Alternate Reality Fiction

Emma isn’t a typical teenager. Who in their right mind would spend hours studying the Holy Text? Who has the audacity to presume they can connect with the Sovereign? Yet she must try. She will implore the Almighty to send them the High Priest her people so desperately need, the one who will restore balance to an out-of-control world. And if she died trying? Then so be it. Yet Emma has no one to support her—unless you count that crazy homeless man. And she has no one to guide her—except that surreal voice inside her head. Is she crazy or consecrated? Will her questionable journey doom ...

String Theory.Quantum Mechanics.Joey Ramone.Zoe Stanton’s life used to be normal. Which is to say normal, but by no means average. Then her mother died and with her passing came the era of the new normal; one that was anything but.And now her father was gone too.Zoe arrived home from school one afternoon to discover her father missing and his basement office in ruin. What’s more, there was a curious new addition to the Stanton family home. An old utility closet had mysteriously transformed into a portal to the infinite. Zoe was about to venture deep into the weird world of quantum theory.

For eighty million years, the Tourists have taken Snapshots of Earth, creating living replicas of continents. Life in the Snapshots quickly diverges from the real world, creating a universe where humans and animals from Earth's history fly between Snapshots, exploring, fighting, and sometimes meeting their alternate history selves. In 2014, the Tourists create a Snapshot of North America in a snow-globe shaped artificial universe, linked like pearls on a necklace to other copied times and places. In that timeline, Simon Royale—a.k.a. Simon-2014— is a legendary best-selling author. When ...

The Oversight of London has been sworn for millennia to prevent the natural and the supernatural worlds from preying on each other. Now, at its lowest ebb, with its headquarters destroyed and its last members scattered far and wide, this secret society will battle for survival and face the harshest foe it has ever met: itself.

Some lives are bigger than one reality. Because they have to be. The day Mara Lantern meets herself, her life gets bigger. When she meets her brother from an alternate universe, it becomes more complicated. And when her new mentor says creatures from other realms are invading this world, she thinks it’s absurd. Until he explodes into a cloud of dust and reassembles himself. That makes her doubt. Then he says only she can stop the invaders. That makes her afraid. -------- Join Mara Lantern and her companions in a seven-volume science fiction adventure through reality, time and space, where...

On Christmas Eve, 2017, the life of Russian-American artist Nikita Nataniel Kuznetsov changes beyond recognition. He’s plagued with a deadly bacterial infection that sends him off to the afterlife. Before he can move on to the other side, he must stand trial that takes place in a concert hall, attended by an invisible audience. As he sits at his piano, he is compelled to watch a 3D movie of his life, allowing him to relive meaningful events: his miserable childhood at a boarding school in the USSR of the 70s, his rise to stardom, his run-ins with the KGB, and a fateful breakup from his ...

When Arthur sat down to write the greatest detective on the planet, he had no idea he was also writing the name of whom would one day become also his best friend in real life. Oh, thee adventures that Conan is about to embark on as he joins with Sherlock Holmes to foil crimes and criminals larger than life and darker than the shadows. A novel that carries on the tradition of Sherlock Holmes, but lifts him into a whole new category of Urban Fantasy Mystery and Suspense! Science fiction at its finest!

Vincent is having the time of his life... ...it's just not actually his life. As a software developer, landing a job at an elite consumer spaceflight company is definitely a win, other than the fact that he has to face his fears and ride the rocket himself! That's not so bad, though. Vince is madly in love with Jenn, the gorgeous and adventure-loving copilot, even though he's never been able to really string more than two words together in her presence. Vince's minor blackout on his last descent was troubling, but not as troubling as the fact that just about every woman he meets suddenly ...

Past and future are converging, threatening to erase all of human history. Who will achieve DOMINION over time? Elizabeth Sapphire, 26th century time traveler, has made a revolutionary temporal discovery. After a rogue energy wave hits her asteroid, she is stranded in the past, in 1909 without a time machine. Meanwhile, Sapphire has located her custom U-boat time machine, summoning it from the depths of time, and has embarked across the Atlantic to Italy to retrieve. Primeval operatives, including a monstrous version of her long dead sister, pursue Sapphire relentlessly, seeking to seize ...

Dr. Charlie Manning made a mistake. Now the world is doomed, however... nobody but Charlie knows it. How much time remains? What will he do with the time he has? Can he bring himself to tell the world what he's done, or leave it in ignorance? Only Charlie can find those answers for himself, before Earth's final curtain. But answers... answers change everything.

Hace menos de un mes, Thomas Hunter era un escritor fracasado vendiendo café en Java Hut en Denver. Ahora se encuentra en una búsqueda desesperada para evitar que dos mundos se desmoronen. En un mundo, él es un general devastado por la guerra almando de un ejército de guerreros primitivos. En el otro, está apresurado para derrotarel intento de terroristas sádicos de crear un caos global mediante un virus imparable.

Emma Bannon, forensic sorceress in the service of the Empire, has a mission: to protect Archibald Clare, a failed, unregistered mentath. His skills of deduction are legendary, and her own sorcery is not inconsiderable. It doesn't help much that they barely tolerate each other, or that Bannon's Shield, Mikal, might just be a traitor himself. Or that the conspiracy killing registered mentaths and sorcerers alike will just as likely kill them as seduce them into treachery toward their Queen.

A disgraced hero. A galaxy on the brink. The fate of humanity lies in the balance. Kel Chaada was once a celebrated war hero—until his victories uncovered the dark secrets of humanity’s immortal rulers. Branded a fugitive and forced into exile, Kel flees to the edges of the galaxy, only to discover ancient alien civilizations with unimaginable powers. These forces could reshape the future of the Milky Way, but they come with a dangerous allure. When a new galactic threat emerges, Kel must decide: will he harness these newfound powers to protect humanity, or succumb to their temptation ...

Two more compelling mystery adventures in the magical town of London during the Victorian era. But on a different world parallel to our own. A world where magic and steampunk science co-exist. CASE OF THE BUTTERFLY PRINCESS The Baron treated her like a Princess, but when she vanished, the awful truth would soon be revealed by the clever work of Sherlock Holmes…if he and Watson can escape the same fate first. A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY Ghastly series of murders leads Holmes and Scotland Yard to the sewers deep beneath London. What they discover is that there are no mistakes with this ...

A fierce enemy that will stop at nothing. A woman who will risk everything. When Brianna, a tough-as-nails private investigator, goes on a blind date, she never expects it to lead straight into a dragon shifter's lair! Thrust into a world where mythical creatures roam the streets of Chicago, Brianna discovers the shocking truth about the missing women she's been hired to find—A pack of powerful dragon shifters has captured them. Brianna soon finds herself at the center of an ancient prophecy that could save them all... if she can escape the dragon-shifter’s clutches. As passion ignites ...

Dazzling, paranoid literary sci-fi for fans of Blake Crouch and Philip K. Dick: Vin, a down-on-his-luck young tech entrepreneur forced out of the software company he started, takes a job house-sitting an ultra-modern Seattle mansion whose owner has gone missing. There he discovers a secret basement lab with an array of computers and three large, smooth caskets. Inside one he finds a woman in a state of suspended animation. When Vin decides to climb into one of the caskets to see what happens, his reality begins to unravel....

Teenage supersoldier Ryn Whittaker started an uprising. For three years Ryn was stationed at The Battle Ground Rift site - one of the 14 mysterious and unpredictable tears in the fabric of the universe that serve as doorways to alternate Earths - and then she met Ezra Massad. Falling in love and becoming a rebel Citadel wasn't part of Ryn's life plan, but with Ezra there asking all the right questions, they began to decode what's really going on with the Allied Rift Coalition, and what they discovered was enough to start a civil war.

Selling real estate full time, raising two young daughters, clinging to a slipping marriage—Audrey’s life is definitely a balancing act. But when a tumble down the stairs leaves her with more than just a bump on the head, she wakes up five years in the past, before the first tear in her marriage threatened her trust in Travis.

Now that Malina is the Gatekeeper-in-Training of the underworld, her life is a wee bit different. Instead of spending her days killing innocents, she's protecting them by catching the bad guys who want to drink their blood and steal their souls. Plus, she's immortal, can eat without gaining an ounce, and is damn near hard to kill. Pretty good, right? Unfortunately, not everything is going as smoothly as Malina would like.

Still reeling from loss, Malina throws herself into her biggest and most personal case yet - liberating her mother from the Daughter of Chaos. The stakes are high, time is running short, and the path to freeing Diya is fraught with conflict and danger. Now, more than ever, Malina will need the support and expertise of her allies: Ajitah's quiet strength, Loki and Drake's magical expertise, Aaron's support, and Carmella's compassion. But most of all she'll need Garuda - her anchor in the storm. With her friends by her side anything seems possible. All they need is time.