Skull Candy

Ten stories of the possible future and impossible past from Writers of the Future and Jim Baen Memorial Award winning author R.P.L. Johnson.In the award-winning In Apprehension How Like a God, a detective investigates a series of murders in a world where reality itself can be reprogrammed.A Map of Songs William Foster is searching for an inland sea at the heart of a solar punk, alt-history Australia and damn anyone, man or god, who stands in his way.Cog in the War an assault team of broken children try and maintain their humanity in the middle of an interstellar war.Taking the High the survivors of a doomed mission to Mars find more than they could possibly have imagined when they hitch a ride on a passing comet.And the Lion said Shibboleth: A sister—one of hundreds not seen for decades—returns with a ship, a crew and dreams of larceny. She plans to steal from a species so alien they speak in scents and colours and cannot comprehend the treasure they carry between the stars. But for Morgan, the cloned son of a genocidal dictator, joining his sister could mean repeating his father’s journey into madness and death.Skull ten stories about what it means to be human when the world around us has changed beyond all recognition and proving once again that science fiction provides the broadest possible canvas for the exploration of ideas.