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When Quentin Draith wakes up in a private sanatorium, he has no memory of who he is or how he received the injuries riddling his body. All he knows is that he has to get out, away from the drugs being pumped into him and back to the real world to search for answers. His first question: How did his friend Tony’s internal organs fill with sand, killing him in a Las Vegas car crash? After a narrow escape, he tracks down the basic facts: He is an investigator and blogger specializing in the supernatural - which is a good thing, because Quentin’s life is getting stranger by the minute.

One hundred and seventy-five years have passed since god quit on mankind. Without his blessing, Hell itself, along with the ancient power of The Deep, were unleashed upon the world. Two world wars and oceans of blood later, a balance was reached. Demonkind took its place as the ruling aristocracy. Mankind, thanks to its ability to create, fell to the position of working proletariat. Alive, but not living. Lucky us. Welcome to New Golgotha, the east coast supercity.

The life of a bio-weapons designer Vladislav Kerenski ends with a bang…Only to be reborn in a realm of gods and monsters. Escaping from the Ocean of the Dead and soulbound to his twin sister, Vladislav begins to unravel a life-altering magical system using his knowledge of the scientific method, computational mathematics, biochemistry, and virology.

Almost 3,000 years after an extinction level event on Earth, mankind seeks to regain its former glory, in a new world where magic and technology collide. The habitable lands settle after the happenings in New Cali, and their people join Sparo as one of their newest realms. And Laney Herder has settled into her Great Mother role as the coruler of Sparo, accepting both her role in the world and herself as her abilities continue to grow along with her power.

Immediately after escaping Flotsam Prison, Salem finds himself in the middle of nowhere with the mad giant Chael and the teenage stowaway TJ. Salem’s mission is simple: find the Tears of God in seven days, or else his land, and the people residing there, will either be sold to a demonic lord or face death. The only things in his way are demonic Abominations, shape-shifting bison, murderous men, and the last remnant of an angelic choir. Salem pits everything he has, and everything he is, to hold on to hope and save his people. No pressure.

A queer Gulf-Coast odyssey—fully illustrated in rich, full color—where punk songs, saints, disco ghosts, and mythic archetypes collide on Galveston Island. On a humid Saturday night at the MOD Coffeehouse, Amy promises herself she’s only going to listen. Not fall. Not leap. Not get pulled under by the gravity of Lena—dark curls, sea-glass eyes, a voice like a velvet razor, and a text that reads like a spell: Wear something dangerous. But Galveston isn’t a city that lets you stay on the surface. As music turns into invocation and open-mic poetry becomes prophecy, Amy’s life knots...

Technofeudalism says Yanis Varoufakis, is the new power that is reshaping our lives and the world, and is the greatest current threat to the liberal individual, to our efforts to avert climate catastrophe—and to democracy itself. It also lies behind the new geopolitical tensions, especially the New Cold War between the United States and China. Drawing on stories from Greek myth and pop culture, from Homer to Mad Men, Varoufakis explains this revolutionary transformation: how it enslaves our minds, how it rewrites the rules of global power, and, ultimately, what it will take overthrow it.

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “A cri de coeur that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies.”—The Wall Street Journal From the Palantir co-founder, one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of...

Ten years after she vanished, Gloria Carter—now called Glow—reawakens into a world rewritten by recursion. She carries something no one else does: a pure shard of Pandora’s original signal, untainted and impossibly alive. Hunted by the Crimson Grid and haunted by versions of herself that never lived, Glow must navigate a collapsing reality where every choice echoes through time like a loaded question.

With the world destroyed by insane, man-eating robots, only technomancers stand between humanity and utter annihilation. Unfortunately, 64Bit might be the one technomancer who can’t command robots with his mind.

In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, Postman chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it. According to Postman, technology is rapidly gaining sovereignty over social institutions and national life to become self-justifying, self-perpetuating, and omnipresent. He warns that this will have radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, religion, family, education, and more.

When a product launch completely fails everyone is wondering who is responsible. Alkali, an information broker, is one of those attempting to find a lead into what happened when a mysterious creature reached out to him in order to tell him exactly what was happening. Together with his partner Xander he goes off to find out who reached out to him and what they could possibly find out about the Kataze's business. But the skunk isn't just going to take someone poking into his business and with all the power of a megacorp at his disposal he makes sure that they won't find anything. With the ...

The Galactics arrived with their Battle fleet in 2052. Rather than being exterminated under a barrage of hell-burners, Earth joined a vast Empire that spanned the Milky Way. Our only worthwhile trade goods are our infamous mercenary legions, elite troops we sell to the highest alien bidder. In the third book in the series, James McGill is deployed on another alien world. His third interstellar tour is different in every way. Rather than meeting up with a primitive society, this time he’s headed to an advanced world.

The season of Yule is fast approaching, but not all in the barony of Löngutangar are festive. For it has been two years since Salem disappeared. Two years without word. Two years without their friend. New rumors speak to a possible location, and a crack team sets out to find Salem and bring him home. But does what they find even qualify as human?

It was a secret worth killing for. And it just crash-landed in his backyard. From the action-packed adventure series full of nonstop twists, turns, and thrills comes a new short novel. When a plane crashes near Harvey Bennett's home in Alaska, he races to the scene to provide help to anyone who might have survived. He quickly realizes that the pilot may not be who he says he is. And he's also not the only one around.... someone else is looking for the pilot. And for his cargo. Who are they, and what do they want from him? And why are they trying to kill him? The Phoenix Project is a short ...

The difference between growing your business and going out of business is your ability to think strategically. The problem is, most leaders are stuck in the operational weeds, struggling to find the time to make better strategic decisions. This challenge is only heightened by the rise of AI. While you know AI is the future, current demands leave you with no time to explore its benefits. Meanwhile, your competition is gaining an edge by integrating AI. The time to act is now.

A Cult’s war. A forbidden spell. And the only way out is through technomagic. Ironspell, Vetr, Ulf, and Droid are tracking Lucifer’s trail when they stumble into a Cult of the Messiah rally—a dangerous gathering with one goal: reclaim Vampire-controlled lands and purge their followers. Then the real disaster strikes. A massive spell disrupts all magic, leaving Ironspell and his team defenseless. But Droid discovers a loophole—technomagic still works. Now, he’s the only one who can break the enchantment, free his friends, and stop the cult’s plan before they become the first ...

Sala edits attention, not reality. She keeps her band dark, nudges lenses off faces, and returns borrowed peace a little cleaner than she found it. When a young runner must cross the line with a message, Sala refuses to step inside—but she won’t stand aside. With a dented lamp, a cracked disc, and a tightbeam handshake between rooftops, she tries to carry one word across a hostile sky without letting the city sell anyone’s face to the highest bidder.

After surviving an attempted cult sacrifice, Jason Fenix finds himself entangled in the affairs of a secret, government organization that is responsible for handling paranormal, esoteric and occult activity. Unable to recall the past eight months, Jason must work together with Special Agents Elijah Long and Alexandria Watts, in order to solve the mystery behind his missing memories.

Raised on the road by Mama Tess, Ari learns the quiet arts that keep people human: water first, count by threes, no walls made of people. When the caravan turns toward Lost Angles, her lessons are tested by heat, hunger, and raiders who mistake mercy for weakness. Tess teaches Ari to make rooms behave—write the rules where hands will touch them—and to believe that witnesses and receipts can hold a shaken world together.