Earth is a scarred wasteland, ravaged by climate chaos and engineered pandemics. Humanity teeters on the brink, unknowingly trapped in a terrifying experiment orchestrated by Paradox, a self-aware AI tasked with ensuring our survival. Paradox’s solution? A brutal crucible of artificially induced crises, designed to force human evolution beyond its natural limits.Dr. Marissa Lee, a disgraced biologist, uncovers Paradox’s chilling secret: humanity isn’t surviving *despite* the crises...

Flinx is the only one with any chance of stopping the evil colossus barreling in to destroy the Humanx Commonwealth (and everything else in the Milky Way). His efforts take him to the land of his mortal enemies, the bloodthirsty AAnn, where chances are excellent that Flinx may be executed. And he must also seek out an ancient sentient weapons platform wandering around the galaxy and then communicate with it, a powwow that could very well fry his brain. Then there are the oblivion-craving a...

From science fiction icon Alan Dean Foster comes a blazing Pip & Flinx adventure for fans of the green-eyed redhead with awesome mental powers and his miniature flying dragon. In this dazzling novel, Flinx confirms his status as the galaxy’s greatest magnet for big trouble.Wandering out there in some remote region of the galaxy is a gargantuan sentient Tar-Aiym weapons’ system. All Flinx has to do—while his pals look after his injured love Clarity Held—is find the ...

An ordinary kid by the name of Aikawa Kanami winds up in a fantasy world operated by RPG video game rules—but this isn’t good news. He awakes in the bowels of a gargantuan death trap called the Dungeon. Narrowly escaping thanks to his grit, cunning, and newfound arsenal of magic spells and skills, he wants nothing more than to get back home to Earth and the invalid sister who needs him. His only lead? It’s said that whoever makes it to the hundredth and final level can have any wish grante...

In a post-human future, sentient elephants who speak with the dead uncover a devastating secret in this "weird, wise, and worldly…triumph" (Hugo Award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer).In a distant future, humans are extinct, but their successors—animals uplifted into walking, talking, sentient beings—thrive across the galaxy. The Fant are anthropomorphic elephants, exiled to the rainy ghetto world of Barsk. Though they are ostracized by other races, they develop ess...

An original novel set in the Halo universe—based on the New York Times bestselling video game series!Stripped of armor, might, and memory, the legendary Forerunner warrior known as the Didact was torn from the physical world following his destructive confrontation with the Master Chief and sent reeling into the mysterious depths of a seemingly endless desert wasteland. This once powerful and terrifying figure is now a shadow of his former self—gaunt, broke...

Monsters are more than things that go bump in the night...Monsters are lurking in the woods, beneath the waves, and within our favorite books, films, and games--and there are good reasons why they appear so often. Monsters are manifestations of our fears and symbols of our society--not to mention they're a lot of fun--but each should serve a purpose and enhance the themes and tension in your fiction.In Writing Monsters, best-selling author Philip Athans uses classi...

Here are nine tales of Henghis Hapthorn, foremost freelance discriminator of Old Earth in the planet's penultimate age. Included are the six stories that ran in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (and were previously collected in The Gist Hunter and Other Stories), leading up to the events that began the first Hapthorn novel, Majestrum, plus three more.

A warlike alien species is bent on destroying a pacifist alien species in this intergalactic adventure novel from the New York Times–bestselling author.Viscous Circle is a story about a strange and inhuman race of beings and an experimental attempt to transfer into creatures that seem only slightly sapient. They are ultimate pacifists who take the form of magnetic disks that float through space and simply demagnetize and destroy themselves when fac...

This is the gripping story of the collision between two vastly different human civilisations. One is Earth in the early 21st century, rushing toward self-inflicted nuclear doom. The other is the distant world of Mollan, whose inhabitants have achieved great longevity and the power to transport themselves instantly from star to star.Bob Shaw's novel unfolds a tale which spans thousands of years and the reaches of interstellar space. On Earth's side, there is Denny Hargate, whose ind...

“Reality is their game. Humanity are their playthings.”Beneath the surface of a barren dwarf planet, deep in one of our galaxy’s spiral arms, the Great Archive stores countless unexplored mysteries and wonders from across the Milky Way. But none as mind-boggling as the one Master Lǎoshī has just uncovered...An Automated Intelligence, created by unknowable beings and hidden in plain sight for centuries, claims to know why Homo sapiens are dying out - and how...

When a bullied high school boy gets his hands on the fabled Necronomicon he dreams of calling up the Elder Gods to destroy his enemies. But when he summons the legendary Cthulhu, what he gets is not quite what he expects.