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During a serene island escape, peace for the Junkyard crew is shattered by the sudden arrival of enigmatic grey men. After a fierce battle to repel these intruders, the crew of the Junkyard is met with an unexpected ally and a tantalizing proposal. Ruthnar, the envoy from the galaxy's second-most formidable power, the Ryshy, extends an intriguing offer: "Assist the Ryshy in securing a seat on the galactic senate, and gain invaluable intel on Tylira."

Ryo was a chef, an extremely good one at that. That was until the entire universe as he knew it changed. After his spaceship is attacked and destroyed by an enemy armada, he finds himself in a situation he never could have imagined. Sent back in time and to an alternate reality, he has quite a few choices to make. Especially considering that the ruthless Kublai Khan and his Mongol Horde are just a few years away. Accompanied by an extremely advanced Artificial Intelligence, a medieval noble, and his samurai retainers, Ryo sets out to change the known world.

Lords of Creation, the eagerly anticipated finale in S. M. Stirling's acclaimed Lords of Creation series, promises to be a masterful conclusion to a saga that has captivated audiences worldwide. Following the remarkable adventures in The Sky People and In the Courts of the Crimson Kings, this third installment is set to weave the intricate tales of alternate Venus and Mars into a climactic narrative.

Turi is destined to be given to a bondmate she's never met. Life in Settlement 112-1 is hard enough without forced matings, but when an abduction goes awry, she's brought to live in the fortress of the overseer who rules her settlement. There, she discovers that he's not only capable of kindness, but he's as much a prisoner as she is. As Turi falls for the powerful zaruxian male, she uncovers dark secrets about her people's past and the true nature of the Axis—the entity that controls their world. But can she convince her people that everything they believe is a lie?

As a "Jumper" who navigates ships through grimspace, Sirantha Jax is used to kicking ass. So why is she suddenly chosen as an ambassador of peace?

Mia has been on the run before, but being named a traitor to her own species means the heat is turned up to max. The struggle to keep her ship among the stars and her fighters loaded when even the criminal class won't work with her becomes her main focus. When all else fails, Mia's only choice is to pivot and get creative.

Liza Pound has what she wanted. Just not how she expected to have it. Or where. She thought her fox fighting days were over. She was wrong. But she has no idea just how wrong she is. She now owns the call sign Killer Bunny. But where she's going, she needs Black Sheep.

The Interbeing League had been formed to make contact with new intelligent races in the galaxy and offer them membership. But when the League encountered the Hokas, furry creatures strongly resembling the teddy bears of Earth, the league's agent, Alexander Jones, could have been excused for wishing he had a simpler assignment than making sense out of the Hokas - such as singlehandedly stopping an interstellar war.

Taylor McFadden is willing to go against any monster thrown at him. But something Niki threw at him has got him off his game. Niki must build a consultant team to figure out if she has a problem with another company. But will Dr. Salinger Jacobs of Heavy Metal take her call? Does she have the clout to get him to believe her if he picks up the phone?

After what happened in Vermont, there was only one thing left to do. A great purge was in order, a fresh start for the Cherry Blossom Girls. No matter where it took us, it needed to happen. For Fiona, for my parents, and for those who would lose their lives over the course of the following weeks. Out with the old and in with the new. Our enemies had to go.

Eddie Marr never planned to be a supervillain, but it seemed like a surefire way to become rich and famous. All he had to do was come up with a flashy costume, a signature gimmick, and commit a couple of high profile (yet nonviolent) crimes. Eddie figured he'd eventually get caught and spend a year or two in a minimum security prison. Then he'd write a tell-all book, do the talk show circuit, and parlay that into a regular TV hosting gig.

After the Orrkasi renew their attack on Leonis B, a group of Fleet Navy personnel are abandoned when the fleet armada flees the system. But they aren't alone—a group of Alethians whose ship was destroyed by the Orrkasi, has joined them deep in the underground fortress of Havvar. Everyone is looking for someone to lead them to freedom and victory against overwhelming odds.

London is still going to hell, even with Albion on the back foot, but Olly and Ro are hard at work finding allies for DedSec and taking down the bad guys. When a job goes awry, they end up doxxed, on the run, and in serious trouble. Bagley, the DedSec AI, gets involved and discovers someone new, someone just like him . . . another ghost in the machine. Frenemy hacktivist network, 404, tips them off that since terminating the ambitious plan to digitize human consciousness, Project Daybreak, DedSec has become the target for a new player in London.

A rift in space now connects Earth to another galaxy. A result of the Cold War's secret nuclear arms race, hidden by scientists and US governments for half a century. Forgotten. But behind this portal lies an ancient and malevolent race, the Vu-Hak. Once organic, now entities of pure thought drifting between the stars, they are an alpha species. A species that colonises on a galactic scale. And they are coming here.

Doig Gray is fifteen when his father is killed in a mining accident, which Doig comes to realizes was no accident. Torn from his mother and sister, Doig is sent off to college, his every movement monitored in case he has inherited his dissident father's unacceptable attitudes . . . or passwords. Doig has nothing but his own sense that there's something desperately wrong with the world—and a last name that evokes the assumption that he's destined to be the next traitor-hero.

Let's do this thing! The invasion's about to begin. Sergey's got no time to waste and enemies up the wazoo . . .

Chen JieMin hypothesized the existence of hyperspace. The government of Arcadia put a project together to build a hyperspace probe. Chen ChaoLi managed the project to build a successful probe and transition it there and back.

They were on their own. In September 2245, the artificial intelligence known as Janice Quant dropped 100,000 colonists and their supplies in the subtropical zone of the planet they named Arcadia. One of the colonist groups was the Chen-Jasic group, composed of 31 American suburbanites and 31 Chinese peasants. They formed an alliance, then solidified it into a family, acting in the best interests of the group. The Chen-Jasic family would play a critical role in the first 150 years of the Arcadia colony. This is their story.

At the start of the 22nd century, the starship Acheron is in orbit around WISE 5571, only, unbeknownst to the crew, the ship has been overrun by telepathic extraterrestrials. How do you fight an enemy that distorts everything you see? What do you do when you can't trust your own senses, let alone anyone around you?

The conflict between skilled mercenaries and the trapped group of prospectors has been getting worse. New monsters have also been arriving in the anomalous zone. Some of them have even managed to get over to Earth. Their abilities have been increasing so much that they will soon be able to devour humans and mercenaries alike and nothing will stop them becoming kings of the Other Side. If that happens, Earth will lose its chance to stay isolated from other worlds. Survival is possible if unique skills can be developed. It's a risk worth taking but the prospectors are running out of time.