Stewart Bint Bücher

By the twenty-seventh century, mankind has finally mastered time travel-and is driving recklessly towards wiping itself out. The guerilla environmentalist group WorldSave, with its chief operative Ashday's Child, uses the Timeshaft to correct mistakes of the past in an effort to extend the life of the planet. But the enigmatic Ashday's Child has his own destiny to accomplish, and will do whatever it takes within a complicated web of paradoxes to do so. While his destiny-and very existence-is challenged from the beginning to the end of time, he must collect the key players through the ages to create the very Timeshaft itself. "Do our actions as time travellers change what would otherwise have happened, or is everything already laid down in a predetermined plan?" he asks. Stewart Bint's Timeshaft is an expertly synchronized saga of time travel, the irresistible force of destiny, and the responsibility of mankind as rulers of the world.

How much trouble can one disgruntled ghost really make? Albert Carter has died, and finds himself in the spirit world to get sorted out at St. Christopher's gates. Having been a successful shop steward picketing the management of Jebson's Glue Factory on behalf of his colleagues, he feels confident his final destination is Heaven, with the rest of the decent, honest working class. However, upon his arrival to St. Christopher's Doomsday Ministry, an inspectors' strike causes all spirits in transit to be temporarily relegated to Earth as ghosts until negotiations can be met. Albert's ghostly assignment is his worst nightmare: a wealthy lord's manor which operates on the hard-earned wages of his own class. Immediately upon arrival he decides to ruin the capitalist family and begins his unlawful haunting as the Ghost of Marlston Manor. Watching him from the heavens is a host of guardian angels, elders, overlords, and scribes-all scrambling to undo the havoc that Albert is blunderingly creating in his short stint as a ghost. The final straw comes as Albert riles up a "fright" of ghosts to collude and protest their sentences on Earth-and Albert finally faces St. Christopher. "

A bolt of lightning. A crack of thunder. The lingering smell of ozone in the highly-charged air. And the world has changed forever. Welcome to Thunderlands. It looks the same on the surface, but there's just a hint that all might not be what it seems beneath. Even the most ordinary things may be just a touch off kilter. Stewart Bint's collection of 21 short stories ranges from the sublime, through powerful, puzzling, funny, horrific and different, to the unforgivably ridiculous.

Some secrets are better left in the past. Summer, 1940. Before the German occupation during World War II, the Marquand family flees their home in the English Channel and never looks back. Summer, 1983. The once-opulent Idlewild Mansion is crumbling and derelict. 18-year-old David Simeon dreams of Idlewild years past; in his dreams, he sees a young girl endlessly wandering its corridors. Soon, the threads of past and present begin to intertwine. But what is the connection between Simeon and the shadowy old mansion, and is it too late to stop the darkness that still dwells there?