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.

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.

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.

Two astronomers have detected a strange, pulsing signal from deep space. Within hours, the US government goes into lockdown, restricting airspace and scrubbing scientific data. Was the signal an intercepted communication revealing alarming plans for an enemy’s military strike? Or has humanity at long last found proof of extraterrestrial life?

After two years of no answer to who killed his family, joining the Organization and becoming a Hunter had brought Eric Redd nothing but misery and pain. But when an alluring demon calling herself Pearl inserts herself into his life with the promise of helping him get what he wants, he finds purpose to put himself in danger and grow more powerful. With the stakes rising and Hell itself ready and willing to grind him into paste, he has to rely on his pact-bound demonic patron, Wight, to help him survive.

A deadly poison. A hidden cult of sorcerers. Only Caina can find the truth. Caina is a Countess of the Empire, an advisor and friend to three powerful monarchs. But she was once a nightfighter of the Ghosts, the spies and assassins of the Emperor, and faced lethal sorcerers and corrupt lords.

In a world where UFO sightings have become alarmingly frequent, the US government's top-secret A.L.I.V.E. Project was created to prepare for an impending alien threat. Dr. Maeve Leander, raised in the shadow of this covert operation, now leads the research on Alvie, the project's first alien subject. To Maeve, Alvie isn't just an experiment; he's family. But when a mysterious new agency seizes control of A.L.I.V.E., Maeve's world is turned upside down.

Out of the ashes of The Clockwork War, mankind rose above the clouds to begin anew with The Atmo Project, a group of twenty-one flying cities running off the overabundant resource that destroyed the world below. Nearly a century later, one-third of the cities have fallen from disrepair or sky pirate attacks. When fledgling wind merchant Ras Veir inadvertently disrupts the natural fuel source keeping his home city of Verdant aloft, he must fly his airship clear across Atmo to right his wrong.

For seventeen years, Leon lived a sheltered life, on the safe side of the stone wall encircling the Kingdom of Isle, behind the white bricks piled high to make up the castle he called home. On his wedding night, on the day he married the love of his life, tragedy befalls the Kingdom’s new Prince. With his wife’s life on the line, he must venture out into a world that means him harm. He must do as he was told by a stranger sent by a mysterious Warlock holed up in a cave at the top of Mount Procella: He must journey due north.

One touch from the Spear of Odin can transform a man into a berserker—an unstoppable rage-fueled killing machine. Dane Maddock and “Bones” Bonebrake, former Navy SEALs turned treasure hunters, are on assignment in Norway—their mission: Stop the rogue biotech company ScanoGen from getting their hands on the legendary weapon.

Before Owen Deathstalker, there was the Twilight of the Empire . . . Mistworld. The day would come when it would be a key world in Owen Deathstalker's Rebellion. Now, it's as it's always been, a world on the edge of the Empire, a lawless one, shielded from the outside by powerful ESPers. A world where Leon Vertue can run his body bank, where a burglar like Cat has more to fear from other thieves than the Empress' justice, a world where Investigator Topaz is determined to make her mark.

Nearly one-thousand years after his death, the dire mistakes of the great wizard Aldulan have borne their hideous fruit. Demons from the depths of the world of Arioc have clawed their way to the surface, vowing to invade the land of Termeydiun. Suggradath, King of Demons, with a voracious appetite for human suffering, musters an army of hellspawned soldiers to smite mortal-kind from the face of the planet once and for all.

Helliconia follows an eccentric orbit around a double-star system with a twenty-six-hundred-year cycle of very long seasons. As spring slowly breaks the brutally long winter, humans emerge from hiding and a long sequence of civilization and growth begins to repeat again, unbeknownst to the participants but watched by an orbiting satellite station, Avernus, created by Earth some centuries ago. Humans free themselves from slavery to the aboriginal Phagors, and religion and science flower and expand.

As Ayanokouji and his classmates begin their second year at the Advanced Nurturing High School, they're greeted by a fresh gauntlet of exams and a fresh batch of rather unique first-year students. They'll have to get to know each other quickly, because the first special exam pairs the first-years with the second-years on a written test--with only the second-years facing expulsion if their team performs poorly! Worse yet? It seems one of the new first-years is also from the White Room. Can Ayanokouji avoid expulsion while sussing out the identity of this hidden foe?

A world that had forgotten what violence was didn't know how to defend itself. City after city fell. Earth became a lifeless wasteland as the undead army swelled and crushed the humans like ants underneath its boot. It all ended at the last stronghold. Forgoing all hope for salvation, a handful of desperate humans realized that the only thing left was revenge.

Against his will, Thaden was transported elsewhere in a big flash of light along with millions of other Humans from Earth, to a place where they would train to become Contenders in a whole new world. Unfortunately for him, something occurred during his transference into the “Training” program, and he was ejected from the whole training process and sent into the open mouth of an active volcano for bodily disposal.

Sometimes the only way to conquer darkness is to embrace it. From the moment Alyeth Zane was torn from his home, his dreams of becoming the next warlock of Dun’Nahar were dashed. Forbidden by his parents to pursue the arcane arts, Alyeth's destiny takes a darker turn when the legendary Black Hood escapes his bonds, threatening the realm itself.In a desperate bid to safeguard the kingdom, the House of Zane stages a grand tournament to marshal the land's fiercest warriors against the encroaching evil.

I was the Rift Magus—master of space and time, protector of worlds. For decades, I defended my realm with unmatched power. But when an unspeakable creature threatened everything I held dear, I was forced to create a rift to nowhere—a trap designed to seal it away for all time. It worked, but the creature was not without power itself.

Lady Astrid Ravenscroft has always defied expectations, secretly training with a sword when other noble women focused on needlework. But nothing prepares her for the night Viking raiders storm her family's manor – or for their fierce chieftain who claims her as his prize. Bjorn Ironwolf leads the most feared clan in the northern territories, his authority absolute, his power unmatched.