OUR BOOKS
At Dead Fish Books we have a selection of novels and short stories for your reading pleasure. Where you may find these is listed with each book.
So, are you here to create a completely different alien? One that breaks the mold, steps outside the box, challenges you to consider life in a new way? You bring the dice and we’ll bring the tables. Together, we are going to get weird.
Using random number generators, science facts, and illustrations from the real world, we will show you how to create unique non-terrestrial organisms, and flesh them out. An essential tool for worldbuilders, science fiction authors, and bio-curious individuals.
More info. Find it on DriveThruRPG and Amazon (Print only.)
Do we ever think of them, the little people who make the villain or hero great? The ones tasked with the little jobs: Picking up the laundry, making the meals, testing the supervillain death machine, demonstrating how the monster works? The person responsible for keeping the heroine's sword sharp—does she ever notice? What are their lives like? What danger are they in? How did they get the job? And a hundred and one more questions. We present twenty-eight innovative and remarkable speculative fiction stories about the ones that make the hero (or villain) super. More info. Find it on Amazon.
The Aliens are coming! The Aliens are coming! O Happy Day! And then…the course of First Contact never runs smooth. Aliens come offering Humans a piece of advanced technology. Judging Earth’s worthiness to joining the interstellar community. On a dating site. Bringing unintended consequences. Running into the wrong person. Attempting to conquer the Earth. Manipulating politics for their own advantage. Who wins? We give you twenty stories of First Contact that range from hopeful to hilarious to horrifying. Some will make you laugh; others will make you cry. Some will leave you with the disquiet you can only get from a good horror story. First Contact, yay! More info. Find it on Amazon.
How different can two entities be, yet still share the bond commonly known as love? An alien and a human? A surface dweller and a sea dweller? Living and no longer living? Organic and stone? A man and a planet? How can such different beings find each other, and how will they overcome the differences between them? Which barriers are just too high to cross? These twenty stories cover the range of Speculative Fiction—Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror—as well as the entirety of Human experience. From Ancient Greece to a far-flung futures, from suburbia to empty wilderness, these stories look for love wherever it is found. Sometimes there are happy endings. Sometimes it cannot be. And sometimes—it is up to the reader to decide. Love is always a chancy thing. More info. Find it on Amazon in ebook or in print.
They were created to fly on Mars—but politics and prejudice kept them trapped in space.
Volants: winged humans, genetically modified to thrive on a terraformed Mars, yet limited to a single, crowded space habitat, and both the population and tempers are reaching a critical point. Violence increases even as an assembly is called for the people to decide the way forward. Three intertwined stories bring the events, and the consequences, to life: Cecilia, torn between her religious calling to a religion that does not yet accept her humanity and a new-found love. Nicholas, whose rebellious spirit is leading him to the worst fate that Volant Habitat can give him. And Gareth, a Bard from Earth, come to learn about Volant poetry and way of life, but who also has a mission that must be kept secret from the Volant government, his own ambassador, and even the Volants who he comes to love and trust. Find it at Amazon
Two years after the violent suppression of the People’s Assembly, the survivors live on either in the increasingly repressive Volant Habitat or as exiles on Mars. But the hopes of the Mars Now Movement for terraforming the Red Planet have been suppressed and are facing extinction. When Peter Erica Carmen and his students are told that they must destroy all their plants and hard work, they fight back: Peter by running for the position of Delegate to the General Assembly of Mars, and others resorting to terrorist ways. Meanwhile, the beloved Queen of the Volants, imprisoned in her palace by her Prime Minister, starts her own clandestine operation to learn the truth of what is happening. As the conspirators on Mars face the consequences of their own actions, tensions in Volant Habitat reach the point of explosion. Will Volant dreams of flying free on Mars be crushed by tyranny? Find it at Amazon and Smashwords.
Oudeis has but one purpose; how will he fulfill it?
In the not-very-far future, where humans can be modified with animal DNA to create races with special abilities that will allow them to colonize far flung planets, there are those who are offended by this affront to Nature. The Naturalists must strike a blow for their beliefs – but how, when they cannot smuggle weapons onto Mars, will Oudeis achieve his purpose?
All electronic formats available at Smashwords.
Also available at Amazon Kindle.
Books and short stories by Da Mama, Helen E Davis.Books and stories by Da Baby, Elizabeth M Davis
