Bypass the cultural gatekeeping, support non-woke authors, and get yourself some great based books from both established and emerging talent for only $0.99 – many titles free – but only for one week! The sale starts today, and it runs through Tuesday September 9, 2025 to celebrate BasedCon, a gathering for authors and fans of science fiction and fantasy who are tired of social justice propaganda and diversity checklist characters in our stories.
With over 200 tomes in the trove, there’s wonder aplenty to behold. It’s like wandering through a wizard’s library where every shelf hides a rare grimoire or secret chronicle. And instead of dusty scraps of forgotten lore, these shelves brim with heroic sagas and arcane wisdom. So take a seat by the fire, and begin your quest for your new favorite Based Book.
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
More on the Based Book Sale, here.
The Based Book Sale is a limited time offer, available only for a week, featuring more than a hundred different titles, including a couple dozen new to the sale. When every book is only $0.99 or free, you can afford to take a chance and check out a new author. With about two hundred offerings, many new to the sale, there’s something for everyone.
Here’s how the sale is organized:
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Drama- New Arrivals
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Horror & Supernatural - New Arrivals
Nonfiction - New Arrivals
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New Arrivals
Science Fiction - New Arrivals
Softbone: Down and Out in New Kowloon (Jake Long)
by R Stone
The year is 2017, maybe 2045, but who is counting? Jake Long, a mild mannered husband to a ball busting wife and a soon to be father by an unknown gendered child, is held hostage by a world run by the feminist imperative. Life is an oppressive nanny state with SSRI's on tap. His only respite is New Kowloon, a hidden enclave of Caffeine and nicotine; where women look like women and men don't have osteoporosis from the overabundance of hormones.
And though a series of unfortunate events is forced to flee to the Ukraine and take part in a war that could end humanity as we know it via a weaponized vaccine taken to prevent a manufactured viral pandemic. He has to fight against drones infused with artificial intelligence that outdo humans in every way, in the most unique answer to techno camouflage ever seen.
It's Cyberpunk; high tech and low life. A warning about the present if trends continue. R A Stone ended up predicting current trends, as some things came true before the books release. It's not a pastiche of the tropes of the genre, but a whole new work. It's interesting, it's satire, and most importantly, it doesn't waste your time with exposition or worldbuilding.
It doesn't hold your hand.
It throws you into the deep end and you have to figure out how to swim from the first page.
It's the book that will get you into fiction again.
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.
Other Rhodes
(Rhodes Mysteries Book 1)
by Sarah A. Hoyt
Lilly Gilden has a half-crazed cyborg in her airlock who thinks he's Nick Rhodes,
a fictional 20th Century detective. If she doesn't report him for destruction,
she's guilty of a capital crime.
But with her husband missing, she'll use every clue the cyborg holds,
and his detective abilities, to solve the crime her husband was investigating
when he disappeared.
With the help of a journalist who is more than he seems,
Lilly will risk everything to plunge into the interstellar underworld
and bring the love of her life home!
Ultimate Conclusions (Short Story Collections)
by Karl K. Gallagher
Rocket scientist Karl K. Gallagher writes stories stretching the imagination to new frontiers of wonder:
An Amish boy on the Moon must choose between obeying his people’s separation or saving the life of a “Modern.”
A squire tries to save a village from the monster which killed his knight.
A junior officer makes contact with aliens whose mere appearance terrifies people.
And three new stories following up on the Torchship Trilogy, showing how Michigan Long and her friends deal with the aftermath of war and revolutions.
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.
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.
Dimensions of Essence
by Laz A. Mataz
A mysterious alien artifact. A secret CIA project. A world on the brink of transformation.
When a shimmering disk appears in rural Ohio, the CIA covers it up. But as scientists decode its strange signals, a far greater mystery is revealed: a transformative technology. One that could change everything.
Dimensions of Essence is a rapid-fire, high-stakes political and sci-fi thriller where trust is dangerous, power is corruptible, and first contact may be humanity's last chance to get it right.
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.
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.
Alternative Histories
by Milo James Fowler
Alternative Histories collects 7 tales from a past that never was—but could have been, given enough science fiction, fantasy, and horror tossed into the mix. Travel back to a time when super-powered minutemen fought King George's zombie horde, when memories were bought and sold during the Great Depression, and when JFK tried to stop an alien invasion just prior to his assassination. Time-travel with a member of the Mahican tribe searching for answers, meet Goliath's decapitated head that refused to die, and find out just how wild and weird the Old West might have been with a body-hopping, phantasmal anti-hero along for the ride.
Contents:
Minutemen
For a Future Peace
Thanks for the Memory
Mo's
The Cost of Freedom
Mercer's Ghost
Shadow of Death
These stories also appear in the following collections: Alienated, Soul Smuggler, and Unreal Encounters.
The Lazarus Men: A science fiction noir thriller (The Lazarus Men Agenda Book 1)
by Christian Warren Freed
"A gripping blend of sci-fi noir and pulse-pounding adventure, The Lazarus Men hurls an ordinary man into an extraordinary galactic chase where alien secrets, ruthless operatives, and a forgotten treasure collide—perfect for fans of Total Recall and The Maltese Falcon." – NewInBooks.com
You know the story. Wrong place at the wrong time.
Gerald LaPlant has spent his life with his head down, struggling to make in a menial job on a dying planet. Nothing ever went his way. In fact, if not for his boss, he doubted anyone would even know he existed. At least until he witnesses a murder in broad daylight.
Fleeing from the scene in shock and horror, Gerald discovers an alien artefact in his jacket pocket. It is the key to a forgotten treasure and everyone wants it. Gerald is forced to leave earth behind to escape. In doing so, he finds himself at the mercy of the shadowy Lazarus Men, ruthless agents who will stop at nothing to get their way.
Gerald must use all his cunning and resourcefulness to stay alive and outsmart his enemies. But with half the galaxy after him, the odds are stacked against him.
Embark on a heart-pounding journey through the stars in this thrilling sci-fi noir adventure that combines the mystery of the Maltese Falcon, the action of Total Recall, and the suspense of James Bond.
Live by the Ten, Die by the Gun and Other Stories
by Milo James Fowler
Swashbuckling action and intrigue among the stars...
Travel to the edge of our solar system and beyond, meeting unforgettable humans, extraterrestrials, and artificial life forms along the way. Step aboard the Refuge 7 space station during a life-altering event, encounter a classic hero dealing with an unexpected role reversal, solve a murder mystery aboard an orbiting mining platform, root for the underdog in a high-speed space race, trudge through an alien swamp with soldiers refusing to surrender, and experience a centuries-long first contact mission gone completely wrong.
Contents:
Live by the Ten, Die by the Gun
Captain Quasar and the Formidable Amazonians on the Other Side of the Galaxy
Dance by the Light of the Moon
Favorable Winds
Omega 7
From Gaia to Proxima Centauri
These stories also appear in the following collections: After Thoughts, Deep Space, and Shadowland Theatre.
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.
The Prophet Conspiracy
by Bowen Greenwood (Author), Sherrie Dolby-Arnoldy (Editor)
Buried beneath the streets in the holy city of Jerusalem, American tourist Siobhan McLane discovers an ancient inscription hidden for a thousand years. But the past will not give up its secrets easily. Before translation can even begin, terrorists want her dead and she finds herself framed for murder. With a disgraced former government agent as her only ally, Siobhan will have to confront her own past and discover the truth about the history of the Middle East. Peace in the most volatile region on earth hinges on a thousand-year-old lie, but she’ll need all her knowledge and all her courage to survive and warn the world.
“A taut and captivating story with religious and political overtones, one that matches a feisty heroine with an ancient secret … Tightly woven and compelling, moving the action forward at a brisk pace … The dialogue here is particularly solid, sounding realistic and still readable … scenes come alive.” — Judge, 5th Annual Writer’s Digest Self-Published eBook Awards.
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.
July 57th
by Volk Presmaren
An intelligence agent from Mars Security travels to Earth to thwart a revolution planned to coincide with an ancient doomsday prediction. The problem? The three leaders of the revolt were killed ten years ago. While trying to make sense of the insanity, the agent discovers another death in the past: his own.
It is a race against time to stop the revolution and save his own skin, but he first has to uncover the traitor in the ranks who just happens to have a time machine.
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.
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.
PNW Affliction 11: Nines and DroneGirl
by Chance Paladin (Author), Gem Gem (Illustrator)
Book 11 of 23: PNW Affliction
An unlikely duo meet up post-collapse to clear the vast lawless area between the city-states in the West and mid-Southwest of the State. Pacific Northwest Affliction 11: Nines and DroneGirl PNW Affliction book #11: Nines and DroneGirl
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
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.
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!
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
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."
Two Hard Days: A story of Josh and Argos
by Zaklog the Great
In post-breakup America, a teenaged boy and his loyal robot companion struggle to stay independent and hold their place in a chaotic world.
The Freeland Vendetta
(Stone Chalmers Book 1)
(* Book Funnel Link *)
by Raymund Eich
(Originally published as The Progress of Mankind by Raymund Eich.)
One man can make—or break—Earth’s iron grip on its galactic colonies: Stone Chalmers. Spy. Assassin. Earth’s top operative.
On the newly-rediscovered colony world of Freeland, an Earth operative is murdered. Stone’s mission: journey through an artificial wormhole to the planet. Find the perpetrators. And terminate them.
Going undercover, with a cover persona overlaid on his mind and genetic markers tweaked inside his cells, Stone expects an easy mission.
But on encountering shadowy, powerful men and dangerous women, Stone discovers more than a plot that killed a fellow operative. A conspiracy plans a powerful blow against Earth’s control of the planet.
A blow that will kill tens of thousands of colonists.
A blow supported by treacherous forces inside the government of Earth.
Join Stone on a distant planet in a headlong race against the clock in this, the first adventure in his complete four-novel series.
"[A] thriller-style science fiction tale that’s a quick and fun read.... A good start to a promising series." - Sfreader.com
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.
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**
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!
Fantasy - New Arrivals
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
To Trick a Trickster: Timelessness Book 0.5
by Susana Imaginário
Psyche is a willful mortal held prisoner by the god of love.
Loki is a mischievous god driven by his lust for power.
Together they will break the universe. And their own hearts.
Asterius (Timelessness is a Fantasy - Fan Favorite
The Lives of Velnin: The Dark Empire: A fast-paced epic fantasy adventure of swords, love, magic, and battles
(* FREE! September 4th and 5th *)
by Brian Heming
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
The Lives of Velnin: The Black Citadel: A fast-paced epic fantasy of swords, love, magic, and battles is also in the sale as a Fan Favorite.
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.
Heretic Blade: DIASPORA Book One
by C. R. Walton
Ancient portals. Fallen gods. A universe on the brink.
The lost empire of the Diaspora spans countless worlds, linked by portals that pulse with mysterious rhythm. For a thousand years, the way between worlds has been sealed—until now.
Aven, a swordsmith enslaved by the secretive Keepers, risks everything to uncover the truth of the Diaspora. Elyzia, a defiant thief he loves, rejects their rule entirely. When Aven’s forbidden quest leads to the shocking discovery of warriors from another world making plans to invade, his world is changed forever.
Hunted by Kings, ghouls, and eyeless dragons, Aven and Elyzia must rise from slaves to legends—or watch their worlds burn. The Diaspora is reuniting, and the truth will shatter everything.
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.
Crown Prince: Book One of New Blood (New Blood Saga)
by W.D. Kilpack III
International Impact Book Award • Finalist, Best Mentor Character, Indie Ink Awards • The BookFest Award • International Firebird Book Award • Runner-Up Sci-Fi/Fantasy Book of the Year, OnlineBookClub.org
The future of Mankind relies on the Guardian of Maarihk. Will his Sight be true? Or will his impure Firstblood prove the ruin of us all?
Natharr is Guardian of Maarihk, one of a long line of protectors dating back to the Firstborn Age, before the Aa Conquest. Natharr's is an ancient role, rooted in his Firstblood, giving him Sight to see what is yet to be. He adheres to his sacred duties even in the centuries since the Firstborn were forced to the brink of extinction by the Aa.
Natharr still stands guard over all men, Aa or Firstborn, Seeing what will come to pass, deciding what is unavoidable and what is not. He spends decades planning how to save the life of the newborn Crown Prince Vikari so he may one day reclaim the throne of the land where Mankind was created, back in the time when the Olde Gods still walked.
Reviews
• "I've been won over by Crown Prince! The world is deeply conceived. The prose is well crafted. The solemn, almost-inhuman Guardian/seer standing guard during a deadly siege as the young queen gives birth makes for a hell of a great start! That weightiness to his character was a key point of interest to me that comes across right from the opening pages, plunging right into the thick of it for a wonderful change of pace. Crown Prince is intriguing, grand, strange, and shadowed by ill-omens. It is Shakespearean." — Tom Mock, author of The Long Nights
• 5/5 Stars • "Kilpack presents an atmospheric and immersive journey into a richly crafted fantasy world, balancing a strong character-led adventure with a wider web of plots. There’s a clear flair for character, dialogue, and attitude from the start [that] delivers on every promise of pulse-pounding adventure — thanks to the swift pacing of the plot, coupled with dark storytelling, strong descriptive skills, and captivating character development." — K.C. Finn, USA Today best-selling author
Sacred Times Part I (The Chronicles of Heraldria Book 1)
by Marcus S Jones
2025 Reissue!
The Bizarchives' elder of fantasy, Marcus S Jones debuts the first volume of his magnum opus:
SACRED TIMES - PART I
Book One of The Chronicles of Heraldria
Should a man defy the gods?
Dare a man challenge a god?
Marius, watchman of Meramar and veteran soldier, finds himself entangled in an ancient prophecy when he is sent on a quest to retrieve sacred artefacts required for the prophecy's fulfilment.
Thrown together with a contemptuous lord and a naïve young priest, they journey across a landscape disrupted by the call of destiny. Their companionship is tested as the mysterious designs of men and demi-gods alike, are revealed.
The opening gambits of undeclared antagonists are played out as the countdown to a conflict that threatens to shatter the world of Heraldria begins...
Sacred Times Part II (The Chronicles of Heraldria Book 2)
by Marcus S Jones
Marcus S Jones' epic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Heraldria continues in Sacred Times Part II
Marius has defied the demigod, Letton Rah to recover the ancient shield of the First Imperator, Furoc. In the enthralling sequel, their quest takes them to the mountainous king of Pren in search of the arcane sword, Umalign. Navigating treacherous landscapes, discovering new allies and confronting new enemies, the mismatched party of adventuers must overcome new challenges and new dangers as they fight against a dark destiny that seems already foretold in the stars. The secret game continues as unrevealed players move their pieces across the board of Heraldria...
From The Bizarchives
The Prince of Saidon
by Miles MacNaughton
A young prince lives in a kingdom by the sea. He has all he desires, and yet still he feels an instinctive call to explore the great desert, where rumors persist of an ancient kingdom buried in the sand...
Written in a mythical style reminiscent of great fables, The Prince of Saidon is musical, stoic, introspective, and philosophical. It follows one man's eternal yearning for something greater than himself—and the price of such a quest.
Phantom Whispers: Volume 1: Fantasy/Sci-fi/Horror Magazine
by Ian Nol (Author), JD Sauvage (Author), Robert Garron (Author), Hermann Morr (Author), Rawle Nyanzi
Note: This lavishly illustrated magazine is $2.99
Spaceships, tanks fighting pig men, shapeshifting forest monsters, inter-dimensional cartoon characters, and psychic ghosts abound. Heed the whisper in your ear, step out into the void, and enjoy you're journey into the zany, bizarre, disturbing, and otherworldly.
Phantom Whispers is a short story anthology magazine made by independent writers in the pulp tradition of old fantasy, sci-fi, and horror fanzines. We're proud to announce our first volume, featuring stories by Ian Nol, JD Sauvage, Robert Garron, Hermann Morr, and Rawle Nyanzi, with wonderful hand-drawn art by the talented Scribbles n' Bits.
Phantom Whispers: Volume 2: Fantasy/Sci-fi/Horror Magazine
by Ian Nol (Author), Black Knight (Author), MarQuese Liddle (Author), Alyssa Hazel (Author), Robert Garron (Author), Hermann Morr (Author)
Note: This lavishly illustrated magazine is $2.99
Phantom Whispers is back! Bigger, better, and darker for the Season of the Witch! Speaking of witches, this issue has them, along with killer gnomes, demonic video games, and many more nasties!
With continuations of Ian Nol's The Angry Blue Planet and Rawle Nyanzi's Shining Tomorrow series, along with new worlds, new characters, and new stories from indie talents like Alyssa Hazel, MarQuese D. Liddle, and Black Knight (of Starshatter fame), you don't want to miss this!
Record of The Paladins: Book of Anseis
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.
From the ancient streets of Rome to isolated islands in the South China Sea, the Paladins battle through blood-soaked rituals and hidden evils. Meanwhile, Senator Wiles prepares to unleash the full horror of the GRMR Project, threatening to break the final seal on humanity’s soul.
They are God’s chosen. Their mission is nothing less than the salvation of mankind.
Book of Anseis is the third standalone volume in the Christian fantasy epic Record of the Paladins, where spiritual warfare, sacrifice, and faith collide on a global battlefield.
Madame Antic's Hotel Grotesque
(The Interdimensionals Book 1)
by Milo James Fowler
"A twisting labyrinth of shifting realities, a fast-moving adventure merging the ideas of Philip K. Dick and David Cronenberg. Highly Recommended." – Deborah Walker, author of Future Tales 2100
In an alternate Victorian era replete with aerovehicles, automatons, and other electrik wonders, factory worker Anthony Reynolds seeks to improve his station in life for the sake of his young bride-to-be. Against his better judgment, he joins Richard, a gregarious coworker with social connections, for a night on the town after their late shift. Richard leads them deep into the city’s underworld to a brothel of sorts specializing in the illegal art of mutilation where willing victims are skinned, broken, and mangled without lasting damage due to a special drug that returns them to their original state. Horrified, Anthony wants to leave at once—but that's when Constables raid the establishment.
While attempting to flee the scene, Anthony encounters a giant monstrosity of a man who infects him with an unknown substance. Anthony is instantly disfigured, and when the authorities capture him, he is unable to identify himself, let alone speak. What follows is a mind-bending adventure of mistaken identity, multiple realities, and paranoia as he fights to reclaim a simple life he never truly appreciated but now wants more than anything. When he discovers the shocking truth of his world and Madame Antic's disturbing role in it, nothing will ever be the same again.
"This brilliant genre mashup brings the gore and mystery in equal measure. Just when you’ve figured it out, Fowler dashes your reality with a new twist." – Anthony J. Rapino, author of Soundtrack to the End of the World
"Insane in all the right ways. I will be looking forward to new titles arriving in the Interdimensionals series." – Kris Diebold, book reviewer
"In a genre where the sky is literally the limit, Fowler excels in reaching new heights." – Jennifer Tooker, book reviewer
Monsieur Moule's Subterranean Casino
(The Interdimensionals Book 2)
by Milo James Fowler
Anthony Reynolds and Sephora Ashton escaped from Madame Antic's sky city, and now they must navigate a new life in the dangerous ruins of London. Nothing is as it was in the technologically advanced Victorian city with no name. Here tribes of survivors hunt and gather in the dark of night, keeping vigilant watch during daylight hours. Mutant animals with poisonous fangs roam the outskirts, and, according to legend, mole people live underground. But if they exist and have managed to hide from Antic all these years, then they might hold the answers Anthony seeks.
No one can tell him where he came from, or who he was before Madame Antic kidnapped him to play a role in her elaborate stage play. No one even knows what year it is. But when Anthony and Sephora are driven underground by gunmen wearing gruesome masks, they find themselves in a surreal subterranean refuge complete with its own lavish hotel and casino. There they meet the man responsible for it all, a man who claims to have answers, a man with a penchant for gambling with human lives: the enigmatic Monsieur Moule.
Peter Gideon's Aeroship Extraordinaire
(The Interdimensionals Book 3)
Milo James Fowler
The battle has just begun. To save the future, Anthony Reynolds and Sephora Ashton must change the past by becoming cold-blooded assassins. The interdimensional entities have established a tetrarchy spanning four epochs of Earth, thousands of years apart. Anthony and Sephora will have to travel back through time and eliminate each tetrarch—hiding inside the skulls of unwitting human hosts—in order to destroy their foothold in our reality. Otherwise, the interdimensionals will absorb all that we have and leave us with nothing.
To accomplish their mission, Anthony and Sephora must rely on each other and trust Peter Gideon, a young man brought back from the dead who cannot leave the space-between-space without reverting to a mindless zombie. Traveling aboard his ethereal aeroship, existing outside of time, they will track down each of the tetrarchs' interdimensional signatures. But it won't be smooth sailing. The Moule people, possessed by the Red Queen's acolytes, are hunting them, determined to derail their efforts at every port. And Anthony, overwhelmed by doubts when he discovers who his parents were in the real world, may end up jeopardizing everything he and his friends have fought for.
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?
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.
Shadow in the Eye: A Wandering Sword Short Story (Wandering Sword Short Stories)
by Erik Waag
In this fast-paced chiller, old school sword and sorcery meets the frosty touch of horror.
The wandering mercenary from the North, Skarde, stops to wet his parched lips in a mangy tavern in The Eye, the worst quarter of the rich and wicked city of Damyra. An alluring feminine form catches his eye and he is drawn into facing an eerie menace.
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.
Mysteries - New Arrivals
The Ghost Bride: An Alister Cain Short Story
by M. Anthony Harris
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.
Drama - New Arrivals
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.
Fearful Breakers (Chart and Compass Book 1)
by Janice Sebring
Will José be drawn into the dangerous life of a smuggler? Or settle down to a quiet life in his father’s shop in Havana?
In 1760 Cuba, José Albañez, a free boy of color, resents his charming but unprincipled uncle Domingo’s pressure to join him to sea on one of his smuggling ventures. He would rather continue his studies at the Jesuit school and then follow his father into the joiner’s trade.
Instead, he finds himself struggling to master seamanship, lodging with a Jewish trading family on Jamaica in the aftermath of a slave revolt, and confronting kidnappers on Saint-Domingue. The arrival of a British fleet off of Cuba in 1762 forces him to decide where his future lies.
Dark Straits: A Naval War Techno-thriller (Arrow Storm)
by Joe Salem (Author)
Two NATO destroyers are sailing into the Black Sea on a Freedom of the Seas mission. Their commanders don't know that they are sailing into the jaws of a trap laid by a nefarious plot between a long time enemy and a supposed ally. In a post-Ukraine war world, with new leadership in Russia, they believe they are relatively safe. Supported by the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush in volatile Eastern Mediterranean waters fraught with peril.
Aboard the aircraft carrier, Commander Robert "Bobby" Webb, the Commander of the Air Group, leads his squadron with a blend of tactical brilliance and unwavering resolve. Commander Webb must navigate this complex web of deceit where every flight could be his last. With advanced weaponry and tactics at play, he and his crew are tasked with unraveling the layers of this conspiracy, where every decision could tip the scales between victory and catastrophe.
Meanwhile, a spy code-named "Charlie" discovers the dastardly plan and must battle through the streets of Moscow to get the information out and help prevent World War III.
From the streets of Moscow to the depths of the Black Sea and the skies above, a battle of wits, technology, and sheer human courage will determine whether the flag of freedom will continue to wave or be extinguished by the shadows of deceit after passing through these Dark Straits.
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 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?
Long Caldera Run (The Police Book 1)
by Zachary Forbes (Author), Joshua Forbes
The year is 1977. As the Cold War starts to heat up, drug traffic moves billions in cash all across the Americas.
A fumbled operation in the Andes mountains, headed by steadfast CIA officer Dick Kennedy, leaves a band of brothers trekking through the wilderness with a dangerous package in tow. Corrupt government soldiers and hired narco mercenaries will stop at nothing to hunt them down.
It’s a long road out, with millions of lives at risk.
Quartermast and the Murdered Principal: Or a Satire of Modern Miseducation
by Richard Harvie
In the spirit of Wodehouse, or maybe George MacDonald Fraser on a bad day. Two teachers, veritable dinosaurs, with decidedly checkered pasts, find themselves embroiled in, of all things, a murder investigation. Set in deepest, darkest Surrey, our intrepid heroes find the barbarians at the very gates of their educational fortress. Quartermast, the aristocratic relic from the nineteenth century and his friend, the mercurial and disturbingly psychotic Fraser, embark on their foray into the modern world when Fraser finds himself accused of murdering his principal. Would he do such a thing? Well, yes. But not like that. Unlike the modern world, he has standards, after all. Join them in this short and amusing tale.
The Rhinelanders
by Alan Schmidt
Stephen Koenig lives in a small rural town in Michigan. His father lived in the same town, and his grandfather before that, and his great-grandfather before that. His ancestors arrived in the new world with the hope of a better life and to leave the old world behind. He has seen none of this better life and passes through his existence caring for an invalid sister and ill-tempered brother while working a meaningless job. As another bleak winter comes, he is overwhelmed with visions of creatures from another plane, unlocked from a deep recess of his family’s past.
He may have forgotten the old gods, but the old gods have not forgotten him.
Historical Fiction & Alt History - New Arrivals
Blood of Kings
by M.S. Olney
The Final Clash of Saxons and Vikings
England, 1066. A kingdom without an heir. A crown everyone wants. Three ruthless rivals prepare to decide its fate: Harald Hardrada, the Viking warlord; William of Normandy, the ambitious duke; and Harold Godwinson, the Saxon earl who dares to claim the throne.
Amid their struggle stands Osfrid Hunweldsen, a noble caught between loyalty, survival, and love. From Stamford Bridge to Hastings, he must face betrayal, war, and the cost of destiny as England’s future hangs in the balance.
A gripping tale of ambition, conquest, and the blood that forged a nation.
This is the story of 1066—a tale of kings and conquerors, of warriors and dreamers, of blood spilled for power and the survival of a people. As England’s soil is soaked with the blood of her defenders and invaders alike, one truth remains eternal: the blood of kings shall be shed.
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.
Horror & Supernatural - New Arrivals
Suburbian Gothic
by Milo James Fowler
Creepy neighborhoods. Weird neighbors. Uncanny noises emerging in the dead of night. Even stranger sounds rattling around inside our heads. For your consideration: 13 tales straight from the suburbs that explore those dark and unsettling corners of reality we keep trying to ignore. The underlying anxiety is real. So is the catharsis.
Contents:
Alive Again
Suburban Legend
Trash Day
Scuttle
Kagemusha
Doppelganger Mine
Grandpa's Bluetooth
Lost Pets of Suburbia
A Creature Stirring
I Am FanFare
Where There's Smoke
Self Storage
Breathe
These stories also appear in the following collections: After Thoughts, Alienated, Shadowland Theatre, and Unreal Encounters.
Dare: A supernatural suspense
by Michael Howell
Some storms come from the sky… others rise from within
When a hurricane targets the island town of Dare, North Carolina, restaurant owner Joe Dobson refuses to evacuate—haunted by more than the looming storm. His wife left him, his future is unraveling, and a seductive stranger sets her sights on him. As the eye of Hurricane Damon closes in, Joe must battle more than the elements—when the storm hits, who will he become?
Dare is no ordinary town. Winds carry songs of a secret garden, and there are no birds except a solitary owl, which is not what it seems.
Blending Southern Gothic atmosphere with page-turning suspense, Eye of the Storm pulls readers into a haunting tale of temptation, betrayal, and survival.
For fans of Twin Peaks, Midnight Mass, and The Skeleton Key, this supernatural suspense grips from the first page—and never lets go.
Grijhavn
by Gerald Reich
The Dutch colonial town of Grijhavn appears to be laboring under a curse and its inhabitants struggle to survive.
The return of a wealthy family reawakens old hurts, hidden secrets, and a mystery steeped in black magic.
Jordaan struggles to save the girl he loves even though her family has already rejected his courtship of her.
The age old curse is made manifest in the death of a prominent villager but the identity of its source has the village fearful, searching until an answer is found.
The answer found and the truth turn out to be something completely different.
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?
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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 Hidden Truth
by Hans G. Schantz
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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
God Emperor Trump (Trump Imperium Book 1)
by Brian Heming (* FREE! September 3-5 *)
His name is James. James Trump.
In the fifth year of his reign, Trump Barronius the Third is crowned God Emperor. Amidst the celebration, a wave of assassinations of the Trump Imperium's luminaries flies under the radar. Can Agent James Trump track down the evil mastermind behind it all--the insidious Woke-Masmoke--before he brings down the entire Pax Trumpa? Find out in this spy thriller meets future history!
The Arid Lands
by Kate Kelly
The Tyrhennians struggle to survive in the dried out basin of an ancient ocean. Inez knows no other world than this endless cycle of heat and brine, but listens to the stories of a distant land of great cities and endless seas.
She never believed them, until the day her brother is injured by a strange craft crossing the desolate plains. So she discovers that the stories are true. But as she tries to find her brother in a strange city she realises that she is not the only person from the salt plains here. Others from the Arid Lands have infiltrated the city - and they have a plan.
Wilderness Five: Hard Science Fiction (Metamorphosis Book 1)
by C. R. Walton
Technology accelerates human evolution ...
Yet extinction draws near ...
After manifold technology accelerates evolution, humanity has colonised the stars. Lifespans stretch to hundreds of years. Worlds bloom with strange new life.
Bryn, an Invigilator with a dark past, is tasked with keeping watch over the utopia. Summoned to stop a galaxy-devouring threat, he must discern friend from foe on the most distant human colony in existence: Wilderness Five.
"Intelligent, fascinating and imaginative science fiction!” – Therese Schwartz, Amazon 5-star review, 2025
From Cambridge planetary scientist Dr. Craig R. Walton, Wilderness Five starts like The Expanse and echoes Tchaikovsky’s bold visions. Book 1 in an epic trilogy.
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.
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?
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.
The Heights of Perdition: A Science Fiction Romance Series (The Divine Space Pirates Book 1)
by C. S. Johnson (Author), Jennifer Sell (Editor)
Falling in love was out of the question ... until it was the answer.
There is nothing Aeris St. Cloud wants more than to win her father's love and the acceptance of her family unit by joining the Military Academy at New Hope. But after she is captured by the fearsome space pirate, Captain Chainsword, Aerie is certain falling in love with her nation's arch enemy is the last possible way to earn their coveted esteem.
Driven by vengeance, Exton Shepherd never set out to save anyone. As he circles the war-torn world in his pirated starship, the Perdition, he only sees his father's ghost lurking around every corner and the looming darkness on the horizon. When Aerie unexpectedly tumbles into his life, he finds he cannot trust her, anymore than he can ignore her. But just like the raging war down on Earth, it's tempting to think he can ...
When the war ascends to the heights of the Perdition, Aerie's loyalty, and Exton's heart, are put to the test. But will love be enough to save them -- and others -- from certain destruction?
FROM THE AUTHOR:
The Heights of Perdition is the first book in the Divine Space Pirates trilogy, a futuristic romance series where family, faith, and freedom take center stage.
WHAT REVIEWERS ARE SAYING:
Questions raised about government, religion, and human nature were peppered throughout the narrative, elevating The Heights of Perdition from a mere space fantasy to something much more thought-provoking. ~ Author Jess Jesinghaus
4th Place in Best RF Christian Sci-Fi & Fantasy for 2018
Eta Cancri
by Russell May
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.
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.
Terra Nullius (Slipspace Book 1)
by Zachary Forbes
Two brothers...
Two empires...
And two definitions of what it means to be alive...
Slipp McMahon is a disgruntled veteran of the Terran Straits Republic, having retired from service when mechanical 'artificials' slowly took the place of his living, breathing compatriots. He is caught up doing private work in the outskirts of the known galaxy when a strange job falls into his lap. It involves a girl, an ancient oil deposit, and all the money he needs to retire his aging mother.
But his brother, Breth, who still works for the Republic, has sworn to uphold the law by any means necessary. A major promotion hangs in the balance, as well as the future of warfare across the galaxy...
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….
On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington Book 1)
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.
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Talk to a Real, Live Girl: And Other Stories
by Paul Clayton
2021 !WINNER! in Science Fiction — Los Angeles Book Festival! Readers’ Favorite 5 Star review: Talk to a Real, Live Girl And Other Stories by Paul Clayton is a short collection of light sci-fi tales. The flagship story is Talk to a Real, Live Girl. Disillusioned with the extreme societal and political changes on Earth and a ruined relationship, Alex leaves home to work at a mine on Kratos, a distant planet. Kratos also offers some free time diversions, one being particularly appealing to men far from home; robot females who are perfect and always willing. Alex has no real interest in them, despite his loneliness. Then, one day he meets Traci, a “real, live” girl. Do Alex and Traci have any real hope of a future together? In the next story, The Lawn, Bob Hanlon struggles mightily to come to terms with his forced retirement and the strange presence that seems to have taken up residence in his overgrown yard. In the third story, Happy Acres, a couple finds their new life on Mars less perfect than what they had been promised. Finally, the first two chapters of a novel-in-progress about the fabled Lost Colony of Roanoke complete this collection of stories. In Talk to a Real, Live Girl And Other Stories by Paul Clayton, readers find entertaining stories that almost read like episodes of beloved classic sci-fi TV series. The main story, a poignant tale of loss, new possibilities, and adventure, makes some subtle, near humorous observations about contemporary American society and what the future could hold. The other two stories, while lighter fare and shorter, are no less interesting. These stories are a quick, enjoyable read, and Paul Clayton has a talent for immersing readers almost immediately in their narrative, including the bonus chapters at the end. Any message the author is trying to convey does not get in the way of the basic flow of the stories, which is a desirable feature. He also draws attention to other stories he has written, and readers will find themselves willing to invest time in reading these. Alex has fled a broken marriage and a society on Earth grown hostile toward men. Landing on the mining planet, Kratos, known to its male work force as “Boyz Wurld,” he hopes to lose himself in hard work, drinking, and the illusion of female companionship provided by robots. Will that be enough? In time, Alex finds himself longing to Talk to a Real, Live Girl. Predictably, there aren’t many on Kratos. Then he finds Traci, as well as the dream of a new beginning back on Earth—a normal life—if only the forces controlling Kratos will permit it.A genuine love story, Talk to a Real, Live Girl explores consequences of a #MeToo movement run amok, and of adaptations brave individuals may be forced to make.
Escape From the Future and Other Stories
by Paul Clayton
What if you had access to a time machine and could go back to visit a deceased love… one more time. Would you?
In 1962, Bobby Newman’s Grandpa, a basement inventor, loses his wife to cancer, then begins to lose his mind to grief. While tuning up his not-yet-perfected time machine for one last visit with his wife, he ends up going the wrong way… into the dystopian future of 2025. Inexplicably, he sends the machine back.
Fourteen-year-old Bobby uses it to lead Mom and Dad on a mission to find Grandpa and bring him back.
But Grandpa has other ideas…
This volume brings together five of Paul Clayton’s most ambitious stories to date, stories that juxtapose a familiar America of the very recent past with ominous new versions of the country now coming into focus.
Clayton’s concern is with ordinary people—their innate wisdom and persistent foolishness, their capacity to do good or harm, and their resiliency—with what happens when time travelers from the 1960s arrive in a city dominated by criminal gangs and corrupt politicians, or when a woman opts for a new procedure to avoid losing her cancer-ridden husband, or when a soldier in Vietnam is granted a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to give his elevator speech, or when a man, illegally alive, attempts to stay that way…
Clayton shows how people make choices that, collectively, point civilization in new directions, be it toward forcible reclamation of vast tracts of land as primeval wilderness or elimination of those deemed to be nonproductive ‘useless eaters.’
This is a first-rate collection of stories by a serious writer.—Stephen Gallup, author of What About the Boy?
Achron Kindness
by Algerine Onyx
If aliens were among us, right now…would anyone notice? Well, connect the dots: An old bum explodes and a dozen people die. Things disappear at the blast site. And a dog talks to an FBI Special Agent. You figure it out…because I can't. FBI Special Agent Angela Maxim is a smoking-hot brunette assigned to a small city where there's little crime and no terrorism…
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.
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.
Paradox (6 book series)
by Henry Brown
Paradox is one good-hearted-but-alienated boy's odyssey into manhood. Before that journey is complete, our hero will learn the guarded secrets of history, take on a pan-continuum conspiracy, compete in a world championship, crack the code for success with women...and even save the world.
Well, one world, maybe.
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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…
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.
Decisively Engaged (Warp Marine Corps Book 1)
by C.J. Carella
(WARNING: Contains violence, strong language and adult content)
They picked a fight with the wrong species.
A NATION AT WAR: The United Stars of America. Born in the conflagration of unprovoked alien attack, the newest entrant to galactic politics took the few crumbs of hypertech gifted to it and ran with them, soon expanding over dozens of star systems and establishing a wide trade network, protected by its powerful Navy and the dreaded Warp Marines.
A FIGHT TO THE DEATH: A single Marine platoon, tasked with protecting an embassy on a hostile alien planet. An embassy – and the human enclave around it – that soon finds itself surrounded by armed mobs. Can the Marines and a ragtag band of civilian and Navy personnel survive long enough to be rescued?
Take the Shilling: A Military Science Fiction Novel
(The Confederated Worlds Book 1)
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by Raymund Eich
"Military science fiction [concentrating] on the psychology and politics of societies in conflict." —Analog, on the Confederated Worlds series
The Confederated Worlds implanted in his brain the skills to make him a soldier.
He had to learn for himself how to survive interstellar war.
Tomas Neumann seeks escape from his backwater planet and overbearing mother, and a mentor to replace his long-dead father.
“Taking the shilling”—enlisting in the Confederated Worlds military—promises both.
But the soldier’s skills implanted in his brain can’t prepare him for combat against fellow humans. Especially ones supposed to welcome him and his fellow soldiers as liberators. The war on New Liberty threatens to destroy him. Not just in body. Also in spirit.
Grieving for lost comrades, demoralized by harrowing combat, Tomas must learn what he needs to survive.
Because soon, with the fates of thousands of his fellow soldiers in the balance, he will face his war’s ultimate challenge.
Take the Shilling is the first book in The Confederated Worlds series.
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.
A Desolation of Peacekeepers
by Joshua Hiles
“A Desolation of Peacemakers” is the story of the Bay of Capricornus. An unexceptional cluster of stars and planets nominally ruled by the Free World's Association. Not that the Association does much. Victor Lex, a subsistence farmer from a planet called Lost Hope, knows of it only by rumor and legend. His world is nomadic traders, savage hill-tribes, and the drug-peddling slavers who control the only spaceport. But Victor's world, all the worlds, are about to be reminded why they banded together in the first place. An old enemy is stirring between the stars and in his quest to save his people Victor Lex will learn ancient secrets, make new friends, and be inducted into an order of scholar-diplomats with amazing powers of perception and persuasion. But there's at least one other problem, on top of the marauding cultists who seek to end any trace of human free will in the name of Rexdrak, he's meant to have a partner. It seems the companion order of warrior-bodyguards is extinct. Meaning perception and persuasion is all Victor's got to save the worlds. Setting out with his mentor he will accrue a rag-tag group of scoundrels, disgraced royalty, and soldiers to his side as they strive to defeat the evil of Rexdrak and his world-shattering battleship the Dracostella. With the assistance of Captain Callisto Valor and her co-pilot, surrogate father, and muscle Quegmael, they will rescue the ruler of a destroyed world and escape the clutches of Rexdrak's cult to find themselves in a desperate last-ditch defense of everything human.
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.
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.
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.
Silk Unspun (Exopreneurs)
by D.S. Blake (Author)
It should have been a routine negotiation, an easy task for even a novice bailiff to handle.
Jake Ambler, a disaffected youth searching for purpose in the cosmos, finds solace in the ranks of the disreputable "exopreneurs" – those who seek to profit from the exploitation of alien worlds. His assignment?
Bug Space, a region of the galaxy where colossal, intelligent insectoids reign supreme. But when Jake arrives on the insect-infested planet of Telia, he quickly discovers that nothing about his mission is routine. The Spider Queens of Teila, a domineering race of arachnids, wield power like nothing he's ever encountered. Their disdain for lesser life forms is only surpassed by their insatiable desire for supremacy among their own kind, especially the males.
And his fellow exopreneurs intend to cash in on it.
As Jake delves deeper into the tangled web of Teila's intrigue, he finds himself embroiled in an uprising that threatens to consume him and those he cares for most. Survival is a high-stakes gamble, and the only way out is to unravel Teila's greatest secret before Jake becomes yet another pawn in this galactic struggle for power.
Silk Unspun is a pulse-pounding science fiction odyssey that explores the boundaries of loyalty, survival, and the pursuit of forbidden knowledge in a universe where danger is as limitless as the cosmos.
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.
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
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.
Alternate History - Fan Favorites
Franklin Pierce in Death of a Vice President
by Eric M. Hamilton
Madness, murder, and mystery permeates throughout this Edgar Allan Poe-inspired thriller!
It is early April 1853.
Franklin Pierce, the newly elected President of the United States, has suffered the greatest personal tragedy of his life, plunging him into a depression fueled madness.
The Vice President, William King, unexpectedly appears at the White House in the middle of the night having overheard details of an international assassination conspiracy that threatens both King and Pierce. Unfortunately, Vice President King is killed without any clue as to who could have done it.
Can President Franklin Pierce overcome his personal demons and discover who killed the Vice President before they kill him too?
Franklin Pierce in Death of a Vice President is a thrilling psychological horror, starring the president from the 1850’s you forgot in 4th Grade. It’s an exciting read, and you don’t have to be familiar with Franklin Pierce at all to enjoy the story (in fact, it may be a better story if you go in knowing almost nothing). This is perfect for the American history-buff and “normal people” alike!
An Inconvenient Presidency: The Time-Traveling Misadventures of President Al Gore (Presidents of the Uncanny States of America)
by Eric M. Hamilton
“It’s almost too funny!”
On January 20, 2001, Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. became the 43rd President of the United States for the second time...
Newly elected President Al Gore is given a mysterious device that allows his mind to travel back in time and relive his presidency. He needs it, too! There is always some disaster forcing him to start over. Soon, the time-traveling President begins to suspect there’s more going on with this device than he first suspected.
Read the hilarious story of the President that never was, and discover why history turned out different.
“I started reading and couldn't stop! What a clever story!”
A Presidents Day Carol (Presidents of the Uncanny States of America)
by Eric M. Hamilton
Decency was dead to begin with.
Newly elected and self-proclaimed “Greatest President” Donald Trump is haunted by the ghosts of former Presidents in the tradition of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol. As Trump is taken through the past, present, and future, he tweets his innermost thoughts about these loser Presidents to the entire world. It's a tough task, but can these Presidents from the past convince Donald Trump to change his ways? YOU DECIDE!
That's right! Whether you love or hate Donald Trump (and let's be honest, those are the only two possibilities), you get to decide his fate. Everybody wins! Everyone is happy! This book will usher in a new era of peace and prosperity for the United States of America, and it all starts with a choice: Yours.
A Presidents Day Carol takes a new spin on a literary classic, and provides a humorous look at American politics past and present. No political party or politician is safe, everyone gets poked fun at. Plus, a super secret chapter awaits to be discovered, delving into the histories of former Presidents few know about or remember.
One reader had this to say about A Presidents Day Carol: “I'm usually very cynical about politics and political humor... [but] this book lets us sit back and enjoy how ridiculous politics (of the last few years in particular) actually are.”
If you need a break from the drama of current-day politics, and few good laughs at the ridiculousness of it all, then buy A Presidents Day Carol today!
The Devil’s Dictum
Frederick Gero Heimbach
In a topsy-turvy United States founded by pirates, the personal assassin to the chief justice receives a terrifying order: round up and kill all men who look like himself.
Why does the chief justice want these men dead?
What threat could they possibly pose?
And can the assassin save them—or will he become the final victim?
Spooky, sly and satirical, The Devil’s Dictum recasts J. Edgar Hoover as a Satanic high priest, Calvin Coolidge as a private eye, and Richard Nixon as the pilot of a giant armored robot. Readers hungering for original and mind-blowing alternate history need look no further.
Fantasy - Fan Favorites
The First Fear (The Empowered Ones Book 1)
by M.S. Olney
Praise for M.S. Olney’s ‘The Empowered Ones Series’
‘A thrilling, action packed Fantasy adventure’ – Damien Larkin
‘Fans of Sanderson will love this one’ – The Bookwrym speaks
In this world Emotions grant incredible powers.
Under the tyrannical grip of the Supreme, the vast Imperium cowers, its citizens shackled by fear and repression. Dreams of liberty have withered for most, buried under the weight of despotism, while potential dissenters lurk silently in the shadows. On the fringes of this oppressive domain, Elian, a young man of unassuming origins, stumbles upon a power within himself that could shift the balance of control.
A dangerous revelation thrusts Elian into the path of the Supreme's most lethal enforcer, compelling him to flee for his life. During his desperate escape, he encounters a band of rebels led by a magnetic leader convinced that the secrets entombed in the ruins of the once-glorious Kingdom of Aeranyth hold the key to their salvation. As Elian joins their perilous quest to unearth these mysteries, he must navigate a maze of challenges. Will he live to ignite the spark of revolution, or will his flame be extinguished in the struggle?
--- Praise for The First Fear---
“This was such a great book! LOVED it!!! Highly recommend!” - Amazon reviewer
"Really good ideas and a fun read!" - Amazon reviewer "Amazing world building" - Amazon reviewer
"Wow I wasn't expecting this book to be so good!" - Good Reads reviewer
"The First Fear is a gripping, action packed tale" - Good Reads reviewer
"Loved how thre magic worked, loved our hero, Elian, can't wait to read more!" - Good Reads reviewer
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.
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!
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.
Anunnaki: Origin of Sumeria
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…
The Kings of the Corona
Justin M. Tarquin
Mauregal wants to marry his girlfriend, run his brewery, and enjoy his friends in sixth-century Britain; but the valley of Palavel is ruled by a series of capricious tyrants whose every whim is enforced by the mysterious Corona. Then a knight and his squire visit with news of a king named Arthur of a different sort, and things begin to change--but the power of the Corona must still be reckoned with. This is a young-adult Arthurian fantasy mystery tale, with a sprinkling of libertarian and Christian themes.
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.
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 is also in the sale as a New Arrival.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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/)
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.
A Princess of Mars:
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Princess of Mars (1917) is a science fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Barsoom series.
Full of swordplay and daring feats, the novel is considered a classic example of 20th century pulp fiction. It is also a seminal instance of the planetary romance, a subgenre of science fantasy that became highly popular in the decades following its publication. Its early chapters also contain elements of the Western.
The story is set on Mars, imagined as a dying planet with a harsh desert environment. This vision of Mars was based on the work of the astronomer Percival Lowell, whose ideas were widely popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Inquisitor's Promise
by Michael P. Marpaung
Young Inquisitor Aeneas Aquilanus made two promises: one to his dying father, the other to his beloved Galatea.
To his father, Aeneas promised to finish his last mission to unify the Holy League and rally them against the apocalyptic threat of the Grey Globe. To Galatea, he promised the aspiring lady knight to become her lord and Inquisitor.
But politics in the 74th century can be violent and complicated. The Five Factions of the Holy League had long seen each other with suspicion. Can they put aside their differences to save Earth?
Even his promise to Galatea is not without problems for Aeneas as he has four additional girls who are in love with him. Each of these five girls are faction princesses, women who have close connections to each of the Five Faction’s leaders.
Love and politics are an explosive combination, but the Inquisitor shall remain true to his pledged word.
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.
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?
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.
Protectors of Pretanni
Book One
Tree in a Heather Field
by Theresa Biehle
Reena, an elderly lady who has Alzheimer's disease, finds it better to escape into her past when things don't go right for her in the real world. As the disease progresses, her mental vacations to her past turn more fantastical, and the real world fades into a bad dream.
Reena's childhood memories begin in England during World War II. She follows a cat into an underground realm occupied by druids where the ley lines merge beneath Stonehenge. She and her sister, Lissie, learn how to read magic runes and help the druids find a path to a new world where they can follow their hopes and dreams of being able to live peacefully with humans: America.
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.
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.
It Came from the Lunchbox
by Eric M. Hamilton
Third grader Kamal Amir discovers a lunchbox that has been abandoned for thirty years. And the contents are alive! Having absorbed several decades' worth of classes, the mysterious creature inside the lunchbox promises to help Kamal with his schoolwork and improve his relationships. But the creature's promises aren't entirely true. As Kamal gets to know him better, he realizes that the creature may have another agenda.
It Came from the Lunchbox is a thrilling, suspenseful, and humorous children's horror story that will keep you on the edge of your seat. With its memorable characters, fast-paced plot, and creepy atmosphere, this book is sure to scare and delight readers of all ages.
Paying homage to great children's horror series like Are You Afraid of the Dark? and Goosebumps, if you love to laugh and have a good scare, this is the book for you!
Watcher of the Damn: Transmutation Texas
R. H. Snow
The Happening wreaked havoc as Humanity got a hard reset from a deadly gender-cidal Virus - and for TransMutated Survivors like The Watcher, life in Post-Apocalyptic Texas just got a whole lot bloodier and a whole lot lonelier. In a cyberpunk Wild West gone awry, The Watcher was a Rebel without a clue under the System: a brutal, high-tech Social Construct engineered to serve the Enlightened and oppress the Damned. But that's all about to change, thanks to a cheeky chaos agent named Rose...
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.
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?
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.
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.
Gemini Warrior
by JD Cowan & Thomas Plutarch
Matthew and Jason are just two nobodies in a city of heroes and villains. But when they are given bracelets that endow them with powers, and then get thrown into a whole new world beyond all reason, they are soon in over their heads! Now they must team up with aliens, battle magical creatures, and get back home before the bombs inside them go off! All that, and they still have to defeat the magical being who sent them there in the first place!.
Gemini Drifter (Gemini Man Book 2)
by J.D. Cowan & Thomas Plutarch
ON THE ROAD TO NOWHERE
Matthew and Jason are on the run. With bounty hunters, magical monsters, and an entire alien world after them, the pair have their work cut out for them. At the same time, a mysterious cult has infiltrated the town of Albion and the only one that can stop them is the Gemini Man.
Can the two fugitives work together to stop the invasion of another world? Or are they doomed to wander the back roads forever? Check out the second book of the Gemini Man trilogy, Gemini Drifter, and find out for yourself!
Gemini Outsider (Gemini Man Book 3)
by J.D. Cowan & Thomas Plutarch
HOME SWEET HOME
Matthew and Jason have finally escaped the forces on their tail. But all is not what it seems in the quaint town of Riverview. Hidden monsters and psycho killers emerge from the shadows to drag them back into the void. A madman closes in! But can they even fight back without their powers?
The final test begins for the Gemini Man in the third book in the Gemini Man series, Gemini Outsider! What does it mean to live in peace? Read on and find out!
Gemini Destroyer: An Epilogue (Gemini Man Book 4)
by J.D. Cowan & Thomas Plutarch
THE END IS HERE
The Great Sorcerer King is dying, and his path to Earth is sealed. In a last bid effort to smash the Gemini Man and curse his enemies, he has decided to use his remaining power for one last assault on those who wronged him. Now it is time for the final battle.
Gemini Destroyer is the final book in the Gemini Man series, collecting two crowdfunded novellas into one volume for the first time. Gemini Dreamer deals with two fugitives from Riverview as they discover the truth behind the power that wrecked their lives. Gemini Destroyer is the last story, following the Great Sorcerer King's final bid for control over the Gemini Man, his home planet, and the Earth.
Can Matthew and Jason finally put a stop to their sworn enemy? Find out in this final book!
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 *FREE*
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!
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.
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
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!
The Altar of My Fate (The Rosteval Saga Book 1)
by Michael R. Schultheiss
Book 1 of 5: The Rosteval Saga
A WARRIOR’S EPIC QUEST FOR ADVENTURE, GLORY, AND THE SPOILS OF WAR
Trained to the warrior’s path, Rosteval yearns for glory and craves adventure in unknown lands.
Leading the war-band he created, he sets off on a quest to brave a formidable desert and the swords and arrows of a growing number of enemy tribes.
He expected the mounting dangers… but he didn’t expect Ghaitta, the beautiful slave-girl with a secret… and the power and peril of an ancient altar, an artifact of the vanished Shaper race.
As his enemies multiply, Rosteval is forced to confront an immortal adversary and the looming specter of defeat. Can Rosteval and Ghaitta avert disaster, and claim the fateful power of the ancient Shaper altar?
What reviewers are saying:
★★★★★“The author was able to really capture the spirit of the ancient warrior with a dash of fantasy lore. The result is a true epic, a classic in my opinion.” ~INFAMOUS REVIEWER
★★★★★“Adventure abounds in this wonderfully flawed character. You won't get neat little wrapped up packages here.” ~Amazon Reviewer
“Game of Thrones meets Conan the Barbarian in this epic tale of adventure.” ~Reedsy Discovery
“An epic narrative describing an incredibly vast world and steeped in exceptional character development.” ~Literary Titan
◆Now an Amazon #1 Best-Seller — Action & Adventure Fantasy
◆Winner of the Firebird Book Award (Epic Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery)
Pack Dynamics
Julie Frost
After seven horrific months as a POW, Army Ranger-turned-PI Ben Lockwood just wants a safe, boring life. With his boss on vacation, he takes an easy case of pharmaceutical espionage he can work from his desk.
“Easy.” Ha.
Now he's caught in a three-way collision course between a ruthless werewolf on the hunt for a cure for his dying vampire wife, a mad scientist whose multinational company doesn't even research supernatural medicine--and himself. Ben's nanotech-injected blood holds the key to the vampire's recovery, and the werewolf doesn't much care if he lives or dies in the harvesting.
Ben thought he was done fighting wars when he got home from Afghanistan, but his hard-won sanity and his girlfriend's life are both at risk. He'd rather die than lose either. The battle lines are drawn in a billionaire's basement, and retreat isn't an option. No matter how outgunned he is.
Dark Day, Bright Hour
Julie Frost
A choir girl cast into the Pit through an egregious clerical error
Her strapping Guardian Angel
A condemned hitman
... and Derek
--a crossroads demon who's been secretly storing up power for millennia.
He wants revenge on everyone on his extensive list, from Lucifer all the way up to Daddy and every devil and angel between. It's a frankly impossible goal for a low-level guy like him, but "dream big" is his motto and sheer spite keeps him going.
Now he’s stuck escorting three idiots through Hell—and Derek has a history with the angel, thanks very much.
An infernal rebellion looms along with a premature Armageddon, and the black and withered thing Derek used to call a conscience rears its stupid, stupid head. He's faced with a choice.
Rescue friends he never thought he'd make from a boss he never really thought he'd defy, at the possible cost of his life, such as it is...
Or let it all burn and dance in the ashes.
Distopia (Land of Dis Book 1)
by Robert Kroese
In a land where dragons are a historical footnote and theology is a contact sport, a hapless missionary named Wyngalf embarks on a divine mission with the enthusiasm of a zealot and the competence of a beached fish. Armed with the teachings of the obscure Noninitarian faith—devoted to a God with nine conflicting personalities—Wyngalf sets out to bring enlightenment to the mysterious land of Dis. What begins as a fool’s errand quickly spirals into an epic misadventure involving pirates, monsters, incoherent prophecies, and a girl who really should know better.
Between a dragon who has cornered the real estate market, a goblin who is too smart for his own good, and a sea monster that is no less terrifying for being metaphorical, Wyngalf’s journey is a hilarious and heartfelt exploration of faith, doubt, and the persistent human desire to make sense of a nonsensical world.
Smart, satirical, and sneakily profound, Distopia is high fantasy with low expectations—and somehow all the better for it.
Asterius (Timelessness)
by Susana Imaginário
My Name is Asterius, yet I have never seen the stars.
You all know me as the Minotaur.
This is my story.
The Minotaur himself relates to a mysterious listener the events that led to his death in the Labyrinth as he reflects upon the meaning of good versus evil, right versus wrong and monsters versus heroes.
To Trick a Trickster: Timelessness Book 0.5 is a Fantasy New Arrival
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!
Blades Against Fear: A Wandering Sword Short Story (Wandering Sword Short Stories)
by Erik Waag
Coin is easy and duties are light protecting fat merchants on the King's Highway outside of Tonsaare.
At least that was the hope the wandering mercenaries, Skarde and Belgeti.
Now their paymasters are dead and a thing of dread stalks the pastoral hills under a cloak of fear. However, the two adventurers do not make such easy marks.
How can steel and muscle defend against a creature of dread legendry? Only the brave shall overcome.
This short story first appeared in Anvil™: Iron Age Magazine #2.
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.
Rebirths: A Tale of Azuran
by Frank B. Luke
Enraged at the Almighty after losing everything, Derke turns to black magic in hopes of restoring his old life. But the evil one demands a terrible price. Derke, once blessed, stands at the edge of a cliff, ready to lose himself to darkness.
Amazon Customer Review:
I really liked this story. Derke is a priest (miracle-man) whose faith is crushed when he loses his family to a plague. A hope of regaining them is extended by a woman who tempts him to abandon his faith and follow her. Derke does. He leaves all of his former life behind and delves deep into the dark magical arts of necromancy to try and recover his wife and children.
But his faith calls him back. He struggles and fights against what he knows is right in his heart.
The matters of faith in this story are derived straight from the Christian viewpoint. There is more than simple allusion to the Christian faith, it is a Fantasy story steeped in a Christian world.
The Buick Eight (Joshua's Pawn Shop Book 1)
by Frank B. Luke
Joshua's Pawn Shop. If you find Joshua's Pawn Shop, you need Joshua's. Usually, you don't even know what you've lost, but at Joshua's you get a second chance.
Years ago, Simon Johnson made a choice that changed his life for the worse. He's looking to start over. After he sells some old jewelry tonight, he'll send the divorce papers tomorrow. That's the plan, anyway. At Joshua's Pawn Shop, he'll be given a different way to start over. The cost: he'll have to not only let a tragedy happen, he'll have to witness it.
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.
Chalk (Raven Mistcreek Book 1)
by N.R. LaPoint
Catholic schoolgirl Raven Mistcreek has no memory. Her family is missing, her home is gone, and she is being hunted by monsters. Why do demonic forces want her dead? Is her family still alive? And why do her chalk drawings become real? Across the Qualitative Continuum, levels of reality are sinking lower. A colossal terror lies sleeping.
Waiting.
A Chronology of Victory: The Published Fiction and Poetry (Complete Short Fiction and Poetry of Joshua Hiles)
by Joshua Hiles (Author)
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
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 Sample to taste more supernatural thrills and chills in this award-nominated story.
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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
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.
Reservations
Richard Paolinelli
DEATH STALKS THE RES
Who – or what – is killing members of the Navajo tribe? RESERVATIONS, the first book of the Jack Del Rio political mystery/thriller series, is set near Gallup, New Mexico, where the Navajo, Hopi and Zuni reservations lie adjacent. Three tribal leaders have been murdered - murdered in a fashion that suggests the deeds were carried out by COYOTE, a legendary supernatural evil trickster feared by many Native Americans.
The tribal president contacts an old friend in the FBI for assistance in solving the crimes and preventing more murders. Star agent, Jack Del Rio, is dispatched to New Mexico where he finds a situation tangled in political intrigue. Jack must work his way through those issues on his way to solving the mystery. Sparks fly as Navajo police officer Lucy Chee is assigned to assist him in his quest.
Question is can Del Rio and Chee solve the mystery and find the killer before he strikes again? Because the killer is on the hunt and he has his sights on Del Rio himself.
Hell Spawn: A Catholic Action Horror Novel
(St. Tommy N.Y.P.D. Book 1)
Declan Finn
My name is Officer Thomas Nolan, and I am a saint.
I can smell evil. I show mercy to the lesser criminals - the desperate. Even those I've put behind bars seem to like me. But now there's a serial killer bringing darkness beyond imagination to my city. I can smell his stench a mile away. But how can I prove it?
How do you do forensics on a killer possessed by a demon?
Lupus Dei: A St. Tommy NYPD Short Story
(St. Tommy N.Y.P.D.)
by Declan Finn
For his own good, Detective Thomas Nolan has been sent abroad as part of the NYPD intelligence division.
But when Nolan awakes in the middle of the Italian wilderness, stripped naked and hunted by witches, he might find it safer back in New York.
These witches want to hunt the most dangerous game, but this one may be the most dangerous of all.
Principle Necromancy: A St. Tommy NYPD Short Story (#2) (St. Tommy N.Y.P.D.)
by Declan Finn (Author)
When NYPD transplant Thomas Nolan stopped a writer from assaulting a film director, he thought it was another day in Rome.
But he was led there by the scent of evil, and an irked author was the least of the problems in set.
The leading lady hides in the shadows, the lead is a fugitive, and the screenplay author may lack a pulse.
Tommy knew Hollywood was murder, but he hoped the victims at least stayed dead.
They Burn Witches, Don’t They?: A St. Tommy NYPD Short Story (#3) (St. Tommy N.Y.P.D.)
by Declan Finn (Author)
When body parts end up on the front lawn of a cop, Detective Tommy Nolan would be the first on the scene. But he’s unavailable, driven out of the city by corrupt cops and more corrupt politicians
Tommy’s partner, Detective Alex Packard is a normal cop who knows that the supernatural can kill. With the local priest as a consultant and the ME at his side, they must dig into the rash of human sacrifices all over the city, and how it ties into Tommy’s past. With no powers of his own, Packard must face off against a coven of monsters.
Can he manage on his own? Or will he be next on the sacrificial altar?
Vessel: A St. Tommy NYPD Short Story (#4) (St. Tommy N.Y.P.D.)
by Josh Griffing (Author), Declan Finn (Author)
It’s a simple job. Those are the worst kind.
Basic Method Three is to make chaos, exploit it, resolve it, and take the credit. It should be straightforward, and without Saint Tommy around, it shouldn’t take all week.
Lim Tong, head of Division Four, Beijing’s agency for tracing and acquiring supernatural weaponry, brought his team through the Blue Saint incident with only a fraction of their force left and nothing to show for it. So when the Politburo gets a lead on the Holy Grail itself coming to a golf course down in Georgia, the Division heads down South for a chance at redemption.
But capturing the most famous relic in Christendom takes more than a simple smash-and-grab. And the Grail has powers of its own.
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?
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The Wise of Heart
Hans G. Schantz
The Courtroom Drama of Biological Science Versus Transgenderism That Brings the Scopes Monkey Trial Up To Date For The Twenty-First Century.
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.
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.
What You Meant For Evil
by Theodore D. C. Cox
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
"What You Meant for Evil is a riveting story. It is especially powerful as it illustrates so many of the struggles that Syrians have gone through over the last 10 years."
-- Jeffrey Hayes, author of Back to the Books! How much do the Bible and the Qur'an actually agree?
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.
Buckingham Runner
by Frederick Gero Heimbach
I’m sixteen and I’m living in a prison. It’s called Buckingham Palace. I’m Alfred, Prince of Wales.
My parents are dead. My grandma–the Queen–has lost her mind. My only friend is an alcoholic corgi named Wormwood. I’m being raised by bureaucrats. Who hate me.
The tabloids call me ROYAL BRAT. That’s for getting kicked out of Eton. For setting fire to the chapel. And stabbing the headmaster in the foot with a syringe.
I’m doing a runner. Someone’s got to help me!
Maybe those kids can. Yeah, them. In the Westminster School uniforms. The clever clogs, raising their hands, answering the teacher’s questions. The athlete, the genius, the girlboss, the babe. Each with a brilliant future. At Oxford. Or Cambridge.
Would they throw that away for my sake? Would they risk getting sacked from London’s top school to help a poor tosser like me? When guards are watching my every move, listening in on every conversation? Me, with a bloody GPS tracker in my hip?
I’m a hot mess. They’ve got it all together. I’m a prisoner. They can go anywhere. I’ll never escape–unless they take pity on me.
They better. I’m this close to striking the match that burns Buckingham Palace to the ground.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
The Spark
By Dale F. Saran
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants. It is its natural manure."
It is 2025 and the Progressive States of America has replaced the United States of America after another hotly disputed election. El Unico - an insurgent group - arises in the aftermath - and it takes Thomas Jefferson seriously.
A nameless veteran of the Afghan wars begins his diatribes on the Dark Web, where hackers and revolutionaries are a dime a dozen and three-letter agencies watch for enemies at the behest of corrupt politicians.
An unknown sacrifices her and her family's lives trying to create an algorithm that reveals corruption at the highest levels of government, setting in motion a chain of events that threatens to forever alter the form of the Republic.
Man of the House
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.
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
Smart and Sexy: The evolutionary origins and biological underpinnings of cognitive differences between the sexes
by Roderick Kaine
Intelligence differences between men and women, which are both real and substantially meaningful, are due primarily to hormonal influences on brain development and pseudo-dominance of the X chromosome working in combination. This book provides the evidence for this assertion, explores why we evolved this way, and discusses the various real-world consequences of this biological fact.
Roderick Kaine
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Some books open vistas of thought. Smart and SeXy may challenge all of your conceptions of gender, but it will not do so in the trivial way that mainstream media does, but instead will encourage you to look inside the theory to see what resonates.
For many of us, Smart and SeXy goes right on the shelf as a reference because it consolidates over 300 citations to peer-reviewed science journals describing the most recent research in genetics, sociology and human behavior. These links are invaluable, as are the factual data compiled using them; Kaine frequently cites a dozen studies on a page, and ties together the different statistics and facts to show a more complete picture of the issue than is offered anywhere else.
The thesis of the book is that males, who have only one copy of the X chromosome, experience greater cognitive benefits as a result of the intelligence-related genes that are not suppressed by a second X chromosome which has conflicting traits which can pre-empt intelligence-related genes.
What makes this book powerful is that, while it is clearly well-versed in the science, it is not exclusively science and extends its domain to what was once called critical thinking or logical analysis, which is an ability to deduce from contrasts and conflicts what is possibly true... All of the thinking here is tiered in steps to a conclusion, and Kaine compiles some of the more interesting theories he has found in his reading and incorporates them into his own thinking, choosing the best option for each step of the ladder.
As befits a book whose thesis rests mostly on genetics and breeding patterns, Smart and SeXy begins with a review of human genetics and an explanation of gene expression, especially of intelligence-based genes. It then progresses to explain how duplicate genes can pre-empt one another, and how this can lead to fewer beneficial traits; at that point, it moves into assessments of male intelligence and explanation for differences in behavior between the sexes in addition to intelligence and personality differences. From there, it launches into the political theory half of the book, which starts by exploring the nature of feminism, the institutions that support it, and the effects it has. After that, Kane races toward his thesis: feminism is literally killing us off by destroying natural and healthy breeding patterns that favor intelligence, leading to a death spiral and crash as Idiocracy paves the way for ethnic replacement.
Description by Brett Stevens. Amerika.
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 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.
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.
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."
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The books reviewed are, in order:
Pirates of the Electromagnetic Waves
The Complete Father Brown Mysteries ($.99 Mystery Classics)
One Bright Star to Guide Them
Of All The Gin Joints In The Universe
Escape From the Future and Other Stories
Inquisitor's Promise
Iron Chamber of Memory
Paradox (6 book series)
The Kings of the Corona
Somewhither
An Inconvenient Presidency: The Time-Traveling Misadventures of President Al Gore (Presidents of the Uncanny States of America)
Hell Spawn: A Catholic Action Horror Novel