Deucalion Chronicles is a meta-series containing many stories all set within the same universe. So what’s that universe look like? To put it in TvTropes terms, it would be Fantasy Kitchen Sink Space Opera, full of Magitek. Or, to put it another way, it’s what happens when high fantasy gets out of the dark ages, shoots past urban fantasy, and . . .
Eelsvale: Population 1,355. Magic: Some. Sally Carter writes the fiction column in The Eelsvale Pages, but is a little low on weekly originality. Then she meets Detective Hood, recently turned freelance (reasons unknown). He has bit of a reputation, and a knack, for trouble, and doesn’t seem to mind her company (or else he probably wouldn’t keep turning . . .
Gare Marx has been a PI for all of five minutes when he discovers he sucks at it. The mob wants money he never borrowed, he’s suspected of murdering someone he hasn’t met, and he’s hired to find a woman who may be involved in some extremely shady business. That, and his secretary is an amoral jiu jitsu-loving sociopath. . . .
“Fisson Chips” is quirky, madcap romp about a new PI having a very bad first day. Gare Marx started a private investigating business with his partner Matthew Richardson. When Gare shows up for work, the guy painting the sign on the door refuses to finish until he gets more money. This starts a chain of events that ends with broken [more . . .]
If you’ve ever wanted to read a hard-boiled choose your own butt-kicking novel then Fission Chips is definitely for you. In point of fact if you’re a fan of the hard boiled genre of fiction at all then you’ll probably enjoy this one. It’s got everything, from the down-and-out private eye to the sassy secretary and the insurmountable mountain of [more . . .]