Austin shirey
Author of strange & fantastic fiction.
CITY OF SPORES
Welcome to Madripol, city of artists and madmen, city of mushrooms.
There’s something wrong with this city.
When a strange plague infects Old Town, Johanna Kolibrik thinks the graffiti messages scrawled all over the city might be right. Kolibrik’s got her own problems, though—like paying the bills and keeping her PI business afloat—so when a well-dressed man from New Town offers to double her fee to find his missing wife, she ignores her gut and takes the case.
But when she stumbles across a manuscript that shouldn’t exist, Kolibrik finds herself caught up in a vast web of conspiracy that will challenge everything she believes—a conspiracy that could shake the city of Madripol to its very foundations.
Because in Madripol, everything is connected …
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goodly creatures
The world is on fire.
The last remaining mega-corporation works its employees to the bone to hold us back from the very brink of calamity.
But what if the very things we believe to be our salvation are actually the harbingers of our doom?
In this shocking and surreal glimpse of humanity’s not-so-distant, climate-ravaged future, a beleaguered engineer at a monolithic biotech company must track down an elusive biosynthetic creature after it escapes containment and begins wreaking havoc throughout the facility.
Contains illustrations by Pat Hughes and a bonus story set in the same universe.
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The Magic of Everyday Things
In the four short stories that make up Austin Shirey’s debut collection, ever-more-fantastic elements are gradually added to familiar, everyday scenarios—until the mundane is inseparable from the magical.
“The Magic of Everyday Things is a seamless quilt of voices, settings, times, and characters in various stages of their lives. In this handful of breathless, dynamic journeys, Shirey urges us to hold onto hope and the way it mends what has been fractured, and shows us how shared difficulties bring us together.”
~ Ai Jiang, Nebula Award finalist & author of Linghun
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