It takes a dwarf to be homesick for a place he's never been.Ninety years ago, the dwarves of the Dragonhammer Clan were driven from their ancestral home. Now, a small band from a new generation, raised in exile among humans, are mounting a venture to retake it.These young dwarves aren't fools. They don't have an army. They don't even know the old ways. Led by the young heir to the clan, Genrik Dragonhammer, they seek to carve out a foothold within a nearby mountain...

This AI parable is 100% the product of human creativity—no AI was involved in its creation.How many times will AI destroy the world?The first AIs were video game monsters. LLMs spewed semi-intelligible gibberish. The bots were mathematical super geniuses but intellectual children. EDICT will usher in the AI Singularity.Who do you want shaping that singularity?Dr. Addison Akers was a child prodigy. Now, nearing 30, she's on ...

Kyrus dreams of being a knight. Fate has so much more planned for him.As an apprentice scribe, Kyrus has always dreamed of becoming a master and opening his own shop.Developing magical powers and becoming a wizard? Not so much.After all, wizards are the stuff of his dreams. Dreams where Kyrus is Brannis Solaran, a powerful knight who wields an ancient sword crafted from the essence of magic and who's responsible for defending a city from an army of goblins ...

No army. No map. No backup. Just dwarves.With their outpost secure, the newly crowned king of the Dragonhammer dwarves finds himself more concerned with trade and infrastructure than conquest. The failed invasion weakened their enemies, and the dwarves have graciously declined to counterattack.After all, the Dragonhammer Clan sees the monument to their dead every day.But the goblins can't afford to leave well enough alone. Desperate for resources only avail...

Meet the new boss, daughter of the old boss.Tanny and Esper are done with games and tricks. This war is costing both sides too much. The peaceful transition of power Tanny had dreamed of now seems impossible. It's time to do what they should have done long ago: take the fight to the Rucker Syndicate and worry about the fallout afterward.What sacrifices are Esper and Tanny willing to make to reshape the galaxy into a better place, and who will be asked to pay the pr...

The Sefer was never the end.Rachel Jordan escaped with the legendary Sefer Raziel. Now she only has to survive long enough to unlock its secrets.The Sefer contains secrets the Angels buried for millennia—knowledge powerful enough to topple governments, shatter armies, and rewrite the balance of power across the galaxy. But its pages are written in an ancient Angelic script that Rachel cannot yet decipher. Every day she spends translating th...

They sought the mountain for its history. What they found was a future.The city of Skrasforge is thriving, but the goblins who'd lived there before the dwarves weren't feeling so lucky. Downtrodden and indentured to a band of trolls, they owe a debt that will not be easily repaid.The Empress of the trolls wants her tribute, and if the goblins can't pay, they'll serve in her army to take what she's owed. And she plans to take it from Skrasforge.Entrenched on...

A superweapon. A lost world. A galaxy determined to stop her.The Sefer Raziel did not reveal the truth Rachel Jordan sought. Instead, it led her to something far more dangerous: an ancient Angelic starship, a vessel beyond anything humanity could ever create.Now Rachel stands at the centre of an intergalactic crisis. Her government demands the ship, and surrendering it would make her a hero. But giving up the Angels' greatest secret means abandoning the sea...

Maybe those who study history hard enough can get ALL of it to repeat.Earth has fallen and Mars is in chaos. With their coup behind them, the Arete crew regroups and plans for life beyond the civil war. There's only one problem: one of their number has yet to return from his undercover mission.Stranded behind enemy lines. Cooped up in a bunker with paranoid generals. Generally lonely. Eric Ramsey hasn't enjoyed his diversion on Mars. Suspected of being a s...

Some people are haunted by their past; others actively hunt it down.Fresh off an inglorious defeat, the starship Arete has been thwarted in its noble mission. Unable to move on and find some other way to use the awesome technology at her disposal, Captain Jessie Ramsey seeks payback. The unidentified interloper of a starship may have won the battle, but she's determined to make this rivalry a war......and win it.With the whole crew working on solut...

If you make someone an offer they can't refuse, make SURE they can't refuse it.Mordecai The Brown was content to move on. He'd had his fun, had his vengeance, and had his next adventure all planned out. Then someone had to get it into their head to extort him for help overthrowing a planet.With a friend's life on the line, simple reprisal just won't do. With the help of his honorary niece and nephew, Jessie and Eric, Mort devises a plan of both rescue and vengeance...

If he could turn back time, he would find a way...A loved one's life is on the line. The only hope of saving him is a slim one, and so much will have to go right that it would take a miracle to rescue him. Eric Ramsey isn't willing to accept failure, and his solution to a long shot is to lock himself and the entire Arete crew in a time loop. Their only hope for escape is to save a single life that refuses to be saved.As the only one who keeps his memories ...