The award-winning saga continues ...
The fourth volume in the Moonworld series, The Time Engine, is due out in August. Fans of Danolarian will be pleased to see the reluctant hero extricate himself from a series of ever-more bizarre and head-spinning adventures that could only come from the imagination of Sean McMullen. Here is a small taste of what lies ahead ...

In The Time Engine, Wayfarer Inspector Danolarian and his cat-constable, Wallas, are abducted from medieval Alberin and sent a thousand years into the future. Here they experience significant amounts of culture shock:

The internal doors slid open at our mere approach, and did not ask for passwords. After ascending two floors by the stairs, I walked along a corridor with glowing panels in the ceiling. At the end of this was another door.
"The room beyond is a called a living room," said Wallas.
"So people live there?"
"No, they just sit there sometimes. Perhaps dead people are not allowed."
"Technically we are probably dead."
"Then we are not qualified to enter."
"Well we had better not tell anyone."
The door slid open. Before me were nine tall, heavily muscled, naked men, lounging before an open fire. What caused my mouth to hang silently open was not so much the fact that they were all pregnant, as that their primary sexual attributes being worn in teardrop shaped jars around their necks.
"Hi, we're empathising," said a blonde man to the right of the fireplace. "I'm Olivarine, I'm into lifestyle."
Introducing myself seemed to be the least suspicious thing that I might do, given that I was wearing clothes, anatomically intact, and certainly not pregnant.

Look in bookstores for The Time Engine in August.

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Sean sold his first stories in the late 1980s and has become one of Australia's top Science Fiction and Fantasy authors. In the late 90s he established himself in the American market, and his work has been translated into Polish, French, Japanese and other languages.The settings for Sean's work range from the Roman Empire, through Medieval Europe, to cities of the distant future. His work is a mixture of romance, invention and adventure, while populated by dynamic, strange and often hilarious characters.

Sean can be contacted at www.seanmcmullen.net.au
email: scm@unite.com.au

With the first volume published this year, the French are about to experience the wondrous creations of Sean McMullen's Moonworld series.