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Prab and Kercher will need to put aside their dislike of each other and the Arcology if they’re to help their ship and save anything at all. Can they restore the possibility of hope to their lives?

Asked to be a life raft for the Arcology, the ship, a frigate without a name, is dying – slowly being swallowed whole by the literal universe of information it’s been asked to carry.

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Between them they discover it’s not just her planet, but the entire Arcology that’s gone missing. If they don’t find out what’s going on it could be the end of everyone and everything that calls the Arcology home.

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Terrified that the Arcology has just up and disappeared, she receives a call for help from a ship in dock whose pilot, Kercher, is a prisoner printed into a body to serve out his sentence in the physical world.

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One evening after a call with her family – who are pressuring her to abandon her body and rejoin the Arcology – the city stops completely. Nothing electronic works anymore.

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The Arcology is a pan galactic utopia whose people live entirely online. Tired of paradise, Praveenthi ‘Prab’ Saal had herself printed into the physical world of Sirajah’s Reach, working as an Interlocutor – a go-between for the Arcology and the cultures it meets in flesh and blood.

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Blending Indian mythology and classic space opera, Project Hanuman is a bold new science-fiction novel from Stewart Hotston, perfect for fans of Adrian Tchaikovsky.

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They enlist the help of Nicnevin, fae queen of witches, to bring men made of earth to life to help protect their village. But just who do they need protection from? And what will happen when the village men return?

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Mairead and Constance, two powerful witches, meet in the early days of the 1745 Jacobite uprising. While the men of the village are away fighting, the villagers face threats from both the Black Watch and raiders, and the women are confronted with their vulnerability. 🧵⬇️

Pop your questions into the ask-an-expert channel of our members-only Discord by mid next week, and then we'll pass them along for the all-important answers.

And if you have a few spare coins and would like to support season 2 of Holmwood, the Kickstarter is on right now!

They frequently work as a writing team, most recently with the queer Dracula-sequel horror-fiction podcast The Holmwood Foundation, which they write and produce together, and the completed first season of which can be found for free on most podcast platforms. 🧵⬇️

Fio and Georgia are a couple with over ten years of combined experience in the professional sphere, writing audio drama for the Doctor Who range with Big Finish, as well as prose for Penguin Books with the BBC, and numerous published short stories in the indie space. 🧵⬇️