This week a ravenmaster is losing her birds. Things are getting saucy on Picklock Lane. A robot crewed submarine sails into difficulty. A litterbug has his comeuppance. Monsters prove to have problems like everyone else. A man finds jollity in the depths of the pandemic, but is it real? A curmudgeonly old sailor comes to terms with family problems during a brush with pirates. And meanwhile Mars is the setting for another family squabble, but this has a less joyous resolution.<br/><br/>The absence of a certain famous deity leads to a very different Nine Worlds. Terra uses her special powers for good and ill with equanimity but is forced to face up to at least one of the results. A trip down the rabbit hole of family research leads Lucy to a shock discovery in Russia. And two grave robbers find their latest exhumation a little bit more than they can handle. Meanwhile there's more news from the publishing world and another consumer problem from Christopher T Dabrowski.<br/><br/>Ellie Gale<br/>EW Farnsworth<br/>Alexis Ogunmokun<br/>Gary Murphy<br/>PD Williams<br/>Carlton Herzog<br/>Gary Budgen<br/>Benjamin DeHaan<br/>Leon Taylor<br/>Dimitar Dakovski<br/>Richard D Price<br/>Deborah Downes<br/>Brian Keith Day<br/>Mickey Mikkelson<br/>Christopher T Dabrowski