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Professor Odd 3 – The Promethean Predicament

Heliopause Productions is proud to present:

Promethean Predicament Cover

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 Kindle, NOOK, Kobo, iTunes
  • 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.

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

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

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Mission Report for October 2013

As I write things are flying over here at the HpP mothership. The print edition for Apsis Fiction 1.1 just went live over at Create Space (as did the print version of the first Professor Odd single). Both titles should be available through Amazon in the next week, while Apsis Fiction should be available to order through your local bookstore in the coming months.

In other news, Book 2 of Year of the God-Fox is now live! You can read it online by going to the site and signing up/signing in. Readers who have already bought the complete series or who purchase Book 2 will be able to read all the chapters at once! No need to wait for a new one each week. There will still be weekly preview pages posted, however, along with Production Notes every Monday over on the comic’s official Tumblr.

Moving forward, you can look forward to:

  • Print edition of Bouragner Felpz: A Study of Magic
  • Print edition of Professor Odd #2
  • The print and digital release of Professor Odd #3
  • Coming in December, Apsis Fiction 1.2, featuring all-new Professor Odd, Bouragner Felpz, and Driving Arcana stories!

If you have any questions or suggestions you are welcome to write to us at

heliopauseweb@gmail.com

You can also follow us on twitter @HeliopausePro.

See you around the universe!

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Apsis Fiction 1-1: Mesohelion 2013

Heliopause Productions proudly presents:

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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 Kindle, NOOK, Kobo, iTunes
  • 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 Kindle, NOOK, Kobo, iTunes

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

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Bouragner Felpz Volume 1

Heliopause Productions proudly presents:

Bouragner Felpz Vol I

The Adventures of Bouragner Felpz, Volume I: A Study of Magic

  • 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 (worldwide).

Description:

In a world filled with magic, young orphan Corianne Birch is steadfastly ordinary. But when she is adopted by her godfather, the flamboyant consulting magician Bouragner Felpz, Corianne finds herself entangled in adventures ranging from the mysterious to the macabre. Confronted by living shadows, capricious fairies, friendly necromancers and strange ghosts, Corianne must come to terms with her own peculiar brand of magic, as well as her enigmatic guardian—who is, like many things in her world, more than he appears. In the end it is up to her to solve the greatest mystery of them all: that of Bouragner Felpz himself.

These eleven stories, collected here in one volume for the first time, cover her early adventures with Bouragner Felpz—from their first awkward foray into a cursed mansion, to the last mission Corianne undertook as a young woman. This volume also contains an exclusive introduction written by their companion Abharus. 

The stories in The Adventures of Bouragner Felpz, Volume I were originally published individually by Goldeen Ogawa from 2011–2012. Heliopause proudly presents this collection, complete with the original illustrations by the author.

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

Paperback available from Amazon (worldwide).

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Professor Odd 2 – The Slowly Dying Planet

Heliopause Productions is proud to present:

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Professor Odd #2: The Slowly Dying Planet

  • FICTION>Science Fiction>Action/Adventure
  • 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, iTunes
  • Paperback available from: Amazon (US and Europe) and direct via CreateSpace

Description:

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.

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

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

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Liftoff

Here at Heliopause Productions we are pleased to announce that, with only some minor complications on the launch pad, we have achieved liftoff! Expect more updates in the coming month as we bring ourselves up to speed.

Things you can look forward to:

  • The print edition of Professor Odd #1
  • Print and eBook editions for Professor Odd #2 and The Adventures of Bouragner Felpz, Volume I 
  • Apsis Fiction Issue 1.1: Mesohelion 2013 (both digital and paper).

Year of the God-Fox just finished posting Book 1. If you are so inclined, you may head over to that site and purchase it. Production notes for each chapter can be found on the comic’s official Tumblr here.

Cover for Professor Odd #3: The Promethean Predicament. Coming in October 2013 from Heliopause.

We are also excited to announce the release of Professor Odd #3: “The Promethean Predicament.” It will debut in Apsis Fiction Issue 1.1 (September 2013) with a single release in digital and print coming in October. Artwork for both titles has been added to our Cover Gallery.

As always if you have any questions or suggestions you can write to us at

heliopauseweb@gmail.com

You can also follow us on twitter @HeliopausePro.

See you around the universe!

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Professor Odd 1 – The False Student

Heliopause Productions is proud to present:

False Student Cover

Professor Odd #1: The False Student

  • FICTION>Science Fiction>Action/Adventure
  • 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, iTunes
  • Paperback avilable from: Amazon (US and Europe) and direct via Create Space

Description:

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.

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

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

More Professor Odd…