Coming Feb. 5: Ifscapes 6 and 7 in paperback - and Coming Soon: Ifscapes 13!

Coming February 5 in paperback:

Ifscapes 6, Perennials of Paradox

In a multiverse filled with universes, there’s plenty of space and outer space for multiples, contingents, and alternates. Where does alter ego meet alternate ego? How many repeated extraterrestrial invasions does it take to stir Earth’s defenses to action? Can a man full of life really investigate his own murder? The sixth Ifscapes installment, Perennials of Paradox explores these questions over and over in this collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories.

Ifscapes 7, Spurious Passages

The multiverse of the Ifscapes series continues to expand with Volume 7, Spurious Passages. What’s real and what’s fake in the range of many universes at once? Can the casting company find a proper Odyssean actor with suitable knowledge of the Bronze Age and Homer’s Cretan Lie? Is interplanetary warfare an empire’s endgame in the age of hover technology, upgraded centurions, and legions from the edge of a known universe? It might take bureaucrats in a conference call or soldiers on a military campaign to find out.

. . . and coming soon to the Ifscapes multiverse: Volume 13!

Thanks for reading!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

"The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined." (Isaiah 9:2)

Now Available! Ifscapes 12: Decades Are Decades, Time Is Money

Now out on Kindle! Ifscapes 12: Decades Are Decades, Time Is Money

The Ifscapes multiverse continues to expand in Volume 12, Decades Are Decades, Time Is Money, bringing to life more intriguing and exciting realms across the stars and timelines. What’s an Earthling decade worth, and how do they pass most quickly? Who’s really behind the latest leaps of technology that prevent everything from asteroid collisions to extraterrestrial invasions? Is it too late to stop a self-propelled apocalypse?

In this volume of Ifscapes:

- discover the devastating secrets of world plagues

- survive desperate pursuits through forlorn cities

- sneak past monsters on their surprising prowl

- sit in on Aldebaranians’ galactic crises

- join an emergency meeting of Earth’s greatest minds

- awaken memories that can save lost civilizations

Alternative worlds past, present, and future collide with reality and beyond in this collection of classic science fiction short stories. Mysterious farmhouses with a magnetic pull. Secret societies with wide-open access. Terraformed settlements with everything to lose. Decades Are Decades, Time Is Money delves back into the
of adventure, enigma, dystopia, serious, satire, and more, leaving no time to waste and fewer realities unturned.

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Apollonius's Argonautica, In Print Now

In print now: Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes 

Translated by Stanley Lombardo & Cynthia C. Polsley

Introduction by Tara Welch

Thank you to Brian Rak and the team at Hackett for all their hard work getting this project through to completion!

Sidewise Musings in Paperback

Volume Five in the Ifscapes Multiverse, Sidewise Musings, is now out in paperback as well as ebook! This collection's story "Seven Against Thebes" is one of the longest Ifscapes in the series. It was an especially fun and intriguing exercise in world-building, with quite a few mythological Easter Eggs and ancient-world crossovers to be found below the classic-sci-fi surface of the story ("below the surface" . . . if you've read the story, you'll see the intended pun!).

From the book description: 

"How many Mercurians does it take to change a light-bulb in a far-away citadel of lights? What really caused the literal downfall of Atlantis? Does a meeting of artificial intelligence and asteroids really equal a new empire? Ifscapes teases these questions and more as the series travels underground, upside-down, sidewise, and otherwise in the latest collection of meta-myth science fiction and fantasy short stories.

"Inverted and retroverted worlds meet with remote non-human resources, chronological catastrophes, fantastic islands, and robotic antagonists in just a few worldscapes, timescapes, and landscapes of If. Is it when in Rome that you do as the Pallentinians do, or was that in Babylon, or even in Troy? Are the enemies at Thebes’ gates or in the palace halls? Which came first, Socrates or the dialogue? Volume Five in the multiverse of Ifscapes, Sidewise Musings ponders the boundaries and puzzles the pundits with a whole new array of meta-myth manuscript discoveries, athwart adventures, and oblique obstacles of space and time."