Andrew Dickson, a retiring space pirate, stumbles across an old friend – one who ran off with a five million dollar prize she swiped from his crew some years back. What started out as a farewell party turns into a dangerous chase to retrieve the long-lost artifact that she pilfered from them.Frozen- Enter the future with Verick Cedar, a 16 year old boy who will be “Trick or Treating” for the first time. The world as we know it has come to the end, with the invasion of The Xecerptavode, an alien race that infused the land, drained all the fresh water, and forced the humans to live in destitute conditions. Join Verick on what could be his first and last All Hallows Eve.A Grim Tale- Over eight centuries the burden of reaping the dead has become routine for Cyrene. Tonight, the grim reaper sheds a little light into the world of the undead. As she goes about her normal collection, find out what the history books aren’t telling you.The Rabbit Hole-Trick or Treating and costume parties are for the weak hearted. At least Cam and Matt think so. Enduring a haunted house on Halloween should be a walk in the park. Perhaps they should think again. As the boys trudge deeper into The Rabbit Hole, they realize this may not be the excitement they bargained for.Come and become a part of the main attraction. You’ll never leave.

Micro-Man is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Forrest J. Ackerman is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Forrest J. Ackerman then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

During a visit to Planet 505-D, the crew of the Humboldt starts acting strange―shirking duties and responsibilities. The chief engineer objects, but Captain Marie Penski and the rest of the crew tire of his act. Until they get a most unexpected visit from Muryah Abernathy, reported lost on an earlier expedition. Ten years earlier!Soon, the crew falls under her spell...with deadly consequences.During the final visit to Planet 505-D before human colonization begins, the crew of the Humboldt starts acting strange―shirking their duties and responsibilities. The chief engineer, Devin Calloway, wants no part of it, but Captain Marie Penski and the rest of the crew become tired of his attitude. Until the day they get a most unexpected visit from Muryah Abernathy, a woman reported lost on the original mission to 505-D —ten years earlier. Soon, the crewmembers are under her spell, ignoring even their own safety… with deadly consequences.Bonus Content: This 140-page novella (approx. 74,000 words) includes a sixteen chapter excerpt from Hunters, a new horror and contemporary fantasy novel involving modern-day vampires and the human hunters determined to exterminate them once and for all.

An elderly American Indian recants an event that happened to him when he was a young boy.Hot Shots FC is for children age 6-12 who want fun, fun, fun and football! It follows the adventures of Hat Trick Boy who wants nothing in more in life but to live, eat and sleep football. But trouble starts when Hat Trick Boy is selected to join the local side, Hammers FC, and his three best friends aren’t selected. Hat Trick Boy has to choose between his friends, and his football; and he makes a mistake. He chooses to join Hammers FC. He doesn't know his friends are about to set up the greatest junior football club ever, Hot Shots FC...

What would it take for you to trade a life in the skies, earning your freedom, for a death sentence deep within the lunar mines?When you're racing for your life, you don't let a thing like death slow you down. Love, on the other hand, can seal your fate.The Latrodectus mactans species of the black widow spiders are cannibalistic by nature, but Ebony is not a normal black widow. When she murders her husband by accident, instead of eating him, she is tormented by guilt. Her best friend can't understand her unusual behavior, and Ebony believes she is a freak of nature, spending the rest of her life obsessed with searching for happiness and self acceptance.

No more hiding.Jey and Elle have joined forces with the tattered remains of the Tessilari. Jey finds herself feeling impatient. She was made for fighting, not talking. As events begin to unfold around her, she’ll have to decide which is more important – her newfound loyalty to the Tessilari, or her thirst for revenge.No more hiding.Jey and Elle have joined forces with the tattered remains of the Tessilari. Vastly outnumbered, unequipped, and bearing the scars of decades of strife, the small group is determined to see justice delivered. They head for Deramor with a plan to seize control of the academy and see those in charge held responsible for their crimes.The Tessilari hope to accomplish their goals through diplomacy. As Elle infiltrates the court, Jey finds herself feeling impatient. She was made for fighting, not talking. As events begin to unfold around her, she’ll have to decide which is more important – her newfound loyalty to the Tessilari, or her thirst for revenge.

A collection of Wold Newton-inspired short stories by Farmerphiles, experts, and the Grand Master of SF himself.A real meteorite fell near Wold Newton, Yorkshire, England, on December 13, 1795, and was found to be radioactive, causing genetic mutations in the occupants of a passing coach. Many of their descendants were thus endowed with extremely high intelligence and strength, as well as an exceptional capacity and drive to perform good, or, as the case may be, evil deeds.

When thirteen-year-old Max Tilt happens upon his great-great-great-grandfather Jules Verne’s unfinished, unpublished manuscript, The Lost Treasures, he doesn’t realize that he’s found the answers to all his problems. And Max has a lot of problems—his mother is sick, his father is out of work, and his home is about to be foreclosed on. But when Max and his cousin Alex discover that Verne’s last work reveals everything he wrote was fact, not fiction, they realize that the book holds the key to something incredibly valuable. A treasure that can save his house—and maybe his entire family. But Max and Alex aren’t the only ones who know about Verne’s clues. Spencer Niemend, a strange skunk-haired man who has spent his life researching Verne’s works, is bent on reshaping the world with the hidden treasure. To find it first, Max and Alex must go on an adventure that’ll take them from the broken remains of an underwater city to the very jaws of a giant squid to the edges of a whirlpool from which no one has ever emerged alive.

Tales of nostalgia and loss in a world overrun by technology Hank is walking home from the bar when the Model T pulls alongside him. It’s been decades since he saw a car this old, and the sound of it takes him right back to his twenties. The door is open, and when he climbs in, the car takes off—without a driver. Before he knows what’s happened, Hank is right back at Big Spring Pavilion, where he spent his youth drinking bootleg whiskey and chasing pretty girls. He will find the past is not quite as he remembered it, but still a lovely place to go for a drive. This collection includes some of the finest short fiction Clifford Simak ever wrote, including “City,” the story that became the basis for his beloved novel of the same name. In the history of science fiction, no author has ever better understood that the Great Plains and the cosmos are closer together than we think. Each story includes an introduction by David W. Wixon, literary executor of the Clifford D. Simak estate and editor of this ebook.

The Covenant has collapsed after a long, brutal war that saw billions slaughtered on Earth and her colonies. For the first time in decades, however, peace finally seems possible. But though the fighting's stopped, the war is far from over: it's just gone underground. The UNSC's feared and secretive Office of Naval Intelligence recruits Kilo-Five, a team of ODSTs, a Spartan, and a diabolical AI to accelerate the Sangheili insurrection. Meanwhile, the Arbiter, the defector turned leader of a broken Covenant, struggles to stave off civil war among his divided people. Across the galaxy, a woman thought to have died on Reach is actually very much alive. Chief scientist Dr. Catherine Halsey broke every law in the book to create the Spartans, and now she's broken some more to save them. Marooned with Chief Mendez and a Spartan team in a Forerunner slipspace bubble hidden in the destroyed planet Onyx, she finds that the shield world has been guarding an ancient secret—a treasure trove of Forerunner technology that will change everything for the UNSC and mankind. As Kilo-Five joins the hunt for Halsey, humanity's violent past begins to catch up with all of them as disgruntled colony Venezia has been biding its time to strike at Earth, and its most dangerous terrorist has an old, painful link with both Halsey and Kilo-Five that will test everyone's loyalty to the limit. Halo: Glasslands by Karen Traviss is thrilling, action-packed science fiction that longtime Halo fans and newcomers alike will enjoy.

Oliver Harris, a brilliant but flawed doctor believes he has discovered the biolgical science behind Time Travel. He seizes the original research from a reclusive professor and pursues this new science relentlessly, ignoring every warning and increasing threat from an unkown force. It pursues him, his friends and anyone who knows him. Tempus Genesis is a disease and its cause must be eradicated.Sonya Neslund has gone through some serious changes over the last year. Her mother Carolyn has died from lung cancer and the home she shared with her mother and stepfather Cal had to be sold, forcing Sonya to live with her unemployed father Aron and Uncle Bill Neslund, who has early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Sonya manages to make two new friends during her first day of high school; Bobby Chambers, who is openly gay, and the beautiful Piper Jones. Piper's friend Jessica Holden does not show up for school, and they soon find out she was viciously attacked, her face slashed. Sonya and her new friends launch their own investigation to find the slasher, who calls himself the Ravisher, as they deal with pain from their pasts, including a former friend of Piper's, now institutionalized, who may know the identity of the Ravisher, but uses her information to control Piper as the Ravisher plans his next attacks. Meanwhile, Sonya could be putting herself in more danger as she uses her photography hobby and budding investigative skills to bring herself closer to the Blue Diamonds, a notorious motorcycle gang, that may hold the key to the Ravisher's identity.