From a young couple struggling to look after their baby to a new captain's reluctance to take command of her ship, and from a sun-addled stranger's appearance in town to the emergence of a sentient AI, the twelve tales presented here explore the central theme of an arrival by someone or something new.There's even an alien puppy.

A student in search of a gay fight club uncovers a hidden community of kink-- and the ringleader is the hottest professor on campus.Nick isn't just another rich kid partying away his senior year of college. He's ready to prove he's tough enough for Brayden's twisted games, if only the mysterious professor will give him half a chance.Brayden is well aware of the rumors that follow him all over campus and beyond-- rumors that are only a pale reflection of the...

Groundbreaking investor and global enterprise builder Alec Litowitz shows how to move from "making the right decision" to "making decisions right" in The Adaptability Quotient , a guide to thinking and acting under uncertainty.Over decades of success across volatile markets, creating cultures and businesses that innovate at scale and endure, Litowitz arrived at a crucial insight. What separates progress from paralysis is ...

In a futuristic Middle East, plug-ins can turn anyone into a killer in this "wry and black and savage" Nebula and Hugo award finalist (George R. R. Martin).Set in a high-tech near future featuring an ascendant Muslim world and divided Western superpowers, this cult classic takes us into a world with mind- or mood-altering drugs for any purpose, brains enhanced by electronic hardware with plug-in memory additions and modules offering the wearer new personalities, an...

An enemies-to-lovers BDSM gay romance.Thorne is the talented cat burglar who delights in relieving the wealthy of their fine art and gemstones.Lane is the kinky prosecutor who'll do almost anything to avoid sending Thorne to prison. Even if it means he has to take Thorne's punishment into his own hands...They're two very different men on opposite sides of the law, but somehow they can't stay apart.This standalone gay romance nove...

The complete Hugo and Nebula Award–nominated cyberpunk trilogy by an author whose work is "wry and black and savage" (George R. R. Martin).Praised as "a perfect example of how exciting the subgenre can and should be," George Alec Effinger's Budayeen Cycle is a towering and timeless science fiction achievement that continues to amaze, shock, and captivate readers ( SF Signal).When Gravity Fails: Set in a high-tech near future featuring an as...

Years after the events that first brought him face to face with Count Dracula, Professor Abraham Van Helsing returns to Transylvania.The villages remain fearful, the mountains conceal old roads, and the shadow of Castle Dracula still lies across the land. Although the Count was believed destroyed, rumours have begun to spread of vanished travellers, disturbed graves and a presence moving through the forests after nightfall.Van Helsing is burdened by memory and uncertain whe...

In this groundbreaking expose essential for understanding rising authoritarianism, award-winning civil rights lawyer Alec Karakatsanis introduces the concept of “Copaganda.”Copaganda is a special kind of propaganda employed by police, prosecutors, and news media to stoke fear of police-recorded crime and distort society’s response to it.What readers will discover:How mass media manipulates our perception of what keeps us safe.

COMING OF AGE: OVERCOMING TRAUMA TO ACHIEVE SELF-DETERMINATIONBy Elaine Alec (teɬkənitkʷ)What if coming of age wasn't about age at all—but about remembering who you are?In this powerful blend of memoir, Indigenous wisdom, and healing framework, author and community leader Elaine Alec shares her journey of overcoming addiction, shame, and generational trauma to reclaim her identity an...

A coming-of-old-age novel from the Hugo Award–winning author of When Gravity Falls. "Engaging . . . spry, inventive, and often quite funny" ( Kirkus Reviews).In HEROICS, Irene--like everyone in the future--struggles with boredom. Food, clothing, and all the necessities of human life have been taken care of. But, what does that leave of life itself? At eighty-two, Irene sets out on a pilgrimage across America hoping to find the answer. Along the way...

In the beginning…Three brothers – Gabriel, Michael and Lucifer. Royalty. Archangels. United in devotion to their father and all his works.But when Lucifer learns of their father's latest creation – a new race, fashioned from crude matter and yet made in his image – he is consumed with resentment. Why have he and his angelic kind been overlooked?After a bitter confrontation, Lucifer is cast out, doomed to an eternity of exile and punishment.Unrepenta...

Far into the future, Hartstein's graduation present from his grandparents was a wonderful trip…into the past. He had a long future in the doughnut industry to look forward to but this trip was the icing on the cake. It had been a long time since that first experiment in time travel was successfully pulled off, although not without its flaws. Now, in the future, time travel was a lucrative tourist industry. But the time travel industry was keeping one little fact to itself: two percent neve...