Swimming Kangaroo & More

Swimming Kangaroo & More

Ok, you hear us talking about Swimming Kangaroo all the time. We have our reasons, and those reasons are not just because I have signed four book contracts with them. They are small and new, but they have high standards and a willingness to look at works that do not fall into tight catagories. Slipstream fiction is not just a theory with them, it is a fact. The books listed below are ones I have read and enjoyed. Swimming Kangaroo has many others which are equally as good, or so I have read in many, many reviews. Go ahead and give them a try. You won't regret it.

Books at Swimming Kangaroo

Looking Glass Portal by Larriane Wills
Garrett is either in a coma, lost in crazy dreams or just plain crazy, locked in a padded cell living a delusion. Pig-like men don’t come out of thin air with a weapon that punches holes through flesh and bone. There is no such thing as a Thornn research vessel or giant bumble bees called yantz that produce an organic substance to replace missing flesh and bone, and there sure as hell isn’t really a Pegasus. Aliens of all shapes, sizes and colors don't gang up on you and try to kill you. But damn if it didn’t all seem real as real as the constant pain he had lived with for twelve years. Did it even matter? Real or insane delusion, Garrett knew he was in a fight for his life.
Dreamer's Way by Mari Atherton
Flita is alone in a hostile world. Abandoned by her mother, betrayed by her stepmother and her best friend, and sentenced to death, she is now trapped in the poisonous air outside the safe boundaries of the Protectorate. If the air doesn’t kill her, the hideously deformed monsters that dwell Outside will. Her only hope is to find the Dreamer’s Way that will lead her to the Golden City and safety. But the monsters have already attacked and wrapped their deadly tendrils around her. Even if she knew the location of the Dreamer’s Way, she has no way to get there...or does she?
Lightning Days by Colin Harvey
There's a mystery in the caves of Afghanistan... British Special Agent Josh Cassidy knows there is no such thing as a routine mission when he is sent to accompany an ill-prepared band of reservists on a hastily prepared mission into the heart of Afghanistan. The mysterious heat source that showed up on the military satellites could be just about anything, but nobody is prepared to find a group of refugees from an alternate universe: a group of intelligent, NEANDERTHAL refugees. Sophia and her people have shifted universes for years, trying to keep ahead of the vicious race of Sauroids that is intent on exterminating the Thals. Now the long-running battle has come to our universe, and Josh Cassidy is the only man who stands between the Sauroids and the total annihilation of everyone on the planet Earth.
Mother Feral's Love by Lawrence Barker
Four Days That is all the time Evrandal the Feral has to save her child, Broglin, from slavery in the dreaded mines of Tuscum. Four days to rescue a daughter who does not even know Evrandal is her mother. Evrandal the Feral, a creature half-human and scorned by society, forbidden by Holy Law from entering the Shrine of the Four Mothers, must now journey through the wild deserts of Vrantum to distant cities to find out who killed a somewhat seedy alchemist. She must protect herself from the wild Ghuls, fearsome creatures of the dark, and even has to ally herself with the Falsepaths, heretics who deny the Four Mothers and Holy Law. She must keep the sorcerous Keeppeaces from learning of her quest, and especially must keep them from learning that Broglin is her daughter. She must avoid being compelled by the Keeppeaces to thrust a knife into her own body, taking her own life. Finally Evrandal must violate Vrantum's highest taboo and cross over the threshold into the Shrine of the Four Mothers, even though doing so condemns her to eternal reincarnation as vermin. She must do all of this to save her daughter. And she must do it in... Four days.
Merari by Mari Atherton
Marianthia....A beautiful planet with an incredible, living technology. If traveling salesman Aviv Gerbo can just get this technology to the rest of the galaxy, he will be rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he is an alien and.... Aliens are not permitted on Marianthia. But Aviv is unable to leave. He is stranded on the planet when a giant, telepathic fungus eats his spaceship. Hunted by the brutish Secures, he is rescued by Merari, who was born into the Surrogate class. However, Merari does not meet the physical specifications for that class. She is a deviant and... Deviants are not permitted on Marianthia. And now both Merari and Aviv are hunted by the Secures. They escape to Unity, a hidden community on the far side of the planet, but when terrorists launch an attack against the Surrogate class Merari must make a frightful decision. Should she stay in safety with the man she loves? Or should she return with the information that will save her class, knowing that if she returns she faces a certain, horrible death.

A couple short story places where Mark has been published

Bewildering Stories
Hey, this is the Baron, and I have to tell you that I really like this place...a lot. It's mission statement reads that Bewildering Stories offers a home and an audience to speculative writing. All genres are welcome in prose, poetry, drama and non-fiction. Well, that mission statement is dead on. They are friendly to readers, extremely helpful to writers, and have some very dedicated editors. It is my honor that they have published several of my stories under my other name, Mark Eller. If you want a good read, this is the place to go.
Demonminds
Want a little bit of the scary? Want to see the other side of life...or death. Demondminds is the place to go, and I have to tell you, these people are pretty cool and they have a great site. Give 'em a try. It's free. Promise. For you writers, Demonminds has proved welcoming and they have a great staff. They were also kind enought to print some of those other Mark Eller stories.