Graham Storrs

The 2017 ImmerseOrDie Anthology. Each year we hand-pick 50 of today's top indie authors and ask them to submit a story. Then we ask a team of ruthless judges to scour that ore and pick out the gems. The result is All These Shiny Worlds II: a world of today where cosplay and stagecraft are bright lights hiding dark shadows a world of tomorrow, where kitchen appliances fend for themselves and take solace in each other's arms, refugees from indifferent owners a world of little cogs in big machines, where the humble trash collector is the unsung hero of getting evil done a world of small magics and big hearts, where a little chaos can go a long, long way From the brutal curators at ImmerseOrDie.com comes another collection of indie short stories, each a distinct jewel forged in the fires of judgment, and all continuing to carry our one simple promise: Guaranteed not to suck.

Luke Kelly is struggling to make a go of his private investigation business when, out of the blue, an unsolved murder case drops into his lap. The police have made no progress on the Harry Cross murder in a year of trying. Despite the plethora of suspects and the dearth of evidence, the murky motives of the client, and the unresolved issues in their private lives, Luke and his partner, Ronnie, jump at the chance to solve this famous mystery. But Luke soon finds the rich and powerful Cross family are not all happy to have the case revived - and nor are the cops. When connections to organised crime gangs and neo-Nazi politics emerge, Luke and Ronnie find themselves in mortal danger yet again, and, like the police before them, at a loss to understand who killed Harry Cross. Bright City Dark Love is the third novel in the Luke Kelly crime series.

A year has passed since Luke Kelly's girlfriend was brutally murdered and the young man's life was pushed out of its quiet academic orbit into the darker and dirtier world of private investigation. Yet when a beautiful blonde turns up in Luke's office asking him to find her friend's killer, he thinks he's finally found the kind of case he needs. But, as he and his partner, Ronnie Walker, get deeper into the case, the impossibility of the job becomes overwhelming. Everybody loved the victim and no-one had any reason to want him dead. The police have already decided it was suicide and Luke is wondering how to let his client down gently when hired thugs turn up to warn him off. Luke's relationship with Ronnie is as bad as ever and getting worse as the case slowly pushes them to the edge. With Ronnie suspected of the murder of a second, perhaps unrelated, victim and Luke the target of a professional hit man, things look hopeless-until an unexpected clue sets them on a path of danger and violence that will end things one way or another. Bright City Lost Souls is the second Luke Kelly crime story in this exciting Australian detective series.

The most wanted man in America is about to destroy the entire nation-or save it. It's 2066 and Sandra has kept a low profile for 16 years, working as a tech in a quiet British university, hoping her past would never catch up with her. But now it has. When Jay discovers Sandra has been kidnapped and her captor is planning a massive timesplash, he drops everything and goes to the U. S. to find her. But Sandra's kidnapper is not an ordinary criminal. He's America's most-wanted terrorist, a man driven to to free his country from religious oppression at any cost. When Cara, Sandra's teenage daughter, is taken by one of the many factions on the ground in Washington D. C., Sandra is forced to help them build their time displacement rig, and Jay is catapulted into a desperate race to stop the deaths of millions, or save Sandra and her daughter. Sandra and Jay must somehow decide between what is right for them and what is right for all in this thrilling continuation of the best-selling Timesplash series. Shortlisted in the Aurealis Awards for Best Science Fiction Novel.

Jay and Sandra are back-fighting to save a world on the edge of destruction. In the middle of a bizarre global catastrophe that looks suspiciously like the mother of all timesplashes, Sandra Malone discovers that the corporation she works for is spying on her. To find out why, she sets off to track down the culprits. What she discovers catapults Sandra, her daughter, and everyone around her into a deadly struggle to prevent a disaster. Now working in European Military Intelligence in Berlin, and dangerous than even a timesplash. In the midst of the chaos that has engulfed the world, Jay learns that Sandra is in danger and that their daughter has gone after her. Bad timing, when Jay should be solving a puzzle on which the fate of the whole world might hang. With time running out, Jay is torn between the possibility of losing Sandra, and the desperate need to stop a new kind of time-travel technology that could destroy the planet. Shortlisted in the Aurealis Awards for Best Science Fiction Novel, Foresight is the third book in the best-selling Timesplash series.

It started out as something underground, edgy and cool. Then Sniper took it all too far and people started dying. That's when time travelling changed from an extreme sport to the ultimate terrorist weapon. Scarred by their experiences in the timesplashing party scene, Jay and Sandra are thrown together in what becomes the biggest manhunt in history: the search for Sniper, Sandra's ex-boyfriend and a would-be mass murderer. Sniper and his crew are only in it for the thrills, but others want to use the chaos they can unleash to destroy their political enemies. For Jay, bringing down Sniper is mostly revenge. For Sandra, it is the only way she will ever be safe again. For everyone around them it is life and death. Set in the near future, Timesplash is a fast-paced action thriller with a completely original take on time travel. Filled with great characters, Timesplash takes Jay and Sandra on a wild ride through a world already on the edge. A Kindle best-seller, Timesplash is the first book in a unique and highly acclaimed time travel series.

Ginny had only dated Cal Coplin a couple of times when the police arrive to question her about him. He's disappeared - something that should be completely impossible in the late 21st century when everyone is electronically tagged.

From the best-selling author of the Timesplash series, Graham Storrs, comes an urban sci-fi thriller that stands the genre on its head. Arramar is a mindrider, an incorporeal alien who lives in the minds of other species, and his people have arrived here to colonise the Earth. But Arramar begins to see that humanity is not an appropriate species for colonisation, not least because they are already inhabited by the indigenous, mind-dwelling monsters his people call "nightmares". Now, as a war between his colony and the nightmares begins to escalate, with collateral damage among the humans inevitable, he is desperately trying to persuade his people to leave. But the leader of the colony has disappeared and both his own people and the human military are hunting him down. His only allies in his struggle to save the Earth are a handful of humans whose minds he rides and who are as scared and confused as he is.