Terrified of the contamination and the creatures it has created, humanity hides behind The Wall. No one knows what lies beyond the wasteland. Maya has never thought much about what might still be out there, lurking in the forgotten places.But when she's thrust into the unknown, she's forced to question everything she's ever been told.Not everyone outside died, some of them became something...elseTerrified of the contamination and the creatures it has created, humanity hides behind The Wall. No one knows what lies beyond the wasteland. Maya has never thought much about what might still be out there, lurking in the forgotten places. But when she's thrust into the unknown, she is forced to question everything she has ever been told. Not everyone outside died, some of them became something...else. As her heart is torn in two, every choice she makes is harder than the last. What she discovers will change her forever. She knows she will probably die, but Maya has seen enough of death and she won't let it have her without a fight.

After the events of 'The Fez', the Fez-following gang continue their adventures on Glix. Now separated, Dave, the Space Chicken, Fred Jr, Clint and Clein continue their venture across Britain, still bound to their goals by the endlessly fascinating Fez.David Gratton is still at large and, just as the problem fades, a new issue opens up. It seems there are more threats than previously thought...Dave, an alien on Glix, wakes up and tries to live a normal life. When he makes the foolish mistake of believing himself sane, he discovers his jam sandwich is talking to him. As one would expect of any worthwhile lunch, the sandwich leads him towards a mysterious oak tree – allegedly the centre of the country's knowledge.However, Dave is not the only person heading there. His friends the Space Chicken and Fred Jr are also making their way to the Great Oak Tree. And Clint and Clein – the intelligent twins – happen to be sowing a rather strange acorn.It seems the journey might not be as straightforward as finding a tree after all.

Years before the events in DEAD MECH, many of the characters find themselves in one city/state at the same time. Foreshadowing events to come, One Foggy Night is a prequel short to DEAD MECH. Get a peak at Masters, Harlow, Jay Rind, Bisby, Stanislaw, and the Rookie years before their fates are sealed. Blood, sex, action, murder, and moonshine- in the Wasteland anything is possible!Years before the events in DEAD MECH, many of the characters find themselves in one city/state at the same time. Foreshadowing events to come, One Foggy Night is a prequel short to DEAD MECH. Get a peak at Masters, Harlow, Jay Rind, Bisby, Stanislaw, and the Rookie years before their fates are sealed. Blood, sex, action, murder, and moonshine- in the Wasteland anything is possible! Jake Bible lives in Asheville, NC with his wife and two kids. He is the author the Apex Trilogy (DEAD MECH, The Americans, Metal and Ash), Bethany and the Zombie Jesus, Stark- An Illustrated Novella, and the forthcoming YA horror novels Little Dead Man (November 2012) and Intentional Haunting (2013). Check out Friday Night Drabble Party every week! Free drabbles for all!

A classic work from Walter Jon Williams, “Daddy’s World” earned the Nebula Award in 2001.Little Jamie lives with his family in an eerily perfect environment. But cracks begin to appear in Jamie’s world that reveal rifts within his family, and he begins to see the terrifying reality behind the walls of his life, and know that perfection has its price . . .A classic work from Walter Jon Williams, “Daddy’s World” earned the Nebula Award in 2001.Little Jamie lives with his family in an eerily perfect environment, entertained by characters from literature, sung to sleep at night by the Woman in the Moon. But cracks begin to appear in Jamie’s world that reveal rifts within his family, and he begins to see the terrifying reality behind the walls of his life, and to understand that perfection has its price . . .

The Space Dragons series is about a Morphic SpaceDragon named Evella Noctu who attempts to unite all ofthe remaining Space Dragon Clans into one unified Society.She is met with alliances, betrayal, pirates, space police,telepaths, sorcery, political strife, wars from encroachingempires, and personal issues.The Space Dragons series is about a Morphic SpaceDragon named Evella Noctu who attempts to unite all ofthe remaining Space Dragon Clans into one unified Society.She is met with alliances, betrayal, pirates, space police,telepaths, sorcery, political strife, wars from encroachingempires, and personal issues.This is one of many series that takes place in the Galaxyof Empires Universe.

The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the great American novelists of our time—an ode to language, at the heart of our humanity, a meditation on death, and an embrace of life. Jeffrey Lockhart’s father, Ross, is a billionaire in his sixties, with a younger wife, Artis Martineau, whose health is failing. Ross is the primary investor in a remote and secret compound where death is exquisitely controlled and bodies are preserved until a future time when biomedical advances and new technologies can return them to a life of transcendent promise. Jeff joins Ross and Artis at the compound to say “an uncertain farewell” to her as she surrenders her body. “We are born without choosing to be. Should we have to die in the same manner? Isn’t it a human glory to refuse to accept a certain fate?” These are the questions that haunt the novel and its memorable characters, and it is Ross Lockhart, most particularly, who feels a deep need to enter another dimension and awake to a new world. For his son, this is indefensible. Jeff, the book’s narrator, is committed to living, to experiencing “the mingled astonishments of our time, here, on earth.” Don DeLillo’s seductive, spectacularly observed and brilliant new novel weighs the darkness of the world—terrorism, floods, fires, famine, plague—against the beauty and humanity of everyday life; love, awe, “the intimate touch of earth and sun.” Zero K is glorious.

Otherland. In many ways it is humankind's most stunning achievement: a private, multidimensional universe built over two generations by the greatest minds of the twenty-first century. But this most exclusive of places is also one of the world's best kept secrets, created and controlled by an organization made up of the world's most powerful and ruthless individuals, a private cartel known--to those who know of their existence at all--as The Grail Brotherhood. Though their purpose in creating Otherland is still a mystery, it may not remain so for long. For they have exacted a terrible price from humanity in the process, and even their highly organized global conspiracy cannot hide the nature of their crimes forever. And now a small band of adventurers has penetrated the veil of secrecy that prevents the uninitiated from entering Otherland. But having broken into the amazing worlds within worlds that make up this universe, they are trapped, unable to escape back to their own flesh-and-blood bodies in the real world. And as dangers and circumstances split their party into small, widely scattered groups, their only hope of reuniting lies in returning again and again to the River that flows--in one form or another--through all the worlds. But the odds seem to be completely against them as they--and the one outsider with whom they might join forces--become hopelessly lost in realms where an Ice Age tribe's fears can only be quenched in blood...where insects are as large and deadly as dinosaurs...where they are caught in the war between a man made of straw and one made of tin...where cartoon ads take on a life of their own...where humans strive to survive in the aftermath of an alien invasion...and where one among their party is actually The Grail Brotherhood's most terrifying weapon--a sociopathic killer who has never failed and whose current mission is to make certain that not even one member of this little invasion force lives long enough to reveal the truth about Otherland to the people of Earth...

A programmer finds himself working for the self-proclaimed "Bad-Boy of Virtual-Reality Therapy." While his boss is breaking new ground and breaking the rules and his coworkers are engaging in questionable uses of the latest technology, the lonely programmer is in a state of mourning over his deep personal losses and must figure out his own form of therapy.

The mammoths of the ancient world have been wonderfully preserved in the ice of Siberia. The cold, only a few miles out in space, will be far more intense than in the polar regions and its power of preserving the dead body would most probably be correspondingly increased. When the hero-scientist of this story knows he must die, he conceives a brilliant idea for the preservation of his body, the result of which even exceeded his expectations. What, how and why are cleverly told here.

17 short (sometimes very, very short) stories about the end of the world, by gods, war, pollution, alien invasion, robot insurrection, and passing away gently when time has run out.Writers of the Future winner Luc Reid offers the human side of the end of the world--even when there are no humans involved.Elijah Deville is a crafty lawyer. When an employee is accused of sabotaging a brand new rollercoaster in order to kill his overly curious boss, Elijah refuses to believe it. Along with his sister Becca, and private investigator Cameron Mills, it is Elijah's job to present the best defense possible, in the hopes that the jury will see things his way. But where to start? After all, all of the evidence points to his client's guilt. The accused was seen near the coaster on the night of the sabotage; his fingerprints were found on the missing pieces of the coaster; and he owned an acetylene torch needed to commit the sabotage. Knowing all this, Elijah needs to find the courage, and evidence for that matter, in order to attain the ultimate prize: a 'Not Guilty' verdict. Who committed this murder? And more importantly how? Can you crack the case before Elijah does? Take the challenge, that is if you're up to it!

Ten tales of mundane science fiction, of a universe askew, where things are slightly off.Ten tales of the mundane, of a universe askew, where things are slightly off:1. The Last Man in the World Explains All: double check your math. 2. Ghost Woods: shot an arrow into the air, and where it landed...3. Invisibility: don't attract attention. Just don't.4. Not With a Bang: this is how the world ends.5. Do-Over: the problem with time travel is you.6. An Unfortunate Choice of Words: Aliens. Man, they just don't get it.7. The World Without Souls: not the most pleasant of places. 8. Reparations: my, how things change.9. Inherit the Earth: a race, or an idea?10. An Inappropriate Response: Humans. Man, they just don't get it.

The eagerly awaited finale of a modern SF classic--May's Galactic Milieu Trilogy, which began with Jack the Bodiless and continued with Diamond Mask. The mystery involving Jack the Bodiless, the metaphysically talented Dorothea, and Fury, the insane metaphysic creature determined to become sole ruler over all humankind, explodes anew. At last, the momentous secret at the heart of the trilogy is revealed. From the Hardcover edition.

This is the first part of the adventures of Kenneth and Savannah, two unlikely kids as they travel from the current time to the future to save the world. This book also includes the story of Julio, a guy who traveled from our world to another, venturing into the unknown to take on a new adventure he never though he would ever experience in his entire life.From the Publisher that brought you popular short story series Chains of Darkness, Song of Teeth, Children of Time, Splicers and now...Three stories in one book!A TIME TRAVEL, THE FIRST ADVENTUREChildren of Time Part 1 : The Smallest GiantKenneth may have thought his life was insignificant—until the day he is caught up into something bigger than he ever imagined.A shy 13 year old student, Kenneth has the impossible happen to him one day in school—he and his classmate Savannah, a girl he doesn't like, are kidnapped by an alien in a space suit! When the man turns out to be another human being from the future and they are brought into the 73rd century, it is like everything he has read in science fiction books suddenly becomes true.Possibilities boggle his mind! Human giants living for hundreds of years in buildings reaching the sky and aliens that are friends of humanity... way cool... well, everything is cool except for the gray slush that replaced hamburgers and—food. And why did these aliens have to bring icky Savannah, of all people, along with him? But aside from that, everything feels like the beginning of an adventure. But will it be an adventure of a lifetime, or an adventure to death?Children of Two Futures Part 1 : The RiddleNobody knows what will cause human extinction, and nobody has a clue.No matter how proven it is that nothing in the events of the past can change the future, historians cling onto the fact that a theoretical Zeta Disruption may exist. The Zeta Disruption, according to temporal theory, is a person—or animal—capable of changing the future. The Zeta Disruption can change the entire course of humanity.Savannah and Kenneth are pulled forward into the year 7245 to do exactly just that. They are given the rare chance to make a positive change to the world by discovering the causes of human destruction and answering a mysterious riddle. But as young as they are, even they themselves are unsure if they can fulfil this gargantuan task. Still, the fate of humanity lies in their hands and it is up to them to save humanity from its demise.Will they be able to unearth the truth? Will they be able to save the humans from obliteration?The Magaram Legends Part 1 : Into the UnknownOne sleepy summer afternoon, in an equally sleepy remote town, an old man sits under a tree. With him are children who have made a habit of visiting him on late afternoons to listen to his stories... stories of magical things, of adventure, and of great love.He tells them the story of a young man who has reached the marrying age but cannot seem to find a suitable maiden to marry in his small town. As he reaches the deep well where the entire town gets their water on summers, Julio spies a curious sight – a young woman. Beautiful, enchanting, and someone he has never met. In those few precious seconds, time stopped for him. Like all villagers of Julio’s town, she is there to fetch water. She does not, however, live in Julio’s town, nor did she look like any villager.When you have just seen the most mesmerizing of the people in your world walk away, what do you do? But strange things begin to happen to Julio the moment he followed her and ventured into the unknown.If you wish to read more, download and find out what happens!

Sid has a busy day ahead and an important meeting at work, but what happens when his life line, his mobile phone is hijacked?Every night little Johnny would lie in his bed and read his favorite comic book series "The Boogeyman." Johnny’s big sister Betty would tease him about his comic book on a daily basis, and say things like, "Johnny if you don't stop reading those stupid comic books the boogeyman is going to get you." She would come in his room and yank the comic book out of his hands and throw it across the room. The more his sister tormented him, the more anger for his sister was mounting.Finally one night as he was reading about the boogeyman his sister yanked the comic book out of his hands and started tearing the pages out of the comic book. She said as she was laughing "Sorry, Johnny, but it's for your own good."Johnny replied, "I wish you were dead."

In this riveting prequel to the bestselling Awakened series, Jason Tesar sets in motion a sweeping fantasy epic birthed at the very foundations of mankind, when our prehistoric world collided with supernatural forces, spawning an age of mythological creatures and heroes.Since the ages before time was measured, the angelic races have existed. Unseen by our eyes, they move through creation, shaping our world, sustaining our existence, and battling demonic hordes. But the war is changing; the battle lines are expanding into new frontiers and the next epoch is emerging.Centuries after the first humans were exiled from their home, their descendants have pushed eastward into a prehistoric wilderness. In a land shrouded by mist and superstition, primitive tribes struggle to establish new civilizations, unaware that their world is about to change forever.Weary from unceasing conflict, Sariel—legendary warrior of the Eternal Realm—crosses into the Temporal in search of the only one who can bring him peace. But he is not the first; others have already begun their inhabitation. As the dominance of their kingdom spreads, threatening to engulf all of humanity, Sariel finds himself standing between his own kind and the one he loves and must embrace the life he abandoned in order to secure her freedom.