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Book SynopsisApril, 1972. Three legendary astronauts embark on mankind's boldest space voyage yeta yearlong mission to fly past our nearest planetary neighbor, Venus. What follows will be a journey more harrowing than any of them can imagine.Island of Clouds, the first full-length novel in the Altered Space series, is a gripping space epic based on NASA mission proposals from the late 1960s. Touching on literary influences ranging from Borges and Bukowski to the Book of Job, this story of exploration also offers a literary probing of the dark reaches of human nature: alcoholism, capitalism, authority, fatherhood, and the ephemeral nature of desire.The titles in the Altered Space series are wholly separate narratives, but all deal with the mysteries of space and time, progress and circularity. Each one is an enso of words in which orbits of spacecraft, moons, planets, and people allow us fresh perspectives on the cycles of our own lives.

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Book SynopsisA hyperviolent graphic novel from the creator of The End of the Fucking World & I Am Not Okay With Us, following the exploits of Revenger. A hardboiled festival of force, fights--but not forgiveness.

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Book Synopsis Hello Devilfish! is a first-person (or first-fish) account of a giant blue Japanese movie monster stingray’s attack on contemporary Tokyo and his tragic morph into human form. Using elements of Japanese shock-pop and the infamous Hello Kitty meme, the story is told in comic narrative from the stingray’s point of view as he gleefully creams Tokyo into rubble. The stingray is soon pursued by Squidra, a love-struck giant squid. She demands love; he refuses. In an epic waterfront battle, she traps him in a human-growth hormone bath that changes him into a puny human — a reverse metamorphosis — monster to man. Refusing to accept his humanity, the stingray acts like his former giant self while trying to find food, shelter, romance — and avoid the destructive rampage of his stalker squid love interest. Hello Devilfish! is told in a readable, comic narrative occasionally spiced with Manglish words. Funny and very readable, underneath the outlandishTrade Review"A comic romp that makes you laugh nearly as much as you shake your head and say, "What the f*** am I reading?" It's a great feeling, a change-of-pace in a literary world with not nearly enough changes of pace. It's like Monty Python acting out a Christopher Moore novel, or Christopher Moore writing a Monty Python sketch, or maybe it's not like either of those things, and it probably isn't because it's one of the more unique stories I've read in recent memory and unlike anything you'll read this year." --Ryan Peverly, Lit Reactor "The anarchist as social monster, scoffing at bourgeois values, is supersized into a 90-ft. 'gigantor' blue stingray in this rapid-fire stomp through pop culture and Japanese monster movies. Dakron (Mantids) tosses out a stream of cultural criticisms warped as puns ('You gotta fight for your Reich to party'), even as he admits there's no point in trying to upset our all-absorbing entertainment-industrial complex ('Nazi jokes are so 20th century'). Resistance may be futile, but this book at least makes it fun." --Publishers Weekly "An audacious, laugh-out-loud novel that is brilliantly committed... For readers with a high tolerance of the unconventional, this is an audacious, laugh-out-loud novel that is brilliantly committed to its conceit... Recommended for fans of absurdist fiction authors such as Patrick Wensink and Carlton III Mellick."--Library Journal "Clever, smart, engaging and completely unique. Ron Dakron is one of the most imaginative authors I've ever read." --Carlton Mellick III, author of Quicksand House "It is said that Frankenstein is the first myth of the anxiety of the Scientific Age. Godzilla is the anxiety of the Atomic Age. Hello Devilfish! is the anxiety of the Information Age. Dakron had created a living linguistic Kaiju composed of the interjection, syncretism, and meta burp. This novel is an inoculation against the future." --Matt Briggs, author of Shoot the Buffalo and Virility Rituals of North American Teenage Boys "I was sucked into Ron Dakron's prose and the world he created. I read the rest of the book in one sitting because he had created a world I found interesting." --410media.com "Dakron draws from many sources in order to provide his readers with a side-splitting adventure that'll give anyone the much needed laugh they deserve in life. A must for humor readers seeking something with a twist." --Midwest Book Review "Ne plus ultra bizarre, man! With cartilaginous prose, soft as fishbone, sense bending and scattershot as a Robin Williams shtick where lost meanings blast by, Dakron follows the comet trails of Infra and Newt with a morphological plot out of Ovid by way of Kafka." --Kirkus Reviews

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Book SynopsisHow does Alyss Heart of Wonderland fare after the creation of Everqueen, as described in Arch Enemy, the third volume of the best-selling Looking Glass Wars trilogy? With difficulty. Fending off political assaults from rival suit families, struggling to maintain diplomatic relations with the tribes of Boarderland, Alyss is more vulnerable than ever before. After she barely escapes an attempt on her life, no longer sure whom to trust, she aligns with controversial new allies in order to keep Wondertropolis safe and prevent havoc on Earth. And yet the fight, the battle, finds her — as it seemingly always does — and Alyss discovers that all decisions, even the right ones, have consequences.

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Book SynopsisLethal is rarely this lovelyTrade ReviewReviews: Body Holiday trilogy Book 2 - "This is hard hitting storytelling with full-on language and a brutally splendid plot twist, which, if you make it to the end, will leave you crossing your legs!" Surrey Life magazine (UK) Juliette Foster. Book 1 "This imaginative, sexually explicit book has more swear words in it than a Gordon Ramsay show, yet its edgy, 'in your face' writing and tightly structured plot are so addictive that it's damn near impossible to put down": Surrey Life magazine (UK) Juliette Foster

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Book SynopsisThe first volume in Derek E Pearson's adventures of Milla CarterTrade Review"...Pearson is the possessor of an extraordinary imagination that brilliantly assaults every variant of the sci-fi genre. His writing is vivid, urban and unflinching in its descriptions, taking the reader on a breathtaking journey through Saturn's rings, outer world 'constructs', altered perceptions and a glorious African landscape smouldering with sexual heat and the odour of violence. This is hard-hitting story telling with full-on language and a brutally splendid plot twist, which, if you make it to the end, will leave you crossing your legs!" SURREY LIFE magazine (UK) Sep 2015 (p. 109), Juliette Foster

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Book SynopsisThe second volume in Derek E Pearson's Sci-Fi adventures of Milla CarterTrade ReviewThe Sun newspaper, Soul's Asylum: "It's originality and top writing make for a great read ****."; SURREY LIFE magazine: "Pearson is the possessor of an extraordinary imagination that brilliantly assaults every variant of the sci-fi genre. His writing is vivid, urban and unflinching in its descriptions, taking the reader on a breathtaking journey through Saturn's rings, outer world 'constructs', altered perceptions and a glorious African landscape smouldering with sexual heat and the odour of violence. This is hard-hitting story telling with full-on language and a brutally splendid plot twist, which, if you make it to the end, will leave you crossing your legs!"

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Book Synopsis2016 INDIES BOOK AWARD FINALIST, FANTASY.TV Presenter JULIETTE FOSTER: 'Pearson is the possessor of an extraordinary imagination that brilliantly assaults every variant of the sci-fi genre.'Heaven's at war and Earth's on the frontlinePreacher Spindrift Series – A fallen angel, a beautiful spirit woman and a brave adept man must save mankind from the Sha-aneer.Texas 1883: A man found face down in a fire ants' mound has been raped and brutally murdered. His killing sparks a nightmare for Sheriff Caleb Sawyer and the townspeople of Mule's Ass - named after the last thing the founder looked at before setting up camp. Aided by the enigmatic Preacher Spindrift, Sawyer must solve the murder to defeat the hideous Sha-aneer - an ancient creature that devours the flesh and souls of mankind - or the light of human civilisation will be extinguished forever.Orbiting beyond Mars, the huge aTrade Review2016 INDIES BOOK AWARD FINALIST, FANTASY

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Book SynopsisWhen, in a story 1/2 a billion years in the making, some 200 young people disappear from a resort diminutive medium Medina Bishop follows perplexing clues to save hundreds of dead souls from an eternity of tortured madness. At her shoulder stands an earth elemental Fargo, sent to protect her, with whom she finds a bizarre and touching kind of love.

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Book SynopsisA journey into space and time like no other, this book will leave you truly gripped from start to finish, with twists that keep you questioning what will happen next.Trade Review"Hayden's Realm packs enough spaceships, gadgets, inter-dimensional quests, rogue government agents and inter-specific pleasantries to sate any Sci-Fi enthusiast. In efficient, whirlwind fashion we follow pilot and engineer Max Hayden on uncharted journeys between dimensional realms. Whether we're stuck in the wrong reality or awaiting alien invasion, the ride is seldom short of puzzles to solve and breath to catch. Gillespie's eagerness to display his aeronautical knowledge and technological imagination leaves little room for character development, humour or literary ingenuity - but perhaps such details would only seem trivial or incongruous in this choppy, breakneck tale. Hayden's Realm twists, turns, explodes and catapults us off into space, doing more than enough to keep its pages freshly turned." - Review by Martin Whittlemore

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Book SynopsisA collection of short stories that will leave you in the outer realms of possibility. From an utterly bizarre circus act featuring a ''mechanical man'' to a mysterious object floating above a remote Hebridean beach; from a sinister ''white room'' where nothing is as it seems, to a battle on a lost planet. Whether you are looking for a short sci-fi parable or an intrepid voyage, these stories all have one thing in common: a twist in the tale!Trade Review"Gillespie's imaginative collection feeds our minds with alternative realities, whilst also providing food for thought as we compare the abstract events of the book to ways in which our own reality can become distorted - even sinister. The fast-paced, jam-packed narratives feel much like a chaotic stream-of-consciousness. Resisting and interrupting the flow of normality, the mayhem within Professor Magneto avoids any attempt at mirroring the real world and its possibilities. This book will leave your imagination stimulated and mind wandering for much time beyond its finish." - Lilka Szerszynska

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Book SynopsisLethbridge-Stewart is in Cairngorm investigating UFO sightings. Elsewhere, the Daughters of Earth, a women-only peace movement, are making waves in the political world, but just who is their enigmatic leader?

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Book SynopsisIf you could talk with the animals, walk with the animals, could you ever go home? Run wild with Kingdom/Order.Kindgom/Order wordlessly follows a nameless man as he searches for meaning in his life. Through symbols and sounds, he is reminded of his part in the greater, natural world, just as he is slowly divorced from the modern world surrounding him. Mysteriously, our hero discovers he can understand the calls of the animals around him - but how much of this is real, and how much is delusion? Whatever the case, Psaltis will leave you speechless.

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