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. 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. Ellie Gale EW Farnsworth Alexis Ogunmokun Gary Murphy PD Williams Carlton Herzog Gary Budgen Benjamin DeHaan Leon Taylor Dimitar Dakovski Richard D Price Deborah Downes Brian Keith Day Mickey Mikkelson Christopher T Dabrowski