Humans by themselves could only fail. Society is splintered after allowing an evolving artificial intelligence, calling itself Makr run the planet's resources, saving humankind the trouble. Not all people have accepted the illusion of a perfectly run society or PerSoc. The lazy and frustrated ones did. Some even worship Makr as a god. Makr has armies of mobile cyberts constantly seeking out human malcontents to delete. Had the human race rebelled or unified in some way there might ...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Building on the influential Using Evidence to End Homelessness (Bristol University Press, 2020), this practical collection shows how evidence and data can drive smarter action to improve outcomes for people affected by homelessness. Six years on, it captures lessons learned and progress made while charting a path for greater impact. With new contributions from leaders including UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham, reflecting on h...

Clara Phelps has a gift. A gift that's probably going to cost her life...Born with an unusual ability to read people, to see a snapshot of their thoughts each time she makes eye contact, Clara has struggled to make friends and live the 'straight and narrow life'. But when she accidentally causes the daughter of a Russian Mafia member to be shot, her lack of social skills quickly become the least of her problems.This thrill-a-minute story will have you on the edge of your se...

Six continents.Twenty cultures.A world filled with raucous festivals and building resentments.Brute force against special mental abilities.Ancient warfare versus the newest steam-weapons.A series of murders and mysterious deaths shake the fragile peace of the United Empires (aka the Realm).While the royals celebrate lavish balls and the citizens live their lives between the raucous monthly festivals, an underground organisation is getting ready to...

Sir Isaac K. Magnus is a man who is many things:a loving husbanda licensed alchemistand a Paranormal exterminator in Her Majesty’s name.Isaac has relocated from London, England to the British Regions of America. He promised his wife, Miasma, that he would take a holiday from monsters and apparitions. Unfortunately, in his line of work, downtime isn't always easy to come by.Isaac didn’t move just for a holiday. He is secretly on the hunt for a rare ar...

Is there more?The question is in the mind of a slave boy raised in a compound. He escapes his captors and explores a post apocalyptic world. Along the way, he finds that there is indeed more to life.

Cows, trying to take over the world? How would they do such a thing? Well they have a plan, hundreds of years in the making, but humans aren't supposed to know. They've been fooling us for centuries.But let's put it this way, you may never look at milk the same way again and next time you see one you may appreciate they are not as dopey as they look.When the first wave of attack happens in the quiet, sleepy village of Golthwaite, set in the tranquil surrounding of the Yorkshi...

Twelve thousand years later, low on reaction mass and with 20,000 colonists aboard, Ark One is coming in hot. Captain Sandra Jensen and Astrogator Dooley Peeters have a plan to save her. There is the question of how they will be received, on an Earth that has returned to barbarism. That is, if they can slow her down enough to get a shuttle away.

It just keeps getting better and better, all the time. Still grieving over the loss of her mother, a friend talks Jayne Dickson into the trip of a lifetime. Unfortunately, she won’t be going along, due to a last-minute case of boyfriend-itis. The final straw for Jayne is when a tour boat leaves without her and she must spend the night alone on a deserted island in a crumbling temple.

Adventure strikes Risgan, treasure-hunter, gambler, collector of magic relics.From jungle pygmies to powerful shamans to sea pirates, it's a fight to the end, on land, sea and air.Shipwrecked off a dangerous coast in an unknown land, Risgan stumbles upon a mysterious cult in the ruin of ancient temple grounds. An odd but alluring acolyte takes him under her wing, but the legend of their long dead saint leaves Risgan's blood running cold. The miracle-working...

Over a century after the seedship Lazarus completed its near 1,200 year journey, the Terran colonies found themselves in conflict with a hostile alien race.In a world decimated by a long, drawn-out war where a never-ending stream of fresh clones are fed to the Terran war machine, a genetically engineered squad of soldiers must fight to survive against all odds.When society is ruled from behind the scenes by massive corporate conglomerates that control powerful secret organiza...

Few people know the true purpose of the Badger Survey of Atlar. Ashlin Smith wants out of his boring, frustrating, and apparently pointless job. But it's about to get a lot more interesting, and not in a good way, as events foreseen decades earlier begin to unfold.A giant badger, murderous cultists, abominations and dinner guests straight from the fairy tales, and a frighteningly clever and stubborn empress soon stand in the way of Ashlin's desire to return to a quiet life.