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The Phoenix Elite: Sacred Blood by C. T. Clark Adam Eberhardt has always felt different, but he never wouldâve guessed he was a clone of Albert Einstein. Science geeks donât usually live inside the body of a hulk. A brain that never shuts off can be a blessing or a curse, but Adam hasnât felt many blessings during his sleepless nights, regular victims of his severe anxiety disorder. Weaving through harrowing childhood memories, science research, and self-doubt, he most enjoys spending his mind power thinking about his wunderkind fellow student, Margot. . .who remains oblivious to his interest. The serial abduction of nuclear scientists, including Margot, triggers a cascade of action that reveals things are not what they have seemed. Military officials dispatch to all corners of the globe to pick up individuals with an unusual gray marking on their wrist. Adam joins a group of seven young adults in a top-secret training facility where they learn a shocking fact: each one is an enhanced clone of a famous historical figure. They were created by the Phoenix Elite Initiative under the watch of scientist Emmanuel Kebe. Kebe has been popping in and out of their lives since their earliest memories, spending decades developing their natural abilities and training them from a distance, all in preparation for a time of global crisis. And that time of crisis has arrived. |
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Some people say to never trust a spy A militia officer on the hunt for a murderer. A scientist with the key to humanityâs future. A girl in a glass tank with no memory. One seeking justice. One seeking fame. One seeking answers. With the galaxy on the brink of war, time is not on their side. Join them in their battle for survival. |
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The Murder Algorithm by Wilson Kincaid In a not so distant future where lives are broadcast 24 hours a day, how can one man prove he is innocent of a crime the whole world watched him commit? In this frighteningly plausible story, âThe Murder Algorithmâ thrusts us into a labyrinth of deception, fame, and a society teetering on the edge of destruction at the hands of its own desire for celebrity and approval. Roman Glass, accused of murdering beloved social media icon Starla Devine, must race against the clock to unravel a web of deceit. As he fights to prove his innocence, Social Media Investigator Rae Dettmer unearths a sinister pattern: a series of seemingly unrelated murders connected by the invisible threads of the digital realm. âThe Murder Algorithmâ is an exciting blend of science fiction and mystery, where the line between private and public is as thin as the pixels on a screen. With each revelation, layers of intrigue are revealed, leaving readers questioning the price of fame, and the lengths the powerful will go to maintain control. Get ready for an adventure where every click, every post, and every like is a weapon. Because in the age of perpetual surveillance, the most dangerous game is the one played in plain sight. |
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The Minority Rule by Alexia Muelle-Rushbrook Years of greed and war devastated most of Earth. Now largely infertile, the remnants of the world have been united under one strict, unwavering power focused on Earthâs guardianship as well as humanityâs prosperity. Maia believes in the established order, yet as a budding young scientist, she also wants more than the decreed roles of housewife to a stranger, egg donor, and mother. As family and state force Maia into submission, she resigns herself to a life of compliance until she unexpectedly meets two vastly different women. Discovering they both hold secrets, Maia questions if she can keep silent, even if revealing the truth threatens to irrevocably challenge the foundations of her existence. Silence may not be golden â but it is safer. |
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The McMurdo Rift by Bradley Lejeune One ex-wife. Her missing husband. A mysterious alien race. In the not-so-distant future, Earth stood tall with its sprawling empire, ruling with an iron fist. But the subjugated colonies had other ideas and rose up in rebellion. The war that ensued should have been a simple victory for Earth, but the tide turned when an alien race, the Koru, unexpectedly joined forces with the breakaway factions. The planetâs fate hung in the balance as a colossal Koru battleship nearly annihilated the homeworld, until the valiant efforts of Mark Franklin saved the day. But the cost of victory was too steep, leaving him a broken man. Fast forward ten years, and Franklin has left behind his past life, seeking solace in running a bar aboard a creaky starliner that drifts in the far reaches of space. But when his ex-wife appears, pleading for his help in finding her missing husband, Franklinâs fragile peace is shattered. As he sets off on a treacherous journey to unravel the mystery, Franklin realizes that the Koru have returned, and they have set their sights on something hidden deep within The McMurdo Rift. The fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance, and Franklin is the only one who can save it. Will he risk everything to defeat the Koru and save the galaxy once again? |
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The Martian Incident by Ryan M. Patrick A crashed UAV on Mars. A top-secret recovery mission. Danger at every corner. When a mysterious aerial drone is shot down on Mars near the American colony of Columbia, NASA accident investigator John Cameron joins a joint DOD team to recover it. But, as a sandstorm moves in to blanket the area, the Americans are attacked by an overwhelming enemy force of EU soldiers in a surprise attack. Forced into a deep cave system beneath the Martian surface, Cameron and the team uncover a breathtaking discovery, left untouched for millennia. But what will happen when its original owners come back for it? Will Cameron survive and be able to return to Earth? Find out in The Martian Incident, a standalone sci-fi thriller with military elements, perfect for fans of Michael Crichton, Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child, and Andy Weir. |
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The Man Who Sold the World by Iain Benson James London is having a weird week. One minute, heâs dodging London traffic like a caffeinated squirrel, and the next, heâs knee-deep in Istanbulâs rubble, where a rogue chemistry experiment has gone disastrously right, turning the city into a tourist-free zone. Not that this is a first for himâsaving the world is just another bullet point on his CV. Enter D&D aficionado, Zee, a teenager (maybe) with a knack for shortcuts and a dad who thinks Ambrosia is more than just custard. Together, theyâre on a mission to stop a Turkish mobster in a gold lamĂ© tracksuit from turning copper into gold and the global economy into a grim joke. Oh, and thereâs the small matter of immortality on the line, because why not? Meanwhile, Detective Louise Sargant wants to solve a straightforward case of a shattered mirror on the Southbank. Instead, sheâs stuck dealing with colleagues who think her last name is the punchline to every joke, and she suspects beloved chef Nigella Lawson might be in danger. Packed with more twists than a politicianâs promises and enough irreverent humour to make you snort your coffee, âThe Man Who Sold the Worldâ is James Londonâs third outing and a wild ride through secret shortcuts, interdimensional mayhem, and one detectiveâs quest to avoid going completely bonkers. Perfect for fans of madcap adventures, this novel will have you questioning everything you thought you knew about alchemy, ancient myths, and the Turkish mafia. |
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The Long Home of the Soul by J. Carl Denton In the year 2095, when one of the most powerful men in the world is brutally murdered, Coleman Hawkins, a burned out Atlanta MetroPol detective struggling with PTSD, is tasked with finding the killer. His investigation leads him face to face with the endgame of global economic disparity, and to a secret too terrible to be believed, too horrible to be ignored. |
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The Lonely Ship from the Accord 1: Near Traverse by Ewan Stone The Galactic Accordâs first journey to the distant Forge galaxy goes awry, leaving the crew adrift in an ancient, alien starship powered by intimacy⊠Now, the crew of the Rune Carrier must travel across the new frontier, forging new connections and facing off against new enemies. They must uncover the legacy left behind by the galaxyâs lost masters. And all the while, the living ship must learn for herself who she is and what she wants. Or who she wants. The Lonely Ship from the Accord is a horny harem space opera adventure about sex and self-identity. Itâs told in three parts, with this being the first part. |
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The Lazarus Men by Christian Warren Freed You know the story. Wrong place at the wrong time. Gerald LaPlant has spent his life with his head down, struggling to make in a menial job on a dying planet. Nothing ever went his way. In fact, if not for his boss, he doubted anyone would even know he existed. At least until he witnesses a murder in broad daylight. Fleeing from the scene in shock and horror, Gerald discovers an alien artefact in his jacket pocket. It is the key to a forgotten treasure and everyone wants it. Gerald is forced to leave earth behind to escape. In doing so, he finds himself at the mercy of the shadowy Lazarus Men, ruthless agents who will stop at nothing to get their way. Gerald must use all his cunning and resourcefulness to stay alive and outsmart his enemies. But with half the galaxy after him, the odds are stacked against him. |
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The Lazarus Key by Rachel Aukes Extinction was just the beginning. In this pulse-pounding adventure, a Wyoming game warden encounters something she never thought possible: a real-life saber-tooth tiger. For two decades, Sam Brodie has never let a poacher get away or come across an animal print she couldnât identify⊠until she tracks a vicious predator that went extinct in the Ice Age. But when Sam reaches the tiger, she finds herself in the crosshairs of ruthless hunters intent on having no witnesses. With killers on her tail, she uncovers a chilling plot to clone extinct predators for a barbaric âextremeâ hunting experience for the wealthy elite. But these creatures are not simply clones; theyâre bigger, meaner, and pose an unparalleled danger to the worldâs ecological balance. With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Sam and her team must race to stop the mastermind before he unleashes his ultimate creation. Can Sam stop him, or will humanity face its own extinction? Join the hunt and find out! Fans of Michael Crichton will love this epic monster story meets police procedural. |
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The Last Knight by Spencer Russell Smith Her husband was murdered, her rebellion left in shambles, and the factions have begun to turn on one another in the chaos. Only one thing is certain: their world is dying and their only chance of survival is together. Sometimes, the darkest circumstances force individuals to greatness. Sometimes, they leave them broken. And so, hiding beneath their worldâs eternal sun, hunted by the God Kingâs undead supersoldiers, the Remnant of those who fought for the goddess that destroyed the world, work to forge the shattered factions of their rebellion into a unified force that can escape their doomed world. Estingai, last of the legendary Knights Reborn must somehow convince the bickering leaders to work together, steal resources from the God Kingâs empire so they might live another day, and uncover the spy that betrayed them so she can avenge her husband. Can Estingai overcome her grief and be the woman the rebellion needs her to be? Can she become the Last Knight? |
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The Halley Traveler by Mike Mollman Earth has fallen into chaos and Mars is a collection of bickering city states. Chris Halley, an introverted teen, is left bereft of family in an uncaring world. He must navigate through the murky world of Martian smugglers while seeking vengeance for his fatherâs murder. Both are deadly propositions. Children of Mars, Book One |
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The Great Ooflan From Corplop by Charlie D. Weisman Charlando is sent to Earth as a baby to escape the clutches of a secret society of cannibalistic Ooflan on his home planet of Corplop. During his long years of isolation with nothing but his spaceship to talk to, he develops a fascination with love and romance. His belief that his soulmate awaits him on Earth is all that keeps him sane. He arrives on a war-torn Earth to find Janet, a newly homeless alcoholic, blacked out on a park bench. Believing this to be his long-awaited soulmate, he pledges his undying devotion to her. Janet, too drunk to understand the profound opportunity with which she has been presented, asks Charlando for a sandwich. The pair depart from one another and embark on their own perilous adventures: Charlando on a mission to reunite with his beloved Janet, and Janet on a quest for inner peace in a world that is crumbling all around her. |
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The Ghost Gun kills what it hits, its ghost bullets ensnaring the victimâs soul to their killer. Except nothing is that simple. Certainly not an apparently simple theft that leads detectives into a war between secret societies over artifacts which have been around for millennia, their origin unknown, their abilities inexplicable. Demoted to Vice due to departmental politics, Detective Cassie Kinsala sees an opportunity to restore her career path. But what looks like it might offer a decent arrest soon turns into a quagmire the law might not cover, and might not protect her from. Jimmy Bancroft used to be a cop. Working for the other side lets him avoid paperwork. Investigating rumours of a competitor moving in on his employerâs interests, he becomes entangled in a war between criminals and a secret society. And someone might be trying to set him up. |
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The Flow of Power by David Aumelas A flywheel stores energy in a spinning cylinder. After eight years of grad school, Margo is ready to give up on making a better one. Maybe sheâs not smart enough. Maybe her aging advisor is stuck on his own failures and has tasked her with an unsolvable problem. She doesnât really care, until she solves it. The revolutionary Crywheel brings fame and wealth, topples global energy challenges, and drags her into scandal when it starts causing blackouts and car accidents. But, surely, cutting all dependence on fossil fuels must be worth a few dead commuters. |
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The First Herald by Carol T. Luna What price would you pay to protect your country? When his city burned around him, Zacharias Eld swore on his life it would never happen again. Sworn in as the First Herald, there is no camera he cannot access, no idle chatter he cannot hear. No secrets he cannot unearth. But a break-in at a lab reveals the hole in the network he spent seven years to build. Worse, the evidence is contaminated, the suspects missing, and the innocent refuse to speak. Zach soon finds himself in a world he thought he had purged years ago, festering in the shadows he once scoured. As the layers of the conspiracy peel back, so too, does the safety of Zach those around him. Either Zach finds the culprit or he will witness the fall of the city heâd spent his life to protect. |
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The Faithless and the Damned by Sev Romero When the world is on fire, justice eventually comes for all. As temperatures and water lines rise, a revolution led by the young and desperate dispenses bloody vengeance against what remains of the establishment. The Daughters of Adrestia send anxious teen Ava to execute a notorious climate criminalâbut the job does not go to plan and Ava is forced to flee. Elsewhere in the decaying city, grieving widower Victor agrees to deliver a mysterious young boy to a shadowy sect, however, the boy escapes, placing Victor in danger. Ava crosses paths with the runaway boy and he joins her on the run. Victor pursues them, but discovers more ominous threats have also joined the hunt. A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues across the back roads and towns that litter the smouldering Australian landscape. To survive, Ava must fight to find her resolve, while Victor must confront his convictions. And as the chase intensifies to its feverish conclusion, both must decide whose side they are on before the world burns down around them. The Faithless and the Damned is a gripping, provocative dystopian thriller by the award-winning Australian speculative fiction author Sev Romero. |
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The Dryburgh Chronicles Part 1: The Existence of Shadows by L. P. Halliday Scotland is a land steeped in magic and mystery, but Lilian Darling doesnât believe in such things. She has dedicated her career at Oxford University to clearing the names of those falsely accused of consorting with the devil, and that never involves any actual witchcraft. Until now. When she and her research partner, Edgar Falkirk, head to the misty hills of the Scottish Borders to meet a promising source, their journey takes an unexpected turn. Edgarâs accidental discovery of an ancient spell book, combined with an encounter with an overly enthusiastic research student, thrusts them back through time to the 16th century at the outbreak of the witch craze ensnaring early modern Scotland. In this perilous era, the pair of astute academics must navigate a landscape where their modern knowledge and skepticism could mark them as heretics. As they race to find a way back to their own time, they must confront the very myths they sought to debunk and uncover a truth that transcends reason. The Dryburgh Chronicles Part 1: The Existence of Shadows is a fast-paced magical mystery that combines quick wit with enchanting scene building weaving a time-traveling tale where nothing and nobody are what they seem. |
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The Dream of the Forest by Stjepan Varesevac Cobets More than one hundred years have passed since the cataclysm. The year is 2197 and Earthâs surviving inhabitants now live in heavenly cities above the clouds, unwilling to descend back to the unstable surface. Helen is a lawyer whose life is seemingly perfect, complete with career, partner and plans for a family. But she soon discovers that it is all an illusion. A car accident turns her life in a different direction and she finds herself on the Earthâs surface, in a forested world utterly foreign to her. Is it true that Earth cannot sustain life? What if the truth was entirely different? What if there were survivors â and how would Helen return to her own world? |
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The Disk Mirror Solution by Danielle Ste. Just Welcome to 2422, a galaxy of amazing implanted technology, exotic exoplanets, and the apex predator we ourselves created. Now two women from opposite ends of the galaxy threaten to expose the most dangerous predator the galaxy has spawned. Armintor Vess is days away from receiving her first cranial implant when a technology-fueled plague strikes her home planet. Fears of contagion condemn Armintor and the other survivors to a planet ruled by autocratic technophobes. She fights to survive in her new, pitiless, low-tech world. Seizing a better opportunity at first seems like the answer to her dreams. But her chance at a new life uncovers a danger that threatens the entire human race. Intel-broker Redcholate buys and sells information in virtual reality. When a mysterious client offers a fortune for a job that can only be completed in the real world, Redcholate agrees. But the job takes over her body and her life, and she learns more than she ever wanted to know. As their two stories collide, two women find themselves facing a foe they could never defeat alone. Both must find the truth before timeâand humanityâs existenceâruns out. The Disk Mirror Solution is an epic tale of humanityâs future, and its hubris. It takes place in opposite sides of the galaxy, one riding the crest of technology and the other drowning in its dregs. Itâs the story of two women who must overcome their past, and their fears, to survive the future. |
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The Correct Order by Trish Taylor THE CORRECT ORDER With women in control, life is better, but not for everyone. After the defeat of a repressive regime, women under the Correct Order enjoy safer and better lives. The AI entity BELLA dispenses harsh penalties to those breaking the rules. Men found guilty of crimes against women are sent to the Resort, where they undergo demasculationâa surgical penalty. Seventeen-year-old Emily, daughter of a high-ranking Order leader, is about to embark on her dream career as a surgeon. But doubts creep in as BELLAâs judgments hit close to home. As Emily learns the truth about the Resort, she questions her career choice and everything she believed about the Correct Order. |
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The City That Disappeared by Cheryl Peña For the past ten years, the city of Khonsu, built on the foreign planet Reiddo, has sent a daily transmission home to Earth. Then one day, the transmissions stopped coming. Rebecca Vance fears that something disastrous has happened to Khonsu. She and her friend Mark Wu, the nearest thing there is to an expert on Reiddo, convince the leadership at the AAIR (the American Agency for Interplanetary Relations) to investigate the cityâs strange disappearance, eventually making their way to the site of the lost city itself. From the beginning, the expedition is plagued by problems. The city isnât where itâs supposed to be. There are mysterious deaths among the team members. Rebecca has never trusted easily, but she must put aside her fears and doubts in a frantic attempt to find survivors before they are lost forever. The natives are friendly and seem anxious to help, but they arenât alone. A deadly secret puts her own life at risk and possibly the lives of the members of her team. It may even spell doom for the entire planet she calls home. |
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The Artificial Structure Formerly Known as the Moon by I. K. Stokbaek The Order of the Demolition has one objective â destroy the broken world. And Darlan dreams of joining them. His zeal and willingness to do anything takes him far from the abandoned school that has sheltered him throughout his young life. In a world where AI has enhanced some people and replaced others, the Indigents have no purpose and nothing to look forward to. Marianne accepts her fate. She is in all ways the last person one would expect to lead a revolution â until the Order of the Demolition involves an innocent in its schemes, and beliefs come tumbling down. Sabineâs uncle runs the Space Ladder Project. Her father is a prominent politician fitted with a brain chip. Her only friend is the governing AI â the Order of the Demolitionâs main target. |
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The Anubis War by David R. Packer At the end of human space, a warrior faces his final battle. Coming out of retirement once more, Vasco Alcazar al Madina del Goya joins another multi-year unification mission on the far flung edges of human expansion. The planet Rumi will join the New Ottoman Empire, whether it wants to or not. To ensure this, the Empire has sent its largest, most powerful battleship, the Tatar-class Alexi, armed with kinetic energy and bioweapons. The native Sumi, regressed from their spacefaring days donât stand a chance. Or at least, thatâs what everyone thinks. All Vasco wants is one last chance to prove himself to be the warrior he always knew he could be, one last shot at glory. The Anubis War and his fate, awaits. |
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Song of the Caged Warrior by Maria Perez An orphan with amazing powers forced to serve his enemies. Montor is a child, happily growing up on the planet of Arandaâuntil the Lostai, an imperialist alien race, invade his planet, then attack his seaside village. Soon, Montor loses his whole family to injuries, sickness, and punishment. With his aggressive temperament fueling dreams of revenge, Montor seems destined to follow the same fate as his family and succumb to the cruelty of Lostai enslavement. Then the Lostai military discovers that Montor is no ordinary child; he possesses dormant telekinetic and telepathic abilities. Montor is transferred to a military science station where a devious commander intends to turn him into a Lostai super soldier. Can Montor survive the brutal and humiliating bootcamp? How will he manage the anger, depression, and self-loathing that comes from serving in the very same military that decimated his people? Or will he refuse to be a pawn in Lostaâs war and risk everything to take on the mantle of an Arandan warrior? This space opera features non-human spacefaring civilizations, galactic war, dark empire, supernatural abilities, and rebellion / survival / coming-of-age themes. It is a prequel to the romantic space opera trilogy, The Curse of Sotkari Ta, that can be enjoyed before or after reading the trilogy. |
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Slipspace: Terra Nullius by Zachary Forbes Two brothers⊠Two empires⊠And two definitions of what it means to be alive⊠Slipp McMahon is a disgruntled veteran of the Terran Straits Republic, having retired from service when mechanical âartificialsâ slowly took the place of his living, breathing compatriots. He is caught up doing private work in the outskirts of the known galaxy when a strange job falls into his lap. It involves a girl, an ancient oil deposit, and all the money he needs to retire his aging mother. But his brother, Breth, who still works for the Republic, has sworn to uphold the law by any means necessary. A major promotion hangs in the balance, as well as the future of warfare across the galaxy⊠|
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Why did they come? When they appeared across the sky, speculation wheeled around the worldâthe aliens were from heaven, the invaders were from hell⊠or they were proof that neither existed. But when they landed, curiosity gave way to suspicion and the nations reacted with nuclear force, setting off a chain reaction that left the world in ruins. Twenty years later, instead of nearing her retirement, Dr. Elspeth Darrow struggles to forget the loss of her child and husband by plunging herself into the work of operating the last remaining hospital in San Francisco. With medical supplies running out and working herself to exhaustion, Elspeth must embark on a risky salvage mission into the heart of the Neo California danger zone. Here, she discovers the disturbing truth: the aliens have returned. As the mystery of the aliensâ purpose on Earth unravels before her, Elspeth must hide what she discovers from reactionary despots, all vying to bring Neo California under their control. Aided by a band of pre-war scientists and new-world medical students, Elspeth races against astronomical odds to reveal the terrifying truth that might save the worldâor finally destroy it for good. |
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Rebellious Nature by Rho Diehl Konstance awakens from cryosleep with the distinct feeling that he has forgotten something important. Soon afterward, Vylik, his captain, informs him (as well as the rest of the crew on board the Rebellious Nature) about their new mission, one unlike any they have previously undertaken. To make things even more puzzling, only she is in possession of its most important details. All the crew knows is that they will be transporting a unique âUnfitâ named Seirene across space to a distant location. Tensions on board the ship are already starting to rise, however, as Lubov (the shipâs ordnance specialist) has been acting strangely ever since waking from cryosleep. Will the crew of the Rebellious Nature successfully complete their mission? Or will they fail and face possibly dire consequences? |
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Population centers have been leveled and society has regressed to a pre-industrialized state. An advanced city rises from the ashes, enabling the rebirth of more such cities, each one subtly different, the result of an experiment in finding the best machine-governed utopia. Sovereign forces mobilize to exploit their power, and others, to contain them. At the heart of this struggle is an unlikely pair; a dejected anthropologist whose lifeâs work has finally become useful, and a snarky pirate forced to serve a monastic cult. To survive, they must not only navigate escalating conflict, but also understand the broader implications of the rising machine cities for all of humanity. |
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Zenya Cobb has had enough of a traditional life with her husband-to-be, Pavell. She returns to her life as a space pirate, setting out to find and claim as much gold and other treasures as she can. Except, due to a freak accident, she crash-lands on a planet that shouldnât exist â The mythical lost planet of Vunerth, reputed to have been the galaxyâs richest spot until an asteroid destroyed it many years ago. But itâs still very much around, and holds more secrets than even Zenya can imagine. She meets the mysterious natives, a peaceful alien community of traders with their own secrets, and hears whispers of conspiracy. Could Vunerthâs disappearance be part of a web of darkness perpetuated by the government? While Zenya reels, her determined partner, Pavell chases her across the galaxy. But when they are reunited, they must make a choice. Leave this bizarre planet in their past and return to a life of peace, or risk their lives teaming up with the natives to save the planet and expose an intergalactic lie? |
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ORION by Aaron Frale Orion is dead⊠again. Whether death comes from a stab wound, a bullet to the brain, or just plain dumb luck, he always comes back. He is glad to have the opportunity because a princess in each life seems to be in trouble. Whether sheâs a nurse in the Vietnam War or medieval English royalty⊠âŠOrion is determined to win her over. |
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Nothing Larger Than These Stars by E. Marie Robertson Faith believed in the benevolence of the Company, until it used her code to frame her lover, then tried to kill them both. On Company planet Home World, Faith uncovered secrets that made her a target in a shadowy game of interplanetary-scale corporate intrigue. She fled to independent Iona, where sheâs spent the last eight years tinkering with space junk and keeping a low profile. But her carefully controlled life unravels when a mysterious someone attacks her planetmates with a chemical weapon that drops them into stasis and turns their bodies blue. Then the Company starts making noise about sending a representative to âhelp,â and all Faithâs alarm bells go off. Proving a connection between the Company and the attacker might save Iona from both, but Faith canât do it alone and her prospective allies all suspect each other. Should she trust the new arrival whose ânice guyâ persona doesnât quite match up with rumors of a shady past? Or the frosty Company official whoâs clearly got an agenda of her own? And then thereâs her long-lost lover, who lands on Iona full of secrets but no straight answers about what heâs been up toâor why he disappeared completely all those years ago. Simply making the wrong choice could be enough to doom Iona, but as Faith discovers the hidden truth about the little planet, she realizes the Company may be the least of their problems. |
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Non-Conscious by Andi van Houten In a post-cybernetic world where most have abandoned their neural enhancements, seventy-year-old Herbert Ferris clings to his outdated techâand the troubled legacy it carries. Once a rogue hacker, Ferris now clocks in at Re/Live Corporation as a digital ecologist, crafting biomes for the popular fantasy game world, New Europa. But when a glitch starts turning playersâ avatars pink, triggering an online uproar, Ferris is thrust into the heart of a spiraling corporate crisis. Ferris is ordered to clean up the mess alone. Fed up, he decides to go non-con, using his neuromod to become the perfect corporate zombie until the storm blows over. But when he reawakens, the chaos has only escalated: protesters are picketing Re/Liveâs head office, his job is on the line, and, to make matters worse, an innocent schoolgirl has gone missing. Gripped by a paranoia he hasnât felt in decades, Ferris races to uncover the truth, clashing with police, protesters, ruthless rivals, andâworst of allâhis vindictive ex. Non-conscious is a darkly humorous journey of one manâs battle to reclaim his dignity and sanity in a world where the line between fantasy and reality has blurred beyond recognition. |
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Cybernetic addiction plagues the populace of Cyber City, the post-apocalyptic metropolis of neon grime and crime. The government promises a tech-free âUtopiaâ for the Virgins, a small community rejecting body modification technology. But before the invitation goes public, the Virgins begin to disappear. Xia, a lawbreaking freelancer with a haunting past, is the first to notice the strange vanishings. As she puts the pieces together, she reveals a sinister plot: someone is kidnapping Virgins and using their bodies to escape to the promised Utopia. Teaming up with Mai, a Virgin prostitute, Xiaâs mission shifts from providing simple protection as a means for money into an impossible endeavor: helping the Virgins escape the city. This mission puts them at odds with both the mysterious Virgin body snatchers and Cyber Cityâs governmentâtwo threats that could end in fates worse than death. As the unlikely duo embark on the impossible, they discover secrets more shocking than the plasma dome that traps the city within. |
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Navvy Dreams by H. M. H. Murray TAKE A JOB. FALL IN LOVE. TRY NOT TO BLOW UP SUNS! My nameâs Polla Ottrava. Iâm a registered smuggler and hotshot hyperspace pilot with a navigational symbiote (ânavvyâ) implanted in my arm. Its name is Second. With dear Second, Iâm the best pilot I know (probably). Without, Iâm just a farmgirl from a backwater planet whoâs moved back in with her folks. Between the lover I abandoned and the crime boss I cheated, I had no choice. In my twenty-eight years Iâve made a lot of bad calls, but thatâs relative, isnât it? I mean, Iâve never blown up a binary star with space magic. Iâve never harnessed a fleet of alien ships and used âem to terrorize perfectly respectable arms dealers, either. Iâve also never unleashed a shapeshifting biophage, nor ended even one civilization. The woman who did all that was Ledas-stinking-Starfire. Ledas: the rebel Kamen-lord, spoiled Terran princeling, and failed revolutionary. A year ago, someone killed her. Now her widowerâs ravaging planets. I guess for revenge. Who cares? This isnât her stinking story⊠Itâs MINE. Iâm Polla Ottrava. Iâve taken a job I wasnât allowed to refuse. My employers are war criminals who swear theyâre saving the galaxy. They say Iâm the only one who can fly their bloodship. They say weâre heroes. They say theyâll pay me. They say a lot of crap. Only some of itâs true⊠|
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Mission Beta by Archie Kregear Antigravity propulsion enables humans to venture into the vast regions of space seeking empty worlds to make their own. Plucky journalist Bianca Varian joined the second mission to write the ultimate story, humans arrival to the stars. But when the chosen planet turns out to be already inhabitedâby a race evolved from something like a jellyfish, no lessâthey find that the more they discover about them, the more they realize they donât know. Tensions between colonists a reach breaking point between those who wish to befriend the aliens and those who donât. Can humans learn to control their fear and live in peace with alien life forms? Or will fear and violence rule the day? Bianca strives to document the tale of a beautiful, faraway world, and itâs inhabitants but does she become the story and source of the conflict? |
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Mercy Rising by Bowen Greenwood A Girl. A Mysterious Power. A Revolution The Archon Dominion crushes all dissent. Mercy Hail wants change, no matter the cost to herself. But freak accidents keep happening around her, and she canât explain why. So when she lights the fuse on an uprising, itâs not exactly a surprise when everything goes wrong at once. The Dominion sends Dante Matter to Mercyâs world with a simple set of orders: Find the girl with emerging telekinetic powers and put her to work for us. Nobody warned him sheâd be beautiful, though. Nobody warned him her gifts would be greater than his own. And nobody warned him that his hunt would be the first battle in an interstellar war. In a world where gifts like hers have been all but extinguished, Mercy must choose sides in a war that will spread across the stars. To survive, sheâll have to learn how to use her power, learn how she feels about Dante, and learn the true story of the past that made her who she is. |
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Mendelsonâs Return by CristĂłvĂŁo Correia What if you were being hunted by terrorists and law enforcement on the same day? The Gifted, people with extraordinary powers who hide them from ordinary people, are torn by a decades-long war between the Order of Thesan, extremists for Gifted supremacy, and the Refuge, which stands for pacifist coexistence. Viviane Greenwell, a badass ex-Refuge operative and a Gifted with psychokinesis and accelerated regeneration, gave up on this war years ago. She just wants to live a normal life. Sheâd spent the last seven years on the run, trying to evade both The Order and the GSA, a special law enforcement agency that tries to control all Gifted and hunt down The Orderâs operatives. The Order wants to capture her and convert her, or worse. And the GSA wants to lock her up for breaking the rules. When she returned to Lisbon, Portugal, under an alias, she thought she could finally live in peace. But one day, she nearly escapes both the GSA and the Order. And she discovers that Mendelson, the responsible for the death of her parents, is alive and has plans for her. And now heâs the new leader of the Order. If you like high-octane action thrillers, with twists and turns, science fiction elements and great characters, like Marvelâs Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. or The Alphas TV shows, then youâll love Mendelsonâs Return. Will Viviane avoid a war she doesnât want to be a part of? Click the BUY NOW button above and enter Vivianeâs exciting world today. |
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In a near-future America torn apart by corporate warfare and social unrest, an unlikely antihero might be the lesser evil. Warner Vogelâs life in a corporate dystopia isnât as bad as it could be: his name blazes in blue neon atop a skyscraper. As heir to the omnipotent VogelCorp, his life should be idyllic, but a brutal encounter with an insurgent fifteen years ago cost him an eye and much of his sanity. Now, he lives for his secret projects and his distractions in seedy nightclubs, but his only desire is revenge. Freya is a genetic marvelâa supersoldier from the legendary Unit Six, engineered for violence and conditioned to enjoy it. When her mission at the VogelCorp vault goes catastrophically wrong, she ends up in a titanium cage with a hole in her skull. Her escape hinges on one thing: helping Warner exact revenge on Nero, her former handler. As they unite, they uncover a shared enemy and a common goalâto dismantle Unit Six and end the decades-long war ravaging their states. As their journey unfolds, Warner is forced to question everything he knows: the loyalties of those closest to him, the integrity of his country, and his own humanity. How far will he go for vengeanceâand the greater good? |
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Library System Reset: Overdue by K. T. Hanna The Library once stood proud as a beacon of magic and power. For 500 years, it has been broken. Quinn can barely handle her own life. When the Library of Everywhere discovers her compatible magical signature, suddenly she is the sole existing potential Librarian. Now itâs not only the weight of her world on her shouldersâQuinn must connect with the Library system before the universe itself disintegrates. Once sheâs settled, it should be quiet, peaceful work- just as soon as she battles a few engorged bookworms, repairs hundreds of years of damage, and figures out why thereâs been no Librarian for the last several centuries. And once thatâs done she can start gathering overdue books. All 18,042 of them to start with. Thereâll be a helluva lot of late fees to process. |
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Kemperâs House by Frank Saverio What if the cost of first contact was leaving behind a world youâd never recognize upon return? On the heels of discovering interstellar travel, humanity has stumbled upon the first signs of intelligent life in another system. Captain Adrian Kemper is selected to lead the expedition to Kyra-2B in order to make first contact with the Kyrans. He departs a world struggling to deal with overpopulation, knowing that the realities of space travel will mean the Earth he eventually returns to will no longer be home. Even the stone cottage he loves may not remain. Despite this, Kemper accepts the mission. He leads an elite crew of optimistic scientists on a journey that will traverse hundreds of light years before reaching an alien world. What they find is truly unexpected. |
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KARA by Peter Beard For over ten years Kara was a Hunterâthe highly trained individuals with the ability and resources to find people, no-matter where they tried to hide. But after killing her best friend in a tragic accident, her world collapsed in on itself, and Kara spiralled. Recovering, and keen for a distraction to keep her mind from wandering, Kara turned her attention to something that had intrigued her for as long as she could rememberâto the mysterious symbol on her wrist. Determined to learn more, she began a hunt of a different kindâa hunt for answers. But three years of searching yielded little information, and she began losing hope of ever discovering the truth. But then, unexpectedly, she receives an anonymous messageâa message pointing her to a highly secretive prison on the outskirts of the Kuiper Belt. What she finds changes everything, and leads her down a path that puts her, and the people around her, in danger. Can she learn the origins around the strange marking, all whilst unravelling a sinister plot that threatens to send a peaceful world back into chaos? |
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Governments have fallen. Corporations control the world. Now their eyes are on Mars. But Benjamin Drake is about to ruin everyoneâs plans. Earth is no longer made up of countries and nations. Every bit of land has been privatized, and most of it is owned by five big corporations. Life is hard, and people are struggling. Crime is rampant, and they send serious offenders to Mars to help with the terraforming. Benjamin Drake is a happy-go-lucky truck driver (or hauler) with an uncomplicated life, hauling cargo around the world in his Hydrostar, until a run of bad decisions leaves him without work. Down on his luck and desperate for a contract, he makes a decision that he instantly regrets. As Drake gets caught in a tug of war between a mining mogul and the worldâs most ruthless security force, he suddenly finds himself with a truck full of stolen cargo, and decisions need to be made. But who can he trust? After a big professional blunder, Lt. Lily Wells plots a way to get her career back on track as one of Penta Corporationsâ top security officers. But when Wells ends up on a murder case, she uncovers something much bigger. One on the run and the other on the hunt, Drake and Wells cross paths, at odds and supposedly enemies. But could their alliance be the only way out alive? Set in the near-future, Hauler is the first book in the Benjamin Drake adventure series, filled with witty dialogue, flawed heroes, and plenty of bad decisions. |
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Ghosts on An Alien Wind by Moe Lane Pam Tanaka rides the winds of a Tomb World in a charnel galaxy, with only ghosts for companions. When trouble comes to her, she must face death, mystery, and despair â but must she face it alone? On that, the ghosts on the alien winds are silent. |
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Forward and Back by Michael Pickard At the moment of his greatest professional achievement, renowned physicist Randy Weinberg wakes up eight years in the future. He is legally dead, divorced from his wife, and a stranger to his son. Enemies threaten him for the secrets of time travel. As a victim of his failed experiment, Randy is clueless. Randy must decide whether to invent a tool that could be used to corrupt history, or refuse and see his wife and son murdered. Perhaps there is another way. Turn back the clock. |
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Flight of the Pangolin by Michael Moutinho Still reeling from its first extraterrestrial incursion, the solar system is attempting to return to normal. Amidst the chaos, a small team of visionaries and misfits hope to move forward with exploration. Their vessel: the Pangolin, a ship whose glory days are long past. But other forces in the system have their own thoughts on the mission. Can the crew of the Pangolin make it out of the system before running afoul of isolationists, megacorporate interests, regime collapse, oligarchs, and space pirates? Flight of the Pangolin is a thrilling sci-fi adventure, where a team of heroes follows their ambition to discover a fresh start out among the stars against improbable odds. |
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Everyone always said Grace was weird. An albino abandoned at birth, anti-social, and selectively intelligent, sheâs never had a friend. Now at 23, she lives alone and quietly runs a dojo in Toronto. But beneath her stony exterior, somehow sheâs always known that somethingâ or someoneâ was coming for her. The night she meets the quirky Tomiko, everything changes and an unseen force draws them to three more women. Together, the five uncover shared memories of a beautiful and mysterious world called Fieres. While unlocking the magical secrets of their past, they encounter a terrifying enemy that threatens both Fieres and Earth. As they prepare for the fight of their lives, Grace must face the hard truth of whoâ and whatâ she really is. |
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The world runs on code, and not all code is safe. This is why Anna Flynn has a job. Matter Manipulation Devices alter the physical world, turning dreams into reality. But some dreams are treacherous, and the streets are filled with mods that manipulate matter in illegal and dangerous ways. As a seasoned MMD agent, Anna fights back against the criminals who misuse these devices and traffic in illegal mods. When she intervenes in a plot to assassinate one of the worldâs most respected political leaders, her methods draw the ire of her superiors, and she finds herself under investigation from her own agency. Increasingly isolated and unsure whom she can trust, Anna works to unravel a conspiracy that would unleash the worst potential of matter manipulation technology on the world. |
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As the Second American Civil War wanes, Mary the Exoputian awaits her chance to contact the Folbulaeâa highly advanced species of extraterrestrial, only to be hunted down by the dictator of the Sovereign States of America, Vladimir Booth. With rising tides and thawing tundra, the Exoputiansâa new species of human genetically created to live in Space and communicate with the Folbulae, land in the Republic of Texas following a missile strike on their Space station. Mary and the other Exoputians learn of the lies their progenitor taught them, training the Space-bred crew to use their novel communication to cure the planet theyâd never set foot on. As Mary and the others road trip through racially segregated America, they encounter multiple attempts on their lives to follow through with their once-mission of saving the planet from the climate crisis. Discover with Mary whatâs worth saving on a planet prepared to destroy her entire species. |