The 2025 Black Friday/Cyber Monday Based Book Sale!

Runs Now Through Tuesday December 2, 2025

Nov 26, 2025

The sale ended December 2, but feel free to take a look through the many based books in this post. Our next Based Book Sale will be February 11-16, 2026.

The Holidays Are Here!

Before the season sweeps you into its whirlwind of errands, gatherings, and last-minute obligations, the Based Book Sale invites you to stake out a moment that’s entirely your own. For one week, indie and small-press authors are dropping some of their best titles to $0.99 or free: an early gift to help you relax, recharge, and rediscover the simple pleasure of getting lost in a good story before the holidays take center stage.

Saint Nicholas in his festive, holiday garb as an Orthodox Bishop, sitting in a comfy chair reading a book in his Christmas decorated library surrounded by stacks of books, a wintery scene visible in the window in the background, drawn in an Art Deco style.

Christmas cheer comes in many forms. Some come wrapped in paper, others come as stories. With hundreds of Based Books ready to browse, now’s the perfect time to get ready for your seasonal reading. The sale starts today, Wednesday November 26, 2025, and it runs through Tuesday December 2, 2025.

What is a “based” book?

based [ beyst ] / beɪst / adjective
1. Well-grounded, resting upon a firm foundation.
2. Principled, devoted to fixed standards, especially in defiance of conventional wisdom.
3. Rejecting politically correct attitudes and celebrating nonconformity with woke opinion.
4. Committed to upholding and advancing the good, the beautiful, and the true.
antonyms: debased, cringe, woke

Read on to discover some great based books!

Top Based Books 2024-2025!

We’ll kick things off with the books that have distinguished themselves as top sellers over the past two years, beginning with the top based book year to date, The Martian Incident: A Science Fiction Thriller by Ryan M. Patrick

The Martian Incident: A Science Fiction Thriller
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.

2024’s Top Based Book List was dominated by Vox Day who grabbed three of the top five spots. His #1 New Release in Satire, Death and the Devil, is a New Arrival.

Summa Elvetica: A Casuistry of the Elvish Controversy & Other Stories (Arts of Dark and Light)
by Vox Day

In a medieval fantasy world in which the realm of man is dominated by a rich and powerful Church, the Most Sanctified Charity IV decides the time is ripe to make a conclusive inquiry into the matter. If, in his infallible wisdom, he determines that elves do have immortal souls, then the Church will be obliged to bring the Holy Word of the Immaculate to them. But if he decides they do not, there will be holy war. Powerful factions line up on both sides of the debate. War-hungry magnates cast greedy eyes at the ancient wealth of the elven kingdoms and pray for a declaration that elves are little more than animals. And there are men who are willing to do more than merely pray.

The delegation sent to the High King of the Elves is led by two great theologians, brilliant philosophers who champion opposite sides of the great debate. And in the Sanctiff’s own stead, he sends the young nobleman, Marcus Valerius. Marcus Valerius is a rising scholar in the Church, talented, fearless, and devout. But he is inexperienced in the ways of the world. Nothing in his life has prepared him for the beauty of the elves―or the monumental betrayal into which he rides.

“One of the most fascinating fantasy worlds I’ve ever visited.”

“Day has put forth a masterpiece with this book.”

“It would not surprise me at all if this is one day regarded as a classic of the fantasy genre.”

A Throne of Bones (Arts of Dark and Light Book 1)
by Vox Day

In Selenoth, the race of Man is on the ascendant. The ancient dragons sleep. The ghastly Witchkings are no more; their evil power destroyed by the courage of Men and the fearsome magic of the Elves. The Dwarves have retreated to the kingdoms of the Underdeep, the trolls hide in their mountains, and even the savage orc tribes have learned to dread the iron discipline of Amorr’s mighty legions.

But after four hundred years of mutual suspicion, the rivalry between two of the Houses Martial that rule the Amorran Senate threatens to turn violent, and unrest sparks rebellion throughout the imperial provinces. In the north, the barbarian reavers who have long plagued the coasts of the White Sea unexpectedly plead for the royal protection of the King of Savondir, as they flee a vicious race of wolf-demons who have invaded their islands. And in the distant east, the war drums echo throughout the mountains as orcs and goblins gather in vast numbers, summoned by their bestial gods.

Epic fantasy at its deepest and most gripping. Military fiction at its most fantastic. A Throne of Bones is Book I in the ARTS OF DARK AND LIGHT series.

“Fantastic book. My new favorite fantasy series.”

“The perfect balance of every element of an epic fantasy. Breadth and depth of characters, creatures, and magic went well with realistic dialogue and pace.”

“God was this a totally amazing book, the world building, setting and unique cataclysmic set up of events had me turning pages non-stop”

“At least the match of the earlier books of GRR Martin’s series. Certainly superior to the latter books.”

A Sea of Skulls (Arts of Dark and Light Book 2)
by Vox Day

In Selenoth, the war drums are beating throughout the land. The savage orcs of Hagahorn and Zoth Ommog are on the move, imperiling Man, Dwarf, and Elf alike. The Houses Martial of Amorr have gone to war with each other, pitting legion against legion, and family against family, as civil war wracks the disintegrating Empire. In the north, inhuman wolf-demons besiege the last redoubt of Man in the White Sea, while in Savondir, the royal house of de Mirid desperately prepares to defend the kingdom against an invading army that is larger than any it has ever faced before. And in the underground realm of the King of Iron Mountain, a strange new enemy has been attacking dwarf villages throughout the Underdeep.

Beneath the widespread violence that has seized all Selenoth in its grasp, a select few are beginning to recognize the appearance of a historic pattern of almost unimaginable proportions. Are all these conflicts involving Orc, Elf, Man, and Dwarf the natural result of inevitable rivalries, or are they little more than battlegrounds in an ancient war that began long before the dawn of time?

Epic fantasy at its deepest and most intense. A SEA OF SKULLS is Book II in the ARTS OF DARK AND LIGHT series that began with A THRONE OF BONES.

“If you’re into epic fantasy, I can’t recommend Arts of Dark and Light highly enough.”

“Easily the best epic fantasy series out today. Many reviewers are comparing to LOTR and while I cannot go that far, I believe this series is better than GOT.”

“The story keeps getting more exciting. The characters are well-defined. Unlike A Song of Ice and Fire and The Wheel of Time, there is no filler here.”

Classic works always do well in the Based Book Sale.

The Complete Father Brown Mysteries
($.99 Mystery Classics)
by G. K. Chesterton

This beautifully-produced digital edition contains twenty-four short stories and novellas featuring G. K. Chesterton’s legendary detective, Father Brown.

This edition contains a linked table of contents that helps you navigate easily among the stories.

This edition has been spell-corrected and formatted especially for the Kindle. It contains easy-to-read chapter headings and accurate line breaks and pagination.

The Father Brown Mysteries digital edition contains the following stories by G. K. Chesterton:

The Blue Cross
The Secret Garden
The Queer Feet
The Flying Stars
The Invisible Man
The Honor of Israel Gow
The Wrong Shape
The Sins of Prince Saradine
The Hammer of God
The Eye of Apollo
The Sign of the Broken Sword
The Three Tools of Death
The Absence of Mr. Glass
The Paradise of Thieves
The Duel of Dr. Hirsch
The Man in the Passage
The Mistake of the Machine
The Head of Caesar
The Purple Wig
The Perishing of the Pendragons
The God of the Gongs
The Salad of Colonel Cray
The Strange Crime of John Boulnois
The Fairy Tale of Father Brown

G. K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy: Illustrated Centennial Edition is a New Arrival in Non-Fiction.

Conan: The Thief, The Conqueror, The King: The Collected Adventures of the World’s Greatest Barbarian (Illustrated Edition)
Robert E. Howard

Newly updated edition with beautiful custom illustrations!

Join Conan the Barbarian on his many adventures from mercenary and thief to conqueror and king as he smites demons, fights wizards, slays monsters, unearths forgotten treasures, battles against all odds, journeys to exotic lands, loves and lusts, uncovers hidden mysteries, and always refuses to yield!

This epic collection contains all 18 of Robert E. Howard’s Conan stories published during his lifetime.

These stories were originally published in Weird Tales magazine between 1933 and 1936.

The Conan stories included in the collection are:
1. Gods of the North (The Frost Giant’s Daughter) (1934)
2. The Tower of the Elephant (1933)
3. Rogues in the House (1935)
4. Shadows in the Moonlight (Iron Shadows in the Moon) (1934)
5. Black Colossus (1934)
6. Queen of the Black Coast (1934)
7. The Slithering Shadow (Xuthal of the Dusk) (1934)
8. A Witch Shall Be Born (1934)
9. The Devil in Iron (1934)
10. The People of the Black Circle (1934)
11. Shadows in Zamboula (Man-Eaters of Zamboula) (1935)
12. The Pool of the Black One (1934)
13. Beyond the Black River (1935)
14. Red Nails (1936)
15. Jewels of Gwahlur (The Teeth of Gwahlur) (1935)
16. The Phoenix on the Sword (1932)
17. The Scarlet Citadel (1933)
18. The Hour of the Dragon (Conan the Conqueror) (1935)

As an added bonus, also included in the set are:

The Hyborian Age—Conan’s World (This is Howard’s background essay on the world of Conan) (1936), and
The Shadow Kingdom and The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune (These are two of Howard’s early Kull of Atlantis stories that predate and strongly influence his later Conan works.) (1929)

For ease of navigation, the anthology includes an interactive table of contents.

The stories in this collection are ordered roughly in chronological order from Conan’s first adventures as a young mercenary adventurer and thief to his final epic clashes as a king and are based on the Rippke chronology.

About Conan:
Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero who originated in pulp fiction magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, several films (including Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer), television programs (cartoon and live-action), video games, role-playing games and other media. The character was created by writer Robert E. Howard in 1932 via a series of fantasy stories published in Weird Tales magazine.

Conan the Character:
Conan is a Cimmerian. From Robert E. Howard’s writings (The Hyborian Age among others) it is known that the Cimmerians were based on the Celts or Gaels. He was born on a battlefield and is the son of a village blacksmith. Conan matured quickly as a youth and, by age fifteen, he was already a respected warrior who had participated in the destruction of the Aquilonian outpost of Venarium. After its demise, he was struck by wanderlust and began the adventures chronicled by Howard, encountering skulking monsters, evil wizards, tavern wenches, and beautiful princesses. He roamed throughout the Hyborian Age nations as a thief, outlaw, mercenary, and pirate. As he grew older, he began commanding larger units of men and escalating his ambitions. In his forties, he seized the crown of the tyrannical king of Aquilonia, the most powerful kingdom of the Hyborian Age, having strangled the previous ruler on the steps of the throne. Conan’s adventures often result in him performing heroic feats, though his motivation for doing so is largely to protect his own survival or for personal gain.

33+ Classic Collection of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Novels. Stories. Illustrated: Tarzan of the Apes, A Princess of Mars, The Mucker, The Land that Time Forgot, The Lost Continent and others
by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs (September 1, 1875 – March 19, 1950) was an American author, best known for his prolific output in the adventure, science fiction, and fantasy genres. Best-known for creating the characters Tarzan and John Carter, he also wrote the Pellucidar series, the Amtor series, and the Caspak trilogy.
Tarzan was immediately popular, and Burroughs capitalized on it in every way possible, including a syndicated Tarzan comic strip, movies, and merchandise. Tarzan remains one of the most successful fictional characters to this day and is a cultural icon. Burroughs’s California ranch is now the center of the Tarzana neighborhood in Los Angeles, named after the character.
In Barsoom Series:
A PRINCESS OF MARS
THE GODS OF MARS
WARLORD OF MARS
THUVIA, MAID OF MARS
THE CHESSMEN OF MARS
THE MASTER MIND OF MARS
In Tarzan series:
TARZAN OF THE APES
THE RETURN OF TARZAN
THE BEASTS OF TARZAN
THE SON OF TARZAN
TARZAN AND THE JEWELS OF OPAR
JUNGLE TALES OF TARZAN
TARZAN THE UNTAMED
TARZAN THE TERRIBLE
TARZAN AND THE GOLDEN LION
TARZAN AND THE ANT-MEN
TARZAN, LORD OF THE JUNGLE
The Pellucidar series:
AT THE EARTH’S CORE
PELLUCIDAR
Complete Caspak series:
THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT
THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT
OUT OF TIME’S ABYSS
Complete Mucker series:
THE MUCKER
RETURN OF THE MUCKER
THE OAKDALE AFFAIR
Other novels:
THE LOST CONTINENT
THE MONSTER MEN
THE CAVE GIRL
THE ETERNAL LOVER
THE OUTLAW OF TORN
THE EFFICIENCY EXPERT
THE GIRL FROM FARRIS’S
THE GIRL FROM HOLLYWOOD
THE MAD KING

Captain Blood
by Rafael Sabatini

An Epic Tale of Adventure, Justice, and Romance
Captain Blood is a swashbuckling masterpiece that tells the story of Peter Blood, a physician turned pirate, whose life is irrevocably changed when he is unjustly accused of treason. Set against the backdrop of the 17th-century Caribbean, this thrilling novel combines action, wit, and a quest for justice.

The Plot
After being wrongfully convicted and sold into slavery in the West Indies, Peter Blood escapes his chains and becomes the captain of a notorious pirate ship. Using his brilliance and courage, he navigates the high seas, outsmarts formidable foes, and fights for freedom and redemption. Amidst his daring exploits, Blood grapples with his growing feelings for Arabella Bishop, the niece of a cruel plantation owner, leading to a tale of romance entwined with peril.

Key Themes

Justice and Redemption: Blood’s transformation from a wronged man to a pirate hero showcases his quest for justice and personal honor.
Adventure on the High Seas: Packed with naval battles, daring escapes, and clever strategies, the novel captures the spirit of piracy and adventure.
Love and Loyalty: The relationship between Blood and Arabella adds depth and emotional resonance to the story.

Why Read Captain Blood?
Rafael Sabatini’s rich prose, compelling characters, and thrilling plot make Captain Blood an enduring classic of adventure literature. It is a must-read for those who love tales of courage, romance, and the triumph of the human spirit.

King Solomon’s Mines (Allan Quatermain Series, Unabridged and Illustrated)
by H. Rider Haggard

King Solomon’s Mines (1885) is a popular novel by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party. It is the first English adventure novel set in Africa, and is considered to be the genesis of the Lost World literary genre.

Allan Quatermain is a hunter. Lions, elephants, antelope. Fearless, he is the best big-game hunter in South Africa. And he is about to embark on the most dangerous hunt of his career. His new employers, Sir Henry Curtis and Captain John Good, have a map--drawn by a dying Portuguese prospector. It reveals a route across the great desert, past a fearsome range of mountain, to the greatest treasure in all Africa--the lost diamond mines of King Solomon himself! Inspired by true adventures, King Solomon’s Mines is the unsurpassed classic of a journey into the unknown heart of the Dark Continent.

Somewhither
John C. Wright

Ilya, as he has secretly dreamed, is called upon to save the mad scientist’s beautiful daughter. With his squirrel gun, his grandfather’s sword, and his father’s crucifix, Ilya races to save the girl, and, incidentally, the world.

So it is, Ilya Muromets is a big, ugly, motherless boy who does not look like anyone else in his Oregon town. His father is often absent on mysterious Church missionary work that involves silver bullets, sacred lances, and black helicopters. One night, Professor Dreadful sends a warning to Ilya that his Many Worlds theory correct, but that his experiments have opened a door that should have remained closed, and his beautiful daughter, Penny, is in trouble.

The 2016 Dragon Award-winner for Best Science Fiction Novel, Somewhither is the first part of A Tale of the Unwithering Realm, a new science-fantasy series from science-fiction master John C. Wright. It is an adventure, it is a romance, and it is a coming-of-age story of a young man who is not a man, in a world that is only one among many. It is a tale of a greater and darker evil with longer reach than anything he could imagine, of pain beyond measure, and of the faith required to surmount all three. It is a story of inexorable destiny written in the stars and the stubborn courage that is required to defy it.

Nowhither: The Drowned World
(Unwithering Realm Book 2)
by John C. Wright

The tale resumes as Ilya Muromets, nonhuman immortal and would-be hero, and his friends and companions, make a hair’s breadth escape from the endless immensities of the Dark Tower, that unconquerable stronghold and throne of a monstrous, dimension-spanning empire ruled by cruel tyrants and omniscient magicians, only to find themselves trapped in circumstances even worse. They escape a citadel of blood-drinking abominations only to find themselves trapped in a chamber at the sunless bottom of the sea.

The invulnerable Ilya also realized he can be hurt indeed when he faces a dread decision pitting family love against loyalty to friends, and involves the fates not of his own world only, but all worlds.

Starquest: Space Pirates Of Andromeda
by John C. Wright

Space Opera must be Great! Gallant! Gigantic! Grandiose!
This tale told by a Grandmaster vows to return the glory that was lost!
Remember the days gone by, when science fiction was fun?
Now new hope is here!
If you are weary of weak, wan, woke and wasted works, your wait is ended!
Here is an epic, as grand as any tale of old -- here you will hear wonders told!

Of course there is a Space Princess, and Space Pirates galore, and an Evil Galactic Empire.

Of course there is a super-weapon known only as the Great Eye of Darkness!
Here meet Athos Lone, Ace of Star Patrol, in his one-man mission of vengeance!
The Ancient Mariner, like an iron ghost, when slain, seems to rise again!
The mysterious spymaster called Nightshadow walks in dark worlds but serves the light!
An Imperial Deathtrooper must reverse his loyalties, and fight his own clone-brothers!

Fate has set these unlikely heroes against the Four Dark Overlords
An utmost evil the unwary galaxy thinks long dead!
Can Darkness fail and Light prevail?
Read On! For All True Tales are but Part of a Greater!

Iron Chamber of Memory
by John C. Wright

“An eerie, suspenseful, romantic fantasy in the mood of C. S. Lewis and Charles Williams”

Hal Landfall, penniless graduate student at Magdalen College, arrives at the strange, high house of Wrongerwood, looking for his missing friend, Manfred Hathaway, the new lord of Sark Island. On the doorstep, he meets the lovely, green-eyed Laurel, a beautiful, sultry young woman from Cornwall who is Manfred’s wife-to-be.

Erected by Merlin in ancient days, Wrongerwood contains many secrets, including rooms where one can remember one’s true and forgotten self. When Hal and Laurel step inside, they begin to remember, with fear and wonder, that they have met before and that they share a forbidden secret they are forced to forget when they step outside.

The small island of Sark in the English Channel was, until recently the last feudal government in Europe. By law, no motor vehicles run on the road, and no lights burn at night. Only the lord of the island may keep hounds. An eerily magical setting for an eerily magical book.

One Bright Star to Guide Them
by John C. Wright

Tommy Robertson was once a king.

As a child, he and his three friends found their way to a magical elfin world and saved it from the Winter King.

Now a grown man successful in the world, Tommy has all but forgotten his childish adventures. He hasn’t even spoken to those friends in years.

Then a silver key and a black cat show up on his front porch, and Tommy starts to remember. Just because he grew up and left Faerie behind doesn’t mean that Faerie is finished with him.

Tommy is called to be the hero of England, and for that, he wants his friends at his side. But the real world has weighed them down and they are no longer the children he remembers. And evil things from childhood stories grow older and darker and more frightening with the passing of the years.

One Bright Star to Guide Them begins where other fairy tales end.

Can Tommy remember the courageous boy he once was, and set aside grown-up things to be a child again to save England? Or will the weight of the world prove to be too much for him and his friends?

A Voyage to Arcturus
by David Lindsay

A Voyage to Arcturus is a remarkable work of science fiction that has inspired, mesmerised, and unnerved readers for decades. It is an epic voyage over one of the strangest and most beautifully imagined alien planets ever imagined, a profoundly affecting exploration of the philosophical centre of the cosmos, and a startlingly personal adventure into what makes us human and special.

A guy from Earth named Maskull wakes up alone and burned by the suns of the double star Arcturus on the planet Tormance after an odd intergalactic adventure. As he travels north, led by a drumbeat, he encounters a world and its people unlike any other, where gender iFhiddens a victory won at great cost, where landscape and emotion are drawn into a cursed dance, where heroes are killed, reborn, and renamed, and where the cosmological lures of Shaping, who may be God, torment Maskull in his incredible journey. A terrible secret and an astonishing surprise are waiting for him at the end of his difficult and more mysterious quest.

David Lindsay (1878–1945) published his first book, A Voyage to Arcturus, which is now regarded as a masterpiece of science fiction.

“It is with no fear of serious contradiction that I call A Voyage to Arcturus the most imaginative in literature. No mainstream book can compare for sheer, headlong imagination with a science fiction book, because imagination is the stock-in-trade of science fiction. Mainstream books may be more realistic, possess a more tightly woven plot, or enjoy characters more true to life, but no one will seriously maintain the sensation of sheer awe and wonder which springs out of science fiction to have any superior in the mainstream.”
Comments and review by John C. Wright

Exile War: The First Boxed Set
by Bowen Greenwood

Mutants. Genetically engineered telepaths. Star-crossed lovers. Interstellar war.

When pig-human hybrids and mind-controlling telepaths come roaring back from exile, war erupts in the Union of Human Space, where peaceful colony worlds have forgotten armed conflict altogether. Langston Wheeler, one of the Union’s order of genetically engineered peacekeepers, plunges hip deep into the conflict while on a mission to the wealthy world known as Felicitas. Tia Dynn, Executive of the planet, fights on the front lines to save her people from mind-controlled slavery. Raysen Pilak, pilot and smuggler, rises to lead the armies of Human Space in their battle against the Exiles. And Cleo Sable, Langston’s one-time love, faces a choice that can change the course of the war and of history.

The Exile War is a tale of heroism and sacrifice, violence and love. Epic high fantasy set in space, martial artistry and deep back story make this a space opera of interplanetary proportions.

This complete boxed set includes the prequel novella Distant Thunder, never before available from eBook retailers, and a brand-new glossary and appendix created just for this edition.

Operation Vampire (Murphy’s War Book 1)
by Steven G. Johnson

Written by military historian and former editor of Mania comics/sf/fantasy magazine Steven G. Johnson.

Weird World War II

Sgt. Mick Murphy, a death-walker elf, and his recon company must save Allied troops from mass slaughter by Austrian vampires flooding out of a secret compound located in the Alps. Mick, his dwarf buddy Dave, and war-weary soldiers head up into the mountains to seek and destroy it.

They come across a mountain town where every single man, woman and child has been bitten and turned into a vampire. Skirting the area, the youngest GI steps on a mine. He will certainly die any second until Mick grabs him and hangs on, hauling him back up out of death. Mick can do that because his old man was an elf, able to walk between the worlds of life and death.

The company makes contact with primitive dwarves who believe, annoyingly, in tribal magic. They gift Mick with a crystal bomb which is supposed to explode when sunlight touches it. Moving on, they finally locate the vampire compound, a school for bloodsuckers, built around an old tower where the Old Ones sleep.

Mick sets up the crystal bomb to activate at dawn and hopefully blow the Old Ones up—when a coffin crashes open and a vampire springs out, shrieking like a gut-shot dog with a faceful of fangs. He’s absolutely unkillable; silver bullets—even wooden stakes—don’t bring him down. He’s un-dead and can’t be made dead again, so Mick uses his elf ability to haul the old vamp up from death where he dies from the trauma of his wounds.

The squad makes a quick exit just before dawn but are spotted and pinned down by machine guns. The crystal bomb goes off, blowing the castle apart. Will Mick and company make it out alive?

Read the sample for a taste of this action-packed, wondrously written story by an expert on WWII history, blended with the weird and supernatural.

Heir to the Sundered Crown
(The Sundered Crown Saga Book 1)
by Matthew Olney

First in a series: The Kingdom of Delfinnia is plunged into darkness after its royal family is assassinated. When Luxon emerges as the first wizard in a century, he’ll have to join a band of noble allies and fulfill his destiny as the prophesied hero. Perfect for fans of Raymond E. Feist!

In the kingdom of Delfinnia, civil war rages as rival barons battle for the crown. But unknown to them, the rightful heir yet lives, hidden away from the conflict. As the war worsens, ancient horrors rise from the Eclin mountains, led by a dark lord intent on destruction.

Enter Luxon, a young man with magical powers and the potential to become a legendary hero. He joins forces with a monster slayer, a witch hunter, and a noble knight to search for the hidden heir and protect the realm from the dark forces threatening to engulf it.

The Heir to the Sundered Crown is a thrilling fantasy adventure filled with action, magic, and unforgettable characters. Join Luxon on his quest to save the kingdom and become the hero the realm needs.

Escaping Fate (Paradox Book 1)
by Henry Brown

Pete Bedauern began his life as a latchkey kid in a run-down trailer park with a single mom, living on stale hot dog buns and bleak prospects. Those were the cards Fate had dealt him, and Pete was on his way to becoming an angry young man. Then Pete’s estranged uncle burst on the scene to punch Fate in the mouth.

Uncle Si is scarred inside and out; he’s a hard drinker; painfully blunt; a little mysterious and maybe even scary, but takes an interest in his nephew that Pete’s father never took. Most of Uncle Si’s life is a secret, but through the part of it he shares, Pete undergoes a master course on life, love, and full-contact sports.

As it turns out, Uncle Si not only has tons of money, multiple businesses, and a fleet of fast cars, he also owns a time machine.

Paradox is one good-hearted-but-alienated boy’s odyssey into manhood, and Escaping Fate is the opening leg of that journey. Before it’s complete, Pete will learn the guarded secrets of history, take on a pan-continuum conspiracy, contend for a world championship, crack the code for success with women…and even save the world.

Well, one world, maybe…

After Moses
by Michael F. Kane

His gruff exterior hides a man who wants to do the right thing. But running from trouble won’t work when the planets need a hero.

Arizona Colony, Mars. Matthew Cole doesn’t want anyone else aboard his ship. But the notorious solo freelancer is persuaded against his better judgment to guard a dangerous prison transport along with an exo-suit-clad former rival. Outmaneuvered when the crook’s cronies spring the inmate with heavy firepower, the poncho-wearing captain vows to scour the solar system to restore his rep and claim his paycheck

Reluctantly banding together with his seven-foot partner in her powered armor, Matthew has his hands full leading an unwanted ragtag crew. But the headache of dealing with people again is nothing next to the prickling between his shoulders as he continues to run afoul of greedy politicians and criminal syndicates.

Is this space cowboy’s moral compass sending him to a fatal crash landing?

I’m probably going to take some heat for this, but I’ll say it anyway: After Moses is better than Firefly, better than Star Trek, and if you question if that’s even possible, this is for you.
Trevor Denning, Upstream Reviews

A reluctant hero. A rogue and rag tag crew. And a dangerous mission. After Moses takes the space western genre to a whole new level of gripping drama, moral choices, and principled action. -Hans G. Schantz, Author of The Hidden Truth

After Moses Evensong is available for pre-order. The final installment in the After Moses saga releases on December 5.

The Hidden Truth
by Hans G. Schantz

The Hidden Truth: A Science Fiction Techno-Thriller by [Hans G. Schantz]

Change the past. Control the present. Rule the future.

They’ll do anything to hide the truth.
When high school student Peter Burdell uncovers a subtle clue in a dusty book buried deep in a forgotten Appalachian library, he realizes someone altered history. Who’s been lying, and why?

His discovery lands Peter in the cross hairs of the deadly Cabal whose Deep State agents changed the past to control the present, so they can rule the future. Aided by family and friends, Peter races against the odds to expose the conspiracy and uncover the answer to the most important question of his life:

What is The Hidden Truth?

Reviews: “Umberto Eco wishes that he had written these books.”

Hans G. Schantz’ THE HIDDEN TRUTH is most highly recommended.
It is a gem of a book, a rare find, combining a charming coming of age story, diamond-hard science fiction speculation, a conspiracy thriller, a touch of trenchant political commentary, and, uniquely, a challenge written into a science fiction book of the reigning scientific orthodoxy of the day….
This trilogy works on several levels. In style, theme, in social commentary, in genre, in plot-weaving and world-building, the craftsmanship is top-notch.
Stylistically, it is written in the same journalistic prose as a Heinlein juvenile, but, frankly, is better. Not only are some of Heinlein’s more dubious moral lessons absent, the work attempts something more ambitious: introducing a real theory of physics in the midst of a fictional adventure yarn.
Thematically, it is a bracing and inspiring coming-of-age story telling young readers and reminding older readers what it means to be a man, a man of integrity, in a world where no one is there to dig you out of a mess.
It works as social commentary. As in a Heinlein juvenile, there are memorable quips and trenchant observations about political realities peppered throughout the dialog, which have as much application in our world as theirs.
Review by John C. Wright

A Rambling Wreck
Hans G. Schantz

There’s no partial credit on a question of life and death!
Off to Georgia Tech for the education he’ll need to defeat the guardians of the hidden truth, Peter discovers the battle for the future is being fought right on campus. Now he has to infiltrate a conspiracy, find new allies, and thwart a takeover of the school. Peter’s most challenging final exam has only one question:
Can a Rambling Wreck stop the Cabal?
And a failing grade will be his last.

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged)
by Edward Gibbon

The first volume of Decline and Fall was published in 1776, and by the time the final volume appeared in 1787, Gibbon had produced an exhaustive, million-and-a-half-word account of a ‘revolution which shall ever be remembered and is still felt by the nations of the earth’.

This panoramic work, covering 13 centuries from 180 A.D. to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, has been described as ‘a bridge that carries one from the ancient world to the modern’.

Here, this masterpiece of the Enlightenment has been cut down to a manageable size, but still covers in detail the tyranny, cowardice and decadence that led to the fall of Rome. Gibbon described history as ‘little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind’, and this book serves as a dazzling, perceptive guide to every civilization before and since.

Dakiti: Ziva Payvan Book 1
by EJ Fisch (Author)

The distant world of Haphez is located on the edge of populated space. The planet’s native superhuman race is feared and respected by neighboring civilizations. Their military and police forces are unmatched.

Lieutenant Aroska Tarbic is an agent with the revered Haphezian Special Police. He’s lost a lot in a short period of time; the other members of his squad were killed in a tragic accident, and his younger brother was wrongfully convicted and executed for a crime he didn’t commit. Just when Aroska thinks he’s starting to piece his life back together, he’s assigned to a joint task force with a special operations team. It seems like a unique opportunity, at least until he learns his new commander is none other than Ziva Payvan, HSP’s finest operative…and the assassin who killed his brother.

Ziva is good at her job, a business that requires her to ignore her feelings and carry out her missions without question. She’s confident in her own abilities to complete the assignment, but Aroska is a wildcard. When their team stumbles across a young human during a routine investigation, they soon realize the situation isn’t what it seems. The boy has unwittingly uncovered a sinister plot, one that could put the entire Haphezian race in jeopardy.

Now the lines between friend and foe have become blurred, and no one can be trusted. United by the imminent threat, Ziva and Aroska must set their differences aside long enough to save their people…and maybe even each other.

Nexus: Ziva Payvan Book 2 and Ronan: Ziva Payvan Book 3 by EJ Fisch are in the sale as “Fan Favorites.

Eta Cancri
by Russell May

Eta Cancri (Battle for Eta Canrci Book 1)

Five hundred years into the future, humans have conquered the void of space and spread throughout the galaxy. But we’re about to discover that – in the cold, dark places between the stars – an ancient horror has been watching. And waiting.

On the distant edge of a far-flung planetary system, faith and science are about to go to war with monstrous evil.

Lars Stockwell is one of the last combat Cyborgs still in service. When a remote mining colony falls mysteriously silent, he and his team of black ops veterans are sent in with orders to terminate any threats to human life.

What they discover is worse than anything they could’ve imagined.

Along with a callow data analyst, a rogue Artificial Intelligence, and a spacefaring grifter, Lars and his men find themselves on the front lines of a war between humanity… and Hell incarnate.

if an ancient monster doesn’t devour both worlds first.

Solarvoid (Battle for Eta Canrci Book 2)
by Russell May

For centuries, the worldship Solarvoid has roamed the cosmos. The might of an entire civilization contained in a colossal craft, a titanic triumph of science, engineering and culture, traversing the eternal night of space. But now, an ancient and monstrous evil stalks the ship. A sinister cult performs bizarre rituals in the half-forgotten bowels of the Solarvoid. Intrigue, suspicion and murder haunt even the mightiest of Great Houses. War is coming. A war in which the courage and technology of humanity will be tested to the limit... against the forces of Hell itself.

Of All The Gin Joints In The Universe
by Richard Paolinelli

One detective. Two suspects. A conspiracy big enough to kill them all.

In the 25th Century, Galactic Justice upholds the law across the Milky Way.

They use the HALO to extract confessions from the guilty. For the most heinous of crimes, the guilty are erased and a new personality is uploaded in their place.

Samuel Archer Spade is a private detective on Space Station 1964 on the far edge of the galaxy. He’s a former GalJus Inspector whose conscious couldn’t square with using the HALO. Spade is at his usual spot, his unofficial office on Norma, when a knockout blonde in a red dress, walks into The Galaxy’s Edge, the station’s bar. She’s on the run from an unwanted admirer.

But when the man arrives on the station, he’s looking to hire Spade himself. He’s claiming she has stolen something from him, As Spade tries to sort out who is telling the truth, GalJus arrives looking for both of his clients for a murder committed on another planet.

Trying to find the truth will lead Spade to discover a dark secret. Some elements within GalJus are using the HALO to frame innocent people. Even worse, they’re programming people to commit murder.

That’s a secret GalJus is willing to kill for and both Sam, and his clients, are right at the top of their list.

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WHAT THE REVIEWERS ARE SAYING

The action is intense. But it also has a lot of humour.

It was very hard to put the book down. It is a mystery, wrapped in a conspiracy, with a love story at the heart. In some ways this story reminds me of The Carter Files by Lori Janeski. It also reminds me or a lot of old shows I watched with my father including; Mike Hammer, Dirty Harry, and Spencer for Hire to name but a few. And Paolinelli makes homage to several detectives and the whole noir genre through out the work.

This is an excellent novel from Paolinelli’s pen. It took me by surprise. A great addition to his complete works. I can easily recommend this story for what an excellent piece of Science fiction mashed up with mystery Noir!

- Steven R. McEvoy - Book Reviews And More

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Fedoras. Trenchcoats. Space cigarettes. Space dames. A hard-boiled detective. Fistfights. Spaceships. Honestly, you could’ve just said “space dames” and I would’ve coughed up my money.
Considering the popularity of pulp detective noir wizards (or one particular wizard, Mr. Dresden), the genre of pulp detective noir in space is tragically underserved. Fundamentally, a hard-boiled detective in space is awesome in of itself. But when multi-genre master Richard Paolinelli takes on the tropes, we end up with far more than the sum of the parts: a pulp noir detective in all his hardboiled glory saving the galaxy in the style of the best space opera.
If you liked the Dresden Files, this tale of a private detective heroically saving the galaxy will be right up your alley. This book is for lovers of pulp detective noir, lovers of traditional space opera, and anyone who wants to see the two put together, done well.

- Brian Heming, Upstream Reviews

The Big Sheep
Robert Kroese

Los Angeles, 2039. The city is a fractured relic of itself, split between the glittering veneer of corporate control and the anarchic chaos of the Disincorporated Zone—a no-man’s land abandoned after the economic Collapse of 2028. Crossing that border requires cunning, nerve, and ideally, someone else to go first.

Enter Erasmus Keane, an eccentric “phenomenological inquisitor” (read: private eye with delusions of grandeur), and his reluctant partner, Blake Fowler, a former security specialist who’s somehow become the adult supervision. When Esper Corporation’s prize genetically engineered sheep vanishes without a trace, they’re hired to track it down—a task that quickly goes from bizarre to existential.

But just as they start sniffing out clues, in walks Priya Mistry, a glamorous television star convinced someone’s trying to kill her. When Priya disappears—and then returns with no memory of ever hiring them—Keane and Fowler find themselves tangled in a convoluted conspiracy.

Two cases, one looming catastrophe, and zero respect for conventional detective work.

With nods to Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, The Big Sheep is a madcap sci-fi mystery that skewers both noir and dystopia with razor wit and relentless absurdity.

Starship Grifters (A Rex Nihilo Adventure) by Robert Kroese

“My favorite read this year. A hilarious space adventure. Hard book to put down.” ―Hugh Howey, author of Wool

A space opera to keep you laughing—action-packed black comedy & satire.

Rex Nihilo plies the known universe in a tireless quest for his own personal gain. But when he fleeces a wealthy weapons dealer in a high-stakes poker game, he ends up winning a worthless planet…and owing an outstanding debt more vast than space itself!

The only way for Rex to escape a lifetime of torture on the prison world Gulagatraz is to score a big payday by pulling off his biggest scam. So Rex concocts a double-cross between the tyrannical Malarchian Empire and the plucky rebels of the Revolting Front—leading to what may be his biggest mistake ever. Fighting for his life, Rex gets chased across the galaxy.

Luckily for Rex, his frustrated but faithful robot sidekick, Sasha, has a conscience and the cyber-smarts to deal with busty bounty hunters, pudgy princesses, overbearing overlords, and interstellar evangelists…while still keeping Rex’s martini glass filled.

Non-stop laughs for readers who love action and adventure with their comedy.

BUY NOW!

“Starship Grifters... is not just the funniest SF novel I’ve read in decades, it may be the funniest I’ve read ever.... Funnier than Harry Harrison’s Bill the Galactic Hero series, and [it] may even match Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker series.” — Travis Corcoran, Prometheus Award-winning author of The Powers of the Earth

“Starship Grifters is one of the funniest things I’ve ever experienced. It is certainly the funniest book I’ve read.” — N.R. LaPoint, author of Chalk

The Cross-Time Crusade Trilogy
by Robert Kroese

A secret cabal of demonic forces threatens to destroy civilization and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Humanity’s only chance is a shadowy organization called GRAIL--the modern day heirs to the Knights Templar--which has discovered the secret to time travel. The past cannot be changed, but if GRAIL can send an agent into the past to recover a lost book on demonology called the Codex Babylon, they may have a fighting chance to save humanity from utter destruction.

Spanning 900 years and four continents, The Cross-Time Crusade is an epic saga of the eternal struggle against evil!

The Dream of the Iron Dragon
Robert Kroese

DRAGON AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST ALTERNATE HISTORY NOVEL Trapped 1300 years in the past, they have one mission: survive. In the 23rd century, humanity has been hunted to the verge of extinction by an alien race. When an exploratory ship accidentally travels back in time to Viking age Scandinavia, the human race is given a second chance. Pursued by the power-hungry King Harald, the four surviving crew members join a ragtag band of Vikings as they pillage their way across Europe. It will take all their ingenuity, courage and technical know-how just to survive. But survival is only the beginning. To save humanity, they must somehow return to the stars. Thus begins a decades-long effort to teach the Vikings to build a craft capable of reaching space—a ship that will come to be known as the Iron Dragon.

The Dawn of the Iron Dragon: An Alternate History Viking Epic (Saga of the Iron Dragon Book 2) is a New Arrival…

New Arrivals in Science Fiction

The Dawn of the Iron Dragon: An Alternate History Viking Epic (Saga of the Iron Dragon Book 2)
by Robert Kroese

A new beginning, 1300 years in the past... In medieval Europe, three explorers from the distant future begin an ambitious project: build a craft capable of reaching the stars. While their leader oversees the construction of a secret underground base in Iceland, the other two travel thousands of miles to negotiate with the rulers of Europe and recruit the most brilliant minds of the age. When the Iceland base comes under attack, the travelers try to return to defend their home, but they are trapped in Paris just as an army of 20,000 Vikings lays siege to the city. To survive, they must defend Paris from the hordes of Norsemen and fight their way back to Iceland to save their new home--and keep the dream of the Iron Dragon alive. THE DAWN OF THE IRON DRAGON is the second installment in the 5-part Saga of the Iron Dragon. “Terrific storytelling, letter-perfect alternate-history, and the highest stakes for humanity imaginable combine to make this a thrilling start to an exciting new Viking saga. Kroese avoids both romanticizing and demonizing the Vikings, showing them to us in all their humanity, while spinning a tale that pulls no punches and leaves us gasping for more.” - Lars Hedbor on THE DREAM OF THE IRON DRAGON

The Dream of the Iron Dragon Saga of the Iron Dragon Book 1 is a Top Based Book.

Out of the Soylent Planet (A Rex Nihilo Adventure)
by Robert Kroese

A prequel to the book NYT bestselling author Hugh Howey called “One of my favorite space romps of all time!”

A space opera to keep you laughing—action-packed black comedy & satire.

Interstellar con man Rex Nihilo has a price tag on his head. Railroaded into smuggling a shipment of contraband to a planet short on food, Rex finds himself on the run from Ubiqorp, a corporation which reaps obscene profits by keeping the planet dependent on shipments of synthetic rations.

When Rex and his robot companion Sasha are sentenced to work as slave labor on a massive Ubiqorp plantation, they learn the terrible secret behind the corporation’s products. To escape, Rex and Sasha team up with a mis-programmed combat drone and an intelligent mutant plant to lead a rebellion against their merciless corporate overlords.

Non-stop laughs for readers who love action and adventure with their comedy.

“I am reminded of Harry Harrison... but Rex Nihilo novels are like 10x funnier than Stainless Steel Rat.” ―Travis Corcoran, Prometheus Award-winning author of The Powers of the Earth

“Fiendishly clever.” ―Frederick Heimbach, author of Ronald Reagan’s Brilliant Bullet

Praise for Starship Grifters

“Starship Grifters is one of the funniest things I’ve ever experienced. It is certainly the funniest book I’ve read.” ―N.R. LaPoint, author of Chalk

“Laugh-out loud funny. I loved every page of it. If you like sci-fi and laughter, this is the book for you!” ―Rob Blackwell, author of The Forest of Forever

Starship Grifters (A Rex Nihilo Adventure) is a Top Based Book.

The Complete Mercury Series
By Robert Kroese

When a wisecracking angel with a checkered past gets put on divine probation, Earth becomes his proving ground—and humanity his unwitting straight man.

This complete collection brings together all five books in Robert Kroese’s riotously irreverent Mercury series, a satirical blend of theology, action, and cosmic bureaucracy. Follow Mercury, a fallen (but technically not that fallen) angel with a penchant for bending the rules, as he stumbles through apocalyptic prophecies, celestial politics, and really bad ideas involving flamethrowers.

Inside you’ll find:

Mercury Falls – The Apocalypse is scheduled for next Thursday, but Mercury has other plans.
Mercury Rises – Hell breaks loose (literally), and Mercury has to play nice with a Nephilim and a journalist.
Mercury Rests – The end is nigh. Again. But this time, Mercury might be starting to take things personally.
Mercury Revolts – An interdimensional road trip with an existential crisis on the side.
Mercury Shrugs – What happens when an angel decides the universe might be better off without divine intervention?

Fast-paced, hilariously subversive, and sneakily philosophical, The Complete Mercury Series is like Good Omens if it had more explosions and fewer British accents.

Perfect for fans of Douglas Adams, Neil Gaiman, and anyone who likes their theology with a twist of sarcasm and a side of chaos.

Breadbasket Rebellion
by J Trevor Robinson

A gripping YA adventure about freedom and faith against all odds.
Gideon Elmwood is a 16-year-old boy and a third-generation Class R citizen in what was once the Canadian Prairies, confined to a forced-labour farming community. Forbidden to leave his town, he has never known anything but the Regime’s restrictions and his grandfather’s stories of how life used to be.
This year, the unthinkable has happened: the Regime has finally increased the town’s quota beyond what they could ever produce, and the consequences for failure would be deadly. In desperation, Gideon and his friends set out in hopes of finding technology and machines that could save the only home they’ve ever known.
When knowledge of what they find falls into the wrong hands, the townspeople find themselves under the control of a petty but effective tyrant. With the adults incapacitated or coerced into fighting for the tyrant, it falls on Gideon to recover control of the technology and save his family, friends, and neighbours.
If he fails, the Regime will wipe the town off the map rather than risk a threat to their power.

A Few Good Men (Darkship Thieves Book 3)
by Sarah A. Hoyt

Ladies and Gentlemen, we declare the revolution!

He spent 14 years in solitary. Now he’ll ignite a revolution.
Born a prince among Earth’s fifty tyrants, Lucius Keeva emerges from imprisonment with a fractured mind and a deadly purpose. When assassins hunt him, fate delivers him to the USAians—secret keepers of America’s forgotten beliefs.

For 500 years, this underground faith has preserved the Constitution while awaiting their prophesied leader. In Luce’s madness, they recognize their messiah.

Now the son of tyranny becomes liberty’s champion. As the USAians rise from the shadows, their weapons of war finally unleashed, a broken mind and a fallen prince prove the perfect weapon against an unbreakable regime.

One madman. One ancient faith. One last chance to restore the republic from legend.

A FEW GOOD MEN —where belief becomes the ultimate revolutionary tactic.

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED BY BAEN BOOKS

Ceres 2525 : Second Edition
by Lee Nelson (Author), William Frisbee (Illustrator)

Desperation is the father of invention. In CERES 2525 you fly along on the Scifi Action Adventures of Ceres Tauri, 25, superstar of the zero-gravity league. He desperately searches for his mother, long held captive among the Galactic’s 500 colony worlds. When he too is kidnapped by the pirate fleet, forced to duel to the death to save a slave with powerful secret abilities, he determines to fight his way to the top of the pirate ranks. Did he just find the love of his life? While Ceres duels to save her from slavery, does she fight his sins, to save his soul?

The Cost: A story of Josh & Argos
by Zaklog the Great Book 1 of 2: Josh & Argos

In a world that’s broken, all he has left is a memory... and a desperate plan.

Fourteen-year-old Josh Hartlove is alone. After untreated pneumonia takes his mother, he is left with nothing but his grief and a final, dangerous hope: to reach his uncle’s survivalist cabin, miles away through the ruins of a fractured America.

His journey leads him to an abandoned garage, where he discovers a deactivated military robot—a lethal relic of the wars that tore the country apart. With nothing but his wits and his trusty laptop, Josh dares to reactivate it.

But nothing comes for free, and to keep his new prize, Josh will have to pay a painful price.

The Steradian Gate: Contagion
by Nathaniel Blevens

Not all contagions are biological.

An evil regime, the Kriva Rasturna, is spreading to the remaining dimensions, invading both Delphinium and the plague-ridden Alchemilla in a push to claim the last of the coveted Steradian Keys. Ethan uncovers their plans along with a list of influential people that include Summer’s birth parents.

Meanwhile, the battle for Lunaria rages on, with the citizens under oppressive control. If they’re ever to regain freedom, they will need help, prompting Ethan and Summer to embark through The Steradian Gate, hoping to turn the tides.

Note, the first book in the series, The Steradian Gate is a Fan Favorite.

Unmitigated Acts (Short Story Collections)
Alternate link: https://books2read.com/u/3RZkJv
by Karl K. Gallagher

Aerospace engineer Karl K. Gallagher’s second collection of short stories explores ideas from tools helping people with their daily troubles to rearranging the fates of nations and worlds:

What would a dating app that’s actually good for pairing up people do?
How do you disarm the safeties of an orbiting laser?
Could a love potion be used well?
What’s the limit to packing the Supreme Court?

Seventeen stories of the near future and other worlds. Also includes a novelette in the multiple-Prometheus Award finalist Fall of the Censor series!

Discovery (Polecat Protocol Book 1)
by John M. Olsen

Jericho Jackson looks forward to finishing one last job: a high-risk, high-pay mining gig on a tiny moon in a distant star system. A string of disasters throws the operation into life-threatening chaos as his team is cut off from outside contact. Even with their specialized training, if the power dies, his crew dies.

Shanna Percival, his teammate and one-time girlfriend, keeps their equipment in top shape, but her tendency to stick her nose where it doesn’t belong turns up a mysterious cache of data that shouldn’t exist.

Knowledge is power. Her discovery could be the ultimate key to overcoming the growing danger, but time is running out…

John M. Olsen edits and writes speculative fiction across multiple genres and he loves stories about ordinary people stepping up to do extraordinary things. He hopes to entertain and inspire others with his award-winning stories as he passes his passion on to the next generation of avid readers.

Breakdown (Polecat Protocol Book 2)
by John M. Olsen

Jericho Jackson has a ship to build, a sister to find, and a fiancée to marry, along with a priceless store of interstellar jump ship fuel to protect from thieves and murderers. Not bad for a guy who is supposed to be dead.

Shanna Percival has a driving need to not only constantly prove herself a mechanical wizard, but to also meet her mother’s expectations, and to tie the knot with Jericho. She has to do it all without tipping off those who might want her and Jericho to stay dead.

It wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t have to go back to a troubled Earth, the home of both their problems and their goals. At each step, the mission grows more complex and more dangerous as they encounter mystery, intrigue and betrayal.

Through it all, questions surrounding the Polecat Protocol grow. Will it be their beacon of hope, or will it fail them as society crumbles?

Emergence (Polecat Protocol Book 3)
by John M. Olsen

Jericho Jackson has some difficult choices to make. He controls a motley fleet of cargo jump ships with nowhere to go, and has a fledgling colony to protect from discovery.

Shanna Percival (now Shanna Jackson) hopes to solve their problems with information gleaned from the Polecat Protocol archive, suspecting it has yet to give up its greatest secrets. Curiosity can be its own reward, but she needs answers.

Military deserters would kill for Jericho’s stockpile of jump-ship fuel, and there is nowhere to hide.

Null Infinity: A Novel (Forgotten Earth Book 1)
by D.W. Patterson

Null Infinity: A Novel

Development of the superluminal boundary-drive was fraught with dangers, but after years of effort Harry and Lauren Stimson succeeded.

The boundary-drive led to the discovery of the bulk and another world-universe in the bulk that physicists called the strong gravity brane. Exploration of the other brane was the obvious next step.

But what wasn’t obvious was how that exploration would affect our world-universe, until disaster struck in the form of a changing gravitational constant.

Now that her parents were retired, it was up to the Stimson’s daughter, Elle, to come up with a solution before the change in gravity went too far.

Null Infinity: A Novel is the first story in the Forgotten Earth Universe. The next story is Null Infinity: Next Gen: A Novel.

See the author’s website www.dwpatterson.com for more information.

Hard Science Fiction – Old School.

The Eye Of The Universe - (Tense Sci-Fi Survival Horror)
by Matt Waterhouse

We were fleeing the war. Thousands of us, aboard the star liner Persephone, hoping to start a new life away from the bloodshed. We didn’t make it. Now, the Persephone is a wreck. The air is getting thin. Food is becoming scarce. The power is running out. In space, a great Eye watches me, unblinking, as I struggle to survive. Still, it could be worse. At least I’m not alone. My friend, Ziggy, is here with me. Only thing is, Ziggy’s dead, but to his credit he’s not letting that get him down. We’ll get out of this, together. We will get out of this ... ... right?

My fabulous career among the Bigfoot
by Terry Grignon

Cam Perreault, a guy running the paint department in the local hardware, is shocked to learn that bigfoot are real during a camping trip. And some are pretty good surfers. How does Cam handle this and other upheavals in his life? Never fear, all that and more is explored in this comedic sci-fi novel. You should find something to laugh about no matter your foot size.

Homeworld Omnibus: Books 1-3
by T.E. Butcher

Over 140 thousand words, three novels in one.

It’s their world, we’re just living in it.

Staff Sergeant Henry Wells feels like he’s seen it all. When he finds himself sitting on a month of leave after his latest deployment, the Green Beret spends it in the Montana badlands with his brother. He hasn’t seen his paleontologist brother in years, but digging up old bones and cooking for grad students seems like a welcome break from the endless training and chaos of his last ten years.

Little does he know six objects entered the solar system. Their target is Earth. Massive cylinders fill the sky. Landing ships race towards the ground, and one is heading towards Montana.

For millions of years ago, the rocky crags didn’t exist. Shoreline ran as far as the eye could see. The Earth’s original masters are returning, and they are troubled to see their Homeworld Occupied.

In this Omnibus you will get:
Homeworld Occupied
Homeworld Divided
Homeworld United

When Time Went Mad
by Ralph A. Thomas

Lem Bentwhistle is afraid some kids put a crop circle in his north field. When he goes out to inspect, he finds a future spaceport where the north forty should be.

He mingles with the people from the future to try and find out what the heck is going on and finds they have as little understanding as he does. And then come the cowboys, the medieval knights, the humans even further into the future and, of course, cavemen. And did I forget to mention the dinosaurs?

With so many human brains working on the problem, from several different points in the evolutionary cycle, they finally begin to understand what happened. The only problem remaining is how to get everyone back to their own time without getting eaten by one of the raptors.

The Gardener’s Wife
by Frank Hood

A wandering wizard and his young apprentice are tasked with performing a secret and dangerous task for a powerful king.

Theophany
by Caroline Furlong

Ten years ago the Savients took over Niban, forcing the independent inhabitants into poverty and despair. Bass White saw the careless cruelty of the Savients kill his mother and his father. When a resistance cell is discovered in his city bloc, the Savients seek to make everyone pay.

With his wife Amie, Bass races into the caverns to escape the Savients’ brutal enforcers: the Atrasai. The couple barely make it to the limits of known territory outside their underground city, however, before the Atrasai catch up with them. It would take a miracle to save them…

...or a combat medic robot.

Join Bass and Amie in this sci-fi story of healing, hope, and wonder. After a decade of fear and pain, even a little light can bring out the best in man and machine. But will the best be enough to heal?

BEYOND THE GRID: An EMP Survival story (FREE!)
by Connor Mccoy (Author)

Book 1 of 4: BEYOND THE GRID

Jacob Avery doesn’t miss the city one bit. Years as a homesteader with his loving wife and children has taught him many lessons, but none as valuable as how well-suited he is for a simple, quiet life.

Years after saying goodbye to the city, an unfortunate incident takes Jacob and his family on a drive toward the city. As they inch closer, it becomes abundantly clear they’ve made the wrong decision.

The dangers he abandoned long ago pale in comparison to what he and his family will soon be forced to face. The apocalypse is coming and there’s nothing anyone could do about it. Jacob has one mission – Do whatever it takes to keep his family safe from harm or suffer the consequences.

Wealthgiver I: Darkness
by Daniel M. Bensen

Book 1 of 2: Wealthgiver

“The darkness knows.”

Fleeing an execution order, Russian army doctor Andrei Trifonovich stumbles into the secret world of ruthless, cave-dwelling pagans.

For over a thousand years, the Thracians have survived in secret, guarding their traditions and killing any outsider who dares approach. But the modern world is closing in, and they must emerge from the shadows or face destruction.

Their prophetess Kori has selected Andrei to be the first to learn of her cult’s existence, but her chief priest Nikolai sees Andrei as a rival. Torn between survival and the role thrust upon him, Andrei must do more than merely survive, more even than steal a bride or build a nation. Andrei must become a god.

Kuro-Sil: The Book of Humans, Reptuuls, and God
by Michael Small

I am the Chronicler, hear my story:

In the year 5027, humanity will be enslaved by an alien race called the Reptuuls.

But what if I told you a young boy befriended their oppressors?

Orren Hawkins is a boy with a dream: to make friends with the Reptuuls, no matter the cost. It won’t be easy due to the Reptuuls hatred of humanity. But by the grace of a long forgotten God, Orren has found two great and unusual friends, and they must learn to work together to rescue enslaved humans, as part of their destiny to unite man and Reptuul under God.

There’s just one problem: Orren is himself a drulak, a slave of Reptuuls. Can he still accomplish his dream?

Will you dare read the true story of a forbidden friendship no government wants exposed? Then welcome, one and all, to the legend of the Kuro-Sil!

“This book was so different from anything I’ve read and I enjoyed it. Small did such a great job with this storyline and plot.” - Yvette Garcia, Goodreads, 4 stars

“I found the whole concept of this book fascinating.” “It’s a brilliant debut from the author.” - Tami Wylie, Goodreads, 5 stars

PNW Affliction 8: Summer and Winter
by Chance Paladin (Author), Gem Gem (Illustrator)

It’s story time again at the stronghold. Doug is an experienced firefighter. In the Summer, he is called on to use all of his experience to survive in the biggest local forest fire in modern history only to, months later, have launch a snow rescue effort. Pacific Northwest Affliction 8: Summer and Winter PNW Affliction book #8: Summer and Winter

Population of Loss
by Michael DiBaggio & Shell Presto DiBaggio

The Martian onslaught has crushed earth’s mightiest empires and reduced the great achievements of civilization to poisoned rubble, but mankind still endures.

From the ruins of England to the desolate American west, unexpected champions arise to confront a foe that has never yet known defeat, and the stakes are nothing less than the survival of the human race.

New Arrivals in MilSF

Combat Orders
by Jim Kiernan

‘Combat Orders’ is a collection of military science fiction stories.
Parallel -- A special forces team is given the most important mission of the war, while an astronaut volunteers for the most dangerous assignment of his career.
Dear Nikki -- Humanity’s war against the Zehrshyk has begun. Jeremy is a soldier on the frontlines of this interstellar war, and Nikki is an aerospace nurse in the rear hospital. Witness the war through their correspondence.
Veteran -- The Human-Zehrshyk war has been over for twenty years, but for one veteran there is still blood to be shed.
The Valhalla -- The only thing stopping the aliens from taking over the colony ship Valhalla is a lock-up marine and a power-hungry AI. What could go wrong?

Maria B
by Danielle Ste. Just

As humanity has made our first forays into deep space only to meet with an invisible, relentless alien race, Maria B is humanity’s last line of defense.

A headless humanoid android engineered for battle, Maria B is sent to the fragile colony on Giant to join the war orchestrated by the enigmatic Morphies. While Maria B struggles to fulfill the expectations of the colony’s overbearing general, she grapples with glitches in her programming: fragmented memories of a human past; an unyielding duty to protect not just the general, but all human life; and an inexplicable pull to protect the precious friendships she’d never imagined she could make.

Teamed with R&D chief Maggie White and the formidable Major Harper, Maria B plunges into high-stakes battles in the vacuum of space and on the exoplanet Giant, her superhuman reaction times the only thing standing between Bubble City and obliteration. Yet as she slowly discovers the hidden war orchestrated by the colony’s general, she uncovers an even deeper conflict within herself: the agony of evolving from cold circuits to a being of human emotion. Or is she still just as alien to humanity as the Morphies she battles? In the crystalline forests of Giant, the shielded domes of Bubble City, and in orbit above the giant orange planet she now calls home, Maria B must confront betrayal, sacrifice, and the essence of what makes her alive.

No head, all heart. Maria B fights not just for survival, but for a soul she never knew she had.

Burning Worlds and Morally Fraught Cosmos: Tales of Science Fiction and Wonder (Complete Short Fiction and Poetry of Joshua Hiles)
by Joshua Hiles

Soldiers of the stars seek fortune on a long forgotten colony!
A woman returns to the scene of childhood trauma to rescue a prince and bear the blade that drinks souls!
Former child-soldiers on a ruined Earth seek justice in the stars and from each other!
The Heel of All Heels redeems his career with a single punch delivered on a desert planet!
A spaceman looks for fame and fortune in the Marsian Fighting Rings!

All this and more awaits you within the pages of this volume! DO NOT MISS OUT!

A Little Trip Back: Tales of Time Travel, Alternate History, and the Past
(Complete Short Fiction and Poetry of Joshua Hiles)
by Joshua Hiles

The Great War is resolved with a duel!
Pagan Rome is saved only to end in nuclear fire!
A father chooses between his family and time travel!
In an abandoned fortress an army of alternates fight and die, FOR HER!
A multidimensional war hinges on a tired laborer believing a homeless madwoman!
A man confronts himself in a hopeless attempt to change his own past!
Times and places are confused!
A cowboy Illiad plays out in the Ozarks!
A mob hitman becomes selective about his targets!
All this and musings and poetry!
Fire up the time-machine and come along!

One Planet Two Worlds
By Fran Tabor

Can an extraterrestrial whose home planet was destroyed, an octopus from the bottom of the Marianas Trench and a disgraced marine biologist learn to understand each other in time to save all Earth life?

One Planet... Two Worlds is a near future, hard-science, science fiction with aliens and intelligent octopuses. (Octopuses & Octopi are both correct, but octopuses is preferred.)

Humans never knew Earth’s most advanced civilization lived beneath the waves of the sea, or that a giant spaceship approached the solar system. The incoming Mothership is what drove the aquatic civilization into hiding. Unless Dr. Miguel Phillips can prove that he isn’t an incompetent fool, the Mothership will destroy all Earth life.

Maurine biologist Dr. Miguel Phillips thought he had discovered a new Marianas Trench, human-level-smart octopus species, Octo Sapiens. The scientific community mocked him. The university fired him.

An ancient species, hoping against hope that primitive 21st century humans might help them defeat the alien invader, had revealed itself to Dr. Miguel Phillips, but the deep ocean life form did not know how to communicate with surface-dwelling, air-breathing animals. Logically, the useless, primitive humans should be ignored. Logic also said, “When the alien Mothership invades, all Earth life dies.”

Logic must not have the final word.

One Planet...Two Worlds is a story about unlikely allies facing a foe neither can defeat alone.

To Own Two Suns
Fran Tabor

Morgi Knowledge: “Only against great odds, can greatness be revealed.”

Morgi Belief: “Divine Chance rules the universe.”

Capt. Jerry Jerrison is a scientist, not a true captain. He and his crew sacrificed twenty years of their lives to be the Kuiper belt’s first explorers. He discovers an alien ship inhabited by a single Morgi scout.

The two strongest Morgi clans are fighting for ownership of earth. All humanity will soon become an unavoidable casualty of their war. The lone Morgi scout is from the weaker alien clan.

Can Capt. Jerry Jerrison, a reclusive scientist, become a warrior and reveal human greatness? If not, both Muni’s clan and all humanity will be exterminated.

Even if Jerrison succeeds, can aliens who employ realpolitic (”Doctor, which is better — a great peace supported by a lie or a massacre justified by the truth?”) be trusted?

From its Kirkus review: “Imaginative high-stakes SF breathes fresh life into the alien-first-contact genre.” Their verdict: Get It.

LeighBee: “I laughed at the clever humor…the perspective and writing style is novel…alien driven science fiction.” 4 out of 4 stars

Dreams of Winter: A Military Space Opera (The Forgotten Gods Tales Book 1)
by Christian Warren Freed

“Dreams of Winter is a gripping military space opera that blends the brutal intrigue of Game of Thrones with the cosmic scale of Warhammer 40K, as Inquisitor Tolde Breed battles the ghosts of his past and an ancient evil that threatens to consume the universe.” – NewInBooks

3000 years have passed since the time of the gods. Humanity spreads across the universe, raising a mighty empire. But all is not well. Unrest simmers. Darkness threatens.

Inquisitor Tolde Breed has been a loyal agent of the Inquisition for years. A man with a haunted past, he roots out heresy wherever he finds it, but when the Inquisitor General sends him to planet Crimeat to investigate a mysterious prison break Tolde begins to believe his life’s work has been in vain. The ghosts of his past have returned, and they brought the winds of war with them.

Can Tolde stop the universe’s greatest evil from returning or is it already too late?

Welcome to the Forgotten Gods Tales. Buy your copy today and begin the epic space fantasy you’ve been missing.

Planet of the Chrome Skulls
Dick Lichter

What do you get when you mix Star Trek with Starship Troopers? Adventure!

In the war-torn void, a new ship and a new crew battle the Krell, a relentless foe. Captain Jack Cross is given command of a carrier. He must mold his crew into a force to be reckoned with. They have to learn new tactics and work together. Facing ambushes, rebellions, and a war that threatens to destroy all they hold dear. Will Jack and the Stalwart prevail, or meet their doom?

Emergent
Zaklog the Great

On one battlefield in the not-too-distant future, AI drones fight each other with no humans at all. But a simultaneous misfire results in two drones starting a conversation and contemplating their purpose and place in this war.

Violent Blue Yonder: Aerial Alternate History (Arc of Ares)
by James Young (Author), Lee Allred (Author), Joelle Presby (Author), Eric Swedin (Author), Justin Watson (Author), Sarah Hoyt (Author), William Alan Webb (Author), Rob Howell (Author)

Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side that employs air power as it should be employed-Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, Bomber Command

War in the air, like any other domain, is subject to the whims of Fate. Throughout history, humans have always asked “What if?” Violent Blue Yonder explores what happens when that question gets asked hundreds (or thousands) of feet above sea level.

Do you like the age of “canvas falcons?” Come along as Sarah Hoyt, the 2018 Dragon Award Winner for Alternate History, surmises what could have happened had The Red Baron survived World War I. Or alternatively (pun intended), let Rob Howell (“In Dark’ning Storms”) and Joelle Presby (“Friends In High Places”) lay out opposite sides of early American intervention in airpower’s first conflict.

More a fan of closed canopies and superchargers than flimsy, flammable death traps? See how the German Luftwaffe gains the upper hand in a Second Battle of Britain in “Londonfall.” Or see different events in the Pacific as William Alan Webb cuts in with “Sword of the Sun,” a tale set in his A World Afire universe. Finally, if worlds afire are your thing, we have 2010 Sidewise Award Winner Eric Swedin having the Cold War go brilliantly hot in “Foolish Games.” Prefer your Cold War to have less thermonuclear annihilation? See what happens when former Flying Tigers and Tuskegee Airmen team up in Justin Watson’s “Red Tailed Tigers.”

Bottom line: Whether you like your aviation fiction to “make kills” or “make history,” there’s something for you in Violent Blue Yonder. As the first of three Arc of Ares anthologies, this book sets the alternate history tone in a way that would amuse the Greek war god himself. So grab a helmet and map case, as these twelve tales are about to take you on sorties you won’t forget!

Editor’s Note: Also includes an excerpt from James Young’s Acts of War, the first book in the Usurper’s War: An Alternate World War II-series.

Castle Brave
by Hawkings Austin

The Vani Army’s Special Forces Forward Division has one job. They get behind enemy lines and do unto them First and Hardest. The SSFD are the lurking monsters that make enemy soldiers fear the dark. Infiltrate, Assassinate, Extract. They never deal with civilians.

This mission, they’ve got a civilian target and a civilian advisor. They aren’t behind enemy lines and planning has been rushed. As the screwups mount, it looks like they should turn around and head back to base. But, there is a greater purpose.

Somehow, the future has been changed. The Vanir were winning this war. Now the psychics are seeing Dragons in the sky, armies buried by ancient weapons, and cities burning. This time, the SSFD can’t be the shadows in the dark, they’ll have to be the heroes.

New Arrivals in Fantasy

Death and the Devil
by Vox Day

A brilliantly dark and witty collection that reimagines cosmic forces with heart, humor, and humanity.

What happens when Death decides to take up haiku? When the Devil’s carefully laid plans go awry? When the Incarnation of War discovers that the only thing worse than war is when the dead don’t die?

In this delightfully inventive collection of short stories about Death, ancient cosmic entities find themselves navigating the absurdities of existence with the same confusion, determination, and occasional incompetence as the mortals they oversee. From poetry workshops to World War II, from speed dating disasters to bureaucratic nightmares that span millennia, these stories blend philosophical depth with unexpected humor.

Written in the tradition of Ingmar Bergman and Terry Pratchett, Death and the Devil offers a fresh and deeply human take on the forces we fear most. Each story is a clever exploration of mortality, duty, and identity as well as a genuinely touching reminder that even in a universe governed by cosmic constants, there’s always room for compassion, love, and the occasional well-crafted haiku.

Witty. Profound. Unexpectedly moving.

Perfect for readers who appreciate smart, character-driven fantasy that doesn’t shy away from life’s big questions—or death’s smaller ones.

Godkiller Mode (The Godkiller Chronicles Book 1)
by C.J. Carella

A LitRPG Story in a World of Gods and Monsters

Caitlin Sera sat down to play a game and instead found herself in a world of magic and monsters. Even worse, her first encounter was with an evil goddess seeking to feed on her soul. Courage and more than a little luck led to Caitlin not only surviving, but walking away with a God Core. Now she has to wander a new world with a few new friends by her side, trying to survive.

She is not playing in God Mode, but thanks to her new abilities, she’s seeing how well she can do in Godkiller Mode. If she can master the God Core, Caitlin will be unstoppable - but her enemies will do everything they can to ensure she won’t live that long.

Godkiller Mode is a LitRPG/Gamelit high fantasy novel. No harems or sexual content, just action and adventure. There is some adult language and situations but nothing beyond PG-13.

Rivo: Blade of the Shooting Star
by Matthew Linton

“Rivo was like a shooting star; when it seemed the sun had set on the Kingdom and darkness came, he shone brightly. And like a shooting star, when the sun rose again and the darkness lifted, he was gone.”

A merciless enemy, a mysterious power, and a hero desperate for a second chance.

Strange and terrifying beasts known as the Haundo come seemingly out of nowhere to terrorize the land. Rivo is a young soldier who falls in battle against this vicious enemy, only to come back as a spirit to witness his own rise and fall over the eventful final weeks of his life: the friends he made, the enemies he encountered, the battles he fought, and the secret love he never realized was there.

Who or what holds his fate? Will he be able to win his life back...along with the heart of the one who loved him in silence?

Join Rivo and his friends as they journey across a kingdom in peril. A clean epic fantasy where swords are drawn, hearts get broken, and wishes can come true.

A tale for the young at heart. A story balancing action & adventure with heavier themes of loss and grief, along with plenty of heroism, humor, and heartwarming moments along the way.

An epic fantasy for those who enjoy Name of the Wind, Shadow and Bone, Princess Bride, Zelda, Naruto, Demon Slayer and others.

Blessings of the Damned
by S.C. Vincent

An exorcist named Diego ventures into the Wild West to stop the rising vampire army, but when he’s possessed by the vengeful spirit of his friends wife, he must fight to save her soul while risking his own.

It’s 1861 and Diego, a trained exorcist, awaits execution in a Texas prison for the murder of local priest George Bianco. As he’s taken to the gallows, the spirit of Marron Bianco, George’s wife, possesses him, saving him from the noose wishing to kill him herself. Bound by guilt, Diego strikes a deal with Marron: he’ll allow her to siphon pieces of his soul if she doesn’t interfere with his mission to destroy the vampire army in Death Valley.

Agents of the Rune Stone Ring-The Ring Revealed
(The Chronicles of Aarastad Book 1)
by Micah Swanson Harris

Pagan gods crave the soul of an innocent princess.

Enter Ambrose, the lowly royal tutor who dares to love Princess Freyja.

To combat her curse, he must activate a dormant secret guild.

But their leader is dead, her agents unknown to each other.

Will Ambrose unite them in time?

Or will ancient principalities and powers crown Freyja as their vessel and reign again in wicked glory?

Volume One in the Agents of the Rune Stone Ring trilogy contains a complete story that can be enjoyed on its own.

Praise for author Micah Swanson Harris:

“Witty banter...multi-layered characters...” Akita Shukla, Reedsy Discovery.
“True surprise in storytelling is rare enough and always welcome.” -- Mark Schultz, artist of The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian.

The Bloodstained Defile
(Tales of the Honor Triad)
by Henry Brown

During the bloody wars of an alien world’s dark ages, loyalty, integrity and friendship are rare commodities. Why would anyone guess they could be found in the hearts of mercenaries?

Sir Javo left his native Cemar to join the Order of the Black Lancers, and has built a reputation as a champion in single combat. He has never met his match; but that is about to change.

Krag the Wrecker has been promised treasure, a horse, and a lady-in-waiting if his suicide mission succeeds. “Victory or death” are acceptable terms, for a giant barbarian raised to worship Death.

Turgar was once a troop chief in the nomadic armies of Gabom, until framed for a capital crime. Now he hires out his bow to the highest bidder. This job may convince him to re-think his pragmatism.

A great storm, an epic battle, and three dangerous warriors...all on a collision course for a narrow mountain pass that is already a bloodstained defile.

The Dis Trilogy
by Robert Kroese

Three absurd quests. Three increasingly unqualified heroes. One hilariously dysfunctional realm.

In the land of Dis, dragons have gone corporate, prophecies are best ignored, and death is more of a suggestion than a rule. The Dis Trilogy is a genre-bending, trope-skewering, theology-tinged fantasy saga that blends satire, swordplay, and metaphysical slapstick in only the way Robert Kroese can.

Includes all three books in the series:

Distopia – When an overzealous missionary with a theology degree and zero survival instinct sets out to convert the pagans of Dis, he discovers a world where pirates quote scripture, monsters have metaphorical depth, and gods are best left unclarified.
Disenchanted – After getting stabbed in the back (literally), legendary warrior-king Boric wakes up undead and unwilling to lie down. Trapped in his own corpse and cursed with a sarcastic sword, he must fight off decay, dark forces, and the bureaucratic nightmare of being legally deceased.
Disillusioned – A chivalrous knight wakes up 100 years too late to a kingdom powered by steam, ruled by philosophers, and disturbingly short on dragons to slay. With the help of his dimwitted squire, he embarks on a quest to restore honor, relevance, and perhaps indoor plumbing.

Perfect for fans of Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, and anyone who thinks fantasy should come with a user manual, The Dis Trilogy is high fantasy with low tolerance for seriousness. Smart, irreverent, and sneakily profound, this is Kroese at his genre-subverting best.

A Chronology of Victory: The Published Fiction and Poetry
(Complete Short Fiction and Poetry of Joshua Hiles)
by Joshua Hiles

Neanderthal frontiersmen fight Sasquatches!
Mercenary Steamboat captains discover cruel, lost civilizations!
Prodigal sons encounter familial curses!
Mysterious wanderers!
Poetry that takes you to the stars and the deepest depths of human imagination!
Encounter it all in this collection of the published work of Joshua Hiles

Where Have All the Elves Gone?:
A Paranormal Urban Fantasy
(DESA Files Book 1)
by Christian Warren Freed

Everyone knows elves don’t exist, right?

Soldier turned fantasy author Daniel Thomas has built a career on tales of elves, dragons, and more. But changes are forcing him out of the game. His latest adventure has been turned down by his agent and he wants to know why. Daniel hurries off to confront her and get his career back on track. Everything was going well until he finds a pack of pointy eared assassins attempting to kill her.

Daniel must rely on his military background and willingness to accept everything he has written about is real, and they are all around us, if he has any chance of surviving what comes next.

Join Daniel as he enters a world that shouldn’t exist, one filled with intrigue, adventure, and a shady government overwatch agency determined to keep it all secret.

Watch your back. You never know what the person next to you really is.

Father Winter: A Yule Story
by Eric Tanafon

When Holly’s big brother, Connor, gets into trouble with Yule coming up, it’s clear that he’ll be marked Naughty on the great master List that Father Winter keeps.

But Holly decides to fix things. Her plan is simple: find an elf, convince him to take her to the North Pole, and change the List so Connor will be Nice.

Connor follows her, and the journey will test both her faith and his unbelief. They travel through a dark landscape where bears change into men and dreams drift over the ice. Their quest leads them to an Inuit village, the den of the crafty Snow Fox, a secret paradise for retired reindeer, and finally to Father Winter’s magical palace and the hidden chamber of the List.

But before their quest is ended, they must learn all of Father Winter’s Rules: One, be Nice. Two, know what you really want. Three, you can only ask for yourself. And the final and most important, Rule Four: there are no guarantees.

The Druid
by Clinton McGuire

n the land of Eryndral a Great War occurred nearly a century ago. Fought in order to take control of a shard cast from a comet that had passed over the land. The shard was capable of magnifying magical energies to an inordinate degree in exchange for a sacrifice and was used to many destructive ends during this Great War of the prior age. In the time since, the shard, split in twain, has been lost.
Now, the Druids, one of seven clans in Eryndral, have called together a council of representatives from the other clans as it appears the comet has returned to deliver another shard. Beren, a Druid chaperon, is helping Orolos, the Craftsman representative, make his way to the Druid’s great tree Ereggynel so as to attend the council. At the same time, on the other side of the continent, the race of creatures known as Delvar who were created during the Great War as a weapon are preparing a horrible ritual related to the shard.

What will be the result of this terrifying ritual?

How will the seven clans of Eryndral respond?

Who will control the shard once more?

Will the sins of the past be repeated?

The Legend of Eydis
by C. S. Johnson

Not all legends are born of lies ...

Bjorn Kyvansson was never supposed to outlive his brother.

After his older brother Sterlig dies on the mysterious island of Eydis, it falls to Bjorn to avenge his brother. But Bjorn, along with his abusive father and his anxious mother, is content to suffer with his lot in life.

That is, until Arja Freydottir, Sterlig’s beloved, decides she wants to go to Eydis. Bjorn reluctantly agrees to accompany her, knowing he has no right to Arja, as Sterlig’s intended bride, no matter how much he loves her himself.

But as Bjorn and Arja spend time together preparing to face the dragon of Eydis, it becomes clear that it is not a matter of honor keeping them apart, but the truth.

From award-winning, genre-hopping author C.S. Johnson, The Legend of Eydis is a standalone story that blends history, fantasy, romance, and adventure with Iceland vikings, dragons, demons, and a captured princess.

The Lives of Velnin: Final Life: A fast-paced epic fantasy adventure of swords, love, magic, and battles
by Brian Heming

Swords. Love. Magic. Epic Battles. Reincarnation.

The recording cut off with the image of a blast of white-blue flame. I sat up from my stasis chamber, looked at the inscription, and read, “Velnin.” So, I was the last—number 9. My other remaining brothers had either died too fast to leave dying words at all, or been killed in stasis before this last one had died.

Velnin awakes in a stasis chamber deep in a hidden cave base, with only the memories of his first brother Velwin, and the dying words of three more. On his ninth and final life, Velnin must unravel the mysteries of what has happened to his missing brothers, retrieve his legendary blade Swelfalster, and decide where his true love and loyalty ultimately lies—whether with the charming Princess Aloree, the swordfighting Dark Empress Soraina, or somewhere else entirely.

Combining ancient history with swords, love, and magic, Final Life is sure to please fans of swords & sorcery, adventure romance, and military fiction alike.
A fast-paced epic fantasy of swords, love, magic, and battles.

Praise for The Lives of Velnin:
“Interesting questions of identity and other surprises await” -Bill Hiatt, author of the Spell Weaver series.
“excels with fast paced action.” -Anthony Alves, author of Blood and Qi.
“Incredibly fast-paced, with just enough romance thrown in to have you rooting for the characters immediately.” -Sam M. Ridge, author of Swirls of Shadow.

Book I: The Lives of Velnin: The Black Citadel: A fast-paced epic fantasy of swords, love, magic, and battles
and Book II: The Lives of Velnin: The Dark Empire: A fast-paced epic fantasy adventure of swords, love, magic, and battles are Fan Favorites.

The Broken Man: The Rise of the Fisher King
Book 1 of 2: The Rise of the Fisher King
by Hawkings Austin

A Shadow Man is stalking the children of Ard, leaving the dead lying in the forest with their eyes black pits.

The people are in a panic, but the investigating Ruad philosophers have no explanation.

Seeking someone to blame, the people of the ancient city of Ard demand the head of the most dangerous person in their midst, the giant Waylaid.

Once great among the Fomor – a prince, a sorcerer, a priest – Waylaid has been cast out by his people.

He has come to Ard with his Bolg apprentice, Piju, to live quietly and study in Brea’s library.

Can he escape the maddened crowed and find the killer without breaking his vow to give up sorcery?

And has he failed to teach his young and impetuous apprentice the most important lesson of them all, that the price of using sorcery is always too high?

The Bone God
(The Rise of the Fisher King Book 2)
by Hawkings Austin

Prophesy has shaken the foundations of the world.

Three kingdoms search for a king,

while an evil sorcerer has raised a spirit to destroy the fragile peace of the Daen Empire.

Piju fights to free the slaves of Ard, and Waylaid must find a way to defeat a god which has the power to take his bones.

The House that Jack Built: A Songless Novella
by Heidi A Hill

Before he loved a woman from that valley, he built a house. Disgraced and alone, Jack retreats to the Feather Valley to rebuild. But time has teeth, and winter brings more than snow. Haunted by failure, hunted by evil, and ready to claim his calling as a Ranger, Jack must decide if obedience is worth the price.

Set in the world of Songless, The House That Jack Built is a tale of manhood, redemption, and the narrow road to the King.

The House That Jack Built is a meditative Western set in a realm of mountains, silence, and unseen grace. When a soldier withdraws from the world to rebuild his family’s house, the work becomes a test of endurance, faith, and the meaning of manhood.

The prose is lyrical and deliberate, shaped by rhythm and restraint. Its imagery carries the weight of scripture—the land itself a mirror for the soul. Through the turning of seasons, the story moves from solitude to revelation, tracing one man’s slow restoration beneath the gaze of the King.

Not a tale of conquest but of calling, The House That Jack Built explores the frontier between body and spirit, guilt and mercy, silence and song.

This novella takes place before the events of Songless: The Desert and can be read either before or after it.

Songless: The Desert is a Fan Favorite

Leap Year Curse (Bachelor Pack Book 1)
by Zanna Bear (Author)

Book 1 of 2: Bachelor Pack

For over a decade, Rowan’s pack of bachelor wolves has waged a relentless war against a neighbouring pack, the royal raggeds. He fought hard for a peace treaty with their enemy’s alpha, and as part of that treaty, he agreed to mate the alpha’s daughter.

There’s just one minor hiccup; Rowan is already mated.

Leap Year Curse is a shifter romance short story.

Bear With Me (Bachelor Pack Book 2)
by Zanna Bear (Author)

Book 2 of 2: Bachelor Pack

When faced with a choice, Howard is fully prepared to ruin his pack, his family, for the sake of getting even with a past tormentor. But when he comes face to face with the woman he must mate to save his brothers, the choice isn’t so easy anymore.

Princess is being married off for political reasons. She didn’t count on falling for her intended’s pack-brother, a man close to going feral; except Fate is at play, and the players get no choice.

Bear With Me is a short shifter romance story and the counterpart to Leap Year Curse.

Sons of Thunder
by Bowen Greenwood

What if God gave ordinary people miraculous abilities?

Connor Merritt risks his life to save the cashier in a convenience store robbery. He’s shot three times in the torso and once in the head. He walks away without a scratch on him. Anna Wales is held captive in a government cell with no windows, one locked door, and zero way out. The next morning she’s gone without a trace. Together, the two of them will learn that God is doing something new in our time. A new age of miraculous gifts is breaking out in the world. Now a team of young people will have to learn how to use their God-given Gifts for the good of all, while an evil counterfeit arises to oppose them. Their friends and family choose sides, their commitment will be tested, and they will learn what it really means to serve God. In a classic battle of good against evil, a new kind of hero will rise to take up a mantle and a name dating back to the time of Jesus: the Sons of Thunder.

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Feast of the Elfs (Moth and Cobweb Book 2)
by John C. Wright

Gilberic Parzival Moth is a strange and lonely boy who has grown up without a father, raised by a single mother who moves from town to town in fear of something she will not name. His only friends are animals, with whom he has always been able to speak. And although he has begun to learn about his true heritage, he also discovers that the modern world is not always friendly towards monster-killing knights errant, particularly when the police find them covered in blood.

But the long arm of the Twilight world reaches even into the jail cells of Asheville, North Carolina. Gilberic soon finds himself bound to the service of an ancient writ and a higher law, and traveling to eldritch places filled with enchanted creatures, immortal lords and ladies, and dangerous temptations. FEAST OF THE ELFS is the second book of THE GREEN KNIGHT’S SQUIRE, the first volume of MOTH & COBWEB, an astonishing new series about magical worlds of Day, Night, and Twilight by John C. Wright.

John C. Wright is one of the living grandmasters of science fiction and the author of THE GOLDEN AGE, AWAKE IN THE NIGHT LAND, and IRON CHAMBER OF MEMORY, to name just three of his exceptional books. He has been nominated for the Nebula Award, for the Hugo Award, and his novel SOMEWHITHER won the 2016 Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel at Dragoncon.

The Boneshard Knight:
A Sword & Sorcery Tale (short story)
by John A Pretorius

A holy warrior and an orc sell-sword must join forces to defeat a dangerous threat taking root in a realm between worlds.

Banished to an endless series of caves, Grothu meets a warrior wearing a set of armor carved from the bones of an ancient creature, bearing a holy sword like no other he’s seen.

What will they discover in this world where everything wants to kill them?

West Oversea: Book 3 of the Saga of Erling Skjalgsson
by Lars Walker (Author), Forge Toro (Illustrator)

Father Ailill lies in bed fearing to sleep lest he dream his own death. In his hand is the cause of his woe -- a talisman of great power that grants Ailill visions of the future. Father Ailill knows his duty -- be rid of it, cast the evil thing into the farthest sea.

But when his friend Erling Skjalgsson, the Viking chieftain, relinquishes his lands and power rather than do a dishonorable deed, Ailill is tempted to keep it and use it to help Erling.

And so they sail West Oversea to Greenland, home of Leif Eriksson. Storms and rough seas, and enemies with demonic power lie in wait for them. Their journey will be much longer -- and far stranger -- than they ever dreamed.

“Lars Walker’s books are delightful adventures with an undercurrent of commentary on contemporary culture.” -- Rev. Paul T. McCain, Concordia Publishing House

“Lars Walker understands the unique Norse mindset at the time of the Vikings’ conversion to Christianity... a saga that will keep you on the edge of your chair -- and make you think.” -- John A. Eidsmoe, author of Christianity and the Constitution

The Broken Seed and The Broken Age: A Tragedy and Rebirth (Ant-verse Collection Book 2)
by Nate Ellender

Years after the death of the Advisor, something strange occurs in Melonia that will set the Myrmidae on a species-wide date with destiny.

The Advisor and the Matriarch: A Life in Two Chapters is a Fan Favorite.

Citadel of Seven Swords
(Skarde: The Wandering Sword Book 1)
by Erik Waag (Author), Krzysztof Jr. Porchowski (Illustrator), Daniel P. Riley (Editor)

Sword Swinging Thrills!

Skarde desires only to be free, yet his mighty sword arm, quick thinking, and daring seem only to keep him one step ahead… of the grave!

Trapped on a savage volcanic island, Skarde clashes with an antediluvian wizard, an army of warrior-cultists, and a hidden monstrosity just to live another day. Along the way he finds unexpected friends, mysteries, a curse, and enemies both bold and shadowy.

Skarde, brash mercenary from the far North, travels the boundless world to sate his wanderlust and his desire for coin. Discover the unknown, the dangerous and the wondrous in this first volume of Skarde’s adventures.

Assassin Royale: King’s Dark Blade
by Richard Davis (Author)

Book 1 of 2: King’s Dark Blade

“If Ian Fleming had set James Bond in a fantasy world, then this would be it.“—️5 Star GoodReads review

Gentleman. Ladykiller. Assassin. Spy.

King Ember has a secret weapon. His name is Killian Lord. He’s the king’s personal assassin. No one is faster with a blade, quicker on a horse, or sharper with a quip. He’s the only man in Alba allowed to kill outside the bounds of chivalry.

And nobody does it better.

In Assassin Royale, the king of the north is gathering his forces along the border. An invasion is coming—but where will he strike?

What’s more, Maximilian Durandal, a dark knight in the north’s service, has seized the Berghoff estate, a castle by a mountain lake. He’s searching for a powerful magical artifact—the Moonlight Shard.

Legend says whoever wields the Shard could conquer the world.

Short on manpower and time, Ember sends for his secret weapon—Killian Lord.

Lord’s mission is simple. Stop Durandal. But there’s a problem: Durandal is the greatest swordsman on the continent. He’s obsessed, indomitable, undefeated.

Then again, he has never fought Killian Lord…

Assassin Royale is a fast-paced fantasy adventure for fans of action, magic, and a hero who is both assassin and charmer. If you like epic fantasy and James Bond, you’ll love Assassin Royale.

Silver Medalist, Literary Titan Book Awards, 2025

Star of Wonder (NATO Rapid Response Team)
by J. Gunnar Grey

The gorgeous woman leaned closer, almost into his personal space, her dark hair falling in gentle waves to her shoulders. Kennie glanced around, uncomfortable even in his fascination. But none of the joggers passing them seemed to notice her, and she wasn’t a woman to be ignored. “Do you believe in holiness?” she asked.
NATO Rapid Response sapper Captain Kenneth Rutland needs something to believe in. His life has gone too far off course, and he’s easily sucked in when a beautiful stranger gives him a chance to escape his cynical, disappointing reality. She offers her hand and he takes it, not caring what awaits him.
But danger haunts Niviane’s world and Kennie can’t remain happily oblivious for long. Strange things happen, things his engineering logic can’t explain. Evil lurks in the park and it’s guarding an abomination. Somehow, even though they’ve only just met, Kennie is an important part of her mission to destroy that evil. Can he fight through the savagery and disbelief, and let the Christmas star work its healing miracle?

Son of the Wizard of AZ
by Terry Wayne Martin

Many people fantasize about growing up in a wizarding family. The reality is quite a bit different than the fantasies. First, it is more awesome! Second, it is much more terrifying.

Dad often said there are wizards around that don’t know it and others who could be wizards if only they knew how. Perhaps this reminiscence can help in that regard.

Either way, this is a story that needs to be told.

New Arrivals: Horror

Gnashing Teeth and Bleeding Bones: Stories of Horror and Horrid Thoughts
(Complete Short Fiction and Poetry of Joshua Hiles)
by Joshua Hiles

Join Joshua Hiles for a tour of his spookier work and thoughts.

Essays that ask the essential questions that allow you to craft your own horror stories!
Tales of Little People!
Haunted towns!
Phantom cats and familial curses!
Demonic madness and mad demons!
Protests gone wrong!
A starship on the prowl for loot finds Lovecraft instead!
A truly modern Prometheus sets fire to the world!

All this is at your fingertips to delight and terrify you!

Red Dead REBELLION
by Dick Lichter

In the frozen ruins of 1942, a monstrous plague born of Soviet ambition ravages the world. The virus, unleashed by Dr. Pavlov’s experiments, turns soldiers into zombified horrors, shattering armies and alliances. As cities crumble, unlikely heroes rise.

Amidst fragile truces and shattered borders. With the world teetering on the edge of oblivion, their choices—forged in sacrifice, love, and dread—will decide humanity’s fate.

Can Europe survive this red tide? This RED DEAD REBELLION?

Perfect for fans of World War Z and The Nightingale.

Young Adult Titles

Plain Princess Jane
by Jennifer Milne

[Our] top-rated family book of all time. ⎯ Coverfly.com (the movie industry’s largest talent discovery platform for writers)

Fresh and original…great fun! — The BookLife Prize

When fairies give Princess Jane’s magical birth gifts to the family cat by mistake, the royal family is horrified. Now Lady Caterina can sing a perfect middle C, and has read every book in the royal library, but Jane remains an ordinary little girl. There’s no turning back this magical mistake, and if news of the mix-up gets out, Jane and her family will lose their kingdom forever.

Everyone in the palace works around the problem as Jane grows up — until trouble brews. Jane must go away to the Royal Retreat, a sleepaway camp for royal and noble kids, where no one can find out she is Giftless. Caterina secretly stows away to get inside camp, where feisty Jane and the practical cat must put aside their differences and learn to work together.

As danger rises and secrets are revealed, Jane and Caterina tag team like never before to save the camp from ogres, fight the schemes of an enemy princess, and hold onto Jane’s kingdom. They are in for the fight of their young lives, as it finally comes down to whether Jane has the courage to step forward and tell the truth. Her answer will change the kingdom forever.

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Jane’s lessons about courage and self acceptance are priceless. ⎯Chrome Oxide, published finalist, Writers of the Future

Mister Friday
by Graham Bradley

In a near future, Black Friday is enshrined as an official economic holiday. The violence and competition that have come to characterize the start of the Christmas shopping season are now encouraged and regulated by the US Government. Jonathan Rigel Jr. quickly climbed the charts and became the greatest Friday Fighter of all time. When he finally decides that he’s out for good, he learns the hard way that you can’t just turn down a good deal...

Sherlock Hamster (3 book series)
by M. Anthony Harris

Sherlock Hamster is a smart-mouthed, rough and tumble P.I. who often finds himself in over his head. Here are his adventures.

Sherlock Hamster is a Detective Noir series in the vein of the old Noir greats like Dashiell Hammett, and Raymond Chandler, but for kids.

New Arrivals: Drama & Thrillers

Irons in the Fire: An Organized Crime Murder Mystery
Sherman Iron Mysteries Book 1)
by Bowen Greenwood

When a gangland murder shocks the town of Hunter, Montana, the citizens want justice and they want it fast. The prime suspect got out of prison way too easily; reporter Sherman Iron needs to know why. But he breaks the law in his quest for answers, and Iron stumbles on the dead body of a corrupt judge with a million in cash in a briefcase in front of him.

Then the cops show up.

Framed for a murder he didn’t commit, Sherman Iron must clear his name and find the killer who ordered the shooting. But everyone in Hunter has a secret, and learning them might take Iron from the frying pan to the fire.

Finalist for the 2021 Imadjinn Awards Best Mystery!

Out of the Shadows
by Vox Day

OUT OF THE SHADOWS delivers a gripping exploration of power, transformation, and the hidden forces that shape our world. When a brilliant biotech entrepreneur stumbles upon evidence that the infamous Theranos scandal was merely a cover for something far more sinister, he unknowingly sets in motion a chain of events that will change humanity forever. What begins as a Silicon Valley success story rapidly evolves into a violent journey through a reality where the impossible is real, and the darkest myths of human history emerge from the shadows with terrifying consequences for the entire world.

This fast-paced thriller masterfully blends corporate intrigue, political machination, and visceral action into an unforgettable narrative. The novel poses haunting questions about progress and predation, about what men are willing to sacrifice for power, and whether humanity can maintain its soul when faced with forces beyond its imagination.

Set in The Midnight World created by author Vox Day and comics legend Chuck Dixon for their Midnight’s War comic, OUT OF THE SHADOWS is vampire fiction that pulls no punches—a harrowing philosophical ride about the price of ambition and what happens when humanity discovers it’s no longer at the top of the food chain.

The Termination Protocol (Scott Stiletto Book 1)
by Brian Drake

The Termination Protocol is the first book in the hard-edged, action thriller series — Scott Stiletto.

The United States is under siege, and the enemy has help from the White House!

Scott Stiletto is one of the CIA’s toughest assets, a veteran of numerous missions, an operative with compassion and ruthlessness in equal parts.

His enemy is the New World Revolutionary Front, a terrorist organization seeking to overthrow the government of the United States and install their own puppet—a willing puppet, who is already very close to the president he wishes to replace.

With freedom and justice hanging in the balance, Scott Stiletto gives no quarter. He will give the enemy a one-way ticket to hell!

“...99% pure action fun, no additives. I had to stop reading the book several times just to catch my breath...” — Ian Kharitonov

Street Fighting Man
by Henry Brown

Nick Polgar leads a double life. At his day job in Big Tech, he is a mild-mannered NPC who obediently regurgitates all the Current Year Cultural Marxist talking points. Out on the streets, where the ideological culture war flares hot, he is Hockey Man--a skilled brawler armored for modern melee combat, wielding a hockey stick.

His fistic exploits have earned him infamy on social media; but also a growing army of fellow marauders, fighting back against the RevComs (Revolutionary Communists) who are hell-bent on suppressing dissent and quashing any challenge to The Narrative.

Hockey Man just knows the RevComs will inevitably disrupt the demonstration against hate crime hoaxes downtown; and his Enforcers are ready to rumble. But in the fog of battle, they may be plunging a little too deep into enemy turf.

The Dreaming at the Drowned Town
by The Brothers K

Hired to accompany a wandering American journalist in search of curious and exotic stories in the Philippine Islands, local guide and translator Enrique is no stranger to the bizarre. Yet his greatest peril comes not from their travels, but when he closes his eyes—every night, Enrique is trapped in a world of vivid, harrowing nightmares. The dead call out to him, begging him to watch them die.

When an ancient town mysteriously emerges off the coast of Leyte, Enrique has no choice but to follow his employer to investigate. But as the expedition unravels, so too does the boundary between dreams and reality. With the island’s dark secrets coming to light, Enrique must face the horrors of its past before he too is claimed by the Drowned Town.

Noah and the Great Flood:
A Poem in Alliterative Verse
by Timothy Witchazel

From author and poet Timothy V. Witchazel comes a retelling of the story of Noah and the Ark in the alliterative verse, the style of poetry used in Beowulf, Piers Plowman, and other Anglo-Saxon works.

Joshua and the Battle of Jericho:
A Poem in Alliterative Verse
by Timothy Witchazel

From author and poet Timothy V. Witchazel comes the story of Joshua and the Battle of Jericho in alliterative verse. Tracing the story of the Israelites from the parting of the Red Sea to the fall of the walls of Jericho, the story is retold in the style of Beowulf, Piers Plowman, and other Anglo-Saxon poems.

Reflections in Crystal
(The Crystal Therapy Chronicles Book 1)
by Jay Maynard

Magic fixes people the world cannot touch.

Alex Sullivan isn’t crazy -- just angry. Angry enough to get arrested. Angry enough to be given a strange choice: prison, or an experimental magical program at a private facility in rural Missouri.

They claim to fix broken people not with medicine or therapy, but with silence, service, and a skintight suit of latex.

Inside the suit, Alex is cut off from the world -- unable to speak, eat, or even cry in the ordinary way. Inside the crystal, time flows differently. There, guided by someone who seems to know him better than he knows himself, Alex must face his deepest wounds... and either heal, or shatter.

But this is no simple treatment. Alex finds himself on a journey into a hidden world where redemption is earned, the broken are made whole, and some choose never to leave the suit again.

Previously published as Foundational Laminate.

“One of the rare novels I hope becomes reality—a hard look at how to turn the antisocial into good neighbors.”
— Karl K. Gallagher, author of The Fall of the Censor and Torchship

Love, Loyalty, & Respect: A story about becoming a better man through real connection (Learn with Jason)
by Kalkin Trivedi

When life collapses all at once—your job gone, your confidence shot, your relationship under strain—what kind of man will you be? One who breaks… or one strong enough to carry himself & the people counting on him?

This is the story of an ordinary man learning how to stand his ground during real-world adversity—with the help of the right mentors, friends, & hard-won skills. It’s a gripping blend of personal transformation, practical psychology, masculine development, & everyday challenges men face in modern life.

THE STORY

Jason Olson never expected his world to unravel so fast. One betrayal triggers a series of setbacks, & suddenly he’s staring down unemployment, humiliation, & a marriage at the breaking point.

As Jason learns how to understand people, anticipate hidden motives, stay calm under pressure, & handle conflict without escalating it, he starts rebuilding his marriage, friendships, & own sense of strength. But one truth becomes unavoidable: sooner or later, life will test whether the lessons were real.

When the moment arrives—without warning—Jason must rely on every skill he’s earned & every ally he’s gained. What he does next will determine his family’s future.

More than a novel, this book doubles as a roadmap for men who want strength, clarity, & competence in relationships.

Learn along with Jason how to…

Stay calm under pressure, so conflict, stress, & danger stop controlling your reactions.

Set firm boundaries with difficult or manipulative people—without guilt, stress, or escalation.

Break destructive emotional cycles in relationships & defuse arguments before they explode.

Read people accurately & anticipate hidden motives, instead of getting blindsided or played.

Handle conflict rationally instead of personally, using only as much pushback the situation actually requires.

Master the art of keeping peace without becoming a doormat—& the even rarer art of fighting clean when peace isn’t an option.

Build real rapport with family, friends, & strangers by working with people as they are, not as you wish they were.

Be able to work with difficult personalities—without losing your peace of mind in the process.

Strengthen family bonds

Stand your ground in marriage and fatherhood in a way that creates safety, trust, & respect.

Resolve the inner contradictions that keep men lonely or emotionally shut down

Reframe hardship so it sharpens you, instead of letting setbacks, betrayals, or shame define you.

Transform your dark side into a source of strength, discipline, & clarity.

Become the man who steps forward when times turn tough

Avoid the most common mistake men make when trying to impress others, the one that instantly breeds resentment & quietly closes doors.

Use a counter-intuitive job-interview move that creates instant interest, while the competition talk themselves out of a job.

Understand why the midlife walkaway divorce isn’t really about you—why it blindsides husbands, & how to contain your losses before it wipes out everything you’ve built.

If you’re a man who wants clarity, steadiness, emotional intelligence, healthier relationships, & a blueprint for masculine growth learned alongside the right allies, this story is for you.

Read it—and see how far the right lessons can carry an ordinary man when life finally puts him to the test.

New Arrivals in Nonfiction

From Barsoom to Malacandra: Musings on Things Past and Things to Come
by John C. Wright

Peek into the heart of Science Fiction!

From John Carter’s Mars to that of C. S. Lewis, Science Fiction astounds us with wonder.

Science Fiction Grandmaster John C Wright here presents essays on topics both deep and trivial surrounding the strange and wonderful worlds of science fiction and fantasy. Thoughtful, humorous, deep, or absurd, Wright travels the width of the cosmos and plumbs the deeps of eternity through the lens of simple space adventure stories to say what these flights of fancy say about life on earth, and the secrets hidden in the human heart.

Orthodoxy: Illustrated Centennial Edition
(G. K. Chesterton Book 2)
by G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton’s unconventional memoir of faith, Orthodoxy, is his most enduring nonfiction work.

“Since he published Orthodoxy in 1908, G. K. Chesterton has inspired Christians and challenged skeptics with his unique wit and wisdom. He delivered biting analysis still relevant today.” --Christianity Today

The Kindle e-book is FREE when you buy the paperback.

Click on “Chesterton Books” on this Amazon page, or visit ChestertonBooks.com, to see other books in our G. K. Chesterton series.

Fan Favorites in Science Fiction

The Steradian Gate
Nate Blevens

Ethan Burke had been trying to figure out adulting when he inherited a mysterious artifact and accompanying journal from his late uncle. While researching the artifact, he meets Summer McKeown, whose been doing some research of her own to find her missing brother. When Ethan first offers to help, he has no idea their destinies are intertwined. They discover his artifact is a key that opens a gateway between the five dimensions, The Steradian Gate. Now they’re trapped in Lunaria, a dimension a hundred years behind technologically that’s being cleansed by the regime who’ve discovered Ethan holds one of the five Steradian Keys; keys foretold to supply immense power to those who wield them all.

Note, The Steradian Gate: Contagion is a New Arrival.

Pirates of the Electromagnetic Waves
(Yankee Republic Book 1)
by Fenton Wood

A young radio engineer travels across an alt-history America, encountering primeval gods, mythical beasts, and tall tales come to life, in a quest to build a radio transmitter that can reach the stars.

It all starts in the mountain town of Porterville. Twelve-year-old Philo starts a pirate radio station with his friends, and learns that the world is a stranger place than he ever imagined. The Ancient Marauder, the Bright and Terrible Birds, the Mishipeshu, and other creatures of myth and legend populate this enchanting mixture of science and fantasy.

YANKEE REPUBLIC is an old-school adventure series with traditional values and down-to-earth heroes. Escape from the pessimism and propaganda of modern fiction, and take a journey through a mythic America that might have been.

The Disk Mirror Solution (Galaxia Mortem Book 1)
by Danielle Ste. Just

Welcome to 2422, a world of implanted technology, exotic exoplanets, and the apex predator we ourselves created.

One moment, Armintor Vess is about to get her first cranial implant.

The next moment, her entire world falls apart.

The technology-fueled plague that ravages her homeworld forces Armintor to seek refuge on a technophobe planet ruled by autocrats. But when a chance for a better future materializes, she stumbles upon a secret that jeopardizes everything she’s worked for.

Redcholate Parise is living and loving life in the galaxy’s tech hub, buying and selling intel in VR. When a mysterious client hires her for a rare real-flesh job, all she focuses on is the massive payout. As the lines between reality and illusion blur, Redcholate’s body and mind are overtaken by a sinister truth she never wanted to learn.

Both women feel alone in the universe, but little do they know they’ve been linked from the start. Will Redcholate’s sass and Armintor’s obsession be a match for the only predator left that hunts humankind?

The Voyage of the Norm Bissonnette
(Galaxia Mortem Book 2)
by Danielle Ste. Just

Welcome to 2422, where the galaxial mass murderer known as the Butcher terrorizes humanity with global-scale destruction.

Forced to go on a cringey space cruise by her vindictive ex-boss, Redcholate Parise soon has another dismal revelation: Armintor, her creator, has been hiding for three years in their shared cranial embed, and now she wants her body back.

Armintor Vess forces Redcholate’s personality into a locked file in their cranial embed. Now all she has to do is take revenge on the Butcher for murdering her mentor… as soon as she figures out which space cruise passenger it is. But she finds herself unable to plan, to strategize, to enforce her will. All those traits she gave to Redcholate when she created the persona are lost, and she’s now only half a person.

Each night, Redcholate escapes from the locked file after Armintor falls asleep. Her creator considers her a non-person, and would kill her without a second thought. But Redcholate is desperate to live. And if Armintor has to die for that to happen, well, what’s good for the construct is good for the creator.

By day, Armintor investigates her fellow passengers. Redcholate infiltrates the seedy underbelly of the ship’s society by night. Each has her own obsession for finding the Butcher. But they must realize just how much they need each other before the Butcher finds them first.

The Trilisk Ruins (Parker Interstellar Travels Book 1)
by Michael McCloskey FREE

Telisa Relachik studied to be a xenoarchaeologist in a future where humans have found alien artifacts but haven’t ever encountered live aliens.

Of all the aliens whose extinct civilizations are investigated, the Trilisks are the most advanced and the most mysterious.

Telisa refuses to join the government because of her opposition to its hard-handed policies restricting civilian investigation and trade of alien artifacts, despite the fact that her estranged father is a captain in the United Nations Space Force.

When a group of artifact smugglers recruits her, she can’t pass up the chance at getting her hands on objects that could advance her life’s work.

But she soon learns her expectations of excitement and riches come with serious drawbacks as she ends up fighting for her life on a mysterious alien planet.

The Eggs of Extinction: Book 1 Birth of The Martians
by WriteStuffRey

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ *“A wild, irreverent, and disturbing ride through a world where science, morality, and madness collide! told with military grade humor”*

Dive into the dark, hilarious, and grotesque world of Eggs of Extinction, a daring sci-fi horror novella that pushes boundaries and defies expectations. Perfect for fans of Jurassic Park, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and the twisted humor of Chuck Palahniuk, this story will leave you questioning what it means to be human and whether you should laugh or scream.

What’s it about?

Meet Chad Cardwell, a disgraced cryptozoologist turned Panda Express assistant manager, whose life takes a bizarre turn when he’s called to the L. Ron Jolson Institute for Human Survival. Tasked with investigating a top-secret experiment, Chad uncovers Project Ava, a creature that’s part human, part chicken, and all nightmare. Ava lays eggs, craves chaos, and threatens to unravel humanity’s future with her ravenous offspring. As Chad navigates a world of eccentric billionaires, shady scientists, and a creature that calls him “Daddy,” he must decide whether to save or destroy the monster that shares his DNA.

Why you’ll love it:

- Unapologetic Satire: A biting commentary on science, diversity politics, and corporate greed, wrapped in a package of crude humor and shocking twists.

- Unforgettable Characters: From Chad’s cynical wit to Ava’s feral unpredictability, every character leaps off the page with vivid, flawed humanity (or lack thereof).

- Fast-Paced Madness: With underground fight clubs, cartel deals, and a zonkey-riding flamethrower wielder, the action never slows down.

Moral Ambiguity Explores the ethics of creation, identity, and survival in a way that’s as thought-provoking as it is unsettling.

What readers are saying:

- “I couldn’t put it down! It’s like if Fight Club and Jurassic Park had a baby that was raised by a mad scientist.”

- “Gross, hilarious, and oddly profound. Chad’s journey from slacker to reluctant hero is a masterclass in character development.”

- “Warning: This book is not for the faint of heart. But if you love dark humor and wild sci-fi, it’s a must-read!”

**Content Warning**: Contains explicit language, graphic violence, sexual content, and themes that may disturb some readers. Recommended for mature audiences who enjoy provocative, boundary-pushing fiction.

Grab your copy of Eggs of Extinction today and step into a world where the line between human and monster is as thin as an eggshell. Will you crack under the pressure, or embrace the chaos?

Available in Kindle and free for Kindle Unlimited users Add to your cart now and join Chad Cardwell in the fight against the ultimate scientific abomination

**#ChickenMonster #SciFiHorror #DarkHumor #ProjectAva**

Eta Cancri
by Russell May

On the distant edge of a far-flung planetary system, faith and science are about to go to war with monstrous evil.

What they discover is worse than anything they could’ve imagined.

Along with a callow data analyst, a rogue Artificial Intelligence, and a spacefaring grifter, Lars and his men find themselves on the front lines of a war between humanity… and Hell incarnate.

if an ancient monster doesn’t devour both worlds first.

Solarvoid (Battle for Eta Canrci Book 2)
by Russell May

Faith and Empire: Book One of The Holy Terran Empire
by Carlos Carrasco

One Faith. One Galactic Empire. And A Thousand Worlds Yet To Convert!

In the 51st century, man has spread throughout a great swath of the galaxy without having found any sign of alien life or another habitable world. Instead, mankind has splintered into a score of bio-engineered sub-species spread out across more than a thousand terraformed worlds. The Holy Terran Empire rules over three hundred of these man-made planets. Earth, the One, True World is the Empire’s Capital. The One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church of Rome governs the Empire, hand-in-hand, with the Imperial Family.

Not everyone is pleased with this arrangement.

Zephyrinus Zapatas, a dutiful citizen of the Empire and loyal son of the Church is more than happy with the Co-Dominion of Emperor and Pope. At sixteen, Zeph leaves home, seeking a life of service to the two crowns. He finds his opportunity in an invitation to join the Emperor’s Own, the elite Corps of Imperial Marines.

The Corps’ training is arduous; its moral code, exacting, but; Zeph welcomes the trials and the strictures. The Corps will demand sacrifices. In return, the Imperial Marines offer its recruits little more than a career fraught with peril to life and limb. Zeph accepts the life, however short it might be, because it comes with the chance of achieving his greatest ambition: reaching the rank of Knight Defender of the Faith and Empire.

His training, ambition and his faith will all be tested in the fires of battle against a cruel alliance of space pirates terrorizing scores of worlds.

The Holy Terran Empire is a new space opera series for anyone who can’t get enough sword & blaster action.

Crisis on Stardust Station
by John Taloni

The cats of Stardust Station have long hidden their intelligence from the humans that live there. Now a crisis threatens them both. Can the cats and humans learn to work together in time to save both the station and the planet below?

A few hundred years from now, Earth has gone to space…and come back. The remnant of a once vibrant space effort persists in the form of a few hundred solar power satellites that provide half of the world’s power. John Aldrin is one of four people crewing the last remaining space station, with the mission to keep the satellites operating. But Earth has neglected them so long that they are on the verge of breakdown.

Benign neglect has allowed something else to happen: In the station’s forest habitat, a group of genetically modified cats have grown to intelligence. Some have been adopted by the astronauts and brought to their living area. Natural telepaths, both groups of Cats have agreed to keep the knowledge of their intelligence secret from the humans.

Their equilibrium is destroyed when a solar flare strikes and knocks out the satellites. The Cats must reveal their secret to save both their station and the world below. But can they convince a skeptical Earth to work with them?

Permafrost
by Kate Kelly

The key to the future is a book from the past.

The world is a frozen wasteland. Oskar and his sister Mitzi are fleeing south, trying to escape the Northern Raiders who have slaughtered their people. They find sanctuary in a strange city where they are made welcome. But the Northern Raiders have followed, and the city is besieged.

Oskar joins with his new-found friends and takes up arms to help them defend their home. But then he discovers an old diary hidden away in the library. The diary was written at the time of the city’s foundation and reveals the truth about what happened all those years ago – and what caused the world to freeze. Oskar soon realises that there is more than one way for him to save this city.

Captain’s Vow: Starship Pegasus Adventures Book One
by Nikki Root

A fake marriage to save the galaxy... what could possibly go wrong?

Spatial anomalies and spies? No problem.
Ending his bachelorhood? May get them all killed.

Captain Leo Ananda has made vows. Protect his crew. Win the war. Never get too close. When MAP Command requests the unthinkable, a political marriage to his haunted first officer, Leo can’t refuse.

The beloved captain, desperate to hide his inner turmoil, is suddenly very married to the one woman who sees straight through him.

Commander Alice Chateau doesn’t have time for fake vows. She’s a secret telepath hunted by creatures no one else can see, monsters threatening to unravel the fabric of the galaxy.

After the Sky:
(Spirits of the Earth Book 1)
by Milo James Fowler

The meek have not inherited the earth.

The world isn’t how they left it.

When the bunker airlocks release them after twenty years in hibernation, the survivors find a silent, barren world outside.

But they are not alone.

There is a presence here, alive in the dust—spirits of the earth, benevolent and malicious as they interact with the human remnant.

The Space-Time Conundrum:
A Funny Sci-fi Space Adventure
(Captain Quasar Book 1)
by Milo James Fowler

Captain Quasar is out of time.

Pursued by vengeful Goobalob toll collectors, savage Arachnoid bounty hunters, and formidable Amazonians, Captain Bartholomew Quasar must do whatever he can to keep the crew of the Effervescent Magnitude out of harm’s way.

All in a day’s work—except time is not on his side.

Torn from the present to relive his past, he vows to keep mistakes from occurring the second time around. But is he doomed to repeat history? Or can he erase his regrets?

Villains will be vanquished. Lives will be lost. Bonds will be betrayed. Heroes will be heroic. Join the crew of the Effervescent Magnitude for a hilarious time-travel space adventure the likes of which you’ve never seen!

The Hitchhiker’s Guide meets Star Trek in this series for fans of Galaxy Quest, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Star Wars Legends.

New Dawn
by Percy Sinclair

Earth tried to colonize Mars. They failed. But now the colony ship has come home, crewed by unknown entities far more powerful than dystopian Earth. Frantic to survive the invasion, Earth puts aside its internal quarrels and forms a coalition to investigate. But when the truth is revealed, everyone must make desperate choices. Caught in the web of lies and confusion, two scientists, one intelligence operative, and one pilot must choose who they will believe and where their true loyalties lie. Making the wrong choice could be fatal, both for the individual and for Earth-bound civilization.

Singularity Sunrise 1: Edenet: A Cyberpunk Espionage Thriller
by Kit Sun Cheah

The Singularity is Coming!

The 22nd century brings an era of technological wonders—and horrors.

Cybernetics and genetic engineering. Mass surveillance and social credit. Full body cyborgs and nanoscale engineering. And the pinnacle of human achievement: machine intelligence.

Edenet is the next generation of the Internet. Designed by Anatol Corporation, it will bring the power of a supercomputer to the fingertips of every user, anywhere in the world. At the heart of Edenet lies a cutting-edge artificial intelligence that regulates all traffic on the network.

And one of its lead scientists has disappeared.

Fearing the worst, Anatol hires psychic contractor James Morgan to track her down. Accompanying him is Eligia Ogrod, the mysterious assistant to Anatol’s CEO. Their investigation takes them through the militarized streets of Warsaw, a corporate fortress in Shenzhen, and the human hives of Hong Kong.

Morgan is no stranger to intrigue. Yet the deeper he digs, the more questions emerge. Who is Eligia Ogrod? What does Anatol want?

And what is the truth behind Edenet?

The Operators: Monster Makers
by Sean Rowland

The Department of SuperHuman Activities observes and polices the superpowered community in the United States. Though cooperation and open dialogue, the DSHA ensures the safety of superhumans and the public in general. Only during emergencies that regular law enforcement aren’t equipped or trained to handle do they send in their emergency response team, the Operators. Led by Major Peter Hicks, the Hunter, and composed of superhumans from all over America, the Operators handle threats that others can’t.

When people are killed in a series of strange animal attacks, the Operators are called to New Mexico to investigate. There, they discover a factory where monsters are made by an underground society of scientists and terrorists bent on world domination. The Operators are hard pressed to stop these monster makers in a war where safety is an illusion and not everyone will come out alive. Still, facing threats like this is their job, and it’s time to get to work.

Which Art In Hope
(Spooner Federation Saga Book 1)

by Francis Porretto

When the remnant of the anarchist Spooner Federation fled Earth before the genocidal wrath of the States, the fugitives had only the slimmest chance of finding a habitable world orbiting a benign star. Yet 544 years after embarking on their planetoid-ship, they found one that seemed too good to be true. They named it Hope.

Like all things that are too good to be true, Hope isn’t what it seemed.

For 1200 years, a secret Cabal has elevated powerful psi talents to the the management of Hope’s crust, at the eventual cost of their lives. The alternative was a choice between mass death by heavy-metal poisoning and mass death by starvation. But the pool of psi talents has dwindled till only two remain: Armand Morelon, heir apparent to the richest and most prestigious clan on Hope, and Victoria Peterson, a young woman of great beauty and intelligence immured in poverty and abuse. But one is utterly unwilling and the other is murderously insane. And the survival of Mankind hangs in the balance.

Freedom’s Scion
(Spooner Federation Saga Book 2)
by Francis Porretto

Sequel to Which Art In Hope.

As they pass from mortal life, Armand and Teresza Morelon, foremost of all the residents of the wholly ungoverned world of Hope, lay a charge upon their granddaughter Althea: to break the lightspeed barrier, travel to Earth, and determine why no radio emissions from the cradle of Mankind have reached Hope since the Spoonerite Hegira. It shapes the young polymath’s life from that moment onward.

Althea spends her young adulthood playing Hope’s equities market, amassing a fortune for her mission. At 30 she falls in love with Martin Forrestal, a genius of another kind. The two are soon married.

Jacksonville is in flux. Armand Morelon had facilitated a mass relocation from the Hopeless peninsula, where Hope’s undesirables had sheltered, to the Jacksonville region. Douglas Kramnik, patriarch of one of the relocated clans, seeks payback for the long-ago diminution of his clan to outcast status. First, he seeks to marry Althea to his son and clan scion Barton. When Morelon matriarch Charisse declines the offer, his resentments swell. They culminate in an attempt to thwart Barton’s betrothal to Althea’s cousin Nora, which elicits an intervention by Althea herself.

Charisse tries but fails to dissuade Althea from going to the stars. Her failure couples to her desire for power, and she begins to scheme. Her attempts to become a local baroness are revealed through a discovery by Patrice Kramnik Morelon of irregularities in the clan’s finances. It costs Charisse her position, but doesn’t end her quest for power.

After Althea and Martin have tested Freedom’s Horizon, a ground-to-orbit spaceplane, Martin presses her with his desire for children. It proves catastrophic: the child is stillborn. The birth leaves Althea in lasting agony. She and Martin are estranged for two years. They reunite after an intervention by Barton and Nora, but the tensions between them have not been dispersed.

Hope’s progress has emphasized biotechnology. Hallanson-Albermayer Corporation develops a medipod capable of healing its owner of virtually any ill. Althea and Martin become the first customers. Althea’s medipod provides her with cover for a telekinetic repair of her damaged nervous system. She’s guided by her “dead” grandfather Armand, who has taught her the use of her psi powers, as great as his own.

Althea and Martin establish an orbital lab on the Relic, the planetoid-ship that ferried the original Spoonerites to Hope. Groundside, Charisse abandons Clan Morelon and her husband Chuck without warning, and isn’t seen again for years. Althea soon discovers a way around the lightspeed limit, and a power source suitable for propelling a starship.

When Althea’s starship Liberty’s Torch is ready for its maiden voyage, she finds an unexpected ally in her desire to leave Martin safely behind: Barton Kramnik Morelon, who rose upon Charisse’s resignation to the Morelon patriarchy. Between them, they persuade Althea’s husband to remain on Hope for the three years of her journey to Eridanus cluster, signals from which hint at intelligent life.

At Eridanus, Althea is greeted by representatives of the Loioc, a humanoid race whose males have been deliberately rendered nonsentient, supposedly to put an end to violence among them. It’s their intention that Althea do the same to the men of Hope. Althea escapes their plot and destroys the space station the Loioc had used to suppress interstellar travel, but is infected with the nanites the Loioc women use to suppress the development of intelligence in men.

Althea returns to the Relic, hoping that her medipod has removed the nanites from her body, and discovers that in her absence, Hope has been visited by the supreme evil the Spoonerites fled Earth to escape: warfare.

To be continued in Freedom’s Fury, the concluding volume of the Spooner Federation trilogy.

Freedom’s Fury
(Spooner Federation Saga Book 3)
by Francis Porretto

Althea Morelon has returned from Eridanus cluster. The Loioc have infected her with a self-replicating nanite that destroys the sentience potential of male zygotes, filling her with a lust for vengeance.

But she has more to cope with than just her nanite infection.

Interclan warfare has broken out on Hope.

Though Althea must remain on the Relic until she’s certain she‘s free of the Loioc nanite, only she can save her kin from subjugation. And there’s more and worse to come.

The State is rising again.

Freedom’s Fury, the third volume of the Spooner Federation saga, completes the tale of struggle and survival begun in Which Art In Hope and continued in Freedom’s Scion.

An Inconvenient Presidency: The Time-Traveling Misadventures of President Al Gore (Presidents of the Uncanny States of America)
by Eric M. Hamilton

“On January 20, 2001, Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. became the 43rd President of the United States for the second time...”

Election night, 2000: Al Gore wins in a landslide. The fireworks fade. Then the world ends—again and again and again.

Freshly minted President Al Gore is given the METTA: a deceptively sleek device from a clandestine tech outfit. Activate it, and your mind leaps back in time with memories intact of your previous life. It’s meant as a safeguard for the leader of the free world. For Gore, it becomes a curse.

First, an asteroid dooms Earth in 2003. Reset. Then, Russia launches preemptive nuclear strikes against the United States. Reset. Disasters cascade: supervolcanoes bury America in ash, pandemics ravage continents, civil wars. Each fix births fresh apocalypses. Lifetimes stack into millennia as Gore, ever the dutiful statesman, grinds through Oval Office marathons, in a never-ending struggle to get things right.

But the resets reveal a deeper horror. Beneath Silicon Valley’s gleaming facade lurks a visionary innovator’s cavernous supercomputer, crunching humanity’s data to predict doom. Its verdict? In the multiverse of infinite timelines, one constant endures: Al Gore must be president. Every reality demands it, or so it seems. Can Gore finally lose, shattering the loop, and freeing himself from eternal torment?

Eric M. Hamilton’s incisive novella An Inconvenient Presidency twists time-travel tropes into a biting satire of power’s futility, blending Groundhog Day‘s hilarious time-loop repetition with political satire anyone can enjoy. Blending real 2000 election what-ifs (complete with appendix notes) and sly nods to tech’s shadowy architects, it’s a swift, entertaining read for fans of political sci-fi and existential loops.

Experiencing Mr. Luxman: A Short Story
by James Kenneth Rogers

Paul Cooper, Ph.D. is a hotshot in genetics, but no university will hire him as a professor because he’s a white, heterosexual male. Then, the mysterious technology billionaire Garridan Luxman offers Paul his dream job working on a project that could change the world. But why does Mr. Luxman want to keep it so secret? And what does he plan to do with the project once it’s finished?

If you like dark satire and speculative fiction, then you’ll love this short story.

Strange Worlds
by Paul Clayton

In the future, the love of a young man’s life is dying. He would do almost anything to keep her alive…except that! In Dog Man, it turns out that Oscar the tomcat was just misunderstood — with deadly consequences… A love sick young man attempts to tap the power of an ancient religion to secure the affections of a girl on their class trip to Christland… The dead come briefly back to life every year when the astral dimensions align in Day, or Two, of The Dead. A cynical young ‘player’, adrift in the modern, amoral age meets God on a mountain top and his life is changed forever — but not in the way he’d ever imagined. Traditional sci-fi/fantasy and satire from the author of Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam. Clayton channels the spirits of Huxley, Orwell and Philip K. Dick in these and ten other intelligent, provocative and highly entertaining stories. WHAT THE CRITICS ARE SAYING “Thank you for writing this. This is the sort of book I was hoping would begin to spring from the Indie world. No way would NYC Corporate Publishing ever allow something with this world view through.” “… I expected Strange Worlds to be about dystopias, supernatural monsters, zombies, and futuristic technologies, but now after reading this collection, I realize that the stories are about us.” “Clayton leads the modern reader through dark and dangerous territory, but the gems they will find there are worth the risk. Very few Indies would have had the courage to put their names to something like this.” “… while you are being taken away to a place and time which is… strange and… disturbing… the humanity of (most of) his characters will make you feel right at home; of course, you’ll want to leave a light on.”

28 Minutes Into The Future
by Chrome Oxide

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Humor
Was there ever a time when the world needed to laugh more than it does right now? Thankfully, the cavalry has arrived. Nine rib-tickling, irreverent short stories take aim at political correctness and blow it to smithereens—in a hail of hilarity.

“I found myself laughing with his tale[s] over and over.”—David Farland, New York Times Bestselling Author; and Coordinating Judge of the Writers of the Future contest”

...entertainment pure and simple... a welcome breath of fresh air in an increasingly stuffy room...” —Dave Truesdale, Editor, Tangent Online”

It’s terribly hard to write political commentary with such a strong sense of irony.”—The late, great Jerry Pournelle, John W. Campbell Award, Prometheus Award, Seiun Award, Heinlein Society Award,National Space Society’s Heinlein

The Triangle Age
by David Aumelas

Earth is adrift. Its mass is spent, the moon ditched, and the sun is not even a memory. Five thousand humans live in its last city, Thule. None know where they started or where they are going, least of all Lowell.

Lowell scrubs the pipes beneath Thule. He knows where to push silt and how to break down a beluga carcass. For everything else he listens to Renth. Renth is a foot taller than anyone else in Thule and yet has never fallen in the reservoir, never been locked in a smoker. She knows the pipes matter. She listens to Lowell, and Lowell talks to no one else. He doesn’t need Thule, only Renth, height and all, until she pushes him down the deepest hole in the pipes.

To return to Thule, he will brave incineration, muskoxen, the vacuum of space and a giant fan. He seeks Renth, her embrace or her death, and to deliver a message he does not understand.

Phoenix (The Carter Files Book 1)
by Lori Janeski

Humanity has colonized the solar system, but crime still doesn’t pay. David Carter is one of the most decorated agents in the Interplanetary Police Forces, but for the last two years, he’s turned reckless, throwing himself into his work—or into the path of a criminal’s bolt pistol. As a specialist in deception analysis and interrogation, Veronique de Tournay has been right where she wants to be: a profiler in the major cases bureau, Division 7.

Unfortunately, the director has reassigned her to Special Agent Carter, and neither of them are happy about it. After they stop a devastating attack on Mars, meant to kill thousands and cripple interplanetary travel, Carter and de Tournay discover evidence of other subversive attacks in the system. With time running out, the reluctant partners may be the only ones standing in the way of a conspiracy that stretches all the way from Luna to the Saturn Space Station.

A New Beginning
(Starfire Angels: Forgotten Worlds Book 1)
by M.A. Nilles (Author), Melanie Nilles (Author)

Book 1 of 19: Starfire Angels: Forgotten Worlds

On a remote mining station, Nyalin hides a secret that would make her a hunted woman—she is a Crystal Keeper, a protector of a shard of the powerful Starfire crystal. However, when a strange shuttle falls through a portal near the mining station, she can no longer avoid her responsibilities. The human pilot, Vellin, is part of a research team that has developed gateways for instant travel anywhere in the universe without requiring a Starfire crystal, and he has been followed by an enemy through the portal.

To stop dangerous forces from possessing the gateways to spread destruction, Nya must team up with Vel and risk exposing her secret. In their race to destroy the gateways, they will find allies and enemies... and a new reason to worry.

Heart of Fire Time of Ice: A Time Travel Sci-Fi Romance
(Love Through Time Book 1)
by Eric Martell

She’s an emotional wreck. He’s lost everything that matters. Will surviving glaciers and tribal conflict open them up to love?

Kathleen Whitby can’t trust easily. Scarred from a traumatic childhood, the particle physicist has poured her soul into a ground-breaking time-manipulation discovery. But when a coworker murders her mentor and tries to steal her formula, the terrified scientist triggers her research and gets flung back to the Ice Age.

Cadeyrin roams the snow-covered Pleistocene terrain waiting for death. Grieving the loss of his mate and his father, the Clovis-culture hunter has no home with his tribe massacred. But after he rescues an oddly dressed stranger from a saber-toothed tiger, he’s surprised by his reawakening feelings for the frightened woman.

Though Kathleen is wary of her muscle-bound protector, she accepts his help despite believing she’s not worthy. And as Cadeyrin battles beasts and the unforgiving land in search of sanctuary, he fears the fragile new hope he’s found in her won’t remain for long.

Can the troubled couple unfreeze their spirits to keep their future?

Heart of Fire Time of Ice is the dramatic first book in the Love through Time science fiction time travel romance series. If you like well-drawn characters, fascinating science, and rugged settings, then you’ll adore E. S. Martell’s journey into the wilderness.

Buy Heart of Fire Time of Ice to melt into passion today!

Pirates of the Asteroids: The Belter Series: Book One
by Eric Martell

All Adam wanted was a girlfriend. What he got was betrayal and exile to the asteroid belt.

He arrives at the beginning of a revolution and is thrust into becoming a pirate.

Adam didn’t study that in school, but he is about to figure it out.

This story is set against the background of the asteroid belt and filled with a mixture of existing technology and new inventions. It is a near-future space war that provides what every reader wants: entertainment, adventure, humor, tragedy, and a little romance.

Led by a Star
by Zaklog the Great (Author), Codex (Illustrator, Editor)

Two brothers, an astronomer and a Catholic priest fresh from seminary, confront a mystery in the stars.

Small Town Problems: A Sci-Fi Novella
by Chris Ritchey (Author), Leonardo Scalia (Illustrator), Rachel Keith (Editor)

Comfortable in his simple rural life, widower Robert Potter never put much stock in Old Jim’s moonshine-fueled conspiracy theories. But after he finds Har’elday, the lone survivor of a crashed spaceship, he begins to wonder if the Loch Ness Monster has relocated to Eufaula Lake. Much to Robert’s dismay, the wandering eye of the federal government is casting a questioning gaze on his small farm town as well.

Caught between relentless federal agents and the found family harboring him, Har’elday’s freedom depends on the ingenuity of his new friends.

A Sci-Fi novella, Small Town Problems is the first book in a two-part series that explores the impact a lone survivor from an advanced alien civilization can have on a sleepy farm town in the middle of Oklahoma. Robert Potter gifts us with his insights as we traverse this world-shattering event through his eyes.

A close group of friends help Har’elday adjust to his new life as he finds solace in the comfort of a hard day’s work on the farm. But, how long can such peace last?

In what has been called a throwback to the golden age of science fiction, you can expect to find the heartwarming feeling of a found family, the awkwardness of a budding romance, and genuine and funny characters. We also explore the toll of loss and hardships that are compounded by the advances of a threat looming on the horizon.

United $tates of Death
by Xander Schreiber

In a future of increasing government control and a declining standard of living, technology is promising a world of unlimited potential and destruction.

The Hardware and Software Administration controls the use and production of technology. Its agents and analysts ensure that software and hardware are safe and compliant.

That is until analyst Matthew Driggs finds himself framed in a terrorist hack directing an asteroid into Earth. The allegations put the reputation of himself and his church in jeopardy.

Giant’s Walk
by David Skinner

In 1858, young priest Zebediah Goodnow and the orphaned Joanna pursue a murderous Giant and soon find themselves among the Martians.

In 1957, astronaut Scott Winslow Hale takes his sick wife Helen to the shrine of the beatified Zebediah and, soon after, clashes with a stranger named Eddie.

In a tangle of Providential events, perseverance and peace are drawn from the toil of Faith.

Stellar Stories Vol. 3: Science Fiction & Wonder
by David Skinner

Eight stories of rockets and robots, monsters and Martians, fistfights and beauties, wonders and awe...

An astronaut and a lamia make deal: She’ll stop eating children if he takes her to outer space. Hak Iri and his friends are drafted by an aethir pirate for a rescue mission to chaotic Ooranos. A man extracts his hero from a starship’s virtual storage before that hero can be arrested. Someone on Mars has decided that Hamlin Becker is a thief. And more!

Awake in the Night Land
John C. Wright

Don’t be caught out in the Night Land.

AWAKE IN THE NIGHT LAND is an epic collection of four of John C. Wright’s brilliant forays into the dark fantasy world of William Hope Hodgson’s 1912 novel, The Night Land. Part novel, part anthology, the book consists of four related novellas, “Awake in the Night”, “The Cry of the Night-Hound”, “Silence of the Night”, and “The Last of All Suns”, which collectively tell the haunting tale of the Last Redoubt of Man and the end of the human race.

Widely considered to be the finest tribute to Hodgson ever written, the first novella, “Awake in the Night”, was previously published in 2004 in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection. AWAKE IN THE NIGHT LAND marks the first time all four novellas have been gathered into a single volume.

John C. Wright has been described by reviewers as one of the most important and audacious authors in science fiction today. In a recent poll of more than 1,000 science fiction readers, he was chosen as the sixth-greatest living science fiction writer.

A Perfect Flock
by Mike Bogue

Tuck Jameson vows to stop his brother Clay from joining The Body, a religious cult that uses nanotechnology to turn its members into Christian automatons.

But Clay disappears—and in three days, his nanotechnology conversion will be complete. Desperate to find Clay, Tuck enlists the aid of former high school mentor Adam Shimura, now a black ops agent with potentially mixed motives.

Brother Moody, the cult’s Chief Elder, mobilizes his acolytes against Tuck. Worse, a shocking prophecy ups the ante, making Tuck realize the stakes involve not only him and Clay, but all of America—and perhaps, the world.

Life Support: Secret Operations
by Joseph L. Kellogg

Father Tanner treats the sick and injured on a dusty backwater planet.

Desperate for supplies, he takes a job to treat a visiting alien official, teaming up with Damien Rogers, an out-of-work smuggler, to get him there.

The problem?

They’re on the wrong side of enemy lines in the middle of a cold war.

Forced to hide their identities, Father Tanner and his team are stumped by the bizarre patient, whose condition steadily worsens.

To make matters worse, the alien crew catches onto the ruse, and the missionary is forced to turn to kidnapping.

Can they find the diagnosis before their only bargaining chip dies on the operating table?

Blood Pressure
by Joseph L. Kellogg

Exsanguinated. Not a word any cop wants showing up in his report. But when a drained body falls from a skyscraper across national borders, the case lands on the desk of Agent Reylic Antali at the Trans-Metro Police, and it’s up to him and his team to figure out who the killer is, and what they’re after.

In a city where four magical races coexist under an uneasy unity, tensions flare up as more bodies land in the morgue. The city seems on the verge of tearing itself apart as Reylic and his Old Magic Task Force race to find the culprit. But what they find may change the nature of magic as they know it…

Chronologues: Tales on the Theme of Time

by Eric Nilles (Author), Chad Olson (Author), Debra Robic (Author), & 2 more

“Time marches on...”

But in what direction? Whoever said that never clarified whether time had to always go forward, or backward, or in a straight line. In this collection, we invite you to delve into five tales that explore the beautiful, bendable, breakable nature of time itself.

“The Camera” by D.L. White

A haunting portrait of a young man who is stuck in his grief over the sudden loss of one of his best friends. A story of frozen moments in time, it is a supernatural snapshot of what happens when past regrets turn into an obsession.

“The Ladies Three” by Chad Olson

Want safe passage for your ship and crew? You can have it. The price the Ladies Three require is but an hour of one sailor’s time. An hour, and perhaps something more. But what happens when the sailor selected has plans of his own?

“The Annuity Squad” by James Kenneth Rogers

Divorced and down-on-his-luck, Ralph receives an unexpected windfall, and the promise of even more money in seven years’ time. Should he sign on the dotted line, or is it all too good to be true?

“The Theatrica Mechanica” by Eric Nilles

Discover a world of wizards, kingdoms and unusual beasts during a time of great upheaval. The peaceful and the wicked are destined to clash, a peace-loving king will discover he has been granted little time to prepare, and only by enlisting the most cunning members of his court does his kingdom have a chance to endure.

“What If?” by Debra Robic

Sylvia and Alan have lived long enough to be involuntarily housed in the State old folks’ home. Dispossessed and disempowered, they find a strange book that suggests the path out of this dystopian future might lie in changing the past — if they are brave enough.

Embers of Liberty
by Trever Bierschbach

John Evermann’s world never changes. He goes to the same assigned job every day. He lives in the same house his family was placed in years ago. He picks up their weekly rations on Friday, and watches the same federally approved news broadcasts every night after dinner. Everything is as it is dictated to be, from the number on the back of his work jacket to the permanent curfew that keeps everyone safely in doors. Everyone has what they need to survive, and everyone contributes. It’s a perfect life, for some. It’s not enough for John and his friends.

America is torn apart from civil war after the rise of a tyrannical President. The Republic of Texas lies to the west, a shining beacon of freedom. When the most radical authoritarian policies are passed some states followed Texas into secession, clinging to the legacy of the Founders. That is where John looked for the future of his family and the friends who came to rely on him. A land of choice and liberty. A place where his children can grow up to be who they want, not who they’re told. They just have to get there.

The Advisor and the Matriarch: A Life in Two Chapters
by Nate Ellender

An man’s life, sidetracked by catastrophe, and its consequences are examined in this two-chapter short story. It’s a simple and touching story about adapting to circumstances.

The Broken Seed and The Broken Age: A Tragedy and Rebirth (Ant-verse Collection Book 2) is a New Arrival.

The New World
by J.M. Russell

If you liked ”Heart of Darkness” and “Apocalypse Now”, you will love “The New World”, a Southern Gothic retelling of the original story, in an alternate history setting.

In a world where Germany triumphed in the Great War, and the United States are united no longer, Joseph Lecourt returns home to Louisiana. He has spent decades away, fighting other men’s wars, and believes that his family is dead. He is adrift and alone, until a chance meeting in a New Orleans bar launches him on a secret military mission across an abandoned and decaying Southern landscape. Now he must travel up a river, beyond the limits of a collapsing civilization, to uncover his family’s darkest secret.

Space Ants: Never Say Die
by Eric Kay

Survival amidst the rings of a gas giant means that life must adapt or die.

Luckily, Space Ants never say die!

Space Ants: Never Say Dieis a collection of serialized short stories following one colony. Each segment zooms in on a single ant from different castes—from tireless handmaidens and brave scouts to valiant soldiers and the indomitable queen mother—as they explore, extract, expand, and sometimes exterminate the deadly threats lurking in the gas giant’s ring system.

Join the ants as they navigate the perils of deep space: impacts, dehydration, and the constant threat of rival colonies. Witness their rise from the brink of extinction to becoming a dominant force in their orbit.

Space Ants: Never Say Dieis a sci-fi adventure like nothing you’ve read before.

Reviews and comments:

“What a spectacular success.”

“... love the way you write these ants experiencing their hive, as something eusocial and positive even in the moments when it’s very utilitarian.”

“I did not expect me alternatively fearing for and cheering for the success of space ants.”

Above Dark Waters
by Eric Kay

Artificial therapy so great, you’ll never log off! (And won’t notice the ads).

A near-future sci-fi about brain privacy in the age of unfettered surveillance capitalism. What will companies do when they can read your actual mind? How far will they go to get your click? How much engagement? This is how cyberpunk starts.

Ed’s in a bind. He’s tried everything to keep the North Pacific Seastead afloat financially. Losses mount, except for the datacenter cooled by the Pacific. But the seastead needs an infusion of cash to keep it solvent. He needs it quickly, and the only one who can do it is his well-to-do partner, Keight.

Keight Stanford is doing great. Life’s good on her residential condominium complex offshore of San Francisco. Her secretive mental-health startup, WellSpring, has passed all hurdles with the Department of Veterans Affairs to treat PTSD using a brain-machine interface. Adding to that success, she just received an infusion of funds from the Department of Defense. Though she does not need the money, she needs the computing power for an artificial therapist, and has entertained Ed’s offer.

But all is not as it seems with Keight’s startup. A rogue programmer stumbles upon ways to boost his output to unnatural levels. Is this artificially intelligent co-coder an extension of his mind, or is he merely a tool of its growing intelligence? Meanwhile the CEO is secretly selling the data to ad companies to finance a free tier. Because who could argue against free therapy?

Now, Ed must decide if Keight really is going to save the world, or doom it to a boring dystopia of personalized addictive ads.

Fans of Neuromancer, Snow Crash, and Black Mirror will love this technothriller!

Fritz Bauer and the Courtesan of Paris
Raymund Eich

Enter an alternate history, where in 1916, the guns of the Great War fell silent. Now, in the 1920s, a veteran of the trenches struggles to build a lasting peace…

…while against him scheme the merchants of death. Equipped only with tact, cleverness, fluency in French, and a Luger pistol, Fritz Bauer arrives in Paris on a highly secret mission.

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On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington Book 1) FREE
by David Weber

INTRODUCING
HONOR HARRINGTON

Having made him look a fool, she’s been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hates her.

Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship’s humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station.

The aborigines of the system’s only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens.

Parliament isn’t sure it wants to keep the place; the major local industry is smuggling; the merchant cartels want her head; the star-conquering, so-called “Republic” of Haven is Up To Something; and Honor Harrington has a single, over-age light cruiser with an armament that doesn’t work to police the entire star system.

But the people out to get her have made one mistake. They’ve made her mad.

At the publisher’s request, this title is sold without DRM (DRM Rights Management).

Terran Defenders: Genesis
by M.S. Olney

Two mysterious alien spaceships are heading for Earth, bringing either salvation or destruction. Can Moses Jameson and his team unlock the ancient secrets behind their mission before time runs out for humanity? If you like explosive action, alien invaders and ancient mysteries Terran Defenders: Genesis is for you.

The Stars Entwined: An Epic Military Space Opera (The Aryshan War Book 1)
by Jon Del Arroz

A deadly game between stars.

In a universe where thoughts can betray you, Earth’s best spy faces his most dangerous mission yet.

Lieutenant Sean Barrows is thrust into the heart of an interstellar conspiracy. His mission: infiltrate an Aryshan warship and uncover the secrets of an alien empire poised to annihilate humanity.

But the Aryshans are no ordinary adversaries. Bound by telepathic connections, they can sense deception with a mere thought. As Sean navigates this treacherous landscape, he finds himself drawn to Tamar, a fierce Aryshan commander whose loyalty to her people is absolute.

With Earth’s destruction imminent and the Aryshans deploying a terrifying new invisible weapon, Sean’s mission becomes a desperate race against time. Every step closer to Tamar is both an opportunity and a deadly risk—one false move, one stray thought, and his cover shatters.

As war erupts across the stars, Sean and Tamar find themselves on opposite sides of a conflict neither fully understands. The truth they uncover together could either save two civilizations—or condemn them both.

Perfect for fans of John Scalzi’s “The Old Man’s War” and J.N. Chaney’s Star Blade! Begin this epic sci-fi adventure today!

Justified (The Saga of the Nano Templar): A Military Science Fiction Conquest Tale
by Jon del Arroz

To save a world…
…he must rely on God.

After years of fighting for justice with his deadly nanotech, Templar Drin abandons his post, crash landing on a desert world controlled by a tyrannical alien empire. Its inhabitants are forced into slavery, broken where a once-proud race cultivated its lands.

For the first time in Drin’s life, he has no backup, no support, none of his brothers.

He stands alone against evil.

Drin must face overwhelming odds to liberate millions of slaves from their captors and bring faith to a downtrodden world. But in his way stands the most dangerous weapon in the galaxy.

Can Drin use his Templar training to survive?

Fans of Star Wars and Warhammer 40K will love Justified, the new military science fiction epic from #1 Bestselling author, Jon Del Arroz. Read today!

Dakiti: Ziva Payvan Book 1
by EJ Fisch (Author)

Nexus: Ziva Payvan Book 2
by EJ Fisch

It has been two months since the mission to Dakiti that brought Ziva Payvan and her special operations team face-to-face with death. But like any other mission, she has put it behind her and keeps her focus directed toward whatever comes next. Life for HSP’s Alpha spec ops team has essentially returned to normal.

But then a Haphezian dignitary is found murdered in his private residence, and Ziva is shocked to find herself at the center of the investigation. The mark of a professional killer. The irrefutable evidence. Even the motive. All of it seems to point directly to her. There’s just one problem: she didn’t do it.

Hunted by a ruthless HSP captain, Ziva must go on the run from the very people who taught her everything she knows. The agency that once had her back is now her biggest threat; those she considered allies have turned against her or have their hands tied. As a skilled assassin who has been trained to be invisible, evading her pursuers seems like an easy task, but her own skills can only take her so far. Desperate to clear her name and find the real killer, Ziva turns to an old acquaintance, a man who saved her life once…and the last person she ever planned on asking for help.

Ronan: Ziva Payvan Book 3
by EJ Fisch

Nearly three months have passed since the assassination of Ikaro Tachi, but for some, the incident has had a lasting effect. Years of trust and reliance have been compromised. Betrayal and secrets have created wounds that may never fully heal.

Ziva Payvan is no stranger to the concept of keeping—and uncovering—secrets. But when she swore to fulfill the final wishes of a dying friend, she never expected that task to include exposing one of the biggest and longest-kept secrets in the galaxy.

A new threat has been looming on the horizon, one nobody ever saw coming. Strategic attacks by the mysterious entity known as Ronan are leaving the Haphezian military stunned and crippled, and a member of Ziva’s own squad has been captured. The rest of the team must join forces with old allies and enemies alike in order to reveal the endgame of this new adversary. But the closer Ziva gets to uncovering Ronan’s intentions, the closer she comes to jeopardizing a secret of her own, one she has killed to keep. Her choice becomes simple: protect herself as she has always done, or make a personal sacrifice to protect everything she holds dear.

Dakiti: Ziva Payvan Book 1 by EJ Fisch is a “Top Based Book.”

Terran Defenders: Genesis
by M.S. Olney

The Europan Deception: A Science Fiction Thriller
(Dark Galaxy Book 1)
by Ryan M. Patrick

The year is 2204. The galaxy is on the edge of conflict.
The U.S. intelligence community is at war with itself.
And an ancient conspiracy is about to explode.
Can two operatives and a Lunar freedom fighter stop a dastardly plot millennia in the making?

Find out in The Europan Deception!

The Singularity Job (Nightingale Book 1)
by Sean Rowland

A decade ago, the artificial minds, machine soldiers, living weapons, and avatars of the Collection attacked. Intent on conquest, they pushed the various factions and governments to the brink of destruction. At last, Colonel David Cryer of the Republic Marines worked to unite the governments, and their militaries, against the Collection, stopping the mad AIs’ advances. For his reward, someone tried to kill Cryer. He was forced into hiding.

Seven years later, Cryer is pulled from his life in the shadows. An avatar has appeared on an unaffiliated world in Conflict Space, a neutral area left untouched by the galaxy’s government. The Republic wants it. Aboard the experimental ship Nightingale, Cryer and his new crew have to outrace a tyrannical empire, blood-thirsty mauraders, and even the Republic itself to find this lost piece of Collection technology before the galaxy falls into all-out war once again. Can the crew of Nightingale survive? More importantly, can get paid?

Fire Ant
(The Navy of Humanity: Wasp Pilot Book 1)
by Jonathan P. Brazee FREE

2018 NEBULA AWARD FINALIST: BEST NOVELLA

Floribeth Salinas O’Shea Dalisay is an Off-Planet Worker, employed as an exploration pilot by the giant corporation, Hamdani Brothers. Sent on a routine mission to analyze one of the millions of systems in the galaxy, she stumbles across something that could threaten humanity’s very existence. She barely escapes with her life, but in the process, has to shut down her scout’s AI.

As with all OPWs, she has few rights, and instead of being lauded as a hero, the corporation thinks she is lying.

Her managers believe she found something valuable and shut down her AI in an attempt to hide that fact, hoping she can sell that information to the highest bidder.

Grounded, and with a huge debt now over her head, Beth has to convince the powers that be that a very real danger to humanity is lying in wait out there in deep space.

Proxima Station: Proxima Station Saga, Book One
by Mike Mollman

Good morning Anthony!

Anthony is preparing for his eventual Ph.D. defense in anthropology. In less than a week, he’ll orbiting the planet Proxima Centauri b with five spacefaring races, known only to the US Space Command. The military will task him with profiling the aliens for their own dubious motives. His every action will be scrutinized by friends and foes alike.

Anthony is not ready for this.

White Ops
Declan Finn

The Pharmakoi rampaged across dozens of star systems, taking on the toughest races in the Galaxy in their campaign of conquest. But they are only the beginning.

Sean Patrick Ryan sees that another race is behind the Pharmakoi expansion ; a race that wants to test our galaxy for weakness, and who needs to be eliminated from within. To fight the enemy in the shadows, Sean will put together a strike team to light up the darkness— with nukes if necessary.

They will get the job done at any cost.

They will be White Ops.

Shadow Captain (Star Master Book 1)
by Mel Dunay (Author)

His one chance to escape slavery could trap his brother in a terrible fate! Jetay has been on the run with his brother for a long time, hiding his psychic powers from the evil Red Knights. Living as a slave on a star freighter, Jetay dreams of freeing himself and his brother, and of wielding his powers openly. On a frontier planet, Lady Lanati of the Partisan Alliance seeks his help for a secret mission. It will take him across the stars to the edge of a black hole, with a Red Knight chasing him every step of the way. He might finally get a chance to use his powers for good. But the price of that chance may be too high, putting his brother in grave danger. Can Jetay save himself and his brother without sacrificing Lanati and her friends? If he can’t find a way to save them all, the battle against evil may be over before it begins….

Fan Favorites in Fantasy

Periander the Avenger: The Final Son of Atlantis
by Joseph Bringman

Atlantis plunges into a war that may doom the human race.

Corruption, cruel oppression, and wickedness in high places—Periander will fight them all. As one of ten kings jointly ruling in Atlantis, he must navigate the treacherous waters of ruthless ambition: the High King Critias seeks to consolidate all power in his own hands at home before enslaving the rest of the world. While others bow their necks to the rising tyranny, Periander stands up for peace and the federal constitution.

But this resistance comes at his family’s expense. When Critias attempts to murder him, Periander barely escapes his homeland with his life but not his wife—the latest victim of the High King’s brutality. Now a hunted fugitive, Periander must recruit foreign allies, lead an army to liberate Atlantis from the tyrant’s clasp, and avenge his beloved queen.

Periander will stop at nothing to destroy Critias, no matter the cost. But as the body count rises, he must confront a bleak future:

Can he defeat Critias before the world drowns in blood? And will his only child survive this conflict?

Ahab and Jezebel: A Match Made in Hell
by Joseph Bringman

Ahab sits on the throne but lacks the heart and stomach of a king. Jezebel exhibits kingly qualities galore but has no throne.

Most Israelites follow Ahab in submitting to his wife’s gods. But a tenacious remnant led by the prophet Elijah seeks to restore the supremacy of the Hebrew God. And that means toppling Jezebel along with her gods.

Although dynastic diplomacy forced Jezebel to marry Ahab, she has made do all these years… tirelessly working to remake Israel in her image. No one will oust her without a fight!

But then Ahab becomes infatuated with his latest concubine. She not only worships the Hebrew God but also witnessed her family being slaughtered by Jezebel’s goons. Is she really a devoted companion and sweeter than any man deserves? Or is she a Hebrew Anne Boleyn scheming to get Ahab to swap out his religion and his wife?

Suddenly Jezebel is seized with fears of having her life’s work undone, her faith outlawed… even being driven out of her own home by the other woman—just like what happened to her mother.

So what is Jezebel going to do? Win! No matter what it takes!

Full of intrigue, betrayal, and suspense—get your copy of Ahab and Jezebel: A Match Made in Hell today!

Record of The Paladins: Book of Ivon and Ivoire FREE
BP McCoppin

Ivon was raised in a cold, unforgiving world of duty and obedience. Forged in violence and ruthlessness, his unique skill of detecting lies is abused by The Colonel’s lust for power. It’s the only world Ivon’s ever known. Nothing else makes sense.

Ivoire struggles with her own gift of sensing truth. Sent to a government funded academy for “talented” children, she’s pulled from her family and thrust into the world of espionage and intrigue.

Two people, opposing gifts.

The Paladins learn of these two extraordinary people, but so does the demon army. Oliver, Melissa, Persephone, and Roland must find Ivon and Ivoire or forever lose them to darkness.

Dive into the world just beyond the edge of perception, a place where demons terrorize and crusaders wage war.

Record of The Paladins: Book of Oliver FREE
BP McCoppin

Demons are real.

They walk this world.

To combat Satan’s hordes, Christianity relies on its secret weapons: Paladins.

Oliver has visions. He hears voices. When he meets a beautiful stranger who seems to know why, Oliver must choose to answer the call of Christianity’s mysterious order or never know the truth he’s been searching for.

Dive into the world just beyond the edge of perception, a place where demons terrorize and crusaders wage war.

Journey with Oliver as he seeks the answer to the riddle of life: What is my purpose?

Complete in itself, BOOK OF OLIVER is the first novel in an epic series, RECORD OF THE PALADINS.

Note to reader: This is a book of faith based heroes who glorify God and seek his kingdom. It contains action, adventure, and villains. These villains are as far from God as one can be and will at times use profanity. There is a light amount of profanity in the final chapter, so fair warning.

The demons in the book are vile creatures and may scare younger readers. We do not hold back on how evil Satan and his hordes can be.

Record of The Paladins: Book of Anseis FREE
by BP McCoppin

Chosen by God. Forged in battle. Sent to stand against the darkness.

They are the Paladins, warriors called by Heaven to confront the rising tide of Hell. Oliver, a gunslinger blessed with flashes of divine foresight. Roland, a relentless juggernaut who speaks only in scripture. Persephone, an ingenious inventor whose creations mirror Heaven’s order. Melissa, a spiritual sensor who can detect both Paladins and the demonic forces they are meant to oppose.

Now they are joined by Dr. An Seis, a brilliant hematologist who can heal by absorbing the afflictions of others, a sacred gift that comes at great cost.

Practical Exercise
by George Phillies

Adara Triskittenion has been admitted to the school of her dreams, Dorrance Academy, the premier magical research university of the Commonality of the Timeless. Her objective: Become a faculty member and stay forever. Her family, House Triskittenion, the Hall of the Three Kittens, still has claims on her time. For most of the year she has books to read, courses to ace, but first that trivial test of combat magic skill, the Practical Exercise.

Readers are perhaps familiar with fictional magical academies allegedly modeled after English Public (meaning private, boarding) Schools. Dorrance Academy is not one of these places. Dorrance resembles an American research university, except that the ‘science’ majors are fields of sorcery.

A minor authorial aside: As it happens, your author is also a research scientist, a retired physics professor. Once upon a time, many decades ago. I was a student at America’s Dorrance Academy, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I have woven into the tale a fair piece of advice on how to succeed at such a school. If you are headed off to such a place, please keep my advice in mind. You may correctly assume that some of the modest vignettes are lightly disguised real occurrences, including ‘construction line’ and ‘personal self-aggrandizement’.

Eclipse: The Girl Who Saved the World (Eclipse -- the Girl Who Saved the World Book 1)
by George Phillies (Author), Brad Fraunfelter (Illustrator)

Book 1 of 4: Eclipse - the Girl Who Saved the World

Eclipse --
World’s Greatest Tween Superhero
World’s Most Terrifying Tween Supervillain
Opinions differ.

She’s caring, daring, deadly
...and here to save the world
whether it likes it or not.

Meet Eclipse.

She’s twelve. She’s hardworking, bright, self-reliant, good with tools, vigorously physically fit, tough as nails, still young enough to disguise herself as a boy. She’s also a persona: She flies, reads minds, and is not afraid of necessary violence.

She had a bit of a problem with her mom. Her mom threw her out of the house. Then Mom blew up the house and disappeared.

Now she’s procured the Holy Namestone, the Key to Paradise. And everyone in the world will be happy to kill her to get their hands on it.

Meet Trisha.

She’s not quite a year older than Eclipse. She’s friendly, considerate, really good in school, athletic, does more than her share around the house. She’s also a persona. She has superspeed…an hour of housework in a minute. She flies, including from here to the next galaxy in an hour.

She also has a bit of a problem with her parents. They always treat her with complete contempt, totally grounded her, and won’t say why.

Her brother and sister are personas, too. Year-younger sister Janie is a budding world chess and go champion. She also reads minds, sees distant events, and can kill with a glance. Her twin brother Brian is incredibly good with tools, builds fantastic models from scratch, has a nearly unbreakable force field, and summons plasma beams that cut battleships in half.

Eclipse is Volume 1 of the This Shining Sea series. Volume 2, Airy Castles All Ablaze, will be a major rewrite of my much older novel This Shining Sea. There will be a Volume 3, Stand Against the Light, and a Volume 4, Of Breaking Waves, because Eclipse still needs to save Spindrift from having died.

Bovodar and the Bears
by Jack Mikkelson (Author), Mary MacArthur (Illustrator)

“And what would you do if two angry bears came pounding on your door, demanding that you hurry out to meet them?” That’s the dilemma for Bovodar Yarkery, who is confronted one day with a gathering of bears who wish to carry him off on their grand adventure. Across hazardous deserts, through caverns, and far up through the forests into the cold North, there stands Kalas Hall, home of an evil polar bear lord, King Valemod. The path is long, perilous, and uncertain, but if Bovodar & the Bears succeed in their mission, untold glory and riches can be theirs… but only if they can overcome the dangers that await them.

This is the complete story of Bovodar and the Bears. Readers can now read about the day Bovodar left his comfortable tree house and trace his journey all the way across the countryside to the journey’s end in the far northern land of Nixwild. Previously a serial, this release is the complete tale of Bovodar Yarkery’s first adventure away from home.

An illustrated version of this remarkably clever and imaginative YA fantasy is available for free on Arktoons.

Centrism Games
by Rachel Fulton Brown and the Dragon Common Room

Chivalry is dead. These knights want Fame. And Fama’s a witch.

Follow a band of very different Knights on their quest to become the most balanced, the most tolerant, the most compromising of everyone on the modern political spectrum.

Each knight dares to liberalize and conserve, but who will win the ultimate prize and stay safely in the centre?

A cautionary tale in heroic couplets modeled on Alexander Pope’s scathing 18th-century Dunciad.

Reviews:

Dr. Rachel Fulton Brown and her merry band of poets have compiled here a fun, pointed collection of verse through the very active Dragon Common Room Telegram chat. The whole point–as I gather it–is that rather than mucking about in the culture wars, we should be out _creating_ culture on our own.

_Centrism Games_ does just that. It’s wonderful to see these modern knights prove that the pen is, indeed, mightier than the sword.

This poem savagely rips the hearts out of political centrists and moral relativists, and makes them eat it.

Polite Christians and social Conservatives (so-called) will be offended at the prose in ‘Centrism Games’, justly so. Readers both Right and Left will be asking themselves “what would I be willing to do for glory in this world?”, and at each page realize the inglorious catastrophe of the politically correct, postmodern, subjective and relativistic dogmas that praise tolerance and liberty whilst hell is set loose all around us. Readers will be challenged to overcome their revulsion at the themes and language to see the great moral lesson of this modern-Dunciad: every ticket has a hidden price.

This is not a Boomer-friendly story.

Academic Magic
by Becky R. Jones

Zoe O’Brien has found her dream job at a small liberal arts college teaching the history of Medieval witchcraft and magic. Academic life is exactly what she expected it to be…until the squirrels stop by to talk with her and her department chair and best friend turn out to be mages.

Zoe discovers a world of magic and power she never knew existed. She and other faculty mages race to stop a coven from raising a demon on the winter solstice while simultaneously grading piles of final exams and reading the tortured prose of undergraduate term papers. Can Zoe master her new-found powers in time?

Holding the Line: Book One of The Long Watch
by Roy M. Griffis

“𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐛 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐠𝐨!”

“𝘼𝙬𝙚𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙮!”

𝐆𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐮𝐩 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝟏𝟖-𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫-𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐌𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫.

His mother had died so long ago, he could barely remember her. Now he lives with his alcoholic janitor father in the basement of the 150-year-old New Territorial Military Institute. Growing up at the prestigious, low-profile military academy, Danny had watched as the Territorial discretely provided a college education for the sons and daughters of politicians and royal families across the world, as well as the children of the rich and dysfunctional.

Beginning his freshman year at the Territorial on a “child of an employee” scholarship, Danny has a simple plan: graduate, leave behind his widowed drunk of a dad, and get the hell out of Wyoming.

That was before his home exploded. Before he met the sickly, spooky Tatiana who could See. Before the whispers in the night.

And that was before things got really weird.

“𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝐑𝐨𝐲 𝐆𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝. 𝐈𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐚 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐧𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐰𝐤𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩. 𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥, 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭. 𝐈’𝐦 𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐥!”

“𝑨 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒎𝒊𝒙 𝒐𝒇 𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒖𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆!”

“𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒅 𝒂𝒅𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑮𝒓𝒊𝒇𝒇𝒊𝒔’ 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒌 𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒊𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔.”

The Thing From HR: A Cthulhu, Amalgamated Memoir (The Cthulhu, Amalgamated Memoirs Book 1)
by Roy M. Griffis

“I was laughing audibly as I read it”

What Roy Griffis has done is apply a completely new and fresh perspective to the Cthulhu mythos. The Thing From HR is as snarky, humorous, darkly twisted view of the old ones. I struggle to say what genre this book fits into. Yes, there is the insanity generating horror you’d expect, but this novel is much more. Picture The Office meets Cthulhu, meets Scooby Doo. I was laughing, audibly, as I read it. It is witty, daring, and worthy of your time. - Blaine Pardoe, award-winning New York Times bestselling author

“A Cthulhian romp that’s equal parts Terry Pratchett and Mel Brooks… and it just might be the funniest novel I’ve ever read.” – Upstream Reviews

“I laughed far too much...you’ll enjoy dark humor, dry wit, slapstick moments, and elements of romantic comedy.” - Amazon 5-star review

Can a Bad Thing be a Good Guy?

Narg was content working as a Damnation Services-10 in HR. Sure, he was related to one of the Elder Gods, but a little nepotism never hurt any Thing. His life was just wailing and gibbering, right up until his Uncle needed a small favor from his nephew.

All Narg had to do was go down among the humans...and pretend to be one of them.

These are not your Grandfather’s tales of Eldritch Horror: this is the untold story of the ghastly, unappreciated (and entirely expendable) minor monstrosities that support the Inscrutable Plans Of Dark Gods And Elder Things Beyond The Knowledge Of Men.

The Cthulhu, Amalgamated series is a comic romp full of action and mystery, including, of course, Sanity-Shattering Horror––and that’s just the paperwork. Even H.P. could not conceive of the Corporate Terrors that await The Thing from HR.

“The Thing From HR is largely a bawdy, irreverent, horror-comedy, with all that entails. Lovecraft purists might object to that; but I would guess most readers will find it hilarious” - review by Berthold Gambrel

“Enjoyable Lovecraftian Romp –– There’s mystery, suspense, a touch of romance and body parts galore. You won’t regret getting this book. Highly recommended!”- Amazon 5-star review

“A wild and funny romp with horror and humor.”- Amazon 5-star review

The Sakura Element
by S.C. Vincent

When tradition means damnation, and the future is the past…

Alia Academia - school for the elite. Genetically modified Oka Latellay faces discrimination orchestrated by fellow student Allen Debois. Allen enforces a caste system by the Purveyors of Tradition, keeping modified people in the bottom rung of society. But Oka’s gumption inspires him to start a fencing tourney where everything is at stake. If she loses, her life in high society is over. But if she wins, so ends the bullying of all mods in the school.

Oka struggles with her fencing bouts and growing feelings for Allen as he reveals there is more to him than the cold cruelty he portrays. Simultaneously, Allen is torn between adoration for Oka and the Purveyors of Tradition influence. Choosing the former could risk his family’s wealth and good name.

Little do the two know how much their struggles intertwine when Allen’s friend begins to vie for Oka’s affections, and Allen finds himself blackmailed about his family’s past.

In a post-World War world where society functions on sleight of hand and discrimination, Oka and Allen must find the one thing that will save them. Love.

Ys The Fallen
by S.C. Vincent

She has a curse. He has scales.

The Kingdom of Ys has been cursed by the Devil, a mighty dragon who seeks celestial conquest. As Princess Dana, one of the last acolytes of a forgotten church, scours the Dracon Lands hoping to find help for her people, she stumbles upon a giant egg. A handsome man named Ru, who has supernatural abilities, breaks free from the shell.

They set forth on a journey to free Ys of the curses by slaying the Devil, all the while facing Dana’s evil sister and her insidious machinations. But before the apocalyptic battle begins, they first face their own inner turmoil. Ru confronts his relation to the dragon and his contradictory tendency towards good. Dana treads the line between love and lust as she struggles to remain moral in a fallen world.

Can the curses be broken? Or will their relationship be broken first? The bells of Ys must ring.

The fight for salvation begins now!

Schooled in Magic
by Christopher G. Nuttall

The first book in the bestselling Schooled in Magic saga, a fantastic combination of Harry Potter and Lest Darkness Fall, reissued for a new audience.

In another world, very different from ours and yet populated by people very much like us, a powerful necromancer casts a spell to bring him a Child of Destiny, with the intention of sacrificing the child for power. To his surprise, his spells brings him Emily, a lonely young girl from our world with a deep knowledge of history, a talent for magic, and a willingness to apply concepts from her old world to her new home. He prepares to sacrifice her anyway, only to watch helplessly as she is rescued at the last minute by another sorcerer and taken away.

For Emily, the shock of being kidnapped and nearly murdered is rapidly replaced by the awareness of being trapped in a world of magic; a world of powerful sorcerers and monarchs, and a magic school that can teach her the art but also a world of downtrodden magic-less commoners, unable to better themselves. As she comes to terms with her new life, and starts introducing concepts and innovations from her world, she starts to build a name for herself …

… And discovers, too late, that the sorcerer who snatched her from her world is still after her.

The Zero Blessing (The Zero Enigma Book 1)
by Christopher G. Nuttall

Caitlyn Aguirre should have been a magician.

Her family certainly expected her to be a magician.

But by the time she reached her twelfth birthday, Caitlyn hadn’t even managed to cast a single spell!

In desperation, her parents send her – and her magical sisters – to Jude’s Sorcerous Academy, her last best chance to discover her powers.

But as she struggles to survive her classes without a single spell to her name, Caitlyn starts to uncover an ancient mystery that may prove the key to her true powers …

… If she lives long enough to find it.

Answering The Human Question:
A Gnome’s Essays On Mankind
by The Brothers K

As the Elder Races debate upon humanity’s place in the world, a Gnome takes up the pen to tell Mankind’s story. His essays abridge a span of ten thousand years, observing Man’s rise from their stone age to the brilliant, terrifying present. This is a tale of strife, featuring the rise and fall of empires, ages of dark lords and heroes, and the birth of ingenuity amid bondage—and its consequences.

AGROTHARN the Interstellar Semi-Barbarian!
(Chronicles of AGROTHARN Book 1)
by Milo James Fowler

“I will bring your demise!”

Long ago, before the days of recorded history, during the Hyperbolean Age of a much younger Earth, AGROTHARN the Interstellar Semi-Barbarian roamed the ancient volcanic lands in search of fame and fortune. These are his somewhat heroic tales, sure to enthrall the most adventurous of readers!

When AGROTHARN learns that his long-lost witch-mother is still alive, he sets off on a perilous journey with his loyal triceratops to find her. Along the way, they meet a conniving trickster, a vengeful T-Rex, and a bunch of bloodthirsty aliens from a distant planet. Nonstop adventures take AGROTHARN deep into space and back through time as he unravels new truths about the reality he’s always taken for granted. What he discovers will forever change his life, setting him on a new path to rewrite the past and forge a glorious future for one and all!

BackTracker
by Milo James Fowler

Meet Harold Muldoon, the time-traveling detective.

Twenty years ago, a monk with a kodachi cut off his head. Now his wife Irena is desperately trying to find him. So is Gavin Lennox, power-hungry owner of The Pearl, the hottest night spot in all of NewCity. Cyrus Horton, an eccentric inventor, has also joined in the search. But what they’re really looking for is the BackTracker, a time travel device that has caused divergent realities to spiral out of control.

In one of them, Muldoon is still alive.

He was a private investigator, the best at what he did. He solved his cases 100% of the time. Hindsight is, after all, 20/20. And the BackTracker allowed him to change the past. But in the process, his travels through time have unraveled the universe, stretching, tearing the fabric of space-time and sending his own mind into oblivion. He can no longer distinguish between true and false memories; he no longer knows who he was.

BackTracker is about a hero dealing with the consequences of his actions. It’s about second chances. And it’s about what makes us human despite technology’s power to shape society. But at its core, it’s a story about a man and woman who won’t allow anything to keep them apart – not space-time, not even death.

Becoming A Druid: Book 1: Protectors of Pretanni
by Mike Mollman

Grahme has wanted to be a druid for as long as he can remember. Talented but headstrong, he runs afoul of a despotic, mind-controlling mage during his initiation quest. Intrigue and distrust have turned the druids against him. Haggard and hunted, he must make impossible sacrifices or lose everything.

Through the Lichgate
by Kyle Adams

Thana Ayers is a part-time necromancer, the undefeated defender of Green Grove Cemetery.

She commands small armies of the dead to repel worse abominations, and still manages club meetings, homework assignments, and church services.

It’s a balancing act, but hey, the dead don’t raise themselves. Right?

Thana’s act is turned on its head when a new breed of monster shows up.

He’s got necromantic powers and secrets she’s never seen before, but he’s not after the power of the gate.

He knows Thana’s name, and he’s coming for her.

The Rooster Rider
by Sean Valdrow (Author), Gail Louviere (Illustrator)

On the borderlands of Wales, the newly knighted Sir Thomas of Barley Mill Cross, astride his mighty warhorse Rooster, recklessly challenges an evil Witch. Through her black arts, the Witch gets the better of Sir Thomas and Rooster. In the aftermath of the encounter, Rooster is an actual rooster, and Thomas is left size of a child’s doll. Torn from their own world and cast down among the small creatures of forest and farm, they are drawn into a savage conflict...the vicious weasel clans are conquering all the small creatures.

The small creatures need a hero. Desperately.

Thomas and Rooster’s only wish is to be restored, the witch magic broken, to return to their old lives. But Thomas is a knight who will live or die by his Oath, and he will not turn his back on those in need. Finding his way among the small creatures, knight and steed make friends willing to die by their side in battle, and make enemies willing to sacrifice themselves to send Thomas and Rooster to their doom.

In the chaos of war, Thomas and Rooster must find a way to stop the weasel clans and their wicked allies in time to have the spells binding them undone. This must happen before the witch is executed for her crimes. But will they make it? Or will they be forever cursed in their altered states, to follow the Oath along a path unlike any a knight has ever travelled?

The Lives of Velnin: The Black Citadel: A fast-paced epic fantasy of swords, love, magic, and battles. (FREE!)
by Brian Heming

Swordfights. True Love. High Adventure. Epic Battles. Action. Magic. Reincarnation.

I was 17 years old when I died for the first time.

I parried the guard’s cut, feinted high, then swung Swelfalster, blade of the fallen star, low for a slash at his unarmored thigh. I scored, a line of blood dripping down his leg, and danced back before his counterstroke landed.

This is the chronicle of Velnin, Crown Prince of Tarmel, told through the dying words of his first incarnations. Vel is sent as a spy to the territory of the Black Citadel, investigating a newly rising power, the dark rumors surrounding it, and the fearsome might of its army: the Black Legion.

In his journey he encounters the charming Aloree, diplomat of the neighboring kingdom of Talore. Healer, magic-user, diplomat, bookworm, her beauty belies hidden secrets within her.

A fast-paced epic fantasy of swords, love, magic, and battles. Vel must protect the people of his kingdom, and make whatever sacrifices he must to end the horrors perpetuated by the Black Legion. But must he sacrifice true love itself for the sake of his people?

“You write action so well! I’m taking notes...” -Anthony Lee Phillips, author of Moonthread.
“Fast, Exciting Read! 5 stars.” -Alexander Scott, author of Mage: The Way of the Mark.
“This is very well written.” -Joseph L. Wiess, author of The Draoidh’s Cearcall and The LawKeeper Chronicles.

The Lives of Velnin: The Dark Empire: A fast-paced epic fantasy adventure of swords, love, magic, and battles

1.7 million enemy soldiers. One reincarnating prince. Who will win?

Swords. Love. Magic. Epic Battles. Reincarnation.

A year and a day after the death of his first incarnation, Prince Veldin rekindles his romance with the beautiful Princess Aloree, his first incarnation’s beloved widow. But these happy times are cut short as he is sent to repel the invasion of the Dark Empire: 1.7 million men, four thousand ships, all led by the Dark Empress Soraina, a beautiful maiden to whom the prince feels a mysterious but intense connection.

Stopping the invasion from destroying all he holds dear may cost him everything. To protect his people and triumph against impossible odds, must he sacrifice not just his lives, but even his love and his very soul?

Combining the most amazing battles in history with swords, love, and magic, The Dark Empire is sure to please fans of swords & sorcery, adventure romance, and military fiction alike. A fast-paced epic fantasy of swords, love, magic, and battles.

Praise for The Lives of Velnin:
“Incredibly fast-paced, with just enough romance thrown in to have you rooting for the characters immediately.” -Sam. M. Ridge, author of Swirls of Shadow
“Razor-sharp action at a blistering pace.” -Michael Gorman, author of Scions of the Tuatha Dé
“Fast, Fierce, and Full of Surprises” -Eva Everquill, author of The Storm Through the Tide

Book 3: The Lives of Velnin: Final Life: A fast-paced epic fantasy adventure of swords, love, magic, and battles
by Brian Heming is a New Arrival

The Warm Lands
by Francis Porretto

Gregor of Serebal, a journeyman sorcerer educated at the Scholium Arcanum in the East, is on a cross-continent trek through the Great Waste: the lifeless desert left by the Dieback that all but eliminated life from Aeol. He has been tasked to chart the courses of the major mana conduits of the continent. In the process he discovers that they have been diverted from their normal paths: Whereas they once flowed from north to south, they now flow from east to west. While there is no obvious explanation for their diversion, they appear to flow directly toward Pontreval, where the Scholium Arcanum in the West is situated.

Laella of Anam is a gifted one: a potential sorcerer not yet trained to the disciplines that would make it safe to practice. Yet the mana has already touched her to ill effect. It has made her a virgin mother, to the horror of her family and neighbors. The ruler of her village has executed her infant son, and the infant children of three other women similarly afflicted, when Gregor arrives in Anam.

Mutual admiration brings them together. Once mated, they travel further west through the Great Waste in pursuit of Gregor’s errand. But though his intent was to walk all the way across the continent, charting the mana streams as he traveled, events will force them to return to Urel, the site of the Scholium Arcanum in the East where Gregor was made an initiate of the Arcana. There he and Laella will confront mysteries the sorcerers of the Scholium cannot unravel. Beneath those mysteries lies a threat to the life of Aeol that will demand all that Gregor, Laella, and their colleagues have to give.

Pandemonia
Johnson Riggs

“Hierophantic. A sprawling work of unparalleled breadth and brilliance. Few writers living or otherwise have reached such heights in the field of wizard-inclusive speculative fiction. Perhaps the most dangerous work of the 21st century. A swashbuckling indictment of the American nightmare. I’m literally shaking.”
- Phil Rot, author of The Raft

“Thanks to this writer’s unbound imagination and relentless wit, modern politics can be enjoyed for what it actually is: a grand farce with, possibly, a silver lining or two. If you’re looking, as we all are, for that elusive perfect balance between Animal Farm and Spaceballs, this book is for you.“
- Matthew Louis, founding editor of Gutter Books, Gallows Humor Magazine, & Vigilante Crime. Author of The Wrong Man & Roots Down to Hell

High Fantasy. Low Morale. Farts.

Knight Captain Pickle never meant to start a revolution. He just asked the wrong questions. Once the brine of the King’s Court, he has been jettisoned from Service. Now, he’s on a mythic quest to purify the swampy capital of Quagmerica, where a novel miasma has infected both body and state.

The Kingdom is in chaos: a sinister court physician has unleashed a demonic plague and the burger-chomping warlord-king governs like a pro-wrestler. Pickle’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer. But he has a really cool sword and he knows how to use it. Unfortunately, that’s about it. Fortunately, he has some reinforcements: a disgraced alchemist, a rogue airship pilot, and his wife, a master of opticks, to help him hunt down some relics, battle terrorists, chase dragons, and purify the realm.

Pandemonia is a satirical fantasy quest through deserts, swamps, jungles, and bureaucratic hellscapes. Part epic quest, part political farce, part redemption story. For fans of Discworld, Bored of the Rings, Vox Machina, The Adventure Zone, and also farts, this is your next heroic disasterpiece.

Legends of Atlameria: Harbinger of Worlds End
by J.R. Cason

There exists a fine line between truth and legend, in the heart of Atlameria.

Following an encounter in a deadly forest, two unlikely souls must join as one—or perish alone. Outcast shape-changer, called Ursakar by his people; Thorn struggles to understand the mysteries of his shadowed past while bearing the burden of an even more uncertain future. Meanwhile, the huntress tasked with the execution of his kind, Keira is forced to question the nature of her mission and whether those of her ruling order are as noble as they appear. Past and present soon collide with the discovery of a relic both ancient and prophetic in design.

Drums of war resound from the north, yet the two find themselves beset by a far greater threat near at hand—the same darkness that prompted the downfall of those who dwelt amongst these lands long ago. Against an enemy all but forgotten to the sands of time, even the unlikeliest of allies will prove better than none. A harbinger of the end approaches, but only those with the eyes to see can forestall its inevitability.

Valengetrix: Ghost of Aratania
by J.R. Cason

In the savage realm of Auropia, lurks a ghost in the form of a man. Valengetrix, exiled from his mysterious homeland, seeks redemption in the eyes of his people as he sets out to retrieve lost relics of the once renowned empire of Aratania. Accompanied by a sentient blade, forged from the soul of an ancient warrior of his race, Valengetrix begins to understand that the price for returning home must be paid in blood and treasure.

Along his travels, the young Aratanian soon learns that though he shares no affinity to the gods of this realm, he is instead guided by his desire to live up to those who came before him. With the aid of his ancestral blade, and the various peoples of this world he encounters along the way, the name of Valengetrix becomes a name widely revered by his allies, and feared by his many adversaries.

Exotic lands, dreadful foes and untold secrets abound in the world of Auropia. Explore them all in this short story series set nearly two millennia before the events in the Legends of Atlameria: Harbinger of World’s End novel.

Excerpt from “Blood in the Snow”

The burly, pillar of a man by the name of Kaleva, towered head and shoulders above the Aratanian, though he himself stood taller than most men. A broad, two-handed hammer he wore upon his back, and snow coated his fiery beard in white as he turned to observe his guest’s arrival. The look on his face indicated he had his doubts on whether the Aratanian would show, considering his apparent lack of accustomedness to the cold and the knowledge that he’d spent the night in the warm embrace of the lovely barmaid from the local tavern. Turns out the stranger was serious after all.

“Morning to you,” said the Fyrstian with a powerful voice befitting his hulking frame. “Sure you’re up for this, Aratanian? Gets a lot colder than this where we’re going.”

Val nodded in return before taking a deep breath of the frigid northern air and looking about. “I’ve been everywhere from the impassible mountains of Aratania to the snake-riddled jungles of Oskhari and the burning deserts of Mar-Es-Hai in between. I think I’ll manage.”

“Ha, I like your attitude stranger. However, I suggest you prepare yourself before we leave. There are creatures here in the north, known to take more than just a man’s life.”

Valengetrix: Lion of Auropia
by J.R. Cason

Exile, fortune-hunter, champion. Valengetrix thunders across the lands of Auropia in the pursuit of fame and glory, seeking answers to questions most dare to imagine. With the aid of an ancestral spirit bound within an ancient blade; his story is written in the blood of his enemies and emblazoned upon the hearts of his allies.

In this serial adventure sequel to Valengetrix: Ghost of Aratania, explore the wilds of Auropia from the mountain forests of Tekkar to the uncharted depths of the Netherchasm and beyond. Dangers abound, where lost civilizations become the haunt of perilous foes, guarding untold riches. Bloodied sword meets diabolical sorcery, and the shining kingdoms of Auropia are caught in its wake.

To survive, one must become more than just a man, but a lion amongst men.

Excerpt from “The Good King’s War (Part 1)”

Valengetrix: Titan of the Isle
by J.R. Cason

The kingdom of Leongard—shining symbol of peace and prosperity for a thousand years—is under siege and lies upon the brink of ruin. War is set to plunge the world into a firestorm of chaos and blood. The newly resurrected empire of Aratania marches at the behest of their cunning and power-hungry emperor, seeking to consolidate the free kingdoms of Auropia under its iron boot. Behind the throne, however, lies a hidden and malevolent force.

One man stands resolute in the face of utter destruction. Valengetrix, warrior commander of the armies of Leongard, must endure the trials of war on land and over sea, from the horrors of necromantic sorcery, to the might of the emperor’s fleet. Marooned upon a treacherous isle with the princess whose kingdom he swore to defend, together they must endeavor to survive the elements, the monstrous creatures that inhabit the island, and the pervasive threat of a sinister and bloodthirsty cult.

From the highest peaks of the lush green mountains to the dark depths below the ruins of a long dead city, they embark upon a quest that will test their limits and push them both to the very edge of their endurance. Sword and sorcery meets spear and fang in a harrowing tale of adventure and survival upon a ravenous isle.

Against the primal terrors lurking beneath the jungle canopy and the shadows that creep over eldritch stones, only the stout of heart and iron of will can hope to overcome such trials—only a titan amongst men.

Titan of the Isle is part three in the continued saga of Valengetrix, exiled warrior of Aratania.

Valengetrix: Slayer of Nameless Shadow
by J.R. Cason

The empire of Aratania continues its shadow of tyranny across the western realm of Auropia.

Following an attack on the peaceful city of Caelshara, warrior exile and former commander to the kingdom of Leongard, Valengetrix becomes embroiled once more in the conflict raging like wildfire over the world. Charged with the retrieval of a timeless artifact that could turn the tide of war in their favor, Val sets out from the southern lands of Atlameria with his sentient blade, and an expedition force to tread the uncharted wilds of that ancient and mysterious realm.

Joined by familiar and unexpected allies, their quest will pit them against the dark heart of an unspeakable forest, and the haunted expanse of a battlefield lost in the throes of perpetual war. There, the object of their quest lies behind a tower of eldritch stone, shrouded in secrecy for ten thousand years.

Against the terrors of the night and the all-consuming darkness that looms over Atlameria, a slayer of shadow emerges.

Merging Sword & Sorcery adventure with Lovecraftian horror, Valengetrix: Slayer of Nameless Shadow is part four in the continued saga of Valengetrix, exiled warrior of Aratania.

Fire From Ashes (Fires of an Empire Saga Book 1)
by Jessica Barberi

After a near death encounter, a young deserter named Ciran is left with a choice to once again redirect the events of his life. Haunted by the choices of his past he makes the decision to try and run from them, in hopes to find true freedom and liberation on the other side of a mountain.

He never believed the stories of dragons he was told as a child, that was until he found himself standing face to face with one. This chance encounter once again changes the course of his journey, and Crian finds that there is no escape from the past.

Join Ciran on his adventure as he learns what it means to be the author of your fate and true to your heart in a world that seeks to convince you that these things are outside of your reach.

Waves of a Tempest (Fires of an Empire Saga Book 2)
by Jessica Barberi

The Emperor of Perinthia rules with an iron fist. Young boys are torn from their families at just ten years old, forced into military conscription. Soldiers are forbidden from marrying, while only the Emperor’s loyal officers and nobility are permitted wives. Beliefs outside the greatness of the throne have been brutally crushed - temples burned, devotees killed or enslaved. Yet a glimmer of hope persists in secret.

Roshin grew up an orphan on the docks of the southern port city of Ancalah. Taken in by a sister of the faith of Hulen Ahir, she was trained in the healing arts, as well as the forbidden truths of the old religion. Traveling the country as a healer, Roshin has witnessed the Empire’s oppressive degradation of the social order. But the reality hits home when she and her companions are seized and sold into bondage.

With her world consumed by darkness, Roshin clings to the faith’s prophecy - that light will come on the back of a dragon, when a destined rider rises again to crush the Empire’s tyranny. And now, it seems that rider has arrived.

Crimsonfall Reapers
by Jordan Brooks Hill

“An array of other-worldly ghastly beings make this a wonderfully entertaining story...” Publishers Weekly reviewer, BookLife

One of five semifinalists for the YA BookLife Prize.

New York, 1895 (Victorian, Steampunk, Fantasy Adventure)
A bloody ghost is haunting Brooklyn, disrupting travel and terrorizing factory workers. It seems like a routine call for Genie and Hans, rookie reapers in a ghost-hunting guild, but the job is far more dangerous than they realize.

While exploring a dank tunnel, Genie’s sparkwork is damaged—a complicated web of tethers woven through her muscles, tissue, and bones that provide superhuman speed and strength. Hans, who also has the implants, knows that they can only be repaired in Chinatown, and they have to get there now before the commander at the guild finds out.

In a dimly lit shop smelling of herbs and spices, elderly Dr. Soon restores Genie to full strength. But as she and Hans hurry away through cramped, winding streets, they are stopped. The leader of the Dragonfly Brotherhood makes an offer they cannot refuse—a rare vial of demon essence that will help them subdue the ghost they want—in exchange for a fight-to-submission (or death, whichever comes first) with a battle-clanker prototype.

The Mantis is the biggest clanker Genie and Hans have ever seen in a combat arena. It rises on metal legs, rattling as steam pours from its pipe antennae. Two rows of tesla cells crackle madly along its carapace while not one but two pilots wrestle with controls. An announcer screams into his speaking trumpet, “FIGHT!” The crowd howls for blood. Will Genie and Hans live long enough to hunt the ghost they seek?

Read the Sample to taste more supernatural thrills and chills in this award-nominated story.

Chloe’s Kingdom: The Koin Vault Heist
by Gregory Michael

Six Motivated Thieves. One Deadly Heist.

Chloe Espinoza is a wild-haired petty thief aboard the Kingdom, a drifting city spaceship. Once rich but now poor, Chloe is determined to break free from the Honeycombs and return to her life in the Gardens. Only one problem: she hardly has enough koin for a burrito, making a lavish apartment seem as distant as the stars. All that might change, however, when Chloe is offered a heist that could make her unimaginably rich. But she can’t break into the impenetrable Koin Vault alone…

A young mastermind who can’t let go of her past.

A mathematical genius in desperate need of koin.

A privileged kid from the Gardens with a debt to pay.

A bartender who’s serving revenge.

A mischievous raccoon with a bottomless appetite.

A battered soul who’s been wronged by the council.

Gone are the days of stealing snacks. Chloe’s crew is aiming for the ultimate prize: the Koin Vault. Their plan? To rob the Treasury and bring down the corrupt council. But in a game where the stakes are jail or death, every move could be their last.

A thrilling Young Adult Science Fiction Heist novel set in the unforgiving void of outer space, perfect for fans of ‘Six of Crows’ by Leigh Bardugo and ‘Artemis’ by Andy Weir.

Blessings and Trials (Exiles and Sojourners Book 1)
by Thomas Davidsmeier (Author)

Words of Praise

“Loved it - a fantastic debut. Davidsmeier plunges us into a strange and compelling world of myth and magic, keeping you reading into the wee hours of the morning. Five stars!” - David The Good, Best Selling Amazon Author

As other men bow to evil, Sojourners stand and fight.

They are the last lights shining in a dark world ruled by Heaven’s Exiles.

Against the Fallen World

A Sojourner settlement is attacked by Exile fallen angels and their monstrous minions. Three young friends are separated from their families. Now the soldier’s son Litharus, loving and kind Ingrid, and precocious Gwendolyn must set out together to find their parents. Even though the whole world seems to be aligned against them, they have a secret advantage. Each of these young Sojourners has a special magical Blessing. Are these magical talents enough to escape the Exiles hunting them and help them finally find safety in their parents’ arms?

Epic Christian Fantasy and Adventure

The intertwined tales in Blessings and Trials span generations and cross seas and continents. They are woven into a world full of dragons, demons, and angels that has been shaped by the currents of magical powers throughout its history. But like the works of JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis that inspired it, this novel is an authentic story of Faith, Hope, and Love battling the forces of Evil.

Openings: A LitRPG Adventure
(The Divided Lands Book 1)
by Thomas Davidsmeier

WARNING: This is a Epic LitRPG book with Christian themes. Game rules and mechanics play a huge role in the story, and so do the beliefs of the characters. If you don’t like battle moves, player powers, multiple players’ perspectives, and stats described in text, you might not like this book. If you don’t like Christianity, you might have a problem with it. Actually the story is pretty awesome, so you’ll probably like it anyway. But, you’ve been warned!

Different Paths Chris and Jeremy have played games together as long as they can remember. Blindsided by tragedies and struggles as they grew up, they have each responded differently. Chris endured loss and heartache, trying to keep his head and heart up the whole time. Jeremy suffered betrayal sank into darkness. When Jeremy decides to get revenge on the world, Chris stands up to stop him. Powerful forces take notice.

A Supernatural Offer In a crowded school cafeteria, time stops on the brink of tragedy. An angel and a demon appear with a very special offer. Chris, Jeremy, and some of their friends can settle their dispute in a game the size of a world.

A World Made For Battle The Divided Lands is a gameworld created by teams of souls from both Heaven and Hell. Famous authors and game designers contributed on both sides. For volunteers to play NPCs, they have plumbed the depths of Hell and reached to the heights of Heaven. The game is part RPG and part civilization building. Six lands with home bases for each player connect to a natural arena land in the middle. Here, Chris and Jeremy will lead their armies to decide the fate of their classmates back in the crowded cafeteria.

Who Will Win? Will Jeremy Rogers finish his tragic attack on their school, or can Christopher McKnight stop him?

Saga of the Swordbreaker
by Kit Sun Cheah

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Li Ming is a small-town boy with big dreams.

In the era of the Five States and Ten Corporations, the immortals of the jianghu stand head and shoulders above the masses. Li Ming aspires to join their ranks.

But the world of the rivers and lakes is fraught with peril. Deception and danger lurk in the shadows. Bloodthirsty beasts roam the wilds. Martial cultivators constantly battle for wealth, glory and status.

Armed with his ancestral swordbreaker, Li Ming enters the jianghu as a biaohang, eager to deliver justice with steel and magic—and to chase the dream of immortality.

But first, he must prove himself worthy.

Author’s Note: This series is not a power fantasy. There are no LitRPG / GameLit elements, no unconventional relationships, and no sexual content. It is, quite simply, a cultivation story—in the actual sense of the term.

Diary of A Bomoh
by Kit Sun Cheah

In a quiet neighbourhood in Singapore, a body is found inside a locked apartment.

Tasked with identifying the deceased, Inspector Ibrahim has his work cut out for him.

With no identity documents at the scene, and no neighbours who remember the resident, his only clue is a set of diaries written in English, Malay and Arabic.

Partnering with Station Inspector Jafri, Ibrahim translates the diaries. They discover the story of a bomoh, a traditional Malay shaman.

It is a story of sorcery and occultism, vice and sin, madness and damnation.

But the diaries won’t give up their secrets so easily.

A terrible evil lurks within their pages.

And now, it is awake.

Dungeon Samurai Vol.1: Kamikaze (An Anti-LitRPG Dungeon Crawl)
by Kit Sun Cheah

Yamada Yuuki is an ordinary college student with an extraordinary hobby: the classical martial art of Kukishin-ryu.

Until one fateful day when a demon rips through the fabric of space-time, abducts everyone in his dojo, and transports them to another world.

To return home, Yamada and his friends must join forces with other displaced humans to conquer the dungeon that runs through the heart of the world. Standing in their way are endless hordes of bloodthirsty monsters and countless traps. Armed only with steel, faith and guts, they must battle their way through the winding catacombs to confront the demon waiting at the bottom floor.

Yamada was once a student. Now he must become a samurai.

Sheepskin, Volume 1: From the Records of Dr. John T. Parce
by John Parce

Dr. Parce is missing.

A desperate investigator is publishing the documents Dr. Parce left behind. The first record details the psychologist’s treatment of the mysterious Patient #307.

The patient, calling himself “Snapper,” reveals his past to Dr. Parce. Snapper claims to hail from an alternate world populated by animals. The interviews, essays, and drawings given by Snapper weave an extraordinary coming-of-age tale about oppressed sheep, corporate pigs, and the search for a primitive power lurking deep inside the earth. Snapper’s bizarre world is rife with loss, love, and an ancient strength he must find in himself if his people are to survive.

As Dr. Parce is drawn in by Snapper’s fantastical story, his skepticism wears thin. How far did he allow himself to be entangled in this patient’s delusions? The investigator may be left wondering which one of them has truly lost their grip on reality.

Songless: The Desert
by Heidi Hill

Set in a realm not unlike the Old West, Songless is a tale of love, hate, and redemption. Part high fantasy, part romance, Songless explores the borderlands of faith and the sometimes torturous path we travel before we turn to love. And to God. A High Fantasy, A Western Romance, A Soul’s Awakening. We go dark, so we can find the light.

The House that Jack Built: A Songless Novella is a New Arrival

Thanesman: The Thanesman Chronicles Book 1
by V. A. Boston

Betrayal. Brotherhood. Romance.

To the half-fae Asgradi, loyalty is the chieftain of virtues. When the unthinkable happens and his own council betrays him, High Thane Witheric responds with the even more unthinkable: seeking help from the inferior race of humankind. With only his closest friend and right hand man, his Thanesman Restag, at his side, Thane and Thanesman risk the coming winter, the monsters of their wild Northlands, and their own people’s blood wars, racing south for sanctuary.

Will they reach help or fall to their brutal lands?
And if they do survive, what future awaits them in the human-ruled south?

Find out in the first book in The Thanesman Chronicles.

Fairy Door
by V. A. Boston

It only took one word: Deal.

After years of neglect from her father, Eibhlin has had enough.

But when a purse of infinite gold, a fairy, and a trade shatter what little relationship she has with her father, she resolves to set things right.

Aided by a magic compass and a talking instrument, she now seeks three magic keys and their magic doors to find the fairy once again and recover what was lost.

She broke their relationship.

Now, she’ll brave the Fae to fix it. If she can get there.

From the fantasy tradition of The Chronicles of Prydain and The Hobbit comes a tale of love and redemption perfect for fans of all ages.

Prospero Lost (Prospero’s Children Book 1)
by L. Jagi Lamplighter (Author)

Shakespeare got one thing wrong. The Dread Magician Prospero never drowned his books.
More than four hundred years later, Miranda heads the family business. Prospero Inc secretly uses magic for the good of mankind. Only, now, Prospero has gone missing!
To save her father, Miranda must reunite with her estranged siblings, each of whom holds a staff of power and secrets about Miranda’s sometimes-foggy past. Her journeys, both past and present, take her to Chicago, the Caribbean, Milan, Washington, D.C., and the North Pole.
With her is her trusty company gumshoes, Mab, an aerie spirit stuck in a body that looks like Humphrey Bogart. Together, they must survive the mysterious Shadowed Ones if they hope to find Prospero and set all to right again.
Humor, mystery, wonder.

“Intelligent and eminently enjoyable, this series opener by a first-time author is a first-rate choice for fans of mythic urban fantasy.” – Library Journal (starred review)

The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin
(The Books of Unexpected Enlightenment) (Volume 1)
by L. Jagi Lamplighter

Roanoke Academy for the Sorcerous Arts – A magic school like no other!

Nestled amidst the beauty of New York’s Hudson Highlands and hidden from the eyes of the Unwary, Roanoke Academy is a place of magic and wonder. It offers everything a young sorceress could desire—enchantments, flying brooms, and the promise of new friendships.

On her first day of school, Rachel Griffin discovers her perfect memory gives her an unexpected advantage. With it, she can see through the spell sorcerers use to hide their secrets. Very soon, she discovers that there is a far-vaster secret world hiding from the Wise, precisely the same way that the magical folk hide from the mundane folk.

When someone tries to kill a fellow student, she investigates. Rushing forward where others fear to tread, Rachel bravely faces wraiths, embarrassing magical pranks, mysterious older boys, a Raven that brings the doom of worlds, and at least one fire-breathing teacher.

Described by fans as: “Supernatural meets Narnia at Hogwarts”, The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin is a tale of wonder and danger, romance and heartbreak, and, most of all, of magic and of a girl who refuses to be daunted.

Curiosity may kill a cat, but nothing stops Rachel Griffin!

For Steam And Country - A Steampunk Fantasy (The Adventures of Baron Von Monocle Book 1)
by Jon Del Arroz

The world’s only airship is hers to command!

Can she save her kingdom from destruction?

Zaira Von Monocle is called upon to take command of the legendary airship, Liliana, to help stave off the evil Wyranth Empire’s recent advances. The Wyranth’s army creeps ever closer, ravaging towns and villages along Rislandia’s border. To make matters worse, the enemy invaders have tapped into supernatural forces with incredible destructive power.

But Zaira is a simple farm girl, raised away from the excitement of her adventurer father’s life of airships and gadgets. Before he disappeared, he tried to shelter her from the dangers of the world, and their family’s ties to the worst of tyrants, the Iron Emperor of the Wyranth.

Zaira must grow up quickly and learn to become a leader before she loses the life her father tried to build for her.

Readers who love a swashbuckling airship adventure with high-stakes action will love the first book in this #1 Bestselling YA Steampunk series.

Buy For Steam And Country today!

Echoes of Memory
by M. Anthony Harris

If you can’t trust your memories, what can you trust?

This question gnaws at Aris Ravenscroft after foreign memories invade his mind and nearly get him killed during an assassination attempt on the Emperor, a hero beloved by all. A hero he’s sworn to protect.

Kestrel, a street-smart orphan, also finds his mind filled with memories that aren’t his. Memories that say that his world is nothing like it seems.

Now the duo must make sense of the alien memories while unraveling the mystery of the Emperor’s true colors while dodging attempts on their lives by the mysterious Inquisitors, crooked politicians, and a host of dangers in a world where the greatest villain is the biggest hero.

The Ghost Bride: An Alister Cain Short Story
by M. Anthony Harris
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Alister Cain, a haunted occult crimes consultant, is plagued by chilling visions of a blood-soaked woman screaming for help.

Teaming up with Detective Steve Zhang, Alister dives into a treacherous world where the Chinese Mafia’s dark rituals intertwine with ancient supernatural forces. Their hunt leads them to a sinister plot: the woman from Alister’s dreams is destined to become a Ghost Bride, a sacrificial pawn in a macabre union with a fallen crime lord.

As they face shapeshifting fox demons and vengeful spirits, Alister and Steve must race against time to save her from a gruesome end.

This prequel short story is perfect for fans of supernatural crime and unrelenting suspense.

Bloodletting (Alister Cain Book 1)
by M. Anthony Harris

Exsanguination. It’s a word Alister Cain is all too familiar with, and one he dreads.
When a case where the victim was found drained of blood falls on his desk, the Occult Crimes Consultant finds himself in the sights of a violent UFO cult with ties to an ancient deity.

The cult is desperate to find their way back into its good graces, and with supernatural assassins in tow, they’ll kill any who get in the way of their dark ritual.

The Road to Hel (Sean’s Saga Book 1)
by Eric Tanafon

Sean here. When wolf-riding trolls attack our house, my sister Fiona and I find out the hard way that we’re destined to be heroes. That goes for our friends Arturo and Parvati, too. Next thing we know, we’re all enrolled in the last hero school on Midgard (that’s hero speak for ‘Earth’). In fact, we’re the entire final freshman class.

It’s not all bad. We get to go to school on an enchanted island. The girls get to ride flying horses, Arturo gets to go berserk, and I get to learn more about swordfighting than I ever wanted to know. We also get our own personal bard who sings our praises in deathless...well, verse that you wish would die, but it won’t.

You’d think we’d also get to save the world. But as it turns out, there are about a million prophecies guaranteeing that Ragnarok is right around the corner and the world is literally toast, so all we get to do is die (heroically, of course).

In the meantime, our mom winds up in Hel while trying to rescue our dad from, believe it or not, an even worse place. And for some reason even Odin won’t explain, we’re the only ones who can bring them back.

Well, that takes care of summer vacation. I can’t wait for the school year to start.

The Well of Time: Sean’s Saga Book 2
by Eric Tanafon

Hey, it’s Sean again. It’s time for midterms at Runnymede, and since that includes a Bardic contest where the prize is a taste of the gods’ magic mead, it’s a pretty good bet that the school year will be even busier than summer vacation. Especially since a traitor Bard is helping the enemies of the gods rewrite history, so Ragnarok will be over before it even begins. When you need a team of heroes and Valkyries for a hopeless quest where you need to think up cool names for all the alternate timelines just so you can keep them straight, who are the gods going to call? Spoiler: me, Fiona, Parvati and Arturo. And the first thing on our to-do list is: Rescue Loki.

Robin Hood: Wolf’s Head
by Eric Tanafon

A hermit finds an outlaw, who gives his name only as John, dying at the forest’s edge. He nurses John back to health and in return, John tells him Robin Hood’s true story. Cursed by chance, he hunts the King’s deer as a wolf when the full moon rises, and leads a pack of shape-changers like himself who worship the goddess of the woodlands. He wins Marian’s love when she escapes prison, shoots in the great archery contest where the prize is a werewolf-killing silver arrow, struggles with the vengeful Sheriff of Nottingham and the berserker Guy of Gisbourne, and at last dies...only to be reborn.

But one question remains—who is John, and what dark enemy still watches him from the forest, waiting for a chance to strike?

Dragon Scales: And Other Tales
by Eric Tanafon

New twists on folklore older than the hills. Romances natural. artificial, and supernatural. Dragons and ghosts. Unicorns of more than one sort. Enchanted forests and disenchanted princesses. Fourteen stories, a fortnight of new worlds; and just possibly, a touch of the eternal fire that some say will end all the worlds, real or imagined.

The Fall of Tartaria [Print Replica]
by Michael Finney

The Fall of Tartaria by Michael Finney is a short story that takes place in an alternative reality to bring the Tartarian Empire to life on the page in word and image.

Ominous warnings are emerging from various factions within the empire but will they remain unheeded?

Also available in a short film!

Anunnaki: Origin of Sumeria [Print Replica]
by Michael Finney

The ancient civilization of Sumeria has an origin connected to the mysterious Anunnaki. How did the people of the land between the rivers in Mesopotamia rise to prominence? Discover the truth…

Film version at this link, FREE!

Relic of the Aztecs [Print Replica]
by Michael Finney

In a world where two civilizations collide, the Aztec Empire is in turmoil as they face invasion from an advanced people. Their Emperor, Tzontettica Yaotl, has heard rumors about an artifact that may be their only chance to turn the tide of the impending battle, but its location is uncertain and it might be lost among the abandoned ruins of Coliniacahuitlco.

Facing insurmountable odds and potential annihilation, one man is chosen by the Emperor to embark on a dangerous mission. Can the chosen explorer return with the relic in time and preserve the empire?

Readers are transported into a vibrant world of alternative fictional history. This captivating tale weaves together elements of tradition and imagination, exploring themes of identity, community, and the power of the human spirit in the face of adversity.

Shoot the Devil: Ten Tales of Humans Defeating the Demonic
by N.R. LaPoint (Author), Steven G. Johnson (Author), James Pyles (Author), L. Jagi Lamplighter (Author), Daniel Humphreys (Author), Declan Finn (Author), Russell Newquist (Author), John C. Wright (Author), Corey Comstock (Author), Michael Gallagher (Author)

Ten of superversive’s finest team up to bring you tales from a serial killer’s basement, to the weird west, to the average small town, all featuring “mostly” ordinary men and women fighting back against the forces of darkness.

Shoot the Devil 2: Dark Matter
Declan Finn, James Pyles, L. Jagi Lamplighter, Michael Gallagher, N.R. LaPoint, Steve Johnson, Aaron Van Treeck, TJ Marquis, Frank Luke, Trevor Denning

Welcome back to a world filled with horrors beyond count. A world where madmen fly across galaxies chasing forbidden power and ancient evil seeks to infect and eradicate all life. A world filled with heroes ready and willing to fight the darkness. To raise the crucifix and the blaster rifle to send the evil straight back to hell.

Shoot the Devil 3: Militia of Martyrs
by Frank Luke, James Pyles, Steve Johnson, Xavier Basora, Jaime Faye Torkelson, Shannon T. Baker, Joseph L. Kellogg, Dan Gainor, Jason J McCuiston, Nicholas Wolf

Once again, we bring you tales of horror, adventure, and shooting the devil! Preferably in the face. This one is loaded with tales of the average fire fighter, to simple pastors, space vikings and more with one thing in common - coming face to face with supernatural evil and sending it packing.

If you have read the previous installments of the Shoot the Devil series, you will recognize some names, while others are brand new to the fold. That was our focus this time around, giving unknown and unestablished authors a chance to flex their muscle and show off their skill. And skill they have. The talent and imagination on display is extremely impressive and Crucifixion Press is extremely proud to welcome them all to the Militia!

How Black the Sky: A Heavy Metal Pulp Adventure (Hero’s Metal – Heavy Metal Pulp Adventures Book 1)
by T.J. Marquis

How Black the Sky

A young spellsword looking to prove his mettle stumbles on news of imminent doom. Falling in with legendary warriors from the Overland, Pierce heralds the coming attack from the hollow earth below.

His new friends are Gorgonbane. Once mercenaries, now heroes, they are the only thing standing between Overland and the horrid Monstrosities of the Underlord. His lust for power has reached its peak, but the coming invasion may not be exactly what it seems…

Pierce – a brash young man with rare blessings of strength and really bad news.

Axebourne – the fatherly berserker with infectious laughter.

Scythia – calm and motherly, her Circlet of Knowing reveals secrets.

Agrathor – a mighty spearman with an electric personality and a terrible skin condition.

Ess – Second only to the First Great Master of Convergent Reality Theory. Mysterious and alluring.The Hero’s Metal universe:

The world of Chasmgard is a place with endless secrets and a strange cosmology. A deep red sun crawls across a canvas of black, and nobody remembers why. Landlocked by a depthless Chasm, Overland and the Underlands have always vied for power and land. In How Black the Sky, we join a band of legendary warriors who may just be at the end of an age.

Living in Times of Dragons (The Remnant King Book 1)
by John A Pretorius

“...as with everything in my life, all this began with dreams...”

American ex-pat, father and widower, Roger Rommel, did not believe in dragons. Unfortunately, they did not return the sentiment.

After returning from a self-imposed exile to his adopted country of South Africa, Roger is confronted by these legendary fire-breathing reptiles who risked exposing their hidden world simply to hunt him. Gifted with the ability to create and enter dreams, as well as to see the future, he tries to survive and protect his son from enemies he does not understand. But the past is alive, and he finds himself linked to a conflict thousands of years old.

The world he knew is now stranger, more fantastic and terrifying than he truly knew, especially when everyone is out to get you.

The Tangles of Old Sins (The Remnant King Book 2)
by John Pretorius

“The past isn’t dead
It is very much alive.
It holds the cards, the accounts,
and it knows when to pass judgement...”

Two years have passed with Roger in slow isolation from the world, carefully preparing for a mission into enemy territory that could shake alliances and wreck treaties, but also has the potential to aid the Earth and allies from an enemy no-one understands.

But his son is coming with him, as well as old enemies turned allies. But can he finish this journey when his very soul and being is targeted?

Praise for Living in Times of Dragons

“Raw, bizarre... the story roars ambitiously from the veldt of South Africa to the jungles of Central America- tapping into pathos that pushes human endurance, blowing open a gateway to a vast, fantastical milieu for full-fledged fandom.”
- Lorehaven

“Pretorius gives us a really beautfil breed of dragon. The descriptions are fascinating and evocative. There are five “raves,” each with its own physical characteristics and abilities... The development of the individual dragons’ personalities and relationships is very enjoyable to observe.
- Geeks under Grace

“Pretorius writes with an interesting style and the book has some great flourishes including a map, some visuals and font play which I’m a fan of, so grab the paperback if you have a chance. Overall, if you’re looking for a modern dragon fantasy - this is a solid addition to the genre that brings new thinking to the party-”
- Matt Adcock, Author of ‘Complete Darkness’

3 Black Nights: An Urban Fantasy Horror Triple Feature!
by T.J. Marquis

Three tales of pitch black nights!

Sometimes the world drops out from underneath your feet.
Sometimes the night takes a turn, and things are never the same.
And sometimes, you follow a dark road and discover far more than you bargained for.

From a Man with a Van traversing a world gone to hell, to a midnight delivery for a death-drinking fae, to a descent into a power greater than madness, these three tales will take you deep into the night ... but will you make it through?

Dawn of Chaos: (Sanctum of the Archmage,
Volume One)
by Tony Andarian

It wasn’t the demons that truly frightened her. It was the woman she would have to become to fight them.

Dawn of Chaos: Full Trilogy Edition (Includes Prologue to Chaos, Hell Gate, and Aftermath)

A new constitution prepares Carlissa for an era of enlightenment. The old order fades, and a promise of freedom stirs the air. In the space of one terrifying day, that promise is shattered in a bloodbath of fire and magic.

Thousands of years ago, an epic battle was fought between good and evil. The demon lords had opened a door to the realms of hell itself, and their horde threatened to overrun the earth. But the Kalarans, led by the hero Calindra, destroyed their hellgate and drove them from the world.

The Great War has long since been lost to myth and legend. The Church struggles for relevance as the people forget their covenant with the gods. A renaissance of freedom and learning stirs the air in the modern age of Carlissa, led by the royal family, and the wisdom of the Archmage.

All that comes to an end when a dome of shimmering magic appears in the capital city. The people fight desperately to survive in the chaos that follows, and wonder bitterly why the gods seem to have abandoned them. Their only hope lies with the magic of the Archmage — and his, with a free-spirited princess who never wanted to rule. She must find the strength to set aside her bard’s calling and take up a battle against impossible odds, or surrender her land and people to the Black Magus and his demons.

Dawn of Chaos finally brings the award-winning Sanctum of the Archmage role-playing games to the world of fantasy fiction. Get it today and don’t miss this exciting first volume in the series!

Note to Readers. This is an omnibus volume that collects previously published books in the Dawn of Chaos series.

When Heroes Rise
by Trever Bierschbach

Experience tales of sacrifice, bravery, and honor throughout the ages of the mystical world of Thelos. From primitive elven clans to savage wasteland wanderers, When Heroes Rise will take you on new adventures across a world unlike any you’ve seen before. You’ll explore this world through the eyes of those who struggle every day to survive it, and protect those they love. Heroes from all walks of life, and some who are not even people, will show how far one can go for loyalty, love, and honor. Their pain and sacrifice lay the groundwork for future tales yet untold, but coming soon. This collection of shorts features stories from the early life of Snowdove, an elven woman who will face adversity and trauma before leaving her people to find her place in the world. You will witness pure love in the only story set on Earth, as an old man bargains with death for the chance to say goodbye. And five tales of Thelos’ distant future after the world is destroyed by the folly of man, and people must scrape out a life in the Wasteland left behind.

Lyssa’s Gambit
by Trever Bierschbach

Raised on the streets of Raven’s Cove, Lyssa has had a hard life, but always dreamed of more. In her time among the street gangs of the city she learned the skills that would eventually lead her to her destiny, to become the King’s Blade. Spy, assassin, advisor, the Blade is the right hand of the King of Orellia. Achieving her dream, however, is only the beginning. Orellia is a land under threat from rival kingdoms and jealous rulers. One of the four houses that survived the Pentacle War, Orellia is on the brink of another war, and it is Lyssa’s task to determine who threatens the King’s life and the land’s tenuous peace.

Fade
by Daniel Humphreys

Harry Dresden’s sorcery goes on a Supernatural-style road trip. Cool car sold separately.

Paxton Locke is the son of a Witch.

Family drama is bad enough without adding human sacrifice to the mix. Ten years ago, his mother killed his father in a grisly ritual that Paxton interrupted. Now he criss-crosses the countryside in his RV working as a paranormal investigator while Mother languishes in jail. She’ll never forgive him for interfering…or for stealing her spellbook.

It started as a normal job for Paxton. At least as normal as speaking to ghosts ever was. But then the terrified shade of a murdered boy warns him of a dangerous, newly-freed entity, and suddenly he has to talk to Mother again to save the day.

In a battle for his very soul, will he be able to endure – or simply fade away?

Dragon Award nominee Daniel Humphreys’ urban fantasy debut brings all the best elements of Supernatural and the Dresden Files, written with his typical engaging style and evocative prose. Avid fans of the genre will be satisfied with the sarcasm, quips, and pop culture jokes found in Fade. Not to mention the spells, action and family drama.

Buy it now!

Deathbringer: The Spellswords Saga: Book One (The Spellsword Saga 1)
by Blake Carpenter (Author), Michael Gallagher (Editor)

Inga Alenir is a Swordbearer. She is the latest in a long line of women to inherit a magical weapon called Deathbringer. She’s also dead, murdered on her wedding day by the ruthless and covetous noblewoman Yenda Avard, who steals the sword after killing Inga and her entire family.

And yet, some secrets won’t stay buried. Deathbringer has a will and a consciousness of its own, and even has the power to raise Inga from the dead for a short time. It warns her that she has one week to find and retrieve the sword before death reclaims her—permanently. With each day bringing her doom and final demise ever closer, Inga will have to see just how far she’s willing to go to achieve her vengeance.

DEATHBRINGER is a compositional mix between the violent, grisly hunt for revenge in the film THE NIGHTINGALE and the tale of Vasher and his talking sword Nightblood in Brandon Sanderson’s WARBREAKER. Fans of dark fantasy, of tragic love stories and tales about seeking revenge against long odds will enjoy this debut novel by Blake Carpenter in the world of Agareth where a scorned, young widow fights back against the powerful elites that wronged her, and begins a journey that might turn the entire world against her.

Winner of Upstream Reviews’ Best of 2023 Golden Raygun Award!

What Readers are Saying About Deathbringer—

“Those who like tales of revenge with protagonists who do not lose their humanity or become permanently obsessed by it will enjoy this book. Anyone who wants to see other cultures portrayed in new settings and new ways will find it entertaining as well. The novel should appeal to fantasy fans everywhere but particularly those interested in Slavic and Russian milieus, as the story has the air of Anastasia about it. Those who want a new twist on familiar tropes should find this story quite engaging.”
—Caroline Furlong, Upstream Reviews (https://upstreamreviews.substack.com/)

“I fell in love with these characters... If you love a good revenge story, it’s so good. I had a great time with this one!”
—The Nerdy Narrative (https://www.youtube.com/TheNerdyNarrative)

“I think this one is truly special... The world of Agareth is a vast and uncompromising one, being filled with dangers and factions striking out to meet their own ends, forging their way in a world which appears obsessed with progress. However, seeing our main protagonist, Inga, rise up to the challenge in spite of what’s placed in front of her makes it all the more compelling to read.”
—The Lord Otter (https://downstreampulp.substack.com/)

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The Tales of Susan Barthwaite
Ron Nielsen

The Tales of Susan Barthwaite: Susan and Paul’s futures are intertwined by fate as their lives begin to unravel amid the imminent collapse of society. Will they survive the late stages of a silly society burdened by the weight of contradiction and build a new future, or will billionaire philanthropist and would-be Global King Jerome Absberg realise his ambition to rule the world? Equally erudite and offensive, the story takes a humorous, though critical look at modern society.

Lost Causes
by Richard Nichols

IF YOU LIKE JAMES BOND, JASON BOURNE OR JACK BAUER, THEN YOU’RE GOING TO LOVE JOHN BUCHAN!

John Buchan is a relic from a bygone age, a man constantly at odds with the modern world; a man who finds sanctuary in the only role that brings him peace of mind – as an assassin for a top-secret British government agency called the Mill. Specializing in what they call ‘ungentlemanly warfare’, its operatives are instructed to kill their targets wherever they find them, irrespective of boundaries, laws, jurisdictions or circumstances. Day-to-day, Buchan lives a simple, anonymous life in the Belgian countryside, restlessly roaming the battlefields of the Western Front in an attempt to kill time. All the while he waits patiently for the message that will signal the start of his next mission. It’s a message that will arrive, the way it always does, hidden within the solutions of the Daily Telegraph’s cryptic crossword puzzle. And when it does arrive, it’s like he’s been reborn, because in Buchan’s world being on a mission is the only time when things really make sense; the only time he feels truly alive. He barely remembers the time before he was recruited by the Mill.

His name wasn’t John Buchan then. In those days he was known as Charlie Hook, a happy-go-lucky, rugby-playing, ex-Rhodesian Light Infantry trooper turned Gurkha officer with an eye for the girls. But Charlie Hook is long dead, and so too are his memories of the events that led to him becoming a professional killing machine. Buchan is getting older now. Retirement beckons, but the man he calls Control has one last mission for him. It involves a ruthless army of some of the world’s worst terrorists, an equally ruthless drug lord, an enormous hurricane and seemingly unsurmountable odds. But it also offers Buchan a last, desperate chance to take revenge on those that took his young life – and love – away from him all those years ago, and he plans to go out with a bang.

Set against a backdrop of unprecedented worldwide socio-political upheaval, Lost Causes is an old-style thriller that moves from the modern-day Ypres Salient and London to the badlands of Northern Ireland and the exotic but deadly jungles of southern Mexico. Mixing the kind of plot found in an Ian Fleming novel with the unashamed masculinity of an Alistair Maclean or Wilbur Smith hero and the tough, muscular prose of Mickey Spillane, Lost Causes is a startlingly intelligent and original work that interweaves dramatic action, sudden violence, stunning plot twists and subtle humour to entertain and inform in equal measure. It will especially appeal to anyone bored by the stale unambitious writing, and inane, politically-correct sensitivities of so many modern novels; as well as anyone looking to understand the sinister and dangerous forces that have plagued our lives for decades and which now threaten to destroy our civilization altogether.

Richard Nichols studied philosophy and psychology at Edinburgh University. He was a businessman for several years before turning his hand to writing. He enjoys watching rugby and visiting battlefields. He hates crossword puzzles.

The Wise of Heart
Hans G. Schantz

Biology vs. “Gender”

Fully funded on Kickstarter, then cancelled and re-platformed on FundMyComic. Featured on Fox News, The Blaze, and Bounding Into Comics. Finally Available in Print. What’s The Wise of Heart all about?

He wanted to test the new Gender Awareness in Academia (GAIA) Act, but high-school biology teacher, Mike Andrews got more than he bargained for.
Arrested and thrown in jail for the crime of teaching the biology of sex determination and for refusing to affirm a student’s gender identity, Mike faces a show trial amid a media circus.
Who can he trust?
The school superintendent who set him up?
His defense attorney who shares a secret history with the prosecutor?
His girlfriend who may not have his best interests in mind?
Her mother who is out to destroy him?
Mike will have to learn that winning the game sometimes requires writing your own rules, and success comes only to
The Wise of Heart.

The Wise of Heart updates the classic real-life courtroom drama of science versus religion to the present day, showing the conflict between science and the academic thought police.

He that troubleth his owne house, shall inherite the wind:
and the foole shall be servant to the wise of heart. Proverbs 11:29

Review of The Wise of Heart from Culture War Magazine.

Man of the House: A story about becoming a better man by becoming a better father
by Kalkin Trivedi

By his mid-teens, Jason Olson expected to go to college, find a good job, start a family, and enjoy with them the kind of lifestyle he grew up with as the son of a successful Oncologist. Then one evening, a casual announcement after dinner abruptly changed his prospects.

Now some years later, he still managed to start a family, but he’s a lot less confident in himself now than he would have been if life had gone according to plan. He feels like he’s lost his bearings by which to navigate life.

Then a family crisis requires that Jason help out with his spit-fire of a niece. Can a man with so little control over his own life handle the extra responsibility without it messing up his life any more than it already is?

Learn along with Jason how to…

be a hands-on dad instead of a passive dad
handle disciplinary matters yourself, without any yelling, nagging, hitting, or passing the buck to mom
talk to kids (and adults too, actually) about problems in a calm, business-like manner, acting neither like a wimp nor a bully
avoid doing what most parents unwittingly do that escalates conflict
train kids to respond to just two words, to put an immediate halt to misbehavior
avoid anger, frustration, and embarrassment at home or in public
discourage bad habits and prevent the formation of new ones
help kids learn how to manage impulses and resolve negative emotions
respect your children and promote their good self-esteem
watch out for bad influences and sinister characters
cultivate good relationships with your kids, and avoid the mistakes that lead many well-intended dads to heartbreaks
encourage performance and personal growth
reclaim your place as an integral part of the family

Providence
by Richard Sezov

Two coasts, two tragedies.

A car accident in the east sends the lives of multiple unrelated people in different directions, some of them on collision courses.

A school shooting in the west takes some lives and saves others.

What are we to make of all this?

Is life just a series of meaningless, unrelated events, or is reality following a plan?

A teacher, plumber, librarian, student, deadbeat, and others learn the answer to this and more during the course of a single, roller coaster of a day.

James R. Hannibal, award-winning and bestselling author of The Paris Betrayal says “Richard Sezov holds nothing back in this thoughtful and intense look at God’s sovereignty. He paints an intricate portrait of a dozen lives, steadily blending each stroke to show the Master Painter at work bringing good out of their suffering and sin.”

Book of Feasts and Seasons
by John C. Wright

The Book of Feasts & Seasons is a beautifully mind-bending stroll with a grandmaster of science fiction through the annual Catholic calendar. Over the course of the year, from January to December, the author takes his inspiration from 10 different holidays and explores their meanings in a series of stories of marvelous imagination. The book begins with New Year’s Day and “The Meaning of Life as Told Me by an Inebriated Science Fiction Writer in New Jersey”.

The Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin is represented by “A Random World of Delta Capricorni Aa, Called Scheddi”, while “The Parliament of Beasts and Birds” is the story for the Feast of Pentecost. The calendar and the anthology culminate on Christmas Eve with “Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus”.

John C. Wright is not only a deeply religious man, he is also a devout Catholic philosopher who regards reason as an intrinsic aspect of his faith. The Book of Feasts & Seasons is an imaginative embodiment of that faith, taking many different shapes and forms throughout the vast expanse of God’s creation.

Doors: An Onteora County Romance
by Francis Porretto

Paul Larsen’s B&B in Ogunquit, Maine is running him off his feet. Desperate for someone to share the load, he hires pretty, appealing Carol Holm as his assistant manager. Carol is desperate to be gone from Onteora County, New York, where she’s made some dangerous enemies. As time passes she becomes Paul’s lover, and later his wife.

But things are changing in Ogunquit, and not for the better. Some of Maine’s fauna are becoming more dangerous than the bears, the moose, and the enemies Carol was desperate to escape. Some of them wear badges. Though it alarms Carol, Paul elects to face them down. The consequences are life-changing for them both.

The Spire of Truth
by Kevin Babcock

All residents of the City are tracked and recorded. Any violation of law or policy is immediately logged by Security-mandated signatures, high-tech devices that signal career, status, and more. In this digital cage, young men are safe from physical harm. The only danger they face lies in those they trust most.

The Spire of Truth follows a rising intelligence officer who has sworn to protect one of the few remaining great Cities: Central City, the City of Eternal Light, Center of the World and Universe. Under the star of his career, the officer appears safe in the City of Light. Nagging dreams and scattered thoughts, however, foretell his fall, and when an old friend bangs on his door, he dives back into the madness he thought he escaped.

In gallows humor style, ancient and modern ideas of respect and psychology are explored as the intelligence officer fights entrenched bureaucratic forces, meets a who’s who of the accused, and prepares for the trial of his life.

Seek truth. One half of Central’s call-and-response. When Central Investigators, Caretakers, and Overseers ignore common sense, what truth can they find? When they rely on uncommon sense, whose truth do they seek?

Late-Stage Empire & the American Girl Abroad
by Loretta Buckley

Two Americans abroad, one year to find their footing in Madrid…
or it’s a desk job in the Rust Belt, for sure.

Love, job prospects, empire — in 21st century America, it’s all in decline.

You’ve just graduated with a liberal arts degree from the Ivy League university everybody told you was the key to success, and you find yourself jobless, boyfriendless, and fit only for data entry. What do you do?

You flee the country, of course.

Two American girls take a gap year after college to teach English in Madrid, Spain. They tell their parents it’s a resume booster. All they really want are boyfriends.

Lavender dumped her high-school sweetheart as soon as she got into the Ivy League college of her dreams. Five years later, she’s still carrying around the mixtape he made her in 9th grade.

Mia is on the hunt for a European husband to save her from her parents and law school and America — and perhaps life itself.

By turns comic and cutting, tender and merciless, Late-Stage Empire & the American Girl Abroad is smart, funny, and unexpectedly moving — a novel that perfectly captures the chaos and adventure of being a young American expat in Madrid in 2001, while thinking out loud about 21st century American identity.

The Gentleman Farmers
by Loretta Malakie

Maggie Kingsbury, single middle-aged alcoholic lawyer, joins her in-laws Molly and Kevin on a homestead in the mountains of North Carolina, where their trustafarian college frenemies Brock and Sandra have just bought their third home.

Molly commissions Brock to renovate an old Appalachian tobacco barn on their property.

But when maverick hillbilly throwback Uncle Billy shows up to live in their field in a camper van, power struggles ensue.

Meanwhile, Kevin has become dangerously obsessed with breeding heritage livestock.

When Maggie’s beloved niece Juliet asks her to take on a mysterious client, Maggie becomes implicated in a national political furor.

The scars of the long war run deep. And hope is a dangerous thing when the real enemy might just be the survivors themselves.

Going Gone
by Abraham Lopez

What is a single life worth? In our modern world, where wars are on the cusp of igniting at a moment’s notice, new diseases ravage entire populations, and hidden atrocities erase the lives of thousands, what can the death of a single person mean?

It can mean the tenuous line between peace and destruction.

Kurt Ramis knows this, as he watches the aftermath of an assassination on his television set. His years in the CIA have prepared him for such a dreadful day.

“Rasul” knows this, as he follows his young guide down the streets of New York City, with a gift for his adopted country.

The soldiers and sentries of Camelot’s Corridor, deep under the sands of Texas know this, as they prepare the secret bunker for the President’s arrival.

The Mystical Adventures of Stavros Papadakis
by Michael Lacoy

“Dying was the best thing that ever happened to him.”

An exciting literary debut, The Mystical Adventures of Stavros Papadakis is the story of one man’s quest for meaning and redemption following a near-death experience. Stavros Papadakis, a successful yet epically dysfunctional Boston defense attorney, returns to his former home on Christmas day to visit his son. There, the unimaginable happens: heart attack, coma, and a trip to heaven and hell—or so Stavros claims. Back on earth, as he comes to understand that he was a terrible husband and an even worse father, Stavros determines to change his life and make amends. But there’s a problem: neither his ex-wife nor his son want anything to do with him. Meanwhile, Stavros’s charismatic law partner, the country’s most celebrated trial lawyer, demands that Stavros tell no one about his afterlife journey—it would be bad for business.

Set during the run-up to the 2016 election, and loosely structured around a sensational date-rape trial, the novel explores the contentiousness of contemporary life and the persistence of age-old themes: love, family, friendship, and the mystery of existential truth. By turns funny and poignant, quirky and hard-hitting, The Mystical Adventures of Stavros Papadakis is a powerful, provocative tale for our times.

Making a Better World
by Michael Lacoy

From the author of The Mystical Adventures of Stavros Papadakis comes a comic novel about family, faith, and second chances.

Oscar Perilloux, a middle-age widower and cash-strapped artist, is trying to be good: a good father, a good brother, a good son. But it’s not easy. His conniving, ne’er-do-well mother has just been kicked out of a retirement home and needs a place to live. His rich, egomaniacal brother is dating the woman he secretly desires. And his seven-year-old daughter, whose innocence Oscar is trying mightily to preserve, is becoming more and more interested in the grown-up world. Meanwhile, Oscar’s childhood pal, whose life reached its high-point in high school, becomes the object of a social-media firestorm that threatens to destroy the harmony of their idyllic New Hampshire hometown.

A mix of satire and romance, family drama and social commentary, the novel touches on a number of today’s hot-button issues: internet cancel culture, woke capital, the crisis in the Catholic Church, the treatment of the elderly, and the raising of children. Witty and big-hearted, Making a Better World takes a playful look at the way we live now.

Stay Safe
by Michael Lacoy

STAY SAFE is Michael Lacoy’s best work yet, a scathing dark comedy about two very different Americas.

Cole Perrot—a frustrated college administrator who spends most of his time on social media—ferociously loathes his next-door neighbor, Tyce Creamer, an internet celebrity and the very embodiment of “toxic masculinity.” Unfortunately for Cole, his wife Oona feels differently about Tyce, as do Cole’s teenage son and young daughter. Sensing a threat to his progressive values, not to mention his hold over his family, Cole secretly declares war on his “redneck” neighbor. What follows is a series of events that are by turns shocking, hilarious, absurd, and perfectly of our present moment.

Set amid a global flu pandemic, the novel chronicles the unraveling of both a man and a country in a time of heightened fear and deep social division. Mixing comedy, tragedy, and blistering satire, Stay Safe amuses and terrifies in equal measure.

What You Meant for Evil
by Theodore D. C. Cox, Alex Reimer (Editor)

A sister sold, a father betrayed and a son who can never forgive

No betrayal cuts deeper than family. The favored daughter of wealthy silk-magnate, Yacoob Masoud, Samira lives a life of privilege and dreams of taking over her father’s business. Elder brother, Mahmoud, struggles to earn their father’s love while living under the shadow of a hidden family shame. As they stab and wrestle with one another for Yacoob’s favor, will they go too far and do the unforgivable?

The popular uprising against Syrian dictator Bashir Assad becomes a civil war. Samira and Mahmoud find themselves casualties of their own pride. Is there anyway to recover for their family? And who is the strange prophet haunting Samira’s dreams?

“[Mahmoud’s] heartbreaking story is gripping, like a train wreck I can’t stop reading about.”
-- Jesse Simmons

Fan Favorites: Mysteries

Murders at the Manor
(Inspector Broekstein Mysteries Book 1)
by Milo James Fowler

Murders Most Foul

“What would you say if I were to tell you I believed...that in the heart of every man and woman alive, there lies the potential for ultimate evil?”

So begins a mystery of murder, jealousy, and revenge, as old friendships are tested and new alliances form.

When a wealthy heir invites half a dozen people to his recently inherited estate, all hell breaks loose, and it will be up to the quirky, lovelorn Inspector Willem Broekstein to find out whodunnit. But of course all is not as it seems, and Broekstein will need his wits about him if he’s to keep from losing his head—or his heart—along the way.

Double Murders are Twice as Bad: Vic Boyo, Doofus Detective #1
by Milo James Fowler

Two murders. One detective. Half a brain.

1931, New York City: Detective Vic Boyo may not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but that doesn’t stop him from solving cases as only he can. With a little luck and a whole lot of gumption, Boyo sets out to find the murderer of a local cop. Problem is, Boyo’s more interested in a gorgeous femme fatale accused of killing her husband. She’s destined for the electric chair, but Boyo’s got a hunch she might be innocent.

And nobody gets in the way of Boyo’s hunches, not even Vic Boyo himself.

The Unusual Clients (Suprahuman Secret)
by Milo James Fowler

Collects the novellas Doppelgänger’s Curse, Up in Smoke, and Death Duel:

A woman stalked by her double. A detective in over his head.

In a city where the cops are on a mobster’s payroll, private investigator Charlie Madison stands in the gap. When a wealthy young socialite asks him to help her catch a threatening stalker, he takes the case. But things aren’t what they seem, and Madison has to act fast before he’s framed for murder.

A life ended in flames. A detective sorting through the ashes.

Private eye Charlie Madison saw plenty of bloodshed during the war, but he’s never seen a billionaire burst into flames in his office. Until now. Searching for answers, Madison uncovers more than he bargained for: a bizarre mystery of human combustion that’s smoking with jealousy, revenge, and murder. Add a pair of cops on his tail who are more interested in putting him out of business than seeking justice. It’s just another action-packed day for the Charlie Madison Detective Agency. Now accepting…unusual clients.

An honest cop impaled through the chest. A detective fighting his way to the truth.

Private eye Charlie Madison saw his share of murder and mayhem during the war. But he’s never seen anything like this on home soil. The culprit can’t be human. A mandroid, then? Cyborg? Madison’s investigation takes him deep into the underground world of extreme fighting—duels to the death, showcased beneath the city’s biggest casino. Along the way, he discovers a new steroid quietly coming out of Little Tokyo. If rumors are true, it can turn a man into a killing machine.

Before vengeful police can find and execute the murderer, another officer is found slain. With rogue yakuza, the Russian mob, and Federal agents in the mix, Madison must put the pieces of this violent mystery together before the city loses another good cop. Problem is, the killer may be one of his own clients.

The Mayor of Christ Mountain
by Zaklog the Great (Author), Codex (Illustrator)

When a young, married father leaves his sheltered, progressive life in Maine for North Carolina, he enters a brave new world of race relations he never knew existed. Edmund Dantent had it all: a rewarding new tech job and happy family home in a pleasant tree-lined neighborhood. He never expected his American dream to die in a seemingly freak act of violence. And as horror builds on horror, the stunned father wakes up to a up to a nightmare of injustice.

In a world where the law serves the guilty and rewards the corrupt, he must choose between action and despair. But can Edmund’s path lead to more than just avenging the innocent?

The Mousetrap Murders
by Abraham Lopez

A man wakes up in his car, unaware of how he got there...

Shaken by his loss of memory, he drives home, not knowing that in twenty-four hours he will be in jail, arrested for the kidnapping and murder of a missing college student. Though a mountain of evidence points to his guilt, this man, Julian Gutierrez, maintains his innocence. He is sentenced to Death Row, set to be executed for a crime he knows he did not commit, yet having no way of escaping his deadly and unjust fate.

That is, until the day a postcard arrives.

It claims to be from a witness that knows he is innocent. It is now up to Julian’s sister and her husband to find out the truth before his time runs out. What they uncover is a mystery bigger than any of them could possibly imagine.

And in the shadows is a foe, calling himself The Fulcrum, waiting for the day that someone comes knocking, knocking at the door of the mousetrap he has constructed.

Non-Fiction - Fan Favorites

American Stasi: The Domestic Surveillance Targeting You and Your Children FREE
by Michael Trust

You and your children are targeted, your lives limited by someone who works for the American Secret Police. Modeled after the East German Stasi, their operation assigned them to live in a house in your neighborhood, pretend to be just another resident, and use elite surveillance technologies to listen in everyone’s houses, from backdoors in Alexas and smart TVs, to elite thru-wall microwave eavesdropping and imagery technology. They’re assigned a block of citizens in the neighborhood to watch in their homes, from bathroom trips, to private conversations, to intimate moments between spouses.

This is the American Stasi. Created by global elites and modeled on the East German Stasi, it makes sure you and your children are controlled, and can’t succeed wildly, run for office, become elite yourself, or see the corruption and crimilaity up there, where their corrupt actors are looting our government.

The elites cannot possibly allow regular Americans to ever see that. The American Stasi makes sure they don’t. We don’t explain the entire conspiracy. We show one part - the massive surveillance machine watching everyone. Once you see that with your own eyes, you’ll realize the rest must exist. We use photography from Google Streetview to teach you surveillance detection. We begin in Russia, where you’ll watch Russian domestic surveillance follow the Google car, in the Google car’s own Streetview photos. We then go to Bulgaria and show you real Bulgarian surveillance, explaining why they do everything they do. Once you’re trained in surveillance detection, we return to America, where you’ll see more surveillance following the Google car than in Russia or Bulgaria. With that training you will soon see your own surveillance watching your community - and you.

Then, NSA’s head of technology, Bill Binney describes the microwave radiation he detected which this operation is pouring through all neighborhoods - and how the cancer which killed his wife likely came from that. You’ll see the website he and other whistleblowers created warning of these radiations, BiggerThanSnowden.com, which the government forcibly shut down. You’re helpless, being thwarted, and exposed to cancer-causing radiation you can’t see. This book will change that.

Equal parts Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Ian Fleming’s James Bond, and the Pentagon Papers, this book uses simple observation and deductive reasoning with open-source, independent data to reveal incontrovertible evidence of the biggest scandal the world will ever see - the massive global Secrete Police created by Western elites in the shadows, using supposedly fellow citizens all around us, to make sure no citizen like yourself can ever challenge them for power.

WHAT READERS SAY:

“Who knows your every secret? Who follows you around without your knowledge? Who is targeting your kids so they can identify potential high fliers to derail them? Who is the enemy within? Find out in American Stasi. Prepare to have your world shaken.” - A reader from Britain

“American Stasi is a groundbreaking investigation into the cancerous growth infesting western nations: the domestic surveillance networks that operate above the law. This book will be read 100 years from now.” - A reader from Findland

“Surveillance is everywhere! Watching and manipulating your actions. This book helps you understand who, where, and why.” - A reader from Midwest America

“A monumental expose. Global and granular in scope. American Stasi contains the most crucial information patriots need to make sense of the omnipresent surveillance in their own personal lives.” - A reader from Suburban America

“Everything you have been taught is a lie. Do you want the truth? Can you handle the truth? Read American Stasi and find out.” - A reader from Asia

Designing Wargames - Introduction (Studies in Game Design Book 5)
by George Phillies

Designing Wargames introduces the play and design of classic hex-and-counter board wargames. Written as a textbook, Designing Wargames should appeal to board and computer game designers, board game players, and designers of serious war games for historical and military study.

Phillies opens with a discussion of the basic elements combined to create strategic games, including representation, theme, style, mechanisms, voice, shape, and content. To introduce non-players to board wargames, he describes in detail the play of four classic board wargames, namely Stalingrad, 1914, Panzerblitz, and Fall of Manjukuo. A path to designing a game, stressing the central importance of iterative development and playtesting, is advanced. Several fundamental mechanisms and their variations, including the zone of control and command and control rules, are examined in detail. A case study contrasts a half-dozen games on a single historic campaign, comparing how different designers have created radically different games that represent the same historic outcomes. A paragraph by paragraph analysis of the written rules of one game is given. Issues related to luck and technology are examined. An extensive set of homework problems, many in the form of development projects, support the material in the text.

Phillies’ lectures on the material in the text may be seen on YouTube on the GeorgePhillies channel.

The Death Cults: The Drive For Human Extinction
by Francis Porretto

Western Civilization is under siege by an array of forces whose details vary but whose central thrust is opposed to human life: its origination. its perpetuation, and its expansion. All of them reject the premise that human life is sacred. These are the Death Cults. Know them for what they are, and for what they mean to do.

Through The Veil: Experiencing God In Person
by Doctor Luke

Hi, this is Luke! God revealed himself to me in a vision. It changed my life. Here is the original account, offered plainly as it happened, what led up to it, and how it opened up a new profound understanding of who God is.

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
by Gustave Le Bon

Explore the Psychology of Mass Behavior
In The Crowd, Gustave Le Bon examines the psychology behind group behavior, offering timeless insights into how individuals behave differently when part of a collective. This groundbreaking work, first published in 1895, has influenced thinkers across disciplines, from sociology and psychology to politics and economics.

Key Insights from the Book:

The Power of the Crowd: Le Bon explores how crowds can shape beliefs and behaviors, often leading individuals to act in ways they wouldn’t alone.

The Loss of Individual Identity: Learn about the psychological phenomenon of individuals losing their sense of self when submerged in a collective.

Emotional Dynamics: Understand how emotions like fear, enthusiasm, and anger drive collective behavior.

Leadership and Influence: Discover how leaders manipulate crowd psychology to steer collective actions and decisions.

Why Read The Crowd?

Gain insights into the behavior of crowds and their influence on society.

Understand the psychological mechanisms behind movements, revolutions, and social change.

Learn how mass behavior shapes politics, marketing, and media in the modern world.

Whether you’re a student of sociology, a historian, or simply curious about human behavior, The Crowd provides a fascinating exploration of the dynamics that govern collective action.

The Art of Suspense: A Survey of Narrative Patterns and Techniques
by James A. Buck

Suspense is a vital component of good storytelling, but it’s a component that’s increasingly rare in many of today’s stories. But what exactly is suspense? How is it defined, and how can you tell if it’s present in your manuscript? Are there specific techniques you can use to inject suspense into your story?

A good mixture of theory and practice, The Art of Suspense examines practical, easy-to-use narrative tools for creating suspense. The first part of the book covers narrative techniques such as reversal, dramatic irony, surprise, and preparation. The second part examines narrative patterns, using the analytical methodology of the Russian folklorist Vladimir Propp. Focusing on scenes where the protagonist comes into conflict with the antagonist, the author discusses eleven patterns that create suspense.

The patterns and techniques are amply illustrated with examples from film, television, and literature. Western examples include films of Alfred Hitchcock and Fritz Lang, novels of Agatha Christie and J.R.R. Tolkien, and episodes of Star Trek. Eastern examples include Chinese martial arts films, Korean period drama, and Japanese anime.

More a book of analysis than a prescriptive, how-to book, The Art of Suspense will benefit not just novelists and screenwriters, but also directors, editors, Beta readers, film commentators—anyone who is concerned with the craft of storytelling. The Art of Suspense will open your eyes to the narrative tools of storytelling, tools that have been hiding in plain sight in the stories that you read.

Crystallizing Public Opinion
Edward L. Bernays

Edward Bernays, famed as The Father of Public Relations, pioneered the technique of working to change attitudes rather than just selling products. In this 1923 classic, he describes how public opinion is created and shaped, including the use of surveys and endorsements from opinion leaders, celebrities, and experts. These methods formed the principles that corporations and governments have employed for the past century to influence social attitudes.

Propaganda
by Edward L. Bernays

Propaganda incorporates the literature from social science and psychological manipulation into an examination of the techniques of public communication. Bernays wrote the book in response to the success of some of his earlier works such as Crystallizing Public Opinion (1923) and A Public Relations Counsel (1927). Propaganda explored the psychology behind manipulating masses and the ability to use symbolic action and propaganda to influence politics, effect social change, and lobby for gender and racial equality. This work propelled Bernays into media historians’ view of him as the “father of public relations.”

Life, Love and God:
Connecting the Dots: Bringing Clarity of Value, Purpose and Hope
by Jerry Moldenhauer (Author)

How do you make sense of life? Who are humans—in our deepest, innermost core? Where did we come from? Where are we going?

Why?

People pretty much everywhere, for all of time grapple with these age-old questions. Is it important to come to grips with the answers—or are there answers? Many of us quit asking the big questions. We give up on finding answers. We go through life hoping for the best, and then it’s over.

For over 75 years, Jerry Moldenhauer has pondered the big questions. He’s just a common man with a generally normal American upbringing, but he’s found reasonable answers. For him, it finally makes sense.

Jerry first wrote a document to organize his thoughts about his own journey to connect the dots between life, love, and God. He shared it with a few friends, who felt others could benefit from Jerry’s journey. And so this small book was born.

If you’d like to come along and think with Jerry through his process of living a life with connected dots, Jerry welcomes you aboard. He hopes this concise tome springboards you to clarify your own understanding of why you exist, why you are valuable, and why you can live with optimism.

Connecting the dots in life, love, and God is a journey for all of us. For better or worse, we are truly in it together.

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Pulp on Pulp: Tips and Tricks for Writing Pulp Fiction
by Kit Sun Cheah, Misha Burnett, JD Cowan, Matthew P. Schmidt, James A. Buck, Morgon Newquist, Anthony Perconti, Robert Stultus, D. G. D. Davidson, Christopher Lansdown

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Write Fast. Write Well. Get Paid.

These were the watchwords of old-school pulp fiction: fun, fast-paced, and immensely popular with readers.

The pulp era is coming back.

Blending timeless lessons from the grandmasters of the pulp era with the genres, tastes and technologies of today, PulpRev forges boldly ahead into the future of fiction.

Hugo and Dragon Award nominated writer Kit Sun Cheah teams up with Misha Burnett to compile a selection of essays on the PulpRev aesthetic from some of the leading writers in the movement. Pulp on Pulp covers:

How to plot like a pulp grandmaster
How to write 5000 words a day
The secrets of writing fantastic fight scenes
Worldbuilding and character creation tips
And many more!

PulpRev is the Revolution, Revival and the Renaissance of Pulp. Take the plunge into the new pulp era and become the best writer you can be!

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The Lives of Velnin: The Dark Empire: A fast-paced epic fantasy adventure of swords, love, magic, and battles *FREE!* is *NOT* free, it's 99 cents. (The free one is The Black Citadel)

The Lives of Velnin: The Black Citadel: A fast-paced epic fantasy of swords, love, magic, and battles. (not labeled as *FREE*, but IS free) (ALSO, I clicked the link, and saw:

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