Showing results by publisher "Author's Republic" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

While trying to work through the daily minefield of teenage life, Mark is suddenly blindsided by a series of rapid-fire adventures. Can a Grade 11 kid pull it all off yet keep his surreal identity hidden? No simple recipe exists for fabricating a super hero.

This is the story that came before, when Britain was just a shadowland. We grow up with the legend of King Arthur, but where did he come from? Who was Merlin? What part did the Druids play in bringing Arthur to his round table? On the night of Midwinter's Eve, a storyteller takes his listeners back to the Dark Ages and a tale from his youth.

Simon and Emily are in love. They're also damned to hell. It's complicated, but trust me, I'll walk you through the details. Perhaps I should introduce myself: Hi, I'm your narrator, and I talk too much. However, this is a story that requires lots of words to be told, lots of tangents, and far too many expletives.

In a city of 10 million, under glass eyes of six million cameras, one man evades their networked stares, and watches those who are watched. It had always been Jared's passion to observe, and for the last 15 years, it had been his job. His days were spent deducing the stories of strangers' lives from momentary glimpses of present actions in streets, train stations, and airports. Filming every moment.

A woman living her version of independence in a future land is attacked by ancient but still deadly battle machines. Cast from her destroyed home, she finds purpose in a quest for something lost, uniting with a fellow refugee to try to find what forces are shattering their world. But after fearsome adventures in lost cities, they are torn asunder. In subterranean and ancient ruins is found unexpected romance but also horror and tragedy. In mountainous wastelands, strange friendships and courageous travail.

Five years ago, everyone became a time traveler. Everyone but Luke, who now lives in a world where practical jokes are up 60,000 percent, his roommate insists on having 12-self orgies in front of him, and every potential girlfriend has dumped him for stuff he hasn't done yet. Luke suddenly finds himself on the run from a government agency with the intention of slicing him up for experimentation. No wonder he hates time travelers....

"My dear, I'm afraid that the head injury was fatal," Lara stated unemotionally. "Fatal? What are you talking about?" Kitty blustered. "Fatal means dead!" Kitty backed away and raised her arms in protest. The two strange women watched her in silence.

George Talbot Traherne is just doing his job on a fine autumn morning, keeping the hounds together for the huntsman of the Rowanton Hunt in Virginia along the Blue Ridge Mountain. Doesn't pay to get distracted by a white stag in unfamiliar territory, though. Next thing you know, you might find yourself...somewhere else.

Sarah is a burnout. Her 20s have been wasted in a psychedelic haze. Now she wants to be sober and avoid temptation, so she joins a clinical trial to be sequestered away from the world. Paranoia flows. Weird experiments are carried out on the participants' waking and sleeping bodies. They realize the trial is changing them. Programming them. Installing false memories and removing emotions.

Do You Believe In Magic? is a brilliant, inventive fantasy musical audiobook from award-winning artist and playwright Aoede, for tweens and all kids at heart who resonate with the fantasy genre (Percy Jackson meets Into the Woods). Go on a spellbinding journey to the cursed kingdom of Wonderhaven where a muse (Aoede) has a secret and enchanted books and witches break into song!

A brilliantly inventive multiple award-winning fantasy full-length musical audiobook - a meld of mythology, magic, and music combining a compelling story, narration, colorful offbeat characters, and infectious songs intended for mature young adult audiences who enjoy Harry Potter, Hunger Games, and Twilight. In the magical kingdom of Wonderhaven, Aoede, the Muse of Song, is plagued with a terrible, haunting dream (a nyxmare), and children are spirited away by a siren.

Jon Gilligan is the only man with a pulse in a city of the undead. It's his job to maintain order between the factions of walking corpses and disembodied spirits. The workload has been driving him a little insane, leading him to take on the persona of a noir detective. He narrates his adventures, casting himself as a hero to all those under his watch.

Respectable Doctor Henry Jekyll has a dark secret, and his friend Mr. Utterson is determined to find out what it is. Classic fiction that has become iconic in literature, film, and everyday vocabulary.

Third and final installment of Burrough's Caspak series takes on the adventures of Bradley and the other crew members of the U33 after Bowen J. Tyler Jr.'s disappearance from Fort Dinosaur in Book 1, The Land That Time Forgot. Bradley and his men fall prey to another humanesque species on Caspak, the terrible and terrifying Weiroo.

John Carter must rescue his beloved Dejah Thoris from the revolving prison at the south pole. But events turn against him, and he finds himself battling all the way to the frozen Martian North Pole, where he encounters another legendary race of men, the yellow men of the North.

Another great audiobook classic from the world’s most prolific and prestigious new company, Icon Audio Arts. Presented by actor author Geoffrey Giuliano, here is an exciting "listen while you learn" audio production which promises to entertain, enlighten, and enliven the listener. Icon productions offers a daring, fresh perspective on hundreds of perennial favorite tales which have inspired generations and imbued a deep love of literature and art in millions over time. Welcome to the wonderful, unparalleled world of Icon Audio Arts.

Captain John Carter returns to Mars to find himself embattled with the real live manifestations of Barsoomian mythology. He must win his way to freedom, then fight them to save his beloved Dejah Thoris.

A young mathematician wants to marry the lovely Abscissa Surd, but her father says he must first prove himself worthy. Professor Surd will only allow the protagonist to marry his daughter if he can either accomplish perpetual motion or faster-than-light travel. “The Tachypomp” is a short story for the mathematically-minded. Though first published anonymously in 1874, science-fiction scholar Sam Moskowitz rediscovered and republished it - along with Mitchell’s other forgotten work - in 1973, thus restoring him to his rightful place in contemporary sci-fi discourse.

Captain John Carter of the Virginia Cavalry finds himself transported to Mars, and is immediately captured by the great and fierce Thark, Tars Tarkas. While still in captivity, he meets another captive, the raven-haired beauty, Dejah Thoris, grand-daughter of the ruler of Helium, the greatest city-state on all of Mars. John Carter sets about to deliver the beautiful Martian princess from the green men, and realizes that not only is she loved by all the red men of Mars, but she is also the one he loves.

Journey to exotic worlds as the Jinns relate tales of madness and terror!