Archive for 'Fiction'
October 2023: Skeptics in the Pub: Cholera
Mark Crislip’s alternative history novel explores what the present day might look like if the purveyors of patent medicines had managed to suppress the germ theory. Conflicting models of disease and cure, ranging from balancing humors to homeopathy, form the basis of powerful guilds that control public discourse and stifle discovery. Cholera breaks out in […]
August 2022: Forgetting
These literary short stories deal with the subject of dementia—what the world looks like from the outside and inside: how people cope, try to manage, try to imagine, try to adjust. We try to reason with the unreasonable, try to love the unloveable, try above all to find a way of reaching…and finally, we make […]
Available Now: The Wolf’s Den
The second in the Club & Fang trilogy, sequel to Only the Moon Howls
At seventeen, Caleb O’Connor left the isolated island in Maine where he grew up, fleeing tragedy and determined to find a place where a werewolf could run free. For six years he led a werewolf pack in Romania andraised […]
Available Now: Ghost in Theory
About the Book
Paul Shreeve is an English professor who gets mistaken for a ghost by his neighbors. Though a man of strict rationality and analysis, he cannot shake his ghostly identity, nor will his neighbors allow him to forget. The ghost moves into his thoughts, his work, and […]
Available now: Ares, 8th in The Fighting Anthonys
It’s 1781 and the war with the Colonies is not going well for the British. Admiral Rodney has raided the Dutch island of Saint Eustatius, taking a great fortune in treasure. He sends a large part of his fleet back to England as escorts for the treasure ship, causing severe consequences later when his ships […]
Available Now: Millionaire Valley
Millionaire Valley is a fictionalized memoir about a woman who was nearly robbed of the business she had built by an unscrupulous “marketer.” The usurper, eventually joined by a sidekick, promised she could take the company to the next level. Instead, the plan was to pay herself an exorbitant salary, run the business into the […]
Now Available: Cat Zero
Artie Marshall is a scientist. She is perpetually underfunded, relegated to a damp basement, and besieged on all sides by sexist colleagues. Added to that she is immersed in a messy divorce. But she’s never been happier: she recently landed her own lab, based in an eclectic think-tank housed in the leafy suburbs of North […]
Available Now: Leopard
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The Seventh in the Fighting Anthonys series by Michael Aye
The year is 1780. American privateers who have wreaked havoc among British shipping are now boldly entering British ports. Lord Anthony sets sail with a squadron to deal with the privateers. Gabe has been on the beach […]
Available Now: Out On the Drink
Sean Bulger is a 16-year-old alcoholic from Newfoundland. His life revolves around avoiding his abusive stepfather and sneaking booze wherever and whenever he can. One of his party crashes goes wrong when a group of fellow teens dare him to check out a condemned Russian cruise ship.
Stone drunk and obsessed with the promise of […]
