In his isolation, built by grief, the master calligrapher Suleiman loses his ability to create, and his life becomes a silent wasteland. But the appearance of a stray, silent dog named "Shadow" in his garden begins to change everything. It is a touching story of a slow healing journey, and how a faithful, speechless companion can restore warmth to a frozen heart and life to the trembling hand of an artist.

Rhys is a pilot at the end of his rope, scraping by in the lonely void of the Outer Rim. His only companion is the Stardust Drifter, a relic of a freighter whose best days are a distant memory. So when a shadowy client offers a life-changing sum to transport a single, high-security cryo-pod, he jumps at the chance. The rules are simple: run silent, maintain course, and never, ever scan the cargo.The journey begins in silence, but ends with a cosmic scream. An ancient star ...

When Sora's swallowship is taken out by a swarm during the war she is rescued by Merlin, a legendary man who has allegedly discovered a super-weapon built by the Way creators; a gun so powerful it I said to have stopped the previous war. Sora is sceptical, though, for Merlin has been missing for ten thousand years, yet he has not aged a day. As the current war between aliens and humans intensifies, the need to find this weapon becomes unquestionably urgent. They must find the gun before th...

Welcome to a world like no other.The Ringworld: a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band 3 million times the surface area of Earth, encircling a distant star. Home to trillions of inhabitants, not all of which are human, and host to amazing technological wonders, the Ringworld is unique in all of the universe.Explorere Louis Wu, an Earth-born human who was part of the first expedition to Ringworld, becomes enmeshed in interplanetary and interspecies intrigue as war, ...

The acclaimed author of The Quantum Thief ends his near future sci-fi trilogy with "a thrilling final ride" for the post-human rogue Jean le Flambeur ( Publishers Weekly).With his infectious love of storytelling in all its forms, his rich characterization and his unrivaled grasp of thrillingly bizarre cutting-edge science, Hannu Rajaniemi swiftly set a new benchmark for 21st century Science Fiction. Now, with his third novel, he completes the tale ...

Once upon a galaxy, a spaced-out writer launched a novel exploring a starry saga set in a universe much like a certain trek we know and love. Here, for the first time, you can experience this voyage into trekkerness. The names are new, but you might recognize the drama and excitement of an epic encounter aboard the star cruiser Exogenesis as it pioneers humanity's journey to greatness among the stars. In this adventure, first contact with the multilingual Vox species goes horribly...

A collection of original, epic science fiction stories by some of today’s best writers—for fans who want a little less science and a lot more action—and edited by two-time Hugo Award winner John Joseph Adams.Inspired by movies like The Guardians of the Galaxy and Star Wars, this anthology features brand-new stories from some of science fiction’s best authors including Dan Abnett, Jack Campbell, Linda Nagata, Seanan McGuire, Alan Dean Foster, Charl...

SHE WAS RUNNING FROM A RUTHLESS CRIMINALACCOMPANIED BY SOMEONE MORE THAN HUMAN . . .When the shipwrecked stranger washed up, nearly drowned, on the beach near research scientist Samantha Bryton's home, she was unaware that he was something more than human: an experiment conducted by Charon, a notorious criminal and practitioner of illegal robotics and android research. The man said his name was Turner Pascal—but Pascal was dead, killed in a car wreck. Then s...

BICENTENNIAL MAN meets THE MATRIX, where you won't encounter your usual robots; their forms are anything but human yet their personalities are comfortably familiar, flipping the usual trope of artificial life on it’s head. 2) MAJOR VOICE IN ONLINE SCI-FI COMMUNITY: JF Dubeau is a strong force in online sci-fi and podcasts communities all across North America. Dubeau leveraged podcast interviews to create broad, early interest in this debut futuristic novel. 3) PUBLISHED AS IMPRINT OF...

In the distant future mankind creates sentient cybertanks patterned on the human brain to help fight their alien enemies. Then, inexplicably, the humans vanished. They just went away. All that is left of the human empire are the cybertanks who, in their own way, keep the human civilization alive. With an intelligence based on the human psyche, the cybertanks continue to defend human space, but also perform scientific research, create art, form committees and ponder the universe.The...

To save the world from being consumed by an alien technology that you inadvertently unleashed, you must use your wits, cunning, and of course... your Kobo ereader! In this exciting universe, you are the hero. You direct the lead character as your avatar in exploring the mysteries of an alien race as you attempt to discover the technological source of immense power while avoiding the ever present and potentially fatal flaws intrinsic to the mind and actions of man. The Vortex uses our Decis...

I’ll die without her, but convincing her to stay might kill me fasterNeonValkyrieI’m an analyst… and sometimes hacker, not a babysitter for lovesick aliens. But uncovering a galaxy-shattering conspiracy means hitching a ride on a Kyvernian ship with a captain who swears I’m his fated mate and he’ll die without me. But I have bigger problems. I stumbled onto a secret, now rival hacker IonSpecter is out for my blood. I don’t do relationships,...