How a unique form of working together has built—and is critical to sustain—our age of information.Peer production describes a unique form of global collaboration that is responsible for creating some of the most vital parts of the internet. Information ecosystem powerhouses like Wikipedia and the Linux operating system were founded on principles of open cooperation, and only exist today due to the contributions of thousands, and in some cases, millions of people. I...

10-Year-old Andy, along with a few others his age, have magical gifts no one can explain. But when someone bombs his school and kidnaps him, he soon learns that the reason for all of this is his unusual gift. There are other gifted kids that have appeared in recent days and now there is a heated war between two sides to see who will have control over The Gifted.Now Andy, Han, Tracy, and Guido have been sent on a mission to a small island to investigate what has happened to the othe...

Her name is X213 and she lives in a society where technological advancement is the highest form of achievement of man, and the highest purpose of man is to further its development, making us more than human. But the technology she has worked so hard to improve is killing her. His name is Samuel and he has rejected the world of the Technophiles, even at the cost of losing his own family. But Samuel is not one to sit idly by. His mission is to help rescue those trapped in thei...

10-Year-old Andy, along with a few others his age, have magical gifts no one can explain. But when someone bombs his school and kidnaps him, he soon learns that the reason for all of this is his unusual gift. There are other gifted kids that have appeared in recent days and now there is a heated war between two sides to see who will have control over The Gifted. Now Andy, Han, Tracy, and Guido have been sent on a mission to a small island to investigate what has happened to the oth...

After unknowingly waking up in the bathroom of a cruise ship in the Gulf of Thailand, Cameron has a lot of questions for David. Their trip is cut short when security catch on that they're trespassers. Cameron unwillingly joins David in running away, resulting in the two jumping off the cruise, causing them to wash up on a nearby island. How will David and Cameron get themselves out of this one?

Love Advice for the starry-eyed Ever had a man worship you like a goddess then knock you off your pedestal with temper tantrums? What are the upsides to dating a wild Aries woman? Wouldn't you love an instruction manual on how to deal with the Sagittarian stud who blows hot and cold? Well, here it is: Horoscope Hotties is a handy guide that provides invaluable insight into the inner workings of every star sign and how to turn them on (and off again, if necessary) Written in Linda Shaw's fe...

From a young couple struggling to look after their baby to a new captain's reluctance to take command of her ship, and from a sun-addled stranger's appearance in town to the emergence of a sentient AI, the twelve tales presented here explore the central theme of an arrival by someone or something new.There's even an alien puppy.

Being an officer means balancing many conflicting demands. Making the wrong decision can have serious consequences. It takes a special kind of person to cope with the responsibility.The Officer is an anthology of eleven science fiction short stories by writers from across the globe. It is part of the Newcomer series of scifi anthologies.The stories are:-Duty by Alasdair ShawPatchworker 2.0 by M PaxTotaled by Benjamin DouglasLucky Star by A R Knigh...

“It is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears.We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea--whether it is to sail or to watch it--we are going back from whence we came.”- John F. KennedyUnderwater cities, lost civilizations, crops, climate change, and dead zones.In this collection of o...

Can Seamus destroy the Earth and save the human race?The problem with a crazy government plot is that it will always go wrong. Good thing Seamus is a genius. But even a genius needs more than intellect to survive.The Robinson family is different. Mom works and dad stays home. Grace was adopted from China and Liam from Ethiopia. Seamus is a physics prodigy working on a dark energy reactor. Normal doesn’t exist in their world.Every day is a balance between nature and ...

Reality is sometimes not what it appears to be.Dr. Albert Snowden just wanted to be there for his niece, Emily, after the loss of her father. Being abducted by aliens, and then rescued by a mysterious being known as Evaran, has made that difficult.Despite their situation, they try to make the best of it while traveling through space, time, and beyond with Evaran and V, Evaran’s trusty mobile artificial intelligence. With the use of Evaran’s time-traveling s...

A few years ago, a military doctor walking the corridors of New Jakarta Station saved Melati's life. She signed up for the International Space Force to pay back her moral debt to him. But her family thinks she has betrayed her people. It was ISF who forcefully removed their grandmothers and grandfathers from the crowded slums of Jakarta to work in interstellar space stations.It is Melati's job to teach six-year old construct soldiers, artificial humans grown in labs and activated w...