Hollow Moon (49 page)

Steph Bennion
is a writer, musician and civil servant in Westminster, born
and bred in the Black Country but now living in South London, England. Her
science-fiction stories are written as a reaction to the dearth of alternative
heroes amidst bookshelves swamped by tales of the supernatural. For every
aspiring vampire or wizard, the world needs an astrophysicist, an engineer, or
at the very least someone who can make the trains run on time.

On the forbidding planet of Falsafah, archaeologists are
on the verge of a discovery that will shake the five systems to the core.
Ravana O’Brien, snatched from her friends for reasons unknown, finds herself on
another wild adventure, this time in the company of two alien greys, a
cake-obsessed secret agent and a mysterious little orphan boy at the centre of
something very big indeed. Their journey across the deadly dry deserts of
Falsafah soon becomes a struggle against homicidal giant spiders, hostile
machines and a psychotic nurse, not to mention an omniscient god-like watcher
who is maybe also a cat. The disturbing new leaders of the Dhusarian Church and
their cyberclone monks are preparing to meet their masters and saviours. But
nobody believes in prophecies anymore, do they?

Paw-Prints Of The Gods
is the sequel to
Hollow Moon
;
a light-hearted adventure for all young adults and adults young at heart!

TO DANCE AMONGST THE STARS:
Can the poor, down-trodden kitchen slave Ganesa find
a Prince Charming in the shape of young, dashing space captain Hanuman? As they
meet for the first time on the dance floor at the American Embassy’s Christmas
Ball, she is the first to admit he’s not exactly her type in this
tongue-in-cheek pastiche of Cinderella.

MERRY CHRISTMAS, MISTER WOLF:
Christmas at the exclusive ski resort of Kirchel,
with its concrete log cabins and artificial snow, was a tedious affair. But the
robot security wolves that patrolled the dome at night were rejects from the
brutal Gods of Avalon game show. When the power fails, Hestia and her friends
would soon wish they had never ventured into the forest in search of park
ranger Granny.

IT’S A BLUNDERFUL LIFE:
It is Christmas Eve and revolution is afoot on Yuanshi. Pursued by
armed agents, Fenris contemplates his fate as he prepares to end it all with a
midnight leap from a bridge. Then a mysterious stranger arrives to persuade him
that life is worth living, but can a Samaritans hologram really hope to
convince him by showing the greatest blunders of his life?