Greater Than All
With freedom fleeting and human extinction a distinct possibility, the heroes of prophecy must work together to safeguard the future of the galaxy.The balance of power is shifting in the vicious galactic war against the Torth Majority. The heroes are led by Ariock, a superhuman titan who wins every battle. The secret behind his victories is Thomas, the telepathic renegade supergenius. But resting on their laurels isn't an option. Overconfidence could be fatal, thanks to the enemy supergenius known as the Death Architect. And there may be an intrinsic threat among their ranks as well. While Ariock is conquering alien cities and protecting Freedomland, Thomas is transforming the captured Torth into zombified slaves. What better way for Thomas--part human, part Torth--to prove he's on the side of the good guys than to neutralize their adversary's minions? He knows it'll take more than lumbering prisoners with space dust for brains to win the ultimate war, however, so he's devising something else. With his superluminal communications technology, all the planets of the galaxy could soon be knitted together in new and frightening ways. One giant hivemind. But are his powers being wielded on behalf of liberty and humanism? Or is Thomas a betrayer helping to galvanize the Torth? Ally or foe? Ariock is having his doubts. Relying on Thomas could be a grave mistake, but a lapse in trust would be just as bad. Either way, if Ariock makes the wrong decision, freedom will be just a blip in the history of the galaxy . . .The fifth volume of the hit sci-fi fantasy series--with more than 750,000 views on Royal Road--now available in print, ebook, and audiobook!
News From Nowhere
In News from Nowhere, visionary writer and socialist thinker William Morris presents a vivid exploration of a utopian future where society thrives on shared ownership and democratic control. Awakening in a transformed world, the narrator discovers a harmonious society that has abolished private property and merged art, life, and work into a seamless whole. Morris addresses enduring criticisms of socialism, particularly the perceived lack of motivation in a communal society, proposing that fulfilling, creative labor is the key to a purposeful life. This revolutionary work not only critiques capitalist norms but also contrasts Morris's idealism with the mechanistic socialism of Looking Backward. News from Nowhere remains a cornerstone in utopian literature, offering profound insights into the possibility of a society built on joy, equality, and artistic freedom.
Virus-C
Containment had been lost. The virus that she was not supposed to be working on had been loosed on the human race. The world was falling apart as the Virus-C pandemic spread. Dr Anita Caufi now had a serious problem. Or was it an opportunity? Virus-C was not the only research project that the President didn't know about. The new serum killed Virus-C, but was the cure worse that the disease? The serum changed people. Were the results of the serum an improvement to the human race or things out of nightmares? Pointed ears, animal forms, bearded midgets, monstrously strong creatures and computers that failed when the changed were around. Were they even people anymore? Anita wished she knew what to believe. If only she could figure out how to control the transformation. If she could choose their final form, she could control the fate of the world. But only the Changed seemed to know the answer to that riddle and they did no like being lab rats. They wanted their freedom. She would not allow another containment breach...
Out of the Window, Into the Dark
The employee of a library-planet grapples with industrial espionage. The connection between an indie comic and a local boogie-man is discovered by a group of friends. In a future museum of the mind, a nostalgia-addicted curator tries to understand the emotions of 20th century humans. An Anglo-Saxon traveller narrates her journey into the Artic regions to her Queen. A group of friends tries to capture the last pink-footed goose on Planet Earth...Marian Womack's new collection of short stories shows us how the then and the now, the future and the past, are made of the same particles. Loneliness, nostalgia and its dark ghosts, and the possibilities for humanity if technology and preservation dovetail, are brought together with Womack's characteristic crossing of genres, places and moods. Out Through the Window, Into the Dark is a collection for our and future times, movingly demonstrating the devastating consequences of our collective actions.
Rewind
There's no such thing as a stranger. For as long as anyone can remember, the System's identity recognition program has brought safety and comfort to System City, feeding them the identities of those around them through a chip in their brain. That is until the System is corrupted by a virus, scrambling names and throwing the city into chaos. With identities shuffling every few hours, tensions rise around the city, forcing leaders to find a scapegoat. Who better to blame than the hundreds of unwanted and unmistakable orphan girls, known as Haydens? Inevitably, as prominent figures begin to publicly stoke hatred, a general distrust of Haydens grows into violent disdain.One of those orphans, Haddy Hayden, isn't affected by the ever-mixing identities, not since an accident "fried" her chip and cut her off from the System entirely. Now, it's up to Haddy to find the person responsible for corrupting the System and to bring them to justice before ignorant mobs kill them all.
The Lieutenant
"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 LieutenantBache is sent to answer a distress call from a small freighter close to a planet in a distant corner of the galaxy. Not all is as it first seems. He finds himself quickly embroiled in an illegal encroachment of an untouched and developing human race.The more he uncovers, the more sinister the crimes get and he has to tread carefully as his very presence on the planet could be construed as a galactic crime.The frightening discovery of a hidden fleet of immense battleships could seriously disrupt the delicate balance of power holding the human races of the Milky Way together.Again, Bache finds himself in the middle of a significant military and diplomatic incident, but this time the decisions he makes could save or cost millions of lives.The Bache Loftt SeriesThe AspirantThe RecruitThe Lieutenant
Wayfaring Stranger
Solveig Robertson must prove her worth as a xenolinguist newly stationed on the research airship Wayfaring Stranger, a vessel exploring the upper-atmospheric biodiversity of the haze-shrouded world Rousseau. Solveig is keen to establish communication with the zeps, but it takes two to communicate and none of the zeps show any inclination to interact with humans. To compound matters, Solveig's interactions with her colleagues aren't proving straightforward either, and airship gondolas aren't known for their spaciousness.Wayfaring Stranger is an inventive and imaginative SF novella by a three-time winner of the Sir Julius Vogel award.
PeTiTe
In PeTiTe, the bounds of human ambition and morality are tested as the discovery of teleportation and time travel rewrites the rules of existence. As 14 individuals grapple with the promise and peril of groundbreaking technology, each chapter unravels their desires and decisions, revealing an intricate story of ambition, betrayal, love, and redemption. Set against the framework of seven virtues and seven sins, PeTiTe explores the tension between humanity's highest ideals and its darkest impulses.As society struggles to harness inventions with the power to alter time and reality, the fragile balance between control and chaos shatters. The unintended consequences of these advancements spiral toward catastrophe, threatening the fabric of existence.A modern sci-fi novel with spiritual undertones, PeTiTe challenges us to consider the price of progress, where even the noblest intentions may lead to ruin. This thought-provoking tale is a haunting reminder of the limits of human control in a world where technology and morality collide.
V.I.P.E.R.
10,000 years ago, humanity was almost wiped out. Now they've returned to claim their inheritance. After a series of attacks by mysterious ships threatens the Imperium's plans to expand, the Admiralty sends out Kaia Marinoch to investigate. A newly minted Lieutenant Commander and one of the Imperium's first special forces Viper operatives-a blend of starship captain and commando-she is given the Imperium's most advanced warship and sent off to confront their enigmatic foes. From clashes with her XO to dealing with Admirals who want to scrap the V.I.P.E.R. Initiative, the maiden cruise of the warship SIN Assured is filled with more dangers to Kaia's career than just death. Still in mourning after the murder of her sister at the hands of pirates, Kaia must learn to temper her anger and prejudice against her non-Human Zahex crew as she battles competing pirates and corporate interests. She soon finds that things in the Opherian Expanse are not as expected. Now she just has to make it back alive!
Forever Curious
In an intellectual clash of galactic proportions, the biggest mystery in the Universe encounters the smartest girl from Earth. Na-Yeli Maya is humanity's champion exploring the forbidding Enigmatic Object. She's not truly alone, as her exosuit is armed with the most advanced quantum computer-and obnoxious digital assistant-ever, and her tri-schizoid condition enables her to call up her ultimate warrior and lateral thinker personas in times of dire need. She has to traverse six different layers-each a world of its own-with unique wonders, challenges and dangers. Along the way, she partners with a stranded Moiety Alien and adopts a group of Hypersounders, as they make it all the way into the Core, where a naked singularity distorts reality. Why is it there? If only they could find a way to use its other-worldly qualities for their own purposes. . .
Mind Games
Infamous hacker Kristoph and his best friend, wealthy heiress and art student Elene barely escape with their lives after Kristoph is hired to download a top-secret file known as Plan43 from RamCo, the world's most powerful Mega-Corporation.In a bid to protect Elene from those who seek to use her name and her fortune, Kristoph urges her to run and hide. Too late he realises that he has inadvertently given her the file. Now he must find her and the plan before RamCo, and whoever set him up do.Kristoph is aided in his search by Ariel, a drug-addicted spy who has been watching him for the past year and has fallen madly in love with him. Now that she has him, Ariel will go to any lengths to keep him, going so far as to take liberties with the truth. After all, now that he has her, why should he need another woman in his life?As Kristoph delves into the workings of the Mega-Corps, trying to distinguish accurate information from Corporate propaganda, he finds that there are others searching for Plan43, making his search all the more urgent.All the while Ariel's obsession and manipulation grow ever more extreme and toxic, leaving Kristoph doubting himself and all that he thinks he knows.How can he differentiate the truth from what others want him to believe? How can he find Elene and Plan43 when he cannot trust those who are supposedly helping him?
Pharaoh
Pharaoh is Greek for "Great House." From ancient myth to modern legend, this is the incredible story of the Pharaoh, the Great House. "Conception" being book one of the Pharaoh novel trilogy. Mixing historical fact and science fiction, book one compels the reader into the mysterious and powerful (surreal and magical) world of the Pharaoh. Written in a first-person perspective, told from the viewpoint of the main characters, this Pharaoh tome is a fast-paced epic adventure through ancient Egypt, into 2012, and the creation of the matrix we call Artificial Intelligence. Optimistic vibe, liberating tone, the novel illuminates the dark side of technology with brilliant insights and spiritually enlightening storytelling. Stories don't get any bigger than this. A page-turning thriller about the 21st century Pharaoh! What is a Pharaoh? Alexander the Great was a Greek king who became Pharaoh by defeating Babylonia and liberating Egypt. Coronated 'Pharaoh' by the Egyptian Priesthood, declared 'ruler of the world, ' Alexander returned the "Great House" to Egypt. He ordered the building of Alexandria, a new city on where all wisdom in the world to be gathered and unlocked. For centuries, the Great Library of Alexandria gathered all knowledge and translated all wisdom from every corner of the globe. Thus, the Great House was reborn. Pharaoh Cleopatra VII fused the Great House with Rome and used Alexandria's extremely advanced 'technology of the gods' to build the Roman Empire and rule the world. With steam-powered machines and electric lights, the Great House was centuries more advanced than Rome. Then Rome killed Caesar. Civil War tore the empire apart. Cleopatra took her own life. But the Great House never fell, never lost its technological edge, and slipped behind the veils of history. Hiding in plain sight, the Pharaohs still rule supreme from behind the scenes, with technology so advanced it's indistinguishable from magic... The plot begins in the year 2000, as we meet the 18-year-old, modern-day, Alexander the Great. Alexander yearns for freedom from the prison that is the Great House, but learns his destiny is to save the Great House. He finds himself thrust into a multigenerational, Machiavellian, familial, civil war for total world domination. Alexander's tyrannical father, Darius, wants him dead, and wants to rule the world with evil alien technology. Humanity needs a savior. Alexander must learn what it means to be a Pharaoh.
BEYOND THE KNOWN WORLDS - The Spiritic Volume II
This newly revised and expanded futuristic tale of the Spiritic is now told in three illustrated volumes. In Volume II - Beyond the Known Worlds, abducted Numorkian biologist and star marathon runner Dr. Rom Quanadeen crash-lands in a jungle on Jupol, a war-torn planet in an alien galaxy, with an injured Josi Talim, and the emulator Kitor. To save Josi, her only option is a solo 8-10-day run - north across the Voshland, a canyon-riven desert - to the nearest town, Bergetsia, to seek rebel leader, Calan Lora. Critically injured by an alien predator plant, and still haunted by eerie dreams of a Sed-Genal ancestor's brutal war with a rival Gan-Genal tribe, Rom is on a mystical run that will change her forever. Junaid, four years into his desperate mission to find his mentor Tark-Zirk's so-called alien savior, finds he's a target for Raak-Kaal's troopers. A Fortug street beggar urges him to take refuge in a rebel base - in Bergetsia. And Tark-Zirk's savior draws closer. Aboard the Ruconicca in Jupolian space, Kru Sigor's mission to rescue Rom takes a bad turn with news the galaxy they entered via the Black Maelstrom is an asynchronous star system. Every ship's month, their homeworld Numork ages unknown years. Worse, Kru, also infected by a toxic scratch, is told of the Esadov bug threat by his spirit guide, Mils Forbear. Helpless in quarantine, he persuades a shocked Gan-Genal medical officer, Pru Perazio, to read Forbear's despised Sed-Genal backed book, Long-Ago Man. WE READ IT OVER A VERY RELUCTANT PRU'S COLD SHOULDER...
THE LIVING SHIELD - The Spiritic Volume III
This newly revised and expanded futuristic tale of the Spiritic is now told in three illustrated volumes. In Volume III - The Living Shield, the abducted half Earth-human, half Sed-Genal, Dr. Rom Quanadeen, is as mad as a cut snake. A pacifist on her homeworld, Numork, she didn't ask for this fight on a war-torn alien planet, Jupol, but she isn't about to let Esadov, a sentient and lethal alien bacterium, destroy her species. The 1000-year-old smart bug is working through an infected victim, Raak-Kaal, a former pacifist turned manic war lord. Can Rom beat it? The deck seems stacked against her when her young Karpinian monk ally, Junaid, is knifed by a crazed Venger, Sedalus, in New Banika. Can she save him? Then her Jupolian ally, Josi Talim, goes missing after arrowing her craft into a suicidal dive over a Voshland canyon to save Rom from Raak-Kaal's Nixer fighters. Esadov learns a galactic time warp between Numork and Jupol means its arch-enemy human, Forbear, is long dead, yet it's pacifying to learn his grandson, Kru Sigor, is on hand to suffer in his stead. It shucks its Raak-Kaal meat-suit and recruits Cycusian Viking, Prytalior, to hijack Kru's rescue ship the Ruconicca, along with its sonic weaponry. Rom carries a dying Kru into the Voshland's boiling mud geyser that saved her life. She needs him, his spirit-guide, Forbear, together with her spirit-guide, Suvana. If they can't destroy Esadov, they'll have to outwit it. Aboard Ruconicca, Kru's aide, Ormat Niosic, and the ship's AI, Acumen, take on Esadov in a mind-crushing showdown. And hope for a miracle...
The Oceanaut
A world consumed by ocean... Humans have fled for parts unknown, save for one... He fins these depths, alone. It's your turn to keep him company...
Dusk and Dawn
The Patchwork World: one planet with a mosaic of worlds. Each in a vast crater encircled by mountains that touch space. Each an isolated milieu with particular qualities.Oceanica: a crater sea dotted with islands and girdled by mountainous rimlands. It is fractured in many nations that compete for resources and influence. Right now, an ambitious tyrant is seizing whatever he can. Three short-stories speak of ordinary people who strive to build or rebuild their lives in a time of turmoil.The Desolation: an arid crater whose city states survive thanks to an ancient canal system that brings water from the encircling mountains to the latifundios in the central flatlands. Now, a violent revolutionary regime seek to topple the old social order. The novella Dusk and Dawn tells the story of Fennec, a bastard in a ruling house and involuntary heir to its throne. Exiled by war, Fennec must discharge xer sacred oath to xer ruler. But stakes are higher than that: the future of civilization.
The Gravity of Elendoras
Orinthia Anton is on the run. Her brother is dying. Can she find the one person in the galaxy who can save him?The ex-Marauder Hunter and her friends are being hunted by their previous crew. And as bounties pile above their heads, Uri's clock is running out. They are no closer to Elendoras than the day they left the Fera.When they add a new member to the group, Orinthia has to adjust to change and learn that a little trust can go a long way. But change can be painful, and knowing who to trust is hard.Packed with space battles, new worlds, and a growing cast, you'll be swept across galaxies in the second installment of The Space Marauder Chronicles.
Old Man’s War
Perfect for an entry-level sci-fi reader and the ideal addition to a veteran fan's collection, John Scalzi's Old Man's War will take audiences on a heart-stopping adventure into the far corners of the universe.John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army. The good news is that humanity finally made it to the stars. The bad news is that, out there, planets fit to live on are scarce--and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding. Responsible for protecting humanity, the Colonial Defense Force doesn't want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. You'll be taken off Earth, never to return. You'll serve two years in combat. And if you survive, you'll be given a homestead of your own on a hard-won planet light-years from home. John Perry is taking that deal. He thinks he knows what to expect. But the actual fight is far, far harder than he can imagine--and what he will become is far stranger. "Gripping and surpassing the original. It's Starship Troopers without the lectures. It's The Forever War with better sex. It's funny, it's sad, and it's new." --Cory Doctorow "Smartly conceived and thoroughly entertaining, Old Man's War is a splendid novel." --The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
Awaken
Ben Harman, a writer struggling to cope with the mysterious death of his wife, has his family once again turned upside down as he now battles to save his 12 year old daughter, kidnapped to harness her rapidly awakening supernatural powers. To rescue Alice, Ben will have to dig deep: confront his true fears and determine if by rescuing his daughter he is also putting the world in grave danger.
The Tidelings of Dras Sayve
Maverick diplomat Emis Rindar travels to the northernmost clan in the Dras Channel, seeking the assistance of an old friend. After a lifetime of adventures across Knyadrea, a large moon, his next planned endeavour will be unlike anything he has attempted.Finding breakthroughs in such a technologically progressive clan should be easy, but Emis knows better than to expect eager cooperation from the knyads of Dras Sayve. Isolated and enigmatic, the Sayvians keep even their neighbours at a distance, and few welcome the unorthodox ideas Emis brings from abroad. Can Emis convince them that he will make a worthy mentor to one of their more curious juveniles?This story is set 30 years before the events of Far Removed (C B Lansdell's debut sci-fi novel).
Alien Life
This latest installment in Mario Milosevic's "Life" series of poetry collections brings science fiction and poetry together in an inspired mash-up of visionary genres. A master of both sf and verse, Mario offers astonishing examples of both in this expansive volume evoking good old-fashioned sense-of-wonder. The future is now. We live in a science fiction world, and poetry is the best way to live it, appreciate it, and understand it.
Apache Warrior Hawk
IIn the winter of 1006, Hawk a young Apache boy, volunteers to join the Apache Young Warriors training on his seventh birthday. Hawk faces obstacles such as drought, famine, and life and death situations. He learns harmony and respect for all living things. Hawk has a vision, experiences time travel, no person had before and from which he is desperate to return to reality. He is taught the major role women play in the tribes day to day existence. The elder woman decided where and when they camped. In war she decided whether to attack silently and leave without bloodshed or destroy their enemy and take captives.When captives were returned she decided their fate.Hawk grew up traveling with the Medicine Man from his tribe, healing the sick and dispelling spirits.He becomes a warrior he returns home to fall in love with Kokomo an Apache Princess and marries her.
Darkness After the Fall
Embla, second planet from the Sun. A planet where dusk till dawn takes 56 days. City Six, with its 230 million inhabitants, is a city dominated by the Dark mage guilds because light cannot penetrate the depths of a city the height of a mountain. In a city with no laws, a conflict is brewing.A battle mage retires to a life of asceticism and research, searching for answers in the Darkness. A young Dark mage comes in to her power. A Light mage team journeys from their stronghold by the sun to spy upon the Dark mages. A young pilot ekes out a living on the fringes of interstellar transport. A Life mage searches for a key to power. Together their lives head towards an inexorable crescendo, as the powers of Dark and Light grapple for control of the system.
Soul Journeys
THE JOURNEY CONTINUES ... After many millennia, humanity and Earth now stand on the brink of a new era. Will we be able to make the leap to the next level of our consciousness evolution? Cunning forces are doing everything in their power to prevent us from succeeding. But there is hope! Hailing from the far corners of the galaxy, many courageous souls have left their radiant homeworlds behind to come to Earth, offering their aid during this extraordinary time in our history. These Starseeds, however, must incarnate as human beings to make a difference-an incredible risk that could cost them their way back home ... Who are these brave volunteers? What have they experienced on their cosmic travels? And what challenges do they face in their human lives? Through the profound power of quantum hypnosis, the answers to these questions-and many more-are revealed. Dive into the long-awaited second volume of the SOUL JOURNEYS series and witness as Starseeds connect with their Superconscious, rediscovering their origins, identities, and missions on Earth! Fifteen deeply moving and insightful Soul Journeys offer breathtaking glimpses into the hidden history of our planet-and beyond, into far-away worlds and civilizations. Who knows? Perhaps some of it might feel strangely familiar to you ... MARIO RADINGER As a specialist in quantum hypnosis and Akashic Record reader, Mario has been assisting clients from around the world on their paths of awakening and healing since 2014. A cosmic wanderer himself, he lives high up in the Tyrolean mountains, where he spends his evenings immersed in the beauty of the starlit night sky, remembering his true home.
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The Dispossessed [50th Anniversary Edition]
One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels"One of the greats. . . . Not just a science fiction writer; a literary icon." --Stephen King"Engrossing. . . . [Le Guin] is a philosopher; an explorer in the landscape of the mind." --Cincinnati EnquirerIn celebration of its fiftieth anniversary, a commemorative edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Award-winning classic, a profound and thoughtful tale of anarchism and capitalism, individualism and collectivism, and one ambitious man's quest to bridge the ideological chasm separating two worlds. This special edition includes a new foreword by Karen Joy Fowler.The Dispossessed is the spellbinding story of anarchist Shevek, the "galactically famous scientist," who single-handedly attempts to reunite two planets cut off from each other by centuries of distrust.Anarres, Shevek's homeland, is a bleak moon settled by an anarchic utopian civilization, where there is no government, and everyone, at least nominally, is a revolutionary. It has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother planet, Urras--defined by warring nations, great poverty, and immense wealth. Now Shevek, a brilliant physicist, is determined to unify the two civilizations. In the face of great hostility, outright threats, and the pain of separation from his family, he makes an unprecedented trip to Urras. Greater than any concern for his own wellbeing is the belief that the walls of hatred, distrust, and philosophic division between his planet and the rest of the civilized universe must be torn down. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and explore differences in customs and cultures, determined to tear down the walls of hatred that have kept them apart.To visit Urras--to learn, to teach, to share--will require great sacrifice and risks, which Shevek willingly accepts. Almost immediately upon his arrival, he finds not the egotistical philistines he expected, but an intelligent, complex people who warmly welcome him. But soon the ambitious scientist and his gift is seen as a threat, and in the profound conflict that ensues, he must reexamine his beliefs even as he ignites the fires of change.
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The Dispossessed [50th Anniversary Edition]
One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels"One of the greats. . . . Not just a science fiction writer; a literary icon." --Stephen King"Engrossing. . . . [Le Guin] is a philosopher; an explorer in the landscape of the mind." --Cincinnati EnquirerIn celebration of its fiftieth anniversary, a commemorative edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Award-winning classic, a profound and thoughtful work of philosophical science fiction exploring anarchism and capitalism, individualism and collectivism, and one ambitious man's quest to bridge the ideological chasm separating two worlds. This special edition includes a new foreword by Karen Joy Fowler.A science fiction classic for the ages, The Dispossessed is the spellbinding story of anarchist Shevek, the "galactically famous scientist," who single-handedly attempts to reunite two planets cut off from each other by centuries of distrust. Anarres, Shevek's homeland, is a bleak moon settled by an anarchic utopian civilization, where there is no government, and everyone, at least nominally, is a revolutionary. It has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother planet, Urras--defined by warring nations, great poverty, and immense wealth. Now Shevek, a brilliant physicist, is determined to unify the two civilizations. In the face of great hostility, outright threats, and the pain of separation from his family, he makes an unprecedented trip to Urras. Greater than any concern for his own wellbeing is the belief that the walls of hatred, distrust, and philosophic division between his planet and the rest of the civilized universe must be torn down. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and explore differences in customs and cultures, determined to tear down the walls of hatred that have kept them apart in this landmark of social science fiction.To visit Urras--to learn, to teach, to share--will require great sacrifice and risks, which Shevek willingly accepts. Almost immediately upon his arrival, he finds not the egotistical philistines he expected, but an intelligent, complex people who warmly welcome him. But soon the ambitious scientist and his gift is seen as a threat, and in the profound conflict that ensues, he must reexamine his beliefs even as he ignites the fires of change.
My Buddy Gave Me a Starship
Mitch has a problem. His buddy has been hiding a starship from him.Mitch's mediocre life has just taken a turn for the worse, so his buddy tries to cheer him up by showing him a secret starship. Unfortunately, everything goes south when hostile aliens arrive. In an effort to save his buddy and the starship from the aliens, Mitch does the obvious thing: he accidentally warps hundreds of light-years away.Marooned in a distant star cluster, Mitch is forced to deal with a snarky teenage AI, a rogue auto-pilot, and a beautiful alien soldier who's ready to steal his ship at any moment-so she can fight an oppressive military faction, of course.Will Mitch simply use the starship to return home? Or will his attractive, though slightly frustrating, new co-pilot convince him to help the struggling Resistance movement?If you enjoy humorous "Found Spaceship" adventures, then you'll love My Buddy Gave Me a Starship.
Tales of Planet Magnae
In the 31st century, humanity no longer resides on Earth, their old planet having been destroyed centuries ago by a technological apocalypse. Humanity now survives on Magnae, a dying dystopian world where they must wage war against a cryptic alien race from Planet Luxurae. Fauxangels, a species defined as much by their glowing skin as by their compulsion to guide and govern other life forms with violent righteousness. During this war, mankind's strongest must balance their loyalty to their human comrades with their desire for ultimate power. Their vital energy and strong ideals cause turmoil among companions and commanders. Follow the lives of these war recruits of Planet Magnae as they work to protect their world from alien threats, godly forces, and malefactors within their own ranks. It is up to these recruits to preserve the last remnants of the human race.
Pangaea 2nd Edition
Pangaea is the continuing story of Captain Lionheart and his starship, the Onyx Tower. Having satisfied himself with the exploration of the Alpha Centauri system, Lionheart set course for his next place of interest, Barnard's Star. But the Onyx Tower never reached its destination. Instead, it was caught in a powerful space wave, pulled off course and ended up in a trinary star system, almost a thousand light years away. Once there, the crew discovers a double planet system, circling the nearest star. The system is just outside the habitable zone, in a region that is far too cold for liquid water, yet one of them is a warm, Earth like planet. This is the result of an artificial heat source, created by celestial engineering on a scale never dreamed of. At first contact, Lionheart and crew believe they have encountered a highly advanced civilization, but soon discover the planet appears to be uninhabited. Further exploration reveals the distant world has a terrible curse in the form of an ancient deadly entity. It is still active and was designed to terminate all forms of intelligent life. Once the entity is aware of his presence, Lionheart and crew find themselves overwhelmed. It soon becomes clear that the Onyx Tower is no match against it. The crew can't run, and they can't fight. The entity seems to have an inexhaustible power source. Facing certain doom, Lionheart knows he must fulfill a destiny, but can't imagine how.
On the Calculation of Volume (Book I)
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024 A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped off the train of time: in her world, November eighteenth repeats itself endlessly. We meet Tara on her 122nd November 18th: she no longer experiences the changes of days, weeks, months, or seasons. She finds herself in a lonely new reality without being able to explain why: how is it that she wakes every morning into the same day, knowing to the exact second when the blackbird will burst into song and when the rain will begin? Will she ever be able to share her new life with her beloved and now chronically befuddled husband? And on top of her profound isolation and confusion, Tara takes in with pain how slight a difference she makes in the world. (As she puts it: "That's how little the activities of one person matter on the eighteenth of November.")Balle is hypnotic and masterful in her remixing of the endless recursive day, creating curious little folds of time and foreshadowings: her flashbacks light up inside the text like old flash bulbs.The first volume's gravitational pull--a force inverse to its constriction--has the effect of a strong tranquilizer, but a drug under which your powers of observation only grow sharper and more acute. Give in to the book's logic (its minute movements, its thrilling shifts, its slant wit, its slowing of time) and its spell is utterly intoxicating.Solvej Balle's seven-volume novel wrings enthralling and magical new dimensions from time and its hapless, mortal subjects. As one Danish reviewer beautifully put it, Balle's fiction consists of writing that listens. "Reading her is like being caressed by language itself."
On the Calculation of Volume (Book II)
A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024 The first year of November eighteenth is coming to a close, and Tara Selter has returned to her hotel room in Paris, the place where it all began. As if perched at the edge of a precipice, she readies herself to leap into November nineteenth.Book II of Solvej Balle's astounding seven-part series On the Calculation of Volume beautifully expands on the speculative premise of Book I, drawing us further into the maze of time, where space yawns open, as if suddenly gaining a new dimension, extending into ever more fined-grained textures. Within this new reality, our senses and the tactility of things grows heightened: sounds, smells, sights, objects come suddenly alive, as if the world had begun whispering to us in a new language.And yet as the world announces itself anew, Tara's own sense of self is eroding, making her wonder just which bits of her are really left intact? "It is the Tara Selter with hopes and dreams who has fallen out of the picture, been thrown off the world, run over the edge, been poured out, carried off down the stream of eighteenths of November, lost, evaporated, swept out to sea." She begins to think of herself as a relic of the past, as something or someone leftover, similar to the little Roman coin she carries around in her pocket, without a purpose or a place.Desperate to recover a sense of herself within time, Tara decides to head north by train in search of winter, but soon she turns south in pursuit of spring, as she tries to grasp on to durational time through seasonal variations. Amazingly, On the Calculation of Volume Book II is all movement and motion--taking us through the European countries of the North and the South, through seasons, and languages--a beautiful travelogue that is also a love letter to our vanishing world. To be continued.
The Carrying Capacity of Paradise
The asteroid 4 Vesta has been colonised as a nature preserve by eccentric billionaire Benjamin Donovan Sr.-a refuge intended as much for creating a model of how humans can live, as for the animals and plants it hosts.It is a paradise, removed from the pressures of overpopulation, social media, and the incessant, draining demands of modern life.Now, Donovan Sr. lies murdered, and his son is either the prime suspect in his death. . . or the next target on the killer's list.Liane Sheridan, the station's security chief, must find the answers while navigating a web of corruption.
Orphan Planet
What if you were the only person living on a planet?Elif is the warden of Maoira-I, a planet of interest for the spacefaring remnants of humanity seeking a new home.But Elif is a child, and the only human inhabiting this world of violent seasons, with just an AI system for company.When the Interplanetary Mission abandons their plans of sending Elif a helper, she must learn how to survive the storms and the gnawing reality of loneliness.
Star Wars: The Living Force
In the year before The Phantom Menace, Yoda, Mace Windu, and the entire Jedi Council confront a galaxy on the brink of change. The Jedi have always traveled the stars, defending peace and justice across the galaxy. But the galaxy is changing, and the Jedi Order along with it. More and more, the Order finds itself focused on the future of the Republic, secluded on Coruscant, where the twelve members of the Jedi Council weigh crises on a galactic scale. As yet another Jedi Outpost left over from the Republic's golden age is set to be decommissioned on the planet Kwenn, Qui-Gon Jinn challenges the Council about the Order's increasing isolation. Mace Windu suggests a bold response: All twelve Jedi Masters will embark on a goodwill mission to help the planet and to remind the people of the galaxy that the Jedi remain as stalwart and present as they have been across the ages. But the arrival of the Jedi leadership is not seen by all as a cause for celebration. In the increasing absence of the Jedi, warring pirate factions have infested the sector. To maintain their dominance, the pirates unite, intent on assassinating the Council members. And they are willing to destroy countless innocent lives to secure their power. Cut off from Coruscant, the Jedi Masters must reckon with an unwelcome truth: While no one thinks more about the future than the Jedi Council, nobody needs their help more than those living in the present.
Two Thousand Miles Below
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A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
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UFO Symphonic
UFO Symphonic-Journeys into Sound explores the language of music and its relationship to the mystery of existence. A collection of many voices, UFO Symphonic sings like a choral symphony. UFO Symphonic suggests that music is a form of highly complex communication, a contact modality. Contact with whom? Or what? There are no final answers, the author submits. Is music one way in which the past, present and future are attempting to communicate with and through us? More than a vehicle for time travel, music can transport us to another realm. UFO Symphonic investigates how the symbolic language of music, of sound, interfaces with the collective unconscious. And with the symbolism of dreams, leading us, at times, into the realm of high strangeness. Through a series of personal accounts and experiencer stories, UFO Symphonic takes the reader on a journey into the impossible.
The Psilent Partner
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Proktols of Neptune
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Tybalt
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The Professional Approach
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Two worlds for one
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The Psychological Regulator
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Psichopath
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Prologue to an Analogue
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Victorious failure
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Stranger From Space
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Tyrants of Time
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