Hate superheroes? Yeah. They probably hate you, too.

‘There are two kinds of people with lawyers on tap, Mr Grey. The powerful and the corrupt.’

‘Thank you.’

‘For implying you’re powerful?’

‘For imagining those are two different groups.’

From Crawford Award nominee Deborah Biancotti comes this sinister short story suite, a pocketbook police procedural, set in a world where the victories are only relative, and the defeats are absolute. Bad Power celebrates the worst kind of powers both supernatural and otherwise, in the interlinked tales of five people — and how far they’ll go.

If you like Haven and Heroes, you’ll love Bad Power.

‘These appetisingly wicked stories give you the perfect taste of Biancotti’s talents.’ - Ann VanderMeer

Gwyneth Jones on the Twelve Planets series: ‘These Australians give me hope for the future of female, and even feminist, writers in sf.’

Table of Contents

Introduction by Ann Vandermeer

Shades of Grey

Palming the Lady

Web of Lies

Bad Power

Cross the Bridge

Shortlisted for Best Collected Work Aurealis and Ditmar Awards 2012

"Bad Power" nominated Best Short Story Ditmar 2012