Andrew Hindle

Panda Egg Andrew Hindle

Sorry Çrom Skelliglyph and a compelling killer for hire descend into the dark and frozen heart of enemy territory on a quest for something neither of them is entirely up-front about for a really long time. Predericon, Gyden and Lelhmak crash on an impossible moon, and are just starting to make themselves comfortable when they discover that they're not alone. Happy Gretchen, mistress of one of the Six Species' most notorious houses of pleasure and pain, acquires a new shipment of living merchandise - and then her customers' brains begin exploding, which is very bad for business. And on Eternal Aquilar, prime world of the human interstellar empire, a young man named Zeegon Pendraegg wanders aimlessly along the outermost edge of a criminal conspiracy spanning millennia, species and - quite possibly - whole layers of reality. Also he gets to eat a couple of hamburgers. From the long-forgotten prehistory of the Earth and the worlds above and below, to the distant future where humanity has found its place among the stars and isn't particularly happy about the fact that it's sitting behind a really tall alien, this series of short stories tells the lost and surprising tales that make up the ever-expanding urverse of The Final Fall of Man. Includes serial novellas first published on the Hatboy's Hatstand blog, with never-before-seen conclusions and expansions; as well as an all-new story based on characters created by a special audience participation process. The future, and the past, is here. Keep an eye on it, because it looks shifty.