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.

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.

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.

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.

Ashley Perrin is fresh out of college and starting a job as a community liaison for the Third District–the city’s only sector with more alien residents than humans. Ashley’s barely found where the paper clips are kept when she’s beset with constituent complaints–from too much noise at the Annual Lupidian Celebration Parade to a trip-and-fall chicken to a very particular type of alien hornet that threatens the very city itself. And if that’s not terrifying enough, Ashley is next up at the office karaoke night.

The Battle has finally arrived! Commodore Raptor and Starship Conquistador reach Nestor…barely in time to face a massive invasion from Mercurian Empire’s fleet. They will have to rely on their guts, their wits and a few secret weapons to pull off a victory. General Bakus of Nestorian Republic vows revenge and is planning to strike back against the Mercurians with his newest Battleship. But he has no support, no backing and no reinforcements. He will have to take Battleship Avenger across the uncharted space all alone and strike at an unknown foe that may be far more powerful than anyone...

Captain James Harris of Galilean Republic was one day away from retirement when the Imperial Alien Fleet jumped out of the wormholes near Jupiter and Mankind’s space colonies devastating the human fleets in a shock attack. Wormholes that were supposed to be guarded but were left unprotected by traitors and enemy infiltrators. Captain James barely escapes the initial assault but he must now find a way to face down a mysterious alien force armed with superior technology from the deep space. All great space nations of Man have fallen; except for one: the isolated, mysterious, military ...

Oscar-Blane (Ob) Jones wakes up cold, with more muscles, and in a place he has never been before. Confused as to where he is, how he got here, and where his pants went, Ob sets off to discover a brand-new dimension for him to live in. Ob discovers magic, mystery, and DRAGONS. Ob woke up with the power of a Draconian Ally; this has marked him as an enemy to most people in his new world. Where he is an enemy to people, he has befriended a young dragon. Ob is one of the few people who have always loved dragons; he understands that they are creatures of beauty and grace, not just destruction.

Commodore Raptor Warwyk receives command of his own starship…and orders for a mission to cross vast swaths of space and rescue a beleaguered ally of Starfire Kingdom from mysterious alien invaders. Nestorian Republic faces attacks from powerful alien spaceships on its exploration and mining vessels and the aliens are abducting the survivors. Commodore Raptor is on his way with his Starship Conquistador. Armed to the teeth, built to conquer and carrying secret weapons even its crew doesn’t know about, he will have to dare the aliens all alone. The journey is long and treacherous, forces ...

When the over-driven hyperdrive on their mobile shipyard burned out, the Chhrt'ktk't abandoned it in an inhabited system along their path, hoping it would work as a decoy to buy them more time to escape the Khreetan fleet pursuing them. They didn't anticipate how far the pre-spacefaring species they turned over their broken-down maintenance facility to would subvert their plan.