On a world of ice and secrets – don’t run.Stranded far from home on a world where climate is the ultimate enemy, the Planet Walkers must survive on their wits. Strange creatures, volcanic eruptions and volatile weather make their expedition difficult enough, but one of the team has a secret that can only make things worse.As the Planet Walkers race to fulfill their mission, one team member's discovery leads to a war against time and the elements, but beneath the be...

A planet of ice and secrets. A team of explorers battling the elements. But the real enemy comes from within.Huldar is an explorer at heart. He can't wait to embrace the beauty of a newly-discovered foreign world, but he knows he and his team will need to survive volatile weather, dangerous creatures, and active volcanoes to do it. The team leader's mission changes in an instant when he realizes there's something different about this planet: it has a soul and someh...

When the Planet Walkers return home, Duvät Gok believes he is bound for wealth and glory, but soon finds himself hunted by assassins and struggling to stay alive. Meanwhile, the half-breed Casco finds himself an impromptu leader in a dangerous civil war. When fate reunites them, both their worlds are changed forever and the deadly dance for survival spills onto the streets of Imperial Giahn.

In a grimy soup of evil, who rises to the top?When the archangel Duvät Gok returns to his home-world he believes he has committed the perfect crime, but in the murky underworld of the Imperial City he soon finds himself out of his depth and the fate of the mysterious Eyes of Bel Nishani fuels a maelstrom that sets the Realm on course for disaster.This is the second book of the Planet Walkers series, ecological science fiction saga that takes the reader to f...

It is seven years after their first expedition, but everything has changed. New team members prove tricky to integrate, and a premature influx of miners challenges the planet's ecological balance. As more mysteries of Went are revealed, the social fabric of the isolated travellers unravels. The planet herself may have answers, but every time Huldar speaks with her he comes closer to death.

Seven years after their first expedition, Huldar and the Uri'madu return to the planet Went, but although they are happy to be there, everything has changed. There are new team members, including an ex-assassin, a grumpy war veteran and a restless navigator. The God-Emperor has overthrown millennia of tradition and allowed a host of rapacious miners immediate access despite the lack of environmental studies and Explorers Guild approval. As the planet fights back, its mysteries begin to rev...

From the ashes of the fallen demon court, a new threat rises…Raised in a lab and trained to kill, I might not know much about being human, but I do know demons, and they don’t come more dangerous than the Prince of Pride—the devil.My brother is trapped at the heart of Fairhaven—a demon stronghold. To get him back, I need Pride’s help. Trained to kill princes, I know I can’t trust this one. He’ll lie, cheat, and manipulate to get what he wants: a ne...

Many will brave the Dungeon, if it lets them escape their past...Now that their big expedition is over, Loki Familia is headed to Port Meren in search of the rumored second entrance to the Dungeon. After arriving, everyone finally gets a chance to relax on the gorgeous beaches of the lakeside city, even if it's all thanks to their goddess's obviously ulterior motives. But before they settle in, a storm arrives!Kali Familia and their patron deity of carnage have made landfal...

24 Award-Winning Authors and IllustratorsAccompanied by Orson Scott Card, Brandon Sanderson, Jody Lynn Nye, Jerry Pournelle, Ciruelo and Echo Chernik and Edited by David FarlandYour search for something new and different in sci-fi and fantasy ends here.Presenting this year’s collection of fresh voices, fabulous worlds, and fantastic new characters.Each year, the Writers and Illustrators of t...

The Strange Bird—from New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer—is a novella-length digital original that expands and weaves deeply into the world of his “thorough marvel”* of a novel, Borne.The Strange Bird is a new kind of creature, built in a laboratory—she is part bird, part human, part many other things. But now the lab in which she was created is under siege and the scientists have turned on their animal creations. Flying ...

In the Free City of Pyrrh, murders and other serious crimes are investigated by the Cordonates of the Considerable Crimes Division.Struggling with his grief over losing his last partner, the last thing Cordonate Parshan Koury wants is someone else. Zhivana Nedrogovna, his new partner, is fresh out of the City Watch and not even human, and unsure she wants to work with the broody, angry Par.As Parshan and Zhivana rush to solve a case of mugging gone wrong th...

The populations on several worlds have discovered themselves to be but part of a galaxy filled with other sentients. Book 4 of the Galactic Mage Series begins a new phase of existence for the denizens of those planets, and it follows the lives of Altin and Orli, Roberto, Queen Karroll, Blue Fire, and, of course, Pernie, as they begin to discover what roles they have in the redefined universe.Other familiar characters also appear, including the return of Black Sander and th...