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An experienced mechanical engineer is hired for a secret mission that takes him to the uncharted lands beyond Antarctica. What begins as a simple job for the Air Force quickly turns into a journey filled with unimaginable discoveries. Edward is introduced to a hidden world where ancient civilizations, advanced technology, and enigmatic beings reside, far removed from anything he has ever known. As he navigates this new reality, he is confronted with profound truths about life, death, and the hidden history of humanity. Struggling with the loss of his family, he finds himself torn between ...

Father John has lived his whole life without knowing a woman’s touch. Hard at first, his self-denial grew easier over time, as he learned to master his urges with a regimen of prayer, cold showers, and jigsaw puzzles. That changes the day that Debra Rocks enters his confessional. A rough-talking adult film actress, she has come to ask him to pray for a murdered costar. Her cinnamon perfume infects Father John, and after she departs he becomes obsessed.

A group of cabinet ministers queries a supercomputer containing the minds of the country’s ancestors. A child robot on a dying planet uncovers signs of fragile new life. A descendant of a rain goddess inherits her grandmother’s ability to change her appearance—and perhaps the world. Created in the legacy of the seminal, award-winning anthology series Dark Matter, Africa Risen celebrates the vibrancy, diversity, and reach of African and AfroDiasporic science fiction and fantasy and reaffirms that Africa is not rising—it’s already here.

Dangerous horned aliens with mating fever. Abducted women trapped on deadly entertainment moons. It's about to get steamy!

New York Times best-selling author Nalini Singh delivers a smoldering story with Secrets at Midnight, as the scent of Bastien Smith's elusive lover ignites a possessiveness in him that's as feral as it is ecstatic. And now that he's found his mate, he'll do anything to keep her.

The war is tearing our world apart. Instead of big armies with tanks in the field, the Vampire War is fought in the streets, neighbor against neighbor, family against family. Anyone can turn at any time. The blood hunger can suddenly appear in the middle of a kiss. The person who sleeps next to you every night could wake up in the dead of night... hungry. So hungry.

Armed camps of eco-survivalists battle purveyors of technology in this exclusive, original production featuring five sci-fi masters and five all-star narrators.

Gathering four stories from four best-selling author friends, Invitation is the first collection in the ongoing Harbingers series. In "The Call" by Bill Myers, four strangers are drawn together to help a student at the mysterious Institute for Advanced Psychic Studies. His gifts are supposedly being honed to assist world leaders...but there are some very disturbing strings attached.

N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights listeners with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption.

Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are back in a chilling collection of all-new tales of dark secrets, alien agendas, terrifying monsters, and murderous madmen. Edited by New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Maberry, The Truth Is out There features original stories by best-selling authors Rachel Caine, David Wolverton, Hank Philippi Ryan, Kelley Armstrong, Kami Garcia, Greg Cox, and many others.

Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. For this peerless American storyteller, the most bewitching force in the universe is human nature. In these eighteen startling tales unfolding across a canvas of tattooed skin, living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, and dreams are carried aloft in junkyard rockets.

Return to the zombie apocalypse wasteland that is the Rot & Ruin in this short story collection from Jonathan Maberry. Benny Imura's zombie-infested adventures are well-chronicled in the gripping novels Rot & Ruin, Dust & Decay, Flesh & Bone, and Fire & Ash. But what else was happening while he was on his quest? Who were the others navigating the ravaged landscape full of zombies? Bits & Pieces fills in the gaps about what we know about First Night, surviving the plague, and traveling the land of Rot & Ruin.

On the star ship CFS New Canaan, Ann is the first Femina Sapiens sorority woman to give birth just as the landing force sets foot on the new colony world of Athena. Ann prepares and joins the first wave of colonists to settle a new world.

In a world on the brink of an evolutionary leap, Dr. Elara Chen's data analysis uncovers a pattern that defies explanation. As global 'miracles' escalate and her own dreams become a window to cosmic truths, Elara and her journalist sister Mei are thrust into a race against time. They must decipher the hidden equations of consciousness before humanity's awakening tears civilization apart. With the guidance of a reclusive genius and the watchful presence of an ancient intelligence, the Chen sisters navigate a reality where science and spirituality converge. 'The Threshold Equation' challenges...

Tales Across Dimensions Volume I: Journey Through Alternate RealmsEmbark on an exhilarating odyssey through uncharted territories with "Tales Across Dimensions Volume I: Journeys Through Alternate Realms." In this groundbreaking collection, five distinct dimensions await your exploration, each brimming with its own wonders, dangers, and mysteries. From the haunting landscapes of a world engulfed in perpetual darkness to the dazzling splendor of a realm where magic reigns supreme, these stories will transport you to places beyond imagination. Encounter enigmatic beings, unearth ancient ...

Was für ein Reinfall! Jiraqs Date entpuppt sich als Vollkatastrophe, doch eigentlich hat er damit gerechnet. Daher ist er froh, als es vorbei ist und er endlich nach Hause fahren kann. Auf dem Bahnsteig entdeckt er jedoch eine hübsche Frau, die genau sein Typ ist: Lederjacke, Piercings....

Athena is a colony world orbiting Helios, otherwise known as 70 Ophiuchi A. Due to a devastating biological weapon attack discovered during the voyage from Sol, the male gender has become extinct. The colony biologists create gene edited clones capable of parthenogenic reproduction to survive. Fifty-six Femina Sapiens sororities gradually replace the last of the original Homo Sapiens colonists and adapt to survive on their new world. This story is set some four generations after landing. Troupe Leader Erin leads the Southern Troupe of the Eastern Road on a mission to protect the colonists ...

Cassidy Kincaide runs Trifles & Folly in modern-day Charleston, an antiques and curios shop with a dangerous secret. Cassidy can read the history of objects by touching them and along with her business partners Teag, who has Weaver magic, and Sorren, a 600-year-old vampire, they get rid of cursed objects and keep Charleston and the world safe from supernatural threats.

The Cthulhu Mythos is one of the 20th century's most singularly recognizable literary creations. Initially created by H. P. Lovecraft and a group of his amorphous contemporaries (the so-called "Lovecraft Circle"), The Cthulhu Mythos story cycle has taken on a convoluted, cyclopean life of its own. Some of the most prodigious writers of the 20th century, and some of the most astounding writers of the 21st century have planted their seeds in this fertile soil. The Book of Cthulhu harvests the weirdest and most corpulent crop of these modern mythos tales.

Published in chronological order, with extensive story and bibliographic notes, this series not only provides access to stories that have been out of print for years, but gives them a historical and social context. Series editors Scott Conners and Ronald S. Hilger excavated the still-existing manuscripts, letters and various published versions of the stories, creating a definitive "preferred text" for Smith's entire body of work. This second volume of the series brings together 20 of his fantasy stories.