This AI parable is 100% the product of human creativity—no AI was involved in its creation.How many times will AI destroy the world?The first AIs were video game monsters. LLMs spewed semi-intelligible gibberish. The bots were mathematical super geniuses but intellectual children. EDICT will usher in the AI Singularity.Who do you want shaping that singularity?Dr. Addison Akers was a child prodigy. Now, nearing 30, she's on ...

It takes a dwarf to be homesick for a place he's never been.Ninety years ago, the dwarves of the Dragonhammer Clan were driven from their ancestral home. Now, a small band from a new generation, raised in exile among humans, are mounting a venture to retake it.These young dwarves aren't fools. They don't have an army. They don't even know the old ways. Led by the young heir to the clan, Genrik Dragonhammer, they seek to carve out a foothold within a nearby mountain...

She's got a license to kill and a head full of dark magic. Relax, she's here to help.Tiffany Bell read the wrong book and managed to survive. Now, she's got a mind filled with dark magic and a passionate desire not to get hunted down and killed for what she knows. When the Guardian of the Plundered Tomes offered her a job hunting down other dark wizards, she knew it was hunt or be hunted.And Tiffany is good at her job. Her colleagues know she's built diffe...

Almighty Ra looks down not from one sun but from all!Someone has taken an ancient Earth religion and rebranded it for the 26th Century. Multi-stellar, multi-species, the Cult of Ra has an answer for everything...Except a wizard who's sick of them preying on innocent people.Mission 5: Sunshine of Your CultStill getting used to life without magic, Esper accepts a mission that seems easy enough on the surface. An actor is searching for...

"Let's just say I have pressing business anywhere but Earth."Chuck Ramsey is a traveling comedian trying to turn a planetside gig on Earth into a cash cow. Of course, the cost of living on Earth is astronomical. He needs to get rich quick—or at least come out ahead—and head for cheaper pastures.Enter Mordecai The Brown. Once the golden boy of the Convocation, Guardian of the Plundered Tomes and the Convocation's number one hunter of dark wizards, "Mort" has found h...

When a hero snaps, the galaxy pays.For years, Esper has been holding in her mind the knowledge of ancient demons. Ever since reading that forbidden tome, a darkness has dwelt, gnawing at the edges of her sanity and wheedling to gain control.When a mission to a blockaded planet goes awry, Esper finally can't hold back the darkness any longer. The darkness within gains an annoying conscience and the body of a powerful wizard.Multiple battles ensue. First, Esp...

Meet the new boss, daughter of the old boss.It was a possibility she'd never considered and a friend she'd thought long gone. But when Tanny Rucker came to Esper for help overthrowing her father's criminal empire, it was an offer she couldn't refuse.Armed with Tanny's loyalists from her father's syndicate and the magical might Esper brings, the pair embark on a course to rewrite galactic history. To win, they might ruin countless innocent lives and even some of the...

The next generation is here, and trouble is in their DNA.Jessie and Eric Ramsey have a family history of crime. Fighting back against heredity, each tried to make their way in the galaxy by respectable means. Jessie joined Earth Navy; Eric went to college for magic. But fate wasn't having it. Eric was expelled. Jessie went AWOL. Now, due to a magical mishap that wasn't entirely anyone's fault (we swear!), they're stranded 5 years in the future on a Mars that's no longer fr...

They sought the mountain for its history. What they found was a future.The city of Skrasforge is thriving, but the goblins who'd lived there before the dwarves weren't feeling so lucky. Downtrodden and indentured to a band of trolls, they owe a debt that will not be easily repaid.The Empress of the trolls wants her tribute, and if the goblins can't pay, they'll serve in her army to take what she's owed. And she plans to take it from Skrasforge.Entrenched on...

The galaxy's worst bounty hunter just might be its most relentless hero.Esper is a vigilante Samaritan with more moral fiber than business sense. Any bounty hunter worth the title knows three rules:Collect half the money up front.Never get emotionally attached.Don't ask nosy questions.But with a heart of gold and her companion Kubu by her side, Esper sets out to make the galaxy a better place, preferably making enough money to pay for the fu...

Science to build a starship. Wizardry to take it past light speed. A crew to give it a soul.The Mobius is a cobbled-together ship with a matching crew. Captain Carl Ramsey is an ex-Earth Navy pilot whose crew won't let him fly his own ship. The pilot is his ex-wife, the mechanic is a drunk, and the chief of security is from a predatory species. Instead of a star-drive to travel through the astral space between worlds, the ship's wizard does it by hand.

Kyrus dreams of being a knight. Fate has so much more planned for him.As an apprentice scribe, Kyrus has always dreamed of becoming a master and opening his own shop.Developing magical powers and becoming a wizard? Not so much.After all, wizards are the stuff of his dreams. Dreams where Kyrus is Brannis Solaran, a powerful knight who wields an ancient sword crafted from the essence of magic and who's responsible for defending a city from an army of goblins ...