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I was never afraid of monsters—at least, not until They came: the visitors from outer space. Six years later, at the age of seventeen, I'm just about to graduate from school and declare my career of choice. The Midnight Guard—who protect our community from the vicious things that lie outside our walls—calls to me, and a shortage of applicants instantly lands me a spot in their ranks. But when I am bitten by an alien on a supply run, I begin to dream of things not of this world—and will soon find that my life is about to change forever.

As weather conditions worsen and food supplies dwindle, the inhabitants of Bel’Torra Station—isolated on the remote continent of Fis’Alim—struggle simply to survive. But when an unexpected guest arrives, bringing another mouth to feed, a chain of events begins that will threaten their world and everything in it. This first full-length novel from artist and storyteller Gameyy Builds unveils long-held secrets of the world of Aegis and the mysterious Blight that has plagued its people for decades...

A fractured nation. A fractured legacy. The island will decide who survives. Two weeks after an attack cripples the United States, Michael Shepherd, Erika Blake, and her son Max arrive on the rugged shores of Mount Desert Island, Maine. But the peace they hoped for is a distant dream. The island is torn, now divided by fear, rules, and rising factions. Still reeling from the truth of his bloodline, Michael struggles to understand what his name means to the people he’s come to protect, and what it may cost them all.

Gefühle sind in unserer Welt ein Zeichen von Schwäche. Und wer schwach ist, stirbt. New York City. Einst brachten grausame Drachenreiter Tod und Zerstörung, und ihr König tyrannisiert nun die Welt. Die letzten freien Menschen verstecken sich in den U-Bahn-Tunneln, unter ihnen auch die Diebin Sira. Sie hasst alle Drachen, seit ihre Familie durch deren Feuer starb. Als ihr Versteck angegriffen wird, ist ausgerechnet Drachenreiter Norik, Anführer der Rebellen, ihre Rettung.

Die 22-jährige Jenna hat alles hinter sich gelassen, um in England ihr Studium abzuschließen, und in der Küstenstadt Brighton einen Neuanfang zu wagen. Doch auch hier werfen die Erinnerungen an den Verlust ihrer Mutter lange Schatten. Während die Welt um sie herum von Naturkatastrophen und einem sich zuspitzenden politischen Klima geprägt ist, kämpft die Journalismus-Studentin darum, die Wahrheit ihrer verborgenen Familiengeschichte ans Licht zu bringen. Inmitten dieses Chaos trifft sie auf Matt.

Lies, deceit, and destruction divided the nation for decades. Back in 2080, the citizens had enough. A war to restore the country's honor took place. The new regime led by Chancellor Prumpt made any form of lying illegal. Now if anyone is caught lying, they are called in for questioning and killed on the spot if found guilty. Any citizen can report someone if they suspect them of lying. Present day: 2129. Roger Aimes is a 28-year old mine worker living through the brutal system. All he can hope to do is live another day.

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Noah desperately needs a new job that involves less blood and piss than his current one. So, when he spots an ad for a newspaper with ‘No experience preferred,’ he puts on his good shirt and marches down to their average-looking office to unknowingly sign his life away. Malachia is the only human left in the City of Silence and she spends her time wandering its empty, bone-filled streets. Until one day she finds a lone figure hunched over a typewriter, his fingers enmeshed with the keys. Could he be the answer to finding her missing girlfriend?

In early 2102, Psi-Judge Cassandra Anderson sacrificed herself to trap the spirit of the terrible Judge Death, holding him in her mind as her fellow Judge Joe Dredd encased her in an impenetrable polymer. Her comatose body was laid in a place of honour in the Justice Department’s famed Hall of Heroes, to be remembered forever for her supreme sacrifice. For eighteen months, Anderson lay trapped, sharing her tomb with the monster she had defeated. For eighteen months, an epic battle raged silently within the Psi-Judge’s skull, between her and an ancient avatar of hate and decay.

In the wake of a brutal alien invasion, two worlds must unite to survive. On the distant planet of Felidia, Corey Rhude mourns the loss of his family, consumed by a desire for vengeance against the merciless Terrapians. His path to redemption begins when he joins a mission to Earth, where the invaders continue their ruthless campaign of destruction. Meanwhile, on a devastated Earth, Ember Blaze struggles to protect a newborn she has sworn to save.

When seven bodies turn up in a small town in Georgia, Detective Jack Kersey—gruff, relentless, and with little patience for nonsense—is determined to crack the case. But this is no ordinary murder investigation. Behind the killings lies the shadow of EvoSys, a mega-corporation with its hands in every facet of life.

The war for the future of humanity has reached its breaking point. Haunted by visions and driven by powers he barely understands, Jace Holloway leads the shattered remnants of the Forsaken Order across the desolate wastelands to the legendary buried city of Seraph’s End. Beneath the sand and crystal of the Dead Zone lies a forgotten civilization—the First Riftborn—whose ancient technology holds the key to salvation… or annihilation. But time is running out. The Nova Shard embedded in Jace’s body is fusing with his DNA, turning him into something no longer fully human.

When life is gray and sober, and the time keeps on ticking, what remains is just repetition.

Chemical Affair is a near-future sci-fi novella that takes place in a world grappling with the ethics of biotechnology. The story follows Cassia Vincent, a grieving, middle-aged bio-lab technician working in the isolated depths of Primia, a research facility that engineers Homo delineae, a newly fabricated, “delineated” species of human. Primia’s work is too classified, deline research too controversial, and Cassia’s heart too conflicted for what happens next.

Can you tell what's real? Does it even matter? The world is run by corporations. Olympus, one of the largest, most influential megacorporation is kidnapping people with powers and dragging them to secret labs. Sol Barret, a man who has given up on life, has to save himself from them or be lost forever. Barret’s friends are looking for him, but will they arrive in time? Or will they find someone different?

I am the one of the end, the world maker, and the god breaker. Time is unraveling and Earth is doomed to wander the dark of space, unmoored from the galaxy itself. Galiaro’s plan for humanity’s escape to another dimension has failed and his dark matter robot creations, Beetro and Curse, were imprisoned in a nanoscopic black hole. Now, the entire planet is blighted by drought, the oceans heave beyond their bounds, and thousands are dispossessed. The end of the cosmos was foreseen by an ancient Alchean prophet named Othel.

In this wry, paranoid vision of the future, overpopulation has turned cities into crammed industrial anthills. For those sick of this dystopian reality, one corporation, Trails of Hoffman, Inc., promises an alternative: Take a teleport to Whale's Mouth, a colonized planet billed as the supreme paradise. The only catch is that you can never come back.

This is the first volume of the Helliconia Trilogy—a monumental sage which goes beyond anything yet created by this master among today's imaginative writers. An entire solar system is revealed, and with it a world disturbingly reflecting our own, Helliconia: an Earth-like planet where dynasties change with the seasons.

10 Years later... Deltaria is gone. Wiped from existence by the same evil group of rogue human clones that destroyed Earth all those years ago. The Decimators have begun destroying every planet, colony and species moving from one to the next, slowly being driven insane by their failing minds — the fatal flaw in the Resurrection project. But rumours are abound across the galaxy of an organisation building towards a resistance. Known only as 'The Unity', every surviving species begin making their way to their proposed salvation.

Still bearing wounds from barely surviving the Registration, Lynell struggles to fill her new role as the heir and leader of the very system that aimed to kill her. She must convince the Registration committee and the country’s oligarchs that she can fill her uncle’s shoes, while simultaneously proving to the country’s largest rebel group that she is nothing like her uncle—ruthless and greedy.