A FAMILY AFFRAYWith her father’s death, mercenary thief Beaks returns to the place she hates most—her childhood home, to both pay her respects and make certain he’s gone.She finds only lies.Determined to rip the truth out of the shadows, Beaks ricochets around the world, defying killers and government agents alike. With the man she loves and the secretive hacker Sister Silence, she targets a nightmare that turns suffering into profit and slaughter i...

“ A tale so outlandish it feels real. Prohibition. Grosse Pointe elves. Automotive lords. And the orcs doing their best to make America make sense. A riotous fantasy within a fantasy. Terry Pratchett via Detroit!”--Zig Zag Claybourne, author of Afro Puffs are the Antennae of the UniverseHOPE EXISTS TO BE CRUSHEDThe tenuous bootlegging alliance between the Tai clan and the human Sanford brought wealth to Uruk-Tai’s family. But a tre...

SECOND CONTACTAidan Redding’s entire goal for her time in this universe: behave. For once. Discovering seafaring aliens trashes that plan.The aliens raise questions. Her co-workers raise more.The answers explain it all. And ruin everything.On a world where gravity changes every second, Redding finds herself involuntarily allied with a mathematician from Soviet Texas as she races to save not just herself but civilization.Forget aliens...

THE END OF YOUR WORLD?These twelve tales from critically-acclaimed author Michael Warren Lucas remind us that doom is always personal. Genes gone wild, or not wild enough. Cosmic heroes demanding you show them to a bank robbery, or else. Learning after a lifetime that your love is named chocolate, and chasing it no matter the cost. Discovering that your cozy desk job might get you killed, that one of your coworkers is a murderer, or the Faerie Queen wants your pelt...

Enjoy the urban fantasy stories of the Uncollected Anthology: Deities now collected in this bundle.Search for missing gods or do some job hunting. Leave the window open for a brother bird god and be sure to protect an artifact. Use your credit and sacrifice it all for your warrior self.Explore the Uncollected Anthology with Deities!

Not your normal Friday night in the computer room.Not a normal night anywhere.Terry is the archetypal old-school Unix admin, nurturing servers with care and precision while avoiding the latest trendy garbage. KDE and Gnome on a server? Nope, if you need a GUI use FVWM.The latest trend Terry refuses? One adopted almost everywhere? Systemd, the replacement init.So Systemd comes for Terry.Wearing skin-tight leather pant...

"I love these stories"Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Hugo- and Nebula-award winning author of The FeyELVES WENT INTO THE WEST—TO AMERICA.GENERATIONS LATER, ORCS FOLLOWED.1927 Detroit. Orcs fight Prohibition, avoid police, and labor hard for their children. All while doing their best to navigate the narrow human world. Men drive fancy Dodges and Cadillacs; orcs squeeze into fourth-hand Model Ts. Dwarves dominate th...

The Four Legends is a fast-paced futuristic novel set in 2095 that explores what it means to be part of the human race. Being chosen as a Legend on the Extra-Terrestrial Living Station is a dream come true for every teenager coming of age. The story follows four teenagers on a Quest to retrieve valuable relics from different countries on Earth via space and time travel, as they seek to claim their status as Legends. The teenagers have to face ominous rain forests, mysterious South American...

The Quest for Earth continues the adventures of the four teenage heroes in their treacherous mission through space and time in this second book in the Treasure Chasers series. But are they ready to face harsher challenges than ever before?It's not about teams anymore, it's about survival. As the boundaries disintegrate between the pairs, new relationships are built and new revelations are uncovered. But their newfound bond was never part of the plan, and the Praeceptori are watchin...

In Another Loss Prophet, Warren Michael Turner delivers a powerful illustrated poetry collection that wrestles with identity, injustice, faith, love, betrayal, and spiritual resilience. Through gripping repetition and raw honesty, these poems speak for those labeled, misunderstood, and judged before being known. From the haunting refrain of "Non-affiliated and conditionally offered" to soul stirring reflections on purpose, redemption, and the beauty hidden inside brokenness, this book chal...

In the tradition of classic pulp crime fiction these talented writers are sharing their takes on strange and weird detectives in strange worlds:Paranormal detective, Amanda Dark, seeks answers at the haunted Moonrise Diner from the ghost of her dead uncle.Dean Wesley Smith asks the question, can a ghost and a superhero find true happiness and sex and stop a few killers along the way?When Helmie—a pampered Persian cat worth millions—goes missing, the estate hires not...

Time travel stories are as old as science fiction, wandering backwards to change the past or forward like Buck Rogers trapped in that abandoned mine shaft.Perhaps you will step through a mirror darkly.How will the world change?How will you?Join us to see 'What Might Have Been..."