The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" —enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for centripetal gravity.This complex and fascinating world is the setting for the novels of Virga, Karl Schroeder's interstellar far-future space habitat sealed off from contamination by the rest of the inhabited universe. These books have set a high standard for hard SF adventure in the last decade, and now the first two novels, Sun of Suns and Queen of Candesce, are brought out for the first time in one trade paper omnibus.

    The midlife-crisis of Greylen, Teller of Tales links to a web of intrigue and finally that big story every journalist craves.

    A catalogue of wondrous contraptions and wave weapons of unprecedented power, this book makes available a myriad of destructive and beneficial devices to any intergalactic explorer.

    Hoch, Hal Blythe, and Jean Paiva. Features by Kim Newman, Lenny Picker, Mrs Hudson, and Marvin Kaye.Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine is a quarterly publication showcasing the finest mystery and Sherlock Holmes writing available today.Table of Contents COPYRIGHT INFORMATION FROM WATSON’S SCRAPBOOK BAKER STREET BROWSINGS: BOOK REVIEWS, by Kim Newman SCREEN OF THE CRIME, by Lenny Picker ASK MRS HUDSON, by (Mrs) Martha Hudson SHMM SPEAKS WITH RON GOULART THE STRANGE CASE OF THE HAUNTED FREIGHTER, by Carole Buggé THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING AUTOMATON, by Ron Goulart THE BET, by Marc Bilgrey THE AUTOMATON MUSEUM, by Edward D. Hoch ON THE HEIR, by Hal Charles LOST AND FOUND, by Jean Paiva THE “GLORIA SCOTT” by Arthur Conan Doyle

    Over meals laws have been made, lover discovered, and families bonded. It is no wonder, then, that a community of people could and would create their own recipe book. What started as a simple idea on a forum (Brass Goggles) has become an all-out literary project.

    When Archimedes - the world-famous technologist and erstwhile deviant - finds himself naked in the middle of town, he inadvertently breaks Winton's First Rule of Artful Diplomacy: "Do not talk to fishies." Now, with an ill-mannered, highly-dependent water-dweller in his care, Archimedes must navigate a complex world filled with admen, foreign soldiers and dubiously-accredited engineers! "Archimedes' Fish" is a SteamDuck picture-book for quick-witted adults and children who have already been emotionally scarred.