SF & Fantasy

   CHAPTER I THE United Schools Club, or the Schools United as it is sometimes called, has so large a membership that the subscriptions, though low, are able to provide a club-house in the West End that has a good…Read more

   They separated, and Cass half-stumbled her way into the hidden room, with Wren trailing close behind. Inside, the small interior space was packed with the delicate machinery of a chemist: vials, thin flexiglass tubes, pristine stainless surfaces. An overhead…Read more

   It was a contract survey ship called Segmenter that found the planet Darien while studying the perilous gulfs of the Huvuun Deepzone.  Through tangled swirls and curtains of interstellar dust and debris, Segmenter had painstakingly (and clandestinely) plotted and…Read more

AN EXCERPT FROM THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE BY MARTIN MACK  The air was thick, muggy, and dank with downtown sweat. If you were paying attention, you could feel something in the air. But like a sudden summer storm, few saw it…Read more

The Book Eaters
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The Book Eaters

Sunyi Dean

SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO  “What do you fear, lady?” he asked.  “A cage,” she said. “To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.”  —J. R.…Read more

The Book Eaters
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The Book Eaters

Sunyi Dean

PRESENT DAY  But where did the book eaters come from? There is no evidence to suggest they are a mutant strain of evolution at work, and humanity took thousands of years to develop paper-making technology.  The book eaters themselves tell…Read more