Thanatos Interruptus: Horror Stories
by O. A. Beckett and Peter Nemenoff
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In this genre-bending and spine-chilling collection of 10 new horror stories, Peter Nemenoff and O. A. Beckett offer something for almost everyone—everyone, that is, who enjoys pagan death cults and undead repairman, haunted dreams and possessed computers, domestic nightmares and alien hellscapes.
The stories share a preoccupation with the porous boundary between life and death, and how that boundary sometimes morphs unexpectedly into a revolving door. But no matter the subject or its gravity, the authors maintain a wry humor and an openness of heart toward the complex, flawed, and all-too-human victims of their expansive and lawless imaginations. In Thanatos Interruptus, these exciting new talents offer a fresh, bold sample of horror fiction at its most relevant and thoughtful.
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Poisoned Eros: Mind-bending Tales from the Dark Side of Love
by O. A. Beckett and Peter Nemenoff
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A post-apocalyptic tyrant with a pre-apocalyptic fetish. A restaurant where cannibals can take their dates. An interstellar alien come to lure human victims through her dating profile. A young woman who inadvertently murders her male teachers. These are just a sampling of the outlandish fictions you’ll encounter in this collection of short pieces from the delightfully-twisted imaginations of O. A. Beckett and Peter Nemenoff. The stories involve a daring mash-up of genres—science fiction and romantic comedy—and are guaranteed to delight, disarm, and disturb. So reader beware: love may be blind, but Cupid’s poisoned arrows hit true to their mark… often with unintended consequences.
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In the House of the Machine God
by O. A. Beckett
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Ten years before the events of The Heresies of World, an eclectic band of scientists embark on an expedition to the western continent. But when their heliplane is mysteriously brought down on a desolate island, they encounter an ancient horror which will challenge their intellects, their survival skills, and their very ideas about reality itself.
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The Heresies of World
by O. A. Beckett
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The place is known only as “World.” The time is unknown. A devastating, centuries-long war has severed humanity’s connection to the past, leaving all knowledge of history scattered in fragments. Now the war is over, and a ruthless, authoritarian Empire has risen to power, dead-set on crushing all dissent and hoarding whatever information remains.
Kaeylor Lirin is a brilliant young scientist with a burning curiosity and a rebellious nature. She has been tasked with investigating mysterious changes in the climate that may threaten the stability of the Empire. But she has an agenda of her own. Using her wits to bypass Imperial surveillance, she has embarked on a solitary quest to unearth the past in order to understand the present and hopefully to decipher clues that may point to a better future. But when her sister, long presumed dead, resurfaces as a leader of the underground resistance, Kaeylor must choose between protecting her family and fighting for freedom. A subterranean war is underway, and as it reaches a fever pitch, the Empire will employ all the firepower in its vast arsenal to maintain its grip on power. Caught between the people and the rulers, the rich and the poor, the weak and the powerful, Kaeylor will have to face murderous drones, corrupt strongmen, fickle droids, and brutal mercenaries if she has any hope of saving herself, the ones she loves, and World itself.
The Heresies of World, the first installment in the World saga, is a dark, complex, and dizzying sci-fi-thriller, a volatile mix of mystery, space opera, political intrigue, macabre humor, and gripping drama that will leave you thirsting for answers. But in this World, every answer provokes two new questions…
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