
Their role is to investigate and infiltrate the less savoury levels of society. But what very few know is that the Zero, and her crew, are contracted by the Service. Unofficially, Hugo is re-assigned to captain the crew of the Zero, an eight-man craft classified as, at best, a privateer ship and at worst a smuggling and criminal enterprise vessel. There is no place in the Service for heroes. The battle was won, but Hugo was condemned and dishonourably discharged by Service commanders for defying regulations. He has done everything ever ordered of him and has done so with a pride that comes from knowing you are fighting for the good of humankind… until the day that he made a decision to go against orders to obtain victory and save lives. Kaleb Hugo is everything an officer of the Service should be: loyal, expertly trained, unquestioning. Hatton.Out now from Amazon for Kindle or in paperback Roebuck, Liam Hogan, Kate Baucherel, Liz Tuckwell and Ben Sawyer. Bruce Connelly, Will Nett, Davia Sacks, Peter James Martin, Robin Moon, Joseph Carrabis, A.L.

Volume 9 includes stories by: John Holmes-Carrington, Graeme Wilkinson, Mark Hayes, R. Published by Sixth Element Publishing, April 2022 Volume 9 but with a plumbing theme threading through most but not all stories, and in the end, it was actually a lot of fun to put together. Without explaining in long, drawn-out detail (that’ll take a rum or two), we had way too much excitement and enthusiasm for the plumbing/plumbers theme, but not quite enough stories to make a stand alone special… so we decided on a compromise.


Scheduled originally for a pre-Christmas release, then a January/February 2022 release, it finally burst into life just in time to launch at Sci-Fi Scarborough in April.Ĭoming out of the pandemic was far more complicated than a simple return to normal, and pulling together the new batch of stories was further complicated by the slightly tricky ‘plumbing’ issue. If Volume 8 took a while to hit the shelves, Volume 9 took even longer.
