by admin | Aug 30, 2025 | Science Fiction |
A witty Belle-like wanderer meets murderous beasts. The locals can be like that. Welcome to Haell.
Troubled past? Check. Strictly avoiding interstellar travel for the foreseeable future? Check. Shrouded homeless human on an alien planet dodging draven dung and the occasional hawked loogie? Check.
Hi. The name’s Trick. A short female camped out on a brutal planet lying low with my secrets until suddenly I’m not. With a lethal librarian providing backup, I find myself investigating a series of abductions in the city of TreValla while gathering a motley group of allies, sentient murderous books, and an alluring enemy K’Vroken on the way.
When word spreads that ‘undesirable’ citizens are being targeted for their meager ability to harness mahdra, a magic that usually only the elite here on Haell can manipulate, I allow myself to become bait. I mean, as an avatar for the celestial stars themselves, brimming with a world-ending amount of mahdra, it seems fitting that a born reject like me sticks up for those whose voices go unheard. I may have just been remade for it.
Trip the Starlight Sarcastic is a full-length adult novel that focuses on fish-out-of-water hilarity and new-found families to navigate some darker themes that seem to plague Haell and Earth alike. Trigger warning: allusions to assault are made while a thwarted incident occurs later on in the book. That said, chaotic good reigns. Justice is satisfyingly graphic, swift, and quite funny. Adventure, slow-burn romance, and wonder abound, all under the contented feeling of finally being home. In a library. With living books.
Coming Soon…
Star Keeper Novel 2: Tricked Out Turning Drastic
Release date March 7th, 2024
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by admin | Aug 30, 2025 | Horror & Paranormal |
“The Thing in the Vault is a Dashiell Hammett/H P Lovecraft pastiche and done extremely well.” **** – Amazon reviewer T.G Cooper.
A darker shade of Noir: a novella of mystery and terror to delight detective fans and veterans of the Cthulhu Mythos alike.
1927, Chicago: Tough private eye Ed Jones takes on a simple assignment to investigate an eccentric German scientist. But Jones knows there’s no such thing as a simple assignment…and that there’s a lot his client isn’t telling him.
The trail leads to a New England town, where Jones is not the only visitor from Chicago: there are machine-gun toting gangsters, a smooth-talking con artist and an assassin with a garrotte, plus the scientist himself, who is a stranger character than Jones could have imagined. The locals don’t seem to like any of them — but they’re more afraid of the mysterious hooded figures deep in the forest.
Jones is forced to team up with some unlikely comrades, to solve some unsolved murders and tackle a gang like nothing else on Earth…
For those who like their Cthulhu hardboiled, this tale of the roaring Twenties mixes gangland violence with unearthly terror — and some serious sleuthing as Jones puts together the pieces to figure out what’s really going on…
Note: This story is included in the collection The Dulwich Horror & Others
Visit the Shadows From Norwood Facebook page for video trailer, map, reading group guide and extras –https://www.facebook.com/ShadowsFromNorwood
Click on Look Inside, or click on Send Sample Now — and you’ll be drawn into a world of Lovecraftian horror beyond human understanding.
David Hambling is an author, journalist, cat-lover and Call of Cthulhu fan living in South London. He writes for The Guardian, The Economist, WIRED, Popular Science among others.
His cat thinks this is all very strange.
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by admin | Aug 30, 2025 | Dystopian & Apocalyptic |
WINNER: First Place 2023 Writer’s Digest E-Book Awards for for Science Fiction.
Numbers don’t lie. But people do.
????? “If ChatGPT had a villain origin story, this would be it”
Boogie Wu was supposed to be a genius success story: child math prodigy, Stanford PhD, rising star at Magenta Labs. Then she burned out, flamed out, and disappeared.
Now, years later, the trillion-dollar company that cast her aside has launched a startlingly skillful AI. It drives. It cooks. It thinks. It takes more and more jobs from humans. And Boogie’s long-lost proof—the one she cracked in a sensory deprivation tank in rural Japan—might be the code running underneath it all.
As old friends resurface, whistleblowers go silent, and protest turns violent, Boogie is pulled back into a web of ambition, regret, and dangerous invention. She thought solving the math was the hard part. But when your mind is the blueprint for a machine that could reshape the world, Boogie must decide: expose the truth and risk everything, or fight a machine intelligence that knows her better than she knows herself.
Set in a future so near you can touch it, Cloudthinker is a profound and propulsive new thriller that confronts big tech, memory and consciousness, and what it means to be human.
Selected Reader Reviews:
????? “Crackling near-term, hard-SF dawn-of-AGI novel. More ideas per page than any book I’ve read in ages… Rather than worrying about whether AI understands in a way that would satisfy a philosopher, he asks whether they feel in a way that would terrify an ethicist.” – Harry B.
????? “WOW. I always hope but never expect a book to be this good! How much did I ENJOY it?… and on a scale of 1-10 this was 17-19 or something!” – Randy F.
????? “This book will take you down the winding trail of “what ifs” that are fast becoming a reality for all of us. Thrilling and thought provoking. I forgot this was a work of fiction several times.” – Joe S.
????? “In many ways, Cloudthinker feels like a movie waiting for a screenplay.” – Jules K
????? “The timeliness of the AI progression nailed it, I think – everything from Wuhan to the current state of language models felt like the changes were worryingly plausible” – Sean R.
????? “You can read it as a philosophical and ethical journey into some of the most interesting topics emerging in today’s society.” – JT.
????? “I picked it up and read it in a single sitting. And then went back and read it again a few days later. A gripping and engaging story both times!” – Jordan D-M.
????? “This distinctly creative, imaginative, and profound debut novel will delight fans of sci-fi, thrillers/suspense stories, technothrillers, and cyberpunk”. – Terri Stepek for Reader Views
????? “Hits the zeitgeist in a big way.” – Jennifer Hill for Reedsy Discovery
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by admin | Aug 30, 2025 | Science Fiction |
A cranky outcast, an egocentric robot and a cargo bay’s worth of problems.
In the three years since Caspian Robeaux refused a direct order from his captain to fire on a civilian population, he’s been court-martialed, jailed, sentenced to a work camp and almost killed. Only a genius or someone with incredible luck could have made it this far with all his parts intact, and Cas knows he’s not that smart.
Now he’s escaped, living on some backwater planet drinking the days away with a robot who won’t shut up. His refuge is short lived, however, when raiders invade the planet and steal what little he’s scavenged. His only choice now is to return and face his captors, or take his fate into his own hands, and do whatever is necessary to survive. Will he sacrifice all he believes if it means getting out alive?
FATE’S ARROW: ROBEAUX is the first novella in the INFINITY’S END LEGACY series, a group of one-shot stories about the characters from INFINITY’S END. Each book in the series can be read in any order and is perfect for new readers and fans of the series alike! Grab your copy today!
by admin | Aug 30, 2025 | Dystopian & Apocalyptic |
DARKNESS FALLS
The month of Darkness is quickly approaching. It is a time when the denizens of the night roam the land freely and the citizens of Arkdale lock themselves behind their high walls seeking refuge.
This cycle has repeated itself for centuries. Now the world is changing. An ancient secret buried deep beneath the land mournfully sings of the approaching chaos.
Now Walt, Rainna, Mallek, and Lucas must race to solve the enigmas of their ancestors before all that they know and love is plunged into eternal darkness.
UNLIKELY HEROES
Once orphans, now outcasts, these four inseparable friends must find a way to survive in a dystopian world where unspeakable horrors have been called forth from out of legend.
Their only hope lies within each other, the only family any of them have ever known.
Together they must rediscover the truths of a forgotten age to endure the surging storm.
But why are they being hunted by Arkdale’s mysterious leaders?
Can they trust the strangers that suddenly appear to help them?
And most importantly, what is buried beneath the ruins?
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