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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Bouragner Felpz Volume 3

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The Adventures of Bouragner Felpz, Volume III: The Aubergine Spellbook

  • FICTION>Fantasy>General
  • FICTION>Fantasy>Historical
  • Author suggests suitability for readers ages 12 and up
  • Compare with Sherlock Holmes, The Chrestomanci Books, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
  • eBook available from: Amazon KindleiTunes, and Kobo
  • Paperback available globally via Amazon, and the Heliopause Webstore

Description:

Corianne Birch has come out of retirement to prove once again that no hand is as adept as hers at dramatizing the adventures of Bouragner Felpz. Although when one’s subject is an immortal magician whose adventures involve giant eagles and magical wolves, arcane murders, dead gods, and otherworldly visitors, there is less need for dramatization and more for a steady, clear voice full of wit and humor—which Birch provides with assured skill. All who despaired of ever reading more tales of Felpz at the conclusion of Volume II must rejoice at this third installment, which presents three scintillating short novels published together for the first time. It also includes the special addition of an introduction written by Felpz himself, and a never-before-seen short story from a surprising new perspective.

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Apsis Fiction 6-1: Mesohelion 2018

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Apsis Fiction Volume 6, Issue 1: Mesohelion 2018

  • FICTION>Fantasy>General/Anthologies and Short Stories
  • FICTION>Science Fiction>General/Anthologies and Short Stories
  • Author suggests suitability for readers ages 12 and up
  • Compare with Amazing Stories, Asimov’s, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Smith’s Monthly
  • eBook available from: Amazon KindleiTunesKobo and NOOK.
  • Paperback available from: Amazon (Worldwide), and by request at your local bookstore! Paperback ISBN: 978-1-945781-11-7

Description:

A train in outer space is hijacked. Luckily, Professor Odd is on board. Unluckily, the hijackers know her of old and the situation quickly becomes dire. Jill, Selene and Clara come to the aid of a grieving woman haunted by ghosts, and Bouragner Felpz manages to coax Corianne out of retirement one last time in order to find a lost university student and solve a mystery that has lain dormant for forty years.

These are the stories of Apsis Fiction: Mesohelion 2018, the tenth and final issue of Goldeen Ogawa’s semiannual anthology of fantasy and science fiction.

Mesohelion 2018 includes:

  • “Cerberus Retired” Parts 1 and 2 (Professor Odd #12)
  • “Half Lives” (Driving Arcana #12)
  • “The Peculiar Case of Professor Odd” (Bouragner Felpz, Volume III #3)

eBook available from: Amazon KindleiTunesKobo and NOOK.

Paperback available from: Amazon (Worldwide) and by request at your local bookstore!

Note: Apsis Fiction will retire following this issue, but Professor Odd and Driving Arcana will continue in their own independent publications. Season Three of Professor Odd will begin with “The Angels of Tyson-4,” coming as a single from Heliopause in 2019. Driving Arcana will continue Wheel 2 with Rotation Five, containing “Critical Magic,” “On the Surface Die” and “Free Man Running.”

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Professor Odd 10 – The Thousand Songs

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Professor Odd #10: The Thousand Songs

  • FICTION>Science Fiction>General
  • 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 KindleNOOKKobo, and iTunes
  • Paperback available from: AmazonBarnes & Noble, direct via Create Space and your local bookstore!

Description:

Alister Bane, erstwhile university student turned multiversal traveler, has had his fair share of life-or-death adventures since joining the extraordinary Professor Odd aboard her dimension-hopping ship. This time, she insists, it will be different. This time, they are going to a world as peculiar as the Professor, where even Elo, the bipedal talking wolf, doesn’t need a disguise. And what are they doing in this world? They are going to enjoy dinner and a show.

Specifically, dinner at a sushi bar served by an octopus-man, and music performed by sentient robots and a singer with fantastical fashion sense. But as the Professor regales them with a tale from her distant past, it becomes clear there is a deep connection between Professor Odd and the pop star on stage, with business that has been left unfinished for far too long.

“The Thousand Songs” is the tenth episode in the fantastic adventures of Professor Odd and her cohort: Elo the mutant wolf, Alister the misplaced university student, and Dave, the bright green tentacle creature.

Available internationally from: Amazon KindleNOOKKobo, and iTunes

Available in print from: AmazonBarnes & Noble, direct via Create Space and your local bookstore!

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Apsis Fiction 4-2: Aphelion 2016

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Apsis Fiction Volume 4, Issue 2: Aphelion 2016

  • FICTION>Fantasy>General/Anthologies and Short Stories
  • FICTION>Science Fiction>General/Anthologies and Short Stories
  • Author suggests suitability for readers ages 12 and up
  • Compare with Amazing Stories, Asimov’s, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Smith’s Monthly
  • eBook available from: Amazon KindleiTunesKobo and NOOK.
  • Paperback available from: Amazon (U.S. and Europe), Barnes and Noble, direct via Create Space, and your local book store.

Description:

A casual nebula-viewing turns into a critical rescue mission when Professor Odd and her companions happen upon a wayward spaceship lost in an unfriendly universe; Corianne comes to the aid of an old friend only to discover a pathway into a hidden world—a world that harbors a terrifying monster; and the first wheel of Driving Arcana comes full circle as Jill, Clara and Selene battle a monstrous tree and an all-too-human enemy—only to trigger a phenomenon of world-shattering proportions.

These are the stories of Apsis Fiction: Aphelion 2016, the seventh issue of Goldeen Ogawa’s semi-annual anthology of fantasy and science fiction.

Aphelion 2016 includes:

  • “Star Walkers” (Professor Odd #9)
  • “The Hidden Road” (Bouragner Felpz, Volume II, #12)
  • “Dying to Live” (Driving Arcana #8)
  • “By Moon and Star” (Driving Arcana #9)

eBook available from: Amazon KindleiTunesKobo and NOOK.

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

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Professor Odd 8 – Chronostrophe

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Professor Odd #8: Chronostrophe

  • FICTION>Science Fiction>Time Travel
  • 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 available from: AmazonBarnes & Noble, direct via Create Space and your local bookstore!

Description:

Asynchronous time travel is a tricky thing. Some universes are flexible enough to maintain various timelines without collapsing into paradoxical situations. Others get around the problem by not allowing it to happen at all.

But when Professor Odd and her crew visit one of these “temporally rigid” worlds they discover someone has been messing about in both the past and the future. What began as a piece of cake turned inexplicably to pie turns out to be a tremor from a catastrophe that occurred outside of conventional time—sending the universe into spiral of self-destruction.

Tumbled together with a mysterious boy and his time-traveling blue horse, Odd, Alister, Elo and Dave find themselves on an adventure across the eons to the far distant future. And to avert the impending destruction of the universe they must step outside time and space altogether.

Luckily, Professor Odd has just the thing for that…

“Chronostrophe” is the eighth episode in the serial adventures of Professor Odd, multiversal traveler extraordinaire, and her cohort: Elo the mutant wolf, Alister the misplaced university student, and Dave, the bright green tentacle creature.

Available internationally from: Amazon KindleNOOKKoboiTunes

Available in print from: AmazonBarnes & Noble, direct via Create Space and your local bookstore!

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Professor Odd 7 – The Dogs of Canary Island

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Professor Odd #7: The Dogs of Canary Island

  • 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 available from: AmazonBarnes & Noble, direct via Create Space and your local bookstore!

Description:

Arms Division Ranger Omu Akit, a steadfast dog, would never question a mission. Not when thrown onto a deserted island with only a nervous Science Division Tech to lead them to the secret objective. Not even when their team Alpha is injured and he must take command of the disparate team of dogs—including the nervous Tech and a Medic with an agenda of her own.

Then an honest-to-human, mind-reading wolf appears on the scene, along with a not-a-human asking questions that reveal a conspiracy that shakes the foundations of canine society. Ranger Omu always knew it was better not to ask questions. Too late for that now.

“The Dogs of Canary Island,” the seventh installment in the Professor Odd series, follows the adventures of the universe-hopping Professor and her companions Alister, Elo and Dave. And in this case, seven cybernetically enhanced, anthropomorphic dogs.

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Driving Arcana – Rotation Two

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Driving Arcana: Rotation Two

  • 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:

Jill Hamilton would call herself an ordinary person. Certainly in comparison to the sharpshooting, monster-savvy Selene Shields and the six-and-a-half-foot tall, sword-wielding Clara Nordstern.

But Selene and Clara would say that ordinary people, on discovering that the heavy-metal rock star performing in Las Vegas is a vampire, would not want to get an impression of his teeth. Which is exactly what Jill Hamilton wants to do.

Not content to simply fight the supernatural forces of evil, Jill Hamilton is also set on understanding them—and if that means interviewing a vampire, hunting angels, or exorcising demons, then so be it!

Driving Arcana: Rotation Two follows the saga of two women in a big red truck—and one on an overpowered motorcycle—as they investigate a murder in the sewers of Las Vegas, the mysterious disappearance of a Utah boy, and help a charming, lapsed minister exorcise a particularly determined demon. It includes the fourth, fifth and six episodes in Driving Arcana, Wheel One:

  • 4. Sex, Blood and Rock ‘N’ Roll
  • 5. God, or Aliens
  • 6. Missionary Man

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Professor Odd 6 – The Monster’s Daughter

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Professor Odd #6: The Monster’s Daughter
(Contains Parts One and Two: The Detective and Subject 0-D)

  • 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 available from: AmazonBarnes & Noble, direct via Create Space and your local bookstore!

Description:

In his multi-world travels with the mysterious Professor Odd, former university student Alister Bane has been to some terrific, and terrifying, places: a half-world on the brink of destruction, an alien planet which is actually a moon orbiting a gas giant orbiting a red dwarf star, a far-future Earth devoid of humanity, and a land ruled by dinosaurs and elves. He has never been to a world that frightened Professor Odd—until now.

Now he and the Professor and their companions—Elo, the intelligent wolf, and Dave, the green tentacle monster—are trapped in a world which, though apparently mundane, poses a great danger to all of them. For this is the Professor’s home world, and it contains a force which threatens to end their adventures and destroy the Oddity. Their key to escape lies in a secret long buried in the Professor’s shadowy past—but in uncovering it, what else will be revealed?

“The Monster’s Daughter” is the sixth installment in Goldeen Ogawa’s science fiction novella series Professor Odd, and serves as the finale for Season 1. A two-part episode, this issue includes both  “The Detective” and “Subject 0-D.”

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