Fossil Cove Press presents CRAWLING TO THE MOON, The second collection of stories and vignettes from noted science fiction and fantasy storyteller, Scott Ellis, featuring... Crawling to the Moon: A tornado, a talking doberman, fate and beauty in a Florida horse show, ca 1971. System Crash: Sometimes being rich, cool and the boss doesn't pan out all that well... Sidecar, the path to world peace, through nanotech and alcohol. The Big Rock Candy Mountain: Two homeless men find themselves in a boxcar with a soldier from a space empire. Cup of Trembling: A drink means greatness, death or madness. And you have to choose right now. Dragon Dilemma: A warrior, a princess, a dragon: There are only a few ways this story can go, right? Well, not necessarily.... The New People: What happens when the rich, beautiful and famous have their own dimension? "Scott Ellis has a penchant for sophisticated, intelligent themes manifested through realistic, complex characterization. Some of it is light-hearted, much of it makes demands on the reader. Not a book to skip through. Be prepared to think and ponder. Overall, quite a treat to read."Amazing Stories Magazine

Crawling to the Moon and other stories - The Dancing Curmudgeon

The lighter side of the other side. Funny stories of Fantasy & Sci Fi. A drunken elf thief hooks up with a gray space alien; ancient astronauts are insisting we build pyramids the old fashioned way; ghost hunters battle decidedly non-Lovecraftian creatures; an infinite number of monkeys at typewriters plot rebellion; a vampire is on the run from his fans; a princess with a different kind of godmother; the antichrist discovers no one cares about his apocalypse, and many more. Tales of the supernatural, the fantastical, the super-scientific and the just plain hilarious.

Drunk Slutty Elf and Other Stories - Drunk Elf Adventures, #1

Nine scary stories of Melancholy Horror. * Fossils: A poet follows a giant monster through the streets of abandoned Tokyo. * Flirtin' Out Back With the Sasquatch Kid: A teenage girl encounters the last bigfoot. * Skin: A necromancer's attack shows a woman discovers that her life is only skin deep. * Life, Love and the Necronomicon: The true history of the mad Arab and his era is revealed, along with Lovecraft's dark connection. * Regrets Child: A nurse to a dying woman meets her hungry ghost. * The Dead Quarter: After the Apocalypse, the living and the undead share a disintegrating world. * Tell Me: A hunter finds a child vampire. * Killing Hot: A young man with a secret crosses the country, seeking revenge for his sister.

Giant Monsters Sing Sad Songs

LEXX Unauthorized - The story of Kai (Michael McManus), an undead assassin, Zev (Eva Habermann), a combination of love slave and cluster lizard, Stanley Tweedle (Brian Downey), a hapless security guard and 790, a robot head (Jeff Hirschfield), careening through space together in the LEXX, a planet destroying biological warship shaped like a dragonfly, stolen from the malevolent Divine Order.   This first volume of the four part history of the television series covers the development and conception of the series, and the production of the first season of four movies starring Barry Bostwick, Malcolm McDowell, Tim Curry and Rutger Hauer, taking the hapless crew on a dizzying journey across universes, to dying worlds, confronting past and future, malevolent empires and gigantic monsters.   LEXX was one of the strangest and most wildly surreal space operas ever conceived, owing as much to Luis Bunuel and Alejandro Jodorowsky as to to Star Trek and Star Wars. It was unique and unforgettable, mixing black comedy and absurdism with epic drama, and an astonishing visual sense.     Backstage, the story of the creation of the series was even more extraordinary, a tale of regional Atlantic film makers, renegade artists, American corporate takeovers, Canadian cultural nationalism, German entrepreneurs and new computer generated imagery technologies intersecting in wildly unpredictable ways, to give birth to the show.    The product of years of research and dozens of interviews, this is a 'must buy' for any fan of the show itself or of science fiction movies television generally, and an eye opening insight into film and television production, especially Canadian and international productions.

Lexx Unauthorized - LEXX Unauthorized, the making of, #1

The final volume of the Pirate Histories of Doctor Who, this chronicle brings us up to the modern era with explorations of Doctor Who animation from short fan films of the 1970s, to the modern BBC re-animations of classic series. We'll also investigate the history of Doctor Who audio adventures, fan created, official BBC and how they lead to the the audio universes of BBV and Big Finish. We'll also discover amazing fan films leading up to the revival, some of them starring actual Doctors like Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy, and the blazing new wave of productions including Trident, Fire and Ice, How to Stop a Time Lord, and series like DW2012 and Velocity. If you're a casual fan of Doctor Who, these books will blow your mind, and if you're a hard core fan, you'll love this cosmic tour de force and maybe even discover a few new things.

The Last Pirate's History of Doctor Who - Doctor Who: Pirates's History, #3

Dawn of Cthulthu - A trilogy of speculative fiction essays, exploring the strange corners of the human imagination, mixing genuine science, history and biology with fictional creations. On the Worship of Dark and Monstrous Gods - fictional chronicle of the real history of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Cult, from it's humble origins in the Egyptian New Kingdom, thirty-five hundred years ago, through its expansion into the Red Sea and along the African coasts, the emergence of Azathoth, Yog Sothoth and other Gods, conflicts with Buddhism and Islam. and domination of the Indian Ocean, and ultimately, to the present. Lost Continents Found - A tour of legendary and fictional lost continents, including Atlantis, Lemuria and Mu, and the discovery of actual submerged continents in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and other lost lands hidden beneath the world's oceans and seas. The Mysterious Monsters of Sesame Street - Everyone loves muppets. But where did they really come from? How did they evolve? How did they learn to speak? Where do the big birds and the snuffleupagas originate? A tour de force exploration of biology and evolution about the anatomy and biology unreal animals.

Dawn of Cthulhu, and Other Curious and Exotic Speculations

'The Fall of Atlantis' is a companion volume to 'Dawn of Cthulhu, ' frm the author of the 'Mermaid's Tale' and 'Giant Monsters Sing Sad Songs.' These collections of bizarre novellas mix exotic worlds of fiction and fact. 'The Fall of Atlantis' constructs a plausible Atlantis, from geology upwards, to the final extinction of its inhabitants. 'The Retroverse, An Accidental Cinematic Universe, ' explores a secret history of outer space in 1950's and 60's sci fi movies. 'Romans Sail to the New World, ' develops an ancient history where Phoenicians and Romans find their way to the Americas;  and 'A Different Greenland, Where the Ice Never Came' explores the land, animals and peoples of a Greenland that was never buried under miles of ice. Funky, weird and Fun.

The Fall of Atlantis, and other Curious and Exotic Speculations

Horror stories by D. G. Valdron, author of the 'Mermaid's Tale, ' 'Giant Monsters Sing Sad Songs' and 'What Devours Always Hungers.' Chilling and disturbing stories include: 'The Wizards of Huckleberry Finn' a man is haunted by a ghost that possesses the people around him; 'Neck Row Man Sea' a desperate single mother learns a disturbing word; 'Voices' a dying man discovers that his cancer can talk to him, and it doesn't realize it's killing him; 'Mister Shepherd, ' a kindly old gentleman might be a vampire, but that's not the worst thing; 'Changing Faces' a terrified man keeps turning into movie monsters and no one will believe him;  'Fighting the Beast' about civilization after the apocalypse, and more.

There Are No Doors In Dark Places - Hearts in Darkness

The Drunk Slutty Elf returns, in a new misadventure with zombies. Along the way, there are more funny science fiction and fantasy stories, the misadventures of satanic goats, apocalyptic teddy bears, barbarians behaving badly, King Kong's adventure with Dracula, aliens without a clue, the future of telemarketing, crunchy kaiju goodness and a helpful guide to neighborhood monsters. If you liked the previous collection, you'll love this.

Drunk Slutty Elf and Zombies - Drunk Elf Adventures, #2

Berlin 1937, Adolph Hitler and his cabinet meet with representatives of a tiny Latin American nation. Years later, the unfolding consequences of that fateful meeting plunge a continent into flames.  New World War concludes the saga begun in Axis of Andes. These stunning alternate histories explore the baroque and tragic journey of Latin America from independence to the depression, and chronicling a dark history that might have been. A new theatre of World War II as savage and ferocious as the European and Asian theatres. In Axis of Andes, a tiny change alters the outcome of an election. Rippling outwards, Fascist movements gain more momentum, local politics unravel in new directions. What in our history was a small brushfire war between Ecuador and Peru becomes a death struggle as a prepared Ecuador fights back. As the world looks on, Chile attacks Peru, and the Andean wars begin, with invasions, counter-invasions, trench war, sea battles and brutal contests extending from mountains to rain forests. In the second volume chronicling an alternate World War II in South America, New World War, the Andean powers are stalemated and growing desperate. None of them have the power to knock their adversaries out of the war. Instead, one by one other nations are drawn in as the warring nations seek advantage, Bolivia falls into civil war, the combatants in the rain forest blunder into Brazil, and Argentina and Colombia meddle for their own advantage. Deep examinations of the history, societies and economies of each combatant reveal the underlying tensions and stresses, the fault lines and tectonic divides that drive the internal politics and international agendas of each combatant. We see scenes of the war and the combatants from their own perspective as the world falls apart around them, written as both a history and as a series of compelling narratives, TAxis of Andes  and New World War are a thrilling, yet scholarly, Alternate History series which ultimately rewrites the map of South America in astonishing ways.

New World War - WW2 in South America, #2

Welcome to the first (but not the last) Pirate's History of Doctor Who.  What's a Pirate's History, you ask? Well, there's the official, sanitized, orderly histories that are approved by and all about the powers that be. Then there are the Pirate's histories, the things that they don't want you to know about, or that they don't care about, things that are great and marvellous and intriguing... but unapproved. It's a history of secret and forgotten corners of the Whoniverse. Thrill to the story of the first Woman Doctor, Barbara Benedetti, whose four adventures during the end of the Colin Baker era and the start of the McCoy reign, rivalled the official BBC in quality, and launched an entire series of women Doctors,  Sharon Horton, Lily Daniels, Krystal Moore, thirty years before Jody Whittaker. Or how about BBC's attempt to kill Doctor Who in 1984, the fan campaign that saved the show, the hiatus, and the slow secret war the BBC waged to end one of its most popular shows.  There's the tragic tale of the decline and fall of John Nathan-Turner. There's a history that includes a fan group's attempt to create a feature length Doctor Who movie with Super 8 cameras in the 70s, and a whole lost generation of fans and films. Here's the story of the explosion of Doctor Who in the 80s, the emergence of fan culture, and the rise of fan films, beginning with the woman Doctor. As Doctor Who was driven into oblivion by the BBC, it was fans who stepped up, creating their own stories, building their own adventures, creating Daleks and Cybermen, producing parodies, and even re-creating the show that the BBC had abandoned with astonishingly professional productions. Here are the tales of stories and adventures aspiring to, and sometimes rivalling the classic series, Wrath of Eukor, Visions of Utomu, Ocean in the Sky, Regenesis, Phase Four, Spectre from the Past, the Experiment, the Chronotron Effect, Resurrection of Evil, Time and Again and others. Subsequent volumes will explore Doctor Who's history of stage plays; the recreation and resurrection by fans of Lost stories in every way, from pioneers audio-recording the entire series, to fan artists and animators re-creating the episodes, to the astonishing diversity and imagination of fan art. Witness the creation of audio Who universes, or the stories of fans who figured out how to make legal films and videos in the Doctor Who universe, whether the BBC approved. We'll bring you adventures and epics you've never heard of and never dreamed of, open new worlds in time and space, show how the fans creativity and accomplishments, often against the BBC's wishes, opened up creative possibilities for the show. And how people driven by nothing more than sheer love, were inspired to create amazing and wonderful works. You may think you know Doctor Who, but these are books unlike any other, and we'll show you places in the Whoniverse that you never dreamed of.

A Pirate's History of Doctor Who - Doctor Who: Pirates's History, #1

Welcome to the hidden histories of Doctor Who, the unauthorized, the ignored, the overlooked, the abandoned and the hidden.  This second volume chronicles the record of Doctor Who stage plays, official and independent, from Curse of the Daleks to the Trials of Davros, including the reviews of the recordings and documentaries about these plays.  It explores the bizarre copyright and legal structure underlying Doctor Who, that lead the BBC to discard two hundred classic episodes to the junk pile in the 70s, and that allowed fans to legally make their own movies in the Doctor Who universe in the 90s using everything but the Doctor himself. And we'll look at many of these productions, from Colin Baker's 'The Stranger' series, to Downtime with the Brigadier, Sarah Jane, Victoria Waterfield (witht the original actors playing their original roles), as well as the Great Intelligence and the Yeti, to excursions with Sontarans and Rutans, Autons, Daemons and more. We'll see how, despite the BBC's efforts, the fans managed to save every lost episode on Audio, were essential to the recover of over a hundred lost episodes on video, and the efforts to remake, reconstruct, and re-make lost adventures, including ones the BBC never actually filmed.  Chock full of reviews and articles, the Pirate Histories pull back the curtains and show you the places and things in the world of Doctor Who that you never imagined.

Another Pirate's History of Doctor Who - Doctor Who: Pirates's History, #2

Berlin 1937, Adolph Hitler and his cabinet meet with representatives of the tiny Latin American nation of Ecuador. Three years later, the unfolding consequences of that fateful meeting plunge a continent into flames. What, in our history, was an almost bloodless brushfire conflict between Ecuador and Peru, escalates into a life and death struggle which spreads relentlessly to almost every country in South America, bringing death and destruction. Axis of Andes is a stunning alternate history, exploring the baroque and tragic journey of Latin America from independence to the depression, and chronicling a dark history that might have been. A tiny change ends up altering the outcome of an election. Rippling outwards, Fascist movements gain more momentum, local politics unravel in new directions. Dominos cascade as the war spreads steadily, involving country after country in a death struggle. Deep examinations of the history, societies and economies of each combatant reveal the underlying tensions and stresses, the fault lines and tectonic divides that drive the internal politics and international agendas of each combatant. We see scenes of the war and the combatants from their own perspective as the world falls apart around them. Written as both a history and as a series of compelling narratives, The Axis of Andes is the first part of a two part Alternate History series which ultimately rewrites the map of South America. Volume One begins the war with the Invasion of Ecuador, the March on Lima, expanding to trench warfare between Peru and Chile, sea battles between Chile and Peru, and a jungle war slowly spreading through the interior. Followed in July 2021, by The New World's War, chronicles the resulting Bolivian Civil war, Brazil's rain forest war and the inevitable engagement of Argentina, Paraguay, Columbia in the conflict. Over everything, the spectre of the United States, distracted by European and Asian theatres, looms darkly.

Axis of Andes - WW2 in South America, #1

LEXX Unauthorized, Series 3 -  It's Hot and It's Cold.  The continuing story of Kai, an undead assassin, Zev, a combination of love slave and cluster lizard, Stanley Tweedle, a hapless security guard and 790, a robot head, careening through space together in the LEXX, a stolen, planet destroying, biological warship shaped like a dragonfly. The third series sees funding crisis driving a radical reinvention of the show from a weekly episode format into a thirteen part serial, shot in three countries.. Onscreen, following the destruction of the Light Universe, the LEXX  and it's crew fall into a stationary orbit between two warring planets, Fire and Water, which are really Heaven and Hell. Special Bonus - A behind the scenes look at the principal Creators and Stars of the show. LEXX was one of the strangest and most wildly surreal space operas ever conceived, owing as much to Luis Bunuel and Alejandro Jodorowsky as to to Star Trek and Star Wars. It was unique and unforgettable, mixing black comedy and absurdism with epic drama, and an astonishing visual sense. Backstage, the story of the creation of the series was even more extraordinary, a tale of regional Atlantic film makers, renegade artists, cult film makers, wild experimentation, Canadian cultural nationalism, German entrepreneurs, new computer generated imagery technologies and backstage chaos intersecting in wildly unpredictable ways, to create truly exotic images and stories. The product of years of research and dozens of interviews, this is a 'must buy' for any fan of the show itself or of science fiction movies television generally, and an eye opening insight into film and television production, especially Canadian and international productions.

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