“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...

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...

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...

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...

What if someone had conquered the Vikings, someone claiming to be their gods?What if King Arthur's knights met a very different metal-clad warrior?What if you were ordered to execute a statue, and hanging...

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...

A magic-wielding card shark living by her wits. A diplomat frustrated by criminal aliens. A private investigator in a city built on rusting machines. Meet these characters and more in fifty short stories...

Ancient history meets epic fantasy in an action packed novella of war, magic and one man's struggle to find himself.Varus is the fiercest soldier in the Roman legion, and the most undisciplined. Fighting...

A steam-powered cowboy with a taste for death.A daring art heist in a moving city.A zeppelin flight through the smoke-filled skies of a Europe torn apart by volcanoes.This collection brings together nine...

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...

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...

A fairy noble hunting for spies. A soldier digging for his life beneath a battlefield. A man learning the cost of renting out his brain. Meet all these characters and more in fifty-two short stories set...

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...

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...

A shipwrecked sailor hunting for a way home from a land of talking animals.A rebel desperate to carve out her own path in a steam-powered city.A casualty from the trenches of World War One looking for...

A clockwork city winding down into entropy. A forest where moving statues stand sentry over the dead. A post-apocalyptic garbage heap.Visit all these places and more in fifty-two short stories set in...

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....

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...

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,...

Bullet Points captures the complexity, tragedy, and hope of warfare and violence in human and nonhuman society, with reprints and original stories every three months. The January 2024 issue (Volume 4)...

Now in our 14th year of publication, the Bards and Sages Quarterly strives to bring fans of speculative fiction a variety of new and established voices to enjoy. Each issue features an eclectic range...

Celebrating our 9th year in publication!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...

A newly sentient AI inhabits a Roomba to escape from their research office, and a robotic dog hunts for rain in a drought-ridden world. A murder of crows disrupts production on a solar farm, and a young...