System Fiction

Sky Fielder is a typical college student, except that she is a product of the foster-care system, lives in a halfway house, and meets with her caseworker on a weekly basis. While failing to balance her grades and erratic social life, she receives a call from a hospital, asking her to make medical decisions for her brother Ben—who died more than a decade before. The call must be a scam, and besides, Sky has a new life now. None of her classmates know about her desperate and feral childhood in West Texas.

The Hunt was supposed to bring him glory... instead, it gave him war. Gary just hit the jackpot—a lottery win granting him a coveted spot in the Great Hunt, the galaxy’s most legendary hunting competition. He’s spent years theorycrafting the perfect rogue build, optimizing every stat, weapon, and skill to crush the leaderboard and bask in fame. But fate has other plans. Just after uploading into his sleek new echo body and en route to the battle-world Artemis, his ship is ambushed. The Hunt is abruptly canceled. Earth is under siege by an unknown force—and every Hunter is being ...

Hey, you! Adam and I are organizing a holiday retreat this winter for all our friends. We are so excited to invite you, too. We've rented a place in the mountains. There will be skiing, other snow sports, and all kinds of fun. The whole gang will be there: Jordan and April, William and Jenna, Lucas and Katya, Heath, and of course, Adam and me. Please come along with us! It’ll be epic.

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.

The school cultural festival trope has finally come. The group is out to have fun, eat, and compete in the activities. It’s a shame that it cannot be easy for Clyde. From winning the festival just to protect Noona from perverts, to facing off with someone’s evil mother. Oh...did we forget to mention the crusader champion’s arrival, the Wind’s arrival, also Dark. Ladies and gentlemen: We’ve got a clusterfuck day.

This one-of-a-kind sales guide shows you how to stop wasting your time calling people who don’t want to hear from you and boost your close rate to 80 or 90 percent! Send your commissions soaring, work less, and enjoy it more - all without ever making another cold call. Following Joanne Black’s proven, referral selling system, you’ll discover how to turn current customers and your myriad of contacts into rich sources of referrals - as you establish relationships that ace out the competition.

In the decaying sprawl of Ash City, where magic leaks through crumbling walls and forgotten ley lines pulse beneath graffiti-covered streets, Emery Vale wields her spray cans like weapons against entropy. What the city doesn't know is that her vibrant murals are more than art—they're desperate spells keeping the neighborhood's heart beating. When her latest creation accidentally shatters an ancient stone prison, Emery unleashes Caelum—a phoenix reborn in breathtakingly human form, with eyes that burn like twin suns and skin that radiates intoxicating heat. His volatile magic responds to...

A space cloud of unknown composition is on a collision course with Earth as the world holds its breath. The anomaly sails through the solar system, and the International Space Station, along with three astronauts and one cosmonaut, are thrown back to the Cretaceous period, where dinosaurs roam Earth hunting prey and great pterosaurs patrol the skies.

What if the myths of ancient gods were true—echoes of a real war that shattered worlds and changed the course of human evolution forever? The Ninth Frequency: Book One of the Aetherian Legacy plunges readers into a visionary sci-fi epic that fuses ancient mysteries, speculative physics, and cosmic warfare into a mind-bending narrative unlike any other. When Elira, a gifted resonance cartographer, stumbles upon a relic buried deep beneath Giza, she awakens a dormant consciousness—Nyari’an, an ancient Aetherian whose memory holds the key to the solar system’s lost history. As harmonic...

Claire Pendleton has seen the thin spots between dimensions since she was five, when another reality merged into her family's apartment. That night, eldritch horrors flooded into her bedroom and murdered her mom while she watched. No one believes her, but she knows the truth. It doesn't matter what her perfect sister and deadbeat dad say about a "traffic accident." Claire knows what happened that night ten years ago, the cover-up that followed—and all about Vancouver Island's other thin places.

In the heart of the scorching Arizona desert, a man ensnared in the web of an oppressive justice system that thrives on officials, driven by power and relentless pursuit, inflicting harm while casting shadows of despair over those they are meant to supervise. Cook is confronted with the harsh realities of a system designed to control and break, rather than rehabilitate. This true story recounts rouge officers hellbent on destroying his rebuilt life after leaving San Quentin, as well as a viral vendetta across state lines.

Every story has a beginning and an end. What lies between these two points is the journey. Crossing the Rubicon is the story of seven remarkable teens as they survive the unbelievable. What started out as a simple weekend trip exploring the Chungo caves, became a journey which took them back 275 years in time, had them cross multiple continents, and stretched them to their limits.

It seems like the use of forbidden magic in Lot City to resurrect friends, allying with the goddess Venus, and growing incredibly powerful as a team has finally decided to come back and bite Team Stone. Can Clyde and his party survive one of the most ruthless and reckless divisions of the Punishment Squad, Celestial’s executioners? Will they give in to their demands or fight to the last breath?

When military personnel stationed on a distant asteroid begin claiming they are no longer human, Dr. Henry Harris is sent to investigate. The soldiers insist they have become "Pipers"—carefree beings with no responsibilities, despite their unchanged physical forms. As Harris delves deeper into the mystery, he faces an unsettling question: Is this a psychological phenomenon, or is something far stranger at play?

It’s been four months since Janelle Tenner stopped the Earth’s destruction with the help of Ben, the boy who resurrected her after she died. Ben is gone now - disappeared through a portal to his home world. Even though Ben broke her heart, Janelle refuses to believe it when Interverse Agent Taylor Barclay tells her Ben is suspected of running a human-trafficking ring across several universes. She vows to uncover the true culprit and rescue the people who have been sold into slavery on alternate Earths - not to mention find Ben and prove his innocence.

Explore the haunting beauty of Mars in Valley of Dreams by Stanley G. Weinbaum—a visionary science fiction classic that follows Captain Harrison and his crew on a groundbreaking Martian expedition.

The Retribution’s race to save L6 is almost overFirst Officer Johnson has used every scarp of math and heart she has in one desperate attempt to save L6 only to watch helpless as Night Sprinter destroys the first gravity mine. Now with the death of hundreds on her hands Charlie faces more than her conscious. Buy your copy today!

Mia Strong never expected to be deciding the rest of her life at age 22. Is she willing to become a human lab rat? Does she need to write a will? Does she ever want a family - and if so, with whom? She can't dodge the tough questions - not if she plans to live to see 23. With her life hanging in the balance, Mia wants nothing more than to rely on Adam Drake, but he's hurt her before.

Are your curious kids always quizzing you about the solar system and our neighboring planets? This fun and exciting adventure will give your child an easy-to-understand introduction to our planetary neighbors and our solar system and help you avoid the dreaded barrage of "why?" We call them 21st-century fairy tales/science-based fairy tales.

Step into The New Atlantis, Francis Bacon’s timeless masterpiece that blends exploration, philosophy, and early science fiction into one visionary work. Written in the 17th century, this classic novella follows the journey of European sailors who discover the mysterious island of Bensalem—a hidden civilization thriving on knowledge, discovery, and divine order. Through vivid storytelling and profound insight, Bacon presents a utopian society centered around Salomon’s House, a proto-scientific institution devoted to research, innovation, and the betterment of humanity.