The Red Planet Beckons!Not far into the future, the first steps have been taken on Mars. A corporation named NewSpace has landed a crew of six on the plains of Arcadia Planitia.Many other companies have pitched to the investors and recruited their teams, and are building the systems and technologies they will need for a lasting settlement in unforgiving conditions.Nowal No'man is the CEO and majority shareholder of Sabir Space Industries. Her goal is to build an ind...

Valin Derojan looks up at the sky some nights and wonders if he will ever get away from his hard life as a nomad, under his older brother's thumb, scorned by the rest of the tribe, expected to wear himself out every day on hard chores under the scorching sun at the edge of the desert. He's heard rumours of a great conflict, with ruthless forces struggling to enslave and destroy, out there among the stars. But his life seems destined to remain tethered to the flocks and herds his family own...

Valin and Mertyl have just finished training with the Telarine Squadron and are flung straight into a daring attempt to rescue the helpless victims of the enemy's heartless experiments. Now Valin has a chance to prove his amazing skills with the T-ring! Is it possible that he is the hero that everyone is waiting for? But when their nomad clan faces a crisis back home on Elmarune, can he risk disobeying orders to get involved? And will Mertyl ever recover from her loss of nerve following th...

Called Out Of Darkness throws the story of Valin, Mertyl and Zewip into top gear.As the rebels of Thame City fight to throw off the oppression of their alien overlords, Valin and his friends listen to Elha as he describes a different way to find freedom. But very soon Valin has to decide whether he will do his own thing or follow the way of his new master, who saved his life.Mertyl is convinced that she must stay with Elha and not return to Telarine Squadron. But she, too, ...

This is the cautionary tale of Rashad Stevens. He finds himself in a troubled Cairo during the infamous protests aimed at rallying what was left of the European and Mediterranean nations against their alien conquerors. Turbulent times. Despair is catching; poverty is killing.Rashad and his Egyptian friend Hany are undecided: should they invest what little they have in a huge alien-run scheme to green the Sahara? Or trust their lives and their savings into the hands of the people sm...

In this collection the author takes us on three journeys.In one, a young man paddles off across the lake to escape the pain that's erupted in his family. But he discovers that the pain comes with him, and he must take an honest look at himself in order to deal with it.In the second, we join a traveller as he takes a day trip up into the mountains of an exotic island. In his attempt to visit a friend, he is invited in by a poor man living in a tiny stone hut. Can the outsider ...

Long, long ago in a land at the edge of a desert that howls against the walls of the village, a poor young boy named Samir is sent to work for a strange old man who stays up all night listening to the stars. In his curiosity to find out why, Samir stumbles upon a secret and is swept up in an epic journey across the ancient world. It is up to him and his brother Hamdan - with a lot of help from Munira, the camel - to deliver a very special treasure to a king and perhaps rescue their land fr...

It seems like any other day in the e-office for Private Investigator Ghamdan Shamiri. An embattled worker needs legal leverage, claiming he's been framed: that kind of ordinary. Then he's hired by Helena Szychter, poker-faced agent for a murder victim's father.Before the morning's out he and she are hot on the trail of a man who witnessed the murder, a man so afraid of the alleged murderer that he appears to have taken on the identity of a convicted criminal so he could be transpor...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWith this darkly intriguing original e-short story, Dean Koontz sets the stage for his masterly new novel of mystery, suspense, and strange wonder—Innocence.**“The world is a machine that produces endless surprises and mysteries layered on mysteries.”Addison Goodheart is a mystery even to himself. He was born in an isolated home surrounded by a deep forest, never known to his father, kept secret from everyone but...

Reviewers exhaust superlatives when it comes to the science fiction of Peter F. Hamilton. His complex and engaging novels, which span thousands of years—and light-years—are as intellectually stimulating as they are emotionally fulfilling. Now, with The Dreaming Void, the first volume in a trilogy set in the same far-future as his acclaimed Commonwealth saga, Hamilton has created his most ambitious and gripping space epic yet.The year is 3589, fifteen hundr...

This erotic short story is about a female by the name of Lola. She is a first generation Asian American who has been sheltered by her strict parents her entire life. She started to have feelings for women from a childish game when she was a teenager and was forever changed. She knew who she was and knew what she wanted to do with her life, and who she wanted to be with. But all of her dreams and goals were not traditional and were immoral among her family and culture. She hid behind the fe...

From the award-winning author: A "wonderfully ambitious" novel of West Africa, told through the struggles and dreams of four extraordinary women ( The Guardian).When a cousin offers Abie her family's plantation in the West African village of Rofathane in Sierra Leone, she leaves her husband, children, and career in London to reclaim the home she left behind long ago. With the help of her four aunts—Asana, Mariama, Hawa, and Serah—Abie begins a journey to u...