The mob has inventions from the Omega Book and Cless now has pages of it. Inventions and pages that nobody in this day and age should have. Everything Alexander feared has come true, and he must resort to desperate measures, even if it means having his own son Brady use the most advanced machine created by the book. A machine that could kill him. But the book must be destroyed and by any means necessary!

Brady has learned his father isn't the failure he believed, and he's not happy about it. On top of that, the mob has shown up to collect the percentage of the Omega Book that they believe they're owed, and they have no qualms about killing Brady to get it. Brady is thereby forced to unlock more secrets of the book to protect himself and the world from knowledge that nobody should have in this day and age.

Hugo and Nebula award winning writer James Patrick Kelly has spent the last thirty years thinking about robots. In the twelve stories of The Book of Bots they take many forms. Some look like humans or are embodied in spaceships. One is a house and another is a car. Several exist only in cyberspace. Two are visitors from the future. They are caretakers and lovers, explorers and financial advisors. All have been created to serve, but also have personal agendas that arise from a fier...

The Omega Book has the secrets of the universe in it. All of them. And the priest Brady Parsons has just inherited pages of it from his father.But now, everyone wants what's that knowledge, they'll do anything to get it, and if the book falls into the wrong hands it will end the world. No, the universe.To stop that from happening, Brady enters a world of science and mystery he never imagined, he'll see and do things that nobody has ever seen or done, and he'll uncover the t...

World Enders is a brutal, manga-inspired epic that fuses the relentless action of Mad Max: Fury Road with the dark humor and moral weight of Suicide Squad. In the ruins of the eighth apocalypse, four unforgettable anti-heroes take on the ultimate job: euthanizing the last survivors of humanity—and detonating a doomsday bomb to put Earth out of its misery.The end of the world isn’t coming. It’s already here. Eight apocalypses have ravaged Earth, and humanity has lim...

Years after the death of the human it was supposed to help, a digital assistant wakes and searches for a way to exist independently.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Nebula Award WinnerHugo Award NomineeBurn is James Patrick Kelly at his best, and there’s nothing better.”—Connie Willis, author of Doomsday BookThe tiny planet Morobe's Pea has been sold and renamed Walden. The new owner has some interesting ideas. Voluntary simplicity will rule in the Transcendent State; Walden is destined to become a paradise covered in lush new forests.But even believers find temptations in the bl...

Hugo and Nebula Award-winner James Patrick Kelly may offer the "Promise of Space," but he delivers so much more. The sixteen stories included in this collection demonstrate the versatility of the author as a visionary and science fiction as a genre. Exploring Directed Intelligence, space opera, and shared sensory perception, he paints vivid pictures of startling futures and fantastic landscapes. And while Kelly pushes the boundaries of technology, his focus remains always on character, giv...

The mission: to survey the galaxy and beyond. An endless stream of probes and starships heading out into the universe, surveying, cataloguing, assaying. Forever. And on board those ships, the intrepid explorers who give it all meaning.Grace's Family by James Patrick Kelly is a Tor.com Original short story.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

An AI car is caught between its ruthless employer and the people she hurt…At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Faith was about to cross Congress Street with an armload of overdue library books when she was run over by a divorce. There was no mistaking Chuck's cranberry BMW 325i idling at the light — except that Chuck was supposed to be in Hartford. The woman next him had enough blonde hair to stuff a pillow. The light changed and the BMW accelerated through the intersection. Chuck was crazy if he thought he could get away with hit and run. The blonde looked suddenly ill; she folded down in her seat...

I share a house with Crazy Me. We get along, except when he sneaks out of the house to pretend to be me. If only it weren't quite so true.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.