The Frag Prince A science-fiction fairy tale. One day an engineer prince dropped a golden multiscan down a blowhole on the frozen surface of his home asteroid. A passing “frag” (an artificial cloned lifeform designed to be imprinted with the genetic blueprint of highly trained soldiers) offered to retrieve it, and in return asked to spend just one night in the prince’s bed. The classic Grimm fairy tale receives […]
Mass Effect: Initiation An original novel written by Hugo Award-winning author N. K. Jemisin and Mass Effect creative director Mac Walters. Lieutenant Cora Harper joined the Systems Alliance to develop and enhance her powerful biotic talents. She was assigned to the asari commando unit Talein’s Daughters, where she honed her abilities to become a skilled and deadly huntress. Returning to Earth, Cora finds herself a stranger among other humans, […]
The Earth Crisis A short satirical story, the book chronicles the response of Ésfaïre to the issue of mass migration from Earth. It’s 2163, and a climate ravaged Earth is in grave peril. Faced with the prospect of extinction, desperate humans seek refuge in Ésfaïre, a distant exoplanet in the Milky Way Galaxy. Ésfaïre is host to an advanced humanoid civilization which prides itself on its treatment of all […]
The Way of Kings The Stormlight Archive Book 1 Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter. It has been centuries since the fall of […]
Brandon Sanderson is a prolific fantasy author, and he became well known to Robert Jordan fans for taking up the saga of his incomplete Wheel of Time mega series after Jordan’s death. This week, all three books in Jordan’s Stormlight Archive are on sale. These include The Way of the Kings, Words of Radiance, and Oathbringer, New York Times bestsellers all. Here is what Sanderson says about the Stormlight […]
Star Crusades: Mercenaries Epic military science fiction. The greatest warriors, engineers and scientists of the age blaze a path to worlds far away from the human worlds of the Alliance. There they will meet alien races and become embroiled in intergalactic politics and conflict. Characters such as Spartan, the illegal pitfighter turned war hero of the Great Uprising, Teresa Morato, senior commander in the Marine Corps and a deadly […]
Battle Mage Only the power of a battle mage can save the world. The world is falling to the burning shadow of the Possessed and only the power of a battle mage can save it. But the ancient bond with dragonkind is failing. Of those that answer a summoning too many are black. Black dragons are the enemy of humankind. Black dragons are mad. Falco Dante is a weakling […]
Empire of Bones Book 1 of The Empire of Bones Saga. After a terrible war almost extinguished humanity, the New Terran Empire rises from its own ashes. Sent on an exploratory mission to the dead worlds of the Old Empire, Commander Jared Mertz sets off into the unknown. Only the Old Empire isn’t quite dead after all. Evil lurks in the dark. With everything he holds dear at stake, […]
Countdown The Wasteland Chronicles Book One Our world is ending… How or why is unknown, but make no mistake about it, we are living on borrowed time. Millions dead in a matter of days, billions in a matter of weeks. Yet somehow through the destruction and rubble, Lenny Brewster has staked his claim on survival. A former Special Forces soldier, a current womanizing alcoholic and a hardcore survivalist, Lenny […]
Date Night on Union Station EarthCent Ambassador Book 1 Kelly Frank is EarthCent’s top diplomat on Union Station, but her job description has always been a bit vague. The pay is horrible and she’s in hock up to her ears for her furniture, which is likely to end up in a corridor because she’s behind on rent for her room. Sometimes she has to wonder if the career she […]