BOOKS
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SILENTIUM
“Some serious shit-your-pants scares”
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For readers and fans of tense and claustrophobic sci-fi horrors like Aliens, The Thing, and Dead Space.
4051, twenty-six years after the Allyos Pandemic mutated humans into hideous infectious creatures decimating nearly a third of Earth’s population.
It was IPC, the Inter Planetary Commission, who miraculously discovered the cure, saved Earth and its planetary colonies, and united humanity under one dictum: All worlds as one.
Captain Joe Bannerman has been scraping a living hauling cargo since retiring from the IPC corps. Though no one ever truly retires. So, when IPC come his way with a job, he reluctantly accepts. Transporting personnel for shift change on the edge of the colonies may mean a long sleep but also means a hefty sum of credits.
Yet the deal sours when he discovers the personnel they’re transporting are IPC marines designated for re-education training, and the IPC rep in charge reeks of high-ranking secrecy.
When they make their destination and fail to raise the facility on comms, Joe, and the crew of the Fritzwicky suspect IPC is up to its old tricks and what should’ve been a routine passenger drop swiftly takes a 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”
For fans of humorous sci-fi fantasy similar to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Orville, and Red Dwarf.
In Great Space humans are rare and, like most rare things made of meat, there are plenty of folk who want to eat them and brag about how expensive it was later.
The universe is vast and teeming with dangerous and cunning creatures and then there’s Fifty-eight, a human at his wits’ end. It’s not easy hiding from intergalactic chefs determined to turn you into the next à la carte offering. Especially when they tend to hire every merc, bounty hunter, smuggler, and pirate in Great Space to track you down.
After a narrow escape, Fifty-eight reluctantly ends up onboard the Fallen Star and part of a whole crew of rare, tasty species. He suddenly finds himself in a chaotic space chase on the run from possibly the most useless, yet persistent, pirates in the galaxy.
Genres: science fiction, fantasy, adventure, comedy, space opera
SYMBIONTS
“Wonderfully Sci Fi”
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For fans of provocative and intriguing science fiction similar to authors like Stanislaw Lem, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Jeff VanderMeer.
What if you’re not actually in control of your body? You may assume you are. You may even hope you are. But if you’re not, who is in control?
This collection of speculative fiction presents nine thought-provoking tales across the scope of hard, fantasy, eco, light, and humorous science fiction.
Explore and discover what it means to be human and in control. In a world where technology advances at a tremendous rate and we give ourselves over to it, how can we be certain it is really us running the show? Or is that too, an illusion? And what about the other ancient enduring things out there? They’ve been around a lot longer than us humans, our machines and AI. Things which demand to remain. Things which simply take control.
Parasites, bugs, alien spore. They could be any one of these things, or all acting at once. Engaged in a fight invisible to us mere humans.
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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For readers and fans of heartwarming, mysterious fantasy.
Magia is being purged from the land of Seodan. Yet it will not go quietly into the night. It will endure. It is simply a matter of will.
In this collection of fantasy tales ranging from the dark and mysterious to the cosy and whimsical, discover the warmth, strength, and magic of Seodan’s myths and legends.
Yargi’s city is under siege, and all seems lost to him. Yet, as stone walls crumble and buildings burn, he discovers shelter and hope. Not in some stronghold or castle, but in the pages of a mysterious journal crammed with ancient tales.
There lies power in myths and legends. Power reaching beyond the pages on which they are written. Words carry strength. They inspire.
Perhaps in the journal’s pages, where common folk face unsurmountable odds, stand up to hideous leviathans, and expose the evils hiding amongst them, Yargi can discover the strength and will to survive.
Genres: magical fantasy, dark fantasy, monsters, coming-of-age, mystical fiction, short stories
A MESS OF POEMS
A Mess of Poems is very much a passion project of mine and side-step from my usual novel-sized offerings, yet still with strong leanings to my love of fantasy and sci-fi, including odes to nature, long-form memory poetry, fantasy haiku, and pillar poems. A slim collection of 66 poems ranging in topics from childhood memories of the ‘90s, to my grandmother’s recollections of leaving Poland at the very start of WWII, to fantasy verses and general nerdery.
Genres: poetry, long-form, short-form, haiku, pillar poems, odes, free-form, fantasy, monsters, coming-of-age, memories
M F ALFREY 