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When Marco runs into his old friend Erek he doesn't think too much of it. He's got a couple of more important things to do. Like helping to save the world. But then Marco finds out Erek's been hanging with some of the kids at The Sharing. And he starts to think that something just a little weird is going on.

The Templar Wars is an epic tale of magic versus science, set in the fantastical world of Agmoria. The Elder Races, under the rule of the tyrant Senlo Karath, will stop at nothing to control the source of all magic.Nick Stolter harvested the glory from his championship rodeo years and began a successful cutting horse ranch in Southern California. He married his sweetheart and their family began with joy and tragedy.Fifteen years Nick and family have struggled and an ugly secret begins to rear its head inside the horseman. Only when a long-lost friend appeared at the doorstep is any hope ignited.A horse roundup in the wilds of Arizona means days in the saddle, a chance at gold, and new breeding stock. A new start for the family comes at a catastrophic price to him and his loved ones.Instead of being gone the promised ten days, Nick embarks on a month of hell as he tries to get back to his family. The year is 1860 and the west is still very wild. Some will live, some will die and some will never be the same.

Waylines is a magazine of science-fiction, fantasy, and horror. Our goal is to capture the "bang" in speculative fiction - that mindbending, wow factor. Issue 5 features interviews with authors David Steffen and Ken Liu and film maker Christopher Frey, with stories by Samantha Kymmell-Harvey and David Halpert.Waylines is a magazine of science-fiction, fantasy, and horror. Our goal is to capture the "bang" in speculative fiction - that mindbending, wow factor.Issue 5 features interviews with authors David Steffen and Ken Liu and film maker Christopher Frey, with the following stories:1 Samantha Kymmell-Harvey takes us into the heart of music, monsters and love in "Cadence," a story that asks us just who the monsters really are.2 David Halpert's “Elevator Man” examines the nature of sentience and the blindness of humanity to it's own past.

In the blink of an eye, all human life disappeared, except for myself. A short story.Jesse Winter is a smart, young staffer at City University of New York who has a knack for finding himself at the center of controversy. As an expert handler of disputes among faculty, students, and partners of CUNY (not to mention the general public), his instinctive negotiation skills make him a valuable asset; but they also make him a juicy target for those with an axe to grind. When a group of students from CUNY's award-winning—and highly controversial—investigative journalism program uncover an elaborate, decades-old lie that underpins the massive wealth and clout of a Polish political family, Jesse's life begins to unravel.

An offshoot species of parasite, normally only found in amphibians, has evolved to include humans in its bizarre, three-stage life cycle, which causes the host to grow extra limbs and other body parts.Is there a way to break the cycle and stop the decline of the human race, or will phobia, paranoia and fear blind us and seal our fate?Humans have settled into the remains of the cities, leaving the outlying suburbs and rural areas to those afflicted by the parasite.A field biologist in another life, Mike has to find a way to break the parasite's life cycle, before the human species is erased from the planet.

Your future is in play and you have not been asked to join the game. In the Origin Point, a future tech cyber novella, a secretive world-class alliance is creating a global surveillance and online tracking system of sweeping control. Can an intrepid journalist and a determined underground cyber technologist stop them before they take total control of your physical and digital life?WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED two American federal government cabinet ministers join a secretive world-class alliance to create a global surveillance and online tracking system of sweeping control. But when a ubiquitous flash drive with shocking content falls into the hands of an intrepid journalist, a new threat emerges to release the story to an unwary world. When global cyber security is the prize in the race for our online future, can the defiance of two master operators backed by a clandestine global team outpace the vaunted skill of America's free press and an underground cyber defense team with their own agenda?Welcome to Washington, D.C., a city where life is a deal and secrecy is holding the cards. The Origin Point is a future tech cyber novella taking you into the untold plan to create the most intrusive global surveillance and online data system ever envisioned. This is the first prequel novella to the Life Online book series. Secretary of State Julia Davenport the electric diplomat with a global network made of unbendable steel, and Marco Manuel, the director of the almost unknown Federal Security Commission join Global Cyber Security to construct an international cyber operation uniting all surveillance, satellite images and everyone's online data into one controllable space. Taking full advantage of dysfunction in D.C. politics and a billionaire class awash with cash, they manipulate federal government departments, big business and global law enforcement into implementing their project. But a mysterious underground technologist named Apex has insight into their operations and her own plan for stopping the project designed to control everyone's identity. Using sophisticated tech skill, she launches a targeted investigation into the security operation, and sets up a galvanized global team set to risk their lives in a counter cyber attack. As GCS battles to accelerate its implementation timeline, and independent technologists mobilize to stop them, those caught in the middle debate the most decisive issues of our times: Do you want individual privacy or do you want global security? What is the responsibility of business to protect consumer data? What is the role of government in managing progress? Can we prevent the technology from taking control? From the law-making halls of D.C. to the free-wheeling tech economy in San Francisco, the forces making these decisions are already in the game and your life is in play. Learn who is bracing to advance and who is in retreat as the brightest minds lay the foundation for a future that may have already arrived. Start the Life Online book series with this novella about how today's national security operations become tomorrow's total control over you and everything you do. Meet the machine in the middle whose intelligence is all human beings can program at this moment, but not all the programming to come. The Life Online books are speculative science fiction thrillers for thinking people imagining the unintended consequences of our dependence on technology.

The first short story in the Mindspace Investigations universe (with two bonus shorts).-- A cop is dead, strangled in her car by a professional killer, and it’s up to me, telepath consultant extraordinaire, to pull the rabbit out of my hat and solve the case. Here's the bad news. Turns out the woman's five-year-old was in the car when she got murdered, and no one can find the child.The first short story in the Mindspace Investigations universe featuring telepathic detective Adam Ward- PLUS two bonus short stories in other worlds.OPEN MINDWhen the cops call me in the middle of the night, I know it’s bad. One of their own is dead, strangled in her car by a professional killer, and it’s up to me, telepath consultant extraordinaire, to pull the rabbit out of my hat and solve the case. Only this time I’m not so sure I can.Homicide Detective Isabella Cherabino is breathing down my neck. The dead cop’s partner is too. Here's the bad news. Turns out the woman's five-year-old was in the car when she got murdered. Here's the worst news. No one can find that kid.

Louis Rosen and his partners sell people--ingeniously designed, historically authentic simulacra of personages such as Edwin M. Stanton and Abraham Lincoln. The problem is that the only prospective buyer is a rapacious billionaire whose plans for the simulacra could land Louis in jail. Then there's the added complication that someone--or something--like Abraham Lincoln may not want to be sold. Is an electronic Lincoln any less alive than his creators? Is a machine that cares and suffers inferior to the woman Louis loves--a borderline psychopath who does neither? With irresistible momentum, intelligence, and wit, Philip K. Dick creates an arresting techno-thriller that suggests a marriage of Bladerunner and Barbarians at the Gate. From the Trade Paperback edition.

YESTERDAY AGAIN is the third book in critically acclaimed author Barry Lyga's Archvillain series! Kyle Camden, a.k.a. the Azure Avenger, unintentional Bouring archvillain, has a foolproof plan to finally prove that Mighty Mike, unintentional town superhero, is an alien. Kyle's going back in time to the night Mike Mighty showed up on Earth and video tape his arrival. Yet he decides to use the time machine just as something evil has been unleashed on Bouring during the Annual Time Capsule Burial. But Kyle can fix it when he's back, right? Kyle accidentally overshoots his intended destination, landing in 1987, and burns out his time machine. Things get even stranger when he accidentally befriends his dad at age twelve, meets Sheriff Monroe (his archnemesis in present time) as a teenager, and discovers William Lundergaard lurking around. But Lundergaard isn't any younger. How did he end up in 1987 and why? Kyle better figure it out fast. Because if he doesn't get back to the present immediately, well, there might not be a present anymore!

Garrett P. Serviss was an American astronomer who helped popularize science fiction as a genre with his works.

So the baby had a pet monster. And so nobody but baby could see it. And so a couple of men dropped out of thin air to check and see if the monster was licensed or not. So what's strange about that?So the baby had a pet monster. And so nobody but baby could see it. And so a couple of men dropped out of thin air to check and see if the monster was licensed or not. So what's strange about that?

Step IV is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Rosel George Brown is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Rosel George Brown then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

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

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