Cal was lost amongst the swirling ashes of what remained of his world. He was wrung out. Guilt-ridden. And looking for a way to finally end his existence while remaining on the right side of morality. His emotional turmoil would eventually lead him to where he needed to be. On the Silk Road. The route was a sentiment. Those who found themselves traveling along it lost all hope. There was no returning from the path. The slavers known as Silkers prided themselves on this. To them, people were nothing more than cattle—to be driven, and their uses to be consumed. And they hunted. Relentlessly...

Twenty years ago, the stars above Nothaar Akii’s head suddenly changed. Christening it the Sky Shift, Nothaar found that this event was merely the harbinger of a devastating metamorphosis that was about to befall his world. More than anything, though, it impacted the children. Newborns came out of the womb with strange physical features, far different than anything seen before. As they grew up, the youths intuitively spoke a tongue that no one else understood. After learning these conditions were not isolated to his far northern village, Nothaar set out on a long journey of discovery, ...

Si vis pacem, para bellum – If you want peace, prepare for war In a galaxy on the brink of chaos, one young man finds himself thrust into a battle he never signed up for. Accused of a crime he didn't commit, he's sentenced to serve in the most dangerous unit in the universe: Convict Company. As an elite off-world fighting unit, Convict Company is humanity's last line of defense against the relentless extraterrestrial horde. Jake Ellroy, must tap into his hidden potential and work with this band of outlaws against impossible odds. "Convict Company is a heart-pounding military science ...

The governments started to crumble in 2073. There was no war. Just a collapse. I knew it was coming. I prepared. I collected a library of books - real, physical, paper books on subjects that I thought would be helpful. I found an abandoned military bunker for sale outside a small city in the wilderness. I didn’t bother to pay for it. I just moved in. Right now, I was just entering the closest thing we had to a city within two days’ driving distance. There were a few small towns closer but nothing that would have what I needed. I was looking for one place in particular. A bell rang as I ...

The only hope for mankind is Project Orpheus, an unprecedented initiative on the part of the allied governments to enable human life to continue on Kepler-442b, a planet over a thousand light years from Earth. Two spaceships are under construction, which will leave for that remote solar system with a specialized crew to terraform the planet and make it habitable. Steven Rhodes, the director of Project Orpheus, will travel in the first of them. His daughter Emily, a specialist technician in Artificial Intelligence, will follow on the second ship, five years later.

Bored by a car racing game, Josh goes on a bad review writing rampage that costs the game developer a pretty penny. Tired of his online antics the parent corporation of the game immerse Josh into a VR version of the game as a prisoner. Things take an unexpected turn when Josh meets bunch of repressed NPCs. Amongst the NPCs he finds a romantic buddy. And then another. Perhaps one too many. But they are all loyal to the cause. Josh's Cause. As the Josh Army increases in size and geographic reach a few real players tip the scales and help Josh win his freedom.

After weeks of scattered enemy intrusions into Earth's solar system resulting in the loss of several thousand defending Dragons, the full-scale extraterrestrial invasion began very close to the time humanity's alien allies predicted it would. Instead of appearing in one massive armada of ships as foretold, thousands of individual enemy ships approached Earth from every direction as if to cage in the entire solar system. Wave after wave of invading ships kept appearing, the nature of their weapons making thousands of defending Dragon fighter ships vanish without a trace of debris. Earth's ...

They searched a thousand earths for written gold. Join Shannon and Waldo as they explore alternate versions of Earth in a search for new works by their favorite science fiction authors. Exploring other dimensions can't cause problems. Or can it?

Humanity has survived. On the far end of the universe, with Earth little more than a faded memory, they thrive on worlds where once they were enslaved. In the millennia since, these persistent beings built new societies, but when the two greatest nations among them met for the first time, there was war. The all-consuming conflict bent the wills and morals of both powers beyond recognition, leading to levels of experimentation and cruelty once thought impossible. Yet, in a universe drowned in blood, an opportunity for peace is seized. In the uncertain aftermath of the truce, a broken soldier...

After a disastrous beginning to his first mission, new Aidric Squad recruit Conor Stasik has just broken into an alien research facility where humans are tortured and dissected, but aliens are the least of his problems. Something else is roaming the haunted cell blocks and blood-soaked laboratories, something far more vicious. Within minutes, he finds dozens of human and alien corpses. Hung from ceilings, stuffed into vents, torn apart limb from limb with bite marks from head to toe. Nearly everyone is dead, but that doesn’t stop them from walking. Or biting.