Sonny Whitelaw is a photojournalist who writes articles like "How to photograph an erupting volcano without getting killed", and other useful household hints. She is also the author of two thrillers and four speculative fiction novels. Sonny compiled this anthology between the publication of Stargate Atlantis The Chosen in May and preparing Stargate Atlantis Exogenesis for publication in August, while cramming in and MA in Creative Writing at QUT. Consequently her children are still living on Vegemite sandwiches.

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Titles Available from Double Dragon Publishing

	"Humans are no longer one species," Ryl continued, idly rolling the wine in her glass. "Some of us regressed a million years and leaped into a future that might have been, becoming Metas. On Earth, the Rhesus plague deleted a huge chunk of genetic diversity in humans, taking with it a very special gene. As you reach out to the stars, to explore new worlds, to seek the sanctuary planet, Gaia, you will meet other species and situations that telepaths cannot deal with. A dangerous toy, Dim5 travel, for it opens you to predation. As a small gift to help you on your journey, to warn you when the path to be trodden is perhaps not the safest one, twenty-five men and women from the twentieth century were taken, adjusted slightly and delivered to you. These are the C20s."
	[From the author of Stargate: SG-1 - CITY OF THE GODS] The news is full of global warming speculation. The US government is under attack for its stance on greenhouse emissions yet in the background, away from the camera’s eye, the real world is in decay. The Rhesus Factor is fiction, but it is up to the reader to determine just how much so, for all the issues are real the research and outcomes are happening now, yet no one seems to notice or care. Have we really reached the point of no return? Coupled with the latest scientific research conducted by Washington experts, this book is closer to fact than we realise and there is very little we can do to change the future.
	When your job is patching up the histories of parallel dimensions, the last thing you need is to be distracted by personal problems.
	?A human specific bioweapon can kill most of the population of a city before it even knows it’s under attack, leaving the physical infrastructure virtually intact. In rural areas it can destroy human life while leaving crops and livestock untouched, uninfectious. Thrown into chaos, the remaining population can easily be overtaken by a small, lightly equipped military force. Relatively unskilled labour will take an additional few weeks to decontaminate an infected area of human casualties, leaving it ready for immediate habitation by an enemy’s population,? explained USAMRIID’s Colonel Susan Broadwater in an emergency briefing to government agents in Quantico, 1995.

Journeys of the Mind is a collection of short stories crafted by some of today’s leading speculative fiction writers. Between them, these authors have published over a hundred hardcover and paperback titles. Their works have been translated into twenty-six languages including Russian, Polish, Icelandic, Hungarian, German and Japanese, and their books have sold in excess of 25 million copies. Many are the multiple recipients of prestigious SF and Fantasy awards, and their novels have regularly appeared on international bestseller lists including the New York Times.