In the not so distant future, humans expand into space, spread across moons, planets, and stations, beyond the solar system. Cybernetics and biotechnology enhance their lives. And they also make things more dangerous.A data diver who uses cybernetics to immerse herself in computer programs, Shelly Konrad is the top of her field. But one mistake cost her dearly, her fear given form inside the program, and now it’s back to haunt her.She must convince a station on the outskirt...

Jack is an orphan. His parents brought him to Mars, believing it to be the realization of their dreams. When a plague claimed his mother and shattered his father, Jack was spared, but forever changed.Alone and haunted by strange dreams of the planet's surface, Jack must find his way. The only safe haven is an orphanage for Red Children known as the Nursery, run by a woman called Nana. It's a place Jack can call home.When a new doctor comes, looking for a cure for the plague...

Brea. The city of Ellia's dreams. It was once a fond memory of time with her father, a beacon of hope and knowledge, a safe haven from her mother. Now, Ellia and Kieva have taken refuge to heal from their wounds and recover their strength. But not everything is as it it seems, and something darker lurks beneath.Their recent hardships have awoken old memories within Ellia and she's forced to question everything she thought she knew. Was her father really the man she believed him to ...

Thrown once again into the wild, Ellia is alone. She has betrayed those who trusted her so she can face her mother and stop the Church's terrible war tearing apart the countryside. She knows she's walking into a trap, but she can't sit by and watch the world burn.Kieva, sworn to protect Ellia, is trapped underground, forced to deal with the wrath of Seth, the mad leader of the Order, a group fighting against the Church. Wracked with guilt that he cannot perform his duty, he loses h...

Albert Einstein is quoted as saying, "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." For Ellia McAllister, it couldn't be more accurate.Thousands of years after a devastating cataclysm, humanity lives in a new dark age. Technology and science are forbidden and a matriarchal church rules society. However, Ellia is ruled only by her curiosity. Defying the Church, she learns that all is not as it seems in the holy boo...

Manhattan, NY 1891A new mechanical age has dawned, driven by the power of steam and electricity. With this new world, come wonders and dangers. A group of young scientists known as the Knights of Electricity was going to use this power to change the world. Instead, it changed them.Abraham Tiberius Bigelow, a genius with no equal, is the lone member of the Knights, still working for the betterment of man. Elizabeth James is a cowgirl from the Badlands, more accustomed to wres...

Alice Dibble returns to the Nocturnal Academy for her second year to find that the ghost Baron Falkenstein has been made Vice Principal. He has all sorts of nasty plans lined up the school, which he believes is suffering such a bad reputation because of a serious decline in discipline.A new boy named Harley joins the Academy. He was told he was an earth elemental, but he doesn't feel any connection with the Earth at all. A genius and a misfit who was home-schooled until recently, h...

Press-ganged into servitude by a ruthless band of marauders who survived the devastating Storm, Nash has grown tired of his career– the young, undefeated champion of the Stray Dog fighting pits. All he longs for is a place to live where his family is not his enemy.When his captain gives him an assignment to embed him deeper into the crew, Nash attempts to refuse, until the life of his friend is threatened. Determined to save her, Nash embarks on the mission to subjugate and control...

The explosive conclusion to Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent series of books reveals the secrets of the dystopian world that captivated millions of readers and film fans in Divergent and Insurgent.One choice will define you. What if your whole world was a lie? What if a single revelation—like a single choice—changed everything? What if love and loyalty made you do things you never expected?Told from a riveting dual perspective, this third installment ...

Kali has been working toward her dream of building an airship and escaping the frozen Yukon for so long that she can scarcely believe it’s close to becoming a reality. There’s just one problem. Cedar, her friend and business partner (and maybe a little more), is in jail, and the American authorities are on their way to hang him. The Mounties aren’t listening to reason, so the only way to free him may be to break him out of their headquarters—if she can. Even if she succeeds, she’ll be bran...

This book contains a table of HTML content for easy reading. The Iron Heel is a dystopian novel by American writer Jack London, first published in 1908. Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories of the 1960s and 1970s, the book stresses future cha...

Book one of the Mysterious Devices series of clockwork cozies set in the Magnificent Devices world!Daisy and Freddie were supposed to be her bridesmaids. Now they’re solving her murder. In the steampunk Wild West, it’s what friends do.Margrethe Amelia Linden (Daisy to her friends) is a young woman of gentle upbringing, some talent as a watercolorist, and firm opinions that often get her into trouble. Determined to find her missing father, in the su...