Empire System

An empire of slavers. One man with the System. Born in a prison mine, Kavis has never seen the sky. When his closest friend dies, he’s ordered into the same crevice to finish the job. Instead, he finds an alien relic. And becomes the only person with access to the System. Every kill makes him stronger. Every quest offers more power. Brutal class upgrades. Devastating weapons. Abilities his captors have never imagined. The System’s demands grow deadlier with every reward. Kavis accepts them anyway. He’ll risk anything to escape, and he’s got eighteen years of hatred to put to use. ...

SSGT Eric Doorman is on his final patrol before leaving Afghanistan. He knows exactly what awaits him back home: a slow, suffocating slide into a prison cell or a pine box. Broken by three combat tours and surviving on smuggled vodka just to quiet the ghosts in his head, Eric’s only viable future is a mercenary contract. In a war zone, his brand of violence actually makes sense. Audrey Laurent is an elite defense correspondent who makes her living ruining military careers. Cold, calculating, and wrapped in expensive perfume, she despises the grunts she embeds with. To her, they're ...

NOW LIVE THE SECOND EDITION - Editing Issues Resolved PORTAL MAINTENANCE: POSTED Look, if you are looking for a serious, grimdark fantasy about a "Chosen One" fulfilling an ancient prophecy, I am not your author. But if you need a good laugh, interdimensional tax evasion, and weaponized 1970s upholstery? Pull up a chair. Look, if you think building an interdimensional gray-market empire is the hard part, you’re wrong. The hard part is figuring out how to scale it without the federal government seizing your front yard under eminent domain. I’m Joseph. Last month, I was a bankrupt systems...

A groundbreaking major best seller in Italy, Gomorrah is Roberto Saviano's gripping nonfiction account of the decline of Naples under the rule of the Camorra, an organized crime network with a large international reach and stakes in construction, high fashion, illicit drugs, and toxic-waste disposal. Known by insiders as "the System," the Camorra affects cities and villages along the Neapolitan coast

The disclosure already happened. You just haven't read it yet. The public record shows that a man with no college degree gained legal control over a billion-dollar fortune. That the largest private residence in Manhattan was transferred to him for zero dollars. That a federal sex trafficking investigation was buried through a secret deal granting immunity to every unnamed co-conspirator. That a federal judge ruled the deal broke the law. That intelligence agencies responded to questions about this man using the legal standard reserved for classified operations. This is not conspiracy theory...

A compelling new set of interviews on our changing and turbulent times with Noam Chomsky, one of the world's foremost thinkers In this collection of conversations, conducted from 2010 to 2012, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: the future of democracy in the Arab world...

Note from the author: This is a dark and gritty reboot of the humorous Crimson Deathbringer series (with significantly extended battle scenes). Please see “From the Author” for more information. If you loved the original series, this version might not be for you. But if you enjoyed the story of The Crimson Deathbringer and wanted a more serious tone, give this version a try. They didn’t come to conquer. They came to erase. A vast alien armada is advancing across the galaxy, erasing entire civilizations without resistance. One system after another falls silent. There are no ...

'Wooldridge is like the teacher you wish you'd had' GUARDIAN 'This book is simply brilliant . . . I learned so much' SIR DAVID SPIEGELHALTER, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE 'Fresh, clever and playful' MATT RIDLEY, AUTHOR OF THE ORIGINS OF VIRTUE 'Michael explains the complex, strategic structures of...

'ASTONISHING AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING' Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time From the million-copy-bestselling Claire North - one of the most original and dazzling voices in speculative fiction - comes an intergalactic tale of conspiracy, war and the fall of empires. ***Winner of the...

Field Marshal Amy Brella brings the remainder of her invasion group home from Bardallow’s system in triumph, but with a significant bone to pick with her brother, Ricky Cruz, the Emperor of the Spindle Empire. He seems to have taken some liberties in naming the lead ship of the War Goddess class of Porcupine carriers. Ricky does make it up to her, by finally taking her to the farm she dreamed of so long ago, when he first showed her the valley above the small city she wanted him to build for the ex-shipboard slave women and girls he liberated from the Interstellars. Her Emperor allows her...

A monster reborn. A world unprepared. Ruin Reborn unravels the harrowing progression of a monstrous being whose dark legacy spans two thousand years. Once a creature of unrelenting violence, Ruin ravaged a frozen world shrouded in eternal darkness until a fateful bargain with a cunning lich resulted in his death and rebirth in an unfamiliar universe. Trapped in the fragile body of a human slave, Ruin finds himself a cog in a cruel and unjust empire on the brink of wars it cannot win. Amid the squalor of slave pens, on the bloody sands of the arena, and in the camaraderie forged in the ...

The gripping, definitive account of how the Romans lost their Republic. “An incisive history … The parallels to the present day are striking.” —New Yorker In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why...

Fighting for the Colony is the second of two volumes revised and expanded from the original Keeping the Colony. This volume follows Ricky as he goes up against an interstellar empire. Ricky’s forces continue their counterattack against the Interstellars at a rapid pace. His Marines initiate their first invasions and orbital drops. A new hero arises who turns into the leader the Marines need to build their history and esprit de corps. The Spindle Military does their best to not lose their momentum in their advancements against the Interstellars. Ricky has to deal with the fallout from ...

The ultimate harvest is here. Elian Blackwood asked for a quiet life on a farm, but instead, he finds himself leading an army of Conduits and Reformists straight into the heart of the Empire of Aethelgard. He isn’t planning to conquer with swords, however; he is bringing S-Rank soil to a starving population, healing the dead land city by city and winning over the people. But Empress Dowager Calista refuses to surrender her three-thousand-year-old ideology of human supremacy. She triggers Protocol Zero—a continental Dissonance cascade utilizing ancient Anchor Towers designed to wipe out ...

What if the story of humanity didn’t begin with pyramids or philosophers, but with clay tablets, starlit rituals, and cities built from mud? Before Rome, before Egypt, before Athens, there was Mesopotamia—a land where the first humans dared to organize, to write, to rule. In the silence of ancient courtyards and the shadows of crumbling ziggurats, something extraordinary was born: civilization. Mesopotamia: The Empire That Shaped the World is not just a history book. It’s a rediscovery of the people who gave us the blueprint for modern life. Through vivid storytelling and emotional ...

Decode the Secrets of China's Global Strategy —Before It's Too Late! China’s growing influence is reshaping global power dynamics—are you ready to figure out China's next moves? China's New Client States? explores the historical foundations and modern applications of China’s foreign policy. From the ancient tributary system to the Belt and Road Initiative, this book reveals how China builds alliances, exerts influence, and challenges Western dominance. This fascinating and insightful book that digs into the historical roots of China's diplomatic strategies, revealing the principles ...

Named one of TIME's Top 100 Fantasy Books Of All Time A nobleman's daughter with magic in her blood. An empire built on the dreams of enslaved gods. Empire of Sand is Tasha Suri's lush, dazzling, Mughal India-inspired debut fantasy. "A darkly intricate, devastating, and utterly original story."...

Fear is not just felt. It is put to work. Most people think fear lives inside individuals: a racing pulse, a sleepless night, a weakness to be conquered. They are wrong. Fear lives in systems. In Fear: How Dread Built Empires, Sold Products, and Shaped Modern Life, Joel Thomas examines fear not as a private emotion, a personal failing, or a disorder to be treated, but as a structural force that determines how societies are governed, defended, persuaded, stabilized, and controlled. Across history, populations have been ruled less by force than by anticipation, because fear organizes itself ...

The fate of an empire rests in the hands of a young woman with magical blood and nothing left to lose, and an outcast prince determined to save his family at any cost, in the sequel to Empire of Sand—one of TIME's Top 100 Fantasy Books of All Time. ? "Dark, melodious, and memorable."...

The contract was eleven pages and Wes Marrick read every one. Seventeen years old. Four hundred Marks in debt at four percent a week. Fifteen months to earn enough to keep his younger sister. And the system gives him Assayer—a class everyone in Ledgerfall considers worthless. Wes can’t fight. He has no combat scaling. He can only see what things are made of, where they came from, and what they’re really worth. Then he discovers that the cheapest garbage in the city can be refined into Writs—the same source of levels every fighter and guild is desperate to buy. So Wes starts buying. ...