Into the badlands…Spider King is back! This time he’s been hired to recover a secret government project that has been stolen by one of the most vicious booster gangs in the world. The problem is they are hiding out in their high-rise fortress in the Nevada desert, outside the protection of civilization and the rule of law.Teaming up with his new friends Nishi and Elegua, Spider has to leave his comfort zone in San Francisco and risk it all for a chance at g...

Spider King barely knows anything about the mysterious programmer known only as “St. Jude,” except that she pays well and keeps her cards well-hidden. That’s understandable considering she’s hiding from Richard Newbridge, a cold-blooded industrialist bent on killing her for stealing priceless secrets.Once again, she comes to the Gordian Net for help, but this time it’s a job so dangerous that no amount of money seems enough to take it on. She is asking them to break her father, a t...

Revolutionaries, thieves, or terrorists?Depending on who you talk to, Spider King and his cohorts in the infamous Gordian Net are either criminals or revolutionaries in the ongoing struggle against the corporations that have replaced the federal government of the formerly united States.Nobody pushes their notoriety as Robin Hoods harder than Spider himself. Arrogant and egotistical, Spider is a veritable rock star of the hacking world. It would be annoying ...

Many who wander are, in fact, quite lost. In this anthology you will meet:-A gifted veterinarian who discovers a way to possess the bodies of the birds he should be caring for and steal their place in the sky...-A young man who struggles to move past the trauma from an event in his childhood, until it returns to claim him once again...-An astronaut who finds himself alone on Mars, utterly cut off from the rest of humanity...-An up-and-coming artist who is conf...

One Detective - Six Authors What do you get when a group of writers jointly create a private detective character in the hard-boiled tradition, then go their separate ways to put the poor bastard through his paces? You get Nick Chambers, a down-on-his-luck P.I. that is both comfortably familiar and refreshingly original. In the grim days following the end of WWII, San Francisco is a rough place to try to make a living as a detective. Paying clients are few and far between, corruption is ram...

It isn’t a war—it’s a massacre. Mindless mechanical aliens are destroying everything in their path. And their path is heading straight for Earth…The Prox don’t even notice us. They are simply devouring and reclaiming every scrap of metal they encounter. They have destroyed several colonies, killing everyone and leaving only wreckage in their wake.Captain Jeff Bowers is a shell of a man, reduced to solo missions where he can’t piss anybody off. He is spying ...

A scientific experiment goes horribly wrong. The earth…the galaxy…the universe is destroyed. And there’s only one person to blame…you.Captain Jeff Bowers has been resurrected by an alien race—leaving him with mysterious powers…powers that could turn the tide of galactic war in the humans’ favor.While testing those powers, a final experiment lands Jeff and his crew in an alternate reality, very much the same as their universe…and very different.Uncer...

An invincible alien army is closing in on Earth. Only one broken man has any hope of stopping them. Power up your weapons, boys—this shit is about to get real.Crossing the universe in search of a nameless Peruvian shaman, Jeff Bowers finds him…and the ability to control his own mysterious powers.Only the destruction of the universe stopped the Prox from attacking Earth. Now, here in a new universe, another Earth is staring down the most ruthless alien army ...

In a parallel reality you gamble everything on an insane search. Now everyone wants you dead—friends, aliens, even lovers. And the only weapon you’ve got could wipe out yet another universe…Refugees in a hostile parallel universe, Captain Jeff Bowers and his crew narrowly escape to neutral space. But Jeff is haunted by a vision that just won’t let him go, and it sends him on a quest he can’t justify or explain.At the same time, he is obsessed with finding t...

Military life is all about following orders—until you get the order that will kill every man under your command...Jeff Bowers has just been made a captain in the Colonial Defense Force when he is tapped for a piece-of-cake mission—lead his men to a godforsaken planet, into a den of hillbilly rebels to retrieve a kidnapped diplomat. In and out. Simple. At least that's how it seems until they get there. It's clear that they've been set up. And whoever is giving the o...

It isn’t a war—it’s a massacre. Mindless mechanical aliens are destroying everything in their path. And that path is headed straight for Earth…This isn’t war. The Prox don’t even notice us. They are simply devouring and reclaiming every scrap of metal they encounter. They have destroyed several colonies, killing everyone and leaving only wreckage in their wake.Captain Jeff Bowers is a shell of a man, reduced to solo missions where he can’t piss anybody off....

In a parallel reality you gamble everything on an insane search. Now everyone wants you dead—friends, aliens, even lovers. And the only weapon you’ve got could wipe out yet another universe…Refugees in a hostile parallel universe, Captain Jeff Bowers and his crew narrowly escape to neutral space. But Jeff is haunted by a vision that just won’t let him go, and it sends him a quest he can’t justify or explain.At the same time, he is obsessed with finding the ...