The Mechanica Wars: Savage Machines Are Afoot...At the age of twenty, Kanze Zenjiro's bloody footprints mark the bodies of those who stood in his way to protect the throne of Nihon. Now, the tyrannical Iberian Empire is bent on destroying his kingdom, and they send their steam-powered giants and iron spiders against him.Zen embarks on a quest that takes him on the most dangerous journey of his life. To succeed, Zen must live up to his nickname, the Dragonfly Warrior, and ki...

Maverick Ash never expected death to literally come knocking at the door, but it does, and he has no way to stop it.It's Maverick's senior year. He's no longer stuck in the "friend zone" with the girl of his dreams. He's looking forward to college and being on his own. And he plans to have a blast along the way. One knock at the door changes everything and thrusts Maverick into a world he never knew existed.The Black-Eyed Kids don't demand money…… t...

The agony of a failed quest haunts Kanze Zenjiro, but the betrayal by those he trusted has turned his world upside down. With a heart full of hatred and defeat, Zen is desperate to get back to Nihon and demand the truth from his father.Meanwhile, the Iberian Empire sends their soaring airships and steam-powered giants into The Orient. They threaten to upset the balance of power, hoping to exploit the faraway land in their greed for the resources needed to power their machines. Zen ...

The legend of the Mothman comes to Saint Louis.In the aftermath of the Manhattan Project, 47,000 tons of radioactive waste was illegally dumped into a landfill in St. Louis.Prior to the Silver Lake Bridge in Point Pleasant, West Virginia collapsing in 1967, many residents reported strange sightings of a flying creature and encounters with a monster they called the Mothman.Two seemingly separate tragedies converge upon the Gateway City, just as Jonah and his friends ...

Kanze Zenjiro was once a proud warrior, but he has since fallen into darkness. Now, he finds himself physically, emotionally, and spiritually broken. Crippled and distraught, Zen struggles to find peace. His wounds might heal, but the scars of his treachery will never fade.Enapay and his crew try to repel the Iberian Empire, but the invaders unleash their entire armada. The Iberians will stop at nothing to quench their thirst for the world's resources. From east to west, war breaks...

At last, all will be known...Many years have passed since Breeze Tinkerman vanished in her spring-powered plane over the northern Wastes while searching for the fabled lost city in the ice, but her daughter River is more than happy to carry on her legacy. The Vangar overlords have turned Astatia into a slave state, forcing citizens to work in their mines and factories, stealing Astatia's resources for their own greedy ends while living safely high above in the sky-city known as Jun...

Emperor Domitian hates Christians. He isn't too fond of philosophers either. The Assassins will cut anyone's throat for a few pieces of gold, so that's no problem. The popular Heron of Alexandria is brash and outspoken. In addition to teaching school and building an aeolipile, history's first reaction motor, he has some surprising survival skills. Like many a boy before him, Diogenes needs a hero, and he and Peleus follow him straight into trouble. A short story.

A story of man versus plant, plant versus machine, logic versus habit, possible versus real, biology versus mechanics, haphazard versus systematic and all the complexities in between. In the end the plant wins, since life always finds a way to elevate itself. But so does man. And so does the machine. Or whatever you want to call what it became.

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...

Interview with a vampire? No! Interview with a man claiming to be the son of Jack the Ripper? In Hell Yeah! It's the tale of an ultra, sleazy tabloid reporter and his mind-bending tales of the bombastic who stumbles across a man claiming to be the son of none other than, Jack the Ripper – for Mr. Son of Ripper states that he knows the real truth behind the sinking of Titanic. Him! After a bruising night of roofies gone wrong, tabloid reporter, Hayward Rite (known to most as Scabby) sits do...

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 ...

“The future isn’t what it used to be.”The term steampunk describes the use of Victorian (steam-powered) technology in a futuristic setting. The aesthetic appears in contemporary imaginary fiction to suggest what might have been, extrapolating nineteenth-century ideas into far-flung alternative futures. But when the genre first appeared there was nothing nostalgic about the visions of where technology was taking humanity, as can be seen in the six classic steampunk...