Professor Odd: the Complete Season Three

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Professor Odd: The Complete Season Three

Beyond the bounds of the universe, in the formless, endless nowhere between worlds, there is a place that is somewhere. An anomaly of something in the nothing. It is part ship, part house, and it can create portals to almost anywhere. Its inhabitants call it the Oddity. 
A strange woman lives in the Oddity. Her name is Professor Odd, and she is a seasoned multiversal explorer. Her best friend also lives there. Her name is Elo, and she looks like a golden wolf—except she can stand on her hind legs and speak like a human. There is also Alister, a former university student who fled his home world when the sinister Canary Company marked him for elimination. And until recently there was Dave, the ten-armed, one-eyed, bright green tentacle monster with impressive knowledge of the multiverse. But in the fight for control of the Canary Company Dave vanished, leaving only an enigmatic message in psychoactive green slime. 
Now the Professor, Elo, and Alister, are on a mission to find their lost friend, but in an “almost infinite” multiverse filled with hidden variables, incorrigibly curious aliens, and surprisingly significant bees, nothing is for certain and everything is more than it first appears—even the one place they all thought they knew inside and out: the Oddity itself.

Jump into Professor Odd: The Complete Season Three for six new episodes of excitement, discovery, and wonder:
13 The Angels of Tyson 4
14 The City Under Ice
15 The Dreams of Doctor Morag
16 Flight of Xifoptero
17 Eyes in the Deep
18 The Last Voyage of the Odyssean
Followed by the bonus short story “Kumallinién.”

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E-book edition available on Overdrive. Softcover edition distributed by Ingram. Hardcover edition distributed by Lulu.

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The Season Three Singles

Individual episodes as novella-length softcover booklets:

Episode 13: The Angels of Tyson 4

Launch yourself into the third season of Professor Odd’s multiversal adventures as the crew of the Oddity continues to search for their missing (and mysterious) friend.

Meanwhile, in a world eerily resemblant of 1950s Earth, Joy Daily is just trying to keep the farm together when the appearance of a talking dog makes her question the reality of her own existance.

“The Angels of Tyson 4” is the premier of Season Three and the thirteenth episode in the otherworldly adventures of Professor Odd and her extraordinary friends.

Episode 14: The City Under Ice

The Oddity sends the Professor and company to New Europa City in their search for the elusive Dave, but instead they find themselves embroiled in a high stakes game of murder and mayhem, and a particularly pernicious JANET (Just Another Nosy Extraterrestrial) may just be the answer to all their questions . . .  or the beginning of a whole new mystery.

“The City Under Ice” is the second episode of Season Three and the fourteenth overall in the multiversal adventures of Professor Odd and her unusual friends.

Episode 15: The Dreams of Doctor Morag

Doctor Morag is having strange dreams—which isn’t surprising, considering she is the senior software engineer of a revolutionary new program for providing mental health therapy to people while they sleep. But when her dreams start to change the universe, Morag finds herself waking up in progressively stranger and stranger worlds, until her only hope of finding her way back is through the enigmatic Professor Odd, and . . . bees?

“The Dreams of Doctor Morag” is the third episode of Season Three and the fifteenth overall in the otherworldly adventures of Professor Odd and her unexpected friends.

Episode 16: Flight of Xifoptero

In a far-future universe, on a terraformed planet, where a race of sapient elephants are the caretakers of a newly extant genus of pterosaurs, Professor Odd and company must come to the aid of a lone elephant and a fledgling pterosaur as they attempt to escape a war. A war between the elephants and an imperialist race of humans who would enslave the elephants and drain their planet’s resources.

“Flight of Xifoptero” is the fourth episode of Season Three and the sixteenth overall in the otherworldly adventures of Professor Odd and her unapologetic friends.

Episode 17: Eyes in the Deep

When an incompatible universe meets an immutable force . . . the result is a great big mess!

For Lilac, a type of artificial human called a “print,” the mess is also an opportunity to escape her abusive captors. But with her newfound freedom comes responsibility for an alien creature whose simple presence poses a threat to the cohesion of her universe. A threat not even Professor Odd can handle—not without the help of some very intelligent wolves, an old monster truck, and some cats from Mars.

“Eyes in the Deep” is the fifth episode of Season Three and the seventeenth overall in the interplanetary adventures of Professor Odd and her incredible friends.

Episode 18: The Last Voyage of the Odyssean

While exploring new elements of the Oddity, Professor Odd and friends discover an unprecedented visitor: another ship in the formless void between universes. But this ship is very much out of place, and on investigation they unravel a distressing narrative of slavery, rebellion, and inter-universal plague. While Professor Odd races to untangle the mystery of two cryogenically preserved murder victims, Alister uncovers hints that their long-lost friend Dave might be closer than they once thought, and Janet is forced to confront the true nature of her identity at last.

“The Last Voyage of the Odyssean” is the game-changing finale of Season Three making eighteen episodes of the world-hopping adventures of Professor Odd and her intergalactic friends.

Professor Odd Season Three – Kickstarter Update

In the immortal words of Elle Woods: “Congratulations guys… WE DID IT!”

We’ve successfully funded the Season Three campaign!

Professor Odd: The Complete Season Three will be published in electronic, paperback and hardback editions this year! Public release is scheduled for October, but Kickstarter backers who pledged for books should receive theirs a little earlier.

But wait—there’s more!

We’ve also surpassed two stretch goals, unlocking both the Kickstarter-exclusive bonus content e-booklet Odd, Annotated and the Season One audiobook!

The bonus e-booklet includes behind-the-scenes insights, notes, unused history and details, plus a Q&A with the characters. It will ONLY be available through the Kickstarter campaign, but it will be INCLUDED in every reward. As of this post we have a week to go, so there is still time to join the adventure, if you want!

The Complete Season One audiobook is just that: everything from Professor Odd: The Complete Season One (that’s episodes 1-6!) narrated by… ME! It’s going to be great, but you don’t have to read my word for it—you can listen to the raw recording of Episode 1 right here. It’s now available through the Kickstarter as its own reward tier, but it’s also included in all rewards for backers who pledge $20 or more!

The Season One audiobook has a public release date of April 2024, but it’ll be sent to backers just as soon as it’s ready. How soon that is depends on if we reach the third and ultimate stretch goal: commissioning original music to outro the audiobook! As of this post we are… *checks* … just $154 short. And with seven days to go, and a little help from our friends, we just might make it!

But whatever the outcome, this campaign has already been a huge success. Thank you to everyone who has helped make it so, now and forever, wherever you are!

I am heading to San Jose this week to visit my family, but I’ll still be working on the campaign, spreading the word—and of course working on the book! I hope you have a peaceful and restorative Memorial Day, and I will see you around the multiverse.

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Hope in the Forest of Despair – Driving Arcana Wheel 3

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HOPE IN THE FOREST OF DESPAIR: Driving Arcana, Wheel 3

  • FICTION>Fantasy>General
  • FICTION>Fantasy>Urban Fantasy
  • Author suggests suitability for readers ages 12 and up
  • Compare with American Gods and Supernatural
  • eBook available from: Amazon KindleApple Books and Kobo
  • Paperback available from: Amazon
  • NEW: Hardback available from Lulu
  • Signed copies available from the Heliopause Webstore

Description:

What do you do when your drastic measures to save your own life result in you becoming a strange, half-undead creature that even other monsters are afraid of? If you’re Jill Hamilton, you start a company dedicated to the study of those monsters—and anything else that looks remotely magical.

What do you do when you lose your best friend when she falls off a bridge in Purgatory? If you’re Clara Nordstern, you try to find the next thing that needs doing. Even if it means confronting your worst fears and your deepest guilt.

What do you do when you get sucked into Hell by the demon Lilith? If you’re Selene Shields, you start walking. One foot in front of the other. Even if it means going right through the center of Hell.

The world of Driving Arcana, always subverted by magic, is becoming openly mythic, and Jill, Clara, and Selene must navigate a landscape increasingly compromised by powers beyond anyone’s expectation—but not, Jill would point out, beyond potential understanding.

This is Wheel 3 of Driving Arcana, Hope in the Forest of Despair. It follows Wheel 2, Paving the Road to Hell, and is comprised of Lightning Does Strike Twice, Moonrise Over Hades, The Hour I First Believed, Hope in the Forest of Despair, Cloth of Man, Blood and Fury, Fear Not, A Cold Day in Hell, and The Great Gate. It also contains a related short story “The Lady in the Gray Suit” which provides a glimpse of the magical mayhem occurring on the opposite side of the globe.

eBooks available internationally from: Amazon KindleApple Books and Kobo

Available in print from: Amazon (paperback), Lulu (hardback) and the Heliopause Webstore

“The Lady in the Gray Suit” is available as a free Audio Special.

This book was made possible by the generous support of readers like you on Kickstarter.

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Professor Odd: The Complete Season Two

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Professor Odd: The Complete Season Two

  • FICTION>Science Fiction>Action/Adventure
  • FICTION>Fantasy>General
  • Author suggests suitability for readers ages 10 and up
  • Compare with Doctor Who, Star Trek, Bill Nye the Science Guy
  • eBook available from: Amazon Kindle, iTunes, and Kobo
  • Paperback available from Amazon, signed copies from Heliopause.
  • NEW: Hardback available from Lulu!

Description:

Professor Odd is a woman with a tentacle-arm growing out of the base of her skull. She likes colorful wigs, fuzzy scarves, pizza, cake, and exploring alternate universes. 

Elo is an anthropomorphic wolf who likes chicken soup, cheese, and following Professor Odd on her adventures. 

Alister Bane was a student at university until he was kidnapped by the sinister Canary Company, and was subsequently rescued by Professor Odd. 

No one really knows what Dave is, but everyone agrees he’s a good tentacle-monster-alien-thing to have on your side when events go haywire, as they are prone to do when, for example, you visit a temporally flexible universe on the verge of implosion, or a magical spaceship that has wandered into the midst of a war, or when the Canary Company finally catches up to you.

Welcome to the multiverse of Professor Odd, where the wildest possibilities are only the beginning of the adventure! The Complete Season Two collects episodes 7-12 of this high-flying science fiction series. It contains:

  • The Dogs of Canary Island
  • Chronostrophe
  • Star Walkers
  • The Thousand Songs
  • Davebot
  • and Cerberus Retired (parts 1 and 2)

It also features exclusive illustrations and the bonus short story “The Rats of Alnitak.”

Available internationally from Amazon Kindle, iTunes, and Kobo

Paperback available from Amazon, Hardback available from Lulu, and signed copies from Heliopause.

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Lucena in the House of Madgrin

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Lucena in the House of Madgrin

  • FICTION>Fantasy>General
  • FICTION>Fantasy>Historical
  • Author suggests suitability for readers ages 9 and up
  • Compare with Harry Potter, The Chrestomanci Books, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
  • eBook available from: Amazon KindleiTunes, and Kobo
  • Paperback available via Amazon, and the Heliopause Webstore
  • Hardback available on Lulu!

Description:

Lucena Clarian Ashmoor has never hatched a feathered serpent from an egg. She has never befriended a sombulus—a monster that looks like a giant spider, eats darkness, and likes reading books. She has never ridden a magic horse. She has spent all her life with relatives who would prefer she were elsewhere, and so sent her away to the nastiest school imaginable. There she has been bullied, and told so many times that she was dumb and fat and useless that she almost came to believe it. She has never been popular, and never done anything remotely heroic.

All this changes the night a vampire attacks her school and Lucena is tumbled into a world wider, darker, more magical and more mysterious than any she could have imagined. Here she will find the forgotten egg, meet the shade-eating spider, ride the black mare with coal-fire eyes, fight vampires, dance with fairies, and find—in time—that she might be a hero after all.

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Paving the Road to Hell – Driving Arcana Wheel 2

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PAVING THE ROAD TO HELL: Driving Arcana, Wheel 2

  • FICTION>Fantasy>General
  • FICTION>Fantasy>Urban Fantasy
  • Author suggests suitability for readers ages 12 and up
  • Compare with American Gods and Supernatural
  • eBook available from:  Amazon KindleiTunes iBooks and Kobo
  • Paperback available from: Amazon and the Heliopause Webstore (periodically)
  • NEW: Hardback available from Lulu

Description:

What do you do when the supernatural world crashes—suddenly, violently, devastatingly—into yours? If you are Jill Hamilton, you drop out of UC Santa Cruz, use your inherited savings to hire a couple monster hunters as bodyguards, get in your dead boyfriend’s truck, and you go out and study it. Of course. Even if your bodyguards tell you some things are better left un-studied. Even if unicorns are real and bloodthirsty. Even if summoning old, forgotten gods has detrimental effects on the state of reality. Because beyond killing monsters and helping people, Jill Hamilton wants to understand why the world she thought she knew is actually so much deeper, darker, and downright magical than it has any right to be.

Welcome to the world of Driving Arcana, where even the painfully boring and mundane aspects of everyday life are underlaid by a subtle current of inexplicable magic, and three women are on a mission to find out how it all works. Even if two of them would really rather not.

Wheel 2 of Driving Arcana, Paving the Road to Hell follows Wheel 1, By Moon and Star. It collects all the stories from Rotations Four, Five and Six, and adds “The Five Bodies of Tamerlain Pierce” at the end, which serves as a link between this Wheel and the next.

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Available in print from: Amazon, Lulu and the Heliopause Webstore (periodically)

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By Moon and Star – Driving Arcana Wheel 1

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BY MOON AND STAR: Driving Arcana, Wheel 1

  • FICTION>Fantasy>Contempory
  • FICTION>Fantasy>Dark Fantasy
  • Author suggests suitability for readers ages 12 and up
  • Compare with American Gods and Supernatural
  • eBook available from:  Amazon KindleKoboiTunes and NOOK
  • Paperback available from: Amazon and Barnes and Noble
  • NEW: Hardback available from Lulu!

Description:

Welcome to a world where the natural and the supernatural mingle—sometimes with devastating results. Selene Shields and Clara Nordstern know this world, have seen everything from werewolves to witches, ghosts, ghouls, and even an angel. But they’ve never seen anything quite like Jill Hamilton, a grad student from UC Santa Cruz, whose reaction to losing her boyfriend in a rabid chimera attack is to go out and study the very things normal humans are supposed to ignore.

So begins the saga of Driving Arcana: three women in a big truck, chasing unicorns, interviewing vampires, and hunting monsters—to fight evil, protect humanity, but mostly, for science.

BY MOON AND STAR contains all the stories from Rotations One, Two and Three, plus a tie-in short story that further illuminates the subversively magical world of Driving Arcana.

Available internationally from: Amazon KindleKoboiTunes and NOOK

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Driving Arcana – Rotation Three

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Driving Arcana: Rotation Three

  • FICTION>Fantasy>Contempory
  • FICTION>Fantasy>General
  • Author suggests suitability for readers ages 12 and up
  • Compare with American Gods and Supernatural
  • eBook available from: Amazon KindleNOOKKoboiTunes
  • Paperback available from: AmazonBarnes and Noble, direct via Create Space and your local bookstore!

Description:

Although Jill Hamilton’s primary interest is the research and documentation of supernatural phenomena, scientific progress is not immune to human drama, and when Clara Nordstern’s estranged brother goes missing, she and Selene put the main mission on hold to help her find him. And their next case comes to them because Selene decides to investigate the murder of a young girl in a small Missouri town—a town with a history of mysterious disappearances. But what they discover turns out to be far more than anyone expected—and exactly what Jill has been looking for. Because when it comes to proving the unbelievable, sometimes you need the help of witches, undead warriors, and ancient gods.

Driving Arcana: Rotation Three continues the saga of Jill, Clara and Selene as they travel the country studying gods, demons, ghouls, and fighting some truly monstrous humans. It includes the final three episodes of Driving Arcana, Wheel One:

  • 7. Sons of Fire
  • 8. Dying to Live
  • 9. By Moon and Star

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Professor Odd 3 – The Promethean Predicament

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Professor Odd #3: The Promethean Predicament

  • FICTION>Science Fiction>Action/Adventure
  • FICTION>Fantasy>General
  • Author suggests suitability for readers ages 10 and up
  • Compare with Doctor Who, Star Trek, Bill Nye the Science Guy
  • eBook available from: Amazon KindleNOOKKoboiTunes
  • Paperback avilable from: Amazon (US and Europe) and direct via Create Space

Description:

Meet Alister Bane, former college student. He is a sensible, conventional, practical young man. Not at all the sort of person you’d expect to find clambering around, in the rain, on a huge stone lightning bolt hanging in the sky. Yet here he is. Since being expelled from his home world, Alister has been traveling between universes with the flamboyant and inquisitive Professor Odd, Dave, a green tentacle monster, and Elo, a highly intelligent mutant wolf. Now, however, he has been separated from his friends and is forced to navigate an “unconventional” universe teetering on the brink of destruction. Impossible stone formations aside, there is also the problem of the sinister hooded natives, and why they have got a living man chained to a rock…

 “The Promethean Predicament” is the third in a series of novellas chronicling the fantastic travels of Professor Odd and her wayward companions. It first appeared in Apsis Fiction Volume 1, Issue 1: Mesohelion 2013.

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Available in print from:  Amazon (US and Europe) and direct via Create Space

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Apsis Fiction 1-1: Mesohelion 2013

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Apsis Fiction Volume 1, Issue 1: Mesohelion 2013

  • FICTION>Fantasy>General/Anthologies and Short Stories
  • FICTION>Science Fiction>General/Anthologies and Short Stories
  • Author suggests suitability for readers ages 10 and up
  • Compare with Amazing Stories, Asimov’s, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Smith’s Monthly
  • eBook available from: Amazon KindleNOOKKoboiTunes
  • Paperback available from: Amazon (U.S. and Europe), direct via Create Space, and your local book store.

Description:

Professor Odd and her rag-tag companions must rescue the people of a dying world; a woman plays a dangerous game with an old god; a young scientist discovers that magic and monsters are more than real, and enlists the aid of two warlike hunters to help her study them; finally, a magician long thought gone makes his timely and dramatic reappearance.

These are the stories of Apsis Fiction: Mesohelion 2013, the first issue of Goldeen Ogawa’s semi-annual anthology of fantasy and science fiction. 

Mesohelion 2013 includes:

  • “The Promethean Predicament” (Professor Odd #3)
  • “The Woman Who Tricked the God of Ruin” (Standalone)
  • “The Sword and the Shield” (Driving Arcana #1)
  • “Highway Unicorns” (Driving Arcana #2)
  • “The Witch and the Dragon” (Standalone)
  • “The Magician Returns” (Bouragner Felpz, Volume II #1)

eBook available from: Amazon KindleNOOKKoboiTunes

Paperback available from: Amazon (U.S. and Europe), direct via Create Space, and your local book store.

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