Dystopian Magic

Having a superpower is ordinary. Your power determines your entire life. But 17-year-old Ugene is powerless. He can’t read minds or enhance his strength. He can’t manipulate natural matter or heal injuries. Determined to find out why he is different, Ugene submits himself as a test subject at Paragon. But nothing is as it seems. All exits from the testing floor are sealed. Subjects endure brutal and sometimes deadly injuries. No amount of power can save them.

The first AIs were video game monsters. LLMs spewed semi-intelligible gibberish. The bots were mathematical super geniuses but intellectual children. EDICT will usher in the AI Singularity. Who do you want shaping that singularity? Dr. Addison Akers was a child prodigy. Now, nearing 30, she's on the cusp of unleashing humanity's first truly sentient AI.

The walls were built to keep the monsters in. But some monsters are made, not born. Within the Waywards, the condemned live beneath the watch of the seven Witchlords—keepers of order and jailers of the Dark Natured. Elora has endured three long winters behind those obsidian walls, bound to...

I thought I’d crossed into the afterlife, until a beautiful, terrifying creature dragged me back…and claimed me as his. Vera My family used me as a pawn, then condemned me to die for their ambitions. Even my execution failed me. When I wake, I’m no longer in my world. The first thing I see is a monster watching me like I belong to him. He is serpent and man, brutal and beautiful, and I can’t look away. His touch burns with something ancient, and suddenly I understand him. He calls me his fated mate. But I’ve never belonged anywhere. Why would fate choose me? His own kind hunt us. ...

An epic, unforgettable love story about a woman who takes a memory-erasing pill and the man she once loved who returns as a stranger, hoping to make her fall for him all over again—for fans of One Day and In Five Years. “I tore through The Good Parts until its last page rendered me...

Imagine a London where magic is real...real, but feared. This is Eliza Braxton's London, and she has always accepted her place in it gladly. As one of the Riftborn, her magic has relegated her to the servant class, where she dutifully serves as the lady's maid in one of the most powerful households in the country. There, she uses her remarkable powers of persuasion to keep Elder Hallewell's rebellious daughter in the path to an arranged match of power and prosperity. Eliza has never questioned her loyalty...until now.

Wishing for a cozy dystopia? Just add griffins! The Faerene Migration has begun, and with it, the world as she knows it ends for Amy Carlton. But she's no ordinary college student. Amy has skills. Magistrate Istvan is a griffin magician. He signed up for the Faerene Migration knowing that the price for saving Earth would be paid in hellfire and blood. He never expected to bond with a human familiar. No prepper could have anticipated the Faerene. The griffins, dragons, unicorns, werewolves, elves and ogres have forever changed the rules of survival. There's a new game in town, and Amy ...

The battle for Orenda Academy has begun. The Elders have spoken, and the tribe is divided. The only way to reverse what’s happened is to take a stand. We’ve started a smuggling operation to help students escape the castle, but it could cost us our lives. The prophecy is about to come true, and we’re desperate to change the course of this war. The Air piece of the prophecy is our last hope. If we don’t find it, we won’t know what’s coming— or how to prevent the end.

The System arrived. Humanity fell. Oscar just wanted to build a better toaster. When the Galactic Integration transformed Earth into a ruthless tutorial zone for the wider universe, billions perished. Monsters roam the ruined streets of Seattle, and the survivors are busy forming guilds, claiming combat classes, and fighting over mana crystals. Oscar didn’t get a combat class. Thanks to his obsession with fixing broken electronics when the System dropped, he was assigned the lowest-tier crafting class available: Junkmancer. Armed with a rusty wrench, a sarcastic System interface, and the ...

Six billion people are dead. More are dying. The Faerene Apocalypse isn’t over, but the seeds for a new beginning have to be planted, now. The future of Earth is that of a planet of many sentients: of the invading, magical Faerene and mundane, traumatized humanity. But a few, exceedingly rare humans do have magic. Amy Carlton is one of them. Forced to bond with the black griffin, Magistrate Istvan, and act as his familiar, Amy doesn’t understand the magic she possesses. Nor does she understand the Faerene society she is thrown into. She’ll have to learn fast because the cost of her ...

Ancient secrets and modern conspiracies swirl around Amy and her griffin partner, Istvan. The inaugural South Eastern Magisterial Circuit is underway and as Amy accompanies Istvan on his magisterial duties, she faces hostility she hadn’t expected. The Faerene of Atlanta aren’t happy that a human has magic, even if Amy has sworn hers to Istvan. The wreckage of human civilisation is everywhere and the devastating apocalypse isn’t over yet, at least, not for humans. Amy’s loyalty is about to be tested.

"Emily Shaffer delivers a dynamic performance of this dystopian audiobook... She masterfully connects listeners to the characters' emotions, creating passionate and realistic performances." — AudioFile Magazine This program includes a bonus conversation with the author. A speculative thriller...

Amy’s father is alive, but can she trust him? His human allies are the same militia who want to control Amy and use her magic against the Faerene. Meantime, Faerene are vanishing. Five are dead in mysterious and isolated circumstances, and Rory is called to investigate. With threats everywhere, Amy’s adopted human family would be safest in Justice, but that would require them to live surrounded by the Faerene. Their future would change as radically as Amy’s. However, everyone’s future is changing, whether they want it to or not, because prior to the Migration through the Rift the ...

The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - "Q" is for "question mark". A world that bears a question....

"But this rough magic I here abjure..." William Shakespeare, The Tempest A new tempest sweeps the Earth as the truth of humanity's magic is revealed. Magic is far more complicated on Earth than the Faerene suspected. Now, they must work with humans to create new ways of surviving it. They'll have to listen to Amy. The thrilling conclusion to the post-apocalyptic fantasy series, The Faerene Apocalypse.

Return to New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop’s “phenomenal” (Urban Fantasy Investigations) world of the Others—where supernatural entities and humans struggle to co-exist, and one woman has begun to change all the rules… After winning the trust of the terra indigene...

Enter the world of the Others in the first novel in New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop’s thrilling fantasy series: a place where unearthly entities—vampires and shape-shifters among them—rule the Earth and prey on the human race. As a cassandra sangue, or blood prophet, Meg...

Filled with action, romance, and humor, Pure of Heart is a fantasy thrill ride into a land filled with wonder and excitement. Orphaned and alone, rogue-teen Dean Walker has learned how to take care of himself on the rough city streets. Unjustly wanted by the police, he takes refuge within the shadows of the city. When Dean stumbles upon an old man being mugged, he tries to help—only to discover that the victim is anything but helpless and far more than he appears. The old man claims to be from Kish another world that’s being destroyed. He’s traveled through a portal called the middle ...

***The record-breaking debut and instant Sunday Times Bestseller*** In a world ruled by necromancers, a woman with missing memories threatens the dark order that keeps her captive - and the man sent to break her. Gothic in tone, epic in scope - this debut is destined to become a modern classic...

This is it. Vega Jane's time. She's been lied to her whole life, so she breaks away from Wormwood, the only home she's ever known, in search of the truth. She battles horrors to fight her way across the Quag with her best friend, Delph, and her mysterious canine, Harry Two. Against all odds, they survive unimaginable dangers and make it through.