Professor Odd and her rag-tag companions must rescue the people of a dying world; a woman plays a dangerous game with an old god; a young scientist discovers that magic and monsters are more than real, and enlists the aid of two warlike hunters to help her study them; finally, a magician long thought gone makes his timely and dramatic reappearance. These are the stories of Apsis Fiction: Mesohelion 2013, the first issue of Goldeen Ogawa's semi-annual anthology of fantasy and science fiction. Mesohelion 2013 includes: "The Promethean Predicament" (Professor Odd #3) "The Woman Who Tricked the...
Professor Odd and her rag-tag companions must rescue the people of a dying world; a woman plays a dangerous game with an old god; a young scientist di...
University student Alister Bane is a neat, tidy, ordinary person living a neat, tidy, ordinary life. But all this changes when the flamboyant, other-worldly, and extraordinary Professor Odd waltzes into class and turns his world inside out. Suddenly Alister is thrown into the middle of a cat-and-mouse game between the Professor and alien tentacle monster, while a shadowy group of scientists tries to capture them all. Can Alister convince them that he is only a hapless bystander? Can life ever return to normal? One thing is for certain: things are going to get a little bit odd. "The False...
University student Alister Bane is a neat, tidy, ordinary person living a neat, tidy, ordinary life. But all this changes when the flamboyant, other-w...
Alister Bane is an ordinary, average, everyday college student who has just embarked on an adventure of extraordinary proportions. Compelled to flee his home universe by circumstances beyond his control, he finds himself in the company of the insatiably curious Professor Odd, a tentacle monster named Dave, and a talking dog. Together they travel the multiverse in the Professor's trans-dimensional ship, the Oddity, with Alister along for the ride. In "The Slowly Dying Planet" the Professor's quest for pizza takes them to the strange world of Niatano, where the sun is red, the people are...
Alister Bane is an ordinary, average, everyday college student who has just embarked on an adventure of extraordinary proportions. Compelled to flee h...
Meet Alister Bane, former college student. He is a sensible, conventional, practical young man. Not at all the sort of person you'd expect to find clambering around, in the rain, on a huge stone lightning bolt hanging in the sky. Yet here he is. Since being expelled from his home world, Alister has been traveling between universes with the flamboyant and inquisitive Professor Odd, Dave, a green tentacle monster, and Elo, a highly intelligent mutant wolf. Now, however, he has been separated from his friends and is forced to navigate an "unconventional" universe teetering on the brink of...
Meet Alister Bane, former college student. He is a sensible, conventional, practical young man. Not at all the sort of person you'd expect to find cla...
In a world filled with magic, young orphan Corianne Birch is steadfastly ordinary. But when she is adopted by her godfather, the flamboyant consulting magician Bouragner Felpz, Corianne finds herself entangled in adventures ranging from the mysterious to the macabre. Confronted by living shadows, capricious fairies, friendly necromancers and strange ghosts, Corianne must come to terms with her own peculiar brand of magic, as well as her enigmatic guardian-who is, like many things in her world, more than he appears. In the end it is up to her to solve the greatest mystery of them all: that of...
In a world filled with magic, young orphan Corianne Birch is steadfastly ordinary. But when she is adopted by her godfather, the flamboyant consulting...
A concerned suitor comes to Felpz for advice-with surprising results; Death makes an unlikely friend; Alister Bane finds himself transported to twentieth century Oxford-or is it really Oxford? How the Norse queen of the underworld got her husbands; an ancient ghost returns to a remote hamlet and causes trouble; just what the Serpent was doing in the Garden of Eden is explained; and in the final story, Selene Shields must shepherd a handful of uncooperative civilians out of Death Valley, while the balance of day and night is thrown completely out of whack. These are the stories of Apsis...
A concerned suitor comes to Felpz for advice-with surprising results; Death makes an unlikely friend; Alister Bane finds himself transported to twenti...
Searching for a place to hide after uncovering a treacherous conspiracy among her people, Timantiel Tuvielstytar ya Suku Lohihuya (Kilni for short) instead stumbles into the Oddity, interrupting Professor Odd and her companions' day at the beach-much to Alister Bane's chagrin. For Kilni brings with her a troubling tale, which Professor Odd is, of course, bent on investigating. This leads them on a quest that reaches across the marvelous world of Geda; where the descendants of dinosaurs live side-by-side with the elf-like Luinisetians, and in conflict with the mysterious orka. But when they...
Searching for a place to hide after uncovering a treacherous conspiracy among her people, Timantiel Tuvielstytar ya Suku Lohihuya (Kilni for short) in...
