Izramith Ezmi is many things: a member of the feared, all-female Hedron guards, a war veteran recently returned from a pointless and bloody mission, and impatient, angry and above all, lonely. With her contract about to run out, she may be on her way to becoming a ruthless mercenary, since what she really wants--becoming a mother--is out of the question. Her family carries a gene that causes deeply malicious madness. Her nephew was born with it and her useless sister has left him in the care of an institute. A baby. Two days old.
She wants to ask her uncle, himself born with the condition, if he can do anything for the boy. But her uncle and his band of mad outcasts have gone missing, rumoured to be on the world of Ceren.
So Izramith takes another hired-gun contract in Barresh which is a city-state on Ceren. The job is to provide security at a high-profile wedding. Simple and straight-forward, right? No crawling in mud, no shoot-outs, no mangled bodies and blood-drenched soil. And meanwhile, she can try to find her uncle.
Except he isn't there, and the job isn't simple. Izramith and her team discover evidence of an extensive spying ring that threatens the entire city.
Postponing the wedding would be an admission of defeat, so it's time for desperate measures. Izramith leads a small team in what has to go down as the most hare-brained mission to ever be undertaken in the universe. Much is at stake: peace, the lives of her uncle and her nephew, and her own.
Fälschlicherweise des Mordes am König beschuldigt, bleibt den Überlebenden der Söldnereinheit Skull nur die Flucht in die unbewohnten Weiten des Weltraums. Sie werden nun nicht allein vom Zirkel und dessen militärischem Arm gejagt, sondern auch von der Colonial Royal Navy, die den Tod ihres Monarchen unter allen Umständen rächen will. Die Hinweise verdichten sich, dass der Zirkel inzwischen die Kontrolle über die Regierung des Vereinigten Kolonialen Königreichs erlangt hat. Admiral Oscar Sorenson ist klar, dass es nur einen Weg gibt, die Sternennation zu retten, der er einst Gefolgschaft und Treue geschworen hat: eine neue Rebellion. Um den Kampf gegen den übermächtigen Gegner aufzunehmen, plant man die Befreiung eines wichtigen Gefangenen. In dessen Kopf befindet sich der Schlüssel zum erfolgreichen Widerstand gegen die Schergen des überlegenen Feindes. Währenddessen kehrt Dexter Blackburn auf seine Heimatwelt Beltaran zurück, um Nachforschungen über den vermeintlichen Selbstmord seines Vaters aufzunehmen und die Wahrheit hinter dessen Tod zu ergründen. Doch dort ist er mehr als nur unwillkommen ...
The Gorafrex is trying to power an ancient ship that could destroy not just Austin. Big sister Laura may have the key to solve it.It's not a problem she can solve alone, but she knows just who to call when she's in trouble.It's good to have friends who know the secrets your family is keeping.Nickie has to learn to control her magical music without killing herself or her sisters. Emily wants to be a Head Chef if she can just keep her magical feelings out of her cooking and away from paying customers.The sisters have a lot to learn about their magic, the legacy rings, and the strange iron weapons the rings created. And if they don't work together, they'll never find the pieces they're missing before the Gorafrex takes another human host.Step 1: Destroy the energy cores. Step 2: Lock up the Gorafrex. Step 3: Lead a normal life as a Hadstrom witch and tell your boyfriend nothing. No pressure.
Vishlog is working to understand the Morgana group and just what he has "volunteered" to be part of. Hopefully, he won't die before he learns.The Witch of the Federation has matured, and she has learned how to be a bit more aggressive. She chooses to use this new strength...to go on a date.Will Todd be able to handle the new Stephanie, or will even the Toddster succumb to fear when and if the Morgana reveals herself?Stephanie and her team need a break, but the Federal Navy comes to Elizabeth, hat in hand, to ask for a favor. Unfortunately, it requires the team to go active earlier than they should. Will they accept?Will Stephanie's team be able to defend the Federation?She is a MORGANA. There are no other alternatives, no matter the risk to her and her team.
The rag-tag crew of the Capricious hunts down rogue AI, ancient colony ships, and the biggest treasure in the universe in this pulse-pounding space adventure for fans of Firefly and The Expanse.
The crew of the Capricious seems to leave a trail of devastation wherever they go. But with powerful enemies in pursuit and family and friends under attack planetside, there's no time to worry about all that. Ensnared by the legend of Origin, humanity's birthplace, and a long-dead form of magic, the Capricious takes off on a journey to find the first colony ship . . . and power that could bring down gods.
Read the incredible space-fantasy series that V. E. Schwab calls 'A total blast!'
The SalvagersA Big Ship at the Edge of the UniverseA Bad Deal for the Whole GalaxyThe Worst of All Possible Worlds
The armies of the Commonwealth, the Empire, and the neutral factions, all the leading players and clans of the preventers, have been summoned under the banners of Nergal the Radiant to the sands of the deadly Lakharian Desert, to wage war against a most terrible enemy of all life itself-Scyth. His supporters include not only mindless wild races, but also nightmarish monsters: the zombie guitarist Infect, the death mage Crawler, and one undead warrior by the name of Bomber.
A new battlefront. An old friend. A war that will forever shape the game.
Clay has arrived on the evil continent of Arethkar with one simple goal: to free the brutally enslaved players.
With the help of a long-lost acquaintance, Clay sets his eyes on conquering the powerful fortress of Iron Citadel. He has seven days to complete the task. If he succeeds, he will bring a new era of peace and prosperity to Arcane Kingdom Online. If he fails, the world will plunge into greater darkness.
The march of destiny begins.
Ferrett Steinmetz’s high-octane cyberpunk romance Automatic Reload about a tortured mercenary and the genetically enginnered assassin he loves.
Meet Mat, a tortured mercenary who has become the perfect shot, and Silvia, and idealistic woman geneticall engineered to murder you to death.
Together they run for the shadiest corporation in the world... and realize their messed-up brain chemsitry cannot overpower their very real chemistry.
Automatic Reload is the genre's most unexpectedly heartfelt romantic comedy with explosions, perfect for fans of both Altered Carbon and Atomic Blonde.
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books
“Shadowrun with a conscience.”— Hugo Award-winning author Jim. C Hines
“LUXURIATES in the intricate beauty that is technology, exults in the mechanics of cyberpunk. And it does all this while being a ROM-COM with a lot of EXPLOSIONS.” —Cassandra Khaw, finalist for the British Fantasy and Locus Awards for Hammers on Bone
Known for his New York Times bestselling alternate history novels, Flint is equally a master of shorter forms, and this second large volume gathers more of Flint's shorter works. Including several stories and a short novel set in Flint's celebrated Ring of Fire alternate history series. A commemorative novelette set in Poul Anderson's Operation Chaos universe. A story with Dave Freer, set in his and Flint's popular Rats, Bats, and Vats series. Several humorous short stories addressing Biblical literalism. A long novella in a Martian steampunk setting. And another long novella set in David Weber's bestselling Honor Harrington universe.
In addition to the fiction, Eric Flint has written an overall introduction, plus an introduction for each story, telling how it came to be written, making this an irresistible book for the many thousands of Eric Flint fans.
Contains mature themes.
Eddie Hunter isn't stuck in the game Light Online, but if he wants to keep his job, he needs to stay there. It's not a hardship for him as he increasingly believes that his in-game life is far preferable to his out of game life. Working on a hidden development quest that he discovered by accident has him becoming more and more entrepreneurial even while running his own inn, but between him and his party, the Meadowlands is rapidly developing.
The goblins from the Forest of Fools have noticed the Meadowlands growing stronger as well, and start attacking out of the forest. They seem to be growing stronger as the Meadowlands do. The Meadowlands themselves are changing also, offering more challenges and rewards, as Eddie completes more of his quests.
Eddie finally decides that he can't keep everything going on his own. Between running an inn, building the things necessary for his quest, adventuring, and more, he's getting to the point where important things are slipping his mind. When a dungeon is discovered in the Meadowlands, where there was never one before, he gives in and relegates himself to an assistant in running his own inn so that he and his party can test themselves against it in an attempt to grow their own power levels.
The time has come. The Creator is the most powerful entity in the known universe. Protected by the walls of its dark sphere, it constructs vast machines designed to wipe out entire species. So far, it has not encountered significant resistance. Times change. Keller and Nation are given their most dangerous mission yet. Sent into the depths of the dark sphere, they must do whatever it takes to wipe out this deadly alien entity. It's never easy and the stakes have never been higher. In the Creator's realm there are no guarantees. What lies ahead will be the hardest road Keller and Nation have ever travelled.
When Adam Cain's old bounty-hunting friends, Summer, Monty, and Tidus, show up searching for the most-wanted fugitive in the galaxy, their efforts are thwarted by another old friend, Copernicus Smith. The deep-cover spy has his own reason for finding the fugitive, and it's not to earn the million-credit bounty offered for his capture. The elusive alien absconded with billions of credits from his homeworld just before the Mad Aris Kracion irradiated the planet. And now it seems as though the entire galaxy is looking for him.
What no one knows is that the stolen money is earmarked for a deadly plan to finance a new threat to the galaxy, one more covert, more diabolical, more insidious than any before it. And now that Adam's old friends are involved that means he is, too, whether he likes it or not.
Once again, it's a mad-dash race to find the treasure, stop the bad guys and save the galaxy. Sounds daunting, doesn't it. In reality, it's just another day in the lives of our heroes, Adam Cain, Sherri Valentine, and Riyad Tarazi.
