Category: Fiction

By Sheila O'Flanagan

From the center unearths the unforeseen stories that lie underneath the outside of every-day lives, via a memorable solid of characters all looking for their very own chuffed endings. A sizzling date will get off to a disastrous begin; a tender couple lengthy for peace and quiet as they arrange for his or her first Christmas as mom and dad; eavesdropping passengers understand they proportion extra in universal than that they had proposal; a pair rejoice their twenty-fifth marriage ceremony anniversary, puzzling over if it's all a sham; and Isobel from Isobel's marriage ceremony encounters an unforeseen reunion in a sumptuous Caribbean getaway.

A touching and heart-warming collection of tales taken from Sheila O'Flanagan's bestselling collections locations, Connections and A Season to recollect, to be had jointly solely during this digital-only version.

By W. C. Bauers

The colonists of the planet Montana are familiar with being missed. located within the buffer area among rival human empires, their international is a backwater: distant, provincial, independently minded. at the same time a provisional member of the Republic of Aligned Worlds, Montana benefits little consideration--until it turns into the flashpoint in an coming near near interstellar war.
When pirate raids threaten to destabilize the zone, the uncooked deploys its mechanized armored infantry to house the location. major the attack is Marine Corps Lieutenant and Montanan expatriate Promise Paen of Victor corporation. Years past, Promise used to be pushed to hitch the Marines after her father used to be killed by means of this type of raid. Payback is nice, however it comes at an important and devastating fee. And Promise is not at all satisfied to be again on her birthworld, no longer even if she is hailed as a hero via the planet's population, together with its colourful president. Making concerns even worse: Promise is repeatedly haunted by way of the voice of her lifeless mother.
Meanwhile, the RAW's so much sour rival, the Lusitanian Empire, has been staring at occasions spread within the Montana procedure with curiosity. Their forces were looking forward to the proper second to realize a beachhead in Republic territory, and with Promise's Marines decimated, they think the time to strike is now.

Unbreakable by W.C. Bauers is personality pushed, army technology within the culture of John Scalzi's Old Man's War.

By Ken MacLeod

There is not any such position as Krassnia. Lucy Stone may still know—she was once born there. In that tiny, bothered area of the previous Soviet Union, revolution is brewing. Its organizers desire a secure position to satisfy, and the place larger than the digital areas of an internet video game? Lucy, who works for a start-up video games corporation in Edinburgh, has a undertaking that nearly turns out made for the activity: a online game encouraged by means of The Krassniad, an epic people story concocted via Lucy’s mom, Amanda, who studied there within the Nineteen Eighties. Lucy understands Amanda is a spook. She is aware her great-grandmother Eugenie additionally visited the rustic within the Thirties and met the fellow who initially amassed Krassnian folklore, and who perished in Stalin’s terror. As Lucy digs up information about her birthplace to fit into the sport, she reveals the open secrets and techniques of her family’s previous, the darker secrets and techniques of Krassnia’s past—and tricks concerning the the most important function she is destined to play within the recovery Game.

Combining overseas intrigue with state-of-the-art philosophical hypothesis, romance with event, and on-line gaming with real-life outcomes, this e-book can provide as technology fiction and as a pointy tackle our current global from the point of view of a fancy, attractive heroine who has to struggle her method via a maze of political and relatives manipulation to take regulate of her personal lifestyles.

By Gregory Benford, Larry Niven

In Bowl of Heaven, the 1st collaboration by means of technology fiction masters Larry Niven (Ringworld) and Gregory Benford (Timescape), the bounds of ask yourself are redrawn once more as a human excursion to a different superstar approach is jeopardized by means of an come across with an astonishingly monstrous artifact in interstellar area: a bowlshaped constitution half-englobing a celebrity, with a liveable region akin to many hundreds of thousands of Earths…and it truly is on a right away course heading for a similar method because the human ship.

A touchdown get together is distributed to enquire the Bowl, but if the explorers are separated―one workforce captured by means of the large structure's alien population, the opposite pursued throughout its unusual and unsafe landscape―the secret of the Bowl's origins and function propel the human voyagers towards discoveries that might rework their knowing in their position within the universe.

By Monique Wittig

Il existe des textes parasites qui «tombent» tout entiers du corps primary sur lequel ils s'étaient greffés. Tel Paris-la-politique sorti de Virgile, non. Tel Une partie de campagne détaché des Guérillères morceau par morceau. Les autres histoires sont aussi à leur manière des parasites d'une expression écrite politique, the «Straight Mind».

By David Gerrold

Lieutenant James McCarthy has grown to manhood below the shadow of the terrifying invasion of the Chtorr. As a scholar, he realized all he may well to appreciate them. As a different Forces commando, he made violent first touch. Now he needs to infiltrate a band of renegade people who worship the Chtorr!

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By Julie E. Czerneda

The 1st ebook in Julie Czerneda's acclaimed net Shifters sequence made the Nebula initial nomination checklist in 1998. Changing imaginative and prescient continues the tale of Esen, the final survivor of an alien race being able to think the shape of any creature. Now Esen needs to holiday her species' rule of noninterference—to maintain interspecies pressure from escalating intoall-out war....

There is extra to Starfleet than exploring unusual new worlds. whilst critical technical information is needed, Starfleet sends in an S.C.E. workforce, equivalent to the single stationed aboard the U.S.S. da Vinci. This topflight assemblage of engineers and technical experts is a mix of terribly gifted people and unique extraterrestrial beings, together with P8 Blue, an insectlike alien who makes a speciality of examining structural structures, and a unmarried, unpaired Bynar, targeted between his species. below the command of Captain David Gold, the group of the da Vinci takes at the down-and-dirty, hands-on jobs that merely they could deal with.
demanding CRASH

An alien starship of unknown beginning has crashed right into a planet inhabited via a wide and populous civilization. observed via Geordi l. a. Forge, briefly on personal loan from the Starship Enterprise™, the S.C.E. investigates the mysterious vessel, in basic terms to find that the send was once now not approximately as broken because it first appeared. Now the berserk send, which turns out to own its personal existence and intelligence, is on a rampage around the floor of the planet, and Captain Gold and his staff face the notable problem of attempting to cease a starship long gone insane!

By Rick Collignon

During this pricey and humorous first novel, Rick Collignon strikes the cool, magical soul of South American Realism to the new, dry magical middle of the yank Southwest, during this tale of curious participants of the Montoya kinfolk.

By Wilkie Collins

The girl in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie stumble upon on a moonlit London highway. Engaged as a drawing grasp to the gorgeous Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his "charming" good friend count number Fosco, who has a flavor for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. 

Pursuing questions of id and madness alongside the trails and corridors of English kingdom homes and the madhouse, The lady in White is the 1st and such a lot influential of the Victorian style that mixed Gothic horror with mental realism.

For greater than seventy years, Penguin has been the major writer of vintage literature within the English-speaking global. With greater than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a world bookshelf of the easiest works all through heritage and throughout genres and disciplines. Readers belief the series to supply authoritative texts better by means of introductions and notes through uncommon students and modern authors, in addition to up-to-date translations by means of award-winning translators.