Not long before an old and magical place found a voice of stone and steel to add to the choral symphony of the universe, seven separate lives were lived in seven different corners of the world. Each of them would seek a different life than the one they were living and, in the way of things that were meant to be, all would, in time, find themselves in the place that waited for them...Ere Ever the City Sang is the story of those separate lives--Brandywine Lloyd, Andrew M...

Canadian writer W.O. Mitchell once said "Humans need other humans to protect each other from the terror of being human". In the three novellas and nineteen stories between these covers, Michael Summerleigh takes a stab at exploration, looks at the terrors and outrages that inhabit our daily lives, the musty corners of our souls where we cry out for some sense of solidarity with our fellow travelers along the road of Life, in a world designed to keep us looking at the things that make us di...

Roddy and Dante were like two moons orbiting each other, so much in tune with their brother-hood that they lived and breathed their lives in complete harmony, separated only by the evidence of the two years between their births. Roddy was older, and just a little a bit taller, but in all wise else, the Broussard boys might have been time-lapse images of the same person--handsome curly-haired dark-eyed little shit-disturbers with hearts of gold. People encountering the pair of them...

Erich and Margit have settled into their lives as adventurers in Marsheim, having risen to ruby-red rank—another firm step forward in their adventuring careers!However, as the dust settles around the incident with the Baldur Clan, Nanna makes them an interesting proposal. As suspicious a character as she seems, this might be the perfect opportunity for Erich to make some new allies... This gold-haired newbie adventurer's real journey is just getting started!

Erich awakens battered and bruised from his fiasco of an errand to find that both he and his ride-or-die Mika have lived to see another dawn.The pair lug themselves back to the capital with their dubious quest rewards in hand, but the loot doesn't stop there: Agrippina offers our hero another prize... only to disappear somewhere!Erich, being the loyal retainer he is, spends all his effort searching for... customers. As his side hustle making custom game pie...

The King has returned! But so has the Queen…Fresh from their trials in New London, Reece and his friends return victorious to the fantasy realm of Nasgar, finally armed with the location of Citadel.Having unlocked the godlike powers of Kono-Zemsu and raising the level cap to 99, nothing seems able to stand in their way of finally reaching home and saving the people they love.But things are not well upon their return.The dreaded Goblin Queen ...

What if humanity didn't start on Earth . . . ?An incredible discovery deep inside the Great Pyramid, a mysterious signal sent from the Bermuda Triangle, and a ruthless experiment taking place in Area 51: How are they all connected?When Malia Kwan exhibits unusual abilities, government agents show up at her home to apprehend her and her twin brother, Jaden—and all hell breaks loose. After their parents are killed, Jaden and Malia flee into the night, becomin...

Captain Kyle Roberts has commanded the carrier Avalon through the most vicious battles of the war against the Terran Commonwealth—but with Avalon in for repair, his political enemies deny him a new ship.Unwilling to accept a desk, he takes command of a covert operation using a captured Commonwealth warship to strike at the very heart of their enemy, drawing away the reinforcements that could destroy the Alliance's recent gains.But the spies who planned the...

Proponents of large-scale learning have boldly promised that technology can disrupt traditional approaches to schooling, radically accelerating learning and democratizing education. Much-publicized experiments, often underwritten by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, have been launched at elite universities and in elementary schools in the poorest neighborhoods. Such was the excitement that, in 2012, the New York Times declared the "year of the MOOC." Less than a decade later, that pro...

Avalon was the flagship of the Castle Federation in the last war, now twenty years past. The first of the deep space carriers, no other warship in the fleet holds as many honors or has recorded as many kills. No other warship in the fleet is as old.Accepting the inevitable, the Federation Space Navy has decided to refit her and send her on a tour of the frontier, showing the flag to their allies and enemies as a reminder of her glory—and then decommission her for good. But...

"Climate change is a hoax—and so is coronavirus." "Vaccines are bad for you." These days, many of our fellow citizens reject scientific expertise and prefer ideology to facts. They are not merely uninformed—they are misinformed. They cite cherry-picked evidence, rely on fake experts, and believe conspiracy theories. How can we get them to change their minds and accept the facts when they don't believe in facts? In this book, Lee McIntyre shows that anyone can fight back against science den...

The war on the raknoth is all but won.The war on demons is just beginning.In the wake of the hybrid massacres, a devastated Enochia looks to their leaders for answers. From the safety of his White Tower, the High Cleric gives them. "Look no further than to those who upset Enochia's natural order to begin with," he says. "Look no further than to Haldin Raish, and his demonic ilk."When the Sanctum declares a holy war on all of Shaper ...