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It has been five hundred years since The Arrival. Five centuries since the governments of Earth agreed to have humanity become the sword and shield for the interstellar races making up The Compact. In that time, Earth science has conquered disease and the mysteries of genetics, mastered interstellar spaceflight, and fought the enemy to a standstill. But much is still the same as it ever was. Pride, envy, lust, avarice, wrath, and sloth still drive many to engage in all forms of criminal behavior, including forbidden sciences and unethical, illegal experiments. When the separate worlds of ...

Imagine Monty Python writes horror...Welcome to the wonderfully horrific world of Bizarro - that dark, forbidding corner of the horror genre where absolutely anything goes and one may delve into the farthest recesses of the authors' warped imaginations. Prepare yourself, dear listener, for a journey into the unknown reaches of terror, from which you can only hope you will return with your sanity intact...

Thomas’ tour of duty on planet McCormick really messed him up. Being subjected to that system’s solar radiation for more than a standard year had left him physically and mentally addicted to the effects it had on him. Worse yet, it is becoming increasingly difficult for him to keep his past lives separate from the present. Having finally found love again after several centuries alone, he is terrified he will lose Rachel since she fell for the man he is, not the ones he used to be. The only recourse he can think of is to, with professional help, go back in time to where it all began. To ...

Peace rules the Twelve Nations. Disgusting, calm, boring, unprofitable peace. For Kileean O’Tamman, an officer with The Brotherhood of Freeswords, the most famous mercenary army in the Known Lands, peace means there is little need for his services, and he is finding it increasingly difficult to make ends meet. Which is why he accepts a lowly contract, sworn on binding mystical oath, to escort a young lady, one poised between girl and grown, cross country to live with distant relatives whilst protecting her from all harm. Frequently beset by bandits, bad weather, foul enchantments, and his...

Kileean O’Tamman has long believed a long and brutal war, one which will involve and engulf all the Twelve Nations, is inevitable. As a high-ranking leader within the mercenary guild the Brotherhood of Freeswords, he should be eagerly anticipating the commencement of hostilities. Such a conflict would be highly profitable for the organization to which he has sworn his loyalty on binding soul-oath. He would be expected to lead armies into combat, the Brotherhood as a whole and those under his command standing to enrich themselves mightily from lucrative contracts and the spoils conquering ...

Failing agrarian colony worlds and an infectious genetic virus threatens Earth with starvation and perhaps the end of the human race. For the first threat, Thomas Hunter joins the military to train an elite unit to combat a powerful, non-human species, one which has coexisted with humanity in secret for centuries. But now, many are being driven mad by their environments, and they must be stopped. Only problem is, few know of their existence, much less how to fight them and win. For the second threat, Rachel Torrence, Thomas' partner, must use all her expertise in genetic medicine to find a ...

Kileean O'Tamman, recently elevated to the rank of Master First within the mercenary army known as the Brotherhood of Freeswords, has accepted a contract to be the head of the guard force for a caravan attempting to be the first in a generation to make the dangerous trek between the Known Lands and the distant nation of Marcashenth. The perils of this journey across The Waste are plentiful. Lethal heat during the day, sub-freezing cold during the night, and not a drop of water to be found save that carried by the travelers themselves. Worse yet, tribes of nomadic raiders who somehow manage ...