Ed wants nothing more than to be left to his own devices—specifically his PC and the RPG to which he has devoted his life. When a hacker wrests control of his computer and notifies him of an imminent threat, Ed is ousted from his home and forced out into a city afflicted with paranoia.A mysterious contagion has landed in the City of Antwood, frightening citizens and causing authorities to declare Medical Law. Businesses are shuttered, movement is restricted, and people are being fo...

There's no such thing as coincidence, only order.Like a series of falls down a precipitous staircase, Harlan Smith loses everything—his wallet, his job, his grip on reality… but everything he has lost pales in comparison to what he's about to find.Scooped up by a greasy con man, Harlan is unwittingly thrust into the Antwood underworld of guilds and relic-seekers wherein bizarre neighborhoods past, present, and future converge within an increasingly surreal landscape.

:.The Subject sleeps.:A storm brews in the mind of a comatose girl where figments of her imagination vie for control of the isolated space therein referred to as the City.Physics are unraveling. An office worker takes a tumble through twentieth-story glass. A high school girl chases the fleeting concept of "normalcy." A pair of inquisitors strive to bring about a swift explanation for the increasingly fantastic, inexplicable phenomena occurring around them. And on the outsi...

One wish to embark upon a noble questOne wish to fulfill her desiresOne wish for contingencyWhat could go wrong?On the cusp of her thirteenth birthday, Verdigris is thrown deep into the world inside an ancient djinn's lamp. Her task: to deliver a mysterious talisman to the distant wizard in his sky-scraping tower.Things seem straightforward until her escort vanishes and she finds herself alone, forced to make her way through a bizarre land chock-full of...

True love brings a deadly threat to the Black Dagger Brotherhood in this sizzling new novel in J.R. Ward’s #1 New York Times bestselling series.Possessed by the demon Devina, Balthazar is once again on the hunt for the Book of Spells—and fighting an undeniable attraction to a woman. As a thief, he has stolen a lot of things…but he never thought his heart would be taken by another. Especially not by a human.As a homicide detective, Erika Sa...

After the alien virus struck humanity in the wake of World War II, a handful of the survivors found they possessed superhuman powers. The Wild Cards shared-world volumes tell their story.Here in book two, Wild Cards II: Aces High, we trace these heroes and villains through the tumultuous 1980s, both like and unlike our own. Now, after centuries of travel through space, an extraterrestrial being called the Swarm is headed for Earth. Meanwhile, some of the a...

A dark threat faces the world of Erdas in this riveting new saga from the New York Times bestselling series.**A heart-pounding new adventure from the New York Times bestselling series.**In the world of Erdas, every child must discover if they will summon a spirit animal, a rare and incredible gift. Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan were rare even among those few. They summoned legendary animals--brave guardians who were reborn to protect their world.Now more of the...

It's going to be a L-O-N-G night! A chilling repackage of a best-selling Goosebumps--Now with bonus materials! Sue and her brother, Eddie, are visiting London when they run into a little problem. They can't find their tour group. Still, there's no reason to panic. No way their tour guide would just leave them. All alone. In a gloomy old prison tower. No way they'd get locked inside. After dark. With those eerie sounds. And a strange dark figure who wants them...dead.

A billionaire seeks immortality in a near-future dystopia of climate crisis and AI supremacy in this "richly rewarding blend of noir thriller and sci-fi" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).The seas have risen and the central latitudes are emptying, but it's still a good time to be rich in San Francisco, where armed drones patrol the skies to keep out the multitudinous poor. Irina isn't rich, but she does have an artificial memory that gives her perfect recal...

Autumn has arrived. Having narrowly avoided the curse of the Kotoribako, Sorawo and Toriko are back to exploring the other world. With boxed lunches in tow, the two take their agricultural vehicle for a leisurely drive across grassy terrain, deal with the problems caused by Sorawo’s kouhai at university, and hang out at cognitive scientist Kozakura’s house. Naturally, bizarre entities and Satsuki Uruma’s shadow are watching their every move.And just what is Urumiluna, the greatest ...

A 2021 Nebula Award Nominee!One woman will travel to the stars and beyond to save her beloved in this lyrical space opera that reimagines The Little Mermaid.Gene-edited human clans have scattered throughout the galaxy, adapting themselves to environments as severe as the desert and the sea. Atuale, the daughter of a Sea-Clan lord, sparked a war by choosing her land-dwelling love and rejecting her place among her people. Now her husband and his clan ...

Here, in the fifth volume of the exciting series, ten of science fiction's most gifted writers take readers on a journey of wonder and excitement in an astounding alternate history.Let the secret history of the world be told-of the alien virus that struck Earth after World War II, and of the handful of the survivors who found they now possessed superhuman powers. Some were called Aces, endowed with powerful mental and physical prowess. The others were Jokers, torme...