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The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements: You can hope to win the lottery and draw a ticket on a colony ship settling off-world...or you can join the service. With the colony lottery a pipe dream, Andrew chooses to enlist in the armed forces for a shot at real food, a retirement bonus, and maybe a ticket off Earth. 

The sixteen stories and two screenplays that make up Volume One of the Emmy® Award–winning Netflix Original series Love, Death & Robots.

The world doesn’t end with fire. It ends with a notification you can feel in your bones. Alec West was just trying to keep a remote communications relay alive when reality stutters—then rewrites itself. The sky fractures into a vast geometric lattice. The ground splits with impossible blue-white seams. And a force racing across the mountains—the First Wave—turns ordinary rules into a new kind of math.

The story of rookie pilot Lt. Halley's first drop ship command. (A short story in the Terms of Enlistment universe.)

Earth's armed forces have stopped the Lanky advance and chased their ships out of the solar system, but for CDC officer Andrew Grayson, the war feels anything but won. On Mars, the grinding duty of flushing out the twenty-meter-tall alien invaders from their burrows underground is wearing down troops and equipment at an alarming rate. And for the remaining extrasolar colonies, the threat of a Lanky attack is ever present.

The assault on Earth was thwarted by the destruction of the aliens' seed ship, but with Mars still under Lanky control, survivors work frantically to rebuild fighting capacity and shore up planetary defenses. Platoon sergeant Andrew Grayson must crash-course train new volunteers—all while dulling his searing memories of battle with alcohol and meds.

It’s been four years since Earth threw its full military prowess against the Lanky incursion. Humanity has been yanked back from the abyss of extinction. The solar system is at peace. For now. The future for Major Andrew Grayson of the Commonwealth Defense Corps and his wife, Halley? Flying desk duty on the front. No more nightmares of monstrous things. No more traumas to the mind and body. But when an offer comes down from above, Andrew has to make a choice: continue pushing papers into retirement, or jump right back into the fight? What’s a podhead to do?

Nine hundred light-years from home, Major Andrew Grayson and the crew of NACS Washington are marooned in a sunless system with limited water, reactor fuel, and food. The last hope for survival is to go where nothing human has gone before. After embarking on a scouting mission to the only moon with surface signs of life, Andrew and his Special Tactics Team make two startling discoveries. One is a dream: a form of protein and plant life that could save the starving humans in the rogue system. The second is a nightmare: this harvested rock is infested with Lankies.

Across the six-planet expanse of the Gaia System, the Earthlike Gretia struggles to stabilize in the wake of an interplanetary war. Amid an uneasy alliance to maintain economies, resources, and populations, Aden Robertson reemerges. After devoting fifteen years of his life to the reviled losing side, with the blood of half a million casualties on his hands, Aden is looking for a way to move on. He’s not the only one. A naval officer has borne witness to inconceivable attacks on a salvaged fleet. A sergeant with the occupation forces is treading increasingly hostile ground.

I died. Then I woke up as a glowing rock in a cold, wet cave. No body. No hands. Just mana, a bad attitude, and a pack of adventurers who want to crack me open for loot. Blake got hit by a car. He came back as a Dungeon Core. Now he goes by Nightshard, and his only company is Twinkle, a fairy the Bureau of Magical Regulation assigned to babysit him. Learn to build a dungeon, manage resources, and keep it together, or the Bureau decides he is too unstable to keep around. Nightshard has one thing the other dungeons down here do not: a software engineer's brain. Programmer's logic.

The Code is Broken. The Void is Hungry. It's Time to Rewrite the Rules. Jake Mercer has survived the initial crash, but hiding in a bunker won't save New Harbor. The System is glitching, reality is tearing at the seams, and a new threat—the Glitch King—is terraforming the city into a digital nightmare. To fight back, Jake must evolve from a survivor into an Admin.

Vicious interstellar conflict with an indestructible alien species. Bloody civil war over the last habitable zones of the cosmos. Political unrest, militaristic police forces, dire threats to the solar system. Humanity is on the ropes, and after years of fighting a two-front war with losing odds, so is Commonwealth Defense Corps officer Andrew Grayson.

Geopolitical Alpha – An Investment Framework for Predicting the Future provides listeners with an original and compelling approach to forecasting the future and beating the markets while doing so. Persuasively written by author, investment strategist, and geopolitical analyst Marko Papic, the book applies a novel framework for making sense of the cacophony of geopolitical risks with the eye towards generating investment-relevant insights.

Hoch oben im Norden, wo das Polarlicht gleißt und die Winter unendlich hart sind, wohnt der kleine Niklas. Ein Unglück hat seine Familie ausgelöscht. Nun lebt er bei den bitterarmen Fischern des winzigen Dorfes Korvajoki. Jede Familie nimmt ihn für ein Jahr bei sich auf. Und immer hinterlässt er kleine Abschiedsgeschenke für die Kinder, mit denen er gespielt und gelacht hat.

The alien forces known as the Lankies are gathering on the solar system's edge, consolidating their conquest of Mars and setting their sights on Earth. The far-off colony of New Svalbard, cut off from the rest of the galaxy by the Lanky blockade, teeters on the verge of starvation and collapse. The forces of the two Earth alliances have won minor skirmishes but are in danger of losing the war.

Elena used to debug broken systems for a living. Now she’s trapped inside one. When reality starts rendering like bad code, Elena wakes inside a game-structured world that marks her as an anomaly from the start. The rules don’t fit. The tutorial breaks around her. Invisible walls stop...

They called us threats. Today, we become legends.In a future where society fears “System Users” like me, we don't hide in the shadows—we step into the spotlight.I’m Kai. A Level 10 Network Hub user, bonded to a team of elite women each with powers as deadly as they are beautiful...

Suomalaisessa kansanperinteessä painajaisella tarkoitettiin nukkujan päälle hyökkäävää olentoa, joka salpasi uhriltaan hengen. Painajaisen taustalla oli jokin pahantahtoinen toimija, kuten kateellinen naapuri tai loukattu vainaja, joka kulki öisin vahingoittamassa ihmisiä ja eläimiä...

Mars has been under Lanky control for more than a year. Since then, the depleted forces of Earth's alliances have rebuilt their fleets, staffing old warships with freshly trained troops. Torn between the need to beat the Lankies to the punch and taking enough time to put together an effective fighting force, command has decided to strike now.

For generations, the urban legend of Granny Hatchet has plagued the quiet residential area of Suvikylä in northern Finland. As the story goes, this immortal killer murders her victims with a hatchet then buries the hearts in a potato field and eats them after they've rotted black. But not everyone is convinced it is just a story.