A billion-year-old alien ship. A great treasure. A great danger.

With a last surge of the main drive, Barnet matched our bearing and speed with the alien derelict.

Twisted lines of tubing and conduit curled around the hull. After a billion years, micrometeor collisions had sandblasted the ship to a dull finish.

But behind that battered surface might lurk exotic materials beyond the manufacturing capability of any human world. Magnetic monopoles, dyons, condensed matter. Even a tiny amount delivered to Earth or a major world could set up a crew for life.

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Art Deco meets Industrialism. Style, science, and exploration, all rolled up into one gritty, interwar adventure.

Come explore plucky dames and lantern-jawed heroes facing down evil and inventing the future with issue 017 of Boundary Shock Quarterly.

Includes stories by Ron Collins, Raymund Eich, Joel Ewy, Voss Foster, Richard Ed. Jones, M. E. Owen, Stephannie Tallent, Tami Veldura, and Blaze Ward.

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Mardi Gras dark fantasy

Blog / By raymund

CARNIVAL IN SORGENBACH, by Raymund Eich Imagine Mardi Gras, a.k.a. Carnival… Imagine Mardi Gras on an empty stomach, under the eye of foreign occupiers, with most of your friends maimed or dead…. Imagine Mardi Gras, haunted not only by the horrors of the war just ended, but premonitions of an even more terrible war to …

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New historical dark fantasy story

Blog / By raymund

My latest short story, an historical dark fantasy entitled “Carnival in Sorgenbach,” is now available in ebook editions from CV-2 Books. Hans returned from the Great War, haunted. Not only by the horrors of the trenches, but haunted by visions of a more terrifying war to come. Will the parties and parades of Carnival 1919 …

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