Download or read book Tales from Heian Kyo and Others written by Kate MacLeod and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate MacLeod has been published in both fantasy and science fiction. This books collects four of her previously published short stories as well as one new bonus story. These tales span from Heian era Japan to north of the Arctic circle, from light-hearted fare like "Trifle" to the darker "The Onmyoji’s Wife”. This collection includes: Tale of a Fox Blood and Ink The Onmyoji's Wife Seagull and Raven Trifle

Download or read book The Race Across the Desert Episode 10 written by Kate MacLeod and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chai Makhani Trio stole a shuttle, but without pilots to fly it, they remain trapped. But they have a prisoner now: Koltn Ward. His mission lies opposed to theirs. But Alextra has the power to compel him. Only none of them know where the rebellion hides now. Best guess? Somewhere in the Desert of the Burning Sands. Infinite dunes await their anxious search. But the name? Not an exaggeration. The trio must summon up all their strength to face this latest challenge. And they must do it with the help of their bitterest foe. "The Race Across the Desert” is the tenth episode in the ongoing monthly science fiction adventure serial TALES OF THE CHAI MAKHANI TRIO.

Download or read book The Story for the Letters written by Kate MacLeod and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheshkala, far too young for such things, left her parents and her mountain home behind to secretly follow her big brother Irarra to his apprenticeship in the city. Then the siege began. Murderous barbarians surround the city, pounding at its ancient walls day and night. They want the king. They want the king's wealth. But more than that, they want to destroy the king's library. The library where she now hides and waits and watches her brother. "The Story for the Letters", a short story set in a bronze age city full of secret dangers. Dangers with no qualms about harming little girls. But resourceful little girls know no fear.

Download or read book The World of the Shining Prince written by Ivan Morris and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Prisoners and Rebels Episode 4 written by Kate MacLeod and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chai Makhani Trio survived a night and a day in the jungle of a thousand easy deaths. They even evaded capture at the hands of Koltn Ward and the rest of the enforcers. But night falls again. And the best Commonwealth medicines that Alextra keeps pulling from her seemingly bottomless belt pouches only slows the spread of venom up her leg. But not as fast as the venom slows her steps. And somewhere out there they know Koltn Ward is regrouping. Their only hope lies in the last place Keani ever wanted to see again: home. "Prisoners and Rebels" is the fourth episode in the ongoing monthly science fiction adventure serial TALES OF THE CHAI MAKHANI TRIO.

Download or read book The Slums of the Solar System Books 1 3 written by Kate MacLeod and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This box set collects the three novels in the Slums of the Solar System shared world: MITWA, THE MARS OF MALCONTENTS, and A WHOLE WORLD FOR EACH. MITWA: When a deadly plague ravaged the Earth refugees fled into space, crowding into any space station or lunar colony that would take them. Decades passed and the descendants of the survivors struggle to live in anything remotely spaceworthy. Omesh, banished from his Earthly home, finds himself in Barnacle Town. A collection of salvage clinging to the hull of a space station in lunar orbit. Thousands of lives cling precariously to the hull, at the whim of the corporation that owns the station. The station manager welcomes everyone. But then the CEO arrives, intent on scraping the hull of his craft clean. Omesh and his family, friends and neighbors? Not the corporation’s problem. With nowhere else to go, Omesh vows to fight for his new home. But physics? More merciless than any CEO. THE MARS OF MALCONTENTS: Valentina knows how to live in the community spread throughout the old mining caves under the Martian ice cap. A violent place in a forbidding climate, but home for her and her brother. Until she wakes from a coma to find her brother gone. Her father thinks her incapable of following them back to the equatorial cities. He underestimates her – her stubbornness, her courage and her inventiveness. But she underestimates the cold, airless surface of Mars. A journey from the polar ice cap to the Martian equator? Not enough to stop Valentina. Not with her brother on the line. THE WHOLE WORLD FOR EACH: After humankind fled Earth for space they discovered one inescapable truth. People die in space. And lots of dead people means lots of ghosts. April Nguyen earns a nice living getting rid of those ghosts. People all over the Solar System clamor for her aid. April's only problem? Never actually seeing a ghost. She pretends, she feigns, she completely convinces her clients, but she fears her inevitable exposure as a fraud. And then comes Hakim, the ultimate suspicious sceptic watching her every move. And yet April feels herself drawn to him. He knows a whole other world. "The Whole World for Each", a story about belief and disbelief and how we jump between the two. Humankind escaped Earth, but not death and what comes after.

Download or read book On Desperate Seas written by Kate MacLeod and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It all started with Penelope.Or perhaps Jane, for Jane's letter sent Edgar on the first leg of his improbable journey.The man Penelope wed in Edgar's place lies at the bottom of the sea, her heart with him. Bedridden, she vomits sea water and slowly drowns. She needs her heart back. But Jane lost something else, something more than her heart."On Desperate Seas" follows a ship searching for the remains of the Sir John Franklin Expedition but finding something deadlier lurking beneath the Arctic Sea.

Download or read book Upon the Lonesome Wild written by Kate MacLeod and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They travelled for generations to reach this planet, to turn it into a bread basket for the universe. Rich soil, abundant sun and rain, a perfect site for agricultural colonization. But nothing grows, and no one knows why. A generation raised to become the forefathers of millions now ages alone, their children forced to move on to better prospects. Enid's husband thinks she imagines things, things that move through the corn that surrounds their farm. He blames her long hours alone and gives her a puppy to be her companion, guard and protector. But the puppy senses things lurking just outside their farm too. "Upon the Lonesome Wild", a science fiction short story about the cost of family moving away from each other at relativistic speeds.

Download or read book An Undiplomatic Murder written by Kate MacLeod and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cadets Ritchie and Fitz finally face their last year at the Oymyakon Foreign Service Academy. Which means decision time for what comes next. The golden wings and ivory robes of a diplomat? Or the crossed spears and navy blue uniform of a guardian? Before they decide, they and the other last-year cadets first spend a week on the university planet, visiting both of the colleges. A single day at the guardian school exhausts even the most highly trained of the cadets. But the first night visiting the diplomat school ends in a very undiplomatic murder. One of the guests at a mock state dinner dies in the middle of the dessert course, a victim of a very gruesome poison. And the only suspect? Cadet Shackleton Fitz IV. So Murdina Ritchie finds herself alone on a strange planet with its own set of rules, desperate to prove her partner's innocence. Hard enough under any circumstances, made harder still by the presence of two former Oymyakon cadets: Finn and Feena Berweger. Can Ritchie defeat her old nemeses one more time? Maybe. Can she do it with her best friend and close partner in crime-solving trapped in police custody? She has to. An Undiplomatic Murder, book five in the Ritchie and Fitz Sci-Fi Murder Mysteries.

Download or read book The Perilous Escape Episode 8 written by Kate MacLeod and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chai Makhani Trio find themselves prisoners on board the Commonwealth flagship. Now they face interrogation and possibly execution. Elyot's mother has betrayed the rebellion. Worse than a collaborator, she serves the empress in the Commonwealth military. Elyot must get back to the rebellion and expose her. Alextra's hopes of keeping her identity secret seem on the verge of death. The longer she stays, the likelier it gets that she will get exposed. And Keani just wants to get her knives back. But before any other goal is achieved, they must escape. "The Perilous Escape” is the eighth episode in the ongoing monthly science fiction adventure serial TALES OF THE CHAI MAKHANI TRIO.

Download or read book Full Circle written by Kate MacLeod and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans live throughout the solar system but the factories on Earth stopped producing. No new ships, no new stations. Find an old ship to salvage? Someone died there. Maybe many someones. April knows this better than anyone. She cleanses haunted spaces, removes ghosts left behind by hull breaches, failure of a life support system, or even good old-fashioned cabin fever. People rely on her for peace of mind, living in ships with such histories. She wants to help. She believes in family and in people lending a hand when called on. But in ghosts? Not so much. When nothing saves you from the killing vacuum of space but the thickness of your hull, why make up other horrors. Or so April thinks, until she answers one last call for help.

Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Japan written by DK Eyewitness and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore Japan's busy city streets, historic temples, and beautiful culture. Experience Tokyo, Kyoto, and the rest of Japan's exciting cities. Discover DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Japan. + Detailed itineraries and "don't-miss" destination highlights at a glance. + Illustrated cutaway 3-D drawings of important sights. + Floor plans and guided visitor information for major museums. + Guided walking tours, local drink and dining specialties to try, things to do, and places to eat, drink, and shop by area. + Area maps marked with sights. + Detailed city maps include street finder indexes for easy navigation. + Insights into history and culture to help you understand the stories behind the sights. + Hotel and restaurant listings highlight DK Choice special recommendations. With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Japan truly shows you this country as no one else can.

Download or read book The Travels of Scout Shannon Books 1 6 written by Kate Macleod and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 1360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This box set collects the entire six book series The Travels of Scout Shannon. Under Falling Skies Scout's whole family died the day the Space Farers dropped an asteroid on their domed city. Now she lives alone, out in the wild with only her dogs for company. She prefers it that way. But Scout finds herself at a crossroads. One road leads back to a quiet life snug under the protective dome of a city. The other road leads to a life in the rebellion, a life of adventure and excitement but also danger. Dare she try to find the rebels hiding in the hills? Then a chance encounter with a stranger from the other side of the galaxy threatens to derail what remains of Scout's life. The entire galaxy awaits her, if she survives the next four days. In Quaking Hills Scout just wants to find the man who conned her mentor and leave her home world for good. Alas, the long-threatened war draws nearer and Scout finds herself caught in the middle, surrounded by rebels and bandits. Worse, she carries a pocketful of dangerous secrets with no one to entrust them to. And the hills keep shaking. Something lurks deep underground. Something massive. Something world-destroying. Scout leaves in three days. If she lives that long. Among Treacherous Stars Scout wants nothing more than to leave her home. She makes it as far as her own planet's orbit before the snares of bureaucracy close around her, trapping her on a space station populated by her people's oldest foe. Then her rescuer, her only friend in the galaxy, disappears, abducted by a group of strangers the moment he steps off his ship. Alone in a strange place, surrounded by the old enemies she knows and new enemies just making themselves known, Scout faces a challenge like none before. But with her dogs at her side, Scout stands prepared for anything. Against Impassable Barriers Caught between two factions of a powerful trade dynasty, Scout fights to remain free and to protect her friends. But the people trying to make her their pawn barely seem human to her eyes. Fight them? She can barely understand them. With friends on both sides of the planetary blockade, Scout just needs to find a way to get her friends stuck on the inside to those waiting for them on the outside. But foes also lurk on both sides. And they hide among her friends. How to tell friend from foe? Scout better learn before the enemies close in around her. Over Freezing Altitudes Having escaped yet another closing trap, Scout finds herself on a snowbound mountaintop far from civilization. With assassins eager to kill her, laying low on an alien world is the smartest play. But wherever Scout goes, trouble follows. And a hamlet in the mountains gets far more remote when girl assassins destroy the only means back to civilization. Now Scout and her dogs face a long, cold climb back to the frozen star port city, her only guide, a girl whose sister Scout killed when fighting for her life. Can she get to safety before the girl learns the truth about Scout? And what secrets of her own is this strange girl keeping? At Galactic Central Galactic Central, a collection of floating cities in a vast, manmade, planetless cloud. Scout longed to see it since she first heard of it. This place long represented her shining future. But in her less shiny present, she reaches it by smuggling herself aboard a cargo ship and hides in the lower sewer-like levels of the most opulent of the floating cities. Teams of girl assassins still hunt her. Worse, her friends are in danger and don't even know. Scout has to save her friends, because saving her friends means saving her entire planet from enslavement to the Tajaki trade dynasty. Caught between two sides of that dynasty, with a mysterious third party desperate to remove her from the galaxy, Scout is in way over her head. But with her friends, she just might see a path to victory for all of them.

Download or read book Tale of a Fox written by Kate MacLeod and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nagano nestles amongst the highest mountains in Japan, far from the fashionable life of the capital city of Heain-Kyo. Asuka wishes to never leave her mountain home. But her husband’s career beckons him to the capital. Mountains covered in forests, forests filled with foxes. And with things more than foxes. No one says the word out loud, but Asuka knows it. Kitsune. The kitsune understand her love of remote Nagano. They share it. Asuka just wants her husband to share it too.

Download or read book Against Impassable Barriers written by Kate MacLeod and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stranded on the far side of the moon with her friends, Scout Shannon waits for rescue from galactic central. Hunted by two sets of enemies, surrounded by an impenetrable barrier maintained by an almost alien class of humans, time runs short. Caught between two factions of a powerful trade dynasty, Scout fights to remain free and to protect her friends. But the people trying to make her their pawn barely seem human to her eyes. Fight them? She can barely understand them. With friends on both sides of the planetary blockade, Scout just needs to find a way to get her friends stuck on the inside to those waiting for them on the outside. But foes also lurk on both sides. And they hide among her friends. How to tell friend from foe? Scout better learn before the enemies close in around her. "Against Impassable Barriers" the fourth book in "The Travels of Scout Shannon" series, a young adult science fiction novel for fans of resourceful heroines, political intrigue, and loyal dog sidekicks.

Download or read book Blood and Ink written by Kate MacLeod and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sequestered behind screens, shielded from the world, Shiori hates the life of a noblewoman in Heian-Kyo.She endlessly paints the mountain home she misses. She longs to convey all, the sights and sounds and even the smells.Then she finds a most evocative technique, one that costs her dear.A story from the ornately structured world of tenth century Japan about an unusually committed artist.

Download or read book Among Treacherous Stars written by Kate MacLeod and published by Ratatoskr Press. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scout Shannon wants nothing more than to leave her home world and its petty squabbling factions behind. Galactic central with all of its excitement and opportunities awaits her. She makes it as far as her own planet's orbit before the snares of bureaucracy close around her, trapping her on a space station populated by her people's oldest foe. Then her rescuer, her only friend in the galaxy, disappears, abducted by a group of strangers the moment he steps off his ship. Alone in a strange place, surrounded by the old enemies she knows and new enemies just making themselves known, Scout faces a challenge like none before. But with her dogs at her side, Scout stands prepared for anything. "Among Treacherous Stars" the third book in "The Travels of Scout Shannon" series, a young adult science fiction novel for fans of plucky heroines, girl spies conspiring in political intrigues, and loyal dog sidekicks.