Dark Straits
The grid has gone dark, and the planet's population, cut to the bone. The Mackinac Bridge is the iron key to Michigan. Various groups-Eco-Elves, Virals, Rangers, and Indigenous-battle in Dark Straits for regional control.In Sudden Quiet: Book II, gangs of Virals are bossed by "Sharkey," the CEO of Panzer Pharmaceuticals, who seeks to carve out a Great Lakes fiefdom.Panzer's ghoulish paramilitary, the Aghori, raid Washington D.C., torture ELF extremists, and sabotage the Line 5 oil pipeline beneath the Straits. Foster siblings, Miin and Mukwa, flex their green powers, channeling nature's resurgence to combat infection and petro-pollution.Dark Straits is a thrilling expansion of the trilogy, pushing readers into deep and dangerous waters.
Ascending Species
Delve into the lives of four remarkable species in an epic journey across time! This historical archive has been translated for the humans of Earth-but within, there are no humans! In this epoch-spanning chronicle of evolutionary proportions, four distinct intelligent species, on a planet not unlike Earth, each get their time on the stage of civilization to showcase their innate strengths, their inevitable flaws, and their unique determination to surmount the massive obstacles that not only their neighboring species, but the planet itself, ceaselessly has to offer. The lives and cultures of the powerful reptilian Serpils and the armadillo-like Drels are reflective of their natures-what's normal to them may seem very strange to us. The ways of the Geminy, being primates, may seem similar to humans, but do not be mistaken. Creative and friendly, the Tubells are a four-eyed species of cephalopods who have a unique perspective after having adapted to live on land. From their humble, hard-scrap origins to their hard-won formation of global civilizations-and beyond to the edge of space-the peculiar and disparate societies animating Ascending Species lay the ground for a fun, fast-paced experience full of nail-biting challenges, complex conflicts, heart-wrenching struggles, and heart-warming achievements. As to which species will survive the whims of time . . . only time will tell.
Grand Theft Planet (Renegade Imperium Book 1)
A disgraced officer turned pirate. Masterminds with a bold plan. One retired soldier will risk everything to save her home.Karmen thought her military days were behind her. Two decades ago, a tragic starship accident claimed the life of her captain and doomed her to an early medical discharge. But when a mysterious pirate known as Mother Carnage attacks her world, Karmen is conscripted from her quiet family life to solve the case.Racing across star systems to track down the perpetrators, Karmen discovers a shocking personal connection to Mother Carnage that turns the investigation upside down. Worse, the pirate isn't acting alone.Concerning clues point to a growing separatist movement that could plunge the region into chaos. Fearing for the safety of her planet and loved ones, Karmen and two ambitious young military officers race to gather the evidence needed to head off the conspiracy.Torn between her loyalties to family and career, can Karmen confront her painful past to save her future?Grand Theft Planet is the riveting first installment in the Renegade Imperium series. If you enjoy fast-paced space operas with dynamic characters, planet-hopping action, and galactic intrigue, you'll love this fun sci-fi adventure set in the bestselling Cadicle Universe.Grab your copy to join the mission today!
Star Wars: The Acolyte: Wayseeker
Before The Acolyte, Vernestra Rwoh must find her place in the Jedi Order. Vernestra Rwoh has spent over a decade exploring the Outer Rim as a Wayseeker, answering to no other authority but the Force itself. When a request from the Jedi Council orders her back to Coruscant, Vernestra initially refuses, feeling that her first priority should be to the beings she's already serving. But after Jedi Master Indara arrives to ask for Vernestra's aid in person, Vernestra finds herself pulled back into Coruscant's complicated world of Republic politics and underworld crime. As the two delve further into their investigation, and the lines between Jedi and Republic business blur, Vernestra must reconsider what it means to serve for Light and Life.
Empire Ender
Amid supergenius schemes for an apocalyptic future, the legendary heroes of prophecy wage a galactic war for freedom, in the final book of this epic series. Ariock is no longer an invincible messiah. In the wake of a rage beyond his control, the Bringer of Hope struggles with defeatism. Meanwhile, Thomas hides a tryst and lets his zombie minions dwindle to shambles. The gloating Torth Majority is in reconquest mode, slicing through liberated territory, and the people of Freedomland fear their vaunted heroes are on the verge of losing the galactic war. To win, Ariock's great-grandfather Garrett knows the book of prophecies must unfold the way the ancient oracle intended. But the next fateful vector looks ominous: all the heroes on their knees, in supplication to none other than Thomas. Why does the telepathic supergenius appear dominant over planets, stars, and everyone in the known universe? Determined to force destiny to favor his mostly human great-grandson, Garrett--with the help of Vy, who loves her wounded Giant with equal parts desire and caution--throws all his efforts into rebuilding Ariock's confidence. Who else is equipped to smash the emergent death cult among the Torth? Certainly, Thomas and Evenjos cannot defeat endless armadas armed with new weapons invented by enemy supergeniuses.But soon a more immediate threat interrupts the heroes' secret struggles and plans. A lurking rogue Torth has infiltrated Freedomland. It seems Thomas is about to meet his match in terms of both genius schemes and zombification ability . . . The epic finale of the hit sci-fi fantasy series--with more than 750,000 views on Royal Road--now available in paperback, ebook, and audiobook!
What We Are Seeking
From Cameron Reed, the acclaimed author of The Fortunate Fall, comes a soaring novel of queer hope and transformation, perfect for readers of Ann Leckie and Amal El-Mohtar. On the planet Scythia, plants give birth to insects and trees can drag you to your death. Artificial monsters stalk the desert, and alien basket-men have wandered into town. John Maraintha has been abandoned here, light-years from the peaceful forests that he loves. The desert is harsh and the people in thrall to a barbaric custom called marriage. He must find some way to make a life here. But on Scythia, survival means transformation--and not everyone is willing to change.
Hell's Heart
Gideon the Ninth meets Moby-Dick in USA Today bestselling author Alexis Hall's thrilling SF debut, Hell's Heart!A Most Anticipated Book: Book Riot The Pink News Diva Magazine Audible Bookpage They are monsters, legends, gods.They are our prey. Earth is dead. Which leaves us stuck living in atmospheric domes on planets that will kill us if we blink wrong, or run out of fuel. And by "fuel" I mean "the cerebrospinal fluid of gargantuan, quasi-psychic space monsters". I joined the hunt hoping to get paid and maybe laid, but mostly paid. Instead, I followed a captain chasing abominations in the skies of Jupiter. We battled the M繹bius Beast itself, there in the red eye of the world. Spoiler: we lost.
The Forest on the Edge of Time
The Future of Another Timeline meets The Bone Clocks in this dazzling piece of time-travel climate fiction. Recruited by the mysterious Project Kairos to change history and save the future from ecological disaster, Echo and Hazel are transported through time to opposite worlds. Echo works as a healer's assistant in Ancient Athens, embroiled in dangerous politics and wild philosophy. Hazel is the last human alive, in a laboratory on a polluted island with nothing but tiny robots and an untrustworthy AI for company. Both women suffer from amnesia, but when they fall asleep, their consciousnesses transcend time and they meet in their dreams. Together, they start to uncover their past - but soon discover the past threatens humanity's survival. If Echo and Hazel have a chance of changing the future, they must remember to forget... THE FOREST ON THE EDGE OF TIME is a novel about family and duty and the worlds we try to save along the way.
The Rainseekers
"A vivid, poignant, and compassionate story about our desperate search for meaning...whether on Earth or far beyond it." --Veronica Roth, New York Times bestselling author of the Divergent seriesA Most Anticipated Title from NewScientist and FanFi Addict!A Best Science Fiction Book from BookBub!Burned out and looking to put her past behind her, a former addict and recovering influencer interviews her fellow travelers en route to witness the first rain on Mars. Sakunja Salazar had it all. Money, toys, women, and all the drugs money could buy. A breakout Holo influencer, seemingly overnight she lifted her family out of their tiny Mexico City apartment and into the world of the rich and famous. That all changed when she hopped on a rocket and blasted into the cosmos, never to hawk lavender moisturizer again. What goes up must come down, and when Sakunja finally crashed back down on Mars an alcoholic, addict, and has-been she thought her life was pretty much over. That is, until a magazine editor discovered her photography and offered her a job. Now, she's the resident documentarian on a barebones expedition seeking to be the first humans to witness rain on Mars. For the first time in her life, Sakunja is turning the spotlight on someone else-interviewing her fellow travelers about what brought them to join this incredibly foolhardy crew of souls adrift in a world of danger and awe. And what they discover, both in their stories and their journey, will be more incredible than they could have ever imagined.
Picks and Shovels
New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new tool for crime ever invented: the personal computer. The year is 1986. The city is San Francisco. Here, Martin Hench will invent the forensic accountant--what a bounty hunter is to people, he is to money--but for now he's an MIT dropout odd-jobbing his way around a city still reeling from the invention of a revolutionary new technology that will change everything about crime forever, one we now take completely for granted. When Marty finds himself hired by Silicon Valley PC startup Fidelity Computing to investigate a group of disgruntled ex-employees who've founded a competitor startup, he quickly realizes he's on the wrong side. Marty ditches the greasy old guys running Fidelity Computing without a second thought, utterly infatuated with the electric atmosphere of Computing Freedom. Located in the heart of the Mission, this group of brilliant young women found themselves exhausted by the predatory business practices of Fidelity Computing and set out to beat them at their own game, making better computers and driving Fidelity Computing out of business. But this optimistic startup, fueled by young love and California-style burritos, has no idea the depth of the evil they're seeking to unroot or the risks they run. In this company-eat-company city, Martin and his friends will be lucky to escape with their lives.
Ribbon Dance
NEW ENTRY IN THE BEST-SELLING LIADEN UNIVERSE(R) SERIES On a world where cake is a necessity it takes the Grid to protect the civilized and the deaf from the dire influences of the ambient and to keep the chaotic Haosa at bay. Having arrived at recently Dust-bound Colemeno, Trader Padi yos'Galan is essential to Master Trader Shan yos'Galan's plan to recoup Clan Korval's fortunes by establishing new routes for the clan's tradeship. Shan's inner Healer insists Padi come to terms with her as-yet unplumbed psychic abilities, which might place her in the top tier of dramliz, if she can learn control. Padi yearns to concentrate on trade, but Colemeno's fey ambient and deadly long-term politics combine to bring her face-to-face with the Haosa, and in particular with the mysterious and untouchable Tekelia, as Korval's trade mission's necessity of a port audit collide with a cruel history of murder, deception, and brutality. Amid the dangers, Padi unexpectedly finds herself eagerly exploring her dramliz side when faced with the unspoken powers of the ambient, the sky-filling energy of the Ribbon Dance, and Tekelia's mutable eyes.
Shredder Orpheus
Let's shred our way to hell!In Robert McGinley's film, SHREDDER ORPHEUS, the Greek myth is reimagined as a post-apocalyptic skateboard rock opera-a low budget hallucination that drops somewhere between the music video for Devo's "Whip It," a Bones Brigade skate tape, and a surrealist art project. The story follows Orpheus, a rock star who descends to hell in order to save his kidnapped wife (and the universe) from Satan and his hypnotic TV signals.Author David Irons brings even more depth and insanity in the official novelization based off of the original script.
Golden Age II
Golden Age IIThe Great ExplosionIt's the start of Term Two, in the year Thirty Four Ninety Five on the Planet, Xi Bootis A Secundus, otherwise known as Homwol, Vale or Tarlakan, depending on which native species you ask. Twenty-Two light years from Sol and only recently colonised, within the previous quarter of a century.Five young school girls, as part of their Year Ten History class, are given their group term history assignment, The Great Explosion. The period of human colonisation in between the years Twenty Sixty and Twenty One Eighty.The five girls, a pair of twins, Humans from the Earth, another Human, a non-verbal telepath from Mars and a Mimasian Thol, an angelic-like winged humanoid who was born inside of Mimas, a Moon of Saturn that turned out to be a hollowed-out generation ship. The fifth of the five girlfriends is a Carlin, a bipedal feline humanoid native species of Vale. The Mimasian Thols originated on Homwol millions of years prior and their genetic cousins, the Indigenous Thols, live there to this day.As the five teenagers study the historical aspects of the Great Explosion, they undergo their own personal growth, development, trials and tribulations. The past is not what they thought and neither is the world around them.How will the five young girls navigate their trials, tribulations and complex inter-species relationships?Much of this story is set more than two centuries before the Forkbraid trilogy. A series of stories set in the near future at a stage of humanity's evolution, where we humans are colonising our solar system at an explosive pace. The Unexpected Conflict is over and behind them.All terraforming and colonial expansion is being organised from the asteroid Eros in conjunction with the efforts of a powerful business corporation, Dumas Incorporated. The world within a rock. Eros was carefully positioned in the Earth-Sun Lagrangian point five, sixty degrees behind the Earth in its orbit.Hollowed out, heavily modified and set rotating to create an entire world within it. Humanity is now united like never before and the Golden Age of Humanity continues, as humanity rapidly and explosively expands into the solar system.Where will this great explosion of humanity's colonial expansion take us?
One For The Money, Two For The Soul
Far ages, people have wanted to find the cure for death. Science has now advance to the point where a person's spirit can be transplanted into a fresh new body, but like any new breakthrough in technology, some will strive to take advantage of this for less than honorable purposes. A whole new world of theft is upon us, and it is untraceable. Our only hope is in a young girl, the unlikely victim of getting her soul half ripped apart, is now blundering into a world of crime and mayhem, on an unwitting and comical quest to patch herself back together.
