The epic climax of The Dark Places Splatterpunk Series. Lily Zhou discovers the secrets of the liminal space called A Regenerating Place Outside of Time. Megumi Toda navigates her new life away from the Bureau Of Natural Maintenance. Inspector Lee infiltrates the global powerful and elite to uncover a government conspiracy.

NECROMANCER/ASSISTING HANDS - Rush week is usually a time of celebration and camaraderie. Unfortunately for these freshman girls...That is not the case. Follow them as they attempt to survive the bloodiest week of their lives. The final girl standing must then come to grips with the fact, the world is bigger than she could've ever imagined. Murder Mystery turned into a supernatural bloodbath. Splatterpunk Action paired with psychological terror awaits those brave enough to venture into the...

The Unidentified Funny Objects series delivers an annual dose of funny, zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices! In this volume you'll find:* Space orc diplomats* Hapless necromancers* Gamification of everything* Plumbing problems at an evil wizard’s castle* Get-rich-quick schemes gone wrong* Seussian cyberpunkNo AI! Written by organic, locally-sourced human authors.Th...

From James Dashner, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling MAZE RUNNER series, comes an original thirty-page e-short returning fans to the fast-paced, high-tech world in the Mortality Doctrine series that includes The Eye of Minds, The Rule of Thoughts, and The Game of Lives.Includes a sneak peek of The Fever Code,the highly anticipated conclusion to the Maze Runner series—the novel that finally reveals how ...

(Volume 7)A legendary tome known as The Book of the Law, which describes how to summon an angel, has been stolen--and the nun who knows how to decipher it has been kidnapped. All of which should be completely irrelevant to high school student Touma Kamijou, who's still whiling away his time in Academy City. Except his famously terrible luck gets him involved in the rescue operation, and if he thought school life was bad enough, wait until he gets a taste of church politics!

SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, HUMORThe Unidentified Funny Objects series delivers an annual dose of funny, zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices!* Superheroes mired in government bureaucracy.* Cat cat-burglars.* Grandmotherly golems.* Literal-minded self-driving cars.* Evil overlords retired in Florida.* Indifferent aliens.

Equal parts troubleshooters and troublemakers, Keene and Lexa-Blue, along with the sentient ship, Maverick Heart, have been known to solve a problem or two. For the right price, that is. Even so, they aren’t prepared for a summons from a love Keene thought long past. Daevin Adisi is now the Technarch of Brighter Light, one of the greatest corporate colony states in the Galactum, which is on the brink of war with Sotari, descendants of a people changed by nanogenetic experimentation. Seekin...

2015 Best Science Fiction and alien anthology, Publisher's Weekly Science Fiction Best SellerThe future is here…the future is now! Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. Anderson and Larry Niven have seen the future. Now, you can, too.A constellation of the brightest lights in the Science Fiction and Fantasy firmament have judged these authors to be the best, the brightest, the truest emerging stars in the field.From Alien Invasion to Alternate History, from Cyberpunk to Comic ...

2V has come up with a plan to kill Akuto using virtual phase space, and he recruits the teenage genius scientist Yoshie Kita to help. Akuto and the rest of the school are sealed in a game of Yoshie's creation, and to make it out, he'll have to play the role of the Demon King and battle against the other students. But there is another secret hidden inside the game that breaks all the rules...

**Revolutionary and visionary, these twenty-two speculative stories edited by Lambda, Nebula and Hugo finalist Lee Mandelo explore the vast potentialities of our queer and trans futures.USA Today Bestseller!**From self-styled knights fighting in dystopian city streets to conservationists finding love in the Appalachian forests; from social media posts about domestic “bliss” in a lottery-based, state-housing skyscraper to herding feral cats off of one’s scientific e...

Worse than losing his life would be to lose the woman he loves.Stranded on a half world in an unknown galaxy, seven Terrans and four Seneecians have declared an uneasy truce. But when three more Seneecians arrive at the temple, including their leader thought to be dead, the balance of power suddenly shifts.The Seneecian D'har immediately assumes command, and he makes it clear the Terrans are now under his jurisdiction. Everyone must obey his rule as he takes full control of...

Super science. Madness. Transhumanism.This is the dawn of posthumanity. Some things can’t be unlearned.Gleaming labs whir with the hum of servers as scientists unravel the secrets of the universe. But as we peel away mysteries, the universe glances back at us. Even now, terrors rise from the Mariana Trench and drift down from the stars. Scientists are disappearing—or worse. Experiments take on minds of their own. Some fight back against the unknown, some gi...