Pramantha: Part 1 is the first episode of THE 33: award-winning author J.C. Hutchins' innovative new monthly series.After cutting a deal with a mysterious recruiter, Addison Creel is thrust into a world he barely understands. He's been called to join The 33 — a group of thirty-three misfits tasked with protecting humanity from ruthless criminals, malicious technologies, black magicians and hostile supernatural beings.Addison's first day on the job ...

Interludes often focus on events and characters far from the The 33's action-packed front lines.The motto of the Five-By-Five is Narum Regnum, Principium et Finis — The Backbone of the Kingdom, The First and the Last. It's a fitting phrase for this global network of specialists who support The 33, an unlikely team of world-saving misfits.Rags and Skids are Five-Bys. The jaded mechanics work in the basement of the Farmhouse, The 33's strange headqua...

Needles: Part 1 is the fifth episode of THE 33: award-winning author J.C. Hutchins' innovative new monthly series.The Mojave Desert: bleak, merciless, murderous. Few people know this better than the residents of Needles, a windswept town on the California border. Strange things happen out there in those ancient sands ... and one townie has just paid the ultimate price for his curiosity.The 33, a team of world-saving misfits, has been dispatched to ...

Pramantha: Part 2 is the second episode of THE 33: award-winning author J.C. Hutchins' innovative new monthly series.Addison Creel used to run with a dangerous crowd. He's in worse company now.Recruited by an elite team of world-saving misfits called The 33, Addison is now on the road, en route to investigate a malevolent force terrorizing a high-tech commune in the Washington woods.On the way, he'll learn a great deal about his new comrade...

Pramantha: Part 3 is the third episode of THE 33: award-winning author J.C. Hutchins' innovative new monthly series.Pramantha — An idyllic research & development commune with a deadly secret. Technologists here are forging the future of communications and entertainment ... but something here is driving its residents insane.Addison Creel, John Swords III, Bliss, Mad_Ana and Azael — members of the world-saving group, The 33 — are now here, investigat...

Pramantha: Part 4 is the fourth episode of THE 33: award-winning author J.C. Hutchins' innovative new monthly series.Zebulon Pike isn't just the world's richest man — he's a powerful codeshaman, able to control computer code with his mind. He's also responsible for the most deadly act of terrorism America has ever known ... and forgotten.The maniac has enslaved a dangerous supernatural force, bound it to groundbreaking technology, and will soon unl...

Needles: Part 2 is the sixth episode of THE 33: award-winning author J.C. Hutchins' innovative new monthly series.Aella Yates. Code name: Bliss. She's an expert in more than twenty forms of hand-to-hand combat. She has a 300-year-old katana sword from the future that shoots bullets. Her past is a blood-soaked secret. She's the greatest warrior The 33 has ever known.And now she's in charge ... and The 33 is about to die.Things are going terribly wrong in Nee...

The second in a series of story groupings based upon a pre-existing work of art, in this case a Richard Anderson painting. The first such group, The Palencar Project, was published by Tor.com in 2012.Ken Liu is among the most prominent new award-winning Science Fiction writers of the last decade, and in "Reborn" his vision of a really uncanny alien invasion set in Boston, MA, is a stunner, with echoing reverberations, of love, identity, resistance and revo...

The Great Reawakening did not come quietly. Across the country and in every nation, people began to develop terrifying powers—summoning storms, raising the dead, and setting everything they touch ablaze. Overnight the rules changed…but not for everyone.Colonel Alan Bookbinder is an army bureaucrat whose worst war wound is a paper-cut. But after he develops magical powers, he is torn from everything he knows and thrown onto the front-lines.Drafted into the S...

In Lee Kelly’s “electric” (Publishers Weekly) fantasy novel, two young sorcerers experiment with magic and mobsters in 1920s Prohibition when a new elixir is created that turns their lives upside down.Washington, DC, 1926. Sorcery opponents have succeeded in passing the 18th Amendment, but the Prohibition of magic has only invigorated the city’s underworld. Smuggling rings carry magic contraband in from the coast. Sorcerers cast illusions to aid mobsters’ ...

The mages sit nervous in their tower when the news that the Brotherhood is once again on the move reaches their ears. Bren, learning that the Brotherhood might hold the key to freeing his father, travels across northern Kurt in order to reach their new stronghold. Along the way he starts to get a grip on his magical powers, but with each passing day his body is slowly changing, and no one knows if it is for better or for worse.

Book 2 of the RETURN OF THE DRAGONS!Anders Tomason already found a magic sword and clashed with his evil uncle in SWORD BEARER. Now he returns in WIND RIDER -- and continues his struggle with the evil chemical forces that threaten his world, enlisting, in the process, the help of the dragons.REVISED 2nd EDITION (AUGUST 2014)