The New Mythic by Paddy Boylan

The New Mythic by Paddy Boylan

Including beautiful, full-page illustrations for both Digital & Paperback versions.

The New Mythic: the new voice of 21st speculative fiction. An all-new anthology of chilling horror, apocalyptic science fiction and awe-inspiring fantasy, by an award winning ensemble of international writers.

• Cooling Engines: A pathfinder must navigate his way through intrigue and deceit in the crumbled remains of civilization.
• Glyphlight: A bloodcurdling whisper follows two young siblings looking for their lost father in the bowels of a dark mine deep beneath the earth.
• The Traitor: A warrior clan tracks a ship full of riches. But when the blood starts spilling, old debts arise and loyalties are tested.
• Enter Elias Schmidt: A man before his time alters history irreversibly with his human-like machine. But not everyone is satisfied in this AI-orchestrated paradise, where everyone should be happy.
• Town Hall Steps: Four mates unwittingly party through the evacuation of Sydney, and must now find their way to safety through the zombie horde.
• The Stolen Sword: A young survivor of the clan war finds a priceless artefact, but when he attempts to barter it with the emperor, he discovers that the most powerful man alive wants something else entirely.

Dark tales, alternate fantasies, a mythology that never was - The New Mythic is a collection of short stories like no other.

Available in paperback and digital.

Authored by: James Healy, Matan Elul, Paddy Boylan, Phoenix Raig, A.R. Eldridge and Alexandria Burnham.