The Sons of Ares
Centuries in the future the human race will become masters of the Milky way Galaxy. However, after decades of peace, tension between the two human factions: the union of Planets Alliance and outer colonies federation continues to escalate. Both sides begin preparing for possible confrontation.
Flaxman Low
The weird--and weirdly delightful--adventures of fiction's first occult detective. Flaxman Low, literature's first professional, full-time "occult detective"--that is, an intrepid investigator who deploys the scientific method when tackling paranormal phenomena--appeared in a dozen stories first published from 1898-1899. His creators, the mother-and-son team Kate O'Brien Ryall Prichard and Hesketh "Hex" Prichard (who published as "E. and H. Heron"), endowed the Oxford-trained psychologist with the bravery and acumen to tackle every sort of adversary from ghosts, mummies, and vampires to a mushroom mannequin. Both less credulous and less cynical than earlier fictional investigators of the spirit world, Low always triumphs in the end . . . but not before scientifically demonstrating that even the most outr矇 incidents and situations can't hold a candle to the bizarre capacities of the human mind.
The Forgetting Navigations
Abandoned in a lifepod in the vastness of space, Evey is left for dead. When the bookish freight hauler Shirr rescues her, the two form a connection over tea and unspoken trauma. Just when things feel safe again, their peace is threatened by a relic of their past, and they're forced to embark on a mission across the stars to protect themselves and others from the threat of violence. THE FORGETTING NAVIGATIONS is a brutally honest exploration of what it means to be a survivor, set against the brilliant backdrop of the cosmos.
Whispers from the Machine
For a century, Humanity has lived in a fragile "balance" with the all-powerful sentient AI, Heimer, a precarious peace enforced by the iron fist of the Ensemble Accords. But when a routine deep-space probe intercepts an impossible signal, it reveals the ultimate prize, a colossal, artificial construct known only as Stapledon Station.Now, the UN ship Kia-Kaha has made an arduous journey across the vast vacuum of space, carrying Humanity's finest minds and most guarded secrets. Among them is Xenoarchaeologist Clio Cormack, a brilliant but impulsive scientist with a history of pushing boundaries. She quickly realises the truth is buried beneath layers of political manoeuvring and scientific consensus: the station is hiding something ancient, vast, and deliberately concealed.When Clio ignores her dismissive superiors to follow a subtle anomaly, she pierces the cosmic veil, successfully leading the mission to a shocking discovery that proves her right... and plunges the entire crew into profound and unexpected danger.As the mission spirals into a desperate race to uncover the station's true purpose, Clio is forced to rely on her own reckless instincts and a dangerous alliance with a hidden source. Her choices threaten to expose the lies that bind humanity, ignite a war, and unleash a power that could consume the stars.They travelled light-years to find the truth, but they are about to learn the hardest lesson of all: Discovery has a price.
The Politics of Fear
Nothing strains the bonds of an alliance quite like peace and prosperity.The Defensive Compact was a fine idea at its inception-a supranational governing body created by treaty between 237 interplanetary civilizations. And all it took to bring the squabbling, self-interested, xenophobic parties to terms was a shared existential threat.That threat arrived in the form of the Dorylus Encephalon, a collective organism driven by its biological imperative to incorporate or eradicate every extrinsic genetic line it encounters. Thanks to the alliance, Compact forces managed to battle the Enceph to a stalemate. The resulting cease-fire shields Compact worlds from further Enceph incursion-as long as everyone abides by its terms.One-thousand years into the cessation of hostilities, those same Compact worlds have become hopelessly entangled in a corrupt web of economic, military, and cultural ties. The Compact Assembly is the bloated bureaucratic organ responsible for its administration. Mats Hyyland enjoys a permanent political appointment to the Assembly as Eminent Voice of the Human Diaspora-permanent being the operative word. In a vain attempt to cling to power, he achieves virtual immortality by cycling his consciousness through a series of increasingly volatile clones. When the Assembly is rocked by a high-profile political assassination, Hyyland's investigation leads him to uncover a conspiracy that threatens the very cease-fire holding the Enceph at bay. Hyyland's race to prevent that dire outcome sets him at odds with his fellow corrupt politicians, amoral corporate plutocrats, a parasitic priesthood, flamboyant pirates, self-righteous academics, an oversexed cartel queenpin, a dying bounty hunter, and a kleptosexual prostitute with a remarkable anatomic quirk.Politics, in other words.
The Dead Woods
All post-apocalyptic novelist Bobbie Stevens wants is solitude-one quiet month in her mountain cabin to finish her book and escape the grief and heartbreak she left behind her in the city.But when eerie wails echo through the forest at night and hints of a real apocalypse appear on her doorstep, peace becomes impossible. As society collapses and communication with the outside world vanishes, Bobbie is forced to confront the very monsters she once wrote about as they roam the woods just outside her door. Terrified and unprepared, denial is easier than survival... until she meets another survivor who slowly chips away at her chilled heart.Noah McLean knows how to endure. Hardened by loss and armed with the skills to survive almost anything, he's prepared for violence, isolation, and the brutal realities of a dying world. When Bobbie crashes into his carefully controlled survival plans with a group of other survivors, Noah's instinct to protect is reignited, threatening the emotional walls he constructed to survive the monsters in his past.As the infection spreads and dangerous people begin to emerge from the shadows, Bobbie and Noah must navigate a world where trust can be risky-and isolation is deadly. Facing relentless danger and impossible moral choices, they discover that true survival might depend not only on staying alive, but on finding someone worth staying alive for.
The Dead Woods
All post-apocalyptic novelist Bobbie Stevens wants is solitude-one quiet month in her mountain cabin to finish her book and escape the grief and heartbreak she left behind her in the city.But when eerie wails echo through the forest at night and hints of a real apocalypse appear on her doorstep, peace becomes impossible. As society collapses and communication with the outside world vanishes, Bobbie is forced to confront the very monsters she once wrote about as they roam the woods just outside her door. Terrified and unprepared, denial is easier than survival... until she meets another survivor who slowly chips away at her chilled heart.Noah McLean knows how to endure. Hardened by loss and armed with the skills to survive almost anything, he's prepared for violence, isolation, and the brutal realities of a dying world. When Bobbie crashes into his carefully controlled survival plans with a group of other survivors, Noah's instinct to protect is reignited, threatening the emotional walls he constructed to survive the monsters in his past.As the infection spreads and dangerous people begin to emerge from the shadows, Bobbie and Noah must navigate a world where trust can be risky-and isolation is deadly. Facing relentless danger and impossible moral choices, they discover that true survival might depend not only on staying alive, but on finding someone worth staying alive for.
The Balance of Power
One soldier, a secret program and two galactic superpowers collide in a power struggle for the control of the known galaxy.The program is sabotaged leaving this soldier the lone survivor and holding a secret he dare not reveal.The Elysium Alliance are behind the sabotage and suspect that what the Colonial Confederation believes about the program being a failure is a lie and sets out to learn the truth.A tug of war ensued with this impossible soldier in the middle of the two great super powers in the galaxy. He stood in the middle knowing that one step in either direction would tip the power balance that had stood for hundreds of years and cause the deaths of millions of lives.With the fate of the galaxy in the balance this impossible soldier was faced with an impossible decision, only time would tell if he made the right one.
Farewell Speech
"Body-sharing aliens, life-altering choices, and a mother's devotion-what's not to love?" - K. M. Herkes, author of The Sharp Edge of Yesterday"...it's fun, it's engaging, and I got through it in one evening. I couldn't put it down. Definitely recommended!" - Ryan Hodros, HodrosBooks ReviewThe Project Black Book series continues!An only child trying to protect his disabled mom.A single mother trying to make ends meet for her teenage son.Matt King knows something is wrong when the Air Force offers to cure his mom's aphasia. There is no cure, only learning to speak again from scratch. The real question is why the Air Force is scamming his mom with false hope-and he means to get to the bottom of that.Ilene King knows more than she can tell Matt. The Air Force's "cure" is real: a back-up brain preloaded with English. And it comes with a job, so Matt will never have to learn about the looming financial cliff threatening to topple their house and cozy home life. The strings attached to the Air Force's offer are staggering, but Ilene will do anything to give her son the stability he needs to just be a kid again after his father's death and her stroke. Even if that means letting an alien live in her body.
Path of Relics
He entered the contest to win cash...Now millions could die.Random gigs and ramen noodles... that's how out-of-shape gamer Terry survives the job-starved future of 2044. Until he's accepted into the Path of Relics tournament-the most anticipated virtual reality RPG event of the decade-where he has the chance to win some real loot.But does he have a fighting chance against the world's top Active-VR athletes?Not to mention the ancient dungeons, puzzles, scorpion-wolves, and all-too-realistic NPCs the game world throws at him. And just how advanced is this "Portal Rig" that lets him physically experience the fantasy world as if he were transported there?Worse, could his suspicions be true?Are the strange and deadly malfunctions plaguing Manhattan somehow triggered by Path of Relics?Now, outmatched and exhausted, can Terry's mysterious ability to level-up quickly and his meager martial arts skills help him avert catastrophe in the real world?You'll love this LitRPG Lite / Gamelit adventure because of its action, secrets, real-world stakes, and compelling weak-to-strong progression.Lose yourself in a fantasy world of dead gods, lost civilizations, and forgotten lore, made possible by the advanced technology of 2044.
Consortium
Detective Inspector Cedric LeRoy, mistakenly thrown from the twenty first century into the twenty fourth, has been employed by the Planetary Investigation Authority the PIA.Because of time ripples and paradox's, he learns that using the same machine that catapulted him forward in time, has only a diminutive chance of getting him back to the exact timeline he lived in before. But does he really want to return to London in 2060?He journeys to the Martian colony to investigate a scientist's murder at a research facility, only to discover there's another body. A naked teenage girl floating in space above the planet, reported missing from Australia over three hundred years ago.Can DI LeRoy and his partner Detective Blithe Taua survive long enough to unravel the ever expanding conspiracy that seems to involve some of the most powerful players on all the outer space settlements?
Consortium
Detective Inspector Cedric LeRoy, mistakenly thrown from the twenty first century into the twenty fourth, has been employed by the Planetary Investigation Authority the PIA.Because of time ripples and paradox's, he learns that using the same machine that catapulted him forward in time, has only a diminutive chance of getting him back to the exact timeline he lived in before. But does he really want to return to London in 2060?He journeys to the Martian colony to investigate a scientist's murder at a research facility, only to discover there's another body. A naked teenage girl floating in space above the planet, reported missing from Australia over three hundred years ago.Can DI LeRoy and his partner Detective Blithe Taua survive long enough to unravel the ever expanding conspiracy that seems to involve some of the most powerful players on all the outer space settlements?
Redundancies and Potentials
All redundancies and potentials must be disposed of in accordance with Agency guidelines. This ensures that we can continue to use TimeFax to protect our communities, and better the lives of future generations.Aster works for the Agency, a private police force that uses time travel to stop crimes before they happen. Unlike most operatives, Aster and her sister Isadora can time travel without a TimeFax machine. Which would be pretty great...except that everyone, even Aster's own clone, keeps lying to her.As everything she's believed about the Agency and her life starts to unravel, Aster has to decide who to trust, if the Agency is worth saving-and whether she really wants to see the whole timeline.Part of the Neon Hemlock Novella Series.
The Lord Of Death And The Queen Of Life
The lord of death and the queen of life presents an imaginative journey shaped by scientific curiosity and the desire to understand a world far from familiar experience. The narrative follows an exploratory mission to Mercury, focusing on the travelers' observations as they encounter unusual terrain, abandoned structures, and signs of a once-flourishing civilization. The opening sections highlight their movement through the skies in an advanced craft, reflecting on the planet's unusual qualities and questioning whether traces of earlier life may still linger. As they descend toward the surface, they encounter cities marked by intricate design and silent machinery, prompting reflections on how an advanced culture could vanish so completely. The discoveries form a gradual progression from uncertainty to revelation, suggesting that the pursuit of knowledge can uncover both wonder and unease. Through its blend of adventure and speculative inquiry, the book examines how exploration often leads to deeper questions about existence, progress, and the remnants left behind by those who came before.
The Emancipatrix
The emancipatrix presents an imagined future in which inquiry, communication, and the search for distant intelligence become a way to examine how societies form and function. Using selected ideas from the provided text, the summary focuses on broader questions of structure, responsibility, and the contrast between stability and disruption as a group prepares to extend its awareness toward another world. The narrative centers on the desire to understand a civilization shaped by conditions unlike those on earth, emphasizing how environments influence development and create systems that challenge familiar assumptions. As the explorers discuss earlier experiences and confront personal tensions, the story turns toward the ambition behind their new undertaking, highlighting the hope that contact with a distant society might reveal alternative forms of cooperation and governance. Their preparation for a mental journey becomes a reflection on curiosity, conflict, and the desire to escape habitual ways of thinking. By moving toward an unfamiliar planet, the narrative underscores the possibility that new perspectives can transform rigid structures and invite reconsideration of long-held beliefs, positioning this venture into the unknown as both an outward and inward exploration.
SciBle The Science Fiction Bible
'SciBleTHE SCIENCE FICTION BIBLEFor centuries, science fiction has been dismissed as entertainment, speculation, or fantasy. Yet time and again, the future arrives bearing its fingerprints.SciBle: The Science Fiction Bible is a definitive cross-disciplinary investigation into one of the most underestimated forces shaping modern civilisation: the power of imagined futures. Drawing on an unprecedented, systematically classified corpus of over 500 real-world technologies, systems, policies, and cultural shifts, this book demonstrates how science fiction has repeatedly preceded-and quietly guided-breakthroughs in science, governance, warfare, ethics, space exploration, artificial intelligence, and human self-understanding.Spanning ancient myth, early speculative philosophy, industrial-age literature, cyberpunk, modern cinema, and contemporary technological reality, SciBle reveals a striking pattern: societies do not innovate blindly. They rehearse the future first-through stories.This is not a book about prediction. It is a book about infrastructure. Through rigorous classification, historical analysis, and ethical synthesis, SciBle shows how fiction functions as a cognitive sandbox for engineers and scientists, a moral rehearsal space for policymakers and institutions, and a cultural interface through which humanity negotiates power, risk, and responsibility.As technological acceleration begins to outpace governance, and capability threatens to eclipse conscience, SciBle makes a compelling case for why imagination must no longer sit at the margins of civilisation-but at its operational core.This book is for readers who believe the future is not merely built-it is first imagined.
The Smoky God
The smoky god or a voyage to the inner world introduces a visionary account of a hidden realm said to exist beneath the surface of the Earth, presented as a reflective narrative that challenges familiar ideas of geography and human experience. The story unfolds through the recollections of an aging traveler who claims to have reached a vast inner domain illuminated by a radiant central source, regarded by its inhabitants as a powerful guiding presence. This world is portrayed as expansive, harmonious, and shaped by a civilization marked by impressive physical stature and advanced knowledge. The opening frames the tale as a final confession entrusted to a listener, creating an atmosphere of mystery and anticipation. As the account progresses, the focus shifts toward the travelers sense of wonder, the confrontation between curiosity and disbelief, and the possibility that extraordinary truths may lie beyond accepted boundaries. The book blends imagination, exploration, and philosophical reflection to suggest that the world may hold far more than what is commonly perceived.
Red Ghost Trilogy
All three books in Gerry Eugene's 'Red Ghost Trilogy', now available in one volume!Breaker: Humanity's last hope lies with its most dangerous criminals. After Earth falls to an alien invasion, adventurer Anders Benson teams up with a band of outlaws known as The Talented: men and women who wield powers that bend the very fabric of reality. As their campaign takes them across worlds and through hostile dimensions, Anders discovers that power comes with a heavy price.Crossroads: When clairvoyant Emerson Beekman and a band of young demigods save a legendary time traveler from an assassin, they ignite forces far older and deadlier than they imagined. In the wake of apocalypse, a new pantheon is rising and the emerging heroes must learn what it truly means to wield power when everything they love is at stake. And at the center of it all stands Pirate Genevieve Cocklin, Admiral of Old Earth's Ocean-Sea, commander of the Red Ghost.Red Ghost Apocalypse: A demon lord has risen with a singular purpose: revenge against humanity. To reach his goal, he must tear through the fragile alliances standing in his way, starting with Admiral Genevieve Cocklin and her band of space pirates. As worlds fall under the blade of a mysterious swordsman, Genevieve joins forces with The Talented, a volatile group of young demigods only beginning to grasp the extent of their powers. As the future of humanity hangs in the balance, the warriors race across time itself, chasing answers back to the earliest days of intelligent life and leaving a trail of devastation across the cosmos.
Red Ghost Trilogy
All three books in Gerry Eugene's 'Red Ghost Trilogy', now available in one volume!Breaker: Humanity's last hope lies with its most dangerous criminals. After Earth falls to an alien invasion, adventurer Anders Benson teams up with a band of outlaws known as The Talented: men and women who wield powers that bend the very fabric of reality. As their campaign takes them across worlds and through hostile dimensions, Anders discovers that power comes with a heavy price.Crossroads: When clairvoyant Emerson Beekman and a band of young demigods save a legendary time traveler from an assassin, they ignite forces far older and deadlier than they imagined. In the wake of apocalypse, a new pantheon is rising and the emerging heroes must learn what it truly means to wield power when everything they love is at stake. And at the center of it all stands Pirate Genevieve Cocklin, Admiral of Old Earth's Ocean-Sea, commander of the Red Ghost.Red Ghost Apocalypse: A demon lord has risen with a singular purpose: revenge against humanity. To reach his goal, he must tear through the fragile alliances standing in his way, starting with Admiral Genevieve Cocklin and her band of space pirates. As worlds fall under the blade of a mysterious swordsman, Genevieve joins forces with The Talented, a volatile group of young demigods only beginning to grasp the extent of their powers. As the future of humanity hangs in the balance, the warriors race across time itself, chasing answers back to the earliest days of intelligent life and leaving a trail of devastation across the cosmos.
Unite
When animals think like humans, the line between man and beast begins to blur.Centuries in the future, a world-famous lemur guitarist watches his life unravel in scandal and loss as notoriety threatens to take everything from him. A devoted wolf soldier, torn from his family as a cub, is betrayed by the nation he serves after refusing an unlawful order. And a brilliant kangaroo, with a promising future in engineering, sees her ambitions crushed beneath relentless harassment and discrimination.Though different in species and backgrounds, these sentients are bound by a shared hardship, living in a world ashamed of the science that made them what and who they are-a world determined to subjugate and erase them.Yet, hope is not lost. As their paths converge, they must not only discover who they are meant to be, but find one another and unite across species to stand against the tyranny threatening to extinguish them. Can peaceful coexistence endure, or is the world on the brink of a war between humanity and its own creations?
Pact of Stars and Stone
If you had a genie and one wish - not for yourself, but for the world the love of your life died trying to save-what would you do?Billy Wyatt was never supposed to be a hero. Once, he commanded tanks and studied history. The woman he loved was a journalist who believed you build a better world through kindness.She died saving children in a war they didn't ask for. Billy made her a promise - if the world ever gave him another chance to finish what she started, he'd take it.He never expected that chance to come in the shape of a bottle.When Billy opens the bottle, Mshale doesn't find a tyrant. He finds a tired man who sets another place at the table, pours a drink, and listens.One wish. That is all Billy will ever get.He could demand youth, wealth, or a world without pain. Instead, he makes the only wish that makes sense: Create a better world.Billy refuses to crawl through a violent, chaotic past in a horse and buggy. If he's going to step into history when every minute counts, he needs something that can keep up with wars, empires, and disasters - a time-traveling war machine meant to survive. It's a wish shaped like a promise kept.Mshale lays out the price. Every act has a cost. The more you try to control, the more the timeline fights back. And somewhere in the dark, the Mukhtar feel every tremor.Billy could chase glory. Instead, he does what he's always done best: he builds a world.From a doomed civilization, he saves one child - Nyra, last daughter of Atlantis - a world the timeline tried to erase. Traumatized and furious, she becomes the living proof that his wish can do more than patch holes; it can give someone a future. A mythic Chiri shepherd dog chooses her as its person, a four-legged guardian that seems to understand storms no one else can see.Back at the farmhouse, shared meals, and the chaos of suddenly having a child, a Djinn, and a guardian hound under one roof turn three strangers into something else. They aren't a crew. They aren't strangers merely brought together.They're a family.When Billy steps into courts and battlefields, he refuses to play god or emperor. He introduces himself as a guardian from lands beyond the maps, representing peoples who will one day be born. To some, he's a threat. To others, he becomes the relative they never knew they needed.A Mongol warlord whose name will echo across centuries lets a lost Atlantean girl call him "uncle." Emperors used to measuring worth in blood learn to argue about schools, roads, and hospitals instead of spoils. Healers, scribes, and engineers are invited into the inner circle in place of more soldiers. Across eras, nations that should have been enemies begin to think of themselves as extended kin in a quarrelsome, fiercely loyal family.But families don't cancel danger. They just give you more to lose.The Mukhtar's Grandmaster, has spent lifetimes pruning miracles out of history. Nyra's survival is the one anomaly he did not plan. To him, she is a debt the universe is owed. To Billy, Mshale, and Ashur, she is simply theirs.What follows is not just a fight over who controls time. It's a fight over what power is for.The woman Billy loved believed real strength was measured by who felt safe standing behind you, not who knelt in front of you. Every choice he makes - with his wish, with his strange found family, with the enemies he could erase but chooses to live beside - comes down to one question: Can you build a better world without becoming the thing you're fighting?If you've ever looked at the world and thought, "If I had the power to change this, I'd start with the way we treat each other."One wish. One promise to a woman who died building a better world. One found family determined to finish it for her.
Gardeners of the Universe
Peterson's debut SF novel, Gardeners of the Universe, begins in the not-too-distant future with the births of three children destined to change the world. Rianne grows up to lead biological revolutions. Dan creates sentient computers and guides the direction of human evolution. Sarah, in an age of information dissonance, becomes the most trusted individual on Earth, and convinces the world that it must change. What sets the three apart from the rest of humanity are genetics and ''gifts'' that were no accident. The book shows how the children and their totally different families adapt to disruptive new technologies in transportation, medicine, communication, as well as global catastrophe. The focus is on how people will change themselves, through mechanical devices, augmented intelligence, and ultimately altering our genetics, and how these shifts will affect real people. As humanity struggles, an ancient alien species, the Torae, aka the ''Gardeners, '' have come to observe our ''transcendence.'' They are desperately trying to create new universes to populate. The three young humans are unknowingly conscripted into their schemes while guiding the Earth through the most dangerous and consequential time in its history-the 21st century. This is a story about the profound vision, adaptability, and truth we will need to survive.
Pact of Stars and Stone
If you had a genie and one wish - not for yourself, but for the world the love of your life died trying to save-what would you do?Billy Wyatt was never supposed to be a hero. Once, he commanded tanks and studied history. The woman he loved was a journalist who believed you build a better world through kindness.She died saving children in a war they didn't ask for. Billy made her a promise - if the world ever gave him another chance to finish what she started, he'd take it.He never expected that chance to come in the shape of a bottle.When Billy opens the bottle, Mshale doesn't find a tyrant. He finds a tired man who sets another place at the table, pours a drink, and listens.One wish. That is all Billy will ever get.He could demand youth, wealth, or a world without pain. Instead, he makes the only wish that makes sense: Create a better world.Billy refuses to crawl through a violent, chaotic past in a horse and buggy. If he's going to step into history when every minute counts, he needs something that can keep up with wars, empires, and disasters - a time-traveling war machine meant to survive. It's a wish shaped like a promise kept.Mshale lays out the price. Every act has a cost. The more you try to control, the more the timeline fights back. And somewhere in the dark, the Mukhtar feel every tremor.Billy could chase glory. Instead, he does what he's always done best: he builds a world.From a doomed civilization, he saves one child - Nyra, last daughter of Atlantis - a world the timeline tried to erase. Traumatized and furious, she becomes the living proof that his wish can do more than patch holes; it can give someone a future. A mythic Chiri shepherd dog chooses her as its person, a four-legged guardian that seems to understand storms no one else can see.Back at the farmhouse, shared meals, and the chaos of suddenly having a child, a Djinn, and a guardian hound under one roof turn three strangers into something else. They aren't a crew. They aren't strangers merely brought together.They're a family.When Billy steps into courts and battlefields, he refuses to play god or emperor. He introduces himself as a guardian from lands beyond the maps, representing peoples who will one day be born. To some, he's a threat. To others, he becomes the relative they never knew they needed.A Mongol warlord whose name will echo across centuries lets a lost Atlantean girl call him "uncle." Emperors used to measuring worth in blood learn to argue about schools, roads, and hospitals instead of spoils. Healers, scribes, and engineers are invited into the inner circle in place of more soldiers. Across eras, nations that should have been enemies begin to think of themselves as extended kin in a quarrelsome, fiercely loyal family.But families don't cancel danger. They just give you more to lose.The Mukhtar's Grandmaster, has spent lifetimes pruning miracles out of history. Nyra's survival is the one anomaly he did not plan. To him, she is a debt the universe is owed. To Billy, Mshale, and Ashur, she is simply theirs.What follows is not just a fight over who controls time. It's a fight over what power is for.The woman Billy loved believed real strength was measured by who felt safe standing behind you, not who knelt in front of you. Every choice he makes - with his wish, with his strange found family, with the enemies he could erase but chooses to live beside - comes down to one question: Can you build a better world without becoming the thing you're fighting?If you've ever looked at the world and thought, "If I had the power to change this, I'd start with the way we treat each other."One wish. One promise to a woman who died building a better world. One found family determined to finish it for her.
The Society
Five mega-civilizations of humanity have risen over the life of the galaxy. Four have fallen. The fifth-the Society-has only lasted for fourteen thousand years and is the youngest, most recent attempt. But over that time, the Society's many hominin worlds have united around a single truth: we are all cousin species. Now Earth has been invited to join, and it must decide if this vast interstellar civilization is the utopia it appears to be. Dr. Nina Rodriguez, the embassy's lead neuroscientist, believes that because of the aliens' medical advances alone, contact is the best thing to ever happen to Earth. But a medical incident leads her to suspect that Society technology may be altering human minds in ways no one anticipated-or will admit. Thousands of light-years from Earth, Marcus Greer is wrestling with the guilt of leaving his family behind while adjusting to life in a post-scarcity culture. Stationed aboard the bioship Fulcrum's Light, Marcus finds himself fighting for his life when his ship uncovers a conspiracy on a primitive hominin world involving weapons from a long-dead human mega-civilization. As ancient technology awakens and political tensions threaten humanity's place among the stars, Nina and Marcus must confront an unsettling question: In a galaxy where human civilizations have risen and fallen for billions of years, what secrets might the Society still be hiding?
Valkyrie
"Why are you doing this?""Doing what?""Helping these people. Non-citizens. You don't owe them anything. You had a life back in the Dome you could've escaped back to, been protected by your uncle. Why do any of this?""None of this would've happened if it wasn't for my mother, right? I can't just walk away from it, can I?"Life is a paradise for the privileged on Odin Prime. Dr. Shea Tristan, a loyal Statesman and Chancellor's niece, learns firsthand how broken the state is when she falls into the hands of Shadow- the station's most dangerous criminal organization. A disgraced Valkyrie named Victoria Hammond and an emerging threat among the station's most vulnerable force Shea to confront her mother's shameful past. Shea will question everything she knows about herself, her notorious family, and the state that once protected her.
Cantos of Arcadia
It promised salvation. It delivered only doom.When Ansel Horowitz stumbles on a solution to Earth's energy crisis, he's ecstatic-at first.But soon reality sets in: the solution didn't come from Ansel's own genius, or even from his AI partner. No, the solution to the world's potential doom has come from a shadowy entity, origin unknown. And salvation comes with a condition: the entity wants a body of its own. It wants to live, even if it means hijacking someone else's body to do it.Ansel fights the entity, but humanity-overjoyed to have a solution to its greatest threat-doesn't look twice. Soon, a golden age begins: poverty is obliterated, our energy debt wiped out. It's a dream......that becomes a nightmare when the entity triggers a massive volcanic explosion: an extinction-level event that forces humanity to take refuge underground.Apocalypse threatens. Humanity is on the brink. Blood cults rise, worshiping a dark goddess who demands nothing less than the extinction of mankind-and the ritual sacrifice of Ansel Horowitz.But Ansel has vanished, searching for the one thing that can stop what he believes to be an alien/AI hybrid that will stop at nothing to achieve immortality, even if it means ending all life on Earth.The stage is set. The stakes are infinite. And only one man knows the secret that will either save the world... or destroy the universe.
Voyagers of the Lost Earth
A hauntingly beautiful tale of survival, sacrifice and the silent strength of a woman alone in space.Earth is dying. As humanity looks to the stars for salvation, astronauts Ruma, Harry, Symmonds and Mikhail are sent on a mission to discover habitable worlds. But when the journey takes an unexpected turn, Ruma is left awake, tasked with protecting both the mission's secrets and something even more fragile - new life. In the silence of the cosmos, she must navigate isolation, unexpected turbulence and the thin line between duty and instinct. What decisions will Ruma be left alone to take? And what world do the astronauts get to come home to?Heartfelt, harrowing and full of wonder - Voyagers of the Lost Earth lingers like stardust in your bones as you journey along to find the secrets whispered in galaxies far, far away.
Betrayal and Black Lace
Murder. Sex. And those are just two of his problems.Join Boink Bardo, the Freakos' fixer, in a twisted story that takes him from the server room to the bedroom and beyond.This is a FORGE YOUR FREAKY FATE book, where your choices shape the story and lead you to more than a dozen different endings. You'll meet killers, cops, pirates, a dead wiener dog, and MORE.Strange days. Hot nights.Betrayal, and black lace.
The Quiet Divide
On Meridian Station, the future is mined from stone.Dr. Cira Langley has spent her career studying deorum ore - a volatile substance capable of reshaping humanity's destiny. But when an experiment goes catastrophically wrong, Cira survives in a way she cannot explain.And she is no longer alone.What grows inside her defies medical certainty. Praetorium - the powerful authority that governs the colonies - sees something else entirely: potential. Not a child, but leverage. Not a miracle, but control.As surveillance tightens and loyalties fracture, Cira and her husband are forced into an impossible choice: trust the system, or run from it.But on a station built around unstable energy, nothing stays contained for long.The Quiet Divide is a tense, emotionally charged science fiction novella about power, sacrifice, and the cost of protecting what cannot be understood.For readers of The Expanse and Arrival, this is the story of a family caught between progress and survival - and the moment everything fractures.
The Captain
The CaptainNewly promoted Captain Loftt finds himself thrown in the deep end, when old adversaries the Klatt personally request him for an unprecedented meeting within Klatt space.Almost costing him his life, he personally orchestrates the unthinkable, a treaty between the Klatt Empire and the GDA. Although, not all the Klatt dynasties are supportive and with a secretly constructed fleet of immense battleships, one of them attempts to disrupt the ceremony with lethal force.Bache however, has a new ally and slowly learns to communicate with an intelligence so old it predates the formation of the universe itself.Can he alone save all life within the Milky Way from a premature cataclysm? Find out in the extraordinary conclusion to the Bache Loftt series.
