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Sancha's life is a rollercoaster ride and one she is not sure she is presently enjoying. The rescue mission to the neighbouring planet of Galba was a disastrous waste of time. Upon her return home to Claudius, Sancha is the last member of the fledgling colony eligible for the newly formed Claudius Governance Council thanks to a coup in her absence. 'Protect and Serve' - Claudius needs a Poliismxn!Amidst this turmoil, someone needs protect the planet against internal, external, and existential perils and serve all the people of the planet - Standard humans and synthetic humans alike. What Claudius needs right now is an archaic-Earth role that Sancha is convinced is not for her. In this near future, around a different star, what does this even mean for Sancha the Poliismxn?

It is 2425AD and media personality Winston Starlight needs another big hit to revive his centuries long career. Sol Senators have been notoriously difficult to interview, so when Mars Senator Spenser agrees to a three-part broadcast retrospective on his Luna, Mars and Titania projects, Winston can barely contain his pixels. Sol Senators are big news. Winston has big plans for this broadcast. Science has very little to do with all the things Winston wants to grill Senator Spenser on, the news-hungry public demand a spectacle... specifically with one of the most eligible and certainly wealthiest men in the Solar System. Let the Production begin!

Nadia Oliphant has the case of her life ahead of her, dragged from her semi-retirement by a desperate EarthGov and conscripted to investigate and solve the Memestalk Plague. Nadia would much rather sit and watch the sunsets from her Namaqualand home, amidst all of the catastrophic climate change disrupting the Earth's political and economic systems. Nadia consents when the Memestalk gets personal. She is dragged back into the flailing mid 21st Century civilization when her grandson begins to show early symptoms and the race against time begins.

In 2230AD, EarthGov launches the SS Kristos on a mission to explore the ancient Arcturus system on a 167-year round trip. The launch is a proof-of-concept of Humanities technologies, steered by GovSec stalwart Captain Damien Justin. For The Senate celebrity-couple Haroun and Jenny, First Contact with an ancient, technologically sophisticated alien society was unexpected. This is that story. Caught between their Resistance ideals and the implications of their decades-long exile from The Senate, Haroun and Jenny face further complications from The Folk, a dying race orbiting a dying star. What value does human Mercy have in the Twenty-Third Century?

The Sphinx is a Future History, an extrapolation into the next five hundred years of human history, and focuses on the narrative of Greg Summer50, a young Venusian conscripted into the GovSec Symbols Project. Augmented with Psionic ability, The Sphinx is thrust into the Arena of The Sol Senate as an unwitting tool of GovSec Ambition. A stand alone, yet complimentary book to The Estuary Tales. The Sphinx details the ambition of GovSec while the Earth spins closer and closer to the Mass Extinction of it's dominant species, viewed through the naive eyes of a boy from Venus who is destined to become the most feared creature in all of Human History. As The Sphinx slowly devours Greg Summer50 in the course of his duties and tasks for GovSec, the survival of all the Human Race begins to be thrown into stark relief because of his actions.The tormented Sphinx must begin to question who the Enemy he was created to combat, really is. The Sphinx describes a miserable human existence on several of the colonized planetary systems that form The Sol Senate, a dark warning in a post-Apocalyptic scenario, where the human race continues to doom itself against the backdrop of an uncaring Universe.

The Estuary Tales is a Future History, an extrapolation into the next five hundred years of human history, with each century represented by a point of view character. The snapshots taken of their lives and their hopes and dreams unfold against the backdrop of climate change, economic collapse, dread disease, meteor impacts and the mass extinctions that dog us. These are their stories. These snapshots describe the central characters normal lives, their relationships, their life choices and their struggle, as each character battles survival in an increasingly hostile world. These are their stories, long and short, trivial and monumental. These are the tales our children might tell.The Estuary Tales and the snapshots of the point of view characters are further ordered by Tides, by Seasons and by Waves, as to allow the chaos of time to make sense in the human narration. The Estuary Tales describe a message of Hope in a post-Apocalyptic scenario, where humanity struggles between their base and their higher selves against the backdrop of an uncaring Universe.

Mirrored Myrrh is the latest in the annals from the Agents of the Numinous Constraint Agency. The Novel describes the missions called 'Secular Solipsism', 'Attitude Adjustment' and 'Irreducible Complexity', in which the Staff of the Agency rescue a dying dimension, save Dublin from a sinister plot against the Bay and Queen Victoria in 1861 and help install a Sixth Spiritual Sun, the Nahui Xochitl.

Fragments is an Anthology of five Short Stories from the pen of Caldon Mull and spans four decades of writing. The Stories include: Inferno, Fragments of Morning, Lawman, No heart for the matter; and The Folk and the Shellmen. Inferno: Trouble brews in the idyllic matriarchy. How any society deals with its dissidents is a measure of its maturity, and power and ideals are often uneasy bedfellows. Fragments of Morning: An Ode to Insomnia. What keeps you awake at night? Lawman: The crime-beleaguered city of eGoli in the near future has one sentinel; Ndou, the Lawman. No Heart for the Matter: Myths being what they are, are often simply accepted. What if the truth behind the myths of Lucifer is even stranger? The Folk and the Shellmen: The SS Kristos makes first contact with an ancient, technologically sophisticated alien society. This is that story.

Omnipresent Occultation is the latest in the annals of the Agents of the Numinous Constraint Agency. The Novel describes the missions called 'Swan and Song', 'El D'Or Dieux' and 'Stone and Flute', and spotlights the relationship between the Demi-god Octavian Rusta Barca, the mortal ex-CIA Agent Vernon Duke and the contrary Giant Argus Panoptes. The job cards takes the Agents through the first Crusade, the Fall of Tenochtitlan and a daring and desperate raid on Olympus in the course of their duties.

Shards is an Anthology of five Short Stories and includes The Tale of Arc1 and Core 3: Is the Tale of an Advanced Civilization following their science through to a startling conclusion; that their Universe is not alone. All the Bright Children: In all the worlds of humanity, greed, cruelty and excess seem to be a constant. On the verge of manhood, a boy relates his experience with these human constants. Shards: War is hell. Sometimes when you think you are done with it, it has not done with you. How do you return from a war that everyone else is done with? The Garden Sea: A familiar Tale delivered with a slice of oddness and a twist of whimsy. Who knows where some of our most enduring myths actually come from? Swan and Song: A Novella about a quest to find a Black Swan, and what this means to two staff members of the Numinous Constraint Agency. Shards spans four decades of writing in the compilation and represents the best of Caldon Mull's short works to date.

The Memoirs of an eighth-dimensional creature don't fall into your lap every day by coincidence. If your name is Argus, a handsome, creative and capable Titan, worthy of promotion ahead of that Angel guy, the Demi-god and the upstart human, you can read them. Besides, nobody said not to read them, nobody said not to send them to that mortal publisher, so why the fuss?The assembled cast of the Numinous Constraint Agency are all introduced through chapters and missions. Metaphysics, Biblical myth and Quantum Mechanics collide in this novel with soap-opera family relationships, villains and perilous cosmic happen stance as recorded by Arteus the Faun.

Talus is an Anthology of five Short Stories from the pen of Caldon Mull and spans four decades of writing, one short story from each decade, and a Novella. Talus is the last volume of these four decades in The Smithereens series. The Stories include Portmanteau and Jamais Vu, Ifrit, Dancers and Neid-fire.The Stories in this volume are; Portmanteau: In the horror that is the Yemeni Civil War, Mahdi does his best... One step at a a time. Jamais Vu: A young farming couple out to make good, just like any other normal couple except for the fact you are farming on Pluto in the 25th Century. Ifrit: In a climatically hostile planet Earth in the 28th Century a struggling band of isolated survivors provide shelter for a stranded explorer. How different are we from each other in the future? Dancers: Reece and Durant are both haunted by PTSD, their own sexual attraction and a Revenant over the color-line in Petite Apartheid South Africa, as they investigate the murder of their black Drag Queen friend. Neid-fire: Two cousins flee an uncertain future to relocate to their Ancestral Home to discover that their family history hides deeper and stranger secrets than they ever thought possible. The Smithereens will continue into a new decade and a new chapter in 2021.