From a young couple struggling to look after their baby to a new captain's reluctance to take command of her ship, and from a sun-addled stranger's appearance in town to the emergence of a sentient AI, the twelve tales presented here explore the central theme of an arrival by someone or something new.There's even an alien puppy.

In the beginning…Three brothers – Gabriel, Michael and Lucifer. Royalty. Archangels. United in devotion to their father and all his works.But when Lucifer learns of their father's latest creation – a new race, fashioned from crude matter and yet made in his image – he is consumed with resentment. Why have he and his angelic kind been overlooked?After a bitter confrontation, Lucifer is cast out, doomed to an eternity of exile and punishment.Unrepenta...

In a futuristic Middle East, plug-ins can turn anyone into a killer in this "wry and black and savage" Nebula and Hugo award finalist (George R. R. Martin).Set in a high-tech near future featuring an ascendant Muslim world and divided Western superpowers, this cult classic takes us into a world with mind- or mood-altering drugs for any purpose, brains enhanced by electronic hardware with plug-in memory additions and modules offering the wearer new personalities, an...

A student in search of a gay fight club uncovers a hidden community of kink-- and the ringleader is the hottest professor on campus.Nick isn't just another rich kid partying away his senior year of college. He's ready to prove he's tough enough for Brayden's twisted games, if only the mysterious professor will give him half a chance.Brayden is well aware of the rumors that follow him all over campus and beyond-- rumors that are only a pale reflection of the...

COMING OF AGE: OVERCOMING TRAUMA TO ACHIEVE SELF-DETERMINATIONBy Elaine Alec (teɬkənitkʷ)What if coming of age wasn't about age at all—but about remembering who you are?In this powerful blend of memoir, Indigenous wisdom, and healing framework, author and community leader Elaine Alec shares her journey of overcoming addiction, shame, and generational trauma to reclaim her identity an...

From an award-winning civil rights lawyer, a profound challenge to our society's normalization of the caging of human beings, and the role of the legal profession in perpetuating itAlec Karakatsanis is interested in what we choose to punish. For example, it is a crime in most of America for poor people to wager in the streets over dice; dice-wagerers can be seized, searched, have their assets forfeited, and be locked in cages. It's perfectly fine, by contrast, for ...

An enemies-to-lovers BDSM gay romance.Thorne is the talented cat burglar who delights in relieving the wealthy of their fine art and gemstones.Lane is the kinky prosecutor who'll do almost anything to avoid sending Thorne to prison. Even if it means he has to take Thorne's punishment into his own hands...They're two very different men on opposite sides of the law, but somehow they can't stay apart.This standalone gay romance nove...

The complete Hugo and Nebula Award–nominated cyberpunk trilogy by an author whose work is "wry and black and savage" (George R. R. Martin).Praised as "a perfect example of how exciting the subgenre can and should be," George Alec Effinger's Budayeen Cycle is a towering and timeless science fiction achievement that continues to amaze, shock, and captivate readers ( SF Signal).When Gravity Fails: Set in a high-tech near future featuring an as...

In this groundbreaking expose essential for understanding rising authoritarianism, award-winning civil rights lawyer Alec Karakatsanis introduces the concept of “Copaganda.”Copaganda is a special kind of propaganda employed by police, prosecutors, and news media to stoke fear of police-recorded crime and distort society’s response to it.What readers will discover:How mass media manipulates our perception of what keeps us safe.

Hervé has Asperger’s, a specific kind of autism, and he is unable to interact with other people.Luc has been severely scarred by fire and flees human presence to avert the way people glare and frown when they see him.It was impossible for them to meet, but life sometimes likes to cheat the odds. Is it just a trick or a way to bring together two men who could be each other’s lifeline?

The Rogers family moves from New York to a small town and they now own a home with a barn. As soon as they get to town things start going wrong for the Rogers family and someone dies, was it fate or a murder? Follow along with the rest of the Rogers family as they try and find out what happened in this new short story, cozy mystery series.

A hilarious story of overly helpful aliens and a WWII alternate history tale from the Hugo Award–winning author of When Gravity Falls.These two short stories serve as a wonderful glimpse into the mind of multiple Hugo and Nebula Award nominee George Alec Effinger, a singular talent in the world of SF.In The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything, benevolent aliens have arrived on Earth, sharing their knowledge but also their annoying, overbea...