Professor Rachel Jordan committed the ultimate heresy: she dared to teach that the Angels were never humanity's saviours.For three thousand years, Angelic doctrine has shaped civilisation. The Redeemers—fanatical guardians of that doctrine—will stop at nothing to silence her. Branded a heretic and hunted by zealots determined to erase her beliefs, Rachel flees to the edge of civilised space.But she isn't hiding.The only proof of her theories lies in...

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...

Hitchhikers are trouble in any galaxy.Carl Ramsey has a starship to run. Down on his luck, struggling to pay the cost of fuel, he's just looking for some quick, easy cash. While looting the wreck of passenger ship, they discover that one escape pod never ejected, and the passengers are still alive. A routine salvage job turns into a rescue mission, and a good deed never goes unpunished. With two refugees aboard, Captain Carl Ramsey finds that his ship, the Mobius,...

These days, even the humans are built by robots.Charlie7 is the progenitor of a mechanical race he built from the ashes of a dead world—Earth. He is a robot of leisure and idle political meddling—a retirement well-earned. Or he was, until a human girl named Eve was dropped in his lap.Geneticists have restored Earth's biome and begun repopulation. But primate cloning is in its infancy; human cloning is banned.Far from a failed genetics experiment, Eve is bri...

A space station at the edge of the galaxy just found a planet that's slipping off the edge entirely.After losing control of his magic, wizard Cedric The Brown blew up his boss and nearly crashed a space station into a planet. Determined to make amends, he pledges to help the mining station negotiate with the nearby planet's mysterious magical inhabitants.With nothing but the bankrupt station as severance pay, Director Fujita Hiroko moves to the edge of the galaxy t...

The next generation is here, and trouble is in their DNA.Jessie and Eric Ramsey have a family history of crime. Fighting back against heredity, each tried to make their way in the galaxy by respectable means. Jessie joined Earth Navy; Eric went to college for magic. But fate wasn't having it. Eric was expelled. Jessie went AWOL. Now, due to a magical mishap that wasn't entirely anyone's fault (we swear!), they're stranded 5 years in the future on a Mars that's no longer fr...

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 ...

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...

An ancient ruin holds miraculous technology and a deadly secret.When a survey team unearths buildings on prospective mining planet, at first, it's hailed as an archeological jackpot. But the ancient structures are more advanced than anyone's seen. And the hedge against technology is a wizard.Cedric and Hiroko lead a team to study the mysterious underground facility from a lost age. And when they discover the alien caretaker, he's none too happy that primitives have...