Wendy Nikel

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The Causality Loop
Series: Place in Time, Book 4. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 28,410. Language: English. Originally Published: October 29, 2019 by World Weaver Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Adventure
Dodge Greenley is tired of being the go-between for his time-traveling family. All he wants is for them all to be able to live together peacefully in one era—is that too much to ask? But after breaking all the Rules of time travel in a desperate attempt to retroactively free his parents from the threat of the secret organization his father worked for a hundred years earlier, Dodge makes a...
The Grandmother Paradox
Series: Place in Time, Book 2. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 27,850. Language: English. Originally Published: July 10, 2018 by World Weaver Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
When Dr. Wells, the head of the Place in Time Travel Agency, learns that someone's trying to track down the ancestors of his star employee, there are few people he can turn to without revealing her secrets. But who better to jump down the timeline and rescue Elise from being snuffed out of existence generations before she's born than the very person whose life she saved a hundred years in the...
The Continuum
Series: Place in Time, Book 1. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 41,100. Language: English. Originally Published: January 23, 2018 by World Weaver Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
Elise Morley is an expert on the past who's about to get a crash course in the future. For years, Elise has been donning corsets, sneaking into castles, and lying through her teeth to enforce the Place in Time Travel Agency's ten essential rules of time travel. Someone has to ensure that travel to the past isn't abused, and most days she welcomes the challenge of tracking down and retrieving...
Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 96,910. Language: English. Originally Published: January 7, 2020 by World Weaver Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
"Each of these stories features a wintry, inhospitable setting occupied by tenacious survivors and innovators, and an emphasis on LGBTQ representation and female empowerment runs through each of these visions for more progressive futures…readers will take comfort in this wide range of snowy, hopeful tales." —Publishers Weekly
Trenchcoats, Towers, and Trolls
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 71,420. Language: English. Originally Published: January 11, 2022 by World Weaver Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
What do you get when you take the high tech/low life settings of cyberpunk and sprinkle them with the magic and possibilities of fairy tales? Trolls under teleportation bridges, masquerades held in virtual reality, princely avatars, giants and dwarves alongside hackers and androids. From retellings of traditional tales such as Rumpelstiltskin, in which a young woman is tasked with writing code...
Grimm, Grit, and Gasoline
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 91,300. Language: English. Originally Published: September 3, 2019 by World Weaver Press. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author, Fiction » Fairy tales, Fiction » Alternative history, Fiction » Fantasy » Historical, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
Dieselpunk and decopunk are alternative history re-imaginings of (roughly) the WWI and WWII eras: tales with the grit of roaring bombers and rumbling tanks, of 'We Can Do It' and old time gangsters, or with the glamour of flappers and Hollywood starlets, smoky jazz and speakeasies. The stories in this volume add fairy tales to the mix, transporting classic tales to this rich historical setting...
The Cassandra Complex
Series: Place in Time, Book 3. Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 29,720. Language: English. Originally Published: May 7, 2019 by World Weaver Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
Cass is a 22nd century university student who – like most young adults – has always believed her parents were a bit stuck in the past. But on her eighteenth birthday she learns exactly how true this is: not only are her parents time travelers, living in an era different than either was born in, but now, to ensure that history plays out as it's supposed to, she must travel to the year 1914 to...
Clockwork, Curses, and Coal: Steampunk and Gaslamp Fairy Tales
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 83,530. Language: English. Originally Published: March 2, 2021 by World Weaver Press. Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » General, Fiction » Fantasy » Historical, Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories, Fiction » Fantasy » Dark
Fairies threaten the world of artifice and technology, forcing the royal family to solve a riddle to stop their world from irrevocable change; a dishonest merchant uses automatons as vessels for his secrets and lies; a woman discovers the secret of three princesses whose shoes get scuffed while they sleep. These and so many other steampunk and gaslamp fairy tales await within the pages of...
Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 88,740. Language: English. Originally Published: June 5, 2018 by World Weaver Press. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
Optimistic science fiction short stories with an environmental focus. Includes a post-apocalyptic mobile librarian, a rock band performing in an Australian opal mine, and the sweetest genetically engineered spider you'll ever meet.