Tales of Spaceships and Magic

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Tales of Spaceships and Magic</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> collects ten stories from fantasy and science fiction writer Kate MacLeod:</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The science fiction novelette Required to Assist a mystery set on board a colony ship where one woman alone is woken by the ship's droids to solve a murder.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sword and Tattoo a fantasy short story where a stranger stumbles into a hidden town. He brings danger with him but the people of the town just might be more dangerous still.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The science fiction short story Being Neighborly a light-hearted tale of a human family homesteading on a world side by side with a very alien people.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Tumbling Up a science fiction short story about a group of diplomats attempting to negotiate a peace with an aquatic alien species.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Death Spiral a science fiction mystery where a security officer must solve a murder and keep a strange species of aliens calm at the same time.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>While the Rat's Away a science fiction story of travelers stowing away on a very unusual client ship.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Fair Folk a fantasy tale of fairs magic and tricky bargains. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Rod of Circe a fantasy caper set in a magical version of modern day Minneapolis. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Winter's End a melancholy tale of a winter that never seems to end.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Heat Death a science fiction mystery story set in the near future on the edges of the Chihuahuan Desert in the brutal heat of midsummer.</span></p>