature the cover artwork and all files are DRM-free meaning you can listen to them wherever you like. Audio version performed by Scott Ainslie, music by Steve Wilson. A Radio Theatre Workshop production for Fantastic Books Audio. ACEO Collector card artwork created by Alice taylor from character profiles supplied and approved by the author.

Follow John on his website here: andherethewheel.co.nz

 

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Written by Chris Booker, Darren Grey, Tim Gayda, Allen Farr, Lisa Wolf, Ulla Susimetsä, Marko Susimetsä, Rose Thurlbeck, Alexander Saunders, Gareth Bailey, Nicholas Hansen, Ramon Marett, Frederick Burbidge, Matthew Benson, and Christopher Jarvis under official license from the creators of, and based in the vast universe of, the seminal space trading computer game Elite: Dangerous. Cover design by Heather Murphy.

Enjoy 15 scintillating tales in this eclectic collection where characters seek honor, truth, retribution, and in one case, a place to sell 300-year-old Lavian brandy.

The stories:

Crossing the Line by Chris Booker

The Comet's Trail by Darren Grey

A Question of Intelligence by Lisa Wolf

The Easy Way Out by Ramon Marett

The Maledict by Tim Gayda

Children of Zeus by Christopher Jarvis

Pinacotheca by Alexander G Saunders

Blood is Thicker by Ulla Susimetsä

Beyond Civilization by Marko Susimetsä

Cat's Cradle by Rose Thurlbeck

Nature's Way by Gaz Bailey

A Game of Death by Allen L Farr

Mission (almost) Completed by Matthew Benson

Research Purposes by Fred Burbidge

Ode to Betty Cole by Nicholas Hansen and Darren Grey

4Gb USB Cards feature the cover artwork and all files are DRM-free meaning you can listen to them wherever you like. Audio version performed by Toby Longworth and Penelope MacDonald, music by Allen Stroud. A Radio Theatre Workshop production for Fantastic Books Audio. ACEO Collector card artwork created by Alice taylor from character profiles supplied and approved by the authors.

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Till They Dropped by Sue Knight is a thriller novelette following Emily, a trapped child looking for a way home. Audio version read by Penelope McDonald. A Red Room production for Fantastic Books Audio. Music by Kevin MacLeod. Learn More

As the Prime Renegade plans the disabling of automatic systems that support the dwindling human population, she seeks a man to love and to father her child. The usual route of artificial insemination appeals to her about as much as the materialistic and hedonistic philosophy that now drives most people. And, secretly, forces designed to serve mankind develop a sense of superiority that might threaten human survival.

This science fiction novelette, running to around 26,000 words, is set on Earth some few hundred years in the future. Much has happened to change the planet with which we are familiar, but human beings remain pretty much the mixed-up and flawed creatures we have always been.

Review quotes;

'A Top-Notch Futuristic Novella'

'From the geographical, political, economic and technological changes to the smallest details of everyday life. Aken writes about it all with the confident unhesitating familiarity of one who has lived there.'

'The ending was a complete surprise. Never saw that coming.'

'Aken moves us along the story like a symphony conductor, logically and smoothly. There is an interesting and tantalizing twist at the end of the story. I challenge you to figure it out before you put the book down.'

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A collection of 25 stories of fantasy and science fiction from around the globe, each illustrated by digital artist Alice Taylor. This collection has been compiled from the winners of the Fantastic Books Publishing International Charity Short Story Competition 2012 and features 2 stories from our professional contributors Danuta Reah and Stuart Aken. 10% of the proceeds of this book will be donated to the WCRF (World Cancer Research Fund - Registered Charity Number - 1000739) who do sterling work in the field of global cancer prevention.

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Kate Russell’s magnificent young adult adventure, The Bookkeepers Guide To Practical Sorcery, will make you laugh out loud and quail with fear. And it delivers such a matter-of-fact account of magical mechanics you'll be amazed you weren't taught it in school.

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The 666 horror anthology comprises stories of exactly 666 words and includes tales from Michael Brookes, Nathan Robinson, Linda Acaster, Stuart Aken, Regina Puckett and John Scotcher.

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