System Fantasy

Young Simon Beck is terrified of his upcoming astronomy test, until a friendly alien named Neil Newton shows up and takes him a tour of the solar system that he will never forget. However, zipping around space isn't as easy as it seems when they have to dodge ice rocks in Saturn's rings and escape a dust storm on Mars. In the end, Simon becomes an expert on all the planets, and even the Sun, but his teacher has a big surprise for him at the end.

Brittany Parker is a Police Officer for a precinct that has adopted CyberBolt's implant technology to enhance abilities, which also grants her a unique gaming experience. But after getting wrapped up in matters of National Security, she is ordered to undergo a dangerous procedure rumored to cause memory loss and dementia. After the excruciatingly painful experience, she awakens inside the Augmented Reality MMORPG game CONQUEST to face a terrifying threat unlike anything she has ever encountered before. A rapture-like apocalyptic event transports players through a portal to an alien planet ...

Once one of the most deadly assassins in Lindrad, Janis is now plagued by the bureaucratic limitations of Evenir and the odd Light powers they wield. Newly awakened to his own powers, Marric wants only to prove his worth in the world he’s now part of. Together, the assassin and novice are thrown into the front lines of a growing conflict against Watchlight. As they both manifest and expand their abilities, each must also navigate missions to recruit new Lightbearers before the enemy reaches them first. Prost, an ex-military man turned Watchlight operative, looks forward to meeting Janis ...

When a deadly plague ravaged the Earth refugees fled into space, crowding into any space station or lunar colony that would take them. Decades passed and the descendants of the survivors struggle to live in anything remotely spaceworthy. Omesh, banished from his Earthly home, finds himself in Barnacle Town. A collection of salvage clinging to the hull of a space station in lunar orbit. Thousands of lives cling precariously to the hull, at the whim of the corporation that owns the station.

Valentina knows how to live in the community spread throughout the old mining caves under the Martian ice cap. A violent place in a forbidding climate, but home for her and her brother. Until she wakes from a coma to find her brother gone. Her father thinks her incapable of following them back to the equatorial cities.

Buza System is Dyan’s world. She has been a Crecheling, one of the System’s children, trained in a broad range of skills and knowledge and prepared to take her place as an Urbane, a full-fledged adult member of the desert community with a Calling given to her by the System and its Cogitant Council. Between receiving her Calling and admission into the System, though, stand the Hanging and the Selection. The System has a lesson it wants to teach Dyan about death. Against that brutal experience, and entwined within it, destiny has a different lesson for her, about the family she has never known…and about love.

Alexa was the latest young female to be put through the mating system, and she was paired with the handsome Antony. They both knew exactly how the system worked but after sharing a beautiful, passion-filled night together, Alexa and Antony were left wondering if they could find a way to beat the system, too.

Ivan Susanin, ein Durchschnittstyp und arbeitsloser Technikfreak, wird vom System aufgenommen und zusammen mit tausend anderen Spielern an einen unbekannten Ort jenseits der Erde transportiert. Ivan hat ein Interface, einen Speer und grundlegende Fähigkeiten an der Waffe. Alles, was er tun muss, um zur Erde zurückzukehren, ist, eine einfache Quest abzuschließen und das zweite Level zu erreichen. Aber Erfahrungspunkte werden in diesem Spiel nur für Kills vergeben, und die Uhr tickt. Wer nicht innerhalb von 24 Stunden punktet, bleibt für immer in der Location.

Le second tome de la série qui marque le renouveau de la science-fiction, dans un thriller aux confins de l'espace... Nous avons toujours voulu explorer de nouveaux mondes. C'était peut-être une mauvaise idée. L'équipage de l'Orca-7131 a été sauvé et le trou noir qui menaçait l'humanité a été refermé. Sarah, Slow, Yuri et Tom ont enfin regagné le système solaire. Direction : la Terre. Mais un message du président de l'EPON provoque une nouvelle crise.

Aidan Montgomery dreams of fire. He fears the fire growing within him, the power taking over and killing everyone he knows and loves. After spending months hiding in the Waste, he heads south to meet up with the girls only to find them deployed to the war effort in Rebluinia. Struggling to cope with a terrible tragedy, he doesn’t know if he can control the fire within. He doesn’t know if he is safe to be around.

Trident Nottingham III had an idea that would change the world forever: a shipbrain designed to make interstellar flight less restrictive and reduce the amount of time one spent attempting to meet regulations. What he didn't expect was that the shipbrain would develop a mind of its own.

Eichard, an organic farmer from Repreter, has one last haul of horch to sell at the Tri-Star System Farmer's Market. His retirement plan includes the installation of NanoDream Electronic's shipbrain Electra Five-Seven-Niner, the world's first of its kind. When he is boarded by pirates in the middle of the Lawless Zone, the memory of his dead daughter haunts him, and the pirates get more than they'd bargained for.

When an alien ship crashes into the space station and diplomatic post Labyrinthe VII, the precarious balance between Harmony's High Preistess Sissy and Confederated Star System Agent Jake begins to dissolve. Suddenly they are caught in a web of deceit and intrigue as undercover agents for both the humans and the aliens vie for control not only of the space station, but of a new and unclaimed planet that may hold the answers many of them seek - or prove to be a deadly trap.

Within a space opera landscape, Harmony explores the spirituality of a different human culture bound by a rigid caste system. Laudae Sissy, the new High Priestess of the world called Harmony, reaches across all seven castes of her society, seeking a new unity that will protect their isolation from the rest of the galaxy. But other cultures and races are testing their borders, searching for the most valuable commodity in civilized space.

John wollte lediglich im Kluane National Park am Wochenende ausspannen. Wandern, zelten, ausruhen. Stattdessen endet die Welt in einer Reihe blauer Textfelder. Tiere verändern sich, Monster erscheinen, und er erhält Charakterwerte und irre Fertigkeiten. Jetzt muss er die Apokalypse überleben und in die Zivilisation zurückkehren, ohne dabei durchzudrehen. Das System ist da – und damit auch Aliens, Monster und eine Realität, die sowohl an alte Legenden als auch an Videospiele erinnert.

Eine handvoll Außenseiter macht sich auf die Suche nach einem mysteriösen Alien-Schiff. Der abenteuerliche Sci-Fi-Roman in den Weiten des Sonnensystems. Auf der Marskolonie Adventiva wird Ray von seinem narzisstischen Vater zum Militärdienst gezwungen. Er entkommt schließlich der Unterdrückung und schlägt sich zu den Raumstationen im Sonnensystem durch. Dort trifft er auf einen Mann der Erde, der nach einem verschollenen außerirdischen Schiff sucht.

The World of Loreston was Erick Brighton's favorite video game. He'd become one of the top players and constantly stayed up all night, competing in tournaments and avoiding any real commitments besides feeding his two plants. However, one night when he awoke, he was no longer in his house in front of his computer but surrounded by Goblins, beautiful women, and enough supplies to build a tower from the ground to the moon. Turning into a Lord, one of the individuals gifted with the ability to create structures, he starts out as a lowly serf.

Haley and Nana return in a second heartwarming adventure! Having embraced her new meta class, Haley is ready for anything... except, possibly, a plague of seafood! It turns out it's harder than she thought to sit back and let other people handle the problems she really, really wants solved.... This second installment in the adventures of a post-apocalyptic world with a game system imposed on it by magical aliens contains yet another recipe, because (once again), that's the kind of story this is. Curl up with some cornbread and watch Haley craft her way through another quick read!

Discover William Tenn's brilliantly satirical science fiction classic Venus is a Man's World, where gender roles are hilariously reversed. In this thought-provoking tale, Earth's male population has been decimated by war, creating a society where men are rare, pampered commodities and women hold all positions of power.

Doscientos años después de una catástrofe climática que eliminó a gran parte de la población de la Tierra nace Goma, un chico de una familia proletaria. Entre los sobrevivientes se desató una guerra de todos contra todos. Los vencedores rediseñaron el mundo según la regla de La diferencia absoluta que dice: "¿Para qué sirve ser millonario si uno no puede gobernar los acontecimientos más importantes de su vida: la reproducción y la muerte?".