This new edition of Additive Manufacturing of Metals offers a unique guide to the three-dimensional (3D) printing of metals. It covers various aspects of additive, subtractive, and joining processes used to form three-dimensional parts with applications ranging from prototyping to production.Examining a variety of manufacturing technologies and their ability to produce both prototypes and functional production-quality parts, the individual chapters address metal components...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th Joint International Conference on Serious Games, JCSG 2025, held in Lucerne, Switzerland, during December 4–5, 2025.The 14 full papers, 5 short papers, 16 other papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions.The conference covers a wide range from artificial intelligence applications in games, educational technologies, healthcare and wellbeing applications, extended reality imp...

A man wakes up in a living room he doesn’t recognize, unable to remember anything about himself. All he has are the few remnants of his identity scattered throughout the house—clues to his past. He soon learns that he is Charles Lang, a brilliant scientist whose wife, Julie, and daughter, Jess, mysteriously disappeared several years ago. Soon, he begins to recover memories—memories that may or may not be his own—and as he does, he realizes that only by uncovering the details of his former ...

He calls himself Farouche, after a character from legend, but his reality is that his memories and identity were stolen from him by a secret enemy.In a far-future world of wizards and walled cities, he finds himself trailing a wealthy merchant’s caravan across a dusty plain. Possessed of a soldier’s skills, he hires on with the merchant and begins to build a life. But his efforts to discover his past reveal a dark prospect: was he a participant in a notorious massacre of innocents?...

Sorcerer Christaan De Rein's return to Liverpool does not go well, starting with the fact that his trusted apprentice, Higgins, dies on the way. Then again, Higgins dies a lot. Of course, Rein doesn't expect to be welcomed with open arms after being banished for nine years, but a cryptic summons from The Musician herself cannot go unanswered.But when Rein arrives all is in chaos. People with fairy blood are turning up dead. The Forum Magicae is undone and the Curators sieged.

A haunted journal. An inescapable obsession. Will curiosity be the death of her?Riko is staring at rock bottom. Fired from her teaching job and threatened with deportation, her friend takes her on a hike near Mt Fuji to get away from it all. But when she finds an old journal deep in the forest, a malevolent force begins stalking her every step—or so she believes.Plagued by hallucinations and driven to uncover the journal's secrets, Riko is desperate for ans...

The dead and their secrets refuse to stay buried in this thrilling sequel to M. Dressler’s award-winning The Last to See Me, for fans of Lauren Oliver and Kazuo IshiguroEmma Rose Finnis has never made peace with her death . . . or with her ghostly afterlife. Finally free from the mansion she haunted for more than a hundred years, she takes on a new, daring form, one that allows her to pass for living among the citizens of the remote Sierra Nevada town of W...

In 1816, summer vanished—and something else took its place.Northamptonshire, 1816. The sun is veiled in a spiderwebbed red haze. Frost settles where wheat should ripen. Famine creeps through manor and village alike. And beneath it all—something stranger still: a red fungus that seals windows, invades cellars, and feeds on silence.Marcus, the second son of the Earl of Penderbrook, returns from the Napoleonic front expecting a hero’s welcome ...

Sam never knew his parents. In fact, he's never met another human—or seen a sunrise, smelled a flower, or eaten a regular meal. All of that is about to change.It's night in the desert, but he doesn't feel the cold. The sky is clear, and the stars twinkle at him. He has never seen the sky from Earth before. Everything looks so strange. So . . . alien. He shakes his head in wonderment and laughs. He can't stop smiling. This is Earth!There is a building ahead. Other people wil...

"This is storytelling at the top of the heap."—Jane Yolen, winner of the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement"Powerful and dreamlike, this intergenerational meditation on family, mortality, and hope is far more than the sum of its parts."—Publishers Weekly, starred review"Achingly familiar and wonderfully strange."—Samuel R. Delany, Hugo and Nebula Award winner"Plunge into T...

After years of suffering under the communist regime in Cold War Hungary, Eszter Turján - fanatical underground journalist - would sacrifice anything, and anyone, to see the government fall. When she manipulates news broadcasts on Radio Free Europe, she ignites a vicious revolution, commits a calamitous murder, and is dragged away screaming to a secret underground prison.Her daughter Dora, then a teenager, cowers in her bedroom as the secret police arrest her mother. Haunted and hur...

A gripping supernatural thriller for fans of Stephen King or Dean Koontz.Whatever you do, DON'T DRINK THE WATER!When expectant mother Livia Karras spontaneously falls victim to *aquagenic urticaria—*an allergy where a single drop of water against her skin could be fatal—doctors determine her condition to be purely psychosomatic.Psychologist Elliot Chiles is assigned to her case. He suspects Livia is subconsciously sabotagin...