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For over ten years, The Bards and Sages Quarterly has provided fans of speculative fiction with a unique mix of tales from both new and established authors. With each issue, we strive to introduce readers to exciting and entertaining voices in the horror, science fiction, and fantasy genres. In this issue, stories by Jenny Swisher, Daniel Stride, Carrie Vaccaro Nelkin, Dana Beehr, Dawn Hebein, Andrew Knighton, Chris Dean, August von Orth, Jeff Metzler,...
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Adventurer Dirk Dynamo is heading to Egypt in search of the lost Great Library. But others are there ahead of him, people with far less enlightened agendas. As he races spies and criminals through the land of the Pharaohs, Dirk must decide how far he will go for knowledge and what he really values most in the world – life, love or learning.
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In the face of war and betrayal, adventurer Dirk Dynamo is hunting for clues to the lost Great Library of Alexandria. Arriving at an isolated German castle, he finds his life threatened by enemies prowling its corridors and an army laying siege outside the walls. Surrounded by traitors, monsters and falling artillery shells, can Dirk escape with his life and the artefacts he seeks?
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Adventurer Dirk Dynamo is back in Paris, in pursuit of the final clue to the location of the lost Great Library. But Paris is a city at war, with Prussian troops closing in from the east and the King in Shadow preparing to rise up in revolt. As violence reaches the city streets, can Dirk retrieve the last tablet, or will the path to the Great Library fall into the hands of a criminal mastermind?
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Dirk Dynamo is used to adventure. He's chased villainous masterminds across the mountains of Europe, stalked gangsters through the streets of Chicago, and faced the terrible battlefields of the Civil War. But now he's on a mission that will really shake his world.For centuries, the Great Library of Alexandria was thought lost. Now a set of clues has been discovered that could lead to its hiding place. With the learned adventurers of the Epiphany Club,...
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In a haunted monastery at the heart of a crumbling empire, a lone priest tends the fires for the dead. A servant bound by the bones of her family, Magdalisa is her people's last link to the wisdom of the past.But as the land around them dies, new arrivals throw the monastery into turmoil. A dead warlord demanding recognition. Her rival, seizing the scraps of power. Two priests, both claiming to serve the spirits, both with their own agendas.As ancient...
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Dirk Dynamo is enjoying a life of learning with the Epiphany Club. Joining an expedition to find the Great Library of Alexandria, he finds himself on the island of Hakon, where colonial life is not what it seems. With monsters in the jungle, conspiracies in the mansion and ninjas dogging his trail, can Dirk and his friends find the first clue to the Library before they meet a deadly fate?
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How far would you go for love, or for justice, or for the perfect gearwheel?Thomas Niggle grew up a mudlark, hunting for scrap on the polluted banks of the River Burr. One of the countless poor living in the shadows of Mercer Shackleton's vast factories, he has dragged himself out of poverty using his mechanical skills. An encounter with Gloria Shackleton, the Mercer's daughter, offers Niggle the possibility of love, but it also offers something else,...
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Join a Roman centurion on the road to war, a British diplomat on an alien planet, and an excise agent watching fire fly above the Phoenix Coast. A hundred different characters experience love, loss, pain and triumph in worlds beyond our own. Enjoy brief trips to other realities in these fifty-one flash stories including fantasy, steampunk, science fiction and historical fiction.
10) Suits and Sewers
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Dirk Dynamo is glad to be back in civilisation, with two clues to the location of the Great Library. But when ninjas kidnap his friend and steal a priceless artefact, Dirk is forced to pursue them into the sewers below London. Faced with deadly assassins and the strange followers of the Underlord, can Dirk save Sir Timothy and the tablet before he ends up on the wrong end of a shuriken?
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A gladiator painting with manticore blood.A demon detective policing Hell.A ninja who can turn into shadow.Prepare to be swept away to worlds beyond our own in these thirteen short fantasy stories. This collection includes:Live By the Sword – art and magic combine in a fantasy version of the Roman arena.Leprosaria – a knight and his chronicler uncover strange goings on in a leper hospital.Long Nights in Languedoc – something monstrous pursues...
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I have no objection to truth," I said, but I enjoy untruths too, they're the building blocks of human culture. Actors pretending to be kings, singers faking heartbreak or elation, novelists inventing heroes in their heads to escape the mindless dullards around them. Reality is a vast sea of tedium interrupted by brief flashes of the repugnant – why would anyone chain themselves to that?"*A spin doctor forced to deal with aliens who loathe lies.A...
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A demon detective and a steam-powered samurai. An engineer from the distant past and a pilot from the far future. Love, loss, pain and triumph in worlds beyond our own. Enjoy brief trips to other realities in these fifty-nine flash stories including fantasy, steampunk, science fiction and historical fiction.
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The Bards and Sages Quarterly starts its 12th year in publication with eight speculative tales by Guy Belleranti, William Duffy, Andrew Knighton, L.P. Melling, Wendy Nikel, David Rich, Michael Wheatley, and John Wolf. In this issue:A desperate job applicant attempts to circumvent a computer system that screens applicants based on a personality algorithm in The Plagiarist.A murderer seeks to pull off the perfect crime with some precision timing in...
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Each issue of the Bards and Sages Quarterly seeks to offer readers a unique collection of original speculative fiction tales from both new and established writers.
In this issue:
An interview with John J. Rust and Mark Gardner about their newest project, War of the Worlds: Retaliation.
Original short fiction by Andrew Knighton, A.J. Flowers, Stephen C Evans, Taylor Harbin, Walter G. Esselman, Steve Coate, Sean Garvey, PJ Keuning, Molly N. Moss, B.C....
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It's 1982 but not as we know it. The Cold War has lost its chill and World War III has arrived, threatening to send the whole planet into meltdown.Vladislav Rakovich is a young, idealistic communist. He dreams of being an officer, leading his soldiers on a mission to free the world from capitalism. But as the Soviet armies roll west, he gains his first bitter taste of command and reality hits. Can he stay focused on his aim in the face of undisciplined...
