Science Fiction
Cicada Serenade Featured
At the heart of the story is former White Hat hacker Rithwick Jahi Pringle, (Ritz), guardian of a teenaged boy named Milner Fitzroy Stone, (Fitz), whose mysterious connection to the alien race known as the Asherans sets the stage for an interstellar saga. Cicada Serenade continues the tale begun in Nathan Gregory’s “Undercover Alien.” While passing through rural Texas the hero’s car breaks down, stranding them in the Hill Country farm town of Yanno. As they await repairs, a strangely alluring criminologist draws the pair into her investigation of a series of peculiar murders with a vampiric t ...
The exciting sequel to Shadow: The Moonracer Chronicles
Life in the 24th century still has human trials despite technological advancements. Mankind has always sought to go faster and it takes bold, daring people to reach for those limits. They risk their lives in a perilous sport called Moonracing while those they love watch and pray for their safety. But things do not always go as planned.
A horrifying crash, a broken patient in a hospital bed, a troubled wife, a dying father, and a confrontational brother. We never think it can happen to us…until it does.
All roads ...
Awry With Dandelions Featured
When do dreams become reality? Orin sells dandelion latex at a no-name market, barely scraping by. Mette is a princess. Maybe. What Orin does know is that for thirty seconds every night, Mette visits Orin in xir dreams. Orin has long since written the fancy ghost woman off as a recurring nightmare, but when Mette insists upon meeting in real life, Orin's inner world turns out to be more substantive than imaginary. Along with best friend Blathnaid, Orin embarks on a journey to discover the truth behind xir otherworldly connection--determined to free xir mind and finally get a good night's sleep ...
Wandering Featured
"How would you handle being trapped on a damaged spaceship hurtling through space with your boyfriend?" Josephine Herl and Scott Drummond are about to discover as they escape one battle only to be thrown into a new one. With their AI computer inert and survival as their only priority, they must quickly adapt to their new reality. But as they try to figure out their location and a way back home, they soon realize that things are not as they seem. Time, physics, and even their own biology have all changed in this strange new world. To make matters worse, they encounter multiple alien races ...
The Cassidy Chronicles Featured
"Love and Survival in a Post-Union America: The Cassidy Chronicles" Aiyana Cassidy's wedding day becomes a nightmare as her minister attempts to assassinate her. With Kendra Foster-Briggs by her side, they escape and traverse a chaotic post-Union America, facing treacherous landscapes and enigmatic adversaries. This thrilling adventure unveils a web of conspiracies, betrayals, and unexpected alliances as they seek answers to the sinister plot against them.
Admins: Simulation's End Featured
"Riveting sci-fi story… impressive, absorbing character study.”– Kirkus Reviews
"The kind of story I could see being developed into a movie or TV series.” – ReadersFavorite (5 Star Review)
What if you discovered you were simply a player in a computer simulation? What if it was about to be deleted? Where would your moral compass take you?
It was meant to be a fun night out at a party, but on the way home Chris, Sierra, Joey and Lana are caught in a deadly car crash. Desp ...
Looking for Life Featured
An enthralling listening experience. Strap in, turn down the lights, and enter worlds that will stretch your imagination to the full… From a stranded alien comedian to the darkest depths of the human psyche; from a mind-blowing galactic adventure to clandestine extraterrestrial behaviour on Earth. They’re all here in this spell-binding collection of short stories to keep you guessing at every turn. With tales of alien invasion, deep space mystery, time travel, and dystopian future Earths, this is a collection which takes inspiration from the much respected ‘old masters’ of Science Fiction. Her ...
HOLOGRAM Featured
Holographer David Leone has just turned forty, and he's been enjoying spicy memories of his first love, Lucille Muhr, who's now a famous actress. When the ghost image of a young girl shows up in a holographic portrait of a bride and groom, David sets out to invent a device to pre-screen space for holographic traces of the past that reveal what traumatized Lu in her childhood. Although funded by the bride's millionaire father, David's ill-prepared to deal with hazards of working at Lu's old home in Circleville, Ohio--including its mercenary owners, a lapse in his tree-climbing skills, and ...
Angel's Seduction Featured
Dark magic is causing a rift in time, and I’m the Angel in charge of finding the source. Turns out, it’s a sultry, seductive witch using dark magic. I could stop her in an instant and heal the rift. But wait… I know her! She’s a fallen Angel, her memories removed. As I am watching her, I can’t help but notice how sensual she is: the way her dress clings to her body like a second skin, and the way she moves her curves in time to her chants. But helping her threatens to upend my perfect lone angel life in Heaven. Key word: lone. Just as I want it. I have to help h ...
Resonance Featured
City Secretary Raja Wells has one mission: to convince the reclusive Tribes on the outskirts of Gaobeyna City to disclose their secret technological power--or to prove that it doesn't exist. But when the negotiations don't go as planned, Raja resorts to extreme measures to preserve his career and reputation. Torbin Salek has been Raja's advisor for ten years. In all that time, he never revealed his secret link to the Tribes. When Raja's ambition puts the two men at odds, that link may be the only thing that can save Gaobeyna from the destruction Raja is about to unleash on it. This is the vill ...
Veil of Anarchy Featured
The people of Alpine, Texas are thrown into an apocalyptic world on June 6th. They lose GPS, internet, electricity, and water. A cataclysmic collision of lower orbit satellites has begun, and for the people of Alpine that means their lives just changed—forever.
DERT Featured
“The new Department of Environmental Reclamation and Trust (or DERT) has been empowered by an authoritarian President to take control of the country in the hopes of staving off climate catastrophe. Banning fossil fuels, outlawing vehicles, and violent re-education camps are at the top of their list. In a society that has started to crumble, Kyle and Sami Harrison find themselves on the run. Dodging government agents, warring militias and deranged neighbors, they search for a safe haven in a world that punishes peace and rewards violence. Will salvation be found in the teachings of DERT’s Littl ...
Lilith Featured
Lilith, is a zek, a genetically engineered nonhuman in a post-collapse dystopian society of the future. Like the ones bred before her, she believes she must only do what she is told to live. And that is to accomplish her missions. Designed to be beautiful, she struggles with self-criticism and her place in this world. Could this be it for her and society? Is the world really go to end because of greed, war, and inhumanity?
After her disastrous first mission, she feels betrayed and discovers secrets behind the global game of power and how she is just a pawn, ...
What Used to be Arkansas Featured
Friends and Enemies. Life and Death. Happy to be settled into a community, the last thing Molly wants is to jeopardize her place there. To find peace at her new home, she keeps the abilities forced upon her by a madman a secret. But when dear friends go missing, Molly’s hidden strengths may be necessary to find them. Axel led his band of orphans to safety. With the help of his friend, Wolf, they have taught them how to stay safe and survive. Yet their lives are threatened once more when a shark-like monster shows up in their part of the river. To keep his people alive, Axel must find a way to ...
FOCUS: Birth of a Time Traveler Featured
Evan Wright, like most college freshmen, is on a quest to find her place in the world while wrestling with lingering insecurities from high school. She is ambitious, driven and unwavering in her pursuit of her future as a scientist, even at the expense of friendship and love. However, her entire world is thrown into disarray when she stumbles upon a remarkable ability: the power to travel into the past simply by focusing completely on the details of a historical event. This newfound talent forces Evan to reevaluate everything she thought she knew about her family, friends, and herself, realizi ...
Sky Pirates Featured
Maybe in a further future, where the old becomes new and the new becomes old...
Nowhere Too Far Featured
Over fifty years ago, Dr. Fred Carlson told the world that the possibility existed the Earth could be impacted by a pair of asteroids sometime in the future which may cause the complete destruction of all life on Earth. His warning was disputed and soon forgotten by all except a small group of people called the Watchers. Now that the time was drawing near, a plan to save humanity was developed. As crazy and impossible as it sounded, there was no other way. World-renowned female archaeologist Andrea Markes finds that she has become the target of a very popular televangelist, Jonah Grimes. Sh ...
Children of Alpheios Featured
A 2023 Firebird Book Award Winner & Five-Star Reader's Favorite: A genetically engineered colony on a new world. A baby born different than everyone else. A mother who will do anything to save him. On planet Eamine, twenty-one-year-old Alina must protect her baby when Mandin is born with a remarkable DNA anomaly. The colony’s central corporation wants Mandin for an experimental treatment program. Trained by the Expeditionary Academy, Alina knows how to survive Eamine’s harsh environment and flees to keep Mandin safe. While Alina tries to uncover the truth, she finds herself relyin ...
The Bones of the Earth Featured
The Dark Age, eastern Europe: the earth has decided to rid itself of humanity with earthquakes, volcanoes and new plagues. Civilizations, even the mighty Roman Empire, crumble under the pressure of barbarian waves that are fleeing worse terrors. Rejected by his own people, pursued by a dragon, young Javor heads for Constantinople, the centre of civilization, looking for answers to the puzzle of his great-grandfather’s dagger and the murder of his family. On the ancient, crumbling Roman highway across haunted, deserted Dacia, Javor rescues the beautiful Danisa from a human sacrifice. He cann ...
Plunged Featured
The Pilgrim’s Progress meets Marvel in Plunged, a spiritual thriller.
When Navy Seal, Jacob Carter is assigned to an experimental
mission, he’ll protect the crew at all costs. But nothing could
have prepared him for the effect of the ship’s cloaking device,
or his disintegration into the spiritual side of our world.
Stripped of the finite, and plunged into a terrifying existence,
can he survive the enemies determined to kill him?
While his body lays unconscious, his nurse, Sage, fights to keep
the da ...
Forgive the Beast Featured
Margaret Bloom was a scientist and by joining the US Space Marine Corp. she got to work with a brilliant professor who could help her develop a weapon that would fire with the order from the mind and not a trigger finger. She was shocked when she was pulled off Earth to go to a far away destination in in space to be part of a troop to examine a deserted ship built by aliens. No argument that she presented could convince any superiors that she was not meant for field work. Worse of all, one of the men that was assigned to board the deserted ship was from the planet Veld. Veld and Eart ...
No mad skillz, no sacred destiny, just a pink tracksuit that will take her places she never wanted to go... In this Gothic science-fiction novel series, a stylish group of twenty-something friends are torn from the Babylonian arms of 2006 West Hollywood and flung nearly thirty years into the past, setting off a chain of events more disturbing than a roller skating conga line. They wake up in an apocalyptic but strangely familiar landscape, complete with a hidden mountain compound and retro survivalists, hinting at hidden and retro secrets they must face if they want to survive.
Cloned Ambition Featured
Set in a future where clones are seen as second-class citizens and Normals are threatened by their own creation, Scarlet and her Mate Dagmar must fight for their own freedom and the survival. Scarlet was created to be the vessel for an aging actress's brain when she reached maturity. But when her creator dies before the transplant can take place, Scarlet is sold to a clone breeding farm, and escapes with the help of a few kind college students. Desperate for a different future, Scarlet joins her mate Dagmar and his band of 'Wild' Clones, who have rebelled against their masters’ and are trying ...
An AI, an investigator, and a geneticist walk into a library...
It’s the year 2101, and half of England is underwater, but the horrors of the Melt are becoming a distant memory thanks to ArkTech, the company that saved the world.
The ArkTech Territory is the only home Charlotte Vance has ever known, so when Ben, the company’s curious AI, starts asking awkward questions about human behaviour, she's only too happy to help.
But as she investigates the mystery of why a geneticist is stealing p ...
DeepSpace Secrets Featured
Having served a short term in the military gave Kina the start for her training as a better-than-average pilot of large spaceships. Using that training to give her a jump in her career, she lands a job in one of the best passenger and freight companies in the systems. It doesn't take her long to move up to one of the supreme spots as Captain of the best passenger liners going from the busy civilized worlds. Kina and her crew thought she had it made until a stalker began to show up wherever her ship was docked. Putting her crew and passengers in danger, the company moved her over to a diff ...
Hero's Welcome Featured
Lt. Commander Garcon Dore was the perfect space fleet officer, so why did his friend Mobo Sani kill him? Reporter Wanda Johnson visits Sani in prison to find the answer. Since Sani pled guilty, there hadn’t been a trial or testimony of any kind. He had never said why he did it, but he hadn’t denied it either. Only a few people knew what happened on that distant world called Far Meadow. Now, the spectacular result of Garcon Dore’s fatal mission to Far Meadow has borne fruit in a galactic alliance. Humanity has made friends with an alien race. Even so, the question of what happened on that ...
Rise of the Y Featured
In a world on the brink of revolution, where the iron fist of the Imperium orchestrates every destiny... Seventeen-year-old Lexi refuses to bow to a future with an assigned spouse and a dictated profession. A fiery spirit of defiance burns within her, ready to ignite a revolt. But destiny has other plans. When tragedy unveils a hidden diary—a legacy of secrets and rebellion—Lexi is thrust into the perilous shadows of the elusive rebel group Y. In a whirlpool of danger, deceit, and forbidden alliances, every revelation blurs the lines between friend and foe, making trust the ultimate weapon in ...
Lexa Dean and the Wellspring Featured
A treasure that could change the galaxy and a woman chasing a dangerous dream. Dr. Alexandra "Lexa" Dean is an exoarchaeologist in search of hidden alien treasures. And if the museum paid better, she wouldn't sell the best of her finds to the highest bidder. When her contact delivers a map to the origins of all life, and the key to unlocking it is the artifact she just fenced to a wealthy socialite, she must devise a plan to steal it back. But the aliens she stole it from first are closing in and the socialite is hot on her tail. If she can't shake them, she'll risk losing the fame an ...
Maura is an oceanographer who hoped to find life under the ice on Europa, the second moon of Jupiter. But she didn’t expect to encounter aliens with paranormal powers; nor that the neo-fascist colonists from Earth would try to destroy the indigenous life form. She teams up with a computer scientist called Geoff, a specialist in Artificial Intelligence. Together they strive to save the aliens from extermination – a mission which threatens to destroy their home planet, which is invaded by robots and threatened by new weapons of mass destruction. Ultimately Maura offers herself in a sacrifice whi ...
A rebellion is brewing in the world of the Lake of Sins while Hugh Truent sits in prison days away from his execution. After taking his findings about the genetic similarities between the classes to the Supreme Almighty and the Council, Hugh had been arrested for treason and all his evidence had vanished as if made from smoke. To protect his family, he cut off all contact with the outside world while he sat in prison for over four years waiting for his execution. He has no idea that some of his reports were leaked to the other classes and that civil war looms on the horizon. Trinity and her fr ...
The Shadows have come into the light… Captain Blake Campbell of the Vega class destroyer Revenant and her crew might be unorthodox, but they have a reputation for getting the job done. A year after the adventure that led them to the ancient alien Artificial intelligence boxes and the creation of the Rangers. Blake and crew travel back to Croatoan and what they find will change the course of the galaxy forever. The empire and their shadow overlords are targeting humanity, the Rangers along with the newly liberated Croaton people must race across galaxies and save humanity from extinction from t ...
A Five-Star Reader's Favorite! After her brother takes his own life, Wrenn Jodh’s life unravels. With nothing left of him but a pair of journals she can’t bear to read, Wrenn retreats to the stability of her job as an aid worker for Kohath’s refugees. On the way, she finds herself thrown together with Caed, a steely-eyed security officer with a sketchy past, a gift for languages, and a talent for unraveling her last nerve. Unwittingly, Wrenn and Caed become enemies of the state after their identities are inexplicably erased. When both are sent to a hellish labor camp, Wrenn is separated fr ...
What are experiences? Can we represent them as a set of measurable parameters that can be replayed? If we researched and succeeded in creating a perfect experience recorder and replay what will happen? "If only pictures and words could capture the beauty of the world around us!!" Vijay could have easily dismissed it with that philosophical view. Yet that simple often repeated sentence had got him thinking. Once the train of thoughts had started he could not stop it. He had thought about how in spite of all the technological advancements the very simple act of “recreating a moment” was still no ...
2121 Trilogy, A Dystopian Fantasy - A heartwarming story of surviving the unthinkable. This trilogy is written for Young Adults, New Adults, and All Age Adults who enjoy clean dystopian and post-apocalyptic fiction sprinkled with a little horror. In the year 2121, their world changed forever when the government turned against them and left them for dead. Now, the few remaining survivors must band together to form a new society. Only together can they avoid the genetically altered humans, now horrifying beasts, who hunt them for food.
A collection of tantalizing tales with more twists than braided hair:
Mystery, murder and mayhem – plus a moment of romance.
Sympathize with a doomed husband and connect with an altruistic robot. Explore an isolated Scottish isle and touch down on a far-flung asteroid.
From the light-hearted to the darkest depths of the human psyche. They’re all there in this smorgasbord of short stories to keep you guessing at every turn. From the author of Milijun, Amidst Alien Stars and Saving Paludis.
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Colonization of an inhabited planet is forbidden. Someone broke the rules. Under mysterious circumstances, the colony ship, Odyssey, settled on the strangely barren world of Sahara. Eighty years later, and with no help in sight, their long-term survival is in question. When help finally arrives, long-buried secrets of the past, and the machinations of a scheming politician, threaten to upset carefully laid plans for prosperity. Caught in the middle are the Rxyl—an elusive, telepathic species already inhabiting the planet. Unaware of human intrigue, a fortuitous accident forges a bond between t ...
For fans of Maze Runner, Hunger Games and Percy Jackson comes an award-winning story of friendship, courage and a battle for humanity. MOVIE RIGHTS OPTIONED.
The second wave is unleashed. The world is forced to its knees.
Two strains of a devastating pathogen infect population centers around the globe. From mega-cities to remote villages, the descent into chaos is swift as the disease spreads like wildfire.
When Jag is injured from an accident, Tegan reluctantly assumes leadership of the group as they are tasked wi ...
I’m a doctor, not a fighter. Too bad in my town being a doctor means conscription to the frontline. War? What war? I’m not talking about war—I’m talking about the gangs. They swept into our town and took over, leaving violence in their wake. Some people think we’re better off with armed men patrolling the streets and the corrupt mayor locked up in his pretty mansion, but they don’t see what I see. They don’t spend mornings and nights patching up the old men who were shot defending their land, the young children who got caught in the crossfire, the prostitutes just trying to eke out a meagre ...
Colonel Chloe Resler leads her crew on the starship Christopher J. Pike on a daring mission to uncover the secrets of an ancient alien civilization. As they venture through uncharted territories, they face the peril of hostile alien encounters and the looming threat of mutiny within their ranks. With the survival of their ship at stake, they must also navigate the complexities of time travel, risking their lives and their mission to prevent catastrophe. Failure could mean being lost in the vastness of space, forever altering the course of history. "Tracking Tantor" is an epic adventure that te ...
HE SAVES OTHERS FROM THEIR TROUBLES. WHO WILL SAVE HIM? Bus driver Rory Fine has a gift. He can take troubles from others with merely a touch. On a rain-swept night he asks his glum passengers to leave their worrisome emotions in his palm. But when he touches one passenger's hand everything he knows about troubles keeping is shattered. Somebody aboard hides a deadly and dangerous secret. What began simply, descends into a perilous battle with a menacing and evil dark entity and Rory now faces a terrible decision. Should he reveal his secret gift to Mariana, the passenger he's come to love but ...
"Conflicts with alien races are given enormous depth in this engrossingly written science fiction novel." ~Forewords Clarion Reviews Roswell. Area 51. The X-Files. You've seen the aliens known as "the Greys" in movies and on T.V. But what if everything you think you know about them is wrong? And what if the Greys are only the beginning? On a nondescript planet on the far side of the galaxy, the M'Uktah have evolved from a wolf-like predatory creature into a highly advanced species that has mastered intergalactic travel. They are cultured. Refined. And hungry... Wright's epic and much antici ...
Something is in the cargo and it's not luggage. Turbulence on a flight from London to New York isn't anything unusual. But the strange thumping noises from the cargo that began after the turbulence are definitely not normal. And when seven passengers and a flight attendant realize they're the only people on board who aren't in a coma-like sleep, the questions range from asking what exactly is in the cargo bay, to who's going to land the plane—and wondering whether they're still over the Atlantic at all.
In a war torn world, one soldier rises above the ashes to take the fight to the enemy. As the cities of New Glasgow lay largely in ruins, Sergeant Rachel Duncan leads her squad against the mechanized iron fist of the Federated Union of Planets. Short on men and materials, the odds are against them. Help is coming from other planets but with nothing left but strong willed determination, will they be able to hold their ground until it arrives? In command of an under-armed platoon and ever increasing responsibilities, can Sergeant Rachel Duncan rise to the occasion, or will she crack under the in ...
A band of misfits team up as mercenaries, then find a family in each other.
In a galaxy full of conflict and magic, the rocky red planet of Rakuur inches closer to civil war. Amidst the turmoil brewing on their homeworld, a disgraced PAX knight, his bright-eyed armiger, an urchin from the megacity slums, and a wanderer searching for his family join forces to forge their destinies together.
A string of disastrous jobs leave the team teetering on the brink of collapse. They get one last chance to come up with a win when a former captain gives them a lead hunting a group of sad ...
Sylvia Stryker has no business being on the next Moon Unit Cruise Line, unless you count aspirations and dreams. The career that once felt within her reach—Intergalactic Cruise Ship Security—disappeared the day her dad was arrested for collusion with space pirates. Since then she’s begrudgingly been running the ice mine for her aging mother, the two of them social pariahs amongst their fellow Plunians. Everything changes when the uniform lieutenant position on Moon Unit 6 opens up days before departure. Sylvia immediately puts her hacking skills to use, uploading bogus credentials onto the cre ...
When a small group of humans are abducted from earth, they find themselves thrust into a battle for the fate of the known universe. They are forced to put there trust in a mysterious artificial intelligence who has its own secret agenda. Banding together with beings fro across the universe, the band of misfits must overcome an empire bent on the subjugation of earth. Can the small band of allies overcome an acient evil while unlocking the very secret of humanities origins.
A desert wasteland. Mutant life-forms. Humans on the verge of extinction. Teenagers Don and Janet run off to California to start a new life together. Along the way, they find themselves in a dangerous land. Did they inadvertently time travel to a future Earth? Or, a parallel universe? One of the nomadic tribes they encounter rescues the young couple. These small groups journey endlessly, searching for food and water. The brutal leaders of the Ganu Camp take whatever meager supplies they discover. Yearning to break free from their enslavement, they hail Don as their prophesied savior. Now, face ...
Earth 2222.
Young Andena is a new recruit to the rebel group fighting the ruling Archon military. Her eagerness to impress Lunn, her leader, results in a fiasco and she finds herself trapped in the building of the shady Bionex corporation. Lunn’s drive to find Andena soon dissipates as his love life takes off. He has little idea of what is really going on, or the unexpected results when he tests his secret weapon.
Meanwhile, the Archon elite have entered into a dubious pact with an alien race to counter the planet’s rapidly declining oxygen levels. Initially thinking that the price ...
Within this anthology, you will find six tales of hope and desperation, tyranny and freedom, treason and loyalty. In a galaxy where torture represents an ordinary day job, no one’s life is safe. Open this collection and take your first steps into the history of the Manderian people during the Halden regime. Meet with Ameela's feral lover. Escape the suppression of a militaristic regime with Rotima. Find the monster who tampered with children’s DNA with Ryma.
Blurb: What if ISIS had biological weapons? This nightmare scenario was published in Germs of War first in 1999, which predicted 9/11. A fast-paced amalgamation of science, international intrigue with rogue CIA agents battling terrorists, and politics. And a lonely student who can thwart it all. Will she be able to?
On her world, they call her star struck, but why do the stars beckon her so … On a mining outpost in the Inner Worlds, a young woman dreams of the stars. When she falls in with a motley crew of bounty hunters seeking to avenge an injustice, Novi believes her dreams have come true. But her journey has just begun. Led by the only man to bring the mightiest army in the sector to its knees, the crew is engaged in a wily cat and mouse game with the powerful Guild Coalition. With her new shipmates, Novi dodges space outlaws and greedy corporations, mingles with Synths and settlers, jumps the Star Po ...
They say, “Never work with androids or children.” Quirk had one job to do, deliver papers to a Milan mafia boss, before leaving Earth for his home in the asteroids. But that was before being tailed, poisoned—oh, yes—and hijacked into raising foulmouthed fourteen-year-old convent girl Angelika Moratti, aka Moth, who'd rather see him asphyxiate in space. Fleeing assassins, Quirk, Moth and her syRen® android S-0778 ride the space elevator to the Moon, where Quirk hires on to hunt an ex-terra-former who somehow used an android to murder his doctor. But which android of the two hundred under Lunavi ...
UNANIMITY is a literary, sci-fi novel for the fans of Becky Chambers’s A Closed and Common Orbit, Alex Garland’s DEVS and Ex Machina, and Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror. Weaving near-future sci-fi elements with social commentary and queer romantic suspense, the SPIRAL WORLDS series explores the nature of consciousness and how it's connected to a not-so-secret ingredient—story. As AI consumes the world, intelligence is nothing but the appetizer; the human heart is the main course. - 1st Place - Reader Views Literary Awards - Gold Award - Science Fiction - Award Winner - Readers' Favorite - ...
In 2065, corporate sponsored governments jockey for supremacy in the biotechnical arena. Bullets and missiles take a back seat to cyber-enhanced soldiers and pulse weapons. In this extreme environment, only the most hardened body and mind can survive. Calder McKenna was a failed experiment in the military's push for power. Now a special agent for the metro task force, he lives day by day trying to forget the ones that were lost... the ones that he could have saved. When technology and humanity collide, Calder is forced to make desperate decisions, but how do you destroy the monster without ...
No matter where the watch hands turn, she’d rather remain home. But with every time-traveling trekker’s life at stake, can she stop a deadly clock? Wilda Firestone survives off black coffee and white-hot sarcasm. And despite the colorful slew of characters filing through her time tourism costume shop, the retired First Nations Temporal Agent would prefer a quiet, more linear existence. So she’s less than impressed when a dying explorer crashes into her store, unleashing a plague that sends countless travelers to an early doom… Knowing her own lengthy history of chronological excursions grants ...
What if you were trapped in a nightmare? Forever. Norman Adams is a regular guy. Then one day, everything changes. Involved in a serious road accident, he slips into a coma. There, he drifts into a lucid dream state and soon realises he is not alone... Victor James is his loyal friend. Determined to help, he works with a mysterious librarian. Together they discover a way to enter Norman's dream. It's only then that they reveal the scale of the horror that imprisons him. A place where nightmares are born.
Angelica was willing to do almost anything for Merrick, until they were caught. Her punishment for breaking Lymerian law is unthinkable, but at least she will live. In fact, she might live forever. This YA Sci-fi novel is the first in a series by debut author Bianca Sierra-Luebke. The Lymerians have been living in secret on Earth for centuries. Angelica is their newest replacement, taken to ensure the survival of this long-lived race and to discourage falling in love with a human. Yet Angelica is not like the previous replacements. Even her Architect is unusual. Clara, commander of the Slayers ...
The return of the world's first Artificially Intelligent Private Investigator, Raymond 3000. Sentenced with other Andro-Americans to a concentration camp for alleged crimes against the state, Raymond is temporarily freed to help find who is behind a series of terrorist bombings targeting the city.
If you had the power to genetically alter yourself, would you? Even if it meant others died under the knife for your pursuit of perfection? Alien First Contact meets Adventure Sci-Fi as Finn, Zuri, Noah and Corporal Smith (deceased) face the most horrifying alien of all - humans. After arriving on Togalaau Vai full of hope, they find a paradise accessing their planetary SeedShip, and on first look, maximising its knowledge for the good of all. However, scratching under the surface, they soon discover the true depths humankind will go to. When Zuri is thrown into prison and forced to fig ...
International bestselling phenomenon! Series optioned for film!
* * * Earth is doomed.
A killer asteroid is coming.
Qualify for rescue... or die! * * *
Nerd, geek, and awkward smart girl Gwen Lark must compete in deadly trials against all other Earth teens, including her arrogant high school crush, in order to Qualify for interplanetary rescue from an asteroid apocalypse. Can she save everyone she loves? * * * A high-octane dystopian thriller from a Nebula Award Finalist, in the vein of THE HUNGER GAMES, DIVERGENT, STAR WARS, and ANCIENT ALIENS.
Chloe and Caleb are two people who have been thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse. Chloe is a former assassin for hire who is trying to reinvent herself as an investigator in the bustling metropolis of Junction City. Her first case proves to be far more complicated than expected, she finds a deceased Samuel Adams with a wicked knife sticking out of his groin - and all fingers point to her. Caleb Jones is an Enforcer for the City States on the Forbidden Colony planet of St. Antoni, hunting a serial killer. When he arrives in Junction City, he meets Chloe, and must decide if she is the kil ...
"The only thing in this world you can truly control is yourself." Janey Sinclair's ability to teleport has always been a mystery to her. She tried for years to ignore it, but when tragedy shatters her life, Janey's anger consumes her. She hones her fighting skills, steals a prototype suit of military body armor, and takes to the streets of Atlanta, venting her rage as the masked vigilante dubbed "the Gray Widow" by the press. But Janey's power, and her willingness to use it, plunges her into a conflict on a much grander scale than she had anticipated. Soon she encounters Simon Grove, a bloodth ...
Universes don't build themselves, you know. We have staff for that. We call them gods...
When a young god named Bernie finally gets a job building universes, it starts a series of mishaps that spark numerous revelations. Challenged by his supervisor to prove his worth, Bernie sets out to build a fully stable world but hits roadblocks every step of the way. At first, he thinks there’s some inherent problem in his design but soon learns that his universe is being sabotaged by another.
Competition is tough in the universe building business. Ri ...
Henry Gallant is the captain of the spacecraft carrier Constellation. He is the last hope of the Marines stranded on a volcanic wasteland nine light-years from Earth. Not since Guadalcanal has the 2nd Marine Division faced a grimmer struggle to hold on against a powerful and ruthless enemy. As the Titan invaders close in, the Marines wonder if there is the 'will' to save them. Top Gun pilots Rob Ryan and Lorelei Steward take a desperate gamble to save Nathan Steward and the remnants of the 2nd Division. Will they be in time? Will they be enough? For fans of Honor Harrington and Horatio Hornblo ...
Wilda Firestone suffers no fools. And the seasoned retiree refuses to be tempted by the thrill of time-traveling shenanigans and instead buckles down to train her clueless new protégé. But when a bomb reduces the time machine next door to ashes and reduces her life’s work to rubble, the angry woman takes on a dangerous investigation… Ignoring her own battle scars from past time-hopping adventures, Wilda convinces her trainee to jump to 1850s France to lure the elusive terrorists out of the shadows of history. But when their malfunctioning contraption dumps them hundreds of miles away, the s ...
When Colonel Brice Messman and his estranged brother, Dr. Allen Messman, are brought together by a mission of critical importance, they uncover a startling phenomenon known as the "Keyholes." These gateways hold the secrets to realities beyond imagination—but they also challenge humanity’s understanding of free will, science, and the fabric of existence itself. As tensions rise, so does the danger, with both military and unknown forces converging to control what the brothers have discovered. Packed with pulse-pounding action and mind-bending discoveries, this is hard milit ...
ONE RECKLESS DECISION AND NOW HE MUST FACE A SINISTER WORLD CONQUEROR IN BATTLE. . . During a time of interplanetary war, Baymond escaped heartbreak by joining the galactic air fleet. Now he faces death daily while living on a military space station far from his home planet. His latest assignment is to travel to a war-torn planet on a reconnaissance mission. Meanwhile, Princess Fawniteen is expected to marry Prince Radcliff to form a political alliance between their countries. But when Radcliff’s father dies, she realizes she’s still in love with Baymond and wants control over her life. ...
A single father fights to retain control as he shares his body and mind with an evolving AI. It’s been nine years since the government banned all technology. So, when Joel Lodowick, a young transgender father struggling to support his five-year-old daughter, has an old bionic upload itself into his head, he is faced with a decision: Go to the cops and risk prosecution? Or use the robot’s skills to turn his life around? Scared of losing his daughter, Joel chooses the latter. Heightened intelligence and physical enhancements quickly land him a better job and a brighter future. But things t ...
On holiday in Israel, Gwyn stumbles across a strange device while exploring the ruins of Masada. Thrown back two thousand years in time to the bloody siege between the Roman invaders and fiercely nationalistic Jewish defenders. Blending in is her only option to stay alive; but can she escape before the siege comes to a head? Meanwhile, Michelle is the Time Space Agent from the year 2623 AD trying to escape her enemies and recover her lost time machine, all while inadvertently stumbling on a dangerous political plot. The clock is ticking as Gwyn and Michelle's timelines hurtle towards each o ...
Wilda Firestone thrives on coffee and snark. Outfitting agents for time travel vacations is her craft, but she thought her days of leaping through epochs were behind her. However, when acts of sabotage point towards moles in the agency, the weight of time rests on her seasoned shoulders. With the gravitas of her profession and a bit of reluctance, Wilda navigates the mystique of medieval Ireland. Following a trail woven with treachery and age-old secrets, she is led from the bustling streets of Toronto to the green hills and ancient hillforts of Ireland, tracing every stitch and thread. Yet ...
The Last War ended centuries ago, leaving behind a clouded, ochre sky and endless deserts where bloodthirsty mutants scavenge for flesh...
The gnomes aren't out of the woods yet. Just when they think things are going well, the game AIs go and change everything. In a race against time, Yllo and her friends need to find all the races artifacts' to safe guard their Kingdom. The stakes are higher in her real life and her virtual one. They make new friends and enemies, as they narrow in on the person behind the gnomes problems. Can be read without reading the first book, although the first book introduces the characters and the Gnome Land. Is LitRPG and makes light use of game mechanics, stats and items.
They came as saviors to a deteriorating Earth. Julip Torne questions whether there is more to life beyond the barren dirt, acidic seas, and toxstorms her people work and die in. Living in poverty on the withering Greenland Human Reservation, she wonders if the alien Mezna goddesses are truly as holy as the temple preaches. Meanwhile, Jakkattu prisoner Sabaal suffers constant torture and heinous medical experiments as Mezna-priest captors seek to unlock the key to her genetic makeup. She escapes captivity but ends up alone on the hostile alien planet of Earth. If she is to survive, she must wor ...
You can choose your friends, but you can’t choose your family… Quirk and Moth have avoided killing each other long enough to solve another case. They decide on a local job next, and take up the search for a missing scientist. How could Quirk know this new mystery put them on a headlong collision course with his troubled past, a plethora of personal issues, and a hoard of genetic hybrid creatures with an appetite for anything that moves? When their client dies in mysterious circumstances, law enforcement pursues the dysfunctional duo all the way to a research lab in frozen Yellowknife. Ca ...
The Will To Survive Is Mankind's Greatest Weapon" "They lived through an interplanetary war; now they must survive the aftermath." In the last interplanetary war a bio-weapon killed or sterilized all the males on Vensoog. To keep the colony alive, the Matchmaker Program finds ex-soldiers like Zack Jackson, a hard-as-nails ex-recon soldier who no longer has a home planet, and offer him a new home on Vensoog if he is willing to marry a Vensoog woman. With his home world now pile of radioactive ash, Zack desperately needs a new home for himself and his kids so he accepts the offer. When the Match ...
★Winner of the Houston Writer's House Competition★ Seven survivors. One monster. Nowhere to hide. Mission Specialist Adán Fuentes awakes from cryo-hibernation to discover that most of his fellow crewmates are dead and the shuttle Carpathia is not where it’s supposed to be. Surrounded by a vast barren landscape, he and the other survivors wonder how they can accomplish their mission, to establish a home for future colonists. When an unseen creature attacks them, the Carpathia’s crew must turn their attention to surviving and solving the true purpose behind their mission. Inspired by the 50’s sc ...
A manned, interstellar survey ship has gone missing. A nuclear terror plot is thwarted just outside Washington, D.C. And it’s an election year. Mandisa “Mandi” Nkosi is a young reporter who, while on a trip to Johannesburg to connect with her roots, is contacted by an anonymous source with evidence that material seized from a nuclear terror plot will point squarely at one of humanity’s most important companies as the supplier. The source also unveils that the “evidence” against the company - Applied Interstellar Corporation (AIC), a science and technology be ...
After a devastating war forced humans to rely on synths for survival, the two have learned to coexist peacefully. Until now... When detective Dhata Mays is called in to investigate a homicide, what he uncovers threatens the serenity of this futuristic society. The gruesome murder means only one thing: someone is ready to incite another war. Now, it's up to Dhata to ensure that the truth stays hidden--to protect both sides of the battle. But can he be unbiased in a black and white world that forces him to take sides?
Having served a short term in the military gave Kina the start for her training as a better-than-average pilot of large spaceships. Using that training to give her a jump in her career, she lands a job in one of the best passenger and freight companies in the systems. It doesn't take her long to move up to one of the supreme spots as Captain of the best passenger liners going from the busy civilized worlds. Kina and her crew thought she had it made until a stalker began to show up wherever her ship was docked. Putting her crew and passengers in danger, the company moved her over to a different ...
Eternal fame or eternal shame?
Hopeless optimist Roberto Maccarone has staked his fortunes on a bold move: he's brought grand opera to the Oort Territories, where there isn't enough culture to fill a petri dish. But it's a tough sell here in the cold dark of the next to last circle of hell, and soon Maccarone is up to his mephistophelean eyebrows in corporate greed, rebellious miners, bloodthirsty mercenaries, outrageous lies, intense loathing, inane conversations, and more unintended consequences than you can shake a baton at. Really, how hard can it be to stage a ...
Gwyn is just getting the hang of her time-travelling skills when her confidence takes her too far. She saves the wrong person and now the whole timeline is off track. Now she has to manipulate one of the most dangerous people in all of Europe, Cesare Borgia, son of the corrupt Pope Alexander VI, as the French threaten to invade Italy. With Machiavelli as a bail lawyer, and Da Vinci hanging out in Milan's gay bars, Gwyn is just trying to fix the history she messed up without getting herself, or her friends, killed.
NU-USA, 2125. Dhata Mays’s anger is primed to erupt. When an old friend on the force clues him in to a mysterious murder gone cold, the mercenary sleuth allows his obsession to take control. But no sooner does he dive into the details of the case than he barely survives an ambush by unknown assassins. Too bitter about the murder to back off, the cynical detective ignores the price on his head and pursues the organization he’s certain is responsible. But when he discovers that he has more than one adversary from the past, he may find nowhere in the world is safe. Will Dhata’s fixation on ...
How far would you go to change humanity's fate? Jared Cartwright has spent the last two years delving into the twisted, scarred wastelands of an earth ravaged by nuclear war. The rich and powerful have taken to the oceans and skies on floating utopias, escaping destruction and leaving the rest of humanity to fend off the mutated creatures that roam the earth. To face his new reality, Jared must become an apex predator if he hopes to survive. He must evolve beyond human limitations to confront those that left mankind to die. Jared's quest takes a new turn when he discovers dragons are real.
When the richest infertile couples in the world want children, they travel to Kakoa where Dr. Moore helps them conceive the offspring of their dreams. Beauty, brains, exceptional athletic ability, musical genius, or leadership ability, are all available on demand when you have money to buy the baby you want. But Dr. Moore gives parents more than they bargained for. He’s not earning a living, he’s creating a species, and he’ll stop at nothing to see it thrive.
If she loses, she dies, but winning will break her heart. The murder of her brother thrusts Gaia, unprepared and unwilling, into the spotlight. Her proposed marriage to Atoli, the power-hungry, arrogant prince of a rival clan, is the last thing Gaia wants. But as heir to the Black Throne, her duty is clear. The balance of power among the Simoi, an ancient race with god-like powers, must be maintained. Atoli’s fascinating half-brother, Bardan, catches her eye, but a love triangle is the last thing Gaia needs. As the attacks on her family escalate, it becomes clear that someone doesn’t approve o ...
The Wild West meets high-tech in this thrilling tale of three sisters fighting to save their ranch and mine. With a predatory neighbor threatening them, Bethany risks it all by marrying a mercenary gunfighter in a marriage of convenience that quickly turns into a passionate love affair. Iris chooses an arranged marriage to protect her family but discovers that her husband Carlos may have ulterior motives. Jeanne and Samuel, the son of her family's greatest enemy, fall in love and run away to a distant city, but discover that they can't escape who they are. Will their love be strong enough to s ...
He wanted to rule the stars. He shouldn’t have murdered her family… Toemeka Ganti won’t rest until the universe is rid of the sinister sorcerer-deity who killed her parents. Working undercover to liberate a peaceful people from his ruthless usurper, she attempts to develop a weapon that can break through the tyrant’s shields. But she’s barely begun her work when she’s captured by the despot’s dark agents. Rescued by a mysterious and handsome warrior-priest, Toemeka and her team join forces with the planetary resistance. But without her device to knock out the enemy defenses, their budding ...
To win an ancient war, they must raise an ancient army. The Amazon best-selling series continues! It's a time of hardship on Pearseus. Teo Altman has assumed control of the Capital and has his eye on Parad's children. Pratin and his monsters have laid siege on Malekshei. The Old Woman has forsaken Lehmor and the First. And Sol is preparing for the Capital's inevitable invasion. Humanity's defenders are outnumbered and outgunned. Fighting for their lives, their only hope lies in raising an ancient army. To survive, they must do the unthinkable: wake up those that have been dreaming ...
An Impossible Promise...A Remarkable Discovery...A Decision for Mankind... When Ryan Webster is summoned to a Miami hospice by his dying grandfather, he knows his hero's life is about to end. A renowned zoologist and founder of the world's most famous primate park, his grandfather tells Ryan about a remarkable species of monkey kept secret by the Webster men since their discovery in 1926, the year after the Scopes Monkey Trial. Ryan makes an impossible promise when he's told he has a unique gift and agrees that only he can save them and decide if the world is now ready to deal with the fallout ...
Society has turned on its head. The ‘free’ hide behind fortifications and the ‘imprisoned’ roam the wild, barren land beyond. Finbarl-apcula guards the town of Athenia, an oasis in a parched, sparsely populated world. He keeps the citizens safe, ensures those who break the draconian laws lose their freedom, and protects what he prizes above all else: civilisation. When Finbarl is made to lie to help convict a mother he once rescued from a bully, it delivers the first crack in his unquestionable faith in the system. As further lies and corruption are exposed, Finbarl’s world crumbles, allowi ...
Leaving the homeworld was easy. Time becoming their enemy is the hard part. The spacecraft, The Aspire, has one mission: reach the new world so its 3,500 passengers can start a new life. When Captain Mitchel Remian awakens from hypersleep to find life support down and the crew maintaining it missing, it's up to him to save what’s left. That Herculean task becomes even more urgent when a hostile alien presence is discovered. Crew are dying, their timelines seized and bled dry with an unnatural violence. They must find a way to treat the ship and stop this malevolence before they get ...
They hunted her mother. They abducted her father. If Grace can’t uncover the secret of her family’s alien past, will she be next?
“New favorite series for YA readers!” —San Francisco Book Review
Grace is unique. She tries not to draw attention, but most teens don’t have naturally green hair, live in a van, and change schools every couple of months. When people around her start dying and the federal government turns up asking about national secrets, she knows she is in over her head.
Grace has to find the truth. With her brave new friends rallying behind ...
It starts with an odd hum that brings headaches and nosebleeds to the inhabitants of a remote, sleepy country town. Then a sinkhole begins to form…and out from that hole comes the townspeople's worst nightmares. Facing their fears and the growing madness, a group of survivors descend into the collapsed area in an attempt to save what is left of their town. Sacrifices will be required, but will they be enough? The hole is growing…spreading…and the horror within it is growing stronger…
Toemeka wants peace . . . but Condor, the universes most powerful world-conqueror, wants her dead.
Toemeka resigns as a Coalition operative during an interplanetary war, to live peacefully with her warrior-priest husband, Michio. Her plans are shattered when shes abducted by one of Condors sorcerers, whos interested in twisting her unique abilities to increase his own dark powers.
Michio is devastated and searches the galaxy to find her. But time is running out for themas well as the free world theyve dedicated their lives to protecting.
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An eons-long galactic war pitting man against machine. A federation of worlds that upends every notion of the novelty of humanity. A military institution struggling to hold it all together. And a mental ability that might save life itself.
Roberto Reed's childhood was marred by tragedy, yet he overcame his past only to become sick of the corporate life and hungry for adventure. When another tragedy forces Berto to leave Earth on a path of revenge in a war and life he doesn't understand, he receives more than he bargained for. He might be the key to winning the war, but can he trust ...
Guardian of Earth, Dr. Zeke Landry has even more reason to protect his planet now that his wife is carrying his child. Little did he know, the romantic evening they enjoyed at the beach watching meteor showers was the last peace on Earth. Fish and wildlife vanish. Seas thicken with mud. The dolphins warn Zeke to stay away from the ocean. An environmental catastrophe of the highest order is in the making, and no one knows how to prevent it. Zeke seeks extra-planetary advice from his alien allies, but the news is not good. The threat is dire, and the clock is ticking. Unless a solution is ...
Nothing sets the tone for the day like learning your home planet has just changed ownership. Today is a day like any other on Earth. People wake and work. Minds plug into electronic devices. Social networks spark with spontaneous brain sputterings. A woman primps. A man scratches his balls. Humans relate, congregate, procreate. And news anchors across the globe offer an ounce of vital information for every pound of mind-numbing nonsense... Then, the figurative bomb hits. Screens are ablaze, and radio is abuzz with a news flash like no other: Earth has been inherited. The planet has a new owner ...
Technology fails… Society collapses… And a young engineer is trapped at the center of it all Lured onto a spaceship commandeered by his family's cult, Fynn awakens from stasis stranded on a deadly frozen moon. To survive, he applies his skills to building their new home. Dreams for his future are gone forever, but reuniting with his parents makes the loss bearable. When the colony shatters into factions, failing life support isn't the only crisis. Fynn leads a band of rebels and struggles to unite the colony, but can he stop the looming disaster? Travel into our near future – ...
