Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive - and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet.

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie. But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits.

Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.

Deep in the outer reaches of space two clans fight a vicious battle with one finally destroying the other in a decisive fashion. The alien known as Vasran was not on the winning side of it, eventually having to flee in order to prevent himself from being destroyed along with his clan. With his life pod damaged things went from bad to worse and he thought that was it, but fate allowed him one last chance for him to survive as he crashed his pod into a planet that would be able to sustain his life. With no clan, no technology, and an enemy that wanted nothing more than to see him destroyed ...

There have been many myths and legends that have been told over the course of human history, just not in this way as this book explores everything from Anubis to werewolves. There are a multitude of gods and monsters that was the theme for this particular anthology and each one has its own unique spin that is sure to please. From a bound Fenrir that a little more than enjoys his predicament to a god of mercreatures that merges several men together in order to create the ultimate body, along with werewolves, gryphons, demons, and the mighty Minotaur. There are also intriguing insights into ...

From a single exposed lab technician a mysterious virus begins to spread through the population, mutating those that are infected with it and altering them with new and powerful instincts to go with the bodies that they gained. A city soon finds themselves in the grips of a bizarre infection that turns its citizens into lustful anthro men, though as things spiral out of control it begins to mutate itself as much as the hosts that incubate it. Those tasked with trying to stop the spread of these creatures find themselves in the dark as they seem to have no idea where it came from or what it ...

The Stables of Fun finds disaster in the back alley as a shipment of highly profitable merchandise is ruined by a delivery deer named Tex whose focus wasn't on his job. For Tex it was just another mistake in a string of problems that he had in his various jobs, but this time he messed with the wrong business as plushie store owner Arthur finds an alternative means of punishment rather than the typical route of getting fired. Using the power of the nexus benefactors Tex not only becomes an employee of the Stables but also a leather creature as well! But what Tex, Arthur, and even the nexus ...

In the sequel to Surprise!, Vyrnen is going about his life as a nexus beast when the rubber dragon that gave him the powers he used to drone others came calling for him once more. At first the nanite dragon wasn't sure what was going on and was worried that he had done something to upset the nexus lord only to find that Renzyl needed help in his realm. It was a very unusual request considering that these creatures are the gods of their domain with hundreds, if not thousands, of minions at his beck and call. Vyrnen decided to go along with it and finds himself not only helping out his own ...