Böcker av Nick Marone

Old Earth is dying, but humanity endures despite the hardships of a far-future, post-apocalyptic world. Nahla, a disgraced and exiled veteran warrior from the Kingdom of Melbourne, treks across the Endless Land, ready to die for her failures.Instead of succumbing to the barren wasteland, Nahla discovers a civilisation nobody knew existed-the Kingdom of Launceston. Here she finds a new king to serve and a new people to protect. But a dark secret and fiendish plots hang over this southern land, threatening to plunge the kingdom into war and chaos. Under the scorching sun and in the depths of shadows, Nahla contends with bandit clans, mercenaries, suspicious lords, murderous criminals, and hidden agendas.With allies forged in unlikely places and enemies lurking in the shadows, she uncovers the threads that bind her destiny to the fate of the kingdom. In a world where the line between salvation and destruction is razor-thin, Nahla will fight not only for her own redemption, but for the future of a civilisation on the cusp of oblivion.This is Nahla's second chance. There is too much at stake to fail again.

Andromeda Spaceways Magazine's Best Stories: Vol. 5 collects thirteen of the best stories from ASM's 2020 issues (#78-81). It was tough choosing from among the forty-four published in that year, but I think we have made some great choices. In fact, one of the featured stories, Nikky Lee's "Dingo and Sister", took out two Aurealis Awards for 2020-the Best Fantasy Novella and Best Adult Short Story categories.

Four friends fly across the galaxy to reach a famed holiday resort. But going from A to B isn't quite so easy for our band of impulsive adventurers.

Six years after the Rise, Australia’s coastal towns are gone, lost under the ocean’s unstoppable advance. The survivors have retreated to a series of newly formed islands off the coast of New South Wales, seeking to rebuild their lives with limited resources, destructive weather, and fierce competition amongst communities.And not all are successful . . .Baz is a fresh water merchant, desalinating saltwater and bartering this valuable commodity throughout the struggling island communities. But his real mission is something closer to his heart, the one thing that has plagued him since the catastrophic rise in water levels: he must find his daughter and grandchildren.While the rest of the country fights to stay alive, all Baz cares about is reuniting with the only family he has left. His greatest fear is that he’s already too late.