Pisces

The Zodiac Series #3

by Nikky Lee, Austin P. Sheehan, Aiki Flinthart

A geologist seeks her missing sister on the moons of Jupiter. The crew of the Valentine dredge up something from the ocean’s depths. An ancient God is called upon during a bloody war.

PISCES is a collection of twisted poems and dark stories inspired by this fascinating Zodiac sign, as well as retellings of the myths behind the sign. The tales span multiple genres, including science fiction, horror, fantasy, dystopian and urban fantasy, told by some award-winning authors and new stars of the Australian and New Zealand speculative fiction scene.

184 pages, ebook

First published February 16, 2020

About the author

Nikky Lee is an award-winning author who grew up as a barefoot 90s kid in Perth, Western Australia on Whadjuk Noongar Country. She now lives in Aotearoa New Zealand with a husband, a dog, and a couch potato cat. In her free time, she writes speculative fiction, often burning the candle at both ends to explore fantastic worlds, mine asteroids and meet wizards. She's had over two dozen stories published in magazines, anthologies and on the radio.

Her fantasy, sci-fi and horror fiction has won three Australian Aurealis Awards, two New Zealand Sir Julius Vogel Awards, Bronze at the Foreward INDIES Book of the Year, three Indie Ink Awards, and a Ditmar Award for Best New Talent.

Reviews

[Austin Sheehan · Rating 5 out of 5]

*Editor's Review*
PISCES, the third book in Aussie Speculative Fiction's series of Zodiac-inspired anthologies, is a great collection.
One of the first stories 'The Fish and the Water Carrier' (Fallacious Rose) is a short but stunning piece, something out of left-field, but a great opening for this diverse collection. The second piece, 'A Gift for Aphrodite' (Aiki Flinthart) tells a captivating story of the goddess Aphrodite, intrinsically linked with the myths behind the Pisces sign. From tales of ancient gods ('A Gift for Aphrodite' & 'The Betrayal of Ikhthus') to a terraforming colony on one of Jupiter's moons ('Seaborn'), to tales of terror from the deep ('Stranded' and 'Seamare') this collection has something for everyone.

[Neen Cohen · Rating 5 out of 5]

The zodiac series just keeps getting better and better. Some familiar names from the previous instalments as well as some new ones.

The stories are beautifully written, some horrific and some that made me laugh out loud and breath between the horror with characters you can both love and hate.

[Tracey Loudoun · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some great stories by very talented authors! My favourite was Seaborn by Maddie Jensen. She had me hanging on to every word in a genre that I don’t usually favour, that takes talent! Very enjoyable read.

[Aurelija · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short stories, not my taste, but it is more my thing. Book itself included short, Pisces related stories. Some of them I realy liked it. Would recommend to someone who want something different.