Introducing twelve cosmic days of Christmas, with tales ranging from vampires to robots, from the hills of Appalachia to a high orbit space station, all celebrating the holiday in off-beat ways from such sci-fi luminaries as New York Times best seller Larry Correia, Darkship series creator Sarah A. Hoyt, and Sapphire Award Winner for urban fantasy Wen Spencer.
The Universe may not be a 'nice' neighborhood... "The oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown," the grand master of horror, H P Lovecraft, once wrote. And the greatest unknown is the vast universe, shrouded in eternal, cosmic night. What things might be on other planets - or in the dark gulfs between the stars?
Zombies are real. And we made them. Are you prepared for the zombie apocalypse? The Smith family is, with the help of a few marines. When an airborne "zombie" plague is released, bringing civilization to a grinding halt, the Smith family - Steven, Stacey, Sophia and Faith - take to the Atlantic to avoid the chaos.
It's springtime in the Eternal City, 1635. But it's no Roman holiday for uptimer Frank Stone and his pregnant downtime wife, Giovanna. They're in the clutches of would-be Pope Cardinal Borgia, with the real Pope - Urban VII - on the run with the renegade embassy of uptime Ambassador Sharon Nichols and her swashbuckling downtime husband.
The Smith family is, with the help of a few marines. When an airborne "zombie" plague is released, bringing civilization to a grinding halt, the Smith family - Steven, Stacey, Sophia, and Faith - take to the Atlantic to avoid the chaos. The plan is to find a safe haven from the anarchy of infected humanity.
Features John Grimes who has found his true calling out on the edge of galactic civilization. He's the sheriff of a realm where pioneer colonies and parallel dimensions overlap, and a starship captain must be prepared for adventure in ALL possible worlds.
A wry and clever young heroine coming into her magical powers is flung into the midst of power struggles and momentous battles in a world where her coming may be the answer to a long-awaited prophecy of liberation from tyrannical rulers.
2105, September: Intelligence Analyst Caine Riordan uncovers a conspiracy on Earth's Moon - a history-changing clandestine project - and ends up involuntarily cryocelled for his troubles. Twelve years later, Riordan awakens to a changed world. Humanity has achieved faster-than-light travel and is pioneering nearby star systems.
Humanity settled the stars, only to fall into a catastrophic collapse. On one planet, a single artificial intelligence, a computer program known as Center, found a military genius of grit and daring in Raj Whitehall, and the Galactic Republic rose again. But many dark planets remain - planets such as Duisenberg.
Have you ever finished the latest Honor Harrington novel from David Weber and wished you could linger in Weber's Honorverse just a bit longer? This title presents the orbital characteristics of key planets, regimental order of the Royal Navy, and backstory on the history and drama of the Star Kingdom's birth and early days.
Global war smashed civilization - or so the legends told - but not all of its machines. A caste of scientists arose who knew how to repair and operate the ancient machines - but not how they worked - and worshipped at the altars of the atomic gods who were said to make the machines run. This title deals with this topic.
On a world where parallel and alternate universes intersect, Celtic faery folk, and inhabitants of a distant future share the planet's surface. There are also aliens in flying saucers which are capturing and enslaving new arrivals who fall through the "gates." One group of new arrivals meets a protector, a man who calls himself the Herald.
Michelle Henke, Queen Elizabeth of Manticore's first cousin, Honor Harrington's best friend, and the commanding officer of Manticore's Tenth Fleet, is just a bit surprised when a messenger arrives from Mobius System to inform her that the Mobius Liberation Front is prepared to rise in rebellion against the hated regime President Svein Lombroso.
Steve Dravek awakens in a nightmarish city and immediately must fight for his life against ruthless organ-stealing gangs. His last memories are of a vanished time from a century ago.
Cobra warriors: technologically enhanced and implanted with an arsenal of covert weaponry. Jasmine Moreau Broom, descendant of a now-legendary Cobra family, must rally the Cobras to war after a devastating attack on every planet with Cobra on it nearly succeeds in wiping them out entirely.
Features a young woman and a young man who face down powerful enemies as they come of age in a far future universe full of menace and technology so powerful as to be almost magic.
A collection of science fiction that contains visions of future wars, fought with weapons out of nightmare.
The kompani sees none as an enemy, and yet few as friend. The kompani exists in many places, living quietly in the shadows, thriving off the bounty that others have no wit to secure, nor skill to defend. Their private history is unwritten; their recall rooted in dance and dream. The humans of Clan Korval are in many ways the opposite of kompani.
When seven-year-old Tia falls mysteriously ill while on an archaeological dig with her parents, she attributes it to the EsKays, a race whose artifacts are scattered throughout the galaxy, but whose fate remains an enigma.
Sasha Naradnyo is a gangster. He's a gangster with heart, but Sasha sticks his neck out for no man. That's how you stay alive in Crack City, a colony stuffed deep into the crust of the otherwise unlivable planet Peezgtaan. Alive only - because if you're human, you don't prosper, at least not for long. Sasha is a second generation City native.
The sixth rollicking anthology of tales set in ’s phenomenal New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire universe—all selected and edited by . A cosmic accident sets the modern town of down in war-torn seventeenth century . It will take all the gumption of the resourceful, freedom-loving up-timers to find a way to flourish in the mad and bloody birth of the Renaissance.The sixth rollicking, thought-provoking anthology of tales set in ’s phenomenal New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series—all inspired and edited by the creator himself, . A cosmic accident sets the modern town of down in war-torn seventeenth century . It will take all the gumption of the resourceful, freedom-loving up-timers to find a way to flourish in the mad and bloody beginning of the Renaissance. Are they up for it? You bet they are. Edited by Eric Flint, and inspired by his now-legendary 1632, this is the fun stuff that fills in the pieces of the Ring of Fire political, social and cultural puzzle as supporting characters we meet in the novels get their own lives, loves and life-changing stories. The future and democracy have arrived with a bang. About ’s Ring of Fire series: “[Eric] 's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.”—Booklist “[] can entertain and edify in equal, and major, measure.”—Publishers Weekly
Monster Hunter International might be the premier monster eradication company in the business, but they've got competition. When hunters from around the world gather in Las Vegas for a conference, a creature left over from a World War Two weapons experiment wakes up and goes on a rampage across the desert.
During the Cold War, a Soviet scientist has knowledge the Earth will be attacked by aliens, but only the US has the laser-based technology to knock out the alien weaponry. Enter Tom Kelly, American spy, navigator of the US intelligence agency spaghetti, and ruthlessly effective operative when it comes to doing his job.
When the werewolf cubs are asleep and the baby vamps are tucked into their coffins, the adults come out to play! Feeling a bit undead and dying to shuffle off your toil and troubles and get it on? You've come to the right place! Spend some quality time lolling in the moonlight shadows with a love that only comes out at night.
Cobras: technologically-enhanced warriors bred to fight an alien menace no ordinary human can withstand. In times of war, the Cobras are necessary, yet in times of peace they are often reviled by those they have saved. Now the Cobras have resisted a second invasion of the alien Troft forces, and forced the Troft to a stalemate.
Prince Roger MacClintock was heading for a ceremonial appearance on a boring planet when his ship crashed, stranding him and his guardian Royal Marines on a jungle planet held by enemy forces. To survive, they must trek across most of the planet to the only spaceport; and a spoiled prince must learn to be a man. . . .
Only five days after arriving on Kibou-daini for a cryonics conference, interplanetary diplomat Miles Vorkosigan narrowly escapes kidnapping. Drugged, dazed, and alone, he is taken in by Jin Sato, whose mother was the leader of a cryonics reform movement until being declared mentally ill and involuntarily frozen.
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