In summary, this is a fast-moving and exciting futuristic novel with dramatic human-alien conflict, fully fleshed-out characters, solid and innovative techno-thriller elements, and a fresh, thought-provoking concept. For fans of this exhilarating genre, "War Torrent" will be a blast. Excellent! - The Columbia Review In The Outworlds: War Torrent , unlikely heroes are on a collision course with destiny amidst a desperate fight against radical evil... Early in the twenty-fourth century, human pioneers on the fringe of Earth's interstellar colonial frontier make a profound discovery: The first evidence of intelligent alien life. Although the explorers judge the ancient alien species of space-faring reptilians, known as Angorgals, to be extinct, they also find evidence the Angorgals had reached Earth many centuries ago and were far more than mere visitors... When a surprise Sekkalan attack in the distant Sceytera System against Mokisia destroys a fragile peace between these two Angorgal subsects, a teenaged soldier-priest in training, Zy K'olt, will struggle with doubt, fear, and acceptance of his mysterious spiritual gifts in a quest to confront the evil Sekkalan threat. At the same time, the invasion shatters Major Krajenar Attazahal's reputation as a successful Mokisiaan intelligence officer, driving her down a desperate path of redemption to the very edge of survival in order to defend her home. Under siege, the Mokisiaans soon learn their alienated brethren have launched both a sinister and technologically superior offensive, one that threatens to inflict more than just military defeat upon them. The Sekkalan war is the start of a new interstellar crusade orchestrated by evil ethereal entities - the Ruuksauro - whose intent is radical genetic purification of the galaxy, and Earth's Stone Age humans are their next target.

Jake, Teresa and Kirsten must build a space navy from scratch - prepare to fight a distant enemy - and hide from a nearby empire of ancient Humans forgotten by Earth for 3,000 years. And that doesn't even count the freaks who want to kill them and take over the world.

Things escalated when Raphael's crew busted him out of jail - literally - by ripping the wall off the jail, and fleeing to the safety of his aircraft carrier dirigible, the Cackling Coyote. Unfortunately for him, Texas Ranger Rosa Cavallero isn't the give-up-easy type.

Aimed at an adult audience in their language and ideas, these stories are all saturated with Steve Dean's usual originality, quirkiness and style. An eclectic batch of tales lifts the reader from the depths of their soul to the edge of the galaxy. Thrilling and thought-provoking reads offer a demanding and imaginative reader a variety of subgenres—from science fiction and fantasy to slipstream and steampunk.

Passerina Fowler just wants to be a professional fighter. She has struggled for years to make a name for herself. But then her life abruptly changes when she's discovered by a recruiter from SafeTrek Bridging, a company that transports clients to alternate versions of Earth. With nothing to lose, Passerina accepts a job as a bridger, an elite fighter who protects clients on excursions to alternate worlds. However, on her first day she witnesses a horrifying event and realizes bridging can be downright deadly. In spite of the risks, she is determined to complete her training. But she soon realizes the instruction addresses her fears more than her strength and endurance. And for good reason… there is much to be feared when bridging to alternate worlds naked and without weapons. Passerina steadily transforms herself into a true bridger, with a new name: Infinity. Infinity grows impatient for the excitement and danger of her first bridging excursion. But when it finally comes, she finds herself in a world of vicious and extraordinary predators, and the danger becomes all too real. Be sure to check out the rest of the Bridgers series . You can learn more about my novels and sign up for my author emails at my web site: http://www.stancsmith.com

(The Zombie Armageddon series forms a loose arc but each book can be read as a stand-alone novel) The few law-abiding citizens left alive in Breakspear Gardens have locked their doors and shut the curtains on this Friday night. They dare not venture out after the sun goes down. The druggies, drunks, and feral kids rule the streets in the roughest housing project in northern England - a place where anything can be had, at a low price - the neighborhood you never want to live in. Tonight, the streets are strangely quiet. Headaches, nausea, and sickness are targeting criminals and residents alike. The untainted soon discover the horror of their plight, as their friends, families, and neighbors begin to die ... and are reborn as voracious, ravening beasts! A small group of desperate survivors battle their way through hordes of blood-crazed zombies, trying to reach help just beyond the boundary of the estate, only to find soldiers at every exit, shooting anything that moves. Can this dwindling group of terrified survivors avoid the newly-dead and win their way to freedom? They need to find a way out, and fast, before the authorities’ weapons vaporize the area, transforming Breakspear into Hell on Earth!

SFR Galaxy Award 2015 Winner Rumors emerge that Catherine Shahrazad has returned from the fringes and been seen in Federation space. Wherever she goes, her name and her history cause civil unrest, riots and worse. The Federation Board doesn’t want her there. Neither do the leaders of Cadfael College, the educators and moralists of the galaxy. No one pays any attention to the reticent navigator called Bedivere X, who pilots her ship better than she does. The truth about Bedivere threatens the entire Federation. His feelings for Cat might just save everyone. This book is part of the Interspace Origins science fiction romance series: 1.0: Faring Soul 2.0: Varkan Rise 3.0: Cat and Company 3.5: Interspace Origins (Series boxed set) ___ Winner of the SFR Galaxy Award 2015 My favorite character is the mysterious, sexy, loveable Bedivere. I love that the story seem to go one way then everything goes sideways, it keeps the synapse firing on all cylinders. You won't see the twist coming till it smacks you in the face. This is definitely a love story from the future. I know Tracy is a great writer but I was not much into science fiction. Well, now I am!! ___ Tracy Cooper-Posey is a #1 Best Selling Author. She writes romantic suspense, historical, paranormal and science fiction romance. She has published over 90 novels since 1999, been nominated for five CAPAs including Favourite Author, and won the Emma Darcy Award. She turned to indie publishing in 2011. Her indie titles have been nominated four times for Book Of The Year. Tracy won the award in 2012, and a SFR Galaxy Award in 2016 for “Most Intriguing Philosophical/Social Science Questions in Galaxybuilding” She has been a national magazine editor and for a decade she taught romance writing at MacEwan University. She is addicted to Irish Breakfast tea and chocolate, sometimes taken together. In her spare time she enjoys history, Sherlock Holmes, science fiction and ignoring her treadmill. An Australian Canadian, she lives in Edmonton, Canada with her husband, a former professional wrestler, where she moved in 1996 after meeting him on-line.

When you’re fighting shadows, it pays to remember what might be lurking behind the curtain. When the usually sleepy university city of Oxford, England is beset by a series of horrific murders, Elliot Goshawk, a fresh arrival to Oxford and one of the youngest to ever pass admission, must overcome his fear and defeat the murderer. At just fourteen, Elliot may not appear to have the skills for the job, but he has had an unusual childhood. Trained from birth as an assassin, there’s no one better qualified to stop this menace. With a wayward time traveller, a professor of the arcane, and a city full of intelligence operatives on his tail, can Elliot find a way to take on and defeat the deadly alien shadow? Are MI6 agents really harder than those from the Coldhorn Initiative? Do they do any actual studying in Oxford? Because Elliot also has another, deeper secret and something he fears above everything else: it might have been his fault that the shadow creature emerged in the first place. This science-fiction thriller is a dark and humorous tale of wayward superheroes, the evil megacorporation stalking them, and the teamwork it will take to save the world. If you are a fan of The Avengers, X-Men, The Boys, Watchmen, Guardians of the Galaxy, or Stranger Things, you will love the action-packed prequel of this humorous serialized science fiction superhero thriller.

What alien creatures lurk under the icy surface of Europa? Dr. Nikki Bell’s plan to discover intelligent life in the oceans of Jupiter’s moon hits a rocky start when her spaceship crashes on the icy surface of Europa. Seconds before she blacks out, she spies a man’s face in the water beneath the ice. When she wakes on the submarine Station, nobody believes her story. Convinced the mysterious stranger saved her life, Nikki searches for him while she explores the ocean and its alien inhabitants. Kiron Arqin Ramis chose exile as a Watcher on a remote outpost to redeem his family’s honor. He never expected to find an attractive Earther woman close to death. He violates the prime policy by rescuing her. Despite suffering the penalty, he strives to warn her about his hostile leaders. Nikki’s unexpected meeting with Kiron triggers a chain of disasters in Europa’s perilous oceans. Can the daredevil scientist and scarred Watcher forge a new alliance despite their people’s antagonism?

Originally part of the anthology Salvage Conquest , this short story Taming the Beast should whet your appetite for more Salvage Adventures! Marine Gunnery Sergeant Ron Harper is back on Planet Salvage, retired from the Tretrayon Defense Force, he kept his rank when he joined Tomeral and Associates and the Salvage Fleet. He was known as The Gunny .

Fire and Sand is a short, action-packed prequel to the Zero-Point Awakening Series: a quirky serialized science-fiction thriller. If you are a fan of page-turning quick reads, you won’t want to miss this one. Shadowing an intelligence operative on a mission to an archaeological dig might sound like an easy gig. But the dig is behind enemy lines and the G-man is playing his cards close to his chest. For Arthur Fortunato, none of that adds up to good survival odds. An incursion into an archaeological dig. An easy gig? Ships might fly.

It had been one heck of a week. One minute he'd been struggling to meet his Corporation targets, the next he'd been promoted... And then he'd found himself on a stolen freighter with the Resistance, on their way to find the President of the system. But sometimes, stuff like that just happens... right? When he discovers that the President is really a ball of gas, and the Corporation is trying to destroy the presidential cruiser on which he's trapped, that's when he starts to lose his sense of humour. It couldn't possibly get worse ... or could it? If this book was the illegitimate offspring of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Star Wars, they would probably put it up for adoption. The Doomed Planet is the first novella in the light-hearted Mastery of the Stars space opera series.

Peacemaker Academy Graduate Reynor was nervous about his confirmation mission. Thankfully, he had the guidance of a senior Peacemaker, the Besquith Sempay. Besquith were renown for ferocity and carnage. Basically, everything Reynor was not. When their transport ship has to make an unexpected stop to fix a problem with the hyperspace engines, Reynor convinces his partner to visit the backwater planet in the system. Once they arrive on world, Reynor learns the hard way that you can’t come at every problem straight on. Sometimes it requires a tangential approach.

Space cities have been locked in war for centuries over the resources of an asteroid belt. Humans pilot swarms of pod fighters to protect their city’s mining operations from other cities, risking everything and suffering multiple deaths and regenerations. Then Landy goes through a regeneration that introduced an error that will destroy the delicate balance of the war. Resilience is a space opera short story by award-winning SF author Cameron Cooper. Space Opera Science Fiction Story __ Praise for Cameron Cooper’s SF: Epic science fiction at its finest. Realistic far future worlds. Incredible characters and scenarios. The concepts are staggering and intensely interesting. This story is terrific! It's intriguing and futuristic and human in its telling. __ Cameron Cooper is the author of The Indigo Reports science fiction series and the alter ego for an Amazon #1 bestselling author in an unrelated genre. The Indigo Reports was originally conceived as a one-off series, but readers demanded more. A new series will be released in 2020. Cameron tends to write space opera short stories and novels, but also roams across the science fiction landscape. He was raised on a steady diet of Asimov, Heinlein, Herbert, McCaffrey, and others. Peter F. Hamilton and John Scalzi are contemporary heroes. He is an Australian Canadian and lives near the Canadian Rockies.

Your children are lost in a zombie apocalypse. What would you do? It's every parent's nightmare, coupled with a world gone mad. He's got three children raised by other men and he doesn't trust them to keep the kids safe. His solution? Find them, protect them and shelter them in place. No matter the cost. Readers call it a story with heart, for fans of Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead, where zombies aren't the worst things to survive the end of the world. Grab your copy of book 1 in the twenty book series and dive into a story that's going to keep you up all night swiping.

Poruk Captain Serli's duty was simple: protect a Poruk planet, housing a farm hiding a weapons factory. But she never expected a small girl and an aggresive human enemy to disrupt her duties. How will Serli face the challenge ahead of her? And, will she be forced to come to terms with her duty?

It started as a subtle whisper. It grew into a roaring, laughing maniac. The voice inside Jonathon Browne’s head grew so loud that it took him over, both mentally and physically. The worst part is he knows who the voice belongs to, but can do nothing to stop it. His mental intruder hijacks his body, takes it to his his top-secret government office, and spills blood. With a looming battle within, Jonathon must get control and escape from his own team before they execute him. Will a life in exile be his only choice? Or worse?

Trained from boyhood to be protectorate of the only known community of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world, Blaze's life takes a devastating turn when he fails to save the Order from an unexpected and devastating attack. When his mentor turns executioner, Blaze gets arrested for treason and falls victim to Toka's secret genetic engineering experiments. He’s further thrown into confusion when his legendary combat skills prove useless against the magical powers of a small, unintimidating alien woman. After Evelia, his unquenchable crush, becomes the alien’s unexpected apprentice, Blaze is called to lead mankind’s last few survivors to a surprising destiny: a technologically advanced civilization governed by magic. With death, treason, treachery, and genetically modified monsters at every corner, that may not be so easy. Featured on Wattpad, Moon 514 quickly gathered nearly 80,000 reads. Young adult readers who enjoy action packed page-turners will love Moon 514’s unique and hopeful twist on a post-apocalyptic world. Consider it a thriller-paced mashup of Star Wars meets Divergent.

A crescendo of screaming blasted from billions of mouths around the globe. Within seconds most of the human race stopped breathing, but they didn’t die, just – changed. Our civilisation ceased to exist on that day, but the invasion didn’t begin with the aliens turning our kind against ourselves, nor did it end. The few of our species that did escape the transformation fought back. They never broke our spirit, no matter what vile monstrosities they unleashed upon us. Welcome to the first book of the Vine of the Earth series. An alien invasion story like you’ve never experienced before.

Coronado's Finest are the spiritual descendents of the US Navy's Special Warfare teams. These days, they're equipped with Leviathans CASPers, amphibious power armor developed for clandestine raids where stealth can achieve what brute force cannot. When Mitch Samas and the Finest are hired to retrieve a stolen, next-gen CASPer from rival mercs, the snatch-n-grab raid goes off with only a few, minor hitches. It's on their return home with the prize that things get dicey. When Samas and the rest of his company are imprisoned along with most of the rest of humanity's mercs, they're compelled to make some unusual alliances to break free, even if they all have to die for it to work.

After twenty years of fighting, the Emerlee Compact finally won their independence from the oppressive Solarian Empire. The space station Bedford sits right at the edge of the Galactic Rift, the space between arms of the Milky Way. Unfortunately, not all were freed. The peaceful Wa’bah’nja’kae, the indigenous race on this side of the Rift, remain a conquered people. They were also the solution to Humanity's sanity as some are psychic healers. When Hogon, member of the Wa’bah’nja’kae, cleanses a station worker’s mind, he learns that a murder is about to be committed at the Solarian League Peace Conference. He can't tell the authorities as no Human knows the truth about his people. Hogon's best friend is assassinated and he is framed for it. How can Hogon stop the murder of the delegate, clear himself of his buddy's death, and find the assassin in time to prevent a resumption of hostilities between Emerlee and the Solarians? Time, and popular opinion are not on his side.

The DataMind meditation app has revolutionized the world, making people smarter, happier, and more productive. But a programming glitch in the final update causes billions of users to experience uncontrollable rage and aggression. Nick, an ordinary high school senior in Fairbanks Alaska, is suddenly thrust into this life or death arena. He and his brother must escape the zombie-like hordes of blood-thirsty maniacs and seek refuge north of the arctic circle. The four-hundred-mile journey tests the boys, their wits, and their trust in each other. They think they’re fighting to stay alive; but little do they know, they’re fighting to save mankind.

Middle-class Viking Margot is stuck in a dead-end job, working for a powerful, thankless boss. When a sudden workday storm leaves Margot shipwrecked and floating in the raging sea, she's ecstatic to be rescued—until she discovers her rescuer is a mafia pirate. Margot is shaken to the core to learn her boss—one of the community enforcers appointed to drive criminals away—is working hand in hand with the highly illegal mafia. But after Margot is thrown into her enemy’s world, she realizes her life could have a greater purpose than endless servitude. Will she break away from her rescuer and return to a demanding, fruitless job beside her beloved boyfriend...or leave it all behind to become an outlaw herself? No matter what Margot decides, hearts—and bones—will be broken. If you're craving the danger of The Hunger Games and the morally grey dystopia of Neal Shusterman's Arc of a Scythe , then you'll be addicted to Nicole Adrianne's thrilling new tale of survival. Get Survivors of the Rising Sea to start the emotionally gripping adventure today!

Phil, a tired detective that has always relied on his partner to solve the cases while he did the busy work. Now he wants to step up and solve one for himself. The job that comes in is a simple one. Just find a man, but then when he finds the man in a back alley. Everything he thinks he knows about his world takes a turn to the bizarre. His partner, Allen, has to unravel the tangled knot that took Phil’s mind and left him locked in a cell talking about a man of flies.

After making it through the long Alaskan winter, Nick and Jimmy begin building their hard-earned new lives. But the spring thaw has revived more than trees and green grass. For the two brothers, killing crazies has once again become an everyday reality. Then their lives change forever when Nick receives Lusa’s call for help and a new threat is revealed. Launched into a world worse than the one they escaped from a year ago, Nick and Jimmy must face a new enemy, one which promises to wipe out the rest of humanity…one bite at a time.

Tens of thousands of Goblins, intent on razing the land and slaughtering whole towns as they cross the kingdom. Only one thing stands in their way. A Squire, a scout team, and an outnumbered army as they attempt to Hold The Line.

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“Humans and Other Aliens” is a collection of short stories written over years. It’s a hundred or so pages of science fiction, fantasy, slipstream, humour, and more. The stories were inspired by the author's love of video games, films, role-playing games, and sci-fi and fantasy books. Some stories feature ‘humaliens’, aliens from distant planets that look exactly like us except for some face-paint or rubber ears.

Millicent Cuff leads a regular teenage life. She hikes in the hills, obsesses over boys, and is desperate to leave a good impression at her upcoming birthday celebration. When an experimental aircraft crashes close to her home, she recovers a strange broken sphere from the wreckage. The life she knew will be forever changed when an army places her village under siege and comes for her. Hellinix, a shadowy multinational corporation, wants their artifact back and will stop at nothing to get it, even if that means threatening her friends and family. But they hadn’t counted on the other village secret: that Millicent’s father and his closest friends are some of the hardest men on the planet—retired SAS commandos. But when Millicent goes to ground to hide the sphere and receives a significant head-wound, Hellinix will wish they had killed her when they had the chance. She was trained by her dad to survive. She’s used to taking hard knocks. But this battle will leave more than physical scars. Siege is the dark, action-packed prequel to the Zero-Point Awakening Series: a quirky serialized science-fiction thriller.

Mai Sasaki is a kitsune witch. Growing up in a small tea shop with her mother was not her idea of fun. After high school, she left for college, vowing never to return. Nine years later, standing in front of the tea shop, Mai wants nothing more than to have her mother train her to be the best witch possible. Yuri Sasaki owns a tea shop known as The Den. In the supernatural community, this tea shop is a necessity. Patrons visit Yuri for everything from common aches and pains to shape-shifting mood stabilizers. When her daughter appears after being away from home, she reluctantly gives her a second chance. Mai must now prove to her mother that she has the discipline to be her mother's apprentice. Her first assignment - meet with a client and give them a treatment. Will she be able to find them in time?