Fifteen short stories about aliens, dogs, and smart-mouthed computers. Read about a bored celebrity that decides to steal an entire planet, a security guard’s first day at a time-travelling prison, two friends that try to ruin their lives playing cards, and a pair of students that investigate the answer to a tasteless question.Grand Theft Planetary is a collection of fifteen short stories released as a precursor to the forthcoming H L Jones novel, "Ragnar Blaise’s High Idea". Grand Theft Planetary – A bored celebrity decides to steal an entire planet.My Life is Saved – If at first you don't succeed... A man who can turn back time persuades a desperate beauty to go to bed with him.From Afar – The first man on Mars is forced to find another home while pursued by a horrific creature.Technology Fails Me – An IT Technician working for a tyrannical corporation helps a computer to live.Modern Glass – A shallow businessman visits his daughter between social appointments.Man Alone – Wandering across an apocalyptic England, one man struggles to survive against UFOs, strange mutated beasts, and a one hundred foot tall metal giant.Barriers – World War 3 erupts due to a desirable alien artifact. Murve’s Dog – A penniless heart-broken man adopts an equally-pitiful dog.Bud and Rufus Play Dare – Two housemates play a destructive game of poker where the loser is forced to do a dare.I Rule – The newly-elected President is given some shocking news about the human race - and the part he needs to play.A Theoretical Question – Two students misappropriate the university’s newest asset to answer an age-old question; how many babies can a man take on in a fight?Time and Punishment – A shy intellectual starts work at Time and Punishment, a time-travelling prison facility where the world’s most notorious mass-murderer is plotting his escape – and the ultimate act of homicide.Farming – The rulers of the world contemplate culling the world in order to save it from an outside entity.A Visual Masterpiece – A university scholar becomes obsessed with a woman who offers him a taste of the world’s pleasures.Ticket – On the anniversary of his friend’s departure, a shambling recluse remembers the events of that fateful day.

The world is run by an organization of businessmen called The Syndicate. Their aim is global domination through the total control of the economy, health, and welfare of the people. They do not take human life as anything more than a potential profit, and once a person is deemed a burden then The Syndicate has them killed. Can anyone stand against The Syndicate?The thrilling ride you've been waiting for! 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon! The Dead Planet Series: Exodus is a dystopian, science fiction novel which takes place on Mars in the distant future. The world is full of corruption and the government is run by an organization of businessmen called The Syndicate. Their aim is global domination through the total control of the economy, health, and welfare of the people. They do not take human life as anything more than a potential profit, and once a person is deemed a burden to their pockets then The Syndicate has them killed. The policemen are the perfect tools for their bidding. The policemen work for The Agency and are political assassins. This is the story of one man trying to save the world. Can anyone stand against The Syndicate? Follow the story of Serus Blackwell and find out.

Dave Johnson is a has-been superhero. Losing his powers forced him to retire from being Powerhouse, but Seattle still fondly remembers him and continues to lift him up as a symbol of hope.When Mitch Farrow, a cynical man hired as CEO of a powerful corporation to spread cynicism, attacks the legacy of Powerhouse, Dave regains his powers determined to make a lasting difference.Dave Johnson is a has-been superhero. Losing his powers forced him to retire from being Powerhouse, but Seattle still fondly remembers him and continues to lift him up as a symbol of hope.Trans-dimensional aliens hire Mitch Farrow as the new CEO of Dorado Incorporated and instruct him to create cynicism to reduce resistance to their planned invasion. The aliens promise their reign will end all suffering on Earth and cure his ex-wife and daughter of AIDS. Seeing Powerhouse’s squeaky clean image as a threat, Farrow attacks Powerhouse’s character and effectiveness in the media.The alien, international superhero Zolgron finally realizes Dave wants to return to crime-fighting and restores Dave’s powers. Dave is determined to make a lasting difference for the people of Seattle, but to do so he’ll need the community’s help.Powerhouse Flies Again offers laughs, adventure, and a new villain in this first installment of the Adventures of Powerhouse.

The sequel to The Forgotten Ornament continues the story of the little girl, the Forgotten Ornament, and their protectors as another Christmas descends upon them.Amr is happy. He looks at Gadija and her brothers. They're clothes look expensive. Those patterns in Gadija's dress are hand woven, those don't come cheap. Her scarf is heavy and yet fine in texture. Those turbans that the brothers are wearing don't come cheap either. Amr sighs. He looks at his son, Malik. Excited face. His everyday, white shirt and white pants, that reaches to his ankles. Those sandals. Always clean and neat. Amr sighs again. He thinks disappointment

When Frank Anderson boarded the Alpha spaceship, he never thought the expedition would end in tragedy. Now, a foreigner trapped in a world unlike anything he could have ever imagined, Frank must come to terms with the choice he made that changed his life forever…A creature appears at an Orphanage in the jungle. The Missionaries who live there, engage in a game with it.Short horror story. Featuring body horror and a creepy atmosphere.

Retired spy Franco Tira saves an old Englishman, Charlie Dunpy, from poison meant for himself. Charlie has dementia, but also unusual powers that Franco wants to harness to protect himself against killers seeking revenge for his own past misdeeds. Will Charlie help him? Will his powers keep them both alive?In a nursing home in the hills above Rome, former spy Franco Tira saves an English fellow patient, Charlie Dunpy, from poison meant for himself. As a result they become friends. Charlie has dementia, but he also seems to possess unusual powers that Franco wants to harness to protect himself against killers seeking revenge for his own past misdeeds. Will Charlie help him? Will his powers keep them both alive? Dark future, good reading.

Ever since she used the Firebird, her parents' invention, to cross into alternate dimensions, Marguerite has caught the attention of enemies who will do anything to force her into helping them dominate the multiverse—even hurting the people she loves. She resists until her boyfriend, Paul, is attacked and his consciousness scattered across multiple dimensions. Marguerite has no choice but to search for each splinter of Paul’s soul. The hunt sends her racing through a war-torn San Francisco, the criminal underworld of New York City, and a glittering Paris where another Marguerite hides a shocking secret. Each world brings Marguerite one step closer to rescuing Paul. But with each trial she faces, she begins to question the destiny she thought they shared.

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Sent into the interstellar dark on a mission of mercy to cure an ancient plague ...Bran has a Power, and he is driven out of his tribe because of it. The Ice is melting - the world is changing, and babies are being born with new Powers that nobody understands - but there are some in this new world who want to make use of the new Powers, and the people who wield them, for their own purposes.

The second installment of an all-new saga--begun in Conqueror's Moon--of a land beyond the horizon, where the quest for power is eternal, where magic and mystery are feared above all, and one man seeks to reign.

Nirem was just an ordinary teenager until his life was completely turned after being abducted by aliens. Now, Nirem (now known as Garion) is destined to fight an evil God bent on the universe's destruction! Join Garion in this epic sci-fi novel as he fights the evil God Draktos and his nefarious plans, each plan leading up to a master plan even the king of Mars couldn't dream of.Nirem was just an ordinary teenager, facing social problems and peer pressure as he struggled to fit into high school.  This all quickly changed though, when Nirem was abducted by aliens, sending him into a new life he couldn't even hope to imagine! Since then, Nirem, now known as Garion, has been destined to destroy the evil mastermind of Draktos in order to protect the universe he loves. Jump into this science-fiction tale as Nirem embarks on a quest like no other, and not only matures throughout his journey but also finds out secrets about the universe that will rock him to his core!

2200 words Darby had made a fortune from mining artifacts to exploit their long-lost technology, but he had spent a lot of it trying to find the hiding place of a legendary ultimate weapon. He was sure she would find it at the bottom of this hole. Soon it would be in his grasp.'When Dawn Arises' reunites some of my best works so far. A celebration of people of all kind and their pursue for the lost wonder years of infancy. These are poems who evaluate human life in and outside a city lost in its own creation.---(Poems written between February and March 2015)

Marion is having a terrible day. A homeless boy stuck inside the artificial, multi-leveled confines of greater NYC, he does the one thing he knows not to do: sleeps late. Fleeing the rush hour panic he collides with Allison Rayel, a disaffected government temp, and together they embark on a journey that leads them to the highest levels of the Build, where history has been piled up and forgotten.Marion is having a truly terrible day. A homeless boy stuck inside the sealed confines of Greater New York City, he made the one mistake that he swore he would never make: he slept late. And with that single misstep his life is forever upended. Caught in the crush of rush hour subway traffic, Marion is launched upon a journey that will carry him from the streets of Manhattan to the highest reaches of the Build.From the lowest rung of New York’s multilevel edifice, Marion is pushed inexorably toward the unseen surface, thousands of meters overhead. Driven by forces seemingly beyond his control, he becomes embroiled in a growing riot, and soon finds himself thrown together with a beautiful, beguiling stranger named Allison Rayel. A GNYC native and perpetually disgruntled government contractor, Allison slams into Marion at the riot site, and finds her life unexpectedly intertwined with his. They are brought together to Corrections, where minor offenders are dispatched to the Garden, source of the city’s produce, and everyone else is incarcerated, sealed off in solitary confinement units that rarely see the artificial light of day.Following an unplanned (and wholly improvised) prison break, Marion and Allison move ever higher, riding atop a swift-moving Lift to reach the meticulously recreated Hamptons, where the fugitives are temporarily sheltered by Bernard Moody, a kindly minister who had befriended Marion in the city. Soon enough, however, the pair’s temporary respite ends, as Bernard’s brother Ian, a wealthy financier, begins to suspect their true identities.From that moment on, Marion and Allison have little choice but to run. Pursued by Ian Moody, a phalanx of corrections officers, and a powerful state government fixer named Vance Devereaux, they slowly advance from level to level, scaling heights — and discovering secrets — that few ever knew existed.With each stumbling step upward, the unlikely couple grow ever closer, their emotional connection forged in an escalating series of deadly challenges. Striving to escape, yet knowing full well that the world outside the Build is filled with merciless Brightlanders, Marion and Allison move toward the surface with both excitement and trepidation, unsure of what they might find. What they find, ultimately, is both nothing and everything — the mysterious wisps of an entirely different life.

In his novels and stories, F. Paul Wilson has spent over four decades chronicling a Secret History of human civilization – the events, the conspiracies, the human and non-human forces that have shaped its course. A history of the world that remains undiscovered, unexplored, and unknown to most of humanity. Some of this Secret History has been revealed in his Adversary Cycle, some in his Repairman Jack novels, and bits and pieces in other, seemingly unconnected works. Taken together, even these millions of words barely scratch the surface of what has been going on behind the scenes, hidden from the workaday world. Running nearly 100,000 words, SCENES FROM THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE WORLD acts as a sampler and organizer of the thirty plus novels and various short stories that form the huge mosaic Wilson has assembled. It includes unseen artwork and a new timeline available nowhere else.