This is a story of adventure and mystery that takes place 700 years from now. Tanei, a fogeign student from East Africa, and her fellow students at the University of Great Falls attempt to find the origin of a small gold coin, so that they can find additional artifacts to help them learn why our current civilization collapsed. As they search for the old and seemingly homeless woman who found the coin and then sold it, they are drawn into a dark and dangerous world. The Great Falls of the f...

Trin has been raised with the knowledge that her parentage was unknown and she was human. Those two items were the cornerstone of her existence.An altercation at a baby shower leads to her discovering another side to herself. That side was big, crystalline, and caused the other dragons in her vicinity to bow their heads. Defending her friend had led her into this new shape, and now, she was stuck with it.Taken to the central hub of the dragon council, she trades her cooperati...

Embark on a mind-bending journey through the uncharted territories of science fiction in this epic anthology. In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection, the very best...

Welcome to the Salt Mine, the secret organization that monitors and manages supernatural activity from its headquarters in the deep mineral deposits underneath Detroit, Michigan, USA. When magic is real, someone has to rein it in. This boxed set contains three Salt Mine novels.Money Hungry (The Salt Mine Series 1)Salt Mine agent David Wilson—codename Fulcrum—has worked at the black ops agency for more than a decade. He's faced down demons, devils, faeries, ...

Tyhana has lived her life in a farming community; the only winged person she has ever seen is in the mirror. Her family has been a joy and feeling the love of her adopted clan has given her the confidence to become all she could.When she is watching a meteor shower and a star comes directly toward the valley where she lives, she finds a man inside the ship who needs her help. He has a dislocated wing.Seldrin was on his way to take a post as ambassador when he ran afoul of a...

Uncle John's latest compendium of the most bizarre and entertaining information imaginable: a Worldwide Weird-opedia!Good news: It's not you, the world really is going crazy! And Uncle John is barely sane enough to guide you through it all in this whirlwind tour of all things strange and weird. Yes, loyal Throne Room readers, these 432 all-new pages of pure crazy will shock and confound you . . . and make your side split open from laughing. (Uncle John takes no leg...

Working in the Resistance, Amly Hyde has specialised in hiding other talents from notice. Now, she has been spotted, and she is hiding in plain sight until she just can’t hide anymore.Rescued from a capture event, Amly is swept off her feet and through the floor, leaving Resicor in a way she had never really considered. Alive with her feet on the deck plates had never seemed like an option. She is destined for the Citadel and her companion is going to make sure she arrives safe and...

After saving Lily from the Mad Beast and parting ways with the Skanda on good terms, Takahiro’s party once more aims for Shiran’s hometown in Aker, seeking a quiet place to live in peace. But first they must find a new vehicle for the more conspicuous members to hide in. They split into two groups; one group goes to find transportation while the other remains hidden.Seeing this as an opportunity, Mana strikes up a plan to get Takahiro to go on a date with Rose while they’re in town...

After forming a contract with the Misty Lodge and returning to town, Takahiro and his group once more bump into the cheater Fukatsu Aketora and his traveling companion Thaddeus. The circumstances of their encounter lead to Thaddeus revealing that he is actually a dragon.Thaddeus’s goal, the reason why he’s in town, is to find a stray dragon who has escaped their settlement before any human casualties lead to inevitable repercussions. Agreeing to help, Takahiro embarks on a path tha...

Three years ago, dungeons suddenly appeared on Earth after an experiment in Area 51 went awry. Now everyone—from average citizens to soldiers—explores these monster-filled labyrinths in search of wealth, power, and magic.Keigo Yoshimura is an office worker with no sense of adventure, who dreams of quitting his job to live the easy life. While out on a business call, he stumbles on the birth of a new dungeon and accidentally gains a magical skill that turns subterranean exploration ...

In this the twenty-fourth edition of his celebrated annual Mammoth Book of Best New SF (its 28th as The Year's Best SF in the United States), award-winning editor Gardner Dozois presents 33 of 2010's most outstanding pieces of short science fiction, along with his typically informative notes on each author.Many are the work of award-winning writers, but there are also some surprising newcomers. The collection is prefaced, as ever, by Dozois's Summation of 2010 in SF, a review of th...

**Two novels in one volume.An omnibus edition of Dragons of the Cuyahoga and The Dwarves of Whiskey Island**Kline Maxwell was a serious political reporter. He wasn't interested in working on "fuzzy gnome" stories, or any of the other unbelievable tales that should end up only in sensationalist rags. But twelve years ago a magical Portal had opened into Cleveland, a Portal that had ruined much of Cleveland's modern-day technology even as it released magical...