M F ALFREY

SILENTIUM

“Some serious shit-your-pants scares”

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Aliens meets The Thing in M. F. Alfrey’s Silentium. In this action-packed military SF gore-fest, a struggling haulage crew and a squad of delinquent marines find themselves hurled together in a gruelling fight for survival beneath the ice.

Captain Joe Bannerman has finally scored a big job that would mean the good life for him and his crew: a long-haul trip to drop a bunch of marines on the edge of the charted territories for re-education training. The only drawback is their employer – the Inter Planetary Commission. A ruthless totalitarian corporate government.

But not long after their arrival, and failure to raise Aquilo Base on comms, all souls aboard the Fritzwicky suddenly find themselves stranded on a frozen world with no other choice but to delve into the ominously silent facility. And what should have been a routine passenger drop quickly takes a hideously twisted and disturbing turn.

Genres: body horror, military sci-fi, spam-in-the-can, science fiction, horror, survival horror

MAY CONTAIN SPACE PIRATES VOL 1

“A great, rollicking adventure through space”

Meet Fifty-eight. They call him that cos that’s the number for humans on a Gulutarian menu. When he wakes up on the waystation Wombago somewhere in Great Space, Fifty-eight knows he is in precisely the wrong place to hide from the mercs, bounty hunters, privateers, and smugglers hot on his trail.

When he blunders onboard the Fallen Star, he concludes that although he wasn’t looking for a family, he may have found one in the endlessly optimistic toadish Captain; First Mate Mx Scrillion, a forthright jelly-prawn in a mech suit; Chief Engineer Amanotto, the easy-going lion-like Feleon; Weapons Specialist Minbuana, a blue reptilian warrior with mammal issues; and Ambala, the feline Venan with quite a few secrets squeezed into her catsuit. Oh, and there’s also MAL, the ship’s AI (we don’t talk about him).

Join Fifty-eight and the crew of the Fallen Star, on the run from galactic chefs, and the most incompetent mercenaries in the Ultraverse, on a ridiculously raucous adventure through the darkest quadrants of space, where militarised parasites terrorise planets, brutish rock monsters generally cause havoc, and the feared platersnak may strike at any moment.

Genres: science fiction, fantasy, adventure, comedy, space opera

SYMBIONTS

“Wonderfully Sci Fi”

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In this short story collection you’ll find strange alien artifacts; a haunted planet; an alien spore that puts humans to sleep, and reshapes Earth; a drifting space ship that slowly repairs itself, but every breath brings the survivors closer to death; an assault on a bug planet from the bug’s perspective; a stomach infection that writes bestsellers; aliens moving onto our planet who promise they won’t be a bother (honest); a cyber punk future where two types of human exist, Orgs and Mods, and then there is the AI Animo; the fate of humanity in the hands of an android questioning if we humans really are worth saving.

Genres: Science fiction fantasy, speculative fiction, aliens, alien worlds, short stories

THE SIXTH DAWN AND OTHER STORIES

“A gem of a read”

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The Sixth Dawn and Other Stories is a collection of magical fantasy tales interlinked by the story of Yargi, a young boy who lives in Taz, a city under siege. Amidst the chaos, Yargi finds refuge but not in the form of a stronghold, or hero, but in a book. A book full of folktales and legends of his world, lore the warlord Emlok wishes to purge forever.

Escape with Yargi through inspiring tales, where walls write poems, and creatures impersonate villagers to assume their identities. Discover a wonderful orb that can share mind-pictures. Meet young women who confront titans and fight gods. Journey with a young wizard seeking to restore his good-for-nothing zombified brother. Wander through the temple of the old gods. See how the world’s most conceited rogue gets his just desserts, and drift along with a mariner lost at sea, plagued by a monster, but not the one circling his boat.

Genres: magical fantasy, dark fantasy, monsters, coming-of-age, mystical fiction, short stories