Wormwood & Bedlam Rose

WORMWOOD A deluxe expanded edition of the original collection, set on a strikingly transformed Earth three hundred years from now, a world remade by the all-powerful alien Nobodoi and their terrifying Bridge Races. Introduced by Harlan Ellison.

EARTH—AFTER WORMWOOD Centuries from now, a world invaded by the all-powerful Nobodoi and their servant Races, re-made as a strange and mighty Patchwork of land-bridges, alien enclaves and deadly domains, where the remnants of a blasted Humanity are lucky just to survive.

THE HUMAN HEROES Meet Aspen Dirk, Jamis Talby, Hollis Green, the mad poet Antelim—the ones who travel the Patchwork and encounter the Hoproi warmasters, the living spaceships, the Qualagi mothersires who wear the corpses of their slaughtered young. Join the brave Humans who dare face the Darzie mind-riders, the gleaming Matta whose houses kill, the fearsome Amazi whose greatest longing is to couple with Human females. All part of what the world has become—after Wormwood.

BEDLAM ROSE A novel-length adventure set in this same future. Travel with Aspen Dirk, the most famous boggler of them all, as he seeks to uncover the Nobodoi's real plan for this bizarre Patchwork of vast energy corridors, alien enclaves and deadly domains.

The all-powerful Nobodoi invaders have gone, mysteriously Recalled, leaving behind their occupying client Races and all that they have made—the mighty tapestry of alien enclaves, land-bridges and scattered Human communities that Earth has become three hundred years from now. But something is seriously wrong with the very fabric of the bizarre and fascinating Patchwork they have left behind. The occupying alien forces seem to be at war with each other. The great planetary engines are malfunctioning, causing wholesale death and destruction. Is the world failing at last? Was this the Nobodoi's intention all along?

Aspen Dirk, the famous Human boggler who can “read” so many of the alien artefacts left by the Nobodoi, sets out to find answers, only to uncover what might well be the Nobodoi's real master plan for our beleaguered world.

Bedlam Rose is a glimpse into the truly alien, whether it’s the jovial, deadly Hoproi with their wargardens and fighting-stars, the reclusive Matta houselords who bleed gold and skin only the Humans they love, the ruthless Darzie who endure constant agony just to be here. Then there are the inscrutable Nobodoi themselves.