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Driving Arcana – Rotation Four

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Driving Arcana: Rotation Four

  • 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, Kobo, and NOOK
  • Paperback … wait for Wheel 2!

Description:

With supernatural occurrences becoming increasingly common after the disruption in St Louis, the ordinary lives of common citizens are becoming increasingly uncommon. Which isn’t all bad, as far as Jill Hamilton, supernatural researcher extraordinaire is concerned. When walking trees and magically irradiated mutants practically throw themselves into her path she is more than ready to take samples. And, thanks to the continued efforts of her monster hunter bodyguards, Selene and Clara, she can survive to study the data. But it’s not all spooky plants and haunted houses when they encounter a being so powerful that its very presence wrecks havoc on reality.

Driving Arcana: Rotation Four continues the saga of Jill, Clara and Selene as they travel the country in a big red truck, fighting monsters, hunting ghosts, and taking very detailed notes. It includes the first three episodes of Driving Arcana, Wheel 2:

  • 10: The Earth it Weeps
  • 11: Out of Space
  • 12: Half Lives

Available internationally from: Amazon Kindle, iTunes, Kobo, and NOOK

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

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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 Kindle, iTunes, Kobo 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 Kindle, iTunes, Kobo 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 12 – Cerberus Retired

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Professor Odd #12: Cerberus Retired

  • 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 Kindle, NOOK, Kobo, and iTunes
  • Paperback available from: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and your local bookstore!

Description:

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.

Available internationally from: Amazon Kindle, NOOK, Kobo, and iTunes

Available in print from: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and your local bookstore!

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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 Kindle, Kobo, iTunes 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 Kindle, Kobo, iTunes and NOOK

Available in print from: Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Lulu!

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Professor Odd 11 – Davebot

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Professor Odd #11: Davebot

  • 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 Kindle, NOOK, Kobo, and iTunes
  • Paperback available from: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, direct via Create Space and your local bookstore!

Description:

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.

Available internationally from: Amazon Kindle, NOOK, Kobo, and iTunes

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

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Bouragner Felpz Volume 2

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The Adventures of Bouragner Felpz, Volume II: Anatomy of a Magician

  • FICTION>Fantasy>Historical/General
  • Author suggests suitability for readers ages 8 and up
  • Compare with Sherlock Holmes, The Chrestomanci Books, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
  • eBook available from: Amazon Kindle, NOOK, Kobo, iTunes
  • Paperback available from: Amazon (US and Europe), direct from Create Space, and Barnes and Noble.

Description:

Twenty long years have passed for Corianne Birch since the disappearance of her friend and guardian, Bouragner Felpz. In that time she has married and divorced a husband, and born and raised a daughter. No longer the spritely, opinionated teenager who once trailed—if sometimes reluctantly—upon the purple coattails of that famous magician, she has matured into a staid, if no less opinionated, woman. So when a capricious fairy makes his home in a nearby park and begins enchanting the populace, and old friends from her adventuring years reappear, she is more than ready to re-enter the world of wonder, danger, and magic that once dominated her youth. Yet for all the excitement the fairy brings, he is but the harbinger of an even more magnificent event: the return of Bouragner Felpz himself!

This second volume of The Adventures of Bouragner Felpz collects twelve stories of dazzling magic and haunting wonder, as Corianne Birch returns to the biographical tales of her exceptional friend with all the wit, charm and vivacity that her teenage self ever had. Spanning almost forty years, this volume contains everything from haunted hills to legendary dragons, a rare glimpse into Felpz’s early days, and an exclusive introduction by the noted dracologist (and daughter of the narrator), Milain Clifford Birch.

eBook available from: Amazon Kindle, NOOK, Kobo, iTunes

Paperback available from: Amazon (US and Europe), direct from Create Space, and Barnes and Noble.

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Apsis Fiction 5-2: Aphelion 2017

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Apsis Fiction Volume 5, Issue 2: Aphelion 2017

  • 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 Kindle, iTunes, Kobo and NOOK.
  • Paperback available from: Amazon (Worldwide)

Description:

An intercepted message leads Professor Odd and company to a remote research facility, which has become the first target of an old enemy. In Driving Arcana, what appears to be a simple trap laid by mutant cannibals turns out to be a catastrophe of biblical proportions. And Bouragner Felpz undertakes to solve a gruesome murder with a prophetic warning: that he will follow the thread to its bitter end, and the police might not appreciate the tangle he reveals.

These are the stories of Apsis Fiction: Aphelion 2017, the ninth issue of Goldeen Ogawa’s semiannual anthology of fantasy and science fiction.

Aphelion 2017 includes:

  • “Davebot” (Professor Odd #11)
  • “Out of Space” (Driving Arcana #11)
  • “The Hand of Rishké” (Bouragner Felpz, Volume III #2)

eBook available from: Amazon Kindle, iTunes, Kobo and NOOK.

Paperback available from: Amazon (Worldwide)

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Professor Odd: The Complete Season One

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Professor Odd: The Complete Season One

  • 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, Kobo, and NOOK
  • Paperback available from: Amazon, and signed copies from Heliopause.
  • NEW: Hardback available from Lulu!

Description:

From present-day England to far-future Africa to worlds teetering on the edge of existence, Professor Odd and her world-hopping ship, the Oddity, have traveled the multiverse.

She and her friends—the erstwhile university student, Alister Bane, the super-intelligent mutant wolf, Elo, and the bright green tentacle monster whose name is unpronounceable but allows himself to be called Dave—find themselves rescuing magicians and deprogramming supercomputers, fighting killer robots and befriending dinosaurs.

But the greatest mystery is the identity of the Professor herself. And to learn that secret, the crew must travel to the universe where it all began: Professor Odd’s own home.

Beyond your wildest dreams is only the beginning in this, the first complete season of Professor Odd, featuring episodes 1 through 6 of the all-out science fiction adventure series:

  • The False Student
  • The Slowly Dying Planet
  • The Promethean Predicament
  • The Elder Machine
  • The Dragons of Geda
  • and The Monster’s Daughter (parts 1 and 2)

Now with all-new illustrations, and the bonus short story “Amar and Desta’s Big Day Out.”

Available internationally from: Amazon Kindle, iTunes, Kobo, and NOOK

Paperback available from: Amazon, and signed copies from Heliopause.

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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 Kindle, NOOK, Kobo, and iTunes
  • Paperback available from: Amazon, Barnes & 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 Kindle, NOOK, Kobo, and iTunes

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

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Apsis Fiction 5-1: Perihelion 2017

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Apsis Fiction Volume 5, Issue 1: Perihelion 2017

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

Description:

It’s not always a life-or-death adventure with Professor Odd. Sometimes it’s dinner and a show—with a story of life-or-death adventure to go along with it, of course. A bullied schoolboy finds an ancient spirit in an enchanted tomb, with surprising and satisfying results. Driving Arcana launches into its second Wheel with Jill and company investigating the appearance of a Green Man. And in the first novella of Bouragner Felpz, the titular magician must untangle a complex and sinister plot involving an heiress, a foreign wizard, a murdered magician, and a lot of very strange wolves.

These are the stories of Apsis Fiction: Perihelion 2017, the eighth issue of Goldeen Ogawa’s semiannual anthology of fantasy and science fiction.

Perihelion 2017 includes:

  • “The Thousand Songs” (Professor Odd #10)
  • “Abandon All…” (Standalone)
  • “The Earth it Weeps” (Driving Arcana #10)
  • “The Wolves of Riddlemoor” (Bouragner Felpz, Volume III #1)

eBook available from: Amazon Kindle, iTunes, Kobo 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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