Metaphysical Fiction

Langley Powell died. Then, much to his surprise, he kept living. Sort of. And then he had to save the universe from erasure. Langley Powell was definitely the world’s most famous non-believer, a debunker of mysteries and exposer of hoaxes who lived a life of casual reason and lucrative celebrity. But then he died. Crushed by a falling piano. So it goes. Instead of immediately ceasing to exist in a vast expanse of nothing, as he’d expected, Langley found himself right back on Earth — but a different one. Aided by an extremely surly childlike guide, Langley goes to work for the network ...

Mature Readers: combat, violence, elements of horror, some sex, some language. She awakens in a windowless room full of lab equipment and spends a minute getting used to the pumping heart, tingly skin, and air filling the lungs of her new healthy body. Her name is Mary, and she has returned from the Ten Sigma Program, a virtual universe designed to produce the greatest fighters the Earth has ever seen through the harshest training methods ever devised. Now stuffed with every type of lethal knowledge and a victor in countless life-and-death struggles, she has one goal: to reunite with her ...

"Fun, fun, fun! Like the love child of Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett!" Man plans, the Multiverse laughs! "It's like that book about anti-gravity. You can't put it down." "A story 14 billion years in the making!" "Finally, a treatment for readers suffering "Dirk Gently or Hitchhiker's Guide withdrawal!" "Not only is this case stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we can imagine." No other detective is quite like Dr. Ziegfeld Zaggar, Quantum Detective -- and that's probably for the best. Zaggar and his reluctant, obsessively linear-thinking sidekick, Jack Robbins, investigate the ...

A woman in her 30s begins to question the routine and predictability of her days. In everybody's eyes, she has a perfect life: happy marriage, children, and a career. Yet what she feels is an enormous apathy. All that changes when she encounters a successful politician who had, years earlier, been her high school boyfriend. As she rediscovers the passion missing from her life, she will face a life-altering choice.

Four enchanted yard sale treasures show a lonely shop owner the way back to love in this magical realism novel. When Marybeth stumbles upon an extraordinary yard sale, she has no idea how much her life is about to change. Psychic visions explode in her mind as she touches each of four items for sale. Reluctantly, she takes them home. One by one, the objects and the visions reveal family secrets that force her to re-examine who she is. With a little heart and some dry humor, she forges ahead. Meanwhile Josh Anderson, a lonely writer, breaks free from his self-imposed isolation to undertake a...

~ Sometimes all it takes is the right person in our…AfterLife. ~ In this romance with comedy, a man purchases an abandoned farmhouse in a tax sale unaware it’s haunted by the woman…ahhhhh…ghost that will become the love of his life and he the love of her AfterLife and together bring the man who murdered her to justice as only a Trans Spectral, TSP, couple can.

In 1975 a black child named Radar Radmanovic is mysteriously born to white parents. Though Radar is raised in suburban New Jersey, his story rapidly becomes entangled with terrible events in Yugoslavia, Norway, Cambodia, the Congo, and beyond. Falling in with a secretive group of puppeteers and scientists who stage experimental art for people suffering under war-time sieges, Radar is forced to confront the true nature of his identity.

Theo is a successful Silicon Valley executive. But one fateful day, a guru appears in a vision and calls him to the Himalayas. While most children played with toys, a certain boy saw visions of a white-robed Holy Man. The child grew from adolescence to manhood, but never forgot the image of his guru. When his teacher tells the 50-year-old pupil to leave the U.S. and find him on the other side of the world, the man jumps on a plane bound for India… But the American’s journey of self-discovery has only just begun. In the mystical mountain passes of the Himalayas, he encounters wonders ...

Banished from their planet. Attacks against his wife. And now one of them has had the audacity to blow up his home planet. Hades always resented the people of Earth and now he is seeking retribution and does not care if that means defying the Earth Pact that protects the Earth to get it. With pending destruction heading Earth's way the defence of Earth looks to be resting on James's shoulders. But will the rest of the galaxy idly watch on as the Earth Pact is broken? Or will another saviour emerge?

A bet between the gods Hermes and Apollo leads them to grant human consciousness and language to a group of dogs overnighting at a Toronto veterinary clinic. Suddenly capable of more complex thought, the pack is torn between those who resist the new ways of thinking, preferring the old dog ways, and those who embrace the change. The gods watch from above as the dogs venture into their newly unfamiliar world, as they become divided among themselves, as each struggles with new thoughts and feelings.

A decade has passed since Verlaine saw Evangeline alight from the Brooklyn Bridge, the sight of her new wings a betrayal that haunts him still. Now an elite angel hunter for the Society of Angelology, he pursues his mission with single-minded devotion: to capture, imprison, and eliminate her kind. But when Evangeline suddenly appears on a twilit Paris street, Verlaine finds her nature to be unlike any of the other creatures he so mercilessly pursues, casting him into a spiral of doubt and confusion that only grows when she is abducted before his eyes....

Raffi works in an observational cosmology lab, searching for dark matter and trying to hide how little they understand their own research. Every chance they get, they escape to see Britt, a queer sculptor who fascinates them for reasons they also don’t—or won’t—understand. As Raffi’s carefully constructed life begins to collapse, they become increasingly fixated on the multiverse and the idea that somewhere, there might be a universe where they mean as much to Britt as she does to them…and just like that, Raffi and Britt are thirteen years old, best friends and maybe something more.

Julian Barnes pens a kind of detective story, relating a cranky amateur scholar’s search for the truth about Gustave Flaubert and the obsession of this detective, whose life seems to oddly mirror those of Flaubert’s characters.

It’s one thing to read about witches; it’s another thing to discover you are one. David is on a quest to elevate his magickal abilities. If you love witches, magick, and conspiracy theories, you’ll love the first book in this fast-paced supernatural thriller series.

Sasha Samokhina meets the mysterious Farit Kozhennikov under the most peculiar circumstances. The teenage girl is powerless to refuse when this strange and unusual man with an air of the sinister directs her to perform a task with potentially scandalous consequences. He rewards her effort with a strange golden coin. As the days progress, Sasha carries out other acts for which she receives more coins from Kozhennikov. As summer ends, her domineering mentor directs her to move to a remote village and use her gold to enter the Institute of Special Technologies.

Single mom Cynthia Pace has her hands full with her uniquely gifted child. She has no idea how or why Maddie does the things she does, and neither does her daughter. But there is an answer, discovered by mother and child only after tragedy strikes.

In Vita Nostra, Sasha Samokhina, a third-year student at the Institute of Special Technologies, was in the middle of taking the final exam that would transform her into a part of the Great Speech. After defying her teachers’ expectations, Sasha emerges from the exam as Password, a unique and powerful part of speech. Accomplished and ready to embrace her new role, she soon learns her powers threaten the old world, and despite her hard work, Sasha is set to fail.

The Central Authority is on fire.Simone, leader of the Overlords, has ramped up her aggression, arresting her enemies in the Central Authority Congress while she hunts for the last three Samson Corporation vessels. Captain Trey Clarke stands in her way.At the helm of the starship New Jersey, Captain Clarke has turned the tables in early engagements, but can that success last? The Overlords have many battleships and all the fuel they need, while the Samson Corporation uses up the meager resources they have.Captain Clarke discovers hidden experimental AI technology in the New Jersey’s ...

The good people of Battle Hill are getting ready to put on a play by the renowned playwright, Peter Stanhope. As the rehearsals continue and the date of the premier draws closer, many things that are hidden are revealed.

The Overlords are on the run.Simone over-estimated the power of her Razor battleships. Captain Trey Clarke’s New Jersey battleship bested her in several engagements, and then her attempted coup on Devonia Axxiom failed.Overlord Senators and Representatives are being arrested. Prime Minister Aeon’s security forces have become a terror, disappearing people in the dead of night. Did the bad guys really lose? Or are things worse than ever?Chairman Vermillion’s focus is the Samson Corporation’s secret fuel supply development and starship production. They’re making progress on both, but...