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A massive EMP plunges Los Angeles into chaos. Trapped in a penthouse, Cassy must use her military training to protect her sister and survive fires, looters, and a city collapsing into darkness.

When an EMP plunges Atlanta into chaos, Ethan must protect his injured mother, his determined sister, and a fearless EMT. With no power, no phones, and no escape by car, survival means walking through a collapsing city where violence, desperation, and betrayal wait around every corner.

When the power dies without warning, Mel knows it isn’t just a storm. Cars stall. Phones go silent. The town goes dark. With her daughter at her side and panic spreading fast, she must turn her quiet homestead into a fortress before the world realizes it’s already fallen.

Like the creation myths they supersede, the revelations of science are seared into our collective imagination through storytelling. From Archimedes' bath to Newton's apple, vivid accounts of scientific discovery help us understand the principles behind each theory, and add to the larger narrative of how the universe works, and how we came to be here. This anthology draws out and distils science's love of narrative from a wide range of scientific disciplines, weaving theory into very human stories.

SOPHIE RAMOS has always had visions—perceptions of beings others don’t see. Even her mother doubted her as a child. Psychiatrists doubted her too. Psychics tried to recruit her to enrich and empower themselves. Now she’s thirty-two, living on her own, and sharing her secret only with her mother and a few friends. A threatening specter begins to visit her at night, and more than her sleep is at stake. She follows a friend’s recommendation to visit Detta Washington, a church lady who believes that Sophie does see angels and demons.

In an instant, the world changed. Without power, technology, or the rule of law, can a young man guide his companions to loved ones and safety? Alex Kade is ready for some R&R. Hardworking but carrying his share of regrets, the UCLA film school student tries to keep the peace among his friends during a winter vacation to the rugged Colorado Rockies. But when a startling flash lights up the sky over their remote cabin, the twenty-two-year-old is horrified to realize the country is under attack —and gets his group walking toward town.

Witness the beginning of a kaiju unmatched by any other—three thousand years ago in the ancient waters off what would one day be Sydney, Australia, a brutal and untamed world thrived where dinosaurs ruled the land and the ocean belonged to something far greater—an enormous, battle-scarred Megalodon named Kaelira, a predator so powerful that even the largest creatures fled at her presence she hunted with unstoppable force, tearing through whales and dominating every corner of her domain, from the open sea to the violent, volcanic depths that bent to her will, existing above the natural balance.

The human became my human. Then, she became, simply, Love. On one of my first trips from Hell to the surface, I stood on the shore of salt-crusted sea and watched a human die. At least, I would have, before she peered through the veil, looked me in the eye, and made a simple request.

Hadrian Marlowe, privileged first son of a Duke, was destined for greatness, and he has become a legend. The Sun-Slayer. The Breaker of Sieges. The Crusher of Civilisations. His is a story which defined the course of worlds. This novel is not that story - not the only laid out in the history books, charting the 300 years of his life. Rather this is Hadrian's story, told in his own worlds.

A cozy home in a small town, a lake for fishing, and a few friendly neighbors — that's all Sean needs. And that's exactly what he's hoping to find in the quiet town of Waycross. But when he discovers a mysterious book in the attic of his new home, strange things start to happen. Strange and magical things. With magic in play, Sean's priorities and ambitions might just shift. The one thing he is getting, though, are those friendly neighbors. And he'll be needing them, too.

Die Reise geht weiter für Ben, seinen Sohn Joel, Joels Klassenkameradin Allie und ihren Hund Gunner, während sie mit den harten Realitäten dieser gefährlichen neuen Welt kämpfen. Sie bahnen sich ihren Weg vorbei an zahllosen Hindernissen, sowohl natürlichen als auch von Menschenhand geschaffenen, und kommen langsam quer durchs Land voran, ohne je zu wissen, wo sie schlafen werden oder welche Herausforderungen vor ihnen liegen. Aber der Drang, sich mit der Familie wiederzuvereinigen, treibt sie in Richtung Ostküste. Rückschläge warten an jeder Ecke.

1066 changed history. But it didn't kill the darkness. In an England where Harold Godwinson killed William the Conqueror and the Anglish Commonwealth has stood for a thousand years, one oath holds the realm together: No man or householder shall be yoked.

Two millennia after a global catastrophe reshaped Ettia, humanity is slowly clawing its way back from the ashes. And they are not alone. In a new world with bestial gods, magical creatures, mystical plants, ancient relics, and humans blessed with godblood, Echoes of Destruction follows a former slave in search of redemption, an ex-warrior hellbent on revenge, and an ancient being uncertain of his true purpose in this new world. An old terror with a new face threatens a new apocalypse. Will this be the last era of humanity, or will these few forge a path forward that inevitably saves it?

They thought we were safe. They were wrong. 'A terrific timeslip / lost world romp in the grand tradition of Turtledove, Hoyle, even Conan Doyle' – Stephen Baxter, author of the Xeelee Sequence Read by Sophie Aldred (Doctor Who) Lee and Mal went looking for monsters on Bodmin Moor four years...

If you make a deal with the Devil, don’t forget to read the fine print. Three operatives find themselves on the run after a corporate sabotage job goes awry. Now, their predatory employer, a heavyweight weapons-tech firm, wants its elite A-team dead at all costs. Jon is a smooth-talking charmer. Friedrich is a hacker prodigy. And Guion is the ice-cold tactician who keeps them all in line. Backs against the wall, the men strike separate infernal pacts to stay alive.

Before the global EMP shattered the grid and sent civilization spiraling into ruin, a single bullet could end a life. Now, it guarantees a slow, agonizing death. Rob is bleeding out in a world without doctors, medicine—or mercy. And time is running out. Claire has one mission: find help—fast. But in a lawless wasteland crawling with killers, slavers, and scavengers, every step is a gamble. Worse still, the Carringtons are hunting them, and they won’t stop until Rob’s body is in the dirt.

'Prescient, dark, and ultimately hopeful' PIERCE BROWN 'Excellent' PETER F. HAMILTON 'A menacing experience' FONDA LEE 'Science fiction at its finest' SUNYI DEAN In this brand-new blistering science fiction epic, Sunday Times bestselling author Richard Swan presents a thrilling tale of survival...

I was a sugarbaby, I admit. I am not proud of it, though others seem to sensationalize the lifestyle. They see glitz and glamor, never food or a place to sleep. Film and literature have only shown one side of a sugarbaby’s life. They villainize us and make us out to be either sluts or golddiggers or airheads. And well, they’re right. I am no saint. I am a whore — a selfish, greedy, ageist whore who is worth nothing except in bed. Life was no fairytale as a sugarbaby. But it was one grotesque, unlawful act after another. Yet somehow, that life pales in comparison to my life as a Minor.

In einer Stadt, in der die Arena alles ist: Regierung, Wirtschaft, Kontrolle und Show, kämpft Reva ums Überleben. Ihr Leid ist Währung, ihre Angst Unterhaltung. Über das Feel-Link-System spüren Millionen Zuschauer jeden Schlag, jeden Stich, jedes Beben ihres Herzens live. Je stärker sie leidet, desto höher steigt die Quote. Aber Reva will keine Heldin sein. Sie will nur genug verdienen, um ihre Familie zu schützen.

Bear stares at the pool of blood, chest so tight he can barely breathe. They’d told him piking lumpers would be no big thing, that serving his sentence would be like hashmarks on a wall. Now that he’s standing over the woman’s crumpled body, he can’t stop seeing the person beneath the Lumps, and the weight just about crushes him. Killing lumpers wears on all the inmates, each guy trying to cope with the harsh reality of serving time in their own way. Decker shatters into a million pieces just looking at the sorry things but manages to find a way back after a good cry.