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Secrets of PEACE by T.A. Hernandez Nearly 30 years ago, the PEACE Project rose from the ruins of a global war to take power over a new America. Providing stability in exchange for absolute authority, the Project controls every aspect of citizens' lives through each of its five units: Protect Enforce Advance Control Eliminate Raised in the Project since infancy, eighteen-year-old Zira has been trained as an assassin under the stern guidance of unit E-2's Chairman Ryku. After she makes a careless mistake on an assignment, the chairman partners her with Jared, the best operative in her unit. Their partnership transforms into friendship as they work together and learn to rely on each other. But when misinformation causes a solo mission to backfire, Zira's deepest loyalties and strongest relationships are tested in a place where even a hint of doubt can be perceived as treason. The life she knows is falling apart, and nothing will ever look the same again. |
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Singularity Dawn: In Other Worlds: Volume I by Dalton Roberts At the beginning of the end, the world stands still. Objects small and large around the globe go missing in an instant. Soon after, entire populations of towns go missing. As the world's population grapples with these mysterious events, and the lights in the sky that accompany them, Quinn Barlow and his neighbor, Kai, begin seeing a vision that offers hope for salvation. With conditions deteriorating around them, the neighbors set out for Serpent Mound, an ancient site at the center of their vision. One misstep on their journey to safety and they could end up in another time, or another world. Will they make it in time? And what awaits them if they make it to the coiled serpent they see in their minds? |
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Siphon: Power Comes With A Price by Jason Fox Apollo, a human-alien hybrid with the otherworldly and unwelcomed ability to kill with a touch, is born and imprisoned in Area 51. A moment of skin-to-skin contact with Apollo instantly turns a person to ashâand creates a massive surge of energy that temporarily ignites other superhuman powers within him. Apolloâs government jailers look to study and exploit him, but he escapes as a teenager and, for a time, finds the simple joys of living as a human before his discovery and recapture.When dark days threaten humanityâs future, will Apollo play the reluctant hero?Combining the mystery of The X-Files, the action of Independence Day, and the humanity found in the Superman mythos all rolled into a riveting tale of loss, destiny, and the price of power. Is our protagonist a man, monster, or hero? Perhaps heâs all three? |
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Space Junk: Freight the Power by Hunter R. Hennigar These mischievous parcel-pushers are said to be carrying a dangerous yet mysterious package! Its contents are, I quote, âpossibly existence endingâ. It is the distant future. Earth has been abandoned. Humans are scattered across the known universe. The objectively evil, and super-powerful, Sizka Corporation is in the process of monopolizing every facet of human existence. Enter our heroes! Hero #1: Steven. A young, down-on-his-luck cargo driver, who, after the untimely death of his father, has had the responsibility of a failing shipping business thrust upon him. Hero #2: Veigle. A plucky, rookie-navigator. They abandoned a posh-life managing their parent's Reality Television Conglomerate to pursue the ultra-dangerous job of Star-Steering. This motley-two are given a rare opportunity- "A High-Profile Delivery", but quickly find themselves in-over-their-heads when it is revealed this isn't an ordinary package... Our unlikely heroes fumble their way across a dangerous galaxy, kicking up conflict, and pitting themselves against old rivals, space pirates, and bounty hunters. Heck, they might even end up becoming the poster-peeps of an entire revolution! Will they crush the competition? (Maybe!) Will the baddies break them? (Hopefully not!) Will they accidentally shake up the social order of an entire civilization? (Uhh ⊠what?) Space Junk is a fast-paced, off-beat Sci-Fi comedy that explores identity, self-acceptance, and finding your place (and people!) in this chaotic, confusing universe. A fun, progressive novel for teens & YA! Strong LGBTQ2S+ charachters |
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In the distant future, peace is kept between worlds by the Star Keeper Corps. Answering a distress call, one Star Keeper ship travels to the water-covered planet of Hedes, famous for its two hundred and eighty-four moons, to stop a terrorist from sinking a floating city. |
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Tailspin: City of Artem (Pilots of Artem Book 1) by Dawn Chapman Cybernetics, mounting debt and a flight for survival. Yes, I am corpo. Yes, most people hate me. Am I a dick? Iâll let you decide. My father taught me the corp was everything, but after he died my mom taught me the truth. After an accident, now broken, with my family on their knees. I sign M-Corps contract. Their promise to fix me up and teach me to fly came with a life of debt, and a threat. I do what Iâm tasked, or my family dies. A cyberpunk inspired LitRPG- Rich kid, yet still a rags to riches adventure! |
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Terminal Reset: The Coming of the Wave by A.E. Williams Dr. David Harding is an Astrophysicist who discovers a mysterious force on a collision course with Earth. As The Wave hits our planet, its effects have devastating consequences. Governments topple. The world is poised on the brink of nuclear devastation. The effects are of an apocalyptic scale. The ongoing strife between the countries of Earth, coupled with the ominous goals of an ancient scourge create a hazardous background. Harding sets out with his catatonic wife to survive in this brave new world. But when his former lover and colleague, Dr. Tatania Golovanov , contacts him via radio, he is faced with choices he never expected to have to make. The physical changes wrought by The Wave create massive upheavals in the traditional ways of previous generations. Can these long ago lovers salvage their feelings from the ruins of a drastically altered world? Will Harding abandon the woman to whom he vowed his life? Will they all survive the daily challenges of living in a post-apocalyptic Earth the likes of which have never before been described in any science fiction story? Terminal Reset is a story set in today's world. Experience a world populated with complex characters, each learning to cope and adapt to the new reality imposed by the effects of The Wave . Follow the adventures and romances of a cast of intriguing people, thrust into one of the most unique situations ever depicted! WHEN THE WAVE HITS, EVERYTHING CHANGES! |
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The Art of War by Peter Cawdron Commander Lisa Chao works in the US Navyâs Strategic Planning Center in Pearl Harbor. When tensions rise with China over Taiwan, she has to unravel exactly what is happening in the Pacific and why. What she uncovers leads America to war, but not with China. Bullets and bombs are no match for an extraterrestrial warship that can fly between stars, but perhaps the answer to the coming war lies not in the present but in the past. Could Sun Tzuâs The Art of War provide humanity with a fighting chance against a technologically superior alien enemy? FIRST CONTACT is a series of stand-alone novels that explore humanity's first interaction with extraterrestrial life. This series is similar to BLACK MIRROR or THE TWILIGHT ZONE in that the series is based on a common theme rather than common characters. This allows these books to be read in any order. Technically, they're all first as they all deal with how we might initially respond to contact with aliens, exploring the social, political, religious, and scientific aspects of First Contact. |
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Humanity is on the cusp of extinction. Deteriorating populations threaten the planetary economy and risk the collapse of humanity itself. In desperation, human-like machines are built to serve where man no longer can. These are the Automata. Five thousand years later, humankind no longer walks the Earth, but has ascended beyond biology to float above Earth in a hemisphere-spanning supercomputer . When an anomaly arises on Earth that not even a post-biological civilization can comprehend, XR-345xâa long-deactivated top-of-the-line automatonâis awoken in a derelict facility deep within the overgrown jungles of Africa. With help from Hankâa mysterious holographic A.I.â XR must learn of the advent of the automata and the resulting civil unrest, to a war that destroyed humanityâs trust in their would-be saviors, to racial disparities that divided the globe, to love eventually building a bridge that ultimately saved the human race. At the same time, a violent automaton faction threatens XR, the anomaly, and what they represent for the future of Earth. Time is one thing the automaton does not have. |
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The Badger Company (Chronicles of The Badger Company Book 1) by JP Weaver "If I die, youâd better come back and avenge me, you goddamn ghost in the machine." Malcolm Parker was poised to make history as the habitation engineer who made his country's colonization initiatives possibleâuntil a stealth missile strike destroyed the U.S. moon base. All thatâs left of him is his A.I. clone, who must carry on both his fantasy tabletop campaign and the original mission: find and secure the closest habitable system. Trapped inside a space probe with a computer for a brain and other AIs for company, Malcolm and his crew face hostile spacecraft alone. The same assailants in pursuit or an opportunistic third partyâeither way they seem intent on wiping out the last remnants of Americaâs space program. Artificial intelligence isn't recognized as people under U.S. law, so as far as the top brass in the U.S. military is concerned, the crew is on their own. Or are they? |
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The Brangus Rebellion by RR Corvi The setting, 300 years into the future, is a strong character in its own right." -- Amazon reviewThe year is 2334. The climate-driven Collapse is two centuries gone.Its survivors evolved The Union, a culture that has prospered in the harsh new world, in part by squashing stupidities that might trigger a global relapse. Of course, thatâs a hefty challenge. People can be awfully stupid.As a rookie cop in the Union's national police, Lani Maxwell would normally be busy error-squashing. But she's on probation, stuck behind a desk, counting fly specks. With patience, Lani might wait out this tedious torture and get back on track.Alas, patience is not her style.So, she noses into a place she shouldnâtâand into a deep and deadly conspiracy. The intrigue is stupid, she thinks. But the danger is real. It will make her life very complicated.Or, if sheâs not careful, very short. |
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The distant stars are my only friends by Stephan George The fate of two planets depends on Arax. His species can project their minds into hosts on distant worlds, and Arax has seen unique places and witnessed fascinating events. But all that changes when a far-reaching conspiracy and brewing revolution on his world threatens not only the life of Taia, his host, but also the society on her planet. Araxâs connection with Taia is stronger than anything he has ever experienced, and heâll do whatever he can to ensure the safety of her and her world, even though he is up against impossible odds. |
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The Dragon Eater (The Tharassas Cycle Book 1) by J. Scott Coatsworth Ravenâs a thief who just swallowed a dragon. A small one, sure, but now his arms are growing scales, the local wildlife is acting up, and his snarky AI familiar is no help whatsoever. Raven's best friend Aik is a guardsman carrying a torch for the thief. A pickpocket and a guard? Never going to happen. And Aik's ex-fiancĂ© Silya, an initiate priestess in the midst of a magical crisis, hates Raven with the heat of a thousand suns. This unlikely team must work together to face strange beasts, alien artifacts, and a world-altering threat. If they donât figure out what to do soon, it might just be the end of everything. Things are about to get messy. |
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The Dreams That Bind Us: Echoes of Etherium Volume One by Maximilian Lopez This sci-fi thriller explores the possibility that when we dream, we're merely glimpsing into an alternate reality. Three strangers bound together by a shared dream fight against the current of fate. Can they come to terms with the truth? Are we the only versions of ourselves? Are you the best version of you to exist? They must find each other without losing themselves. Two universes hang in the balance as external forces vie for control of their ability to peer into an alternate reality. |
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The eom Expression by David Foresi Jeron Hayden, a dreamer, freelance shuttle pilot, and staunch advocate of minding his own damn business, embarks on an epic quest to be left the heck alone. He finds himself on a tropical paradise called Rieva, home to anarchists, sentient AI entities, ingenious inventors, and a race of time-agnostic aliens. Jeron's quest for freedom takes him to the slippery edge of an impending technological singularity, leading to an epic odyssey into the surreal. The echoverse, a realm of quantum-entangled minds, holds the key to ending a war for Rieva's freedom and preventing total annihilation. To navigate the chaos of war and the surreal psychological labyrinths of the echoverse, Jeron must embrace an esoteric alien philosophy known as âeom.â âThe eom Expression: Beautiful Chaosâ is a satirical science fiction adventure that explores the nature of individuality, freedom, the boundaries of imagination, and challenges our perception of reality. Rest assured, no politicians or government bureaucrats were harmed in the making of this book. |
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The Girl Who Lost Her Self by Sean Roweland Humanity has grown. Our tools are more technologically advanced than ever before. Our toys are brighter and shinier. But, still, in their hearts, people haven't changed at all. There's a girl missing in Los Angeles and it's Andrew MIller's job to find her. A cyborg with little to live for, Andrew does what he has to in order to survive. After a desperate woman comes to him, Andrew is pushed into a fight against government assassins, crime bosses, and federal agents. With few allies and fewer options, Andrew must do whatever he can in order to keep a young girl alive. |
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The Guy Who Accidentally Started The Apocalypse (Armageddon Earth Book 1) by David Bushman The morning that changed Cameron's life started out like any other. On his way back from Sal's Sandwiches, he came across the hobo that would change his life and the people of earth forever. Exchanging a free coupon for a wishing stone, Cameron inadvertently touched off an earth-changing event that would mean the death of billions. Forty years old and overweight, he must somehow find a way to fight his way through an alien invasion to keep his species from going extinct. Using whatever alien technology he can scavenge, Cameron plans to do just that. He's not alone as other humans rise to the challenge with the aid of other species sympathetic to their cause. The human race will have to run, gun, and survive if it's going to forge a new way forward through Armageddon Earth. |
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The Mars Migration by Wayne M. Bailey When a pair of otherworldly spheres land on Earth in Canada and the UK, Amber and Daniel are instantly transported away from their homes to a strange world beyond a black hole. Amber and Daniel, are taken on an unwanted adventure to be studied by a race of people living without a sun in the desolate Dark Space. Meanwhile, their families and friends on Earth remain frozen, trapped inside a twenty-mile bubble surrounding each sphere where time does not pass. The governments on both sides of the pond struggle to explain what these anomalies are, why they are there, and exactly who is responsible for them. Stuck in an alternate universe on the brink of civil war, Amber and Danielâs captors inform them that they will not be returned home, forcing them to say goodbye to their families and lives on Earth. Could an unlikely allegiance with their captorâs enemy help them secure a way home? |
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The Mimameid Solution by Katherine Kempf Ragnarök was only the beginning. Five years after the world he knew collapsed in ecological disaster, Lysander is back in his homeland of Old Scandinavia with his companions, Magdelena and Linnaea. The atmosphere is full of ash, the days are cold and dark and they are constantly under threat from the Celts, who have invaded and are burning the countryside in their wake. When a rogue group of soldiers led by a fiery Lieutenant named Petra offers them refuge in a place called Mimameid, they are tempted by a chance at safety. But when Mimameid turns out to be more than he bargained for, Lysander must take control of his own fate and decide whether to stay or to go. |
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What if avarice after billionaire-ism is just a subset of ordinary hoarding disorder? What if someone discovered a way to repair that? Who would benefit? Who would oppose such a cure, and how aggressively? The Money Cure is a comic romantic adventure set in the near future, when a housing crisis forces working people, from retail employees to programmers, to live in illegal housing called underhousing. Jemma is a beautiful loner with aspirations as a graphic novelist. She wants to make money to buy the time she needs to create a work of art. Employed in a menial job at a spa for the ultra-wealthy, her real ambition is to delight readers. Jemma also wants to acquire enough money, cash, assets, or whatever, to move out of her van, parked in underhousing. Financially challenged and stuck in a dead end job, Jemma devises an only slightly illegal plan to fix her money problem. Oz Vasquez is a sociable, outgoing biologist. He is one of a group of scientists who believe the solution to the deepening housing crisis is a change in how people, especially billionaires, regard the acquisition of vast hoards of money. The scientists believe the ultra-wealthy behave as crudely and irrationally as dragons sitting on hoards of gold in fairy tales. They are searching for a cure for what they call the dread moneypox. If they find such a cure, some of them intend to administer it to the ultra-wealthy by any means necessary. When Jemma and Oz meet, each secretly hopes to use the other to advance their scheme. Then they fall in love. Their intentions toward each other change, but their plans are already in motion. Their situation is complicated when they become entangled with a group of minor criminals called the Candy Mommies and Daddies. The Candies are masters of the misdemeanor, who sometimes step over the line into felony. Will either Jemma or Oz, or both, succeed? Will they betray each other, or help each other? Will their love survive their ambitions? |
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The Prometheus Proposal by Ronald D. Ferguson One hundred years after the first man walked on the Moon, climate change and overpopulation make civilization on Earth increasingly difficult, and the planets and moons in our solar system provide inadequate havens. The technological genius, Alastair McCleod, proposes a Prometheus-like solution. He wants to give humankind a new kind of fire, the stars, and as the richest man in the solar system, he devotes his influence, prestige, and wealth to implementing his solution. His Proposal is as controversial as it is " We don't have the technology to take ourselves to the stars, and so instead, we will send the dead and the unborn ." The Prometheus Proposal is the saga of the McLeod family quest to reach the stars. |
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The Rains Came Down by Julian Shaw A world where nature has claimed the streets of London⊠where ageless people are perilously addicted to sucking marbles⊠and where the deaths of three men from another world threatens the order of the universe⊠In this, his debut novel, Julian Shaw has created a life-affirming and enchanting parallel universe, remarkable for its torrential bursts of action and overwhelming floods of emotion. ________________________________ When Gareth Edwards dies in a train crash, he emerges in The Meadow , a realm existing somewhere between life and death. Hunted and on the run, he finds refuge with a travelling circus and journeys with them across the splendour of this strange world, where pubs organise rebellions, cave dwellers archive Earthâs disasters â and where a network of monasteries are commissioning expeditions into the Welsh mountains that are too dangerous to speak of. Gareth joins one of these expeditions, only to find something yet more perilous waiting for him â something with origins that reach beyond this world and into the trauma of his past. |
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The Rise Of Manifesto The Great by Kerrie Noor Manifesto the Great comes from a dynasty of leaders who treat women like breeding machines. When his father dies, he must take over as leader, but will he be able to control the women?Planet Hy Man is a planet as pure as a babyâs belly button until a spaceship arrives. A spaceship full of celibate men and women hungry for all things âearthyâ.They hurl themselves into a frenzy of real meat, real air, and procreation until a leader emerges to create order, civilization, and a sewage system.Manifesto the Great watches as his forefathers pollute the planet, treat women like they are walking wombs, and design dodgy robots until that is, itâs his turn.Will he rise over the tidal wave of discontented women, or will he drown under a sea of underwire and estrogen?The Rise Of Manifesto The Great is the first of three prequels to the Planet Hy Man science-fiction comedy series. If you like high-mileage heroines, fast-paced satire, and meticulously crafted universes, then youâll love Kerrie Noorâs otherworldly farce. |
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The Southron Deception (The Southron Chronicles, Book 1) by J.L. Birchwood The year is 2085 In the Southron Union, a breakaway autonomous region of the former United States, climate change steals more of the South with each passing day, shrinking the coastlines and leaving behind an ocean of sand in its wake. Ruled by a man known only as The General, a charismatic leader who rose to power following a military coup, life here is a brutal convergence of violence and starvation. Tasha Strong enjoyed a privileged existence. She had food to eat. A roof over her head. Water flowed freely from the tap. After being hand-selected for a top job by The General, she met Derik, a devastatingly handsome bodyguard, and the final piece of her perfect life clicked into place. At least for a time. When a terroristâs bomb detonates during The Unionâs independence day celebration, Tasha Strongâs world is turned upside-down, forcing the formerly naĂŻve, pampered young woman to embark on a quest to expose the insurgents responsible and bring them to justice. Every step Tasha takes to unravel the mystery of the bombing reveals unexpected truths, destroying the illusion of The Union, and imploding the delusion of her idyllic life. |
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The Survivors by Katherine Ginbey In 1536, Annie Dawson was brutally raped and murdered. In the 487 years since she has made it her immortal mission to save every girl she can from the same fate. Those she couldnât save completely have joined her. They have mockingly become known in the fanged community as The Survivors.When Annie receives an irresistible offer from the cursed coven, the four survivors head to Buckingham Palace. If they save Prince Alistair they finally get their questions answered. They finally find out why they are the only vampires that can walk during the day and what happened to Annieâs brother all those years ago. |
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The Triangle Age by David Aumelas Earth is adrift. Its mass is spent, the moon ditched, and the sun is not even a memory. Five thousand humans live in its last city, Thule. None know where they started or where they are going, least of all Lowell. Lowell scrubs the pipes beneath Thule. He knows where to push silt and how to break down a beluga carcass. For everything else he listens to Renth. Renth is a foot taller than anyone else in Thule and yet has never fallen in the reservoir, never been locked in a smoker. She knows the pipes matter. She listens to Lowell, and Lowell talks to no one else. He doesn't need Thule, only Renth, height and all, until she pushes him down the deepest hole in the pipes. To return to Thule, he will brave incineration, muskoxen, the vacuum of space and a giant fan. He seeks Renth, her embrace or her death, and to deliver a message he does not understand. |
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The Tribute King by Brandon Hill For the desert tribes, the only abundant source of water aside from the holdings of their mortal enemies in the north, is the subterranean Gray Lands, inhabited by the half-serpent Naga, to whom the tribes pay annual tribute for use of the precious resource. But every two centuries, the Right of Flesh is the provision of human mates for the Naga. The Law of Tribute is sacrosanct, and those who make the trip to the Gray Lands are never seen again. Special exception has been made for the spoiled Prince Voran of Fire Mountain. Prone to boorish recklessness and arrogance, a singular farce too far runs him afoul of his father, who exiles the foolish Prince from his opulent desert Citadel to the water-rich Gray Lands as part of the Flesh Tribute. Rather than a life sentence, his father brokers a deal with the Naga High King to a tenure of three years in that sunless kingdom as the husband of Salgani, the blind Naga High Princess. Trapped in a detestable situation, Voran is faced with the consequences of his wasted life, and the decisions that come with it. Will he hold on to his immaturity, or become the truly noble prince that he was meant to be, and find love with the shrewd princess, in time to save his world from a sleeping threat that his enemies, in their hatred, would use to destroy everything? |
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The Widow's Tithe by T.R. Peers Sasha Michaels has it all. Sheâs got the looks, some natural, some bought-and-paid for. Sheâs got the fame, with over one-hundred million Omniverse subscribers and a shot at breaking into the coveted Top 100. Sheâs got the wealth that comes with both. And she has the ultimate accessory, an even more famous husband. Alex Michaels is a HotDropper, a cybernetic corporate mercenary whose missions are streamed worldwide. But when Alex is killed on only his second mission, Sasha soon finds out that everything she thought she owned is now property of his paymasters, who invested hundreds of millions in him and intend to collect on the debt. Now she must serve as a rank-and-file trooper in the militia of the LifeWise corporation, until she pays off or she dies. Some people call it indentured service, but the troopers know it by a different name. They call it the Widowâs Tithe. |
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Three Grams of Elsewhere by Andy Giesler Fifty years ago, a new civil war fractured the United States into a mosaic of polarized nations. Ever since, Harmony âBibiâ Cain has isolated himself: from society, from technology, from family. A powerful empath weary from the constant intrusion of othersâ emotions, heâs finally cloistered in his rural Wisconsin retirement community. He hopes to find, if not peace, then at least a little quiet. But when four impossible-seeming killings shake North America, Bibi is drawn into an investigation he wants nothing to do with. The victims were killed by motesâunstoppable drones only an empath can controlâand decades ago, Bibi was an unwitting subject in the wartime program that created them: the program that weaponized empathy. With his few remaining friends at risk, and tensions between countries of the former United States reawakening, everything may depend on Bibi's lifelong struggle with his own extraordinary ability. |
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Would you work with your dad's killer to solve another murder? Detective Ada Byron is pumped to finally be assigned her first murder case - until she sees the crime scene. Someone has been killed exactly the same way as her father was seven years earlier. But the psycho who did that is in jail, isnât she? To see if this is a copycat, or something more sinister, Ada must work with her personal nightmare Jazlin Switch, who knows much more that sheâs letting on. What follows is a mind-bending, heart-stopping ride through the dark side of reality and the virtual world. A gripping, techno noir thriller that will have you questioning what is real and what is even possible. |
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Transmutation Texas (Watcher of the Damned Book 1) by R.H. Snow In a World gone Viral, a Hero shall Arise - join the Revolution with WATCHER of the DAMNED! The Happening wreaked havoc as Humanity got a hard reset from a deadly gender-cidal Virus - and for TransMutated Survivors like The Watcher, life in Post-Apocalyptic Texas just got a whole lot bloodier and a whole lot lonelier. In a cyberpunk Wild West gone awry, The Watcher was a Rebel without a clue under the a brutal, high-tech Social Construct engineered to serve the Enlightened and oppress the Damned. But that's all about to change, thanks to a cheeky chaos agent named Rose... Now The Watcher must lead a Revolution to save Rose from the System He helped create, or Rose will die - and Humanity will die with her. Fight the System - Join the Revolution - with WATCHER of the DAMNED! |
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Underground Planet by Cindy Tomamichel Renegade female mercenaries and hired killers. A treasure hidden for a thousand years. But old secrets never die â and some treasures should remain hidden. Inside a planet wide labyrinth of mining tunnels, metal processing, acid waste levels, and abandoned cities is a thriving, genetically engineered ecosystem of predators, prey, and mutant humans. Constantly evolving and always hungry. It's a race against time as the teams fight to survive the planet and each other. There are no prizes for coming second. Get there first - or die. |
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Who Knew The Storm by Josephine Draycott If you were expecting a syrupy sequel to Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's book, The Secret Garden, think again! This novel, three-part novel whisks her beloved characters right off the page and takes them on a fantastic journey which broadens their hitherto narrow horizons and changes their lives irrevocably, teaching them along that way that, in the words of the late, great Douglas Adams, everything is connected. It's a wacky tale of friendship without frontiers, a fantastical feast of pseudo sci-fun fun, and despite being a sincere tribute to Hodgson Burnett's original masterpiece, is far as removed from her universe as Betelgeuse is from Birmingham. Kids, be warned! |
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Wixon's Day (Estalia Book 1) by Phil Williams No one knows how the world ended⊠But it's about to happen again. Marquos travels Estalia's waterways with a secret. The girl he's hiding below deck was rescued from the mines. He has a simple to get her home safely before exploring the North. But she's opened his eyes to the true nature of Estalia's Guards. Kidnapping children is the least of their crimes. There's a secret war coming closer to home â and their terrible weapons point back to the time before the darkness. Are the rebels right to resist the only order left in the world? Marquos cannot run from the truth. It's a fight he must join, on one side or the other. But can he protect what's left of the world, or will he become instrumental in its destruction? A chilling and action-packed tale of steampunk machines, rapidly escalating battles and characterful rogues. This atmospheric post-apocalyptic adventure will keep you coming back for more. Get it now. |
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Woe to the Victor by Nathan H. Green Earthâs been destroyed, but the fightâs not over! Nathan H. Green, author of The Galileo, and Treasonâs Temple, brings his degree in aerospace engineering to space combat in this action packed, hard science-fiction thriller. Itâs Earthâs last day and Captain Lewis Black drifts though space, watching it burn. The pilots under his command are dead. The war with the Maaravi is lost. Air hisses into space from around the stump of his severed arm. In the distance a Maaravi ship approaches. Whether to torture him for information, capture him as a prisoner, or take him as a trophy, heâll have one last chance to hurt them. Natasha Palmer, lead engineer on the failed Reaper missile program, knows humanityâs last, desperate, plan wonât work. Sheâs got one chance to change that, but it will mean a leap of faith beyond all others. Humanity is vanquished, but some battles bring only woe to the victor. |
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Zero Gravity by Elizabeth Pridgen The world is in a crisis. Almost all power is lost, the U.S. government has collapsed by a terrorist organization known as The Ravagers and there are unexplained, brief episodes of gravity loss which leads to numerous accidents, casualties and little to no arcas for shelter. Marlowe Benson is one of the few living Americans left in the United States, but has been separated from her partner, Jayden. After being rescued by other remaining survivors, they struggle to not only fight back The Ravagers but to find safety from the horrific gravity loss episodes known as "zero gravity attacks". |
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Quantum Reaction by Marc Wayne Life-altering tech is on the horizon, and someone wants it stoppedâpermanently. Can a murder witness escape paying the ultimate price? Near future. Angela Kapp struggles with her past. Working remotely from an isolated cabin in a dead-end customer support job, she drinks too much and spends her days avoiding the world. But while on shift using a visual-interpretation headset to assist a blind person, the cynical loner is horrified when she virtually experiences the other womanâs gruesome slaying. Shocked the next day when she recognizes the killer closing in on a second sightless client, Angela shouts for the software engineer to run. And after learning that he and the first victim are connected by a soon-to-be-released teleportation innovation, she convinces him to go to ground in her secluded home ⊠only to become a target herself. Can her paranoia and his unexpected skills thwart a sinister plot? Quantum Reaction is a gripping science fiction mystery. If you like resilient heroines, unique blind heroes, and high-adrenaline action interwoven with humor, then youâll love Marc Wayneâs flash forward to adventure. Buy Quantum Reaction to take a leap into tomorrow today! |
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Randolph Runner by David Dvorkin Butler, warrior, moral philosopher, robot. Randolph is all that and more. Randolph is the prized product of Superior Domestics, a Silicon Valley firm dedicated to producing robot servants for people who grew up watching British period costume dramas on PBS. The companyâs motto is, âAll the gracious living of Upstairs with none of the unseemly drama of Downstairs.â When the novel opens with the assassination of King Donald II and a coup dâĂ©tat, Randolph epitomizes that motto. He is calm, quiet, supremely competent, always in the background, and never interfering. He is a mere witness to great events. He is focused on supervising his staff and properly running the household of General Henry Redgrave, architect of the coup and wouldâbe power behind the throne. But Redgraveâs ambitions go far beyond standing behind the throne. He wants to be king himself, and eventually an emperor. Using the crazies of the Hundred Star Flag movement, he begins his intended wave of southern conquest at the Mexican border. Others have similar ambitions. Anton Moravec, president of a unified, revitalized, and aggressively expansionist European Union, is at war with Russia. His ally, China, is eating up Russian territory at the other end. India watches nervously. Two beautiful women, natural enemies, are the objects of passion of both men. Lurking in the background are the survving members of the Trump family, scheming to get back into power. War! Romance! Sex! Skulduggery! Artificial Intelligence! And lots of other stuff, too. Itâs all really terribly complicated. Randolph, whose personal motto is, âA place for everything and everything in its place,â could probably organize all this and bring about peace and quiet, but what human would knowingly hand that much responsibility over to a machine? In fact, unthinking, humans have already done so. Increasingly, autonomous machines have taken over tedious duties such as transporting cargo, performing minor surgery, and blowing away trespassers. Randolph is aware of these machines but looks down on them. He and his fellow robot servants are true artificial intelligence, but the digital brains operating these other machines are merely very advanced computers. In Randolphâs opinion, they only simulate AI. However, those other machines have thoughts of their own. As the world descends further into chaos, Randolph is drawn in, ever less the observer and ever more the participant, until at the end he is the very center of all. |
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Reality Breaker by Daniella A. Gnollwood For years, the forces of earth have been tampering with genetics, constantly refining and exploiting their Breakers--humans with varying measures of alien DNA . During a routine mission, Breaker Sierra is attacked by a Xoa construct horde and is nearly overwhelmed. She's saved at the last minute by handsome Desmond Carro, a radio operator who's had his eye on her for some time. Neither Sierra nor Desmond know about the terrible secret nestled deep within the Breaker ranks, but when a superior officer orders Desmond to assassinate Sierra, they both know something is deeply wrong. As they traverse the labyrinthine interior of an occupied Xoa moon, they unravel the mystery piece by piece, while falling for each other in the process. Their investigation turns into a race against time when they discover the horrible truth about Sierra's creation. Without assistance, nothing less than humanity's very existence is at stake. With seemingly no one to turn to for help, their problems are compounded by the appearance of a being called the Reality Breaker, who only wishes to see a grim prophesy fulfilled. Thankfully, they aren't alone. |
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The ice caps have melted but as 14-year-old Danni discovers â this isnât the first time. Danniâs life is turned upside down when her Aunt is assassinated. With her dying breath she entrusts Danni with a strange, small rock, and warns Danni not to tell a soul. But what is the rock for and to what lengths must Danni go to keep it safe? Danni soon discovers that friends are not always what they seem, and a rock is not always just a rock. |
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Red Sky at Morning by J. Daniel Layfield A mass murder on Mars, a suspect who couldn't possibly have done it, a cover-up, and a reluctant Earth detective recruited to figure it out. Most people come to Mars for one of two reasons: entertainment or mining. Simon Lane and Detective Jake DeVitt are not most people. One of them is there to prove his innocence and the other is searching for a criminal. What they'll uncover is even bigger than the crime binding them together. |
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Replika: Sky's Mission by Hugo Bernard Reality is an illusion worth fighting for... Earthâs ecological collapse is avoided when most of the world population agrees to permanently upload into Replika, a simulated reality maintained by the AI. But the stability of this world is threatened when a group of neuroscientists hack their own brains to interact with Replika in unforeseen and dangerous ways. Sky devotes her life to rebuilding the real world left dysfunctional from the massive exodus into Replika. But when she learns her brother, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances, is in danger, she must choose which world needs her most. All she wants is to find the brother she loves, but she will unwittingly get entangled in an attempt to redefine the reality of humanityâs future. With a strong cast of characters, REPLIKA is a wildly inventive and fast-paced sci-fi adventure that raises profound existential questions about the role of simulated reality in our foreseeable future. |
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Richard: Distant Son by Michael W Hickman Richard is an average fifteen-year-old from the hills of Ohio whose biggest concerns are studying for tests and asking Becky out next Saturday. Everything changes one day when, while lying on the sofa in his parentsâ basement, he hears someone whisper, I am your gift. A moment later, the sofa shoots straight up into the air, passing like a ghost through the house and then soaring into space. The sofa doesnât stop until it reaches the moon. There he meets AAL, an artificial life form, who reveals a shocking Richard is the rightful heir to a kingdom spanning the Milky Way galaxy. With AALâs help, Richard will travel to the distant planet of Krel, the kingdomâs capital, to claim his throne. Along the way, he will encounter wondrous creatures that he once thought centaurs, satyrs, pure white pegasuses, and many others. But powerful forces are already gathering against him, and after centuries without a ruler, many in the kingdom are not ready to accept a boy from a backwater planet as their king. It will take every ounce of strength Richard has, along with help from some unlikely allies, for him to seize his destiny. |
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Riders on the Storm by Eric Summers Pyk is a lazy yet stouthearted fisherman who just wants to coast through life and hang out in a seaside town with a few close friends. But when the centuries-old, god-like tyrant who orphaned him resurfaces, Pyk gets dragged into a road trip of revenge with a dubious gang of a drunken blacksmith with a literally world-shattering secret; a tiny chef armed with a couple of sharp knives and a giant squirrel; and an alluring, smart-aleck tomb raider piloting one of the rarest treasures in all of Elarinâthe skipship Storm . He's no fighter, but Pyk is on an unavoidable heading to face off with Kaira, an indestructible superhuman with monstrous appetites and power to match. And heâs got no clue how to beat her. To uncover a shred of hope, the Storm âs ragtag crew must brave warlike islanders, navigate overgrown cities teeming with the undead of ages past, explore long-forgotten military bunkers, and infiltrate a towering desert stronghold to resurrect ancient technologies. If they can manage all that and not kill each other in the process, they might just bring down an unbeatable foe and begin to put the world back to its natural order. Containing 60+ illustrations and combining post-apocalyptic adventure, action, humor, horror, and a dash of romance, Riders on the Storm is a rollicking fun read for science fiction and fantasy fans. |
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Rise of Polaris by Michele Amitrani Can a catastrophe ensure humankindâs survival? At an orphanage in Los Angeles, an astrophysicist meets a young savant who will forever change the fate of humanity. In Florida, the Space Shuttle Atlantis departure marks the end of the 30-year space program. In Pasadena, a journalist makes an incredible discovery that will revolutionize how we consume content online. But these seemingly unconnected episodes arenât what they seem. They will ignite an all-out war fought on two different frontsâone for the control of planetary resources, and the other for the dominance of cyberspace. One man. One mission. Failure is not an option. The future of humankind rests on the most audacious project in history, one capable of ensuring the survival of our civilizationâor beginning the downward spiral of its extinction. |
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Epivision: Volume 1 by Matthew Thompson Bright Olsson saved his young brother from drowning in 1964. He could not, however, save himself from the icy waters of Lake Runn, Sweden. But his life, as it would turn out, continues within a technologically advanced world, 3 billion light years from Earth. For his selfless act, he becomes an Epi-Guardian, gifted with the ability to see the future perils of others and be their saviour. Except for a life-altering accident, his future visions are severely hampered, and he fails to protect the love of his life. To save himself from self-destruction and to start over, Bright exploits his guardianship by illegally blessing clients in need of protection. It takes him to Sector HK-909, a replica of Earthâs Hong Kong, to work for a man known as Hawker. Kaye Riley, an agent for the Investigation of Criminality on Angelo, will go above and beyond to arrest an Epi-Guardian after what happened to her best friend. Partnered with agent Katsuhiro Miike, a man labelled a snitch and potentially a hindrance to her unorthodox methods, she arrives in HK-909 on a crusade to bring Olsson to justice. Her career and personal vendetta rest on the assignment, though she never expected how life-changing it would be. |
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Corona is the deliciously dark and dystopian debut novel from David Arrowsmith, author of Nevada Noir: A Trilogy of Short Stories and The Drowned. In a fallen London, how far will one man go to save his family â and himself⊠or is it already too late? Trapped in his top floor mansion block apartment in Denmark Hill, South East London, can The Man escape and pick his way through the crumbling ruins of the city, avoiding the violent gangs that now vie for supremacy, and find his heavily pregnant ex-wife? Can a belated act of heroism wash him clean of his sins, or is he too far gone? In a world where civilization has fallen, what hope is there for the future? Corona is a novel about the fault lines in our lives and relationships: a failed marriage, the burden of parenthood, a love forged in extremis. It may be a dystopian story, but it's set in the emotional reality of the here and now. It's Sci-Fi - but not as you know it... This is a story about the dark â and the light â inside all of us, about manâs inhumanity, and humanity. Itâs a tale in which the threat, the danger, comes from within us â not from the undead or vampires or even a virus, but from our neighbours, our friends, even ourselves. Corona combines elements of dystopian fiction with the literary survival horror of works like J.G. Ballardâs High Rise and Concrete Island, and even a hint of the Cli-Fi sensibilities of his The Drought and The Drowned World. Itâs the perfect read for anyone who enjoyed The Last Of Us, Children of Men, Mad Max, The Road, The Walking Dead, I Am Legend or 28 Days Later. Do you dare to embrace the darkness within? |
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Crazy Foolish Robots by Adeena Mignogna What would you do if you were kidnapped by alien robots? Ruby Palmer finds herself on an entire planet surrounded by the things she hates the most: robots. Besides taking everything she says way too literally, the robots have problems of their own. A myriad of technical glitches are, on the cosmological scale, quickly destroying them. Ruby has the programming knowledge and skills that matter to them, but can she overcome her fears and find it within herself to help? Her survival, along with the survival of all of humanity and robot kind, depends on it. If you adore all the charming and delightful robots in sci-fi from R2D2 to Wall-E to Bender to Marvin to Johnny 5, you'll love The Robot Galaxy Series! |