Showing results for "Meridian" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

A young woman and her lover are scuba diving on an old sunken warship off a Pacific island when the world above them on the surface turns into a monstrous fireball. The sunken wreck shudders and tips. This spectacularly conceived story may well assume a place somewhere between Nevil Shute's On the Beach and Margaret Atwood's Surfacing.

In their battle to save Earth from becoming another conquest of the alien Kasari Collective, Mark and Heather Smythe have struck crucial blows against the enemy. But their best efforts have still failed to derail the completion of the wormhole gateway that would give the insidious extraterrestrial invaders access to the planet - and doom humankind as helpless slaves of the Kasari hive mind.

Un relato de la autora de Gótico. Amelia sueña con Marte. El Marte de las películas y la imaginación, un bastión interminable de oportunidades para un colono con agallas. Pero está atrapada en Ciudad de México, soportando la monotonía de una metrópolis desagradable, trabajando como "amiga de alquiler", vendiendo su sangre a ancianos con dinero que esperan rejuvenecerse con ella, actuando en una historia de amor rota desde hace tiempo. Y, sin embargo, está Marte, tan lejos y tan cerca. Está segura de que la espera.

Roundtable is dedicated to exploring classic novels from Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and other genres of speculative fiction, through an authorial lens. We aren't going to spend an hour giving a novel a rating out of 10, or complaining about our unfulfilled ships... probably. Our rotating cast of up-and-coming authors analyse and evaluate stories to identify what makes them tick, why we love them, and what other storytellers can learn from their successes and failures.Roundtable is an extension of Meridian Australis, a Melbourne-based speculative fiction collective home to authors from all works of life,...

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Cybersix cartoon, hosts and longtime Cybersix fans Vadell Gabriel and Magenta Hamster talk about the history of Cybersix, from its origins as an Argentinian comic, to its various characters and television adaptations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mendle Orion is a writer who lives at the intersection of fiction and reality. He idealizes love and cynically rails against a world that wastes his dreams. The man's life is forever changed the day he meets a mysterious young woman with intense blue eyes and total amnesia who looks at urban life as though she's seeing it for the first time.