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Featuring a broad cast of diverse characters, this is a contemporary fantasy that focuses on a young man whose neurodiversity provides not only the key to his own abilities, but also his place in a cosmic conflict between government agencies, inter-dimensional beings, and generations of magic-wielding secret societies and heroes.
Set deep in the Milky Way galaxy, the beautiful planet, Kander, has been inhabited only by the Kalmar, a race of Alphas and Omegas, until Earth’s humans arrived years ago and disrupted their peace. Since its first dawning, Kander has been ruled by one Kalmar simply known as Kal, a supreme Alpha who harnesses a god’s spirit. Charlie, an indignant human raised on Kander during the civil war, is beckoned back after she escaped as a teen. Needing money and a job more than her pride, Charlie is hired to retrieve a kidnapped Omega that was taken off-world. Charlie and her mercenary team work with Kal in preparation of their mission. Together, she and Kal form a plan, however, Charlie soon learns intimate details about Kal’s rare nature as a “female” Alpha. As Charlie and her team embark on the journey to rescue the Omega, they are faced with startling questions about the true motives behind the kidnapping. It was supposed to be just another job, but when Charlie starts to give a damn about both the missing Omega and the enigmatic Alpha ruler, it leaves her in the crossfire.
Sur une Terre dévastée, les hommes sont devenus rares, un virus déséquilibrant les naissances. Le Pays des Mères a toutefois pu s'établir en ayant recours à l'insémination artificielle. La jeune Lisbeï se pense promise au titre de « Mère », jusqu'au jour où elle apprend sa stérilité. Loin de chez elle, devenue « exploratrice », elle accomplira l'un de ses rêves les plus chers : découvrir les secrets du lointain passé du Pays des Mères. *Chroniques du Pays des Mères* propose une réflexion douce, intime et profonde sur ce que pourrait être un monde blessé, entretenu et réparé par les femmes. Son écriture, son style comme ses thématiques entrent tout particulièrement en résonance avec les questions contemporaines. (quatrième de couverture)
Naos has come to Calamity, and chaos has come with her. Cordelia had enough problems without teaming up with former enemies in order to defeat a mad goddess. And she doesn’t yet know that the Storm Lord has been resurrected in a new body. On the plains, the prophet Lydia is convinced that Fajir is the one chosen to stop a massive firestorm in the future, if only Fajir wasn’t so set on killing everyone around her. With their murderous leader dead, hostilities have ceased among the drushka, but the long-living aliens are slow to adapt. The last thing they want is a drushkan king with powers none of them dreamed of before.
The universe is as mysterious and beautiful as those that dwell in it. What lies out beyond our planet? Beyond our galaxy? Societies struggle to thrive in harsh conditions and goddesses grant and withhold their blessings on a whim. In this great universe, who steps up to become heroes? Featuring ten stories focusing on goddesses and strong heroines, these stories will take you to the stars and far beyond.
Despite being an inexperienced Starfleet cadet, Sylvia Tilly became essential to the USS Discovery finding its way back home from the Mirror Universe. But how did she find that courage? From where did she get that steel? Who nurtured that spark of brilliance? The Way to the Stars recounts for fans everywhere the untold story of Tilly’s past. It’s not easy being sixteen, especially when everyone expects great things from Tilly. It’s even harder when her mother and father are Federation luminaries, not to mention pressing her to attend one of the best schools that the Federation has to offer. Tilly wants to achieve great things—even though she hasn’t quite worked out how to do that or what it is she wants to do. But this year, everything will change for Tilly, as she about to embark upon the adventure of a lifetime—an adventure that will take her ever closer to the stars…
Clover Martinez and the Last Teenagers on Earth are busy exploring the galaxy after leaving earth behind...even if they are homesick. So when their ship receives a distress signal from their former home, they hope against hope that it means that there are other survivors. But as soon as they arrive, they realize something's deeply wrong: strange crystal formations are taking over Earth's soil and threatening to destroy the planet. Seeking the origin of the formations, the group discovers a colony of survivors hidden in the mountains. Relief gives way to panic as the teenagers realize these survivors aren't who they seem…and Clover and her friends might not be able to escape.
**Cory Doctorow's *Attack Surface* is a standalone novel set in the world of New York Times bestsellers *Little Brother* and *Homeland*.** Most days, Masha Maximow was sure she'd chosen the winning side. In her day job as a counterterrorism wizard for an transnational cybersecurity firm, she made the hacks that allowed repressive regimes to spy on dissidents, and manipulate their every move. The perks were fantastic, and the pay was obscene. Just for fun, and to piss off her masters, Masha sometimes used her mad skills to help those same troublemakers evade detection, if their cause was just. It was a dangerous game and a hell of a rush. But seriously self-destructive. And unsustainable. When her targets were strangers in faraway police states, it was easy to compartmentalize, to ignore the collateral damage of murder, rape, and torture. But when it hits close to home, and the hacks and exploits she’s devised are directed at her friends and family--including boy wonder Marcus Yallow, her old crush and archrival, and his entourage of naïve idealists--Masha realizes she has to choose. And whatever choice she makes, someone is going to get hurt. <a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250757531">Source</a>
Ship Of Theseus: A Novel written and illustrated by Jeremiah Strickland is the tale of a grieving writer who has a terrifying existential crisis in the haunted apartment of an art-dealer before traveling 150 years into the future of another universe to meet Skyrat, the superhero he created when he was 7. It’s a darkly funny, disturbing, action packed, mind-fuck of a ride that’s being called “Wildly entertaining,” and “Unlike anything I’ve ever read.”
Ambition will fuel him. Competition will drive him. But power has its price. It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He’s been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined — every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favor or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute . . . and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes.
John Abbot is at the Lucky Casino in Las Vegas on a winning streak with the goal of winning his wife and daughter back. Unfortunately, the universe has something else in store as Las Vegas is being over-run by invading aliens that have appeared with no warning or communication. The world only found out six days prior to their arrival, as those with an Astral phone app alerted planet Earth! Immediately upon arrival a huge mothership dispersed smaller ships around the planet destroying major cities and beaming up survivors. Las Vegas is the center of this story. Built in the 1960s, the off-strip Casino/Hotel, Lucky was amply named as the alien bombs did little damage, but the more modern buildings were destroyed. Rather than take their chances of going outside and seeing that their casino was holding up well to the bombings, John and about fifty other patrons chose to ride it out and remain inside. However, instead of joining as one group, they divided into, “gangs,” taking over various aspects of the facility. Personalities are clashing, hopes and dreams are deteriorating, and people are preparing to either be captured or killed when a lone alien shuttle crashes into the Casino. The group discovered a lone injured, eight-foot humanoid alien lying outside the shuttle. After much consideration, a group of eight decided to take the alien to Area 51, located one hundred miles away, hoping returning him might be the ticket to saving Earth. I absolutely loved this book! The plot was original, the main protagonists: John, Todd, Dennis, Margaret, Lawrence, Joanne, Lisa, and Kristina are so different, with sad, often tragic varied backgrounds, making for a lively and turbulent story of survival. I highly recommend this book.
