Webrid is a carter, like his mother and grandfather before him. It’s not glamorous work, but it mostly pays the bills, and it gives him time to ogle the sexy women on the streets of Bexilla’s capital. Mostly, he buys and sells small goods and does the occasional transport run for a client.Then he gets mugged by a robot.Now, with a strange green laser implanted in his skull and a small fortune deposited in his bank account, Webrid has to make the most difficult delivery of h...

Dragons have inflamed our hearts and imagination for centuries, making them some of our most enduring heroes and villains. Who hasn’t dreamed of finding a dragon’s hoard and matching wits with the fantastical creature with everything on the line? These seventeen stories will delight and entertain you for hours. Included in this anthology are Nisi Shawl, Edith Nesbit, Naomi Kritzer, Rebecca Mcfarland Kyle, Sylvia Spruck Wrigley, Kenneth Grahame, Sarina Dorie, Misty Massey, John Teehan, Gerr...

Webrid is a carter. He's also the savior of the world. Is it so much to ask that he get a break, and get to enjoy the simple things in life - like booze and babes - without being asked to drop everything and save the day? Again.But all the planets of the Raralt Circle will crack to pieces unless Webrid can complete one simple carting job. How hard could it be to save the world? After all, he's done it before.- - -Blue Diamond Delivery is the sequel...

How can a picnic go so wrong?Ganpril Webrid’s grandfather always told him not to use his cart unless he was getting paid for it. But this huge, hairy carter on the planet Bexilla let a friend talk him into carting beers and grub to a picnic with her old college roommate.Worst mistake he ever made. Before he can even burp up his first sandwich, the ol’ roomie stretches out her ten shiny legs, and out pop a hundred spawn. And before Webrid can settle his churning stomach, fif...

It's a dangerous time for Daniel X in this heart-pounding novel from the world’s #1 bestselling author—and when he's cast in an evil director's TV show, he must fight to stay alive.Daniel X thought he'd seen it all in his dangerous days of hunting outlaws—but there's no business like show business, and Number Five on his list of deadly targets is the most appalling criminal yet. An intergalactic reality television producer has orchestrated the extermination of mill...

All's quiet in the small town of Holliswood - television sets, computers, and portable devices aglow in every home, classroom, and store. But everything is not as perfect as it may seem. An evil is lurking, just out of sight, behind the screen.From the darkest depths of imagination flickers the most terrifying enemy Daniel X is yet to face. A villain with more ambition than the world can withstand, dead set on throwing the sleepy neighbourhood into chaos and documenting the destruc...

In Superopolis everyone has a superpower! Well…almost everyone. Meet Ordinary Boy.In a town where everyone is a superhero, what if you were the only person with no superpowers at all?Welcome to the life of Ordinary Boy. He’s...well, he’s pretty much exactly as his name suggests. But things are not so super in Superopolis these days, with the evil Professor Brain-Drain on the loose. To make matters worse, Ordinary Boy and his friends are thrown into the midd...

Part four of A Game of War is here!A fast paced sci-fi adventure, A Game of War blends dizzying excitement with a whirlpool of emotions to keep you gripped from beginning to end. Like ‘The Hunger Games’? You’ll love this!Ally flies and Stem shoots…Ally and Stem are free. They’ve escaped the Atrile and are finally on their way to earth. But the universe is a big place and as they already know, little is as it seems.In need of oxygen, Ally and...

Meet Captain Justice, the superhero star of A MUTANT NAMED MIZZIE in Lee Bacon's funny original digital story set in the exciting world of his JOSHUA DREAD series for ages 9-12. Who knows what to do with a poor little mutant baby better than Captain Justice?

How far would you go to find your missing father? For Zeke Hailey, a teenager living in the 23rd century, even Mars is not too far. Zeke's dad is one of the Mariners, a mysterious elite of psychics who have conquered Outer Space. Now he's vanished on a secret mission. But Zeke is an ordinary schoolboy without a shred of his father's psychic powers. Armed with nothing but his wits, he bluffs his way into the prestigious Mariner's school on Mars in search of answers. Mind-reading teachers an...

Wiping out humanity is his number one objective—until he meets her.Aramus has no patience or sympathy for the excuses humanity uses to hunt cyborgs down and eradicate them. He’s put up with too much at their hands to ever forgive and forget. But all that changes when he rescues a fragile human doctor who refuses to see him as a machine. She teaches him that perhaps not all emotions are a weakness and that love can make even a cynical cyborg like him stronger.And fo...

'NEVER LESS THAN DEEPLY INVOLVING' DAILY MAIL'SO MUCH FUN' HEAT'WARM, ENGAGING' GUARDIANA warm, comforting, big-hearted stand-alone set in the same world as the award-winning The Long way to Small Angry Planet.Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has to...