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Exodus by Peter F. Hamilton (2024)
"In a past age, humanity fled a dying Earth in massive arkships, which searched the galaxy to find a new home. One fleet found Centauri, a dense cluster of stars teeming with habitable planets. Now, thousands of years later, Centauri's settlers have evolved into advanced beings known as Celestials - and their great houses rule vast star systems. As the Celestials vie for supremacy, Earth's arkships continue to arrive and humans must serve these repressive masters. But is there a better life beyond the empire? Finn is a Centauri-born human who yearns for a brighter future. So, when another arkship arrives, he seizes the chance to become a Traveler. These heroes explore the unknowns of distant space, dedicated to humanity's survival. And they hope - one day- to find freedom. *The Archimedes Engine* is the first book in the Exodus series, a major action-adventure RPG."
Barda by Ngozi Ukazu (2024)
**Darkseid is… and life on Apokolips is tough—but then, it is hell after all. And no one knows this better than Barda, Granny Goodness’s right hand warrior.** But Barda has a secret…she is in love. Or she is drawn to the idea of it anyway, whether it be the beauty of a flower, her affection for her closest friend, Aurelie, or the mysterious and fierce enemy warrior, Orion, who is the only match for Barda’s strength. But when Granny decides Barda is becoming too soft, she assigns Barda a task that might be more than she can handle—to break the seemingly unbreakable Scott Free. And as Barda questions why Scott has such hope and what he might have done to promote such hatred from Granny, she finds herself drawn to him in a way she never expected. The only thing is, we do not speak of love on Apokolips…
Far Flung by Utunu (2024)
**Winner of the [2024 Cóyotl Awards](https://coyotlawards.com/2025-coyotl-award-winners/) for Best Novel** On the harsh, barren planet of Sands, in the small settlement of Oasis, live three young companions: the inseparable fennecs Bori and Tuther, and their best friend, the hyena Samna. But Bori is psionic—and on the distant planet of Verdant, psionics are fervently sought. When the two planets align, a shuttle journeys between them, bringing needed resources to Sands and hoping to take gifted psionics back to lush Verdant in return. The shuttle’s imminent arrival signifies opportunities for Oasis, but for the trio it instead evokes dread. For if Bori is chosen, he’d be taken from his dearest friends and the only home he’s ever known. Bori would be broken without Tuther. Tuther would be broken without Bori. And Samna? All he can do is help make their remaining days together good ones. ([Mapaku Village](https://mapakuvillage.square.site/product/far-flung/3))
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer (2024)
Annie is the perfect girlfriend. She has dinner ready for Doug every night, wears the outfits he buys for her, and caters to his every sexual whim. Maybe her cleaning isn't always good enough, but she's trying really hard. She was designed that way, after all. Because Annie is a robot. But what happens when she starts to rebel against her stifled existence and imagine the impossible - a life without Doug?
The Year's Best Science Fiction on Earth 2 by Allan Kaster (2024)
This is a collection of the best science fiction stories set on planet Earth published in 2023 by leading authors of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster. - **"A Soul in the World" by Charlie Jane Anders**—A childless woman is given a most unusual child to raise as her own. - **"A Kingdom of Seagrass and Silk" by Cécile Cristofari**—An elderly couple fend for themselves on a deserted island while waiting out an epidemic. - **"LOL, Said the Scorpion" by Rich Larson**—Wealthy tourists wear bio-filtering suits to go on live vacations to impoverished countries. - **"A Borrowing of Bones" by Karin Lowachee**—Reality blurs as people become menageries of other lives. - **"Devil in the Deep" by Lucie Lukačovičová**—A Bolivian mining community blames lady scientists for their bad luck. - **"Gravesend, or, Everyday Life in the Anthropocene" by Paul McAuley**—An army veteran, suffering from the aftereffects of a psych bomb, convalesces in the eco-stressed marshes of the Thames. - **"Sigh No More" by Ian McDonald**—The show must go on despite a solar flare that has crashed London’s power grid. - **"Cuttlefish" by Anil Menon**—A family seeks to escape the modern world at an old fashioned Indian guesthouse. - **"Highway Requiem" by T. R. Napper**—A trucker’s way of life on the roads of the Outback is threatened by automation. - **"Contracting Iris" by Peter Watts**—A novel microbial infection changes the behavior of a woman diagnosed with MS. - **"Deep Blue Jump" by Dean Whitlock**—Children are forced to pick drug-like dreamberries in desert canyons under austere conditions.
A Quiet Universe by Kay F. Atkinson (2024)
Blurb: > CERHA is a fabricant, and her job is simple: keep Annalise Fletcher safe, a role she performs dutifully and without fail, as she was designed to. Neither she nor her charge expected that this routine assignment could lead to love, but when feelings begin to bloom, neither see fit to stand in their way, and their shared life becomes a tense balance between duty, and the domestic bliss woven into the spaces remaining. For a time, they are as close to happy as they can manage. >But now, Annalise has vanished to the embattled starship *Upon Silver Tides*, leaving a cryptic warning in her wake, and CERHA finds herself frantically in pursuit, on a mission to save her objective-turned-lover - but the web around them both is far more tangled than either could possibly know, and waiting upon this forsaken vessel is a descent into insanity that will force CERHA to confront the bleak truth at the heart of her function. *Fleet and Fabricant* Book 1.
Mercy Rising by DC Little (2024)
Unite in The Uprising, where Mercy and Orion fight for what they stand for: Freedom! Read the conclusion of this clean dystopian survival fiction today! Want more post-apocalyptic survival fiction rich in world-building? Check out Grant Us Mercy, the inception of Mercy Rising.
Tales from the Alternate Universe by Steve G. Romaniuk (2024)
The seventh edition of "Tales from the Alternate Universe" is now available exclusively at "Romaniuk Publishing." This volume is unique in two ways: it focuses solely on cartoons and is multi-lingual, featuring German, English, French, and Spanish. It also showcases the successful collaboration between human creativity and machine technology in the realms of writing and illustration.
Devil May Care by Chani Lynn Feener (2024)
A Devil of Vitality always rises to a challenge. **Nate Narek is barely keeping his head above water.** But no one would guess that by looking at him. He's got camouflaging himself down to an art form. Feelings? As far as anyone else is concerned, he's happy and satisfied all the time. Only he isn't. Nate's always been the glue that holds all the shit around him together, and he's afraid that if he shows weakness, those people will be disappointed in him. It's better to keep it all in than to be a burden, right? Then suddenly there's a Devil of Vitality at his door, demanding he open up and let him into his twisted thoughts. A Devil who takes sexual deviancy and pigheadedness to a whole new level. For the first time in his life, Nate's no longer sure he can handle things on his own. Too bad Kaz won't let him run off to anyone else for help. **Kazimir Ambrose has a few...issues.** He wouldn't say they stem from his mother abandoning him at a young age, or the fact that his father remarried his work and was never around. But his cousin Baikal Void probably would. And does. Repeatedly. Especially when he wants to get under Kaz's skin. Typically, Kazimir can pretend like it doesn't affect him, but after one particularly frustrating night, he decides it's time he does something to prove the rest of the mafia wrong about him. If the other Devil's can manage being in relationships, he can as well. How hard could it be to make someone irrevocably and undeniably fall for him? When Kaz sets his sights on an uninterested Nate, the two are thrust into uncharted territory. What starts out as a means to prove himself quickly turns into an obsession that Kazimir can't seem to shake. There's something about Nate's sadness that calls to the monster in Kaz, and if he's learned anything from the Brumal mafia, it's that taking what you want, no matter the consequence, is always the right move. Nate tries to resist, but with Kazimir showing up anywhere and everywhere, it soon becomes apparent he's only got two options. Give in to the Devil. Or be taken by him anyway.
Devil May Lie by Chani Lynn Feener (2024)
A Devil of Vitality always draws first blood. **Berga Obsidian is only good for one thing.** As the Butcher of the Brumal mafia, Berga spends his days between the university and his lab, constantly caught up in one experiment or another. Everyone knows his name, and everyone fears him, but very few get close enough to learn who he really is. Even fewer actually want to. He's spent his entire life trying to make up for a mistake made as a child and is haunted by literal ghosts of the past dressed in pink tulle. Locking himself away periodically to protect himself and those around him has become second nature, that is until one mix-up with a Royal changes everything. **Madden Odell can do no wrong.** He comes from a prestigious and powerful family and is best friends with the Imperial Prince. By day, he trains at the military academy, keeping up appearances, and by night he runs the illegal street races down at the Docks. He's never wanted for anything for longer than a minute before it's his, that is until Berga strolls in and shakes up his world. Technically, they've known each other for years, but they've never been close. One night of rough and twisted debauchery and suddenly Madden is desperate to change that. By any means necessary. But Berga is far from what he seems, with an unexpected past trauma and a strong fear of abandonment. The two of them also come from different sides of the same coin. Berga is part of the Satellite, a group created to protect the head of the mafia, whereas Madden's position with the prince means he stands with the Imperial family. Even if they can somehow work through their differences and learn to rely on one another, will their leaders ever allow their relationship to strengthen? Or will the two of them have to choose? The life they've always known, or each other?
Devil May Fall by Chani Lynn Feener (2024)
A Devil of Vitality always courts chaos. **Aneski Kendricks wants to know what happened to his brother.** And why he was so brutally tossed aside by the one person who should have stuck by him after Russ’s death. It took three years of hard work climbing the ladder to gain leadership of the Shepard gang, but he's finally in a position to demand answers. Even from the devil himself. Too bad the devil and the man he used to all but worship are one and the same. Aneski's plan has always been to get revenge, and not just for his brother, though that's what he tells his friends. He wants to know what happened to Russ, true, but he also wants to know why he was abandoned. If only revenge was as easy as it sounded. Once he’s got Flix where he wants him, it should be, but Ani’s old emotions keep getting in the way. Will his pent-up desire cost him his last shred of decency? What did it say about him that he could still want the man who possibly murdered his brother? **Flix Fulmini is a Runner by trade.** As the official Runner/Fixer of the Brumal Mafia, he's got sneaking around and secret-keeping down to an art form. Aneski is just a name on a long list of them he’s withholding information from, and out of all those names, he’s the last person Flix feels threatened by. Which is why it's so shocking when he's kidnapped on Vail University campus and wakes up chained to a wall drenched in ice water. Even more surprising is realizing who his captor is. Three years ago, Flix left Aneski behind, but the guy has been holding a grudge ever since. Not to mention the fact he's convinced Flix has something to do with his brother's death, which he isn't entirely wrong about. Flix has been hiding more than a few things, and for good reason, but when Aneski sinks his claws into him and yanks some of those secrets out, Flix has a tough decision to make. Kill Ani before he can tattle to the Brumal? Or force him to his knees? Flix originally left for Aneski's own good, but now that he's come calling, it's getting harder and harder for him to turn away. Pretty soon, he starts wondering why he should even bother. In the past, Ani was this close to becoming his. Perhaps claiming him would be the best way to teach him a lesson. He let Aneski escape him once, but no one messed with a Devil and left with their freedom intact.
Saint by Chani Lynn Feener (2024)
**Nix Monroe has had it with playing things safe.** Where exactly has that gotten him anyway? In the bed of three of the Demons of Foxglove Grove, in over his head. Since he arrived at the prestigious university, nothing has gone his way, and nothing has been what it seemed. Now that he's finally discovered the truth behind what his cousin was up to, he's reevaluating his next moves. Starting with what to do with the Demons and all of the lies and secrecy between them. **Lake** is still as desperate as ever for the crown, but does that desperation now rival the one he feels toward Nix? **West** has positioned himself as a friend and confidant, but can Nix really allow himself to trust in that, or is this another carefully constructed ruse put on by the Demon to keep him in line? **Yejun** is supposedly remorseful, but Nix isn't sure he can forgive, especially when a part of him still seeks vengeance for his cousin and the part the Demon played in her demise. One thing is clear: Night of the Nightshade heralds the start of either the end or beginning for all of them. After giving the Order what they want isn't enough to stop the threats, will Nix band with the Demons and wrestle for control over Club Essential, or will he seize the first real chance he gets at escape with both hands and flee? Does he really have a choice? Did he ever?
Martyr by Chani Lynn Feener (2024)
**Nix Monroe is in over his head.** He thought he was smart enough to handle the Demons of Foxglove Grove and find his cousin's abuser. The plan was always to get in and get out. Lake, West, and Yejun have a different idea in mind, however, and the more time he spends in their clutches, the more of himself Nix seems to lose. It's not long before he finds himself trapped, permanently bound to the next in line for the throne, with a potential threat to them all lurking in the shadows, waiting for a chance to pounce. What started as an act pretending to be their boyfriend has escalated into something else. Something inescapable. If that weren't bad enough, a discovery about the precious cousin Nix has come all this way for leaves him shaken and uncertain. **Lake** is more determined than ever to catch the hacker and secure the crown. **West** suddenly seems more interested in discovering all the different ways he can make Nix moan. **Yejun** doesn't know the secret Nix is keeping from him. With only a couple of weeks left before the Night of the Nightshade, Nix and the Demons are running out of time to identify the threat. When it starts to seem like none of the people around him can be trusted aside from them, things get even more complicated for Nix. Can Nix rely on them like they say? Or is he just another pawn in their game?
Villain by Chani Lynn Feener (2024)
**Nix Monroe has a plan.** Infiltrate the Enigma app and lure out whoever his cousin was last speaking with before everything went to shit. Nix won’t stop until he finds answers, even if that means transferring to a different university and getting entangled with the infamous Demons of Foxglove Grove. Lake, West, and Yejun. Three of the most powerful men on the entire planet, and also the deadliest. When Nix finds himself on their radar, he thinks maybe it’s not all bad, and he can twist the situation to his advantage. It’s not long, however, before he discovers the Demons have their own objective. Someone is after them, and they want to use Nix to lure out whoever that may be. Forced to pretend to be their new mutual plaything, Nix struggles to search for clues about his cousin and maintain personal boundaries between himself and the guys. They might take his body, but he refuses to give them any other part of himself, especially since there’s no way of knowing if one of them happens to be the person he’s after. **Lake** is next in line for the throne and will do anything to stop those secretly trying to prevent him from taking it. He treats Nix like a possession, something he has a right to take. And potentially break. **West** is an up-and-coming boxer who rules the school with boyish charm and iron fists. He doesn’t try to hide who or what he is, not even from Nix, the first of the Demons to bend him to his will, laughing all the while. **Yejun** is considered the flirt of the group, the one who’s hooked up with practically everyone on campus. Initially, he’s not interested in playing pretend with Nix, but it isn’t long before he’s changed his tune. It doesn’t take long before Nix realizes he’s in danger of falling for these monstrous men. He needs a way out, and fast, preferably before any of them realize he’s been using them as well. Nix needs to check their names off the list of suspects so he can move on and find his cousin’s killer. But what happens when they catch him scheming? Will they help him? Or destroy him?
A Whisper in the Dark by Chani Lynn Feener (2024)
**This is the omnibus version and contains all three books in the trilogy, including extended scenes and bonus material not found elsewhere!** Hunter Thorn is on the run, living daily in fear of discovery and retaliation from the mafia leaders he once betrayed. Sanctum is a planet practically cut off from the rest of the galaxy, where ruthless people who can control the elements rule. The Emperor has turned his back on the people, more interested in lining his pockets than waging war against the Brumal mafia. Hunter once worked for the Snow family, but a threat against his sister forced him to choose a side, and in the end, he chose wrong. He's been paying for that choice ever since, constantly moving, traveling across the planet in an attempt to hide. But everyone knows there's no such thing as escape from a regular Brumal member if they want you, let alone from one of the Three. Odin Snow, the Dominus of the Snow family, had everything taken from him ten years ago. He's clawed his way ruthlessly back to the top, reclaiming his family name and their rightful place amongst the Brumal. Mostly. There's still his step-brother to deal with, Isa Frost, the orchestrator of everything unfortunate that has ever happened to Odin. And then there's Hunter. As teens, Odin had looked up to the older boy, had even maybe cared for him, but all that'd got him was a bullet to the shoulder and months' worth of bedrest while Isa stripped away his title and family home. Now that he's found Hunter again, Odin isn't above using old feelings to get what he wants. The plan is to use Hunter to get under Isa's skin. Odin wants them hurting the same way he hurt. He wants to see them bleed. At least, that's what he always believed. But what happens when it turns out what he really wants is Hunter in his bed, at his mercy in a different way? On a planet ruled by criminals, does Hunter have a hope of escape, or will he be consumed by the very flames Odin Snow is famous for controlling?