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.

Leading the field of artificial intelligence, Halfway, a subsidiary of Soul-Tech, provides customers with the opportunity to digitally upload their minds so that in the eventuality of their death, loved ones will be able to communicate with an AI simulation and gain closure. But at what cost?A year after her brother Mark’s death, Florence is still consumed by grief. And though her parents encourage her not to dwell on the past, Florence decides to visit Halfway and speak to the simulation of Mark that was created not long before his passing.

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.

Kay and Matt—disenfranchised, manic depressive pagan deity assassins, cult busters, and office drones, real "all-in-one" employees of the clandestine, Pan-Abrahamaic conglomerate known as CrossTech. You might conjure up an exciting, high-octane fantasy over such a profession, but in reality they are not so different from you. They mostly file reports, attend seemingly pointless meetings, and have to explain every decision they dare make outside of the chain of command to an uncaring, angelic manager, and his self-important, weaselly assistant.

In the fifth millennium, Humanity has made it... ... they have settled the galaxy! This feat was only possible through the help of the Kantaki, insectoid aliens who possess the technology of faster-than-light space travel. Two superpowers, the Consortium and the Alliance, rule over the vast human empire. In the year 421 of the new era, the leader of the Consortium, Rungard Valdorian, wants only one thing: to become immortal, as the biological treatments that prolong his life no longer have an effect. Though he's wealthy beyond imagination, it isn't enough to buy more time.

After the collapse of society and the natural world, what’s left of the human race is divided into multiple space-faring superpowers. All with a goal of maintaining its legacy, and values. These differing values, however, fuel an extreme, and ever-growing tension between them, sparking a feud of interstellar proportions.

Tara has thrived in the unforgiving sand lands, where every day is a battle. But when her village is wiped out by the ruthless Prezedant and her loved ones taken, she'll stop at nothing to get them back. With an unlikely team by her side, including an orphaned boy and his devil cat, a dwarf storytelling trader, and a bitter young man, Tara sets out on a perilous journey through the ruins of civilization. Together, they'll face unimaginable dangers, fight for their lives, and try to uncover the truth about what really happened to the world that once existed.

At first, it appears to be a terrorist attack — a mysterious sound decimates society’s sense of hearing, leaving the world deaf. But as this extraordinary event unfolds, it becomes clear that something of an unknown magnitude is at work, with a purpose to destroy the human race. Hours away from transferring custody, divorced mother Jules finds herself trapped in a remote farmhouse with her daughter, miles from help and without communication. Stranded and facing an unseen threat, Jules must use her remaining senses to keep her child safe. But how do you survive what you can’t hear or see coming?

As a psychic warrior in the elite Order of Amazons, Peri is tasked with protecting the last vestiges of her people on the sanctuary planet of Atlantis, no matter the cost. For over a thousand years, she has enjoyed relative immortality, cycling into a freshly cloned body when the old breaks down. But corruption has taken root at the core of the settlement, and cracks are forming in the peaceful façade. Peri is no longer convinced that the mission she has devoted lifetimes to is still worth her loyalty....

Triana Moore lost her job as a maintenance technician when her boss discovered her true identity. But decluttering the galaxy isn’t just for janitors. When she visits the ringed planet Grissom with security agent Ty O’Neill for his sister’s wedding, Triana discovers just how messy life can get. Deported before she can finish her coffee, Triana barely misses an exploding shuttle. But in true space janitor fashion, she decides to investigate.

Blamed for the accidental deaths of two family members, Akuleh—Ku to his friends—flees his shamanic society to fight in an interstellar war. An excellent bush pilot, he gets accepted for flight training, even though he’s underage—a quality that makes him the target of abuse from many of his peers.

What a lovely way to start a novel about my present life, don’t you think? Adam Green never sought out much adventure in the real world, but when he accidently trips and gets zapped into a video game, his life is turned upside down. Now stuck in a fantasy world, he must cope with his new surroundings while trying not to let the computer AI know that he is an imposter in the game.

He thought death was the end. He was wrong. His death was the beginning of a path with the potential for infinite power. One moment William was at work, and the next, he was surrounded by lunatics wanting to sacrifice his soul.

The Commonwealth now has outposts days or weeks from Earth. When problems arise at the outpost in the distant Epsilon Indi system, no one knows what is happening. Everyone has a theory. And some are taking action. Admiral Ngene is caught off guard and needs to act fast before someone crosses a line that could lead the Commonwealth to disaster.

On a Sunday morning, massive earthquakes devastate the West Coast of the United States and other locations around the globe. That same day, Sofia, a nine-year-old foundling disabled girl, is miraculously healed during morning Mass. Mark Lawson is the last person to believe in miracles and doesn't know why he let Father Romero persuade him to shelter Sofia and her novitiate caretaker, Maria, but unexpectedly, he finds himself on the run from the public, the authorities, and something he can't quite understand.

My days used to be filled with working my minimum wage job at a local shipping store, but one night, I was in the wrong place at the right time and came into possession of a weird metal bracelet. The good news: Now I suddenly have a superpower. The bad news: A vicious family of mobsters, clandestine government agencies, and uber wealthy treasure hunters all want to tear the bracelet from my dead arm.

Catching the beast is one thing. Smuggling it safely out of Indonesia is something else altogether. Whisked overseas for a mystery job, Australian Park Ranger and dangerous animal expert Matt Sanders finds himself presented with the opportunity of a lifetime: to find and capture a uniquely dangerous cryptid long hidden by the thick rainforests of Java. It is an opportunity too exciting to turn down.

How would you defend your family and your home if the grid went down and dark forces arrived to take your lives and everything that you had? That's the question facing the Foster family in The Fight for Freedom. Former soldier Roy Foster, a hardened veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, and his wife Josie and daughter Alex are living peacefully out in their peaceful and beautiful homestead in the countryside of the Inland Northwest. But everything changes when an electromagnetic pulse attack knocks down the entire power grid across America. A surprise home invasion forces Roy to shoot one of the...