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THE SAFETY OF INTECH'S RESIDENTS IS PARAMOUNT.INSURRECTION WILL NOT BE TOLERATED. Tanta and Cole may have stopped the mass murder of InTech's residents, but the cost was severe. Despite their efforts, Harlow 2.0 - the update to InTech's mind-based operating system - fed out....

"Absolute Risk is the work of a talented writer who knows how to hook his readers from the opening line."--Richard North Patterson, New York Times bestselling author of Silent Witness A new star in the thriller firmament, Steven Gore brings back investigator Graham Gage...

Author: Crystal WesterfieldISBN-10: 1965656110ISBN-13: 9781965656112Publisher: Hire a Ghost WriterLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/13/2025Pages: 36Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

The planet Earth, a once free and beautiful world full of promise and hope, has been gradually transformed into a highly controlled corporate nightmare monopolised by four very powerful men who alone decide the fate and destiny of humanity. Within this futuristic censored society...

Near future science fiction, in the metaverse Few survived the Destruction. Tech did, and the life of 2072 is experienced in non.life. Remotely suspended in their nanocradles, dispersed people around the globe connect in the metaverse, building a future, embodied in bots, and imagining......

Global warming and climate change have become an issue of great concern. Now as the world is getting technologically and industrially more advanced, resulting in the setting up of huge factories, the environmental pollution is heading towards alarming levels. It is obvious that more...

Top Secret Mission: The President suspends the laws of war. Use any means necessary to kill Hitler's greatest commando- Otto Skorzeny. Skorzeny and a company of Nazi SS soldiers have been transported back in time by Red China, tasked with murdering George Washington and...

The war for Earth's future began on Mars. In 19,500 BC, Mars teeters on the brink of collapse. With the planet dying, brilliant scientist and warrior Enki discovers a new hope: a habitable world teeming with life-Earth. But when the ruling Martian council refuses...

Digital Soul is a collection of three short stories bookended by two novellas that seeks to examine humanity's rapidly changing relationship with technology and the hidden dangers and costs associated with technological evolution. The opening novella is set in the recent past, and the...

In June 1889, Mrs Humphry Ward's open letter "An Appeal Against Female Suffrage" was published with over a hundred other female signatories against the extension of Parliamentary suffrage to women. Inflamed by this "most despicable piece of treachery ever perpetrated towards women by women",...

Ashlynn Sutton and Vincent Stormare are sent out on an adventure only to find out who they thought was a good guy is actually one of their worst enemies and they have to find a way to help everyone survive. On their search, they...

The R A L are reptilian aliens coming to Earth and Mars thirteen thousand years ago to survive an affliction they found on a far away moon. they came to Earth in the southern hemisphere in the western jungles of Amazonia. Along the way...

No one likes a rebellious captive.I learned that the hard way. I've been abducted from earth and cruelly tormented for my fighting spirit until I learned that the only thing that would keep me safe is to be sweet and calm and agreeable. It's...

For months the Tail of Nine Stars systems had been preparing a mission to the Xegachtznel Galaxy to stop the alien Vachisy Empire in its prodigious expansion, enslaving planetary populations of its own race while committing genocide on white and yellow sun human inhabited...

In a desolate future 300 years after The Fall, Gloria Stone manages to carve out a good life for herself as her town's healer. But when sinister forces ally against her, she must use every skill at her disposal to survive and keep her...

Amazing Ayyub, an Iranian Shi'ite skinhead, and Rabeya, a burqa-wearing punk, have kidnapped Matt Damon and are holding him hostage. They demand that Hollywood depict Muslims in a positive light--"just one movie where we're not these two-dimensional al Qaeda stereotypes." But Damon's concerned they're...

As KAT awakens, she is born with an intelligence unparalleled to anything known in existence. However, even with this gift, she is still left oblivious to the encompassing room that she is never permitted to leave and the mysterious man who comes and goes...

Failed writer Elizabeth Silverman is starting over, the new lighthouse keeper in a small Maine community. Sebastian Amunson is an ancient guardian, tasked with keeping the one of the world's great treasures safe. They're about to embark on an adventure of romance and intrigue....

The possibility of travel forward and backward through space-time intrigues a vast number of people. I find it curious that many believe that Back to the Future is really possible and eventually someone will implement a process/machine to do exactly that. I, on the...

This early work by Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian was originally published in 1876 and we are now republishing it with brand new introductory biographies as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Queen of the Bees' is a short story about a swarm...

Author: Scott MasonISBN-10: 1469158744ISBN-13: 9781469158747Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/14/2012Pages: 76Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

Author: Kara MenzelISBN-10: 1465375163ISBN-13: 9781465375162Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2011Pages: 242Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

In a world where corporate religion decides every level of existence, Dominion Capital has slated the walled city of Pottersfield for obliteration. Those within must survive or be subsumed. While the city's wealthiest residents are lifted out, the rest are trapped behind. Their lives...

Author: B. D. BooneISBN-10: 143639399XISBN-13: 9781436393997Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/15/2009Pages: 180Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d

This lesser-known tale by Jules Verne explores a fantastical journey that combines elements from several of his famous novels. It follows the daring adventures of characters who travel through the Earth, sea, and space, encountering extraordinary sights and challenges. The play delves into the...

Author: David T. ChlebowskiISBN-10: 1414057466ISBN-13: 9781414057460Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/05/2004Pages: 244Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d

A mysterious telephone call takes journalist Kevin Krause on a journey jeopardizing his sanity, as well as his freedom.Author: Matthew J. JordanISBN-10: 1403336148ISBN-13: 9781403336149Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/08/2002Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d

Step into the enigmatic world of Samuel Baxter, a uniquely talented writer who has dared to blend the intriguing tapestry of mathematics and number theory with the rich fabric of fiction. In "Chaos Nexus," Samuel weaves an extraordinary narrative that marries the elegance of...

Crisp and concise, Jason Hill's narrative flows without a single hitch. Outpicture: A Novel is one of those books where protagonists find themselves mired in situations and events beyond their control and try to make their way out against overwhelming odds. If you're looking...

"It is said that unto everything there is a season...these are the stories of a group of survivors during the season of the dead." Four individuals fight to survive as the zombie apocalypse crashes over the world in a wave of terror and destruction....

The mystery begins with the theft of thirty-six vials of a substance essential to the process of reanimation. Now, twenty years later, Little John Rawlings sets out to catch the thief who has resurfaced after being pronounced dead. Rawlings must find the mysterious stranger...

Author: K. A. WoodISBN-13: 9798349409325Publisher: Paper HouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/22/2025Pages: 340Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.76d

Author: K. A. WoodISBN-13: 9798349409264Publisher: Paper HouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/22/2025Pages: 340Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.37lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d

A definitive collection of new and selected stories by a master of the form. "Comparisons might be drawn to writers ranging from Jorge Luis Borges and Haruki Murakami to Margaret Atwood and J. D. Salinger. All of Lethem's stories are enlivened by his wit...

When Chant'L, a young and precocious Guardian in New Inku'lulu-an elite space outpost of planet Zezépfeni-misuses her sound magic, the Guardians punish her by stripping away her magical ability, and exiling her to Savage Mound, a sound island on another planet, Wiimb-ó. The Guardians...

Upon reaching middle age and the occasion of a milestone birthday, Darrell Duplissey reflects on his life up to that point. He ponders what he has accomplished in his first half-century and comes to the rather depressing, disheartening conclusion that he has been a...

Cynthia and Camille feel lost and scattered in a whirlwind world of jealousy, betrayal, and doubt-external and internal pieces with sharp edges that cut to their very soul and spirit. But they soon learn that if they take the time to repair the fragmented...

On a top-secret dive into the Pacific Ocean's deepest canyon, Jonas Taylor found himself face-to-face with the largest and most ferocious predator in the history of the animal kingdom. The sole survivor of the mission, Taylor is haunted by what he's sure he saw...

Two young Baltimoreans who struggle with heroin abuse meet in a methadone treatment center. During their wait for what they hope will be the beginning of something life-changing, they decide to share their personal tales of struggle and the daily hardships one comes to...

Atlantis 2005The time war is over, and the surviving crew of DE-173 can live in peace once more as Earth's timeline runs true, without threat from the banished Phoenix agents. But as with every war, something gets buried, left behind for future generations to...

When a massive asteroid hurtles toward Earth, humanity braces for annihilation--but the end doesn't come. In fact, it isn't an asteroid but a three-mile-tall alien that drops down, seemingly dead, outside Little Springs, Nebraska. Dubbed "the giant," its arrival transforms the red-state farm town...

1914: Our grandfathers and great-grandfathers fought to preserve a world collapsing into chaos. They called it "The War to end all Wars". But it was only the First ...2014: We are fighting to preserve a world collapsing into chaos ...2114: What will our grandchildren...

"Epic."Simply epic in scope, characters, story, plot and imagery. One of the best disaster stories I have ever read. Highly recommend." Jay Ward, October 21, 2018 (Goodreads) In the basement of the new USGS Data Center Laboratory in Pasadena, California, Dr. Greg Foreman notes...

This early work by Rudyard Kipling was originally published in 1890 and we are now republishing it as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Mark of the Beast' is a short story about a desecrated statue of a monkey god and a priest...

Author: Judith GilmanISBN-10: 1441552081ISBN-13: 9781441552082Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/09/2010Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Venture once more into the heart of Africa with Edgar Rice Burroughs's thrilling jungle adventure, "Tarzan and the Golden Lion." This classic tale of daring and discovery plunges readers into a world of untamed wilderness, where Tarzan faces new perils and uncovers long-lost secrets....

C. M. Kornbluth's "The Marching Morons" is a chilling and darkly satirical short story exploring a future shaped by declining intelligence. This thought-provoking work of science fiction paints a dystopian picture of a world grappling with the consequences of unchecked population growth and societal...

Explore the mind-bending world of "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions," a classic work by Edwin A. Abbot that seamlessly blends mathematics, science fiction, and satire. This thought-provoking narrative delves into the concept of the fourth dimension through the allegorical journey of a geometric...

This classic work of science fiction imagines a subterranean race of beings who possess advanced technology and a utopian society. As the narrator discovers this hidden world, he grapples with questions of power, morality, and the nature of human progress. With its imaginative setting...

Powerful and therapeutic, The Human Farm by new author Lois Amari honors both sides regarding the intricate moral and ethical questions surrounding abortion rights. With sympathy for all, the author weaves two masterfully crafted plots-one a dreamscape, the other a succinct court battle-into one...