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Peter M Ball
A science fiction MMA novella in the tradition of pulp era boxing stories. The first entry in the ongoing saga of a two-fisted engineer, a mysterious Captain, and a crew…
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The omnibus edition of Peter M. Ball's Miriam Aster urban fantasy novellas.
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Sixteen blunt and unconventional essays about writing and the writing business from the former manager of the Australian Writer’s Marketplace.
A short, sharp urban fantasy thriller that pits a hitman on the run against an array of demons, necromancers, and sorcerers on the Gold Coast.
A collection of twelve science fiction stories featuring giant monsters, Lovecraftian horrors, clockwork cyberpunks, and more. Finalist for Best Collection the 2018 Aurealis Awards celebrating the year’s best Australian speculative…
Published here as a stand-alone chapbook, Briar Day is a short, slipstream story about masculinity, fairy tales, and the narratives we tell ourselves. Also available in the collection The Birdcage…
Cody Jones owes the corp a lot of money. Decanted from a cryotube with a mountain of debt and very few options, Cody works corporate black ops in Downside, home…
Fiction writers are taught to show, not tell. In each Short Fiction Lab, award winning short fiction writer Peter M. Ball takes one of his own stories and explores an…
The third short story collection of from Ditmar and Aurealis award winner Peter M. Ball, collecting a suite of horror and fantasy tales.
Twelve weird and wonderful short stories for those who love their fantasy a little bit different.
The chapbook release of a fantasy short story about an immortal criminal, an scholarly executioner, and a friendship that becomes an obsession.
A dark fantasy chapbook about snakes, old wounds, and isolation in the heat of the Queensland outback from Brain Jar Press’ Short Fiction Lab series.
Years before he built his name as a science fiction and fantasy author, Peter M. Ball was a young poet and member of the Gold Coast’s Post Hoc Performing Word…
Peter M. Ball made his debut as a speculative fiction writer in 2007, but he’d already been writing for two decades by the time he turned his attention to producing…
