In Shadow Lab, a brilliant roster of speculative fiction writers pulls listeners into a diverse and genre-bending collection of stories, each as irresistible as the last.From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith comes Hell Divers: The Lost Years. In the radioactive wastes of what was once known as Earth, a man and his dog fight nightmarish creatures in order to return to their home in the sky.

In today's social media-saturated world, the word influence conjures up images of beautifully curated Instagram feeds or women who lead from the stage and have thousands of followers. It's measured by the number of likes and shares and how well we can get people to imitate us. Influence has almost become synonymous with fame and power, and if we're honest, many of us long to have it.But in its purest form, influence is simply the capacity to affect change on someone. It is...

A stunning collection of ten thrilling short stories, it’s Shadow Lab, Volume Three!In The Henchman’s Wife—by New York Times bestselling author Jeff Abbott—a woman’s husband is killed protecting an ungrateful Russian crime boss, so the quiet, unassuming widow decides to find the killer and take her own brand of revenge.In Gold Party by USA Today bestselling authors Jamie Brenner and Adam Chromy, a group of wealth...

The untold story of four special operations officers who fought together behind enemy lines across multiple theaters of World War II, and then continued to serve, officially and unofficially, for decades after in the hottest parts of the Cold WarThere have always been special warriors; Achilles and his Myrmidons are the obvious classical examples. What we now think of as “special operations,” however, were born in World War II, and one of the earliest and most exci...

**An invaluable guide to understanding how the internet has broken our brains—and what we can do to fix it."Vivid and unforgettable.” ―Jonathan Haidt, New York Times bestselling author of The Righteous Mind**The original internet was not designed to make us upset, distracted, confused, and outraged. But something unexpected happened at the turn of the last decade, when a handful of small features were quietly launched at social media companies with little ...

From bestselling and award-winning author Cadwell Turnbull comes A Ruin, Great and Free, the stunning conclusion to the popular Convergence Saga.It has been nearly two years since the anti-monster riots. The inhabitants of Moon have been very fortunate in the intervening months. Inside their hidden monster settlement, they’ve found peace, even as the world outside slips into increasing unrest. Monsters are being hunted everywhere, forced back into the shad...

Gilt-edged stories that slice clean through the mundanity of modern life, from the author of Same Bed Different Dreams, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize“Ed Park is one of the funniest writers working today, and among the most humane.”—Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR, Boston Globe, Electric Lit, Lit Hub, Shelf Awar...

A provocative exploration of how humans are wired to seek short-term success at the expense of long-term survival—an evolutionary “glitch” that explains everything from toxic workplaces to climate change“Essential reading . . . a lively, ultimately hopeful examination of how incentivizing the wrong values and actions has led to some of our most intractable problems.”—Eric Ries, New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup...

'[A] pulse-pounding vampire tale . . . Fans of The Last of Us will be enthralled' Publishers Weekly'A frenetically-paced read that will equally excite and terrify you' FanfiAddict'Flat out fun to read . . . I will 100% pick up anything further Ryan releases in this genre' Grimdark MagazineLayla has spent her entire life in the Redoubt, one of the last bastions of humanity in a ravaged worl...