Kate MacLeod - Libros y biografía

The Taren and Keui live in the fields ringing the mountain that touches their world's sky, but not together. The Keui live in herds for protection, the Taren their constant predators.Both need jing to...

Ethan and his family live on the outskirts of town, between civilization and the total lack of it. Ma always keeps the shotgun handy.Ethan's brother announces a nighttime visitor as "a dead man coming...

A confused ghost pulls herself out of nothingness to find a dead woman soaked in blood in a hollow outside of a temporary village of tents.The ghost remembers nothing, not even her own death. But the...

The goddess Ninedinni loses an epic battle with her consort/son and falls to the sea. She washes ashore and a laconic fisherman's widow rescues her.Ninedinni feels the life already growing inside her....

"Tales from Forgotten Days" collects five never-before-seen stories from fantasy and science fiction writer Kate MacLeod: the high fantasy murder mystery "Impostor Apparition", the western weird tale...

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...

Humankind has reached the end of its adolescence. The time has come to leave our solar system nest and see what the rest of the galaxy has to offer.Marie Marguerite has also reached the end of her adolescence,...

Puabi stole secret knowledge. Her punishment? Banishment from the city.She walked out. Then she slipped on an ensorcelled jewel that hid her from sight and walked back in again. The rest of the knowledge...

When a demon takes up residence in the princess's chambers, the onmyoji of Heian-Kyo find themselves fatally outmatched.They send for a famed onmyoji from a distant prefecture but his widow Chiaki arrives...

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...

Tulugaq held his hand up the sky and counted his heartbeats. It took twelve beats for the light to move from the tip of his little finger to the end of his thumb.A very strange omen, the shaman said.Not...

Murdina Ritchie put everything on the line to earn one chance to prove herself at the Oymyakon Foreign Service Academy. Just one chance. Despite the bad reputation that comes with her family name, despite...

When a sentient species emerges from the ocean of a world its colonizers thought was uninhabited, the diplomatic wing of the League of Worlds sends three ambassadors to negotiate the terms for the colony...

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....

One day a sphinx came to the city at the center of the world, ate half of the guests at the prince's wedding, and settled to roost atop the palace.The cost to free the city of this beast? A single tear...

Ku-Aya drives her goats towards home, but danger follows close at their heels. Hungry hyenas desperate for food, sure, but something worse that drives the hyenas on.The fog. It rolls in from the mountains...

Sohaila never knows in the morning what the day will bring. Four babies desperate for attention or the long, empty days of a lonely widow?Since she made that wish for more time her days come at random....

Sarsuti, goddess and river, bathes her City in her life-giving waters, and the People prosper from her inundations. But now she runs dry and the People whither with her.Sarsuti loves her People best of...

Enid, the baker's daughter, married a lord. All thanks to a very special cake recipe.Now a widow, she lives alone with her grown son. She runs his household with all the skill she learned as a baker's...

Akeli lives in a village of tethered balloons and airships far above the unlivable surface of the Earth, but under the cruel thumb of her uncle.Her baby girl fell down to Earth a year ago. An airship...

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...

This box set collects the entire six book series The Travels of Scout Shannon.Under Falling SkiesScout's whole family died the day the Space Farers dropped an asteroid on their domed city. Now she lives...

This box set collects Against Impassable Barriers, Over Freezing Altitudes and At Galactic Central, the fourth, fifth and sixth books in the Travels of Scout Shannon series.Stranded on the far side of...

Galactic Central, a collection of floating cities in a vast, manmade, planetless cloud. Scout Shannon longed to see it since she first heard of it. This place long represented her shining future.But in...

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...

Having escaped yet another closing trap, Scout Shannon 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...

"Tales from Ancient and Future Times" collects five stories from fantasy and science fiction writer Kate MacLeod:The science fiction story "Taren and Keui", tale of two alien beings finding a way out...

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...

Linnea lives alone in the remains of shuttle her parents died in. The only survivor of the crash years before, she takes care of herself.No other human dwells on her remote world, but the old gods surround...

When Pa left Pete in charge of his sisters on the farm overnight he stated only one rule: no talking to the Greens.No need to spell that out, Pete thinks. Every child knows never to speak to the Greens....