Theories of Everything
In this finely honed collection of short fiction, Dwayne Brenna creates a series of unforgettable characters--academics, street people, ageing hippies, farmers, music producers, videogame players and their mothers, movie stars, boxers, actors, cooks, and even a parrot--and, with compassion and affection (and sometimes laugh-out-loud humour) tests their mettle in a variety of fascinating locations, from Saskatoon to Victoria to Libya to Los Angeles to London to Hawaii and beyond with familiar and homey details and a fidelity to mood and atmosphere.Along the way, Brenna tackles a wide selection of conflicts and social ills, good versus evil, scruples and the lack of them, doing or not doing the "right thing," yielding or not yielding to temptations, and the many other struggles of the human heart, all without being didactic or preachy, but simply by addressing the very human circumstances his characters find themselves in, and how they manage to escape, or not escape, the predicaments arising because of who they are, who they've been, and who they could be.
Halo: Empty Throne
An original novel set in the Halo universe--based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! 2559. It has been a year since the rogue artificial intelligence Cortana seized control of the Domain, an otherworldly dimension housing a vast information network. With an array of Forerunner weapons at her disposal, Cortana set out to enforce an authoritarian peace on the civilizations of the galaxy. But as the United Nations Space Command flagship Infinity prepares to strike against Cortana at Zeta Halo, another plan has also been set in motion. An ancient access point hidden on a seemingly insignificant human colony has become the focus of a parallel effort to claim the Domain and its immeasurable capabilities. The UNSC, however, needs a key: a living, forsaken product of an old war. As a new generation of heroes rise to meet this challenge, and Cortana's pursuit of control reaches a desperate and sudden crescendo, a cunning, ruthless warrior emerges from the shadows of the Banished, who has vowed to fill the new power vacuum by any means necessary...
The Remnant Vault
Beneath the ground, the dead voices sing.Jack uses his telepathy to read the memories of the recently murdered. After losing his wife because of his 'gift' he's prepared to throw it all away.But, the agency refuse to let him go. There's been a murder; a man forced to rip his own eyes from his head.This case is going to test Jack's abilities to the limit, but if he can work with the police, solve the murder, and evade the clutches of the local crime boss, he might just secure his reward and the freedom he seeks.The Remnant Vault is the second book of the Tombs Rising science-fiction series. If you're a fan of Torchwood, Stephen King, or The X-Files, then you'll love a series that combines all of their best traits in a fast-paced, thrilling adventure.Buy THE REMNANT VAULT and take your first steps into Robert Scott-Norton's Tombs Legacy.
The Infinity Mainframe
It called to him from the darkness. He shouldn't have listened.The Department is watching, ensuring telepaths play by the rules, but a murder in their ranks drives Ruby to hunt her friend's killer.But as she goes undercover, Ruby gets tangled in the secretive world of telepaths, desperate to prevent a conflict the world isn't ready for-and can't survive.The Infinity Mainframe is the third book of the Tombs Rising science-fiction series. If you're a fan of Torchwood, Stephen King, or The X-Files, then you'll love a series that combines all of their best traits in a fast-paced, thrilling adventure.Buy THE INFINITY MAINFRAME and take your first steps into Robert Scott-Norton's Tombs Legacy.
The New Eve
In a world where love is a crime, one forbidden connection dares to change everything A feminist dystopian novel for adults about forbidden love under a totalitarian regime--ideal for readers of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Octavia Butler, and Ursula K. Le Guin. The New Eve blends dystopian romance books with LGBTQ dystopian fiction, gender identity sci fi, and surveillance state fiction to ask what we're willing to become for the people we love. When love is a crime and bodies are battlegrounds, two souls risk everything to reunite--even if it means erasing who they were to become who they must be. In a future where men and women live in enforced segregation, reproduction is mechanized, and attachment is illegal, Adam and Maneki commit the ultimate transgression: they fall in love. The androgynous rulers' crackdown shatters their world, sending them to rehabilitation camps that weaponize hormones, memory, and ideology. To survive, each must choose: surrender the self--or fight for a connection the state insists cannot exist. Why you'll love this book*A fresh entry in dystopian books for adults: philosophical, visceral, and emotionally high-stakes.*Big-idea biopolitics dystopia: artificial reproduction sci fi meets totalitarian regime fiction and surveillance state fiction.*Gender, identity, and transformation: a bold exploration of body autonomy and the fluid self--core to gender identity sci fi.*Forbidden love at the heart of the story: a sweeping, intimate arc for fans of dystopian romance books and LGBTQ dystopian fiction.*Worldbuilding with teeth: enforced segregation, mechanized childbirth, rehabilitation camps, and the machinery of control. Perfect for readers who enjoy*The Handmaid's Tale (Atwood), Red Rising (Pierce Brown), The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, The Grace Year, The Darkness Outside Us, and the humanistic lens of Becky Chambers' Wayfarers.*Thought-provoking sci fi books for adults that fuse myth, science, and politics into an unforgettable narrative. Back-of-book promise If you're searching for dystopian books, dystopian books for adults, sci fi books for adults, feminist dystopian novels, or speculative fiction that interrogates love, identity, and power, The New Eve belongs at the top of your list.,
Dark Matter
When the world ends, chaos begins- -for feral Bunny Graves, playing life like a high-stakes game, where the only way to win is to smash the board to bit- -for Max Caspar and Charmskool the scholar, chasing ancient myth all the way to the real world- -and for Ari Regon, caught between dangerous jealousy and passionate love, corporate war and ambition so intense that failure is death, making the party to end all parties, a party that never ends. Dark times. Dark dreams. DARK MATTER The third and final book in the DARK FACTORY series.
The Garden
A darkly beautiful, eerie, hypnotic novel about two elderly sisters living alone at the edge of the world. In a place and time unknown, two elderly sisters live in a walled garden, secluded from the outside world. Evelyn and Lily have only ever known each other. What was before the garden, they have forgotten; what lies beyond it, they do not know. Each day is spent in languid service to their home: tending the bees, planting the crops, and dutifully following the instructions of the almanac written by their mother. When a nameless boy is found hiding in the boarded house at the center of their isolated grounds, their once-solitary lives are irrevocably disrupted. Who is he? Where did he come from? And most importantly, what does he want? As suspicions gather and allegiances falter, Evelyn and Lily are forced to confront the dark truths about themselves, the garden, and the world as they've known it.
