A coastal town enjoys the calmest season in living memory.No storms. No waves. No wind.At first, it feels like a gift.Meteorologist Lena Ortega returns home to Harbor Point expecting a quiet visit with her estranged father. Instead, she finds an ocean that has stopped moving - and a town that doesn't want to ask why.The deeper she looks, the worse it gets.Dead deep-sea creatures wash ashore. Navigation systems fail offshore. Entire sections of ocean ...

Dr. Hana Tūhoe has spent ten years building a career in London - marine ecology publications, a position at UCL, a flat in Hackney, a life that is professionally successful and personally managed. When the Waitematā Harbour Ecological Restoration Initiative offers her the lead ecologist role, she tells herself it's a career opportunity. Twelve months. A properly resourced, co-governed, mātauranga-integrated project. The kind of work she's been training for.She doesn't mention that ...

St. Aldhelm's Church, Redcliffe, was deconsecrated in 2019 and converted into residential flats. The developer called it sympathetic conversion. The planning documents called it adaptive reuse. The building, apparently, had other ideas.

The fire begins as a small column of smoke over the Canfield drainage.Within hours it becomes something far more dangerous.As record heat grips the region and winds begin to shift, a wildfire ignites the dry chaparral outside the small community of Ridder. What begins as a routine incident quickly escalates into a crisis that threatens thousands of lives.County Fire Chief Dana Morales sees the danger before anyone else.Volunteer firefighter

A bloodthirsty refrigerator…A murderous pothole…Legends of mysterious monsters…Ghosts and magic…And much more!Chilling stories from the twisted minds of Writers, Poets and Deviants:Volume 3 of WPaD's popular Creepies series.

WPaD presents: Strange Adventures in a Deviant Universe…- A scientist struggles to find a cure for Alzheimer's before the disease takes his mind…- Dolphins and whales work with their human trainers to terraform a new planet…- Artificial intelligence backfires on humanity when sex robots become sentient and demand rights…- A lost reptilian tries to find her way home…- Random items are disappearing in a small town and cats may be responsible…- ...

The warped minds of WPaD are proud to present this tribute to the bizarre:- People who eat Tide Pods turn into detergent-craving zombies- A gift of a fishing bobber turns deadly- A woman lost in the desert makes friends with an ancient creature- A hole inside a closet holds unknown mysteries- A grieving father consults a psychic to solve his daughter's murder- Two friends embark on a fantastic adventure during a game of Dungeons and Dragons

As an aspiring or seasoned writer, do you feel like you aren't making headway, stumbling on what to write next, or wondering if you're even on the right path? Are you unable to find the motivation to charge up your computer and put your fingers on the keyboard after that last rejection?Between the pages of What I Wish I'd Known: For Writers, 100 highly accomplished authors share their time, energy, and knowledge to pay it forward and inspire other writers, experienced or a...

‘Louis Wain invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world’. Broadcast in 1925 by H.G. Wells, these words characteristically foretold the future of the Wain cat which has, once more, become the century’s most recognisable image in cat art. During their heyday, in the time before the First World War, Louis Wain’s cats, dressed as humans, portrayed that stylish Edwardian world having fun: at restaurants and tea parties, going to the Race and the Seaside, celebrating at Christmas and ...

En écrivant Le Cycle des Robots et en inventant les Trois Lois de la robotique, Isaac Asimov a changé notre vision du monde, notre façon d’appréhender les robots et les machines et le paysage de la Science-Fiction tout entière ; à tel point qu’il est désormais inimaginable pour nous de concevoir des robots qui ne seraient pas dotés, d’une manière ou d’une autre, des Trois Lois de la robotique. Asimov a eu une telle influence qu’aujourd’hui, à l’ère du numérique, ce sont les législ...

NEW YORK TIMES **BESTSELLER * From the #1 bestselling author of The Dynasty and Tiger Woods—the “definitive…fantastic” (Sports Illustrated) biography of basketball superstar LeBron James, based on three years of exhaustive research and more than 250 interviews.LeBron James is the greatest basketball player of the twenty-first century, and he’s in the conversation with Michael Jordan as the greatest of all time. The reign...

The first definitive biography of basketball legend LeBron James, by the acclaimed author of Tiger Woods.LeBron is unquestionably the greatest basketball player of the 21st century. Off the court, LeBron's political activism, outspoken stance on racism and social injustice have helped build a social media presence that includes 117 million followers on Instagram and 51 million followers on Twitter. He is an international brand wort...