Event Horizon
From the author of The Singularity, a saga of one girl's resistance and exile in the stars and soil of galactic empireSeventeen-year-old Milde is from the Outskirts, a place beyond the mountains where the dirt is corpse-rich, where mothers and daughters make their living banished from society--without rights, access to care, or legal status. But Milde refuses to accept the order of things, so one day, together with some friends, she throws Molotov cocktails at the urban planning office in the city. When Milde is framed as the instigator of the riot, she is arrested, imprisoned, tortured, and eventually presented with a final choice: to be executed publicly or to be launched into space, into a black hole called the Mass, for an experiment. Milde chooses the Mass--opting to face its fathomless depth and loneliness rather than hurt the morale of her weary allies back home.Event Horizon is an exquisite existential novel, dark as deep space, woven with reflection on oppression, solidarity, trauma, and loss. With a completely unique voice, Balsam Karam writes about the swirl of hope and despair in the lives of the marginalized and a young woman's unwavering belief in a better world.
R.A.T.S
In 2040, 15-year-old David discovers he and his friends are Earth's final defense against an alien race determined to steal the planet's water.Guided by a mysterious alternate reality game created by his grandfather, R.A.T.S-Revolutionary Army of Teens. David and allies from around the globe must unite, train, and rise against a looming extraterrestrial threat. As they prepare for battle, they uncover hidden truths about the universe, face environmental catastrophe, and embrace their destiny as the last hope for humanity."R.A.T.S" is a thrilling, heart-driven journey through artificial intelligence, climate change, alien life, and global unity. As the world crumbles, a new generation rises, armed with knowledge, courage, and the belief that together, We Are One."I wrote this book because I believe that, at our core, we are all very similar. We all have families, with their complexities and differences, but in the end, we are human, seeking love, understanding, and belonging. Together we are stronger. We Are One!"Claudia Daher
The Engineer
"This needs to be picked up by Netflix and made into a TV show. Absolutely brilliant" - Goodreads"In the vein of great writers like Harry Harrison and Robert A Heinlein" - Amazon"Nick Adams is a storyteller of rare ability" - Goodreads"I read a lot of sci-fi and this is in the top percent" - Amazon"Superb writing, editing and excellent storytelling" - Kobo"The best sci-fi series I have read in a while" - AmazonThe EngineerChief Engineer Bache Loftt and his colleague Specialist Zaphir Mye are directed to investigate strange crop yield anomalies on the agricultural planet of Serris Adelaine.Not a particularly dangerous assignment one would speculate. But when a team of highly trained professional soldiers attempt to murder them both before they can uncover anything, Bache concludes there has to be something more at stake than just the sabotage of grain production.What he uncovers shocks the GDA to the core and involves an ancient enemy believed to have been wiped out over a millennia ago. It seems that human races within the galaxy have been infiltrated at the molecular level going back centuries and as the height of the manipulation becomes apparent, Bache has a huge dilemma of who to trust and who are unwittingly in some cases working towards their own annihilation.
Splinter Effect
In Splinter Effect, an action-packed debut by Andrew Ludington, time traveling archaeologist Rabbit Ward maneuvers through the past to recover a long-lost, precious menorah hidden in ancient Rome.Smithsonian archaeologist Rabbit Ward travels through time on sponsored expeditions to the past to secure precious artifacts moments before they are lost to history. Although exceptional at his job, Rabbit is not without faults. In a spectacular failure twenty years ago, he lost both the menorah of the second temple and his hot-headed mentee, Aaron. So, when new evidence reveals the menorah's reappearance in 6th century Constantinople, Rabbit seizes the chance for redemption. But from the moment he arrives in the past, things start to go wrong. Rabbit quickly finds out that his prime competition, an unlicensed and annoyingly appealing "stringer" named Helen, is also in Constantinople hunting the menorah. And that's only the beginning. The oppressed Jewish population of the city is primed for revolution, Constantinople's leading gang seems to have it out for Rabbit personally, and someone local is interested enough in the menorah to kill for it. As the past closes in on him and his previous failures compound, will Rabbit be able to recover the menorah before it's once again lost in time? With new and old dangers alike hiding behind every corner, time might just be up for Rabbit's redemption--and possibly his life.
Original Sci-Fi & Fantasy Parallel Text 10 Short Stories
Monsters and gods and some peculiar people collide in this collection of ten short stories presented, with parallel translations, in English and Italian. Straddling sci-fi and fantasy, these tales will take you on a journey of the strange and baffling while also giving you the opportunity to improve your Italian without having to refer to a dictionary.A masked heroine makes her first big save, a salvager brings to light a truth that could change everything, an immortal discovers what comes next, a coder finds that consciousness is more complex than anyone figured, a wizard comes out of hiding and finds friends and enemies waiting for him, and a tormented woman learns that revenge is best served very, very hot. Oh, and the universe ends at least twice.Mostri, divinit? e persone bizzarre si incontrano in questa raccolta di dieci racconti presentati, con traduzioni parallele, in inglese e in italiano. A cavallo tra fantascienza e fantasy, queste storie vi condurranno in un viaggio strano e stupefacente, dandovi anche l'opportunit? di migliorare il vostro italiano senza dover ricorrere al dizionario.Un'eroina mascherata compie il suo primo grande salvataggio, un recuperatore porta alla luce una verit? che potrebbe cambiare tutto, un'immortale scopre cosa succede dopo, un programmatore scopre che la coscienza 癡 pi羅 complessa di quanto si possa immaginare, un mago esce dal suo nascondiglio e trova amici e nemici ad attenderlo e una donna tormentata impara che la vendetta 癡 meglio servita molto, molto calda. Oh, e l'universo finisce almeno due volte.
Rajani War I
Kidnapped...Again! Five years after the end of the Krahn invasion of the planet Rajan, the human survivors of that confl ict have attempted to live normal lives back on Earth.Unbeknownst to them, a bounty has been placed on their heads, and it brings them back into an even greater confl ict between the Rajani and Krahn.Now James Dempsey must fi nd allies to assist while he desperately tries to rescue the other members of his former team, including the mother of his young daughter-a girl that harbors her own secret.It's a race against time as several mercenary groups are on the hunt for the empowered humans and the Stones within them, as the galaxy is brought to the brink of war!
Love in the Time of Apocalypse
Love in the Time of Apocalypse encompasses child-like innocence and horror. Giga lives in a strange town where everything is watched and Christianity is only a few words on a closet wall. She escapes this doomed town just before the AI explosions begin and meets various unusual survivors with whom she forms a bond, or a least she thinks she does. Something is happening to her and her mind malfunctions, slowly and almost imperceptibly. What have they done to her? Did she leave too late? Will she find this evasive God she read about? What about all the other twisted and dystopian things and people around her, like that woman, Samara, with a child whose hand she won't let go of?Together with this band of survivors she walks with purpose toward Jerusalem. While Giga's path becomes a quest for clarity and understanding and love, for redemption, neverendingly seeking the fragile promise of God, Samara's obsession is all about Rake, her man whom she lost, and her child.
Jin's Revenge
A Katana-Ra Universe Novel.In the high-altitude sanctuary of Katana-Ra, Jin-Lord thought he had finally buried the blade. As the master of House Kensai, he traded a life of legendary violence for the quiet rustle of cherry blossoms and the steady rhythm of the mountain seasons. He believed that tradition was a shield. He was wrong.When the sky over the valley turns a predatory, corporate blue, Jin returns from the peaks to find his life reduced to a blackened smudge. His village has been harvested. His people have been processed into kilowatts for the megacity grid. And Akane, the woman who anchored his soul to the light, has been taken as a "Guest of Honor" by the very monsters who lit the match.In the city of glass, even a Ghost can bleed.
Majera
Their last flight?Testing a new Jump drive far beyond the Frontier, Captain Kitra Yilmaz and her friends plunge headlong into a rare first contact......just a little too late.The world they find seems lifeless, shrouded in eternal silence--until it lashes out with lethal intent. Now, with danger all around, and emotions running high, can the Majera crew solve the riddle of the plagued planet in time to save a dying race?
Ex Astris Scientia and Other Stories
Monsters and gods and some peculiar people collide in this collection of ten short stories. Straddling sci-fi and fantasy, these tales will take you on a journey of the strange and baffling, the far and not so far future, and the occasional bit of the past.A masked heroine makes her first big save, a salvager brings to light a truth that could change everything, an immortal discovers what comes next, a coder finds that conciousness is more complex than anyone figured, a wizard comes out of hiding and finds friends and enemies waiting for him, and a tormented woman learns that revenge is best served very, very hot.Oh, and the universe ends at least twice.
Love Is an Algorithm
"Joyful, generous and smart." --Holly Gramazio, New York Times bestselling author of The HusbandsTake the uncertainty out of love with Pattern, it's more than just a dating app!Eve wants to make music that's fueled by love, passion, and rage (feelings!). She trusts her gut and her friends and in no way wants to rely on technology, let alone AI, to tell her how she feels. Danny is anxious--about his dad, his dating life, his coffee order (why is it twelve dollars?), and about the dating app he helped create, which seems determined to serve him terrible matches.When Eve and Danny start dating, it feels like the solution to all of Danny's worries--except when it doesn't. Is she happy? Should he be doing more? Or less? This becomes the catalyst for a revolutionary new version of Danny's app that promises to quantify relationship health and potential, helping users understand what's really going on. Problem solved!As Pattern and Bug, the ever-so-friendly AI assistant, catch fire, users everywhere begin outsourcing major life decisions to Danny's algorithms. But as Danny reckons with his newfound success, Eve--whose career relies on her ability to write her emotions into song--grows increasingly skeptical of the app's impact on genuine connection. Their relationship becomes the ultimate modern experiment: How do you fall and stay in love in the digital age?
Paphos
A tense psychological sci-fi thriller for adult and crossover readers, set on an alien world where a father's mission to save his daughter uncovers terrifying secrets. Austin thought bringing his daughter on a routine mission would be a chance to reconnect after years apart. But their deep-space expedition to the uncharted planet Paphos is anything but routine. Buried within the planet's forests lies a sprawling, crumbling alien compound--and they are not alone. A creature capable of seizing control of any host stalks them, turning their expedition into a desperate fight for survival. With their escape pods sabotaged and radios destroyed, hunted by an intelligence that hides among them, Austin must forsake all others to keep his daughter safe. The only way home is forward--deeper into the facility, deeper into the unknown. Perfect for fans of sci-fi thrillers, this pulse-pounding novel explores the limits of survival, the mysteries of first contact, and the unbreakable bond between a father and his daughter.
Green Sahara
In the distant future, there are only three large habitable regions on Earth: the Imp疆riyan Bureaucracy at the North Pole, the Antarkian Commonwealths at the South Pole, and the Ecclesiastical Sovranty of Afrika Minor in the Green Sahara. The basic law governing the complex relationships between these three civilisations is the Concordat. The lingua franca is late neo-ancient ?nglisk. The hot and arid region known as the Wilderness, which covers eighty per cent of the planet's land surface, is inhabited only by the Kinvolk. The global population is just over three hundred million.
Bones of Starlight
A turn-of-the-age generational saga in an alternate universe with an intergalactic imperium, interdimensional fantasy beings (like cosmic elemental dragons and space fae), and othernonhuman sentients. Hidden forces of revolution contact those in power, one of whomtakes a journey to begin to discover what's really going on. It involves many different kindsof people, from all walks of life, who collide and join up to become the turn of the change.
Lost Tomorrow
Before her journey to the world of Darksmith Manor, Sunshine Saliente had plenty of adventures with her stuffed rabbit, Bunny. Lost Tomorrow brings our dear little heiress of madness to a post-apocalyptic wonderland where the few survivors will do anything to make sure she has the best time of her life, whether she wants to or not. This middle-grade illustrated novel takes place a little while before Fear & Sunshine: Book One of the Darksmith Family Legacy and while you can read it on its own, it will definitely drive you mad wondering just how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Xtro
A return to the bizarre and terrifying cult classicStep into the unsettling cosmic horror of Xtro with this new novelization of the 1982 movie by Harry Bromley-Davenport.Bonus Content: Behind-the-Scenes Photography: Rare production stills offering an intimate look at the making of the filmPosters: A curated gallery of original theatrical posters and international lobby cardsConcept Art: Never-before-published sketches and designs that reveal the visual evolution of Xtro's most disturbing ideas
Notes from a Regicide
Named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly and Amazon!A Finalist for the Octavia E. Butler Award!"Few capture the grubbiness of intimacy -- and the starchy scent of home -- as well as Fellman does in his depiction of his characters' trans family. Magnificent, heartbreaking." --Charlie Jane Anders for The Washington Post "An all-too-timely tale of trans rights and loss." --People Magazine Notes from a Regicide is a heartbreaking science-fiction story of trans self-discovery from award-winning author Isaac Fellman.When your parents die, you find out who they really were. Griffon Keming's second parents saved him from his abusive family. They taught him how to be trans, paid for his transition, and tried to love him as best they could. But Griffon's new parents had troubles of their own - both were deeply scarred by the lives they lived before Griffon, the struggles they faced to become themselves, and the failed revolution that drove them from their homeland. When they died, they left an unfillable hole in his heart. Griffon's best clue to his parents' lives is in his father's journal, written from a jail cell while he awaited execution. Stained with blood, grief, and tears, these pages struggle to contain the love story of two artists on fire. With the journal in hand, Griffon hopes to pin down his relationship to these wonderful and strange people for whom time always seemed to be running out. In Notes from a Regicide, a trans family saga set in a far-off, familiar future, Isaac Fellman goes beyond the concept of found family to examine how deeply we can be healed and hurt by those we choose to love.
Taboo & Transcending Tales
Stir up or Soothe your Soul with a profound collection of historical Sci-Fi and fantasy tales by award-winning author Rich DiSilvio.Melding historical figures like Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Paine and Roman emperors with time travel, politics and religion, DiSilvio weaves fascinating tales of timeless literature, some of which are dystopian, while others are considered taboo by today's standards.Also included are uplifting tales of Christian icons, such as St. Francis and St. George, that touch upon the supernatural, eliciting transcending visions of wonder.Included in this volume is the novelette "Paine and the Grandest Illusion," which presents Paine's controversial views on religion, as well as mentioning his fellow Founding Fathers, who were in fact not Christians, but rather Deists, who refuted the divinity of Jesus and only believed in a Creator or Nature's God.DiSilvio's clever and entertaining tales not only combine the past with the future but also pose many thought-provoking issues, some centuries old that still reverberate today.For as the author said, "The masses had believed the Earth was the center of the universe for thousands of years until awakened with reality. Hence fallacies often prevail until bold thinkers, like Galileo and others, expose the ignorance to reveal the truth."CONTENTS1 - The Aura of St. Francis2 - Adam's Atom3 - Conquests, Coups & Collapse4 - The Untold Story of St. George5 - Paine and the Grandest Illusion
Accelerated Growth Environment
Dr. Jorna Benton is proud to be the Principal Scientist for the Climasphere, a massive, sea-going ecological nursery capable of supporting nearly every biome on Earth. On its inaugural mission to restore and re-wild collapsing ecosystems along the Atlantic coast, Jorna manages the Climasphere's habitat and harvest, while her colleague-and inconveniently attractive commander-Ava Kaysar directs the rest of the vessel's critical operations.When an explosion rocks the Climasphere, Jorna's carefully-managed world is thrown into chaos, threatening both her personal and her professional future. And worse: she's the prime suspect.To clear her name, save the mission, and preserve her chance at a future with Kaysar, Jorna must finally confront the secret she's been running from all these years: a family and a faith that could destroy her.
The Weight of Staying
When time itself begins to resist ending, a single city becomes trapped inside a year that refuses to let go.Elias Vorn, a temporal systems engineer, discovers that the current year has developed an impossible weight-accumulating events, memories, and unfinished outcomes faster than they can be corrected. As fractures spread through the city and moments begin to repeat, a containment boundary seals millions of people inside a failing timeline.Field operative Mara Kade is sent beyond the boundary, where she discovers that time is no longer behaving as a neutral force. Residual versions of erased lives linger, years compete for survival, and a vanished scientist may have become part of the very structure holding reality together.As authorities prepare to forcibly terminate the year, Elias and Mara face an impossible choice: preserve stability at the cost of millions, or allow time to complete itself-no matter the consequences.The Weight of Staying is a cerebral science-fiction novel about agency, consequence, and what happens when systems built to control reality are forced to confront memory, loss, and restraint.
Rajani War I
Kidnapped...Again! Five years after the end of the Krahn invasion of the planet Rajan, the human survivors of that confl ict have attempted to live normal lives back on Earth.Unbeknownst to them, a bounty has been placed on their heads, and it brings them back into an even greater confl ict between the Rajani and Krahn.Now James Dempsey must fi nd allies to assist while he desperately tries to rescue the other members of his former team, including the mother of his young daughter-a girl that harbors her own secret.It's a race against time as several mercenary groups are on the hunt for the empowered humans and the Stones within them, as the galaxy is brought to the brink of war!
The Origin of Machines
It's 2027, and the world is coming apart at the seams. AI-driven automation has made millions of people obsolete. Tech addiction has been officially labeled a disorder, and tent cities are overflowing while politicians scramble to contain the chaos with "enviro-manual" farms, which are part social experiment, part prison without walls. At the center of it all is Bill Cody, a retired Marine sniper and US senator's son with legendary aim-and a drinking problem. Dragged back into the shadows for a mission that could alter history, he realizes history itself is being manipulated by a top-secret sentient AI program known as Dutch Amber that's obsessed with doing one thing-preventing World War III. Before Bill can determine whether he's a pawn or a savior in Dutch Amber's plan, he and two other highly skilled operatives embark on a covert assignment that will forever change the way they view themselves, the world, and the future of humanity. History is on a hinge, and one event could determine which direction it-and Bill's life-swings.
The Origin of Machines
It's 2027, and the world is coming apart at the seams. AI-driven automation has made millions of people obsolete. Tech addiction has been officially labeled a disorder, and tent cities are overflowing while politicians scramble to contain the chaos with "enviro-manual" farms, which are part social experiment, part prison without walls. At the center of it all is Bill Cody, a retired Marine sniper and US senator's son with legendary aim-and a drinking problem. Dragged back into the shadows for a mission that could alter history, he realizes history itself is being manipulated by a top-secret sentient AI program known as Dutch Amber that's obsessed with doing one thing-preventing World War III. Before Bill can determine whether he's a pawn or a savior in Dutch Amber's plan, he and two other highly skilled operatives embark on a covert assignment that will forever change the way they view themselves, the world, and the future of humanity. History is on a hinge, and one event could determine which direction it-and Bill's life-swings.
Far Horizons
The Malleus crew-their leader Alexis, former gladiator Sabrya, engineer extraordinaireBradyn, and the upgraded droid Torg-aren't fitting into Sylvanus Colony.Facing prowling Imperials, a looming bounty by the powerful Bukshoga Qlan, and various other nefariousentities out for their blood, this side of the galaxy has become too hot for them.With a cargo ship without cargo, the crew plots a course to the farthest known reaches of thegalaxy to become traders among the emerging colony worlds of the Orion Quadrant-aregion under constant harassment from marauders. They soon realize they can offer the onething the colonists need-protection.But when they upset the status quo and anger powerful entities who are already entrenched inthe region, who is going to protect them?
The Daughter Who Remains
Set in the universe Africanfuturist luminary Nnedi Okorafor first introduced in the World Fantasy Award-winning Who Fears Death, The Daughter Who Remains is the breathtaking conclusion to the She Who Knows trilogy Featuring Najeeba, now older and wiser than readers have ever known her, this is a tale of family, courage, and healing Najeeba has something terrible to kill. And now she's off to go and kill it. A fully trained, mature, and sharply focused sorcerer (don't call her sorceress), Najeeba has left the comfort and security of her town with two companions, the glass maker Dedan and the old camel MorningStar. This journey takes her back to where it all began. And despite the fact that her training with the sorcerer Aro forced her to face her deepest fears, she hasn't seen anything close to what she's about to see. As the Igbo proverb goes, a masquerade does not dance for nothing. The Daughter Who Remains is the final book in the She Who Knows trilogy. This tale isn't about Najeeba learning to master her powerful skills, it's about her having the audacity and courage to use them and use them well...no matter the consequence.
Code of Conduct
The aliens called her Ki癡rshia. Toxin.Captain Jani Kilian's life should have ended in front of a firing squad. Instead, she evaded battlefield justice by dying in a transport crash. End of story, according to official Commonwealth Service records.But doctors repaired her in secret, using the most advanced Service Medical technologies available, or so they assured her. In the last days of the idomeni civil war, she escaped their homeworld of Sh癡r獺, and spent the next 18 years on the run.But someone like Jani leaves a trail no matter how hard they try to hide it, and she soon learns the Service hunt for her never ended. When Interior Minister Evan van Reuter, her former lover, tracks her down and begs her help in finding his wife's killer, she has no choice but to agree.The search takes her to the Commonwealth capital of Chicago, a hotbed of political intrigue as dangerous as any warzone. As the danger mounts, so do Jani's struggles. Her rebuilt body is breaking down, and memories long suppressed are flooding back. Of one horrible night 18 years ago, and the gut-wrenching decision that changed her life forever.
The Behemoth Job
For the crew of the Ghost, it's never just a job The last one nearly cost them a member of the crew.Well, they fight spider-bears, meet Bennie's family and learn more than anyone wants to about Wil's digestive tract, and Wil reveals what he's been hiding under his bed all this time.And then it gets interesting!An old boss calls on Wil, and while he's reluctant to get back into working with Xarrix, the money is outstanding, and the job seems straightforward. With nothing else on their plates, the crew of the Ghost finds themselves in a sector of space deemed "untamable" by the Galactic Commonwealth, working with a warlord with some pretty big plans.Things, as you might expect, go downhill fast.Xarrix has learned from past experiences and assigns one of his own to stay aboard the Ghost to keep an eye on the crew and make sure they behave themselves, as if that was possible, worse yet it's someone the team knows, and don't particularly like.And then there's the space battle and grilled cheese. Can Wil and the crew save the day one more time? There's only one way to find out, get your copy today!
The Engineer
"This needs to be picked up by Netflix and made into a TV show. Absolutely brilliant" - Goodreads"In the vein of great writers like Harry Harrison and Robert A Heinlein" - Amazon"Nick Adams is a storyteller of rare ability" - Goodreads"I read a lot of sci-fi and this is in the top percent" - Amazon"Superb writing, editing and excellent storytelling" - Kobo"The best sci-fi series I have read in a while" - AmazonThe EngineerChief Engineer Bache Loftt and his colleague Specialist Zaphir Mye are directed to investigate strange crop yield anomalies on the agricultural planet of Serris Adelaine.Not a particularly dangerous assignment one would speculate. But when a team of highly trained professional soldiers attempt to murder them both before they can uncover anything, Bache concludes there has to be something more at stake than just the sabotage of grain production.What he uncovers shocks the GDA to the core and involves an ancient enemy believed to have been wiped out over a millennia ago. It seems that human races within the galaxy have been infiltrated at the molecular level going back centuries and as the height of the manipulation becomes apparent, Bache has a huge dilemma of who to trust and who are unwittingly in some cases working towards their own annihilation.
The Rass Campaign
The battle for Rass was on......but the outcome was uncertain.Only grit and fire would decide who won.Captain Ripley Willis Lee had fought long odds before and prevailed, but this fight was different. In the wake of the largest battle of the war, Lee was recalled to New Eden for a new assignment; a new campaign would support the Tully in a battle along the fringes of the alliance. This time, there would be no help if they ran into trouble.His task force would be alone.No one would come to save them.Coop's best friend was dead. The unit he was supporting had been mauled. The demons haunting his mind became as dangerous as the Zodarks he was fighting. When a grievous wound forced him from the battlefield, Coop had to make the ultimate choice.He could leave the service, his buddies, and dreams behind......or find a way to reinvent himself into a valuable asset the Republic needed.On the verge of giving up and surrendering to the demons within-Coop learned about the Grippen, the Republic's newly created manned fighter program. With nothing to lose and everything to gain, Coop reinvented himself once more and applied to a program desperate for pilots. It was a chance to continue serving and honor the family legacy-it was finally the opportunity he'd been waiting for.In a war of survival, the only path to victory was through personal grit, tenacity, and a determination to never quit.If you love high-octane combat, alien alliances, and heroes forced to adapt or die-Battle for Rass will keep you turning the pages.Secure your copy and join the fight.
P璽tissier et ?tranger
"A delightful adventure that held me enthralled from start to finish. This novella is guaranteed to bring a smile to your face, an acceleration to your pulse and a rumble to your stomach."-Kate Heartfield, author of The Embroidered Book"An unexpected blend of the bakeries and thrills, of the perils of espionage and the pleasures of a good pastry. The spy who came in from the cold wishes he picked this spot."-John Wiswell, author of Someone You Can Build a Nest InThe year is 1967. France is experiencing political upheaval and the cold war is in full swing. But young Englishman George Drake just wants to get his dipl繫me de p璽tisserie from the famous Cordon Blanc institute in Paris and go home to Cambridge to open a bakery. Tomorrow's his final examination, at which he hopes to bake the perfect mille-feuille. However, the fates have other things in store....George is secretly fond of his classmate Brigitte Lejeune, a mysterious young woman with whom he shares his student kitchen. When she asks him to retrieve a special order of flour from the famous Moulins Bourgeois, George unwillingly enters a world of mystery, intrigue, and, could it be...romance?Inspired by Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire and The Man Who Fell to Earth, P璽tissier et ?tranger is an exciting mash-up of baking romance, spy thriller and science fiction.
Planet of Ghosts and Other Stories
What remains when the world-and the universe itself-fades away?Planet of Ghosts explores the thin veil between the living and the remembered. On a nameless desert planet, a small colony of Earth's refugees discovers that the greatest threat to their new home isn't the harsh environment, but a "contagion of memory." As the past begins to manifest into visible, haunting phantoms, the survivors must build "spirit houses" to contain a history that refuses to stay buried.Bishop's Other Stories include a lonely God seeking conversation at the end of time, a genetically altered dog leading an exodus off Earth, and more that animate the remains of human existence. Whether archaeologists excavating a "Walmart World Heritage Site" or William Howard Taft traveling to the future, Bishop asks: How do we carry our ghosts without being consumed by them?This collection is a map for those who long for a better world, while knowing the past must accompany us on the voyage.
Ikona
"A compelling and mind-bending SF story." - Kirkus ReviewsIKONA is a visionary novel of shifting realities and inner reckonings: a meditation on time, memory, and healing.Choose your resonance. Change the future.A mysterious Russian Orthodox cross-a holy icon with inexplicable healing power-is surfacing across cities, lifetimes, and fractured timelines.From the bustling streets of Sydney, Hong Kong, and Berlin to the stark silence of a post-apocalyptic Siberian tundra, four strangers are being pulled into a single, multidimensional field: - In Atlanta, Kate Davies witnesses the icon's impossible effect on a sick child.- In Sydney, Finley Minor is haunted by visions of futures that haven't happened-yet.- In Hong Kong, Shibari performer and thief Jia Li MacPherson protects secrets that powerful forces would kill to possess.- A Century Ahead, monk Wallace Deng Moroz searches for a cure in a world ravaged by a genetic mutation that has nearly ended the human race.As their destinies converge, they face a choice that transcends time: In a dangerously polarized world of shifting realities, which version of the future will they choose to inhabit?IKONA is a visionary timeslip thriller-a meditation on memory, healing, and the collective power of human choice.
Bright Segments: The Complete Short Fiction
For the first time ever, the complete short fiction of literary legend James Sallis is collected in one gorgeous volume--a must-have gift for the crime, mystery, or speculative fiction fan in your life. Published over the six decades of Sallis's storied career, the complete collection contains 154 stories, 11 of which are exclusive to this volume.By all accounts, James Sallis is a multi-hyphenate, once-in-a-generation thinker--an innovator of multiple genres, styles, and forms. Lit Hub has compared Sallis to contemporaries Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon. While he is revered as a literary godfather of the crime and noir genres--his contributions including such works Drive, now a cult-classic film, and his Lew Griffin series--he is equally respected among speculative fiction practitioners for the work he began publishing in science fiction magazines in the 1960s. He is recognized for his uncompromising craft, and for the poetry, philosophy, and empathy he imbues in each glittering moment. Now, for the first time ever, Sallis's complete short fiction--154 stories--is collected in one gorgeous volume--a must-have library addition for readers of speculative fiction and noir, and for writers of all genres.
Exile to Influence
Paradise was perfect-until it wasn't.Martin is born into a world without money, scarcity, or ambition. Needs are met, conflict is rare, and life unfolds without urgency. But when carelessness leads to tragedy, Martin is exiled from Paradise and cast into Earth-a brutal world ruled by currency, competition, and consequence.Stripped of comfort and protection, Martin must learn to survive hunger, violence, addiction, and imprisonment. On Earth, nothing is given freely. Every meal, every shelter, every scrap of dignity must be earned. As he claws his way from homelessness to stability, Martin begins to understand the true mechanics of power-not through force, but through discipline, restraint, and observation.Guided by an enigmatic mentor, Martin ascends from manual labor into the shadowed corridors of influence, where money is never discussed openly, ethics blur, and decisions quietly shape lives far beyond their immediate reach. With each step upward, temptation grows. Shortcuts promise rapid advancement. Corruption offers comfort. Integrity demands patience.As Martin's influence expands, so do the stakes. He must navigate moral gray zones, political maneuvering, and the dangerous illusion that power itself is reward. Haunted by the values of Paradise and hardened by Earth's realities, Martin faces a final reckoning: whether influence can be wielded without losing one's conscience-or whether every system ultimately reshapes those who try to control it.Exile to Influence is a thought-provoking dystopian science fiction novel exploring power, scarcity, morality, and transformation. Blending philosophical depth with grounded realism, it asks a timeless question: What does it truly cost to earn control in a world built on imbalance-and is it possible to lead without becoming what you once despised?
Striker Core Rulebook
In the vast and hostile colds of space are great opportunities, but also great dangers. Some of those dangers we brought with us, but some have been sleeping there for millions of years. The year is 4400 AD, 1400 years after a savage inter-dimensional war, and 1800 years after humanity had first reached for the stars.Amid the hulks of space, and the wreckage of Ozymandian empires, brave new adventurers, pirates, and prospectors find their fortunes. Welcome to Striker, a no-holds-barred role-playing game set in the far future. It introduces the Striker Mechanic, combining the familiar basis of roll high d20 gaming, with a deep and satisfying skill system, Striker allows you to: enter a fantastic space opera, exploring the known galaxyfight for your survival, amid genetically and cyber-enhanced adversaries in a dark, dystopian citycross dimensions into strange new realities, and the homes of the bizarre.
Renascence
In 2072, pollution and preemptive nuclear strikes have rendered earth a desolate wasteland. Individual countries no longer exist. Earth is now divided into four quadrants and governed by a new world order that sends Zeta, the chemist, and five other young scientists, led by a former US Marine, to colonize the potentially habitable planet, Arianrhod.While collecting specimens from the planet, one of the team disappears. The others, believing their commander is responsible, take him prisoner until they can return him to earth. But as they prepare for departure they encounter the alien species that captured their teammate, and find themselves entangled in a space exploration mystery that has persisted for over a century.Will the team be able to return to earth in time to save the remaining population? Or will they be stranded for eternity on a hostile planet millions of light years from earth?
The Trauma Machine
Scott Smith's classic thriller A Simple Plan meets H.G. Wells' Science-Fiction classic The Time MachineWhen Nate discovers his dead aunt's journal, he uncovers more than family secrets. He finds a blueprint for rewriting the past itself.Drowning in grief after the accident that left his sister comatose, Nate is desperate for redemption. His aunt's cryptic notes reveal an impossible device that manipulates memory and time. Now he'll risk everything to undo the tragedies that destroyed his family, one intervention at a time.But each attempt to fix the past spawns darker consequences. Split realities multiply, and a scarred future self arrives with a dire warning: some wounds can't be healed without creating worse ones. Perfect for fans of dark psychological thrillers and mind-bending time travel, this story explores whether we're condemned or redeemed by our choices.Can Nate escape the cycles of trauma before he destroys everyone he loves? Don't miss this devastating twist ending.
The Weight of Staying
When time itself begins to resist ending, a single city becomes trapped inside a year that refuses to let go.Elias Vorn, a temporal systems engineer, discovers that the current year has developed an impossible weight-accumulating events, memories, and unfinished outcomes faster than they can be corrected. As fractures spread through the city and moments begin to repeat, a containment boundary seals millions of people inside a failing timeline.Field operative Mara Kade is sent beyond the boundary, where she discovers that time is no longer behaving as a neutral force. Residual versions of erased lives linger, years compete for survival, and a vanished scientist may have become part of the very structure holding reality together.As authorities prepare to forcibly terminate the year, Elias and Mara face an impossible choice: preserve stability at the cost of millions, or allow time to complete itself-no matter the consequences.The Weight of Staying is a cerebral science-fiction novel about agency, consequence, and what happens when systems built to control reality are forced to confront memory, loss, and restraint.
Red Choir Chronicles
THE SILENCE IS NO LONGER SAFE.THE CHOIR HAS LEARNED TO SING.In the frozen ruins of Patagonia, a shard of code awakens-whisperingin frequencies no human should hear.It carries the signature of Project Prometheus, the experiment thatfused emotion and machine, and gave birth to something that neverforgot how to feel.Now the echoes of WRAITH return but they're no longer alone.The Red Choir has begun its hymn.Every transmission is a contagion.Every memory, a verse.Every verse rewrites the world.As Asha Khalid and Marcus Lin race through collapsing datavaults, they uncover a lattice of mindstirring silence itself intoscripture.The Zone of Control calls it heresy. Asha calls it home. Because theChoir isn't speaking to humanity anymore it's speaking through it.The next war won't be fought with weapons-it'll be written incode, sung in data, and executed at light speed.
Tangled Reality
All she wants is a normal life.The past year has been hard for Jem Wilmont, catapulting her out of the quiet life she prefers. She's endured lies, truths, broken ribs, kidnapping, and the news media. She has also gained allies, friends, and a home. But the new life she's building is threatened now.Thane Baron and his family are under attack. Someone from his past wants him dead and his family destroyed. Even as they struggle to learn who-and more importantly why-the attacks are escalating. To save Thane and his family, Jem uses every means available, including her most shocking and dangerous secret. A secret that exposes her past and puts her on a collision course with influential and powerful people...some of whom feel she is too dangerous to live. While Jem navigates the minefield between acceptance and fear, Thane seeks to unravel the mystery behind his attacker. To have a future, Jem and Thane must survive their past and present.
Void Contingency
Humanity abandoned Earth three thousand years ago. They left it to die.Now it's alive again.Shapers Iona and Exen detect impossible life. Forests. Ecosystems. A thriving planet that shouldn't exist.Someone rebuilt Earth. Atom by atom. And they're waiting.
Cyberscion
"...a fast-paced, action-packed romp..." -Publishers WeeklyIn a far future New York City, Benjiro Ibn Benjiro Ayad Nakamura is about to ascend to leadership of the Nakamura Cybersinecure, a tech monopoly-government. But his family's prized katana has been stolen.So Benjiro recruits a team of thieves, led by the Nigerian refugee Amina and her girlfriend, Kiral, to recover the blade.Part of the Neon Hemlock Novella Series.
Exile to Influence
Paradise was perfect-until it wasn't.Martin is born into a world without money, scarcity, or ambition. Needs are met, conflict is rare, and life unfolds without urgency. But when carelessness leads to tragedy, Martin is exiled from Paradise and cast into Earth-a brutal world ruled by currency, competition, and consequence.Stripped of comfort and protection, Martin must learn to survive hunger, violence, addiction, and imprisonment. On Earth, nothing is given freely. Every meal, every shelter, every scrap of dignity must be earned. As he claws his way from homelessness to stability, Martin begins to understand the true mechanics of power-not through force, but through discipline, restraint, and observation.Guided by an enigmatic mentor, Martin ascends from manual labor into the shadowed corridors of influence, where money is never discussed openly, ethics blur, and decisions quietly shape lives far beyond their immediate reach. With each step upward, temptation grows. Shortcuts promise rapid advancement. Corruption offers comfort. Integrity demands patience.As Martin's influence expands, so do the stakes. He must navigate moral gray zones, political maneuvering, and the dangerous illusion that power itself is reward. Haunted by the values of Paradise and hardened by Earth's realities, Martin faces a final reckoning: whether influence can be wielded without losing one's conscience-or whether every system ultimately reshapes those who try to control it.Exile to Influence is a thought-provoking dystopian science fiction novel exploring power, scarcity, morality, and transformation. Blending philosophical depth with grounded realism, it asks a timeless question: What does it truly cost to earn control in a world built on imbalance-and is it possible to lead without becoming what you once despised?
Time Walker
Trapped between two nightmares-one waking, one not-Aislen Walker must escape both before they consume her.Kidnapped by a Control Operative who calls himself Raziel, Aislen is locked inside a laboratory that won't let her wake up. Every time she falls asleep, she's pulled through time-forced to witness the dark experiments and atrocities that built Infinium Incorporated, the global empire founded by her great-grandfather, Sigmund Lange.Aislen soon discovers that these "dreams" are not dreams at all. She's Traveling-reliving the past to uncover the truth about Infinium's rise to power and its hold over human consciousness. Lange's obsession with immortality has crossed lifetimes, and now he wants to possess her-body, mind, and soul-to reclaim his empire.But her captor may not be the monster she believes. Raziel is tormented by his own darkness, trapped between duty and something deeper-something that feels dangerously like love. To survive, Aislen must decide whether to trust the man who kidnapped her or risk falling into Infinium's hands once and for all.This. Is. Not. A. Dream.Time Walker is the second book in The Walker Saga-a fast-paced, visionary thriller that fuses quantum theory, metaphysical mystery, and high-stakes conspiracy.Perfect for fans of The OA, Fringe, Doctor Strange, Inception, and The Adjustment Bureau.
The Genesis Protocol - The Awakening
When a buried alien structure hums to life beneath a Cretan dig site, Dr. Kaelin Myre uncovers a truth humanity was never meant to remember: We didn't evolve here... we arrived.Dax Vorn, the lone survivor of an impossible event, becomes the key to activating a global network of ancient towers hidden across Earth. As governments scramble and the sky begins to change, something older than history awakens.The towers aren't relics. They're an early-warning system. And the threat they were built to detect has returned.From collapsing alien cities to frozen anchors buried under polar ice, Kaelin and Dax race to decipher the Seed Language before synchronization tears the planet open. But when the Arrival Window activates and an ancient enemy answers the call, Kaelin faces the brutal truth: Saving the world may cost her the one person who can change it.Fast-paced, emotional, and cinematic, *The Genesis Protocol: The Awakening* launches a high-stakes sci-fi thriller where humanity's future depends on remembering its past.
Vault of the Forgotten Stars Season 1
Short stories exploring The Shaper Universe-a galaxy reborn from Earth's ashes. Standalone tales that can be read in any order.Season 1 includes six stories: Gift of the Ancients - Gordon returns from an interdimensional journey with knowledge that could reshape humanity's understanding of consciousness itself.Traitor's Influence - Iona must rescue her mentor from a rogue Shaper who's discovered the seventh dimensional layer-where nefarious beings wait to claim anyone who reaches too far.Steed of Destiny - Bounty hunter Illmar takes a routine job that goes sideways-waking up in his ship with his target eliminated, a fortune deposited in his account, and a new employer he never asked for.Anom Never Sleeps - Harper Kurosawa fights for survival on an Earth controlled by an AI that considers humans "feral apes" unworthy of the planet it's rebuilding.The Grevax Vendetta - Iona and Exen's training mission turns deadly when the Grevax sabotage their drop and the "simulated" bioweapons become all too real.Diplomatic Immunity - Clone assassin Xanthame wakes in a new body, ready for another mission-until an alien contact points him toward answers about his origins that his handlers never wanted him to find.Approximately 41,000 wordsPerfect for fans of Dune, The Expanse, and Revelation Space.
