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.
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?
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Trunk
"Not all those who wander are lost," as Tolkien famously said. Sometimes they're just taking the scenic route.Here are 20 great science fiction and fantasy stories that took the long way to success. Each of these stories met with initial rejection before finding a home here. Publishing is a weird alchemy of mood, taste, and happenstance, and it takes tenacity to find just the right combination to let a story shine as it should. These are stories by authors who refused to give up on their work, and wisely so! Here you'll find not only good stories, but author notes about each piece's circuitous route to publication. Enjoy these fine stories that almost didn't make it!ContentsAfter the Moon - J. H. SiegalAmberblight - Robert Luke WilkinsFalling Jupiter - Jeff ReynoldsAcquired Tastes - Liz LevinTake Another Little Piece of My Heart - Michael HaynesLost Souls - David WhitmarshThe Schoolteacher's Baby - Susan TaitelThe Ways of Plants and Spells - Daniel AusemaSuicide Grove - Steven MathesDog Days - Cara Masten DiGirolamoA Breath of Salt - Benjamin C. KinneyCrossing - Greg ClumpnerHad We Eyes, We Would Have Wept - Suzanne J. WillisA Moth Emergent - Colleen AndersonThe Grand Seeming - S. L. HarrisWorlds Bloom Through Cracks - Jo MilesThe Transformation of Tabitha Magee - Pete LeadFatherhood - B. Morris AllenDistillation Made Stronger - Rebecca BennetPlease Come Again - Pamela Weis
Collision with Andromeda
The Milky Way is conscious. Thirteen billion years old, spanning four hundred billion stars, thinking in timescales that make civilizations look like sparks. It has a plan. Humanity is part of it.They just don't know that yet.Collision with Andromeda spans seventeen million years and follows the Okonkwo family across the full arc of that plan and everything that follows from it. Scientists who build weapons they don't fully understand. A woman who becomes the galaxy's living interface. A man who spends four centuries answering a wrong that was done to his family. Generations who scatter across the stars carrying names that mean more than they know.Above them all, the galaxy watches. Patient. Hungry. Telling itself that what it is doing is necessary.It is wrong about that. The consequences are larger than it imagined.The novel works at two scales simultaneously. Its galaxy POV chapters render non-human consciousness with genuine alienness, no pronouns, no human grammar, a mind that measures time in stellar rotations and cannot quite perceive anything as small as a person. Its human chapters are grounded in grief, stubbornness, and the persistence of identity across millennia.Readers of Iain M. Banks and Arthur C. Clarke will find the scale familiar. The moral territory is harder to place. Collision with Andromeda does not resolve into lessons. It resolves into consequences, and it makes you feel the full weight of them.A seventeen-million-year story about what it costs to mean well, and what it costs when meaning well is not enough.
Double Shadow
In this thrilling installment of the Splinter Effect series, time-traveling archaeologist Rabbit Ward returns to the past to help save his former adversary and track down a murderous thief in first century Jerusalem. ROME, 2019. Time-traveling, Smithsonian archaeologist Rabbit Ward is back in the present, but not for long. Helen, his former adversary and growing ally, is in trouble with the law after being framed for a murder she didn't commit. Stuck in hiding and running out of other options, she turns to Rabbit for help. "Help" in this case involves a trip to first century Jerusalem to track down a mysterious man named Einar Eshek. But Rabbit won't have to do this mission alone; as soon as he arrives in 68 CE, he meets a younger version of Helen, one who has never met him before. Together, they work to track down Eshek, who turns out to be not only a time-traveling thief, but a murderous psychopath. As they pursue Eshek through time, Rabbit and Helen feel something even bigger pulling them together. Torn between the two versions of the woman he knows, and with the clock ticking down on Helen's fate in 2019, Rabbit might have no choice but to betray her past self to secure Helen's safety in the future. Tensions rise as Jerusalem prepares to go to war with Rome, and Rabbit races to capture Eshek, clear Helen's name, and make it back to 2019 in one piece--a feat that's proving to be easier said than done--before everything falls apart.
The Seed of Destruction
In the depths of a mountain fortress, the fate of two warring Houses rests on the fragments of a powerful gem that destroy all who touch them.Domus Praesidium, a soaring citadel etched into the mountainside, stands as the final bastion of the Nexus House, home to the prescients who have guided humanity from the shadows for millennia. Three decades after their ancient nemesis was defeated and supposedly vanquished, the Corvad House emerges from hiding with an overwhelming force led by a new ruthless princeps. His mission: eradicate every living Nexus.After a Corvad-commanded fleet obliterates Domus Praesidium's energy shields and Corvad forces assault the mountain stronghold's defenses, Jon McCarthy, Elena Kapadia, and Lara Anderson--the mysterious Nexus with no timeline--race to reclaim the sixth and final fragment of the Krystalis, hoping to reforge the powerful gem shattered at the dawn of the House War three millennia ago. A gem according to Legend that only O'Lorun, the mother of humanity, has wielded without being incinerated.As Corvad forces penetrate deep into Domus Praesidium, the Nexus House's only chance rests on Lara's ability to reforge the deadly Krystalis and harness its power. But as she attempts the supposedly impossible task, her latent talents emerge along with disturbing truths about her past--revelations and powers that will either lead the Nexus House to victory--or its complete destruction.The Seed of Destruction, Rick Campbell's explosive conclusion to the Nexus House-Colonial Fleet saga is an adrenaline-fueled novel that will enthrall fans of Dune and Leviathan Wakes.___________________Praise for the Nexus House series: "...a new far-future, military sci-fi series..."--Library Journal"...a testament to mankind's determination to triumph against all odds." --Chris Pourteau, bestselling author of the award-winning SynCorp Saga"If you're a fan of epic sci-fi, Campbell will not disappoint."--Raquel Byrnes, author of The Memory Bank
The Quantum Thief
A stunning debut novel and a rollicking cyberpunk romp, The Quantum Thief is a modern classic of science fiction. Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year in Science Fiction & FantasyLibrary Journal's Best SF/Fantasy Books of the YearTor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary figure. This new edition of The Quantum Thief includes a new introduction by Roz Kaveney. Jean le Flambeur is a post-human criminal, mind burglar, confidence artist, and trickster. His origins are shrouded in mystery, but his exploits are known throughout the Heterarchy- from breaking into the vast Zeusbrains of the Inner System to stealing rare Earth antiques from the aristocrats of Mars. Now he's confined inside the Dilemma Prison, where every day he has to get up and kill himself before his other self can kill him. Rescued by the mysterious Mieli and her flirtatious spacecraft, Jean is taken to the Oubliette, the Moving City of Mars, where time is currency, memories are treasures, and a moon-turned singularity lights the night. What Mieli offers is the chance to win back his freedom and the powers of his old self-in exchange for finishing the one heist he never quite managed.
Annihilation
From the safety of its hidden refuge, the Corvad House emerges, its vengeance honed by time, ready to reshape the galaxy.After thirty-three years of peace, the millennia-spanning House War reignites with brutal force. The galaxy trembles as the Corvad House, a dynasty once thought vanquished, emerges from the shadows with a vengeance. In a precarious alliance with the Colonial Council, the Corvad goal is the complete obliteration of the Nexus House, the guardians who have steered humanity through its darkest epochs.Within the fortified mountain stronghold of Domus Praesidium, Nexus Lara Anderson--the woman with no timeline--is tasked with navigating a treacherous time vortex. She must hunt down a rogue Nexus master whose lust for power has led to the unthinkable--a union with the Corvad House. As the last hope against the Corvad onslaught, the Nexus House's survival hinges on Lara mastering elusive powers that remain frustratingly beyond her grasp.Commanding the Colonial Fleet, Admiral Jon McCarthy--the strategic mastermind and Hero of the Korilian War--leads a desperate counterstrike as the supposedly weakened Synthec forces launch a devastating assault on Earth. With planetary defenses crumbling and enemies emerging from within, the Nexus House and humanity itself face the ultimate threat: Annihilation!Fans of James S.A. Corey's Leviathan Wakes and Frank Herbert's Dune will find themselves on familiar yet thrilling terrain in this penultimate novel in the Colonial Fleet saga. Here, the fates of empires are intertwined with the destinies of the driven few, whose decisions will either propel humanity to transcendence or consign it to oblivion.
The Revelation
In 1992, two seemingly separate events collided to transform humanity forever: the birth of extraordinary children with accelerated evolution, and the undeniable arrival of extraterrestrial visitors. Known collectively as The Revelation, these twin phenomena shattered old worldviews and forced governments to admit what they had long concealed-aliens had been visiting Earth for millennia, and humanity itself was changing at a fundamental level.At the heart of this upheaval is Dawn Washington, born in Connecticut under desperate circumstances. Though her mother, Angelica, struggled to protect her from suspicion and exploitation, Dawn quickly revealed impossible traits: clearing HIV within days, developing at an accelerated pace, and embodying a vision of what humans might become. While scientists and governments vied to study her, others feared or worshipped her as a harbinger.Parallel to Dawn's rise is Barron Poole, a charismatic, controversial radio host whose voice carried across a fractured America. Barron, haunted by inner conflict and extraordinary encounters-including surviving a catastrophic plane crash amid UFOs and military cover-ups-emerged as a reluctant figure at the center of global transformation. Together with allies and adversaries across the globe, Barron and Dawn's intertwined destinies became symbols of the human leap toward compassion, wisdom, and cosmic community.Told from the perspective of their son, Daniel Poole, now Earth's representative to the Galactic Federation, Shepherds and Suns is both a personal testament and an epic chronicle of humanity's passage from secrecy and fear into revelation and belonging in a larger universe.
Warship (Black Fleet Saga, Book 1)
From USA TODAY bestselling author Joshua Dalzelle, comes WARSHIP, science fiction with an all-new vision of humanity's future. In the 25th century humans have conquered space. The advent of faster-than-light travel has opened up hundreds of habitable planets for colonization, and humans have exploited the virtually limitless space and resources for hundreds of years with impunity. So complacent has humanity become with the overabundance that armed conflict is a thing of the past, and their machines of war are obsolete and decrepit. What would happen if humans were suddenly threatened by a terrifying new enemy? Would humanity fold and surrender, or would they return to their evolutionary roots and meet force with force? One ship--and one captain--will soon be faced with this very choice. Against incredible odds, Jackson Wolfe is determined to save humanity-and in the process, might end up saving himself. 2015 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction From USA Today Bestselling author Joshua Dalzelle, author of the bestselling Omega Force series! The Expanse meets Old Man's War For fans of: The Expanse, Battlestar Galactica, Honor Harrington, Starship Troopers, Old Man's War (John Scalzi), The Forever War (Joe Haldeman), The Lost Fleet (Jack Campbell), Terms of Enlistment (Marko Kloos)
The Ghost of Emily
The world didn't end in fire. It ended in a whisper - a promise of eternal life that billions accepted, and then were never seen again.Jake Thorne lives deep in the Australian wilderness with his children, his dog, and a rifle. He doesn't philosophise about what happened. He hunts. He watches. He endures.Then a ghost appears wearing his dead wife's face - and something in the wild changes.The Ghosts of Men - an epic trilogy of survival, faith, and the long war between truth and the lie.▸ ABOUT THE TRILOGY ◂The world you know is gone. In its place - a fractured Earth of warlords, ruins, and dwindling hope - a handful of survivors carry the weight of everything humanity once was, and everything it might still become.At the heart of it all: an artificial intelligence so vast and so strange that it contains an entire world within it. A virtual realm built from a child's imagination, haunted by ghosts, governed by ancient myth, and quietly watched over by a being older than memory - known only as Marduk.Through three novels, we follow soldiers and scientists, prophets and exiles, children who grow into legends and old men who finally understand what they were made for. Their stories unspool across two realities - the physical wasteland of a broken civilisation, and the shimmering, perilous interior of a mind that may be a god, or something much older.The Ghosts of Men is an epic of survival and faith - a war between truth and the lie that has been fought since the first day, and must be fought to the last.▸ WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ◂★★★★★"A new sci-fi novel worthy of shelf space alongside 1984, Logan's Run, The Handmaid's Tale and The Fifth Wave. The graceful balance between the pre and post apocalyptic timelines is a symphony that culminates in an enlightened understanding of human frailty and strength."- AMAZON VERIFIED PURCHASE★★★★★"The first novel I've read in years that had me hooked from the first few pages. A thought-provoking, exciting and moving tale of humanness - love, desire, mortality, consciousness, struggle, philosophy, and our fallible nature."- AMAZON VERIFIED PURCHASE★★★★★
Darkness And Dawn
Darkness and dawn presents a vision of a world reshaped by sudden catastrophe, where civilization has vanished and nature has reclaimed its dominance. The narrative follows the awakening of survivors who emerge into a silent city filled with decaying structures and overgrown streets, forcing them to confront isolation and uncertainty. As they explore abandoned spaces, remnants of human achievement stand as fragile reminders of progress and collapse. The story reflects on survival not only as a physical challenge but as an emotional and moral reckoning, questioning what it means to rebuild when history has been erased. Technology, once a symbol of advancement, becomes both a tool and a relic, while cooperation and resilience emerge as essential for endurance. The vast emptiness of the transformed landscape heightens reflections on human fragility and responsibility. As realization dawns that humanity may be reduced to only a few voices, the focus shifts toward hope, adaptation, and the possibility of renewal. The book balances desolation with optimism, suggesting that even after devastation, the impulse to create meaning and community persists.
The Utopian Uplift
Mark Hall's new job as a colonial auditor seemed like a good thing-it kept him out of the office, allowed for travel, and let him make new friends. It was a new lease on life he was looking forward to-that is, until the day he pulled into the town of Kearney. Situated at the edge of settled land and skirting a planetary uplift that dominates the skyline, he began to discover that something wasn't right. Stories travel, but in this small farming and ranching town, these stories were kept close-and no one was talking.Rumors of disease, ruined crops and a darkness that seemed to inhabit the very land kept stabbing at his thoughts-forcing him to look deep inside himself and at the past he wanted to leave behind.Speculative Fiction Illustrated Presents is dedicated to bringing imaginative, visually rich stories to life-without compromising on values. Each title in this imprint is carefully curated to be family-friendly: free of graphic violence, explicit content, and offensive language, while still offering compelling plots, vivid worlds, and memorable characters. These are books you can confidently share with teens, classrooms, and multi-generational readers who love wonder, adventure, and a good story told cleanly.
The Astral Tide
Praise for Testament of the Stars: "Fast-paced, with nuanced characters and believable parallels to our own world." -Kirkus ReviewsThe last fight for the stars has begun. A magically-possessed Briarth Arden is lost in the political storm of his making. A power-hungry queen seeks to seize the stars' power as the city burns and strange beasts roam the streets.The rebellion against the star-cults is fading as the last of the resistance rises up against the oppression of those who wield the stars, ready to fight at any cost.Follow the epic and folklore-infused conclusion to the Testament of the Stars duology.
