Axel Nal is out of luck and out of time. He has failed every single induction ceremony and it is his last chance to Exceed to a higher class. At his wit's end, he desperately tries one last time at Exceeding, putting all his chips on the table . . . except something was different this time. Time freezing, a mysterious voice, and a new Exceed Mark?
Had lady luck finally given him a boon?
Had he received a class the world had never seen before?
One thing is for sure, he's changed. And now he has something called . . . the Gambler's System.
Join Axel and his companions as he journeys through this game-like world of the Five Kingdoms!
His name is Taylor McFadden, survivor of eighty-three trips into the ZOO. Now, he's retired, and yet his country needs his skills to save people in the country he calls home.
Can he build a company, put down roots, and still bring the pain when the FBI calls?
When they tag him as The Cryptid Assassin, they weren't wrong. For monsters that go bump in the night, he is death incarnate.
Fountain of Youth, or Valley of Death?
While eating his supper of microwave popcorn, PhD student-genius Salinger Jacobs is grabbed from his apartment in California, stuck on a C-130 military plane, and sent to the Sahara Desert to witness the reality of the ZOO for himself.
With the life expectancy of untrained scientists working inside the ZOO measured in hours, he has a lot to learn. Fast.
First order of business? How do you shoot a gun, and just how much is that plant worth?
The government needs the best of the best military and scientific minds working out how to pull the secrets from the ZOO, while keeping the deadly fauna and flora in check.
There is one major problem, Salinger doesn't even have a PhD.
If he can stay alive long enough, he might be able to afford something besides packaged microwave popcorn to eat. That is a big if.
Can you get your PhD in the ZOO?
Salinger Jacobs treats others as he is treated. Screw him over, and he might hold stuff back. You have his back? He will have yours.
When a fellow scientist is screwed over by her company, she seeks out his fledgling Mercenary company to see if they can use another smart mind. Since he obviously didn't want her body.
With opportunities coming at him and his partner Madigan faster than they can handle, another mind might be just what Heavy Metal needs. But will it come with too many complications?
In the ZOO you always expect the unexpected. Will this be true for relationships? Can he trust his partner with his secret?
Salinger Jacobs is working to build his company as fast as possible. Will he make a few mistakes he can't think his way out of?
Sometimes, it isn't what you know from reading books that helps you succeed.
A Lost Ship-A New World
Urban is no longer master of the fearsome starship Dragon. Driven out by the hostile, godlike entity, Lezuri, he has taken refuge aboard the most distant vessel in his outrider fleet.
Though Lezuri remains formidable, he is a broken god, commanding only a fragment of the knowledge that once was his. He is desperate to return home to the ring-shaped artificial world he created at the height of his power, where he can recover the memory of forgotten technologies.
Urban is desperate to stop him. He races to reach the ring-shaped world first, only to find himself stranded in a remote desert, imperiled by a strange flood of glowing 'silver' that rises in the night like fog-a lethal fog that randomly rewrites the austere, Earthlike landscape. He has only a little time to decipher the mystery of the silver and to master its secrets. Lezuri is coming-and Urban must level up before he can hope to vanquish the broken god.
Jon's days are numbered. The mine will consume his life any day. Will this offer to farm inside a game be any better?
He wants nothing but to farm in the real world, and he's given that chance in a VRMMORPG. With a new lease on life, he accepts it.
But when he's robbed of his only tool to farm sufficient quota, he has no other option but to enter the deadliest forest of the region and die at the hands of a druid to obtain a skill that will help him reach his goals.
However, death awaits at every step in the forest, and he can't die more than thrice.
What will Jon do?
Two Thousand Forty-Four. The world of games changed long ago.
'Ascension' has become one of the most popular VRMMO games. It is a huge world divided into a hundred Floors, with each Floor a boundless location with its own countries, tribes, and millions of players.
The object of the game is to unlock all the gates and conquer the top.
Having joined the game, Will Thomson doesn't realize that he is all by himself. Then he accepts the first quest . . .
Cursed Rat: level 46 . . .
High-stakes combat in a pitiless universe. Iron Dogs is a sci-fi adventure in which human bravery and technology come up against the might of an alien war machine in the harshest of environments.
Humanity is within months of losing an interstellar war to a species of aliens known as Fangrin. Giving up isn't an option. Victory doesn't seem like an option either. When Commander Jake Griffin is sent out with the Eternity carrier group to hunt down and destroy enemy facilities, he has no idea what's coming to him. The planet Graxol-4 out in the middle of nowhere hides a critical enemy base with vital resources just waiting to be stolen. The only problem is, it's guarded by a war fleet and surface troops, while the planet itself is toxic and gripped by constant storms. Victory on Graxol-4 may not win the war, but it will buy time for humanity to regroup, toughen up and come back harder.
Go deeper, they said. Look closer.
Pleo Tanza is a survivor. Her father was broken by tragedy, her twin sister is dead-chewed up and spat out by the corruption and injustice of Chatoyance-but she's going to make it, whatever it takes. She's going to get off this rock.
But escape is for the rich or lucky. Pleo's framed for the murder of a rival student-the daughter of one of the colony's wealthy, squabbling clans-and goes on the run, setting off a chain events that could destroy the fragile balance of the old colony forever...
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500 YEARS IN THE FUTURE, EARTH IS NO LONGER POPULATED BY HUMANS.
The new guardians of Earth, the genetically engineered Erta, have reversed climate change. They are now faced with a dilemma; if they reintroduce the rebellious and violent Homo Sapiens, all of their work will be undone.
They decide to raise one final child; a sole human to help decide if humanity should again inherit the Earth.
But the quiet and clinical Ima finds that there is more to raising a human than she had expected; and there is more to humanity's history than she has been told.
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Suponian los Romanos que los sueños verdaderos salían por una puerta de cuerno, los falsos por una puerta de marfil, y que el laurel inspiraba los sueños de la inmortalidad. Mi sueño ha entrado por la puerta de una prosáica almohada, pero me ha ofrecido una cosa más grande que la inmortalidad: la felicidad de un momento, cuyo recuerdo indeleble é inefable vivirá en mi corazón con más fuerza que el recuerdo de las más bellas realidades de mi vida. Dicho esto, vamos al cuento soñado, ó al sueño contado, que ambas cosas pueden ser.
Es el fin del mundo. El final de muchos mundos. Un colapso de realidades está a punto de llevarse por delante un sinfín de Tierras paralelas. Muchos de esos planetas están condenados ya, pero desde otra Tierra alternativa intentan por todos los medios que la destrucción no se propague y arrase el multiverso.
