The Duct Taped Dead
For years, Nee and his kind have wandered the edges of the world, lingering in abandoned places, forgotten by the living. They aren't mindless monsters. They think, they feel, they remember. But time is against them. The Drift is coming for them all-a quiet, inevitable disintegration that pulls them into dust when they have nothing left to hold onto. When Nee and his scattered undead kin are captured and imprisoned in a human facility, they realize they aren't just being studied. They're being repurposed. The humans want to understand their existence-and control it. Dive into a story where survival is a battle against time, decay, and the very essence of humanity. Will Nee's desperate quest for refuge reignite the spark of life, or is oblivion their only fate?
Star Wars: Tempest Breaker (the High Republic)
The Jedi reluctantly team up with the nefarious Lourna Dee in this full script for the Star Wars the High Republic audiobook original, Tempest Breaker. Lourna Dee is not a villain. She's not a hero. She's a survivor. The former Tempest Runner, wanted by both her Nihil allies and the Republic, has evaded imprisonment and death from both groups more times than she can count. But even Lourna cannot outrun the mysterious blight that devours everything wherever it appears. And Marchion Ro, the Eye of the Nihil, has announced that only he knows the secret to stopping it. Desperate, the Republic and Jedi turn to Lourna with an offer: help the Jedi stop the blight, and in return, Lourna will have a clean slate and the chance to decide her own future. Teamed with Avar Kriss and Keeve Trennis, the same Jedi who once hunted her, Lourna leads the search for the Nihil's chief scientist, Baron Boolan, the only being who may have answers to the mystery of the blight, as well as Marchion Ro's true plans. Lourna weighs the Republic's offer of true freedom against her own instincts for survival as her team heads deeper into Nihil territory, straight toward the very dangers Lourna has worked for so long to elude. And when the opportunity arises to face off against Marchion Ro himself, even Lourna Dee may be willing to sacrifice everything to fulfill a quest for revenge.
ZOMBIE'S DOOM? "Chronicles of Jack Doom"
Staying true to form by continuing to employ a mixture of horror and science fiction as utilized in the first book, this is the second novel in the "Zombie" series, and is the continuing saga of Jack Doom; an ex-marine combat veteran turned into a zombie killing sociopath by the mental stress put on him by a plague of the undead that is ravaging the entire planet.Now obsessed with tracking down an old friend that had abandoned him and his family when they needed him most, leaving them to die a grisly death at the hands of the famished zombie hordes, as well as another surprising source of unfathomable horror, Jack treks into another world consisting of vice, violence, and debauchery as he trails his adversary north.As Jack sees it, only fate saved him and his family from a gruesome demise, and now he does not hesitate to do what he feels is necessary to survive in the zombie-plagued landscape and accomplish his self-imposed mission of revenge, no matter who has to die in the process.After joining up with a devil-may-care psychopath named Derek, and reuniting with a former zombie fighting partner and her friend, they all head into a hellish land teaming with the hungry undead and a population of brutally vicious homicidal maniacs in search of Jack's ex-partner and now sworn archenemy.However, their real mission is still unknown to the group, but to their dismay, it will soon be revealed to them in a most unorthodox and heinous manner.
Sunnyside
"Home isn't the place you come from. It's the place you stop trying to escape from."Brand New from #1 Audible Bestselling Author Rob Dircks...Everyman Theo Hoover accidentally becomes Grand Oversee - humanity's supreme leader - managing the terraforming of Sunnyside, their potential new home planet. But people are dying. Aliens are coming. His brother is missing. And Kate Kingston of all people has been assigned his Chief of Staff. But chaos is only the beginning, as the fate of Sunnyside - and humanity itself - comes to rest in Theo's shaky hands.With Sunnyside, Rob Dircks (#1 Audible Bestselling author of You're Going to Mars!, The Wrong Unit, and Where the Hell is Tesla?) has crafted a tale with a constant thread of his trademark humor and heart - a tale of First Contact, unlikely heroes, political mayhem, and everyday people trying to figure out what it means to be "home.""A distant future filled with irony, madcap characters, spaceships, a few bureaucratic conspiracies and an utterly unique voice with a pace and energy that moves at warp-speed." - The Black List
Ocean's Godori
An Indie Next Pick - An Amazon Editors' Pick - A Shelf Awareness Best Book of the Year - Finalist for the Washington State Book Award for Fiction - Finalist for the Silver Falchion Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Award - Shortlisted for the 2024 Endeavour Award Becky Chambers meets Firefly in this big-hearted Korean space opera debut about a disgraced space pilot struggling to find her place while fighting to protect the people she loves. "A thrilling, transportive ride from a powerful and evocative new voice." --Lena Waithe, Rishi Rajani, and Naomi Funabashi, Hillman Grad Books Ocean Yoon has never felt very Korean, even if she is descended from a long line of haenyeo, Jeju Island's beloved female divers. She doesn't like soju, constantly misses cultural references, and despite her love of the game, people still say that she doesn't play hwatu like a Korean. Ocean's also persona non grata at the Alliance, Korea's solar system-dominating space agency, since a mission went awry and she earned a reputation for being a little too quick with her gun. When her best friend, Teo, second son of the Anand Tech empire, is framed for murdering his family, Ocean and her misfit crewmates are pushed to the forefront of a high-stakes ideological conflict. But dodging bullets and winning space chases may be the easiest part of what comes next. A thrilling adventure across the solar that delivers hyperkinetic action sequences and irresistible will-they-won't-they romance alongside its nuanced exploration of colonialism and capitalism, Ocean's Godori ultimately asks: What do we owe our past? How do we navigate our present while honoring the complicated facets of our identity? What can our future hold?
A.I.D.E.N.N.
The revised enhanced edition that blends the story with V.I.C.T.O.R.I.A., Artificial? Intelligence. This is the original story created with son Douglas and it is now revised to complement VICTORIA and complete the story of the two special robots.
Void 84
VOID 84By Richard ListerNo signal. No survivors. No way out.When UNH recon squad 933 is dispatched to investigate the sudden radio silence of deep-space station Void 84, they expect a broken relay or a minor system failure. What they find is far worse.Twisted corpses embedded in steel. White noise that whispers in voices they almost recognize. A station that shouldn't still exist, and something hunting them through the dark.For Trooper Petr Drum, this was supposed to be a routine op. Now, he and his squad are fighting to survive against an enemy they can't see... and a reality that won't hold together.Void 84 is a tense, darkly funny sci-fi horror novelette perfect for fans of Event Horizon, The Expanse, and Dead Space. Prepare for claustrophobic dread, snarky soldiers, and the terrifying silence between the stars. Why Buy This Book?If you like your sci-fi dark, your squads dysfunctional, and your cosmic horror creeping in through the comms system, then Void 84 is for you.Packed with tension, sharp military banter, and slow-building dread, this audio-ready sci-fi horror novelette delivers claustrophobic action, black humour, and an enemy you can't even see coming.If you liked Dead Space, Aliens, Event Horizon, or the grim squad vibes of The Expanse, you'll love Void 84, a mission gone wrong where the silence isn't empty... it's listening.
The Science Behind Fiction
An anthology of six short science fiction stories showing how the author makes his fiction plausible. Its publication coincides with a talk he was asked to give at the Kirkcudbright Book Week.
In Memoriam
A ruthless mega-corporation controlled by a mechanized madman has driven China's working class to the edge of desperation. With their lives crushed under relentless exploitation, the hope of revolution has become their only escape. When a kinetic energy bomb obliterates the heart of the resistance, it leaves millions dead, the city of Xi'an in ruins, and the survivors shattered. The flame of revolution fizzles to a spark.Only Robert Lilly, a lowly private, refuses to surrender. Born with the ability to talk to machines, Robert devises a plan to outsmart the corporation's forces. With nothing but his wits and a small but loyal squad at his side, he sets out on a perilous mission to dismantle the corporation's most dangerous weapon.Betrayed by allies, hunted by a merciless cyborg, and haunted by the devastation left in his wake, Robert struggles with the crushing weight of leadership. As the lines between hero and villain blur, Robert must decide how far he's willing to go to bring down an empire bent on destroying his world.When faced with a choice between saving the future or his own humanity, will Robert become the very thing he set out to destroy?The Uprising must succeed-but at what price?
Rakesfall
Rakesfall is a groundbreaking, standalone science fiction epic about two souls bound together from here until the ends of time, from the author of The Saint of Bright Doors. Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell. There are wrongs that echo through the ages, friendships that outpace the claws of death, loves that leave their mark on civilization, and promises that nothing can break. This is one such story. Annelid and Leveret met as children in the middle of the Sri Lankan civil war. They found each other in a torn-up nation, peering through propaganda to grasp a deeper truth. And in a demon-haunted wood, another act of violence linked them and propelled their souls on a journey throughout the ages. No world can hold them, no life can bind them, and they'll never leave each other behind. Tracing two souls through endless lifetimes, Rakesfall is a virtuosic exploration of what stories can be. As Annelid and Leveret reincarnate ever deeper into the future, they will chase the edge of human possibility in a dark science fiction epic unlike anything you've read before.
