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Professor Odd Singles Spotlight

Although the Professor Odd series is most economically read in the Complete Season volumes, the singles are an especially fun way of collecting the individual stories. As there are 18 of them as of this writing, I thought it would be fun to highlight them all together. And, if you are finding this page after returning from World Fantasy 2023 and are looking to complete your collection, have at it!

Episode 1: The False Student University student Alister Bane is a neat, tidy, ordinary person living a neat, tidy, ordinary life. But all this changes when the flamboyant, other-worldly, and extraordinary Professor Odd waltzes into class and turns his world inside out. Suddenly Alister is thrown into the middle of a cat-and-mouse game between the Professor and alien tentacle monster, while a shadowy group of scientists tries to capture them all. Can Alister convince them that he is only a hapless bystander? Can life ever return to normal? One thing is for certain: things are going to get a little bit odd. “Professor Odd: The False Student” was first published in 2011 by Goldeen Ogawa. Now Heliopause Productions is proud to re-release it with a redesigned cover but the same great interior. It is the first in a series of short sci-fi novellas chronicling the adventures of Professor Odd.
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Episode 2: The Slowly Dying Planet Alister Bane is an ordinary, average, everyday college student who has just begun an adventure of extraordinary proportions. Compelled to flee his home universe by circumstances beyond his control, he finds himself in the company of the insatiably curious Professor Odd, a tentacle monster named Dave, and a talking dog. Together they travel the multi-verse in the Professor’s trans-dimensional ship, the Oddity, and Alister is brought along for the ride. This time the Professor is in quest of good pizza and takes them to the strange world of Niatano, where the sun is red, the people are feathered dinosaurs, and everyone speaks Italian. Oh, and they are in danger of being killed by robots from outer space. No one is getting any pizza until that is taken care of… “Professor Odd: The Slowly Dying Planet” was first published in 2011 by Goldeen Ogawa. Now Heliopause Productions is proud to re-release it with a redesigned cover but the same great interior. It is the second in a series of short sci-fi novellas chronicling the adventures of Professor Odd.
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Episode 3: The Promethean Predicament 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.
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Episode 4: The Elder Machine In a universe much like our own, Professor Alister Bane lives a quiet life as an archeologist at Oxford University. But when a nearby excavation triggers a psychotic episode in one of his colleagues, Professor Bane finds himself tumbling down a rabbit hole of strange phenomena and frightening possibilities. Having to contend with a slew of disappearing interns and his own terrifying hallucinations, Alister Bane finds his mind—and his whole world—unraveling even as he searches for a solution. It all comes down to half-forgotten memories, a madman’s allusion to the thing with “terrible arms” and a nightmare of being trapped in a cold, dark place. But when he finds the answer, it is something beyond even his wildest dreams. “The Elder Machine” is the fourth installment in Goldeen Ogawa’s sci-fi novella series chronicling the adventures of Professor Odd—and in this case, Professor Bane as well. It first appeared in Apsis Fiction 1.2: Perihelion 2014.
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Episode 5: The Dragons of Geda Searching for a place to hide after uncovering a treacherous conspiracy among her people, Timantiel Tuvielstytar ya Suku Lohihuya (Kilni for short) instead stumbles into the Oddity, interrupting Professor Odd and her companions’ day at the beach—much to Alister Bane’s chagrin. For Kilni brings with her a troubling tale, which Professor Odd is, of course, bent on investigating. This leads them on a quest that reaches across the marvelous world of Geda; where the descendants of dinosaurs live side-by-side with the elf-like Luinisetians, and in conflict with the mysterious orka. But when they dig into Geda’s history, they find the truth is far more deep and disturbing: now a city is in danger, and the orka are their best hope for saving the elves and dinosaurs alike. “The Dragons of Geda” is the fifth installment in Goldeen Ogawa’s sci-fi novella series chronicling the adventures of Professor Odd and her wayward companions—former student Alister Bane, anthropomorphic wolf Elo Marhütz, and Dave, the green tentacle monster.
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Episode 6: The Monster's Daughter 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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Episode 7: The Dogs of Canary Island 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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Episode 8: Chronostrophe 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.
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Episode 9: Star Walkers It’s all well and good to use your space-manipulating oddity of a home to open a portal into a starship for a little innocent nebula-gazing, but when the crew of said ship catches you things can get awkward fast. This is the problem encountered by Professor Odd and her friends, which turns out to be the first in a string of problems including, but not limited to: what is this ship even doing here? (It is in the wrong universe.) Are those giant space humanoids peaceful, or actually weapons of absolute destruction? (The answer is yes.) And last but not least: how is everyone going to get home? But Professor Odd has yet to leave a problem unsolved, and she’s not about to start now—even if it means risking her own life. “Star Walkers” is the ninth episode in the fantastic 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.
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Episode 10: The Thousand Songs 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.
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Episode 11: Davebot Something is amiss at the Deep Bore Research Base in Antarctica, and though Lieutenant Hutter would dearly love to get back to brewing moonshine and wooing the surly Technician Spalecki, it quickly becomes clear that their remote and vulnerable installation has become the target of an alien invasion so deadly they need to put out a multiversal distress call. But when help arrives, it is a colorful woman with a frighteningly average assistant and a talking dog. There is also something in a barrel called Dave. “Davebot” is the eleventh episode in the fantastic adventures of Professor Odd and company: Elo the mutant wolf, Alister the misplaced university student, and most of all, Dave, the bright green tentacle creature.
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Episode 12: Cerberus Retired All Professor Odd wanted was show her friends a marvel of engineering: a train built to run through outer space between planets! Then the train is hijacked by pirates, and it’s up to her and Elo and Alister and Dave to save the day. But the marauders have a sinister connection to Professor Odd which could prove disastrous—especially for her friend and protegé, Alister Bane. “Cerberus Retired” is the finale of Season 2 and the twelfth episode in the otherworldly adventures of Professor Odd and company: Elo the mutant wolf, Alister the misplaced university student, and Dave, the mysterious green tentacle creature.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Episode 17: Eyes in the Deep 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.
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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.
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Either way, I’ll see you around the multiverse!

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Professor Odd: the Complete Season Three

Heliopause Productions is proud to present:

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.

More reading options:

The Season Three Singles

Individual episodes as novella-length softcover booklets:

Episode 13: The Angels of Tyson 4

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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 Kindle, Apple 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.

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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.”

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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 Kindle, iTunes, 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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Cover Reveal – Lucena in the House of Madgrin

Friends, the project we have been hard at work on for the past year is finally coming to fruition! Please enjoy the first look at the cover for Goldeen Ogawa’s newest book: Lucena in the House of Madgrin.

Set in the same universe as The Adventures of Bouragner Felpz but in a different place and time, Lucena in the House of Madgrin follows a young girl on an extraordinary adventure into a mysterious, magical underworld filled with marvelous monsters both good and evil. It is set to release in late June/early July in paperback and eBook.

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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 Kindle, iTunes 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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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 Kindle, iTunes, 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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Driving Arcana – Rotation Six

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Driving Arcana: Rotation Six

  • FICTION>Fantasy>Dark Fantasy
  • FICTION>Fantasy>Urban Fantasy
  • Author suggests suitability for readers ages 12 and up
  • Compare with American Gods and Supernatural
  • eBook available from: Amazon Kindle, iTunes, and Kobo
  • Paperback … wait for Wheel 2!

Description:

All Jill Hamilton wants is to apply the scientific method to studying supernatural phenomena, but first she must content with her own supernatural dilemma: the slow decay of her body from an overdose of angelic radiation. Left to her own devices as her bodyguards, Selene and Clara, help a desperate character from Selene’s past, Jill discovers the answer may be much closer—and much more drastic—than anyone could have imagined.

Driving Arcana: Rotation Six continues the saga of Jill, Clara and Selene as they contend with rogue werewolves, vindictive vampires, and a mythological figure so ancient and powerful even the vampires are at her mercy. It includes the third and final rotation of Driving Arcana, Wheel 2:

  • 13. Follow the Dark
  • 14. Paving the Road to Hell
  • 15. Escape Plan

Available internationally from: Amazon Kindle, iTunes, and Kobo

These stories will be available in print with Paving the Road to Hell (Driving Arcana, Wheel 2)!

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Driving Arcana – Rotation Five

Heliopause Productions is proud to present:

Driving Arcana: Rotation Five

  • FICTION>Fantasy>Dark Fantasy
  • FICTION>Fantasy>General
  • Author suggests suitability for readers ages 12 and up
  • Compare with American Gods and Supernatural
  • eBook available from: Amazon Kindle, iTunes, and Kobo
  • Paperback … wait for Wheel 2!

Description:

As the world’s only supernatural researcher, Jill Hamilton is determined to continue her quest to analyze ghosts and document paranormal phenomena, no matter how terrifying they appear. But her mission takes on a new urgency when she discovers that she has contracted a supernatural illness—one that not even her learned bodyguards, Selene and Clara, know a cure for. Time is running out and she must use her investigative skills to solve her own terminal problem. Oh, and catch a demonically possessed serial killer too, of course.

Driving Arcana: Rotation Five continues the saga of Jill, Clara and Selene as they travel the country in their big red truck, rescuing fairy-cats, talking to mermen, and scientifically categorizing demons. It includes the second rotation of Driving Arcana, Wheel 2:

  • 13. Critical Magic
  • 14. On the Surface Die
  • 15. Free Man Running

Available internationally from: Amazon Kindle, iTunes, and Kobo

These stories will be available in print with Paving the Road to Hell (Driving Arcana, Wheel 2)!

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