They said we could destroy cities.War is long over. The United Tribes decide their ruler through a series of tournaments, simulating battles between their champions. Irenaeus is born with the necessary cybernetics to wear a power suit and thus is qualified to become a Tribune. But there are tens of thousands of others just like him, and only the best will ever reach the top. Irenaeus must survive a harsh military academy and strive to become a true predator to fulf...

The Artificial Gods brought immortality. Now they're failing.Twenty-two year old Mary Firebrightsky has just graduated from college with a promising future ahead of her. After all, she's going to live forever. Everyone lives forever these days, thanks to digital "gods" that grant eternal life in virtual space. But she needs a job, and the people she's competing with have several lifetimes' worth of experience and she has none. When she can't even qualify for indent...

What if your computer could control reality?Michael Arnold, a programmer for Pantheon Solutions, Inc., leads armies of golems on tactical solution deployments against the enemies of his divine masters, Upper Management. With the API of the Gods, powered by divine blood, anything is possible... if the Gods are willing. As he is ordered to assault a daemon's palace in Lake Superior, he begins to question if the Gods really do have humanity's best interests in mind, a...

Anything you wish is yours. Anything.From flying cars to floating islands, from purses to personal slaves, anything is legal to buy and sell in the World of Wishes--just swipe your Card and it's yours.Just be sure to pay your bills...Isaac Jackson is a revolutionary against the tyrannical Black Sorceress, little knowing it's all a game for the rich. Clarissa Hardcastle, employee of the Black Sorceress, is the wayward scion of a ultr...

The Bacchae also known as The Bacchantes is an ancient Greek tragedy, written by the Athenian playwright Euripides during his final years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon. It premiered posthumously at the Theatre of Dionysus in 405 BC as part of a tetralogy that also included Iphigeneia at Aulis and Alcmaeon in Corinth, and which Euripides' son or nephew is assumed to have directed. It won first prize in the City Dionysia festival competition.The tragedy is base...

Silent and alone, they are discovered on the lakeshore. Our hero's lover is Found, yet she, too, is silent.What will become of them?A post-apocalyptic flash fiction about hope and undying love.Note: This is flash fiction, a bite-sized story that packs a ton of punch in a small package.

Electra, Elektra, or The Electra by Sophocles is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes (409 BC) and the Oedipus at Colonus (401 BC) lead scholars to suppose that it was written towards the end of Sophocles' career. Jebb dates it between 420 BC and 414 BC.Storyline:Orestes arrives with his friend Pylades, son of Strophius, and a pedagogue, i.e. tutor (an ...

Explore twenty-four imaginative tales crafted by some of today’s best writers of science fiction and fantasy, all guests on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers during its second year, and including several international bestsellers and winners of every major award in the field, as well as newer authors just beginning what promise to be stellar careers.A woman seeking the power to see the evil hiding within others regrets receiving it. Letters written by a wizard in th...

Awfully Hilarious Period Pieces: The Stories We (Probably) Shouldn’t Tell WARNING: This book may cause uncontrollable laughter, deep sighs of relief, and the realization that you are absolutely not alone. In an intimate, courageous, and transformative collection, 26 girls and women of all ages share poems and stories exploring the ups and downs of menstruation, from first period to post-menopause.From the award-...

Write Fast. Write Well. Get Paid.These were the watchwords of old-school pulp fiction: fun, fast-paced, and immensely popular with readers.The pulp era is coming back.Blending timeless lessons from the grandmasters of the pulp era with the genres, tastes and technologies of today, PulpRev forges boldly ahead into the future of fiction.Hugo and Dragon Award nominated writer Kit Sun Cheah teams up with Misha Burnett to compile a selection of e...

BLUTFEHDE Es tobt eine Schlacht zwischen Vampiren und Menschen! Zahllose Helden und Schurken wurden von den Blutsaugern infiziert, doch Green Arrow hat sich mit den letzten Überlebenden erfolgreich zur Wehr gesetzt, sodass Barbara Gordon, die Königin der Vampire, mit dem grünen Bogenschützen ein Abkommen trifft, sich nicht mehr gegenseitig zu töten. Doch Damian Wayne bedroht diesen brüchigen Frieden, denn er jagt weiterhin die blutrünstigen Monster. So steht Green Arrow vor der schweren En...

One of the most persistent, troubling, and divisive of the ideological divisions within modernity is the struggle over the Enlightenment and its legacy. Much of the difficulty is owed to a general failure among scholars to consider how history, philosophy, and politics work together. Rethinking the Enlightenment bridges these disciplinary divides. Recent work by historians has now called into question many of the clichés that still dominate scholarly understandings of the Enlightenment’s l...