Bøker av Goldeen Ogawa

University student Alister Bane is a neat, tidy, ordinary person living a neat, tidy, ordinary life. But all this changes when the flamboyant, other-worldly, and extraordinary Professor Odd waltzes into class and turns his world inside out. Suddenly Alister is thrown into the middle of a cat-and-mouse game between the Professor and alien tentacle monster, while a shadowy group of scientists tries to capture them all. Can Alister convince them that he is only a hapless bystander? Can life ever return to normal? One thing is for certain: things are going to get a little bit odd. "The False Student" was first published electronically in 2011. It is the first in a series of novellas chronicling the adventures of Professor Odd and her wayward companions.

In a universe much like our own, Professor Alister Bane lives a quiet life as an archeologist at Oxford University. But when a nearby excavation triggers a psychotic episode in one of his colleagues, Professor Bane finds himself tumbling down a rabbit hole of strange phenomena and frightening possibilities. Having to contend with a slew of disappearing interns and his own terrifying hallucinations, Alister Bane finds his mind-and his whole world-unraveling even as he searches for a solution. It all comes down to half-forgotten memories, a madman's allusion to the thing with "terrible arms" and a nightmare of being trapped in a cold, dark place. But when he finds the answer, it is something beyond even his wildest dreams. "The Elder Machine" is the fourth installment in Goldeen Ogawa's sci-fi novella series chronicling the adventures of Professor Odd-and in this case, Professor Bane as well.

What do you do when your drastic measures to save your own life result in you becoming a strange, half-undead creature that even other monsters are afraid of? If you're Jill Hamilton, you start a company dedicated to the study of those monsters-and anything else that looks remotely magical.What do you do when you lose your best friend when she falls off a bridge in Purgatory? If you're Clara Nordstern, you try to find the next thing that needs doing. Even if it means confronting your worst fears and your deepest guilt.What do you do when you get sucked into Hell by the demon Lilith? If you're Selene Shields, you start walking. One foot in front of the other. Even if it means going right through the center of Hell.The world of Driving Arcana, always subverted by magic, is becoming openly mythic, and Jill, Clara, and Selene must navigate a landscape increasingly compromised by powers beyond anyone's expectation-but not, Jill would point out, beyond potential understanding.This is Wheel 3 of Driving Arcana, Hope in the Forest of Despair. It follows Wheel 2, Paving the Road to Hell, and is comprised of Lightning Does Strike Twice, Moonrise Over Hades, The Hour I First Believed, Hope in the Forest of Despair, Cloth of Man, Blood and Fury, Fear Not, A Cold Day in Hell, and The Great Gate. It also contains a related short story "The Lady in the Gray Suit" which provides a glimpse of the magical mayhem occurring on the opposite side of the globe.

What do you do when the supernatural world crashes-suddenly, violently, devastatingly-into yours? If you are Jill Hamilton, you drop out of UC Santa Cruz, use your inherited savings to hire a couple monster hunters as bodyguards, get in your dead boyfriend's truck, and you go out and study it. Of course. Even if your bodyguards tell you some things are better left un-studied. Even if unicorns are real and bloodthirsty. Even if summoning old, forgotten gods has detrimental effects on the state of reality. Because beyond killing monsters and helping people, Jill Hamilton wants to understand why the world she thought she knew is actually so much deeper, darker, and downright magical than it has any right to be.Welcome to the world of Driving Arcana, where even the painfully boring and mundane aspects of everyday life are underlaid by a subtle current of inexplicable magic, and three women are on a mission to find out how it all works. Even if two of them would really rather not.Wheel 2 of Driving Arcana, Paving the Road to Hell follows Wheel 1, By Moon and Star. It collects all the stories from Rotations Four, Five and Six, and adds "The Five Bodies of Tamerlain Pierce" at the end, which serves as a link between this Wheel and the next.

Lucena Clarian Ashmoor has never hatched a feathered serpent from an egg. She has never befriended a sombulus-a monster that looks like a giant spider, eats darkness, and likes reading books. She has never ridden a magic horse. She has spent all her life with relatives who would prefer she were elsewhere, and so sent her away to the nastiest school imaginable. There she has been bullied, and told so many times that she was dumb and fat and useless that she almost came to believe it. She has never been popular, and never done anything remotely heroic.All this changes the night a vampire attacks her school and Lucena is tumbled into a world wider, darker, more magical and more mysterious than any she could have imagined. Here she will find the forgotten egg, meet the shade-eating spider, ride the black mare with coal-fire eyes, fight vampires, dance with fairies, and find-in time-that she might be a hero after all.