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A young man travels to the city to study magic, but he finds intrigue and revolution. A fantasy novel with a unique setting, an India-flavoured culture, and a cast of detailed and varied characters struggling through tumultuous times.

This series of poems was inspired by an exploration of a country I've never seen but that was home to my ancestors, reading up on the folktales and traditions of people on the northern coast of the Netherlands (Friesland and Groningen specifically). It explores the ways that we create and interpret meaning through the lens of an impossible, floating village.

Third book of the Arcist Chronicles. The mage Pavresh discovers a new magical threat, the new caste-less city hits hard times, and a cabal of villains presents the Eghsal Valley's greatest threat.

Targeted by a mad scientist's deadly serum, these outcasts band together to uncover the truth and to fight back. Spire City is home to mighty machines of steam power and clockwork, and giant beetles pull picturesque carriages over cobbled streets. But there is a darker secret behind these wonders. A deadly infection, created by a mad scientist, is spreading through the city, targeting the poor and powerless, turning them slowly into animals. A group of those infected by the serum join together to survive, to trick the wealthy out of their money, and to fight back. This lyrical fantasy will transport you to a steampunk world of weird and strange wonder. Come explore!

Targeted by a mad scientist's deadly serum, these outcasts band together to uncover the truth and to fight back. Spire City is home to mighty machines of steam power and clockwork, and giant beetles pull picturesque carriages over cobbled streets, but there is a darker secret behind these wonders. A deadly infection, created by a mad scientist, is spreading through the city, targeting the poor and powerless, turning them slowly into animals. A group of those infected by the serum join together to survive, to trick the wealthy out of their money, and to fight back. Months have passed since the confrontation with the sleepless Mint, and now Orgood is becoming more aggressive again in infecting the people on the streets and pursuing those who have already been infected. Can those in the Weave answer in kind, or will the attempt wipe them all out? Find out in Season Two: Pursued. This sequel to Spire City, Season One: Infected includes all thirteen episodes of the second season of this steampunk-fantasy series. The series will conclude with Spire City, Season Three: Unwoven.

Terrorists attack the Princes, Outcasts build a new city, and the mage Pavresh discovers that Arcist Magic is more powerful than ever imagined. Book 2 of The Arcist Chronicles, Sequel to The Silk Betrayal.

The cities along the Yahm Railroad expose many mysteries of the cosmos-of language, meaning, and reality. Bringing together equal parts of the fabulist tales of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities and the languid and evocative fantasies of Lord Dunsany, these thirteen stories and poems explore the strange realities of these cities...and perhaps of all cities. By the author of the Spire City series and the Arcist Chronicles, this collection combines a mixture of previously published work with new writings to create a whole that twists and juggles with the reality we think we know.

Welcome the the sixth SFFWorld.com anthology, bringing together fifteen stories of heroism and villainy in a city of millions on the Oregon coast! Yesterday, it didn't exist. Today, our authors have brought it to life. Tomorrow, who knows? WELCOME TO PACIFIC CITY is a new shared world project, establishing a home for a range of heroic and villainous characters to rival Gotham or Metropolis. Here you'll find origin stories, thrills and spills, psychos and saviours, laughs and lamentations! Headlined by crowd-pleasing genre authors Matthew Hughes and Tansy Rayner Roberts, and joined by thirteen new and established writers from around the world, our contributors are defining Pacific City one story at a time. WELCOME TO PACIFIC CITY is the answer to the question "Where do you go when quaint, quiet little hamlets like Tokyo, London, Mumbai and NYC just don't give you a tingle any more?" Come and see what it has to offer...

The vast northern valley grows colder, and no mighty steam furnace will ever bring back its warmth.Seamstress Nalariana is desperate to escape, any way she can. When her chance comes, though, it isn't to warmer lands, but deeper into the north, where old ways hold sway.Along with the spire singer Derran, she must face a suspicious people while navigating a proud society that is stranger, subtler, and more advanced than she ever guessed.Could she make a place for herself here, in this strange land?Should she escape instead to Derran's city of gears and carriages and amazing factories?Will either place ever accept her?For readers new to Spire City, this novella offers a stand-alone story of cultural clashes and a changing world, as the steam revolution begins to take hold.For readers of the Spire City series, it stretches the world beyond the city and answers one of the great questions that Chels never uncovered--how the friendship between her mother and the chained spire singer Derran began.Immerse yourself in a rich fantasy journey--read it today!