Richard Quarry
Anthologies
Dinosaurs? Rogue gerbils with … slingshots? A trip to the library turns into a survival epic when devolution strikes.
A navigation glitch strands the crew of a tramp time-freighter in 1957 Utah. To earn the time-credits to move on they must sell their cargo — 12th-century Frisian mead meant for 2025 Seattle, city of microbrews. Only Utah in the age of Mickey Mouse ears and cars made to look like rocket ships prohibits the sale of alcoholic beverages.
Too polished for the old war-of-the-worlds approach, alien invaders come up with a novel method for rebranding Earth.
These and eight other stories of fantasy and science fiction will give your imagination plenty to play with. So buckle in and journey into some truly new frontiers.
From Nefertiti’s Egypt to a contemporary feud between billionaires, with several stops in between, this anthology roles out a series of novellas guaranteed to keep you intrigued.
A white girl in Juvenile Detention tries to convey a vision of natural beauty to a black youth who’s never left the city streets.
A President who won’t take no for an answer insists on using experimental time travel to stage a Windsor castle wedding for his son — in 1385. Oh, and maybe he’ll just claim England while he’s at it.
In a desolate post-WWI Berlin, a former front-soldier besieged on all sides by violent street propaganda tries to reclaim the war for his own.
The ultimate tweenie nightmare blossoms into the ultimate tweenies bridezilla on ‘Tween Bride’s extravaganza rollout of “the new virginity.”
A social worker trying to help a talented, bipolar young woman wanders into murky territory.
Like the man said, you gotta do what you feel is real. But the actors in these compelling and thought-provoking tales keep hoping reality can be negotiable. Ten stories ranging from satire to intense drama that will widen your view of the world.
Victorian-era police detective Nat Frayne leans more toward fists and fast dealing than the strict letter of the law. But in these three cases Frayne goes up against adversaries who may be even tougher and slicker.
In The Case of Dancing Kali, the apparent appearance of a murderous gang of Indian thuggees terrorizes London. Frayne, however, follows his own instincts, which lead him into most surprising areas of English society.
When a blackmail scheme turns to murder in The French Medium, Frayne investigates a beautiful mesmerist, who leads him into haunting visions of his dead wife.
The Dread Men sees London invaded by the notorious New York Irish gang the Dead Rabbits. When they move in on Covent Market, where Frayne’s parents still sell produce, the conflict between him and the gang leader turns personal.
Victorian London’s most freewheeling (rogue?) detective returns in three novellas of skullduggery and intrigue. In Lord Under London a long-dead corpse spewed forth in a sewer collapse sets off a legal kerfuffle among the aristocracy. And sends Frayne on a dark and twisting chase through the noxious underworld below the city.
In Make Not Dreams Your Master a forbiddingly respectable minister’s apparent death by opium will set Frayne against Chinese assassins. Perfidious Albion takes Frayne to Alexandria, where a multi-layered spy conspiracy will confront him with his own past.
