Science fiction

Is their world finally safe now that the preacher and his followers are behind bars?Surviving the apocalyptic winter in the Black Hills of South Dakota is hard enough. But when sinister forces shatter Katie's world, her fight for survival reaches a whole new level of intensity.With all the unknowns surrounding the attacks, the preacher's group, and the drug overdoses, Katie and Leo aren't sure who they can trust...or who is out to harm the people of Rapid City.Can the perpetrators be caught before they claim even more lives? Or will their next attack be the deadliest one yet?Grab your book today, and discover why readers love this twist on the post-apocalyptic genre!Deceptive Mayhem: Dakota Destruction Book 4 is the highly anticipated spinoff to the bestselling Havoc in Wyoming and Montana Mayhem Christian Futuristic series, which follows societal collapse from a small-town perspective. Featuring engaging scenarios, riveting action, and flawed yet strong and complex characters, the Dakota Destruction series is perfect for fans of Mark Goodwin, Jamie Lee Grey, and Kyla Stone.The Dakota Destruction series can be described as "Cozy" Apocalypse and contains no profanity, gratuitous sex scenes, or overly detailed gruesome death scenes. However, it does contain conservative family values and references to God, prayer, scripture, and Christianity.

Warp into the action with Star Trek’s first-ever interactive original graphic novel!Mariner just wants to have a normal day, but no matter what side of the bed she wakes up on, the world is ending. Literally. If she has coffee, Borg attack! If she has raktajino, cue the Romulan boarding party! And in each scenario, Mariner and her friends end up dead, sometimes the ship is destroyed—and the day starts all over again.But by exploring the different paths, you, the reader, can discover things that Mariner can’t. There are inconsistencies that don’t make sense—putting aside the fact that Mariner’s choice of drink each morning shouldn’t affect which alien races attack the ship, other facts of her world seem to change too. Something is definitely off. It’s up to you to discover!

After the fall of nations, corporations have established authoritarian control over every major city, prioritizing order over freedom. Sylvia Boone, a corporal in the region's police force, finds herself in an impossible situation. When she discovers high-ranking elites are enabling human rights violations, she is unable to look the other way.After a deadly shootout, a bounty is placed on her head and Sylvia is forced to escape Winnipeg with a band of fugitives into the Canadian wilderness. As their quest for safety from authoritarian control and the promise of peace eludes them time and again, Sylvia trades any hopes of safety for vigilante justice.

What if everything you knew about yourself was a lie?Jean Anderson felt like an outsider her entire life.Abandoned at birth, she endures the torment of bullies who make her question her worth. But everything changes when the truth of her origins is revealed through an extraordinary college genealogy project.A single DNA test shatters Jean's entire existence-a shocking result, defying all logic and reason.One of her birth parents isn't exactly...human.As Jean delves deeper into the mystery of her otherworldly heritage, she is thrust into a realm of unimaginable danger.Hunted by a relentless madman, desperate to exploit her unique DNA, Jean embarks on a perilous quest to find her long-lost family. Every turn she takes exposes her to deceit and turmoil, forcing her to question who she can trust.With each secret that comes to light, Jean faces a tough decision: should she embrace her true nature or hide the truth?Prepare yourself for an electrifying sci-fi rollercoaster ride of suspense, danger, and self-discovery. Jean's Discovery will seize your imagination, leaving you breathless with its originality, captivating excitement, and an eye-catching narrative that will forever linger in your mind.Jean's Discovery is a thrilling sci-fi adventure of suspense and self-discovery.

Delve into the history of IDW’s Star Trek comics! Discover series you may have missed or revisit some old favorites in Year Four, Year Four—The Enterprise Experiment, and Alien Spotlight one-shots featuring Vulcans and the Gorn.The Star Trek Library Collection is a comprehensive line of books that will collect every Star Trek miniseries published by IDW! In Volume 3, read a selection of the Alien Spotlight one-shots and the entirety of the Star Trek: Year Four series.First, two series set during the fourth year of the U.S.S. Enterprise’s five-year mission! In Star Trek: Year Four the Enterprise encounters a strange series of planets, arranged to look like a strand of DNA floating through space. The crew can’t help but explore once Spock realizes that the desolate structure once supported more than 800 billion beings in the past. By David Tischman, Leonard O’Grady, Steve Conley, Gordon Purcell, and Joe & Rob Sharp. In a sequel to “The Enterprise Incident,” The Enterprise Experiment details the Federation’s experiments with a Romulan cloaking device, by D.C. Fontana, Derek Chester, and Gordon Purcell.Also collected are two one-shots featuring Vulcans and the Gorn! A Starfleet starship arrives at a planet on the brink of its own destruction. A once peaceful society is now savage and warlike linking itself to the turmoiled past of the Vulcans, by James Patrick and Josep Maria Beloy. Then, after their shuttlecraft crash-lands on an uncharted planet, Captain Terrell and Commander Chekov calculate that their odds of survival are somewhat decreased when they find themselves facing off against an army of Gorn warriors, by Scott & David Tipton and David Messina.

'Dookimon' is the hottest TV show in the galaxy. Broadcast from a space cube orbiting Uranus, it is a place where those who are genetically unique (mutants) can come to shine. But when the cube's central computer becomes self-aware and starts abducting innocent mutants, it is up to Charlie, an inter-terrestrial child of two worlds, to rescue them with his amazing powers and an unlikely robotic ally.Follow Charlie the alien hybrid as he struggles to find his place in the solar system, finding love, friendship, family and adventure every step of the way.

Dragons of the Great Divide(Book 2 of The Cretaceous Chronicles)It's one year after egg-laden meteorites struck the Continental Divide in Montana and Idaho, hatching out hundreds of Cretaceous dinosaurs, as recounted in Cretaceous Stones (Book 1 in the series). Now it's a new summer, and Dromaeosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, and Triceratops are on the loose once again. Cast of Characters: Paleontologists/authors Hayden Fowler and Nora Lemoyne are involved in a torrid romantic relationship. They are fresh off the bestselling success of their first co-authored book, detailing their close encounters with the Cretaceous beasts. On the hunt for material for their second book, the couple experiences a few harrowing encounters in their travels. Helicopter pilot Peter Lacroix resigns from the Montana Forest Service to become Hayden and Nora's personal pilot. It's big money, but the risks are even bigger. Peter's pregnant wife Brin Lacroix suffers high anxiety as he flies out each day, worrying whether he will return. Jackson Lattimer is a celebrity wildlife videographer with a reckless reputation for getting closeup shots of dangerous animals. Due to his daring ways, the media has dubbed him "America's Gonzo Shutterbug." He befriends Hayden Fowler, joining him on several perilous outings. Bryan and Loretta Gilliam, parents of three children, own Gilliam's Guidepost ranch, home of last summer's famed dinosaur habitats. The ranch serves as the heliport and home base for the dinosaur tracking teams. Kelton Rendaya is an equine veterinarian moonlighting as an illicit animal trafficker who specializes in venomous reptiles and dangerous wildlife. His life implodes when he jumps headlong into the dinosaur trade. Also, Indigenous women are disappearing off the Blackfeet Indian reservation. The authorities are indifferent, claiming the Native women are being taken by hungry Tyrannosaurs. One of the women is Kanti Lyttle, the wife of Apisi, a longtime Gilliam ranch hand. Bryan Gilliam gets involved and his search leads to a startling discovery. Is it possible that animal traffickers have also moved into the human trafficking business? Finally, a helicopter flight into Idaho's River of No Return Wilderness preserve in search of Tyrannosaurs turns deadly. The team of six learns a harsh lesson-the dragons of the Continental Divide are ruthlessly unforgiving. Dragons of the Great Divide is fictional science at its best. But it's much more than a sci-fi thriller featuring the return of the dinosaurs to the contemporary American West. At its heart is a story that explores the human condition in all its multifaceted complexity. It's about the human spirit rising up in the face of extreme adversity. It's about families and romantic relationships. It's about unbridled greed and the blinding quest for fame and fortune. It's about life and loss, love and lust, and the human need for friendship. But most of all, it's a rip-roaring entertaining tale you won't soon forget.

Book Three in The Powers That Be trilogy, THE BLUE SPARK, paints a thought-provoking, action-packed vision of a dystopian future world with humankind on a razor's edge between science and morality, loyalty and betrayal, hope and despair, courage and fear, evolution and extinction.* * *A supernatural visitor entrusts an enigmatic cubed artifact with maverick archeologist Professor Ian Dury. Five years later, legendary robotics pioneer Mitsuo Kobayashi appropriates the top-secret cube, projecting a young woman's body and soul into sixteen sister replicants before the catastrophic consequences of playing God lay bare his hubris.Rachel and Owen Haig raise their precocious daughter, Hannah, out of the public eye and away from The Powers That Be (PTB) until events spiral their extraordinary lives asunder.With a vicelike grip on the PTB, a corrupted Andrew sabotages a quasi-utopian new world order, precipitating the return of an advanced alien hybrid prehuman civilization.25-year-old Hannah Haig leads a solitary life in 2070 as a drone tech aboard Thundercorp No. 5 when terrorists destroy the moon-like orbiting warehouse. A month later, estranged from her family and stricken with survivor's guilt, Hannah's Blue Spark inheritance manifests, leading to a transformative sacrifice that seals humankind's destiny at the end of a celestial path.On a future Earth reshaped by eons of cataclysmic upheavals, something stirs within the cube long since buried under the sands of time. Sometimes, history repeats.

In the enigmatic world crafted by Rocco Scibetta, the protagonist, Dane Parliament, is not your typical architectural salvage collector. Possessing super-sensitive powers, Dane can channel spirits and demons entrapped in a dimensional exile. When an underworld conspiracy emerges, threatening to unleash demons from dreams into the real world through social media, Dane is summoned to unravel the dark plot.Set in a realm where the surreal meets the bohemian, readers are introduced to Scibetta's eccentric character, Dane Parliament. Imagine a gathering of literary legends like William Burroughs, Aleister Crowley, and Dashiel Hammett at the haunted house on the hill, with you as the only sober guest. The narrative weaves through a series of entangled stories that lead Dane Parliament to confront the impending menace.The storytelling, reminiscent of William Burroughs' hallucinatory style, takes the reader on a gut-wrenching journey through a world that is strangely believable. As demons threaten to break free from the confines of dreams and infiltrate reality through the digital realm, Dane must navigate a surreal landscape where the line between the supernatural and the everyday blurs.Rocco Scibetta, known for simplifying the absurdities of our future, invites readers to hitch their search engines to a phantom cloaca in this intriguing and surprising tale. Dr. James Broderick, Professor of American Literature, encourages readers to prepare for a unique literary ride through Scibetta's world, where the bizarre and the familiar collide in unexpected ways. To uncover the full details of this unconventional adventure, dive into the pages of the book and witness the convergence of the supernatural and the digital in ways that challenge the boundaries of reality.

In dem verschlafenen Dorf Grafenberg werden über Nacht Frauen durch unbekannte Wesen entführt und ersetzt. Oliver ist einer der ersten Menschen, die es bemerken. Auf der Suche nach Verbündeten und den verschwundenen Frauen wird das Fragengewirr immer dichter, und wenn die Absichten der Wesen eindeutig sind, täuscht der Schein zum Schluss.

When one of their own has gone missing while on a routine excursion into the past, it is left to her crack team of fellow scientists to find and retrieve her before she is lost forever. But time is not on their side. Will she breach the fifth dimension or is she doomed to live out the rest of her life in the PAST lane?

The Girl Who Reset the 3-D World, our third book in the Reset Series, begins precisely where the second one ended: Renee has done everything to wake up Electra after a chronic medical condition strikes her down, so Renee follows the only viable option: she calls upon Indira the Singularity. Indira shocks the lightning brain into a state that brings her back, but Electra will need help from her network of close friends coming from personal and professional worlds to regain her footing.And they do, but Electra now has an altered point of view caused by the accumulated damage inflicted by enemies found in her 3-D world. Nevertheless, she meets the challenge and extends her geographical reach, bringing new adventures and allies as well as additional enemies.As the action and suspense build to an explosive climax, Electra achieves some successes but also suffers setbacks. Existential threats accompanied by death come calling, but Electra pushes to her asymptotic limits that only Indira might overcome. Electra's final thoughts end the novel:Will this be the end of my extraordinary Odyssey?...Not even Indira knows...The lightning brain will decide what will become of me.

Far, far from Earth and thousands of light-years away is a place known as the Great Rift that separates our universe from an alternate other, where space is white, and the stars are black. In that universe are unimaginable worlds, some larger than the Earth's sun, and things that defy human logic. Things that are meant to stay on their side of that protective barrier, but as impenetrable as it is, something did manage to penetrate it and reaped havoc on the far side of our universe. It was a ghastly maggot-like organism called Yethla with an insatiable desire to consume protoplasm. If it were not for an advanced race of beings known as Vorxans, this menace would have eventually spread across our universe, destroying, and feasting on all living and nonliving protoplasm in its path. This is the story of how this advanced race of beings was able to finally penetrate the Great Rift and discover what lies beyond the sea of stars.

Being the chosen one sucks butt! Ypsilon never asked to be the key to saving the universe. But with the Synod closing in on them and time running out for everyone, she must make a choice: get her revenge, or become the hero everyone wants her to be. But the Synod isn't the only battle the team faces. When the gang finds out that the Synod teamed up with not only the Senate, but several other baddies, they resort to teaming up with the lesser of two evils. Will they stand a chance at defeating the gods, or will the universe pay the price?

A Fantastical Sci-Fi & Dystopian Action-Adventure that bends sci-fi and The Hero's Journey's tropes and archetypes."Gripping . . . edge-of-your-seat thrills . . . a thought-provoking triumph." -BookLife, Editor's Pick "Thoroughly entertaining and highly re-readable . . . both imaginative and wholly original."-San Francisco Book ReviewWhat does it mean to be a rebel, a hero, or the destroyer of habitat and civilization? As a devastated world recovers from war and plight, an unlikely heroine emerges and attempts to rescue distressed rebels from the government's corruption controlling the rationed food supply and from a rogue general trying to steal the only known honeybees. And Earth itself fights back.Following the Great Uprising of the Millennium, the remaining human population in the Third Continent's forty-four districts-starved and weakened-are dependent on the Authority. The new power structure that emerged after the war rules by fear and tyranny, confiscating property, and feeding the masses poisoned food.Yet out of the rubble, rebellious clans who dream of a better future emerge, able to grow their own food because of their secret weapon-the last remaining nest of honeybees. Now a war wages between the rebels and the Authority. X and Y, children of the rebellion, have the key to the rebellion's success: a download that can bring down the Authority once and for all.Power hungry and corrupt, the Authority's General Speer is intent on finding the download, along with the rebels' bees and food stocks. And he will stop at nothing until he rules all the districts.The fate of humanity hangs in the balance as X and Y join forces with an unlikely heroine and their allies in a race against time. But in a futurist world where survival is paramount and everyone has an agenda, who can they trust?

Stone reluctantly accepts his promised last mission: assassinate the Imperium Queen. It should have been routine, a simple in-and-out operation-get close, pull the trigger, and disappear into the sprawling United Word Empire of thousands of worlds. But the evil powers of hate interfered. Stone's finger squeezed the trigger. The target lay lifeless, but it wasn't the Queen. It was the last Imperium Knight-the Queen's beloved husband.Stone becomes a wanted man, hunted by everyone. With no friends or allies remaining, he sinks into the only way of life he knows. He sought solace in the bottom of a glass, the warmth of nameless favors of despair and self-hate, he slips closer to a watery self-ending.What Stone did not understand was for a new Armsman to come forth, the last Knight must end. Inside his self-pity at the last second of life and death, he hears a voice call out in the fog. Is it the voice of his lost love, the one woman who saw good inside a man made of stone?Read Knights End to discover how the last Armsman was born from the sacrifice of a Queen's love. "Knights End" story is the last of the three Prequels. A full-length novel titled The Beginning picks up with Armsman Stone taking his place in the galactic war between hate and love.Are you ready to follow along with Stone as he takes on powers that seek to control humankind everywhere?

Lt. Wally Crimson is the leader of an elite group of mutant insects who defend the interests of his nation abroad. While his career is at a high-point, thoughts about what kind of a future he is making for his son plague his mind. What kind of example is he setting for the next generation? Should he just leave it all behind and spend more time with his son? How would he get out of the deal he has made with the manipulative General Nunes without dire consequences?All these questions come to a head during what Wally hopes will be his last mission, teaming up with an enigmatic mutant solder known simply as Dragonfly.

In a parallel, dystopian Austin, Texas, four strangers must work together through impenetrable traffic, flash flooding and deadly armed hirelings to save humankind from itself. There has never been a more deadly foe. If only this world had some duct tape to keep it from falling apart.

The 2nd book in the Working-Class Superheroes series.Army vet Dwayne Sullivan has escaped from prison in order to keep an other-dimensional artifact out of the wrong hands. To do this, he needs the help of superheroes, powerful meta-human do-gooders who are the heart and soul of Hammer City. But those heroes are being recruited by General Gordon, the very same military general who imprisoned Dwayne in the first place. Will Gordon be able to prove to his superiors that superheroes have value in the modern world? Will Speed Chicken and Cambio keep the mythical Staff of Osiris away from an alien warlord? What role will Dwayne's son Zeke, who doubles as the (super-powerless) costumed vigilante Wombat have in his father's quest?

Incident at Zyralin 4 is part of the Chronicle of the 12th Realm series, it predates the first book but sets the scene for the series as is usually the case for prequels. Political intrigue, corruption romance and loss are showcased in this rollicking adventure.Alan Dean is due for a promotion, to qualify he must demonstrate he can command a battle group, but in peace time there is little chance of this happening. When communication with the Coalition science station on Zyralin 4 is lost, a mission is hastily devised to investigate; this could be Dean's chance. He leads a group of three aging ships to investigate and the inspection reveals that all on the science station have died in horrific ways. The mystery of Zyralin 4 deepens when three unidentified battle ships are detected heading towards the group; then all comms to Earth are lost. Two months later, one severely damaged ship returns, the other two - destroyed. Why were the ships attacked in friendly territory? What happened on the science station? Serious charges are laid by Dean and a full military inquiry is launched, as answers must be found. Against a backdrop of political intrigue and rogue intelligence agents, finding the truth becomes the mission. Power and revenge may just be the real motives.

The signWhen a meteorite falls from the sky, the destruction left in its wake lights a political fuse that could bring on Armageddon.The prophetJust when the world could use a savior, the prophet Elijah appears. His search for a messiah leads him to the daughter of the archangel Michael.The saviorMeanwhile other messiah hopefuls spring up around the world - including Page, an AI already tangled in webs of religion and deception. Yet as false shepherds lead the lambs to their doom, it may be up to Page's creator, the criminal mastermind known as Mouse, to save them all...

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Dwayne Valdis is rebuilding his empire, which he believes will catapult him into global domination. Alexis Nokovic, queen of a rival gothic family, stand between him and his quest for world power. She swore an oath to destroy him after he betrayed her sect during a battle against the Romans in the 3rd century. After years of separation, their inevitable clash reignites and leads to a final conflict for civilization. To complicate matters, her son the prince, develops a pivotal and forbidden love affair with a mortal female as these two extraordinary factions renew their war in modern day Europe.