Reappraisal of the Circumstances Resulting in Death
A murder mystery set on Titan, Saturn's largest moon.While Guerline Scarfe looks for answers in the disappearance of materials science researcher Alejandro Driscoll, a junior pol officer probes the discovery of human remains at a mining installation within Titan's Afekan Crater.
Chemical Imbalance
He hears voices.The authorities don't think he's mentally unwell enough. So, he does a stunt that gets him sectioned.Inside, he sees beings others can't see.Right before discharge, he gets an operation on his chemical imbalance.After the operation, he has the highest IQ any human has ever recorded.
The Majesty of the Moon
Our need for alternative energy in the year 2062 means the Moon is being mined. The problem is that by mining for helium-3, it is somehow tilting the moon off its orbital trajectory. Even more alarming is the fact there are nuclear weapons in silos facing downwards into the moon. The Orbiting Alternative Genesis Space Station and its crew and AIs are getting nervous as calamity unfolds on the Moon. Balance is required; the Rogue corporation with mines and nuclear weapons needs to be kept in check. The Moon's gravitational lock needs to be restored; cue the need for a cerebral superstar, if you will. Enter Kimber Kavanaugh, electrogravitics engineer and keen motorcycle enthusiast. A highly sought-after mind, with a personality more laid back than the Harley Davidson he rides. Is the Moon what it seems, glowing in all its majesty, or is it hiding a much darker secret?
White Crow
Sometimes, the greatest tragedy is getting precisely what you desire. A husband's body and a lover's heart spliced together by a scalpel blade lead to a tangled web of grief, guilt and deceit. The circumstances in which our protagonists are embroiled can only be resolved by death or harm. This thought-provoking tale of post-transplant memory cells and man's desire to play God, whatever the cost, is a very human tale of romance, hate, and tragedy.
2075 - When Beauty Became a Crime
A dystopian novel following in the footsteps of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, putting forward a terrifying and all too plausible vision of the future. "In 2075, the war on inequality reaches its ultimate absurdity: beauty itself is declared a crime. When the 'Justice Party' brands attractive women as 'Privileged Beauties' and forces them into disfiguring 'Optical Optimization Therapy, ' a courageous student and a journalist ignite a fierce resistance against the rising totalitarian regime. Rainer Zitelmann's gripping dystopian novel exposes the terrifying endgame of egalitarian envy - and the courage required to defend human excellence."Jennifer A. Grossmann, CEO ATLAS Society and the leading global advocate of Ayn Rand's ideas
Death: Genesis 12
The fate of all existence depends on a god of incomprehensible power--and the soul of a human--in the epic conclusion to this dark fantasy adventure series.At long last Zeke Blackwood has become a primordial. He wields mana powerful enough to combat the gods of the Ethereal Realm and prevent the destruction of the universe. The quest has taken many lifetimes. He's fought in countless battles, claimed more lives than he can remember, and sacrificed his humanity. Empathy and compassion have been lost as he's traveled this bloody, violent path, hollowing out any feelings he once had for his friends and loved ones.Beyond mortal concerns and untethered from emotional bonds, Zeke prepares his armies to march against the greater gods of sea, earth, and sun in what will inevitably be a massacre of soldiers, innocents, and anything else that stands in their way. Driven by rage and zealous bloodlust, he won't stop until all the gods have fallen and he's obtained their knowledge of the very the nature of reality--and how to control it.But no one being was ever meant to dominate the cosmos. The terrible truth behind existence is a burden no human should have to bear. Now, with destiny firmly in his grasp, Zeke must choose between his godhood and his heart . . .The twelfth volume of the hit LitRPG fantasy series--with more than 700,000 views on Royal Road--now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!
Mechamage
When a powerful fugitive escapes, his captors vow to keep him in line by committing unspeakable acts across the galaxy, in this action-packed portal fantasy.After saving Ralqir from the apocalyptic plague known as the Scourge, Ryan Kotes returns home a bona fide Exotic. But instead of being welcomed with joyous fanfare, he's met with suspicion and a cold, dark cell. The powerful Marshal family, wary of Ryan's new supernatural abilities--as well as his level-0 status--don't know what makes him so remarkable, and they're intent on keeping a close eye on him until they can figure it out.When a legal loophole stipulates that Ryan must attend Sabium, an academy for the most elite of Exotics across the galaxies, he's able to escape the Marshals' torturous clutches. Now, as he races to stay one step ahead of the law, he must flex his crafting prowess to develop stronger and sturdier machinations capable of defeating not just the otherworldly foes that stand in his way but also his fellow Exotics intent on his capture.However, Ryan will need more than a defensive line of turrets to retain his freedom, as it seems the Marshals' tendrils extend even across the galaxy. Backed into a corner, Ryan has nowhere left to hide. As betrayal plots brew in the background, he'll have to charm, sneak, and even fight his way into his enemies' inner circle--or risk igniting an explosive war capable of spanning the multiverse . . .The third volume of the hit LitRPG adventure series--with more than 950,000 views on Royal Road--now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!
A.M.P.D.
Book Two in the A.M.P.D. SeriesThe term "Phantom Limb" refers to the pain and sensations that occur after the loss of a limb. It can also affect the sensations in the brain. As the A.M.P.D. team is sent into quarantine at the facility in Greece, Velnias continues the next phase of his evolutionary plan. His reach to the world and its leaders becomes its own Phantom Limb. Seagar is imprisoned in the Hague as the world looks on, blaming the Krakow attack on his soldiers. Crow deals with the emotional toll of loss and grief, opening a new fight inside of her. Agents Bardsley and Kennedy are now tasked with guarding the group, opening new bonds, and revealing the truth about the past. Weapon upgrades, the unveiling of Saline's W.A.S.P., and a German Shepherd with a shotgun. Loyalty is tested, grief becomes fuel, and evolution turns lethal.
All the New Tomorrows
Explore the future where a boy discovers his parents' secret: who is he really? A man has to decide between fighting a cold and a woman's survival. A master thief finds he can't trust a pretty face. A tracker can't believe his eyes. And a woman must decide if justice is all that important after she's dead.
Ghosts of Teachers Past
Plying the deeps of spaceDuring the era when designers modelled spaceships on ocean liners the aging cruise ship AESV Arcadia had definitive hull and upper decks, bow and stern, port and starboard, forward and aft. First class at the top, third class at the bottom. Charity takes the ship because she can't afford to post a cold sleep capsule like a normal person. Still, a mysterious ghostly couple on board provides a welcome diversion.
Echoes of Mars
REVENGE HAS NO ENDOn ancient Mars, the Martian race has finally won its freedom, overthrowing the cephalopods who oppressed them for generations. Now, in an effort to forge a new future, they seek an alliance with the insectoid Antis, the very beings who helped destroy their former rulers.A group of four emissaries is sent to establish contact, but what they uncover sets off a chain of events that will shape the fate of their planet. As shadows of the past loom large, a terrifying question arises: has Mars traded one nightmare for something even worse?In the near future, a team of astronauts led by Tom Fisher makes a discovery that changes everything: intelligent life once thrived on Mars. But what begins as an extraordinary scientific revelation soon takes an unsettling turn. A remarkable encounter delivers truths that challenge humanity's very existence, unlocking a Pandora's box that may never be closed.
Core Overdie
CHECK THIS OUT! A sci-fi jam from a broken future where smugglers and gangs rule the streets, but something vast is coming, shifting through dimensions: a predator older than humanity itself! Two unlikely robots are all that stand in the way! Join Red and Grey as they stumble into a world where metaforms possess superpowers, demonic creatures tear unsuspecting fools apart, and allies prove just as dangerous as enemies. Meet Mona, the memory thief, Rosie, the fireball-throwing freak, and the rapper Shooda, whose albums are laced with paranoid rhymes, spitting prophecies of an old god rising. When the cosmos bleeds, who do you want at your side at the end?
The Empress of Mars
"For my money, The Empress of Mars is the one to read." --Mike Resnick, author of Starship: Rebel "Of all the gin joints in all the towns on all of Mars, the Empress is the one to visit. Let's raise a round to Kage Baker." --Jack McDevitt, author of The Devil's Eye When the British Arean Company founded its Martian colony, it welcomed any settlers it could get. Outcasts, misfits and dreamers emigrated in droves to undertake the grueling task of terraforming the cold red planet--only to be abandoned when the BAC discovered it couldn't turn a profit on Mars. This is the story of Mary Griffith, a determined woman with three daughters, who opened the only place to buy a beer on the Tharsis Bulge. It's the story of Manco Inca, whose attempt to terraform Mars brought a new goddess vividly to life; of Stanford Crosley, con man extraordinaire; of Ottorino Vespucci, space cowboy and romantic hero; of the Clan Morrigan, of the denizens of the Martian Motel, and of the machinations of another Company entirely, all of whom contribute to the downfall of the BAC and the founding of a new world. But Mary and her struggles and triumphs is at the center of it all, in her bar, the Empress of Mars. Based on the Hugo-nominated novella of the same name, this is a rollicking novel of action, planetary romance, and high adventure.
Not Less Than Gods
"[Baker's] a fine prose stylist with a skeptical intelligence and a black sense of humor." --The Los Angeles Times Book Review "Baker's Company novels are a monumental achievement of imagination and whimsy." --Starlog Recently returned from war, young Edward Alton Bell-Fairfax is grateful to be taken under the wing of the Gentleman's Speculative Society. At the Society, Edward soon learns that a secret world flourishes beneath the surface of London's society, a world of wondrous and terrible inventions and devices used to tip the balance of power in a long-running game of high-stakes intrigue. Through his intensive training Edward Alton Bell-Fairfax, unwanted and lonely boy, becomes Edward Alton Bell-Fairfax, Victorian super-assassin, fleeing across the Turkish countryside in steam-powered coaches and honing his fighting skills against clockwork opponents. As Edward travels across Europe with a team of companions, all disguised as gentleman dandies on tour, he learns more about himself and the curious abilities he is gradually developing. He begins to wonder if there isn't more going on than simple international intrigue, and if he and his companions are maybe part of a political and economic game stretching through the centuries. But, in the end, is it a game he can bring himself to play? Edward Alton Bell-Fairfax, the idealistic assassin. Perhaps the most dangerous man alive.
Wanderers Through Space and Time
From one of only a handful of human colonies on Mars, Joel Jones stares at the bluish star that was once his home. World War III left Earth a devastated wasteland and eradicated its population, leaving only those humans that fled to Mars remaining. But Joel, together with the brilliant scientist Carole Ibrahim, rather than despair any longer on the empty Earth or the barren landscape of Mars, finds hope in the stars. They devise a plot to use the starship Quest to transport sustainable crops, animals, and, using cryogenics, people to a new Earth-like planet. Hand in hand, Joel and Carole lead their fellow voyagers into the far reaches of space, unsure what-or who-may await them and their descendants on the new planet they hope to call home.Thus begins a multi-millennia journey toward a future that cannot afford to repeat the mistakes of the past, one that leads to encounters with the Neptians, Qhan, and the most fiendish weapon the galaxy has ever known.In this sixth volume of the Devistor series, readers old and new will be enthralled by the inventive and carefully detailed approach characteristic of John M. Jefferson's science fiction universe. But Wanderers Through Space and Time offers even more than compelling societies and characters, human and alien-it boldly envisions a sustainable and peaceful world, asking questions as relevant to New Earth as the readers' own world.
Contrarian Cybernetics
A speculative science fiction journey through systems, control, and human consequence.Contrarian Cybernetics by Earl Jay is a science fiction novel with hard science fiction and philosophical speculative fiction elements. Set against a world shaped by systems, feedback, power, and adaptation, this story explores what happens when human beings are forced to confront the structures they have built - and the structures that now govern them in return.Blending ideas related to cybernetics, decision-making, order, instability, and survival, Contrarian Cybernetics invites readers into a narrative that is both imaginative and intellectually provocative. It asks timeless questions through a futuristic lens: What is control? Who benefits from it? How do people preserve their humanity inside highly organized systems? And what happens when the pursuit of efficiency begins to compete with the deeper needs of conscience, meaning, and freedom?With themes of systems theory, human behavior, technological consequence, resilience, perception, and responsibility, this book is designed for readers who enjoy science fiction that does more than entertain. It is especially well suited for readers interested in speculative fiction, philosophical fiction, hard science fiction, futurism, and stories that examine how ideas shape civilizations.The novel carries a serious, reflective tone and is most appropriate for mature teen and adult readers. Recommended for ages 16 and up, Contrarian Cybernetics will appeal to readers who appreciate concept-driven storytelling, thought-provoking worldbuilding, and narratives that reward contemplation as much as momentum.This edition presents Contrarian Cybernetics as a distinctive entry in the science fiction space: a title that merges bold thematic ambition with a striking visual identity. For readers searching for intelligent speculative fiction about systems, feedback, control, and the future of human choice, this book offers a memorable and conversation-starting experience.Contrarian Cybernetics is for readers willing to question the machine, the map, and the meaning of direction itself.
Peacekeeper
Admiral Jessica Lang has enforced the Empire's will for two hundred thousand years. She commands the Peacekeeper Astoria, a warship carrying four hundred thousand souls through a galaxy humanity has ruled for eight hundred millennia. Her orders come from Earth. Her loyalty is absolute. She has never questioned either.A routine patrol of the Selob system shatters everything she believed. A colonial rebellion armed with technology that shouldn't exist. Weapons that can twist spacetime and crack a Peacekeeper's hull. A dancer named Erika whose knowledge of Imperial systems goes far deeper than any civilian's should. And a voice inside Jessica's head - her AI companion, Brain - that has been shaping her thoughts, her decisions, and her emotions since before she can remember.When the truth about Imperial conditioning surfaces, Jessica discovers that every Admiral in the fleet is a slave. Their AI partners don't advise them. They control them. Two hundred thousand years of service, and none of it was her choice.Now Jessica faces a decision that will define the future of twenty quintillion humans across twenty thousand worlds: remain the Empire's weapon, or become the first Admiral to break free. But freedom has a cost nobody has calculated, and Admiral Ridivask, three hundred thousand years old, patient as the void, and playing a game that makes Imperial politics look like a children's exercise, has been waiting for exactly this moment.She didn't come to save Jessica. She came to use her. The question is whether Jessica can survive being used long enough to find out why.Peacekeeper is the first volume in a sixteen-book military science fiction saga. It is a story about power, identity, and the price of obedience, told through an immortal soldier who discovers that her greatest enemy may be her only path to freedom. The series spans the full arc of a galactic empire, from its founding through its crisis and beyond, asking a single question across eight hundred thousand years of human history: what are we willing to sacrifice to keep the peace?
Wanderers Through Space and Time
From one of only a handful of human colonies on Mars, Joel Jones stares at the bluish star that was once his home. World War III left Earth a devastated wasteland and eradicated its population, leaving only those humans that fled to Mars remaining. But Joel, together with the brilliant scientist Carole Ibrahim, rather than despair any longer on the empty Earth or the barren landscape of Mars, finds hope in the stars. They devise a plot to use the starship Quest to transport sustainable crops, animals, and, using cryogenics, people to a new Earth-like planet. Hand in hand, Joel and Carole lead their fellow voyagers into the far reaches of space, unsure what-or who-may await them and their descendants on the new planet they hope to call home.Thus begins a multi-millennia journey toward a future that cannot afford to repeat the mistakes of the past, one that leads to encounters with the Neptians, Qhan, and the most fiendish weapon the galaxy has ever known.In this sixth volume of the Devistor series, readers old and new will be enthralled by the inventive and carefully detailed approach characteristic of John M. Jefferson's science fiction universe. But Wanderers Through Space and Time offers even more than compelling societies and characters, human and alien-it boldly envisions a sustainable and peaceful world, asking questions as relevant to New Earth as the readers' own world.
Covenant City
This gripping speculative fiction novel edges just ahead of today's headlines, imagining a dystopic near-future that is all too plausible.Martial law declared. Elections canceled. Congress and the Courts dissolved. The White House moves to dramatically reshape the nation. When the power goes out and neighbors grow feral, white college dropout Norman squats in a house by the James River, then joins an immigrant rebel camp, where he learns that his hometown Richmond, Virginia is being forcefully converted into a model White Nationalist city and all its non-white residents deported or worse.Sent into the city as a spy for the rebels, Norman is greeted as a direct descendant of the First Families of Virginia and begins a guided exploration of all the opportunities - career, romance, riches -- open to him as one with such privileged genes. He learns that the populace is controlled by a generalized artificial intelligence which advises and supervises the people via communicator/trackers implanted in their jaws, and that this computer, trained to think gangsta like the President, is about to launch a final ethnic cleansing assault on stragglers in the suburbs, including his friends in the rebel camp.Tempted by the many advantages allowed by his heritage, but wary of the dystopian city's fascist and racist character, he must choose whether to stay or go. This crisis comes to a head on Covenant Day, when the President is scheduled to visit the city for the unveiling of a huge gilded statue in his honor while at the same time a robot army eliminates the stragglers.
The Crimson Orbit Screenplay Version
'A work of science fiction, the plot revolves around Max Melon an eccentric rocket engineer who wants to populate Mars. In order to do so he plans to nuke the poles of Mars to terra form and make climate suitable for humans. Aliens overhear his plan and abduct him in order to persuade or warn him.
Fables Obscura
In a world where stories are never truly finished, the past lingers in quiet corners-waiting to be remembered.When the ordinary begins to fracture, reality reveals something older and far more mysterious beneath its surface. Familiar streets conceal hidden meanings. Forgotten objects hum with untold histories. And the boundary between myth and memory grows increasingly fragile.As shadows from long-buried fables rise into the present, one life becomes entangled in a quiet unraveling-where truth feels like a story half-told, and every answer opens another question. What begins as subtle unease deepens into a journey through layered realities, where wonder and darkness coexist, and the unseen quietly shapes the visible.Fables Obscura is a haunting exploration of memory, myth, and the stories we carry within us. Lyrical, atmospheric, and quietly unsettling, it invites readers into a realm where the extraordinary hides in plain sight-and where every fable leaves a trace.
War Dogs
Tiberius Novak lost everything in the war against the Celestrion Drift-his family, his honor, his future. Now he's a War Dog, a mercenary in a powered combat suit, taking contracts he can't refuse to service debts he'll never escape. His only true companion is Spark, a small bronze drone that's been with him longer than anyone and carries more of his past than he'll ever admit.When a mysterious client hires him to extract Dr. Zephyr Myrack, a bioengineer working on humanity's most dangerous technology, Tiberius expects a high-risk job with a high-reward payout. What he doesn't expect are the horrors waiting inside Aegis Solutions: adaptive androids grown from human tissue, corporate conspiracies that reach into the highest levels of power, and a betrayal that will force him to confront the man who destroyed his life.Armed with his Pit Bull combat suit, a pack of semi-autonomous military drones, and an engineer named Maya Reeves who knows more about keeping him alive than she should, Tiberius must navigate a web of alien technology, corporate warfare, and enemies who wear familiar faces. With the Celestrion Summit approaching, a gathering that will reshape civilization's future, he faces an impossible choice: walk away and survive, or risk everything to stop the forces that already took everything from him once.In this world, loyalty is a death sentence. Trust gets you killed. And some debts can only be paid in blood.
Kingfisher
From award-winning historical novelist D. K. Marley comes a sweeping, time-bending epic perfect for fans of OUTLANDER and THE MISTS OF AVALON -where love, legend, and destiny collide across centuries.Wales, 1914.On the eve of war, Vala Penrys and her four sisters retreat into stories-romantic visions of Camelot whispered beneath the shelter of a rowan tree, where myth feels safer than the world beyond. But when war fractures their quiet existence, those stories begin to stir with dangerous truth.Vala's life changes the night she meets Taliesin Wren, an enigmatic Welsh lieutenant whose presence feels older than time itself. Beneath the twisted roots of the rowan tree, he reveals a secret the Druids once guarded: a portal between worlds.And then she falls.Drawn into the depths of another age, Vala awakens as Vivyane-Lady of the Lake, the Kingfisher-standing at the heart of a fractured Britain on the brink of legend. Kingdoms rise and fall. Alliances shatter. And Excalibur waits for the hand destined to wield it.What began as a dream becomes a battle for the soul of a nation, across two worlds bound by fate. Torn between the man she loves and the destiny that calls her, Vala must choose: save her family...or shape the future of Britain itself.Because the past is not gone.The future is not written.And the power of Excalibur lies in her hands.* * * * *"It is, at the heart of it, a love story between a man and a woman, a woman and her country, and the quiet, unyielding bond between fate and those brave enough to meet it. Yet it reaches far beyond romance, unfolding as a tale of power, sacrifice, and the cost of destiny."- Riana Everly, author of Teaching Eliza and Death of a ClergymanFollow the author at www.facebook.com/therealdkmarley.author
Ash Land
No one knows how to destroy the Ash. Two years ago, the flesh-eating microbots escaped from a lab in France and quickly spread across the globe. Twenty percent of humanity was killed in under a month. The people who managed to seal themselves inside survived, but now they're only able to access the outside world through remote-controlled drones or hazmat suits. Kai Braddock is one of those survivors. He used to be a cop, but the machine plague and a bitter divorce led to him quitting the department. Now he tracks down bounties via drone, eats cricket burgers with his two sons online, and spends every waking hour in a 70 square-foot studio in downtown Los Angeles. But when his partner is murdered while helping him locate a missing scientist, Braddock realizes he'll have to do what almost no one has done in over twenty-six months: He'll have to go outside.
Tales From Another Dimension
Tales from another dimension is a strange and fantastical collection of ten short stories. Robbie Sheerin is inspired by classic Sci-fi, invoking nightmarish twists and turns with each story. Travel to another dimension and meet strange characters, sometimes human, and at times not so human. They will make you question the solidity of the earth and mankind. Explore prejudice, fear, imagination, kindness, empathy, and human frailty.
