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The war that erupted with a Soviet orbital strike on Western Europe now rages across the globe. Alliances falter, empires fall, and dictators drive all before them. In the White House, President Kolhammer faces enemies abroad and a nemesis at home.

By 2052, the Empire spans continents, ruling from its capital in New York. Generations of constant war have consolidated the monarchy’s power and reduced Parliament to a puppet. Censorship, violence, and control govern daily life. But the thirst for freedom never fully died. They tried—five times—to win it back. Each time, they failed. Now, a sudden rupture inside the Royal Family has changed everything. And the fractured, sometimes competing rebels have their best chance in a generation to strike.

LIDAR scans of the area beneath the Great Pyramids have revealed something astonishing. An entire city lies beneath the sands, hidden for countless millennia, remembered only by the ancient priests of the early dynastic Egyptians. Thoth left behind the Emerald Tablets to explain what lies within the Halls of Amenti, a place that transcends life and death. There he met 32 immortal sages, and became the 33rd so that he could pass the knowledge onto the Egyptians.

In Ray Nayler’s speculative novel of the recent past, four young teens caught between Nazis and the Red Army survive winter in the woods with the help of a flock of highly intelligent crows with a magnificent secret of their own to protect. Neriya, a young Jewish girl who dreams of becoming a...

Time's Arrow by Martin Amis is a forthcoming title from Farrar, Straus and Giroux...

Freshly escaped from the caverns of "Home," the Clemens-Bemis Expedition welcomes two young women: bold Hazel and resourceful Conifer. Their journey starts with a bang when they dynamite their way free of the Vallis Alpes, hot on the heels of a renegade member turned outlaw. The pursuit lands them in Lobster Gulch, a rowdy mining outpost brimming with danger, dynamite, and dubious characters.

The Kael'Nyrin Scrolls: Our Children of Starlight is a fusion of speculative fiction and philosophical enquiry, positing that humanity is the product of ancient cosmic stewardship. The story centres on the Kael'Nyrin, trans-dimensional beings of a Kardashev III society, who were master orchestrators guiding life across the cosmos. We, humanity, are their "children of starlight." Their existence is exposed when the Scrolls are found in a crystalline obelisk in the Mariana Trench.

Led by a man willing to risk everything for power and conquest, armed with technology a hundred years ahead of ours—technology promising salvation to its allies and doom to its enemies—and drawing on a far deeper military history, the Protectorate Expeditionary Force has arrived to invade and incorporate our world into the greatest empire the multiverse has ever known, or die trying.

Eine gescheiterte Mission ... bei der Unschuldige starben … Die Flucht vor einer ungerechtfertigten Inhaftierung war nicht das, was Connor im Sinn hatte. Aber an Bord des ersten interstellaren Kolonieschiffs der Erde in Stasis versetzt zu werden, war etwas, worauf er sich nicht hätte vorbereiten können. Für dreihunderttausend Kolonisten brachte die neue Kolonie das Versprechen eines Neuanfangs … eine zweite Chance. Connor mochte der falsche Mann für die Kolonie sein, aber er konnte dafür sorgen, dass sie die kommenden Ereignisse überleben würde.

Suna Levents Treiben als Hackerin im Auftrag der Kadoguchi-Stiftung ist hochgradig illegal. Illegal, aber harmlos – denn wer sich für Informationen über „Particulae", „Ark" und „Türen" interessiert, bei dem kann es sich doch nur um einen von diesen Esoterik-Spinnern handeln. Oder? Als Sunas Dasein von jetzt auf gleich auf dem Spiel steht, ist sie sich da plötzlich nicht mehr so sicher. Dabei bleiben Suna lediglich drei Sekunden, um eine Entscheidung über Leben und Tod zu treffen. Für sich und andere...

An ancient secret order called The Children of Seth banished the forces of hell from Earth centuries ago. Believing the war was over, the order became weakened by bureaucracy and decadence in our modern days. However, the evil forces had returned, and it was time for the order to call upon their legendary warriors, the Stone-wielders.

"The Tunguska Incident" is a thrilling steampunk adventure that bends historical events, speculative science and mystical forces into man engaging narrative. Set against the backdrop of the early 20th century, the novel reimagines the famous Tunguska event as the result of powerful and secretive technological experiments, intersecting with ancient, ethereal forces.

A down-on-his-luck ex-detective, a jittery professor suspected of murder, and a mystery they can't solve without each other. If Norman Melamourne, a Source-hating ex-detective, had things his way, the Source wouldn't have snapped into existence twenty years ago. After all, it's the reason his wife lost her life; he lost his job, and now even his favorite restaurants use Source-processed ingredients. He can taste the difference, and it's awful. When a consulting position lands on his plate, it leaves a bad taste, too.

Fifty years after the asteroid-mining ship Anaconda was transported by a space-time warp four centuries back in time, its crew members have changed the face of the planet they call New Earth. The African slave trade is shut down, 23rd century technology and ideas are dominant in North America while making inroads in South America and Japan, a modern consumer economy has spread from the Mediterranean into Russia, and the once-great imperial states of Europe are undergoing political and religious turmoil.

Una strana nuvola compare nel cielo e, in un lampo, quattro colleghi si ritrovano catapultati in un’altra realtà. Prima, un paesaggio sconosciuto e un camion militare alleato che si avvicina. Un altro lampo… e tutto cambia di nuovo. Ora, insieme a tre soldati della Seconda Guerra Mondiale, scoprono di essere finiti nella Roma di Tiberio. Per sopravvivere in un mondo tanto affascinante quanto spietato, dovranno trovare dentro di sé risorse inaspettate, affrontare pericoli e riscrivere il proprio destino.

After a global cataclysm wipes the slate clean, erasing centuries of culture, knowledge, and identity, the surviving civilization clings to a fabricated past designed by the ruling Unity Council. Dr. Vivian Calloway—a devoted historian—has spent years crafting the official narrative, innocently building the myths her government demands.

Time may be many things, but it is definitely not on our side. It always wins, no matter how much we struggle against it. Tales Out of Time: Writer on Demand, Vol. 3 includes four stories.

Five hundred and twenty years. Five characters. Two realities. A girl born without a mouth or stomach. A woman whose voice can be heard by everyone. A man who can hear the wishes of the gods. A prince trapped in a nightmare. A trailblazer searching for something impossible to understand.

Dr. Cynthia Holloway has been haunted since childhood, when a storm stole her family and set her on a path to fight climate change. Rising through the ranks of the EPA she spearheads the radical Climate Adaptation Program—a last attempt to reorganize humanity into survival “Sects” . But as governments collapse and natural disasters escalate, even adaptation proves futile.

The United States and its NATO allies prepare a desperate Hail Mary: a knockout blow to end the war in a matter of months. At the same time, the Soviets ratchet up the war of attrition, a grim strategy designed to grind the West into dust. But behind the lines, a political shakeup in Moscow spells a different kind of trouble. Social unrest and the strain of total war send cracks spiderwebbing across the Eastern Bloc. The tension is high, and something is about to snap. Is this the beginning of the end . . . or will the fires of war burn out of control?