Paul Lucas

Paul Lucas writes action packed stories that also query the world about us and our assumptions of how it works: sword and sorcery, fantasy, horror, and science fiction tales that answer questions such as 'What if pagan gods were real and lived in the woods you'd walked in as a child?', 'What if everything you saw and heard was a lie?', or 'How would God operate across the multiverse?'.

But onto the stories themselves...

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True Destiny

Naive young bravo Sarados challenges power-hungry Prince Jetarge and his evil sorcerer for control of a legendary sword - Hell awaits the losers!

Cast of Character:

Sarados

Scion of a once-noble family now fallen on hard times. But what of the old beaten-up sword he wears, passed down through the generations, and why is royalty interested in it? Aided by ...

Amalya

Aged priestess of a defunct holy order, wielder of magic, she is now on a quest to destroy the products of the fabled Weapon Makers. But she needs someone with strong young arms and a desire for revenge to help her. Sometime foe of ...

Aldion

Twisted and evil court sorcerer, and a master manipulator, he is seeking a way to bypass his unbreakable oath to the master he loaths, the violent and volatile ...

Prince Jetarge

Heir to the Onyx Empire. Bitter from years of waiting to take the throne, and now eclipsed by an upstart cousin, can he achieve his true destiny? But he is bound by a Geas to the King, and breaking his oath means Hell - unless he can find a crucial weapon ...

Four characters - in pursuit of one fabled weapon - come together in a battle of spells and swords, a battle which will reveal that each of them has a True Destiny no soothsayer could ever have predicted!

(Cirsova Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 23, Summer 2025).

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All That Glitters

A tale of greed, gold and betrayal, and cursed daggers that used to be milk teeth in the jaws of a demon!

Theofian Nap is cheated in an underworld deal, and sets out for revenge on his crooked fence. But there is more going on than Nap knows - and he must never forget that his duplicitous, demonic blades are eager for him to cut himself and so put him in their unholy power.

Set in the same world as True Destiny

Author Jon Del Arroz (Flying Sparks, For Steam and Country series) said: "I loved it a lot. Really good man! This was a great story. Talking knives is a very fun concept!" (Personal message, by permission.)

(Cirsova Magazine Volume 1, Issue 9, Summer 2018)

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The Greenery Has Come Again

A wonderful mix of weird fiction and classic ghost stories, with a romance to drive it! A forest goddess takes on the soulless machinery of civilisation in a fight to the death. The prize? A good man's heart.

The Greenery Has Come Again made the 2021 Recommended Reading List for Tangent Online (the review site).

(Cirsova Magazine, Summer Special 2, 2020)

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For We Are Many

A journey across the multiverse, where one guilty man must find and kill his evil duplicates to save his own soul. But who is hunting him?

Tangent Online described it as "a novelette with an unusual, multilayered premise. The author combines science fiction with theological fantasy into a unique work."

(Cirsova Magazine Volume 2, Issue 9, Winter 2021

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Red Queen's Race

Rab is literally running for his life as his Financial Seconds count down. Set in a nightmare world of virtual agents implanted inside your mind, Artificial Intelligences that literally control everything you see and hear, can Rab escape to a better world?

Tangent Online put Red Queen's Race on their Recommended Reading List for 2023.

(Cirsova Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 17, Winter 2023).