As a CEO who serves at the helm of multi-million-dollar organizations, lives the life of a serial entrepreneur, and navigates the dynamics of multigenerational family businesses, Ray Sanders takes readers on a behind-the-scenes journey through the tensions, challenges, and opportunities unique to family-owned enterprises.In Farming the Future, real-to-life conflicts, communication struggles, and sibling rivalries unfold as sparks fly, tempers flare, and the family patriarch does hi...

Why have so many of Africa’s liberation movements – once symbols of hope, sacrifice and justice – struggled to deliver better lives once in power?Bringing together leading scholars, policymakers and political insiders, Why Liberation Movements Fail explores this enduring paradox across the continent. From South Africa, Mozambique and Angola to Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda and South Sudan, the contributors reveal how the very qualities that secured victory in str...

Summoned to Quebec by friends in desperate trouble, young assistant chemist George Randolph finds himself drawn back into a mystery that began years earlier in the secluded laboratory of Dr. Kent. There, the brilliant but repulsive Franz Polter vanished after a violent clash, and Dr. Kent himself disappeared soon after, leaving only a cryptic note about a tiny fragment of golden quartz and a scientific discovery too dangerous to name. Now Polter has returned under another identity, grown r...

Toory is no ordinary domestic robot: built by the brilliant James Erg and trained for two years, he speaks, feels, and serves with a rare, almost human devotion. Purchased by wealthy Robert Doret, he is assigned to guide Babs, Doret's blind daughter, and quickly becomes her trusted companion, leading her safely through daily life with patience and care. But beneath the warmth of the household lies greed and secrecy, as the servants plot to steal Babs's necklace and silence the machine they...

Ray Cummings's speculative romance opens with a universe that may be infinite in both directions: vast beyond the stars and equally boundless within the atom. Frank, a harried Interplanetary Mail worker, is summoned to the secluded Gryce estate, where he meets the brilliant Dr. Gryce, his steadfast son Brett, and the lively twins Martynn and Francine, whose warmth only heightens the sense that something perilous is near. At breakfast, Gryce unveils a secret lifetime's work: a radical theor...

IN THE GRAND TRADITION OF STAR TREK!After a titanic space battle with hostile aliens seeking to destroy mankind, Commodore Abraham Briggs is lost. His starship, the Corregidor, is disabled, its energy tanks depleted. But Briggs has not lost hope. Beneath him lies a strangely beautiful world where Briggs might be able to find fuel for his ship, get his bearings, and plot a course home to Earth.What he doesn't know is that the ruler of the planet, the Ecolog, has her...

This lively anthology opens with Ray Long's convivial introduction, which treats six celebrated writers as if they were gathered among friends to discuss the stories they cherish most. From the start, the book celebrates individuality, discipline, and the kind of fiction that endures because readers keep returning to it. Edna Ferber's own foreword deepens that theme, showing how a memorable story can grow slowly from fragments of observation, memory, and human truth. Ferber's The Gay Old D...

On a lonely, abandoned Mars, eighty-year-old Emil Barton is jolted by a phone call from his own younger voice, speaking across sixty years of silence. Trapped after Earth's war and left to endure the planet alone, the younger Barton built a web of self-recorded transcriptions, fake crowds, recorded voices, smells, and even robots to make Mars feel inhabited—an ingenious comfort that has curdled into a devastating echo of loneliness. As the calls continue, the older Barton is forced to reli...

Born into a cave world where life lasts only eight frantic days, Sim must grow from infant to child to near-adult before dawn can burn him away. Around him, parents age in hours, avalanches and scorching sunlight make every journey lethal, and the people of the valley live by fear, instinct, and inherited memory. As Sim learns language, emotion, and the brutal customs of his kind, he begins to understand the terrible truth of his existence: his people are the descendants of a crashed human...

An urgent and electrifying must-read with shades of Octavia Butler and Mad Max: Fury Road.Library journal calls it "a modern cousin of The Handmaid's Tale."In 2086, corporations are monitoring fertility. Abortion is illegal. And the last woman alive who can perform the procedure is in hiding.Seven years ago, midwife Mae Bastet was arrested for infanticide in the fractious Arizona Territory...

Centuries before Pythagoras codified his own numerical system in Greece, the priest-scholars of ancient Babylon were already reading destiny in the vibration of sound and number — and in their system, two names that reduce to the very same digit can carry entirely different fates. The Definitive Guide to Chaldean Numerology is a complete, practitioner-level guide to this older, more esoteric tradition, where the compound number behind a digit matters as much as the digit itself. Across nin...

Rated "Most Popular Fiction Magazine 2024" by Chill SubsNamed Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023, 2024" by Chill SubsRated "Top 50 Fiction" by SubstackDelight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction. Each issue features both established writers and up-and-coming authors who contri...