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2082: The Weight of Memory. The Future in Ten Stories. The year is 2082. Humanity has survived the crises it once feared — but survival has come at a cost. Across ten cities, towns and villages worldwide, ordinary lives are caught in extraordinary systems. Memory can be copied, traded or...

An empty mansion sitting on a hundred acres of waterfront property. A long lost friend with the deal of a lifetime. A family lost at sea. And an old woman with a memory that may hold the key to it all. Richie and Lisa Craine thought they were going to a high school reunion to laugh together about the Homecoming King’s receding hairline and the Homecoming Queen’s aged skin. They felt good about where they’d ended up in life twenty years after graduation. And then along came Fredrick Patterson.

Jedes Mitglied der Omega Force hat seine eigene Vergangenheit. Die meisten von ihnen fliehen davor, oder sie wollen sie einfach vergessen. Aber ein Mitglied der kleinen Söldnercrew ist nicht das, was er vorgibt. Als sein ehemaliges Leben mit seinem jetzigen kollidiert, wird das Team in einen Konflikt gezogen, der tiefgehende Konsequenzen für die Zukunft einer ganzen Gattung haben könnte.

SENTRY OF THE SKY AND OTHER STORIES is part of the Evelyn E. Smith series published by Unforgotten Books, and includes the stories: NOT FIT FOR CHILDREN, SENTRY OF THE SKY, THE MAN OUTSIDE, and JACK OF NO TRADES. Evelyn E. Smith wrote fabulously witty and imaginative science fiction and satirical stories throughout the 1950's, and this collection is part of a series re-issuing those works and concurrently producing the audiobook editions.

A snowstorm brings a wild and dangerous visitor. A journalist encounters more Indians than he bargained for. A widow is chosen as a companion by a ghost cat. A package is left on a doorstep, a door to alternate universes. These are things you can't predict. They come from places unknown. And the endings. Who knows how it will end? But when the unexpected happens, what choice do we havebut to walk toward it headfirst? Whatever we discover,life moves forward. If it feels strange, so be it.

This anthology explores themes of cyclical traps, inescapable realities, and the dark forces that manipulate human fate. Each story presents a protagonist believing they have found an exit—whether through logic, escape, or discovery—only to realize they are bound deeper within a predetermined, often supernatural, loop.

Every ten years, the mysterious world of Eleutheria opens its planetary shields and invites outsiders to compete in the Palingenesi Agon. A series of strange and ancient contests said to honor rebirth, renewal, and the power of the human spirit. For Ledesma, a scholar obsessed with uncovering the secrets of this matriarchal society, it’s the opportunity of a lifetime. But the Games are far more than tests of skill. They are a selection process. And the true prize may not be wealth or citizenship, but something far more unsettling.

These are side quests. Parallel threads. Moments and consequences that don’t fit neatly into Ren’s forward march, but still matter to the world. You’ll see what other guilds are doing. How districts react. What happens in the gaps between major events. Deals made off-screen. Conflicts that ripple outward instead of upward. This is not required listening to follow the core series. You won’t miss plot beats if you skip it. But if you’ve ever caught yourself thinking: What happened to that faction? How did this situation actually play out? Why does the world feel like it shifted here?

The Final Transaction is the opening arc of Helstalgia, a cyberpunk LitRPG series set inside a digital city where survival, reputation, and corporate control are written into the system itself. Rexil steals a data fragment from the Flux Jackals, a netrunner faction with teeth in all the wrong places. The fragment has unknown origins, corrupted metadata, and one brutal problem: the system binds it to his inventory. He can’t drop it. He can’t delete it. The only way to get rid of it is to convince someone else to take it.

Murder, fame, technological dread, and twisted desire converge in Twelve Nails in the Coffin, a brutal collection of stories that drags the reader into the darkest recesses of the modern mind. Across twelve unsettling tales, you will move from the claustrophobic isolation of an obsessed artist's studio to the suffocating depths of a nightclub where life is cheap. Each story exposes a different fracture in human nature, ambition rotting into violence, loneliness curdling into obsession, and technology becoming a quiet accomplice to horror.

A disrespected ship, exiled to lonely patrol in the dark corners of the solar system. A crew of screw-ups, written off by the entire fleet. They're about to change everything. If they don't blow themselves up first. Join the Endurance's crew - a trigger-happy first officer, a hyperactive...

The Silence was a forty-year lie. The Hunger is the final truth. For four decades, the world has belonged to the women. After Elara Vance’s viral "Silence" erased the male sex, humanity rebuilt itself in the image of peace. The Republic of Neo-Genoa and the New York Archive rose as monuments to a world without "friction." But the cradle was always a cage. Now, the first generation of synthetic men—the "New Men"—has reached maturity. It was supposed to be the dawn of a restored species. Instead, it is the trigger for the Vance Fail-Safe.

Am Rand der bekannten Galaxis stoßen zwei abgebrannte Weltraum-Schürfer auf ein verlassenes Schiff - und wecken vier formlose Wesen aus dem Kryo-Schlaf. Vor ihren Augen verwandeln sich die Kreaturen in perfekte Doppelgänger! Eine Generation danach führt Minarel Tarkin ein hochprofitables, streng geheimes Unternehmen: Sie vermietet Simipathen - Gestaltwandler mit nahezu unzerstörbaren Körpern - an die Reichen, Mächtigen und Kriminellen. Doch als eine Simipathin verschwindet, wird aus dem Geschäft ein Überlebenskampf.

Centuries after a devastating war shattered Earth’s ecology, humanity clings to survival under the doctrine of “The Balance” a belief that nature must recover without human interference. But Gwendolyn Robbins, Director of Genetics at the Wildlife Foundation, sees a dying world that cannot heal on its own. Defying the Council’s orders, she dares to recreate the creatures of legend, pegasi and unicorns, from the genetic remnants of the Ancestors. As politics, fear, and faith collide, Gwendolyn’s work may hold the key to restoring life, or doom what remains of it.

A thrilling and cataclysmic collection of city-smashing titans and the desperate coalitions of humanity clinging to survival in the wreckage, from the New York Times bestselling and multiple award-winning editors. Featuring bestselling and award-winning authors such as Tananarive Due...

Some love stories feel written in the stars. Others feel like warnings we ignored from the beginning. Zodiac Romances is a cinematic urban romance anthology inspired by the emotional energy of the zodiac signs — exploring passion, obsession, vulnerability, heartbreak, emotional growth, and the complicated ways people love. Each chapter follows a different couple. Different chemistry. Different struggles. Different outcomes. An Aries falls too fast. A Taurus loves hard enough to become controlling. A Gemini struggles with emotional consistency. A Scorpio confuses obsession with destiny.

Archy is all grown up, so it is only fitting that now he is fighting vampires in a dark castle.

Death. Survival. Eternity. When asteroids destroy the massive spaceship, Keep, home to a billion souls, a small group of survivors faces the ultimate test of humanity. Keshawn, consumed by grief over his girlfriend's death, refuses evacuation until forcibly saved by his closest friend. His...

Para alguns, a tecnologia é o prenúncio do fim do mundo. Para outros, é apenas o começo de uma nova era. Renomado escritor de ficção científica, autor dos best-sellers Matéria escura e Recursão, Blake Crouch convidou grandes nomes da literatura contemporânea para traçar histórias audaciosas que mergulham nos desdobramentos que os avanços tecnológicos acarretam à humanidade.

Jeder Verlust ein Gewinn! Pina Parasol ist professionelle Verliererin. Aufregende Abenteuer warten, wann immer sie für ihre Kundschaft etwas verschwinden lassen soll. Quer über die Kontinente führen Pinas Reisen – von Paris aus in die flirrende Hitze der ägyptischen Wüste, an eisige Plätze in der Antarktis und in geheimnisvolle Meerestiefen. In vierzehn Kurzgeschichten entdeckt Pina die Welt, ihre schönen Seiten und die bedrohlichen Schatten eines nahenden Übels.