Christopher Ruz

• Jun-2019
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Australian horror author and Aurealis Award Nominee Christopher Ruz makes his epic fantasy debut.

After decades of loyal military service, Richard has discovered that the Magician he serves is more monster than man―and yo...

• Mar-2016
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In the irradiated ruins of post-war Melbourne, children are going missing.The war in China changed Lance Corporal Diana Yossole. It broke her. It rebuilt her. Now she patrols the shanty-towns along Melbourne's shoreline, keeping the peace with engine...

• Jan-2016
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Kimberly Archer is going to war.After narrowly escaping the inferno at the Pentacost Convent, Kimberly finds refuge with Mister Gull, a stranger who claims to possess the power of the Queens of Rustwood. Together they construct a daring plan to draw ...

• Jan-2016
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Kimberly Archer is going to war.After narrowly escaping the inferno at the Pentacost Convent, Kimberly finds refuge with Mister Gull, a stranger who claims to possess the power of the Queens of Rustwood. Together they construct a daring plan to draw ...

• May-2015
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Kimberly Archer died in New York and woke in Rustwood. She escaped the man pretending to be her husband and fought her way out of Bo Tuscon's basement of horrors. Now, with Fitch by her side, she wants answers. But Rustwood won't give up...

• May-2015
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Kimberly Archer died in New York and woke in Rustwood. She escaped the man pretending to be her husband and fought her way out of Bo Tuscon's basement of horrors. Now, with Fitch by her side, she wants answers. But Rus...

• Feb-2014
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She died in New York. She woke in Rustwood.After being pushed in front of the subway C-Line, Kimberly Archer finds herself in an impossible town with a husband she's never seen before and a life she can't remember. The rain never stops, the phones do...

• Feb-2014
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Kimberly Archer and Fitch escaped from Bo's house with their lives. The creature living in Bo's throat is dead. The corpses he was using as incubators have been burned. For once, it seems that everything's going to be okay. But Rustwood doesn't let ...

• Feb-2014
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Kimberly Archer has tried to escape Rustwood twice, and twice she's been turned back. But this time, she has a foolproof plan. Forget subtlety - she's headed straight over the mountains. By the time Goodwell and her fake husband know she's gone, she'...

• Feb-2014
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Rustwood won't let Kimberly Archer go. She's out of hospital, but that doesn't mean she's free. The madman Fitch is offering help, but he has problems of his own - a quartet of shadowy figures are stalking him through the streets, and the law isn't ...

• Dec-2013
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Parkin, a soldier-turned-mercenary, has been hired by the King's Magician to accompany him on a long journey into the great western desert, in search of an ancient and powerful artefact. After years spent battling the heathens in the frozen north, Pa...

• Dec-2013
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There's a storm sweeping in, dark enough to swallow the world. Now Liri and her terrified husband are trapped inside their apartment, watching the lights on the hill vanish behind the rain. There's no power, no phone signal, Liri is sick and the taps...

• Dec-2013
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Lonely AIs, Peruvian parasites, graffiti activists and far-future memory swapping meet in Future Tides, a collection of all Christopher Ruz's short works from 2007 to 2011. Cyberpunk and space opera sit side by side with award-winning tales of heroin...

• Dec-2013
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(Formerly titled Poirot and the Doctor)Twenty years ago, Harold's little sister vanished into the decrepit mansion known as the Bonehouse. Now, Harold is a middle-aged Agatha Christie aficionado, still obsessing over what might have been if he'd only...

• Dec-2013
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In a desperate attempt to outrun his past, Andrew accepts a posting to the distant mining colony of Markourya, where the air is acid and the skin of the planet ruptures daily, swallowing men and their APCs whole.Markourya is uninhabited but for the h...

• Apr-2013
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Cezar didn't come to the prison colony known as the Pike for rehabilitation. He came for revenge.Ten years ago, Cezar witnessed mutiny and murder aboard a colony starship. He survived, and with the aid of the enigmatic Doctor Milan he's worked his wa...

• Apr-2013
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The colony ship known as the Vale has been spiralling towards Epsilon Eridani for four millennia, and Barry - the semi-sentient AI set to guard its frozen human cargo - has had a long time to question the nature of his mission. There are too many gap...

• Feb-2013
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Richard and Ana are on the run. As a young soldier, Richard led a rebellion that installed the King's sociopathic Magician as the new regent. Now, after forty years of watching his comrades vanish into the dungeons of Stonebridge Castle, Richard has...

• Feb-2013
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THE KING AND OTHER STORIES, the second collection by Christopher Ruz, combines five pieces of contemporary fiction and modern counter-culture literature into one exciting package.In THE HARD SELL, a disaffected photographer finds his world flipped up...

She died in New York. She woke in Rustwood.After being pushed in front of the subway C-Line, Kimberly Archer finds herself in an impossible town with a husband she's never seen before and a life she can't remember. The rain never stops, the phones do...

She died in New York. She woke in Rustwood.After being pushed in front of the subway C-Line, Kimberly Archer finds herself in an impossible town with a husband she's never seen before and a life she can't remember. The rain never stops, the p...