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.

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.

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.

Those who trusted in the government’s promised oasis from the zombie apocalypse found only death and want. Can Anna find hope in a hopeless world? In this post-apocalyptic world, Anna, a twelve-year-old orphan, has lost everything she once knew. She struggles to stay alive amidst a landscape overrun by zombies and other survivors, where death and destruction are the norm. Every choice Anna makes could be the difference between survival and succumbing to the surrounding dangers. Dead Autumn is a zombie story written in the Operation Z world, continuing the story of the apocalypse after ...

For over a hundred and forty years, heroes and villains fought all over the world, the Long War. The Vigilant, the coalition of Supers, did their utmost to keep the depredations of the Citadel, the conglomerate of Villains, in check. After endless decades, The Vigilant finally thought they'd won but a decade ago, the heroes fell, betrayed, and utterly crushed by those they tried to save. This is the story of Arc, the last Vigilant.

A year has passed since the ancient gods of myth and legend returned and irrevocably changed humankind as we know it. All across the earth, survivors of the initial onslaught have now abandoned their faith in the modern world and have begun to worship the pagan deities once again. The United States hangs perilously close to ruin as the newly resurgent Aztec Empire begins its final assault against the country. In this maelstrom of chaos and destruction, a small of group of individuals holds the key to either stop or to aid this terrible menace. Across these devastated lands, Tara Weiss ...

Young parents Ethan and Brooke Spencer are on a romantic ski vacation in the Rockies when the lights go out, cars stall, and communications fail. Stranded 800 miles from home, they are desperate to return to their four-year-old twins and are willing to do whatever it takes to reach them.

"A compelling vision of a possible future, filled with insightful commentary." — Kirkus Reviews In a world eerily parallel to our own, life is bisected by the Barrier—a monolithic edifice that symbolizes division and control. It segregates nations and dictates the very fate of those bold enough to cross. Journeys north are fraught with treacherous trials, yet they glimmer with the promise of a better life. Right Hand of the Resistance, a gripping dystopian tale by Paul Michael Peters, four lives intertwine in a world divided by an unyielding Barrier. A mother's love knows no bounds as ...

Archer Kemp is tired of his life. Past wars, a cheating ex-wife, and a son he barely sees have made him empty inside; but things get worse when he awakens behind bars in a government facility called The Tower with an ensemble of others, some struggling to remember how they arrived. The group soon finds themselves in a grim world where they're starved and experimented on for the sake of military research. To further complicate the situation, his estranged brother shows up in the cell next to him before they're mentally broken and bullyragged into descending the tower's treacherous levels.

Fight. Survive. Run! As the virus sweeps the globe, governments collapse and the military chain of command is in chaos. Those that survived the initial outbreak must now face the horror as 99% of the world's population has been mutated into flesh-craving psychotics. There is no safe haven.

In the near future, where academic life meets apocalyptic horror, Lilia's world turns upside down. Once a university student leading a seemingly peaceful life, she is thrust into chaos when a mysterious zombie outbreak devastates the city. As a gifted demon hunter with the rare ability to heal the infected, preventing their transformation into zombies, Lilia faces distrust and fear from those she strives to protect. Enter Oscar, a mysterious boy with secrets of his own. As a vampire fighting alongside humanity, he forms an unlikely alliance with Lilia.

Two FBI agents investigating a murder discover someone is twisting a vast virtual reality into an instrument for possession. Partners Washington and Deane form a motley crew to stop a psychopath who could be hiding behind any face. They race across enchanted villages and impossible planets, hoping to find a lost creator protecting a secret that could save the world or destroy it forever…

Seb and Summer Richards thought they’d found their perfect home. What they got was a horror they could never have imagined. Starting a new life with their children on a remote Scottish island should have been a dream come true. Instead, it became a nightmare they would carry to their graves. A community’s secrets, a relentless blizzard and a legend from the past create the perfect storm for terror and mayhem.

A breakthrough in helical engine design has made interstellar travel feasible. The Proxima Centauri mission is set to depart Earth on an eleven-year, round trip at just under the speed of light. Their mission is to explore the planet, Proxima b, in search of life. Their starship, the Lightspeed1, has a crew of four humans and two sentient robots. Dr. Logan Maltron is a brilliant, but deranged, NASA scientist. Maltron perfected the helical engine design. But now, Maltron has a deadly surprise in store for the Lightspeed1 astronauts. Will they make it safely back to Earth? What will Earth be ...

Unlock the secrets of the mind with Psycorp's cutting-edge military program, Hummingbird. Experience the intensity of unstoppable bloodlust in combat. Dive into the world of Kym Fenton, a fearless CIA operative on a mission to bring down a human trafficking capo. But when Psycorp's plans are stolen and threatened to be sold on the black market, Kym must abandon her mission and race against time to prevent the catastrophic consequences of Hummingbird falling into the wrong hands.

Unreal, a word often used to imply the opposite of its definition, makes a fitting title for this collection of short stories. The stories are fictional allegories of real events and explorations into the mind’s misinterpretations, save for one. One story is real. The listener journeys through dystopian societies, psychological tumult, and introspective discovery from varying perspectives, all the while unsure wherein reality lies.