Jim Goforth

Christina Engela

D. F. Holland

Tabitha Baumander

The penultimate picks of petrifying prose from a plethora of poignant producers of powerful putrefaction.Moon Books Presents:Thomas M. Malafarina - Foreword, Status Quo, One Sunny Suburban Sunday, Ally's CatJim Goforth - Strange Old BrewD. F. Holland - After DeathChristina Engela - Homecoming, Midnight StationTabitha Baumander - Trucker, The Good Mrs. Kats

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The Time Saving Agency

Theo Engela

A Way of Life

Bugspray

Lange's Legacy

Things aren't always as they seem. Neither was Charlie Branson - or Andy Niksn. Outwardly, Charlie appeared to be the successful, respected, somewhat over-paid Captain of a commercial space liner. In truth, it was 2025 - space liners did not yet exist, and the space liner Freedom was really just a very expensive set - a fancy simulator for wealthy clients the company took on simulated cruises into deep space to forget the real world for a while, to get away from it all - and they loved them for it! In an atmosphere where people were locked away from reality for weeks at a time, and cos-playing and roleplaying redefined 'normal', telling fact and fantasy apart became more complicated than expected. For those who preferred the pleasant escape from the harsh realities of life outside, like Charlie, wishing it could all just be real became something almost like a prayer. Andy Niksn, by contrast, was the very successful respected and somewhat over-paid Captain of an actual commercial space liner in the year 2773. Trouble was, Andy felt trapped! He was in a relationship - a dead-end partnership that had no future and promised both even less happiness. On top of that, his friend Jim had died recently, leaving Andy in the darkest place he'd ever been - and he didn't mean space! Andy wished he could just wake up to a different reality where everything could make sense again! For Andy, this too became something almost like a prayer! As it turned out, someone heard them. The answer wasn't quite what they expected.

Mirror, Mirror

Revenge. Getting even. Fighting back. Whatever it's called, it's supposed to warrant two graves - or at least, that's how one old saying went - usually, in the case of mere mortal Human beings. In the case of the Human race as a whole, it was less about that and more about survival. Having just survived the Big Nuke twenty years before, a recovering Earth just beginning to reap the rewards of interplanetary colonization was suddenly attacked by an alien race that didn't communicate, didn't negotiate - and seemed absolutely intent on taking the entire solar system for itself. The only option the war-weary people of Earth, Mars and Luna had, was to beat their plough-shares back into swords - and fight back! In the first six months, the best the fledgling Earth Defense Fleet could manage, was to push the savage Gimp back to the asteroid belt. For four long years since then, it was all they could do to maintain the stalemate, with each side waiting for the other to make a fatal mistake. Sooner or later the war would end, one way - or the other. For Alex Nikolls, a pilot fighting in the blackness of space on an almost daily basis, it couldn't come soon enough! For Francis Talon - Commander In Chief of a strike force intended to bring the aliens to their knees, it was the culmination of a journey of self-glorification and ambition leading all the way back to the L.A. mafia and the killing of Marian Mureau's parents. For Marian Mureau, it meant more than just the end of the war - it signified the end of a life-long vendetta!

Best Served Cold

Starting with former C.I.A. Agent (that's Colonial Intelligence Agency) Cindy-Mei Winter's arrival on the backwater Terran colony of Deanna, the planet's reputation for being the center of the universe as far as weirdness is concerned held true; strato-penguins that flew too high exploded, ha-ha birds crashed into everything, Ding, the small shiny moon really did fall down occasionally, and the Ruminarii - Humanity's long-lost adversaries - chose that exact same day to crash the party by invading the colony. Together with a string of interesting personalities on Deanna, including Fred the Arborian (the astonishing sentient and very mobile plant alien), Beck the Badfeller (Deanna's most famous bounty hunter), Peg (the Sheriff of Atro City), Timaset Skooch (a ramshackle P.I.) and the Skeggs Valley Dynamite Fishing Club (don't ask) - Mei must overcome a flurry of threats to life, liberty and peace and quiet,

Christina Engela

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