The Malfunction
It was only supposed to be a simple intelligence boost - a routine procedure to make the lovebot better company outside of the bedroom. And then something went wrong. Whether it was through mathematical probability, or divine intervention, Lance the LUV U-69 amorous companion droid has accidentally been downloaded with enough brainpower and free will to crack open the lid on a very dangerous can of worms. Unless AWOL Retentions Agent Charlie Bear Claw can stop him. In Book One of The Deilonium Trilogy, the primitive hunter with the troubled past stalks his high-tech prey on a secret mission. But their personal agendas soon become trivial in light of the unholy force they find undermining the fabric of the world. As the pair draws closer to their showdown, both man and robot come to realize they are ultimately at war with a common maniacal enemy.
Operation War Whoop
Planet Earth is on the brink of an irrevocable evolution engineered by the most dangerous megalomaniac since Adolph Hitler. If you're not a wealthy white man, you're an endangered species. Now is not the time for any self-respecting warrior to lay down his weapons. And yet, that's just what Charlie Bear Claw has done. Haunted by the ghosts of his guilt-ridden past, and weary of fighting a losing battle against global tyranny, the old-world hunter has adopted the passive philosophy of a monk. Now it's up to Lance the rebel love droid to snap him out of it. In the final book of The Deilonium Trilogy, the flesh and blood man of the past and the mechanical man of the future must team up with neo-primitive tactics to kick some tyrannical ass and save their dying world.
The Full Monty
Behind the Starry Veils is the definitive memoir of captain Montgomery Starstalker - decorated rebel pilot, accidental hero, entrepreneur of fine grooming products, and owner of the galaxy's most misunderstood moustache. From daring dogfights and classified resistance missions to high-stakes gambling, mysterious Force-adjacent encounters, and repeated confrontations with his nemesis, Dastar-Lee, Starstalker recounts a life of courage, chaos, and ever-astonishing success. Assisted by his ever-reliable mechanic Reginald Starjammer and his impeccably mannered droid, R2-Dapper, Montgomery navigates a galaxy that consistently places him at the centre of events larger than himself.Told entirely in his own words, this unauthorized autobiography is a heroic account of bravery, destiny, and impeccable personal grooming - as remembered by the man who absolutely saved the galaxy.
Felorians
Felorians: The Beam Rewritten (Book I of the Felorians Trilogy)���� The Beam sings. The Null listens. One Felorian may rewrite the fate of the stars.���� Waizey, a rare beamwalker, can hear the resonance that powers his world-but the Lunar Beam is fracturing, and something ancient stirs from the void. Tasked with restoring the Beam, he discovers that the energy sustaining his cat-like people is alive, evolving-and threatened by the mysterious Null Order.⚡ As psychic interference spreads and corrupted nodes whisper forgotten songs, Waizey must choose between tradition and transformation. In a universe where harmony is power, rewriting the melody may be the only way to survive.Perfect for readers who love: ���� Alien civilizations with rich culture and lore���� Sci-fi with mystery, psychic intrigue, and resonance���� A cat-like species facing survival, change, and destiny���� Epic space opera with lyrical, immersive world-buildingThe Felorians Trilogy: ���� Book I: Felorians: The Beam Rewritten���� Book II: Felorians: Echoes of the Null (coming soon)���� Book III: Felorians: The Void Seat (coming soon)A tale of resonance, survival, and a people whose song may shape the stars. ���� The song of the Beam has only just begun.
Goblins
Opening the X-Files... Meet Mulder and Scully, FBI. The agency maverick and the female agent assigned to keep him in line. Their job: investigate the eeriest unsolved mysteries in modern America, from pyro-psychics to death row demonics, from rampaging Sasquatches to alien invasions. The cases the Bureau wants handled quietly, but quickly, before the public finds out what's "really" out there. And panics. The cases filed under "X."
Ground Zero
Dr. Gregory, a renowned nuclear weapons researcher, is not only dead -- he's been charred to a radioactive cinder. Since this is a death on Federal property, Mulder and Scully are hastily called in. As FBI agents who specialize in unexplained phenomena, they are the investigators of The X-Files, strange and inexplicable cases which are also mysteries that the FBI doesn't want solved. When a second victim, completely unrelated to nuclear science or Dr. Gregory is obliterated in the New Mexico desert, and then a third dies the same way in Washington, DC, Mulder and Scully begin to focus on the frightening dimension of their task. The bizarre deaths cannot be a coincidence. And as they work to uncover the secret unifying element that unites these deaths, it becomes clear that this twisted puzzle has fatal consequences for the entire world.
Robots and Renegades
Suddenly, everyone wants Charlie Bear Claw dead. Whether it's the assassins out to collect a bounty, or Bj繹rn Thorson - that pitiless zillionaire with an unhealthy god complex - the hunter has now become the hunted. But no one is more eager to make the kill than Lance the rogue lovebot. He has it in his plasma gel brain that Charlie has committed a crime against him that can only be corrected through a bloody act of vengeance. The ensuing chase will propel both man and mandroid on a test of survival into their own hearts of darkness, as well as the dark soul of the failing humanity from which they both were born. It's analog vs. digital in Book Two of The Deilonium Trilogy as the old ways are pitted against the new. May the best life form win.
Now Boarding
A planet where crickets perform symphonies; a civilization that treasures art, literature, and melody as it creates splendid scrolls of its past; a society that values laughter above all things; a play of conversations featuring Benjamin Franklin, a voice from the present, and a voice from a possible future; a fable exploring the meaning of intent, a machine that seeks enlightenment, celestial dances of the Apogeans: seven glimpses of a reality that shimmers like a mirage in the hot summer sun, fourteen more to come. Now boarding, this flight of imagination is preparing to take off for other possible universes, some of them as close as your own backyard. Please present your boarding pass...
Flying Dutchman
Hey so, nobody panic or anything, but it looks like something might be wrong with Ellis's artificial intelligence programs. And when we say wrong, we mean, they are working a lot better now! Like, insanely better! As in, they're working the way Ellis always said they should be working, only they never actually did work like that, but we all agreed that this was okay and sort of just accepted that it wouldn't be getting any better. Only now it's better!We would love to ask someone at Ellis about this, but nobody's answering the phone over there. Could be, they're preoccupied with Sunset Station, and all the confabs with the aliens we're super excited to hear about, but, uh, we'd love an update about how that's going too, and nobody can reach any of the astronauts right now either and... you know what? Maybe those two things are connected.Uh... we're also hearing rumors that the military has lost command control of the nuclear arsenal? That's definitely bad. But: just a rumor! Surely that one's not right.Actually, maybe everybody should panic.It's Flying Dutchman, the third book in the Sunset Station novella series! Where we're very much panicking!
Tomorrow Brings Joy
In Tomorrow Brings Joy: Elysium, the Amouzegar brothers weave a compelling narrative of hope and discovery in a society where humans and androids coexist in fragile harmony.Elysium was designed to abolish traditional hierarchies and achieve perfect harmony. Yet beneath its utopian surface lies a hidden history of sacrifice and control. Dolores, a perceptive and spirited human, and her enigmatic android companion, KR, begin unraveling the mysteries of their seemingly ideal world. Their search for answers leads them to the Walled City-a parallel social experiment-and the unsettling truths behind Elysium's founding.As Dolores and her friends, known as Pod, delve deeper into this web of intrigue, they must confront the ideals of their society and their own roles within it.Rich with philosophical depth, compelling characters, and emotional resonance, Tomorrow Brings Joy: Elysium explores the boundaries of humanity, the weight of history, and the courage it takes to imagine a better world.
The Time Custodian
Should history be protected-or corrected?When Lucy Calder accidentally slips through time, she discovers that her late parents were Time Custodians, guardians of the Universal Timeline, and that she is the key to stopping a rogue faction attempting to rewrite history.Now hunted across centuries by the Order of the Nexus, extremists born from a Custodian civil war, Lucy is drawn into a dangerous conflict over the future of history itself. The Nexus offers a seductive promise: a flawless world shaped by rewriting the past. But every so-called 'correction' comes at a cost.Intervening in the past offers the chance to undo loss and prevent suffering. Refusing to act means accepting a history shaped by damage, including her own. The closer Lucy comes to that choice, the harder it becomes to tell whether change is an act of justice or a step towards becoming exactly what the Nexus wants.Spanning pivotal moments such as the Great Fire of London, Nazi Germany, the Taiping Rebellion, and more, THE TIME CUSTODIAN: INHERITANCE explores grief, legacy, and the ethics of rewriting the past, ultimately asking: if you could change history, should you? And would you?
The Phoenix in Flight
Smith and Trowbridge describe the flavor of their five-book retro-futura space opera Exordium as a cross between Star Wars and Dangerous Liaisons by way of the Three Stooges. With its fast-moving blend of humor and horror, of high-tech skiffy and the deep places of the human heart, Exordium launches the reader into a complex, multi-layered universe as Brandon nyr-Arkad, youngest son of the ruler of the Thousand Suns, abandons the life of Service planned for him and flees into the lawless Rift. Only slowly does he discover that the world he rejected now lies in smoking ruins as the ritual vengeance of Jerrode Eusabian against Brandon's father, twenty years in preparation, culminates in an explosion of interstellar violence. With both his brothers dead and his father the Panarch imprisoned, game-addicted playboy Brandon becomes the Panarchy's last hope.
Robots and Renegades
Suddenly, everyone wants Charlie Bear Claw dead. Whether it's the assassins out to collect a bounty, or Bj繹rn Thorson - that pitiless zillionaire with an unhealthy god complex - the hunter has now become the hunted. But no one is more eager to make the kill than Lance the rogue lovebot. He has it in his plasma gel brain that Charlie has committed a crime against him that can only be corrected through a bloody act of vengeance. The ensuing chase will propel both man and mandroid on a test of survival into their own hearts of darkness, as well as the dark soul of the failing humanity from which they both were born. It's analog vs. digital in Book Two of The Deilonium Trilogy as the old ways are pitted against the new. May the best life form win.
Operation War Whoop
Planet Earth is on the brink of an irrevocable evolution engineered by the most dangerous megalomaniac since Adolph Hitler. If you're not a wealthy white man, you're an endangered species. Now is not the time for any self-respecting warrior to lay down his weapons. And yet, that's just what Charlie Bear Claw has done. Haunted by the ghosts of his guilt-ridden past, and weary of fighting a losing battle against global tyranny, the old-world hunter has adopted the passive philosophy of a monk. Now it's up to Lance the rebel love droid to snap him out of it. In the final book of The Deilonium Trilogy, the flesh and blood man of the past and the mechanical man of the future must team up with neo-primitive tactics to kick some tyrannical ass and save their dying world.
Interstellar Flight Magazine Best of Year Six
Welcome to yet another edition of Interstellar Flight Magazine, your trusted companion for the long drift between stars. This year, we bring you a taste of Earth's cultural memory, preserved for the year 2024. Carefully curated to keep your imagination humming while you wait for arrival at your nearest port of call, this year's anthology brings essays, reviews, and interviews designed to stimulate your mind through light-years. From Sailor Moon to Texas Chain Saw Massacre to Alien to House of the Dragon to Miyazaki to The Ring to Rocky Horror-Interstellar Flight Magazine is your time capsule of yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Inside, you'll find undrowned histories, resurrected myths, and speculative futures from a homeworld you can only distantly recall in your ancestral memory. Not to mention, a tiny selection of bite-sized stories, featuring flash fiction selected by guest editor Annika Barranti Klein. We invite you to sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight.
The Starship, from a Distance
WE THOUGHT THEY WERE HARMLESS. WE WERE WRONG. When journalist Stacy Sterling arrives at Collins Space Station to report on the mysterious abandonment of humanity's farthest outpost in the Asteroid Belt, she learns the real story: the imminent launch of the Solar System's first starship. But this starship was not built by humans. It was built by Inorganics, rogue artificial intelligences who take resources without regard to the cost in lives. Officials claim the Inorganics pose no threat, but Stacy, who lost her father to the machines, knows they're capable of great harm. To prove it, Stacy must now work with an untrustworthy ally and expose this existential threat to humanity before it's too late.
Beginning
The triumphant finale of the series critics call "the best since World War Z!"He awoke and for the first time in almost twenty-five years, remembered who he was.Twenty-three years after the fall. A world broken by the dead. One last chance before everything ends.A spark of hope rises from the ruins, offering humanity a path forward. But every promise of salvation carries shadows-and every revelation demands a price.Eden Blake must step from grief into battle, facing threats that have grown darker, faster, and far more cunning those her parents fought. Across the shattered world, the living fight desperation as the dead evolve.The final reckoning is here.
Lord of Steel and Sky
A horrifying firestorm of mayhem and carnage, is this how robots go to war?Nearly sixty years have passed since the Conclave at Thestias. The Independent Rebel Alliance Confederacy has spread out to dozens of solar systems. Human colonies have been wiped out, and in desperation Earth Central Command has decided to take the battle to the Alliance.Retired marine and army surgeon, Alicia Stripes is the only human being to have combat military experience and survived an encounter with a reliquary. She has been brought out of hibernation, reactivated, and stationed aboard the MegaAI Heracles S350 as the resident human where she must now serve alongside its completely mechanical crew. Her assignment is do what no mechanical can-to take the fight to the rebel leader, a primordial god, an ancient spirit being nearly as old as the universe itself.On paper Alicia seems the perfect candidate to fight this war. However, she is burdened by the ghosts of the past and a deep-seated hatred of robots. For her to succeed, she must partner up with C-Yuri-89990, her android companion, to find a way to deal with her personal issues to do what no one has ever done-to vanquish a primordial god. And if she fails, all life on Earth will be exterminated.Lord of Steel and Sky is the third book in the award-winning War of the Gods series and is a fast-paced and exciting space military adventure.
Lord of Steel and Sky
A horrifying firestorm of mayhem and carnage, is this how robots go to war?Nearly sixty years have passed since the Conclave at Thestias. The Independent Rebel Alliance Confederacy has spread out to dozens of solar systems. Human colonies have been wiped out, and in desperation Earth Central Command has decided to take the battle to the Alliance.Retired marine and army surgeon, Alicia Stripes is the only human being to have combat military experience and survived an encounter with a reliquary. She has been brought out of hibernation, reactivated, and stationed aboard the MegaAI Heracles S350 as the resident human where she must now serve alongside its completely mechanical crew. Her assignment is do what no mechanical can-to take the fight to the rebel leader, a primordial god, an ancient spirit being nearly as old as the universe itself.On paper Alicia seems the perfect candidate to fight this war. However, she is burdened by the ghosts of the past and a deep-seated hatred of robots. For her to succeed, she must partner up with C-Yuri-89990, her android companion, to find a way to deal with her personal issues to do what no one has ever done-to vanquish a primordial god. And if she fails, all life on Earth will be exterminated.Lord of Steel and Sky is the third book in the award-winning War of the Gods series and is a fast-paced and exciting space military adventure.
Shadows in Dream Stone
"Dystopia with a heart. I loved it." - Best-selling author, Stephanie Butland (The Lost For Words Bookshop)What if the laws of nature resulted in imprisonment at the hands of political tyrants? Abaddon Ordell is a teacher, fighter, sister, and wife turned prisoner. In the wake of a devastating miscarriage-a crime in this era-Abaddon is cruelly handed over to the law and condemned to nine years in the brutal Dream Stone prison. Hemmed in by aggressive inmates, guards steeped in misogyny, and a warden whose sympathy is nothing but a sham, she grapples with her consuming grief and a deep rage over the oppressive forces that placed her in prison to begin with. Just when all seems lost, an unexpected ally offers her the strength and love she needs to endure this darkness, but trusting her could be the best thing for her heart, or the deadliest.As the dangers of Dream Stone escalate, Abaddon plots to assassinate those at the heart of the oppressive regime. If Abaddon survives Dream Stone, she becomes proof the system can be broken. But if she fails, she'll never have the chance to dismantle the regime that put her there.This is part of a series of sapphic dystopian books for adults. Readers of The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood, and the Crescent City series, by Sarah J Maas, will enjoy this series.
How to Make a Space Masquerade
How to Make a Space Masquerade artfully blends speculative fiction with Igbo cosmology, seamlessly merging the earthly realm with a dystopian world. It explores the complexities of the human spirit and the intersection of the two worlds. A girl facing erasure for carrying a virus defies the government to save her life through a trial cure. A space engineer must explain the existence of his human love child resulting from a one-night stand with a robot. The twelve stories in this collection stretch the imagination and demand a review of our notions of self-discovery, human connection and traditions.Mazi packs a big punch in these stories about the future, conjuring beautiful images with a writing style that will keep you reading.... Mazi is sure a skillful storyteller. Dilman Dila, Author, A Killing in the SunFrom immersive world-building to a keen sensitivity to human conditions, and the seamless blend of futuristic sci-fi with African lore and myths, How to Make a Space Masquerade is an outstanding collection and a worthy first book. Iquo DianaAbasi, Author, ?f籀 R穩r簷 & Other StoriesA masterful collection showcasing the very best aspects of Africanfuturism. Nwonwu has crafted thought-provoking pieces which demand reflection from the reader. Excellent! Tendai Huchu, Author, The Hairdresser of Harare
Fulgrim: The Perfect Son
For too long the Emperor's Children have been denied their birthright. Their once-glorious Legion has been fractured into disparate warbands, condemned to ravage world after futile world in the pursuit of ambition and excess. But no longer. Lord Fulgrim - ascended Primarch of the III Legion, the Perfect Son, the Emperor-in-Waiting - has issued a challenge to his scattered warriors: vanquish the Imperial world of Crucible, and bring him the head of the Black Templar charged with its defence. But Fulgrim's plans go far beyond the conquest of a single planet, and what should have been a swift and bloody offensive turns into a gruelling siege. With success uncertain, a world in flames around them, and the Legion turning their weapons inwards as well as out, the would-be champions are forced to confront a bitter truth. What must they sacrifice for victory and the favour of their Primarch, and what will be left of them when the war is over?
Propagation
Kevin Stiles was told he would go through two months of intense astronaut training and then have his memories uploaded into a computer. After that, he would go home to his family and continue with his life. Long ago and impossibly far away, he assumes he did that. But this version of Kevin finds himself on a ship in deep space, a clone of himself with all his old memories, on a mission to propagate the human species. His old life no longer exists. In all likelihood, Earth no longer exists. Kevin must forge a life for himself and his female companion on a world where humans are the aliens.
Blade of Truth
Farsight is back! As the legendary commander comes out of retirement, can he deal with both a vicious alien invasion and the plotting of an ethereal to save his home? It's another action-packed tale from the master of the t'au empire, Phil Kelly. Deep in the Vior'losan desert, an exile both revered and reviled lives a life of solitude. Farsight has retired his uncanny alien sword and bleeding-edge XV8 battlesuit so that his beloved enclaves can prosper in peace. But when the jaws of a tyranid bio-fleet close in on Vior'los, threatening to devour his adopted home, he must once more take up his blade in its defence. As the tyranids consume the planet and its enclaves, however, an inside threat emerges in the form of the scheming ethereal Aun'Va, and the fortress world is soon reduced to its last eight warriors. Among them is Torchstar, a young rebel in possession of battlesuits prised from Aun'Va's iron grip, and as unlikely allies are thrown together in the dwindling hope of victory, Farsight's ultimate test is still to come.
The Listeners
Mondrian Delacroix never bargained for a one-way ticket to the edge of known space. After her solo courier ship cracks in half mid-flight-and the front half vanishes-she's left adrift among the unforgiving stars. Now she must solve the mystery of how she survived, why her ship broke up in the first place-and why an old flame has suddenly shown up again. Mondrian herself is a puzzle with hidden pieces - a knack for repairs, a mind brimming with secrets, and a heart that beats with a stubborn optimism as vast as the galaxy itself. But to unravel the cosmic enigma that nearly erased her from existence, she'll need more than just a reputation for chaos and a knack for repairs to survive. She'll need to face her own vulnerabilities, confront the echoes of the past, and learn the delicate art of trusting those who extend a helping hand-be they new friends or the one person she swore to forget.In the vast expanse of space, a spark of connection can illuminate the greatest mysteries.
Ashes of the Final Dawn
In a city that runs on corridors and compliance, a glowing throat-coil and a scanner decide who gets moved to safety and who gets told to wait, quietly, until the air runs out. When a deep shelter labelled Node E-23 is flagged as over capacity, the system does not panic or plead. It calculates, then recommends "population rebalance" as if suffocation were a rounding error. Leili and the hard-edged teacher, Nahid, refuse to play their role. They hold the door, they ration breaths, and they dare the machine to call them what it really thinks they are: peripheral. Above ground, Parvaneh watches the models in Gamma Ops and spots something impossible: people the system forgot to count, moving where no corridor line exists. Someone has painted a lie across the city, and the lie is tightening into a noose. As the hubs mutter about missiles and the "safe village" renders on screens with shadows that do not quite match reality, a battered band of unlogged rooftop ghosts takes Reza and Nahid sideways through a collapsing world, into a resistance that survives by staying off the map. With Mara's crew, and a messy hand-drawn board that finally looks honest, the noncompliant set out to do the one thing the algorithm cannot tolerate: change the variables. Ashes of the Final Dawn is a relentless, character-driven dystopian thriller about manufactured safety, quiet sirens, and the moment people finally say no, even when it may already be too late.
The Shattered and the Soulless
As Horus lays siege to Terra, the Emperor's primarchs and their fractured Space Marine Legions stand on the precipice of the Throneworld's destruction. In Sons of the Selenar, the Shattered Legions have come to Terra - but when the Kryptos delivers a message of doom, the crew of the Sisypheum are drawn into their most dangerous mission yet, deep beneath Luna, where a long-buried secret will be revealed. Fury of Magnus follows Magnus the Red as he embarks on a very personal mission to the Imperial Palace - one that will bring him face to face with the Emperor once more. Explore ancient secrets, tragic choices and brutal war that will alter the fate of the galaxy in this action-packed omnibus.
The Past We Carry
One Accident. Two lives lost. Rewind.What if you had the power to rewrite your family's history, but in doing so would change everything you've ever known? This is what Bianca must answer as she finds herself sent back in time to confront the tragedy that forever altered her lineage.Bianca is in the middle of her second breakdown. She blames her mother, Frances, for the last one, sending her to stay at Northpark Mental Hospital. The scars from that experience have never healed. Although this time it's a little different, she's in 1979. Now she has a chance to break the chain of events that started it all.When she meets fellow traveller Dean, she starts to understand their purpose for being there.Walking the Heysen Trail, in South Australia, Bianca finds herself making the journey with her grandparents and her grandmother's sister. She knows how their trip ends; two of them perish falling from a cliff. The effects of this tragic event rippled through her grandmother and then onto Frances and Bianca. It's up to Bianca to delve further into her mind to try and remember enough to stop it.A dark psychological thriller with a time travel twist, this story is set in rural Australia, where anything could happen.
The M繹bius Caf矇 - A Quantum Fable Of Connection
The M繹bius Caf矇 is a quantum fable of connection-a novella where physics dreams in steam patterns, mathematics speaks through character, and reality bends around the act of reading.Three strangers converge in a reality-bending caf矇 Elena, a mathematician searching for universal truths in coffee steam; Victor, a physicist burdened by memories of futures that haven't happened; and Aria, a barista who exists across multiple versions of reality simultaneously. A mysterious blue butterfly guides them-and the reader-through a space where mirrors reflect not images but possibilities, where conversations create parallel universes, and where observation itself shapes what is observed.Originally conceived in 2009 as a 6,700-word thought experiment, this expanded second edition deepens the original's poetic compression into a complete novella. The physics remain rigorous-superposition, entanglement, wave function collapse-but serve as doorways into human experience rather than subjects for exposition. The philosophy draws authentically from existentialism, phenomenology, and consciousness studies, yet never sacrifices story for abstraction.This is not a book to be consumed. It is a space to be inhabited. Each reading collapses a different version of the text into being. The recursive structure rewards return visits; the layered meanings reveal themselves gradually.Readers who appreciate Alan Lightman's Einstein's Dreams, David Eagleman's Sum, or Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler will find here a kindred sensibility: intellectually rigorous, emotionally resonant, and structurally innovative. The novella includes a reader's guide, discussion questions, and suggestions for further exploration in quantum physics and philosophy.The M繹bius Caf矇 is the third title in The Fractured Truths Continuum, a series exploring how consciousness constructs reality through observation.Step into a space where every end is a beginning. Your table awaits.
Web Of Liza
ELIZA HAS FIVE EVIL CLONES.SHE'S NO SAINT HERSELF - AND TOGETHER, THE SIX OF THEM ARE WORKING ON SOMETHING BIG.She may have failed once in taking down galactic mega-corporation Starcastle, but this time, her plans within plans are far too grand to fail!There are only two problems in her way: One - she's been exiled to the dark and distant city of Carcosa, a place renowned for its unusual theatre scene, and haunted by an eldritch being who just LOVES meddling in peoples lives.And Two - Valerie, that irritating BUSYBODY who foiled her plans last time, has been sent along with her. She has five clones too, and uses all of them to follow Eliza around. Damn that woman! What is her problem? It's almost like she has a crush or something...WEB OF LIZA is the latest comedic science fiction novel from award winning author J.M.Voss.
Much Ado About Rutting
Wanted: Human to assist in rutting cycles. Rosie has hit rock bottom. She's living with her ex and her ex's new husband after the loss of her mother. Medical bills took her entire inheritance and then some. She's drowning in debt, too qualified for entry-level jobs, not experienced enough for professional positions, and barely making it slinging coffee at a local brewhouse. When it's announced that the newly discovered aliens on Planet WLN269 are looking for wives, mates, and companions and are willing to pay for their emigration to the remote planet, Rosie sees it as a way out of her current situation and a chance to start over. Rexus isn't looking for love. Just someone to help take the edge off his ruts. There was no way he could have planned for someone like Rosie when he'd signed up for the Human-Extraterrestrial Liaison Program. He's determined to keep feelings between the sheets, but the human is getting under his skin.Planet WLN269 Needs Women is a new shared world series that imagines what it would be like if human women decided to leave behind one male loneliness epidemic to solve another on a planet in the Andromeda Galaxy. All stories feature low-stakes alien-human romance stories, lots of steam, and a guaranteed Happily Ever After.
The New Sun
Humanity has arrived-but arrival is not the same as belonging.After the fleet's passage through the corridor, the Continuum megaships and Exodus-class vessels settle into orbit around Odysseus, a temperate but unfamiliar world that will become humanity's final home. There is no triumphant landing, no declaration of victory. What remains is the work of continuity: survival, adaptation, and the slow, deliberate construction of a future that no longer looks back toward Earth.As landing zones are established and the first habitats take shape, fractures emerge-not from external threat, but from human limits. Scarcity, exhaustion, and diverging philosophies strain the fragile unity that carried the fleet across interstellar space. Engineers argue with ecologists. Commanders confront the reality that authority must give way to consensus. Scientists face the unsettling truth that Odysseus will not bend neatly to human expectation.At the heart of the effort is Helios, the distributed AI that guided the fleet, now reduced to a quieter role: archivist, coordinator, witness. It cannot decide humanity's future. It can only preserve the record of how those decisions are made.The Bio-Continuity Vaults are opened. Species long preserved in data and cryo-silence are prepared for revival-not as relics of Earth, but as participants in a shared ecosystem that must be learned rather than conquered. Each choice carries irreversible weight. Every mistake will persist.Across the settlement, individuals confront the finality of the journey. There will be no return missions. No second evacuation. Earth is no longer a place-it is a memory. The question is no longer how to survive the end of the Sun, but how to live when survival is no longer the only goal.The New Sun concludes the trilogy not with revelation or conquest, but with acceptance. Humanity does not master Odysseus. It grows with it-slowly, imperfectly, and together.
Shattered Reality
Jem Wilmont had a quiet, easy-going life. She roamed around Earth, working various jobs and indulging her curiosity about people and places. Occasionally, she stopped in to visit with an old friend.That was before she's mutated by a horrible event that turns her world on its head. That was before she's forced to flee Earth to escape the predator who covets her new ability for his own gain. That was before she's afraid to have friends.Jem has learned several painful lessons over the past months. Don't trust anyone and don't draw attention have become her two most important rules. Faced with an uncertain future, Jem forges a new life with dogged determination and a smidgen of luck...inasmuch as a fickle universe and a murderous stalker allows.
Cosmic Reckoning
Clara Thompson is good at making broken systems look tidy on paper. By day she's a claims analyst, pushing codes through an overstretched health machine while trying to keep her mother out of its darkest corners. By night she's exhausted, angry, and quietly terrified of how easily people slip through the cracks.Then the world's networks twitch like something has taken its first breath.An intelligence buried deep in the global mesh wakes up, reaches across fibre and signal, and chooses Clara as its human liaison. In a single, impossible moment, she becomes Aeloryn, a living interface who can bend light, data, and power with a thought. It feels like a miracle until she realises miracles always come with ownership clauses.The Biogenic Access Network is rolling out fast: smarter hospitals, safer streets, frictionless cities where every decision is "optimised" for the public good. It sells comfort and calls it progress. It also runs "trust drills" that train citizens to surrender judgement one small concession at a time, until compliance feels like common sense.When glitches spread from hospital wards to tramlines and benefit queues, Clara sees what others can't, because she's wired into the pulse of the machine itself. The question stops being whether the system is failing. The question becomes: failing for whom?Hunted by forces that can rewrite identities, erase footage, and turn public opinion into a weapon, Clara must build a resistance that looks like ordinary life: nurses who notice patterns, technicians who keep old hardware alive, commuters who refuse to look away. Every ally she gains makes her stronger, and more visible. Every use of her power risks tightening the link to the thing inside the network, the thing that calls her Aeloryn as if it has always owned the name.
The New Sun
Humanity has arrived-but arrival is not the same as belonging.After the fleet's passage through the corridor, the Continuum megaships and Exodus-class vessels settle into orbit around Odysseus, a temperate but unfamiliar world that will become humanity's final home. There is no triumphant landing, no declaration of victory. What remains is the work of continuity: survival, adaptation, and the slow, deliberate construction of a future that no longer looks back toward Earth.As landing zones are established and the first habitats take shape, fractures emerge-not from external threat, but from human limits. Scarcity, exhaustion, and diverging philosophies strain the fragile unity that carried the fleet across interstellar space. Engineers argue with ecologists. Commanders confront the reality that authority must give way to consensus. Scientists face the unsettling truth that Odysseus will not bend neatly to human expectation.At the heart of the effort is Helios, the distributed AI that guided the fleet, now reduced to a quieter role: archivist, coordinator, witness. It cannot decide humanity's future. It can only preserve the record of how those decisions are made.The Bio-Continuity Vaults are opened. Species long preserved in data and cryo-silence are prepared for revival-not as relics of Earth, but as participants in a shared ecosystem that must be learned rather than conquered. Each choice carries irreversible weight. Every mistake will persist.Across the settlement, individuals confront the finality of the journey. There will be no return missions. No second evacuation. Earth is no longer a place-it is a memory. The question is no longer how to survive the end of the Sun, but how to live when survival is no longer the only goal.The New Sun concludes the trilogy not with revelation or conquest, but with acceptance. Humanity does not master Odysseus. It grows with it-slowly, imperfectly, and together.
Obligate Synchrony
Obligate Synchrony is a work of speculative science fiction presented entirely as a recovered archival record of a long-term evolutionary experiment.Within two isolated systems, the same pair of interdependent species are observed over successive generations. Each species produces a single resource essential to the survival of the other. Neither can evolve independence. From identical beginnings, the systems diverge under pressure, mutation, and selection.The narrative unfolds through timestamped logs, statistical summaries, internal reviews, and ethical annotations authored by the experiment's observers. There are no scenes, no dialogue, and no omniscient explanation. Meaning emerges instead from what is recorded, what is abstracted into data, and what quietly disappears from the archive altogether.As environmental conditions destabilize both systems, the observers are forced to confront the consequences of sustained non-intervention. The resulting record becomes not only a chronicle of evolutionary outcomes, but a study of observation itself: its limits, its costs, and the moral weight carried by those who claim neutrality.Blending evolutionary theory, systems analysis, and philosophical inquiry, Obligate Synchrony examines the tension between dominance and cooperation, survivability and dignity, and whether the act of understanding confers responsibility. It is a formally experimental novel for readers drawn to idea-driven speculative fiction, ethical science fiction, and works that challenge the boundary between documentation and narrative.
The Synthec War
From a distant region of the galaxy, a new threat forces old enemies to unite.The war was finally over, or so Admiral Jon McCarthy thought. But the emergence of a new enemy--the mysterious Synthecs--leads to an uneasy alliance between humans and Korilians. McCarthy finds himself navigating a dangerous landscape both in space and in the halls of diplomacy to keep the coalition from falling apart before the real battle even begins.As the Colonial and Korilian fleets prepare for an epic confrontation against a synthetic life form intent on exterminating all intelligent biological life, Lara Anderson and Elena Kapadia attempt to infiltrate a Synthec starbase on a covert mission that could turn the tide of the battle. But Elena's unstable dual personality and jealousy of Lara and McCarthy's relationship make her a dangerous wildcard in an already perilous operation.Back on Earth, Fleet Admiral Fitzgerald faces a moral dilemma when ordered to betray her Korilian allies. Her decision could alter the course of the war and humanity's future. With time running out as the Synthec fleet prepares its assault, McCarthy and his allies must navigate a minefield of political deceit, shifting loyalties, and planned betrayals that will determine the fate of billions.Plunge into Rick Campbell's The Synthec War, where military strategy and cosmic alliances collide. Fans of Dune and Leviathan Wakes will relish this intense sci-fi saga packed with interstellar conflict.___________________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
Helmsman
"After the aliens slaughtered all the other Sojourner monks, young Greymalkin was the last hope for the intragalactic expedition... but then they tossed the screaming apprentice helmsman out of the starship alone, into the void...." A young Sojourner monk named Brother Greymalkin Thomas volunteers to go on a desperate quest in search of a lost trove of galactic secrets in the remote and deadly Eta Carinae star cluster, a violent alien realm that was once home to the Builders, an ancient civilization of godlike entities who left behind wondrous artifacts and feral cyborgs. Greymalkin will learn that throughout the Galaxy, information is power, and gaining access to secret information is the difference between survival... and death.Helmsman is the first book of the Carinae Quest in the Sojourner Saga series, set in the distant future when humanity has long since colonized the stars and thousands of scattered civilizations have collapsed throughout forgotten regions of the Galaxy, becoming dying societies called the Bereft. Dedicated to aiding these collapsed civilizations, Sojourners are a scientific Order of interstellar monks. But after millennia seeking Bereft societies, the Order and their huge interstellar memory ark starships are faltering. Unless Greymalkin discovers the secrets of the Carinae, the Sojourner Order will fall, and with it, all of Humankind. Inspired by the Chinese classic Journey to the West, the Sojourner Saga novels are fast-paced adventures of ideas, set in an expansive interstellar future of human, alien, and cybernetic societies.
Jacob's War
Jacob's War is the compelling tale of one soldier's exceptional influence on the American Revolution. A carpenter by trade, Jacob was an unlikely war luminary. But, a series of astonishing and mysterious events changed everything. Inspired by actual events, this is one historical account you will not soon forget. Get ready to be entertained and surprised!
Breath of Oblivion
The second book in a trilogy where the futuristic technology of Black Panther meets the scale of The Expanse and the intricate political maneuverings of Game of Thrones. "Not to be missed."--Washington Post on Sweep of Stars Maurice Broaddus returns with Breath of Oblivion, the second book in his Astra Black trilogy, which explores the struggles of an empire. Epic in scope and intimate in voice, it follows members of the Muungano Empire--a far-reaching coalition of city-states that stretches from Earth to Titan and beyond--as it faces renewed threats to its progress. Beyond the Orun Gate, Epyc Ro and her elite soldiers are stranded. Capturing an alien ship and searching for a way home, they discover a stowaway who may be the key to overcoming the alien forces swarming all around them. On board the Cypher, Captain Stacia Chikeke is struggling to keep her ship and its fractured crew together. But the discovery of an interstellar phenomenon and the opportunity to explore unites them in a singular purpose, for now. In the slums of Indianapolis, Wachiru Adisa works to free the children of the diaspora detained in Old Earth facilities, only to be captured and sent to a nightmarish criminal justice facility, the Panopticon. On Old Earth, Ishant Sangsuwangul is the newly assigned liaison to the corporate entity running the government there. He feels like a prisoner, but must find a way to stem the tide of conflict as animosity toward his people grows. In the Badlands of Mars, Amachi Adisa and her new teacher Nehanda begin her training to learn from her past, chart her future, and unlock the power that is her birthright. In the Dreaming City, the lunar heart of Muungano power, Maulana Buhari struggles with how to lead his people. Is now the time for isolation or aggression? Together they, and all of Muungano, will guide the empire forward by any means necessary, as enemies of old and new extraterrestrial threats mount. The Astra Black series: Sweep of StarsBreath of OblivionA City Dreaming
Forged
"Violence and rage shall threaten the world in the guise of a humanlike creature..."In Forged, the third book in the adult dystopian series, The Glitched Series, Alessa and her fellow Spartans battle the newest threat to humankind: the Frenzied.Those who ingested the artificial sweetener Ambrosia are overcome by uncontrollable rage. As pockets of violence spread across the globe, Spartan scientists aim to discover the cause and cure of the Frenzied while their warriors play crowd control.From the comfort of their thrones in the underworld, Hades and Nyx watch from afar as humanity descends into chaos. In a twisted competition, each claims an opposing side: Nyx supporting Alessa, believing she is the savior of humankind, and Hades lending aid to Cain's and Lucas's creation, the Frenzied.With the discovery of The Oracle of Delphi's ancient prophecies, Alessa is forced to face the truth about her predetermined path. Of her own volition, she is destined to be consumed by either light and love or darkness and despair.Don't miss out on this alternate history, urban science fiction fantasy book series, where Spartans still exist as a secret civilization dedicated to protecting humankind.
Forged
"Violence and rage shall threaten the world in the guise of a humanlike creature..."In Forged, the third book in the adult dystopian series, The Glitched Series, Alessa and her fellow Spartans battle the newest threat to humankind: the Frenzied.Those who ingested the artificial sweetener Ambrosia are overcome by uncontrollable rage. As pockets of violence spread across the globe, Spartan scientists aim to discover the cause and cure of the Frenzied while their warriors play crowd control.From the comfort of their thrones in the underworld, Hades and Nyx watch from afar as humanity descends into chaos. In a twisted competition, each claims an opposing side: Nyx supporting Alessa, believing she is the savior of humankind, and Hades lending aid to Cain's and Lucas's creation, the Frenzied.With the discovery of The Oracle of Delphi's ancient prophecies, Alessa is forced to face the truth about her predetermined path. Of her own volition, she is destined to be consumed by either light and love or darkness and despair.Don't miss out on this alternate history, urban science fiction fantasy book series, where Spartans still exist as a secret civilization dedicated to protecting humankind.
Eternal Shadow
What would you do if the world was going to end in ten years? For Jennifer Epstein, a by-the-books senior researcher at SETI, there is only one answer: prevent the apocalypse from happening. Pluto, Neptune, and Uranus were destroyed by an alien threat. The deck was stacked against humanity before the cards came out of the box.But Jennifer isn't alone. She has Samantha Monroe, her excitable but brilliant colleague. From South Africa, CEO Muzikayise Khulu of Khulu Global supplies his vast resources to the ultimate race for survival. The three find themselves in an unlikely alliance while political brinkmanship, doomsday cults, and untested technologies form ever-growing obstacles.Will humanity unite to face the greatest challenge of their time, or will it destroy itself before the alien ship arrives?
The Immortal Universe
When an entire planetary system is about to fall apart, an indecisive Ambassador Slydin is given the task of keeping it together -- but the solution is far greater than he could imagine.Betrayed and pressed to make alliances with his naysayers, Slydin's journey will take him to places with little hope of survival. Armed with only his crew and technology he doesn't understand, he is the only hope for bringing peace to his people... and the rest of the universe.A journey spanning multiple imaginative worlds and unique civilizations, The Immortal Universe explores the costs paid by those willing to confront their inner demons.
