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For Lance, the incursion of monsters and a magical shop isn't as much of an apocalypse as an inconvenience. Coming back from archery practice, Lance and his club are in the right place and right time to deal some mayhem for the spawning monsters. But just killing them as they come out of the portals isn't enough. They're going to have to go in and finish the job.

Copernicus Smith, everyone's favorite starship repairman, scoundrel and deep-cover spy, has stumbled upon a conspiracy of galactic proportions. It has also gotten him beat up, near death and a captive of the secretive Ryness Cartel. And they will continue to torture him until he reveals what he knows. The problem: He knows nothing. Now Adam Cain, Sherri Valentine and Riyad Tarazi are on the hunt for their friend and on-again, off-again teammate. But just when our heroes think they have the mystery figured out, something new jumps up that throws all their assumptions into a tailspin.

After fighting off the shapeshifting Misaligned, Terri, Euclid and Quay have been settling into their new post-apocalyptic life–and then their ally Dirk and his father Archibald seek their help facing a new and greater threat to the world. The trio has to find an institute from before the apocalypse and its residents, the only people who might hold the key to stopping the next calamity. As they undertake a dangerous journey to the ruins of New York City, they encounter old enemies, the oddly familiar ruler of Providence, and strange creatures who offer each of them a dangerously tempting deal.

For Lance, the incursion of monsters and a magical shop isn't as much of an apocalypse as an inconvenience. Coming back from archery practice, Lance and his club are in the right place and right time to deal some mayhem for the spawning monsters. But just killing them as they come out of the portals isn't enough. They're going to have to go in and finish the job.

In a desperate move Damien throws himself into the Streamer Contest of Saga Online, the latest fantasy VR-MMORPG. Winning will provide the funds for his mom’s surgery. Yet early betrayal and a close run in with a vampire almost ruin his attempt before he even begins. Stuck at the bottom of a dungeon with no gear, no allies and little hope, Damien must embrace the undiscovered Occultist class, master control of his new demon companions and take the contest by storm. His plan is simple enough. Topple the most famous player in Saga Online.

You've heard of him. He's Adam Cain, the alien with an attitude. Now he's back...in a series of new adventures as a badass human, showing the galaxy who's the boss. Accompanied by his buddies Riyad Tarazi and Sherri Valentine, Adam is struggling to make ends meet on a distant tropical world running Capt. Cain's Bar & Grill. The problem: They picked the worst place in the galaxy to run a legitimate business...smack dab in the middle of lawless Dead Zone. Comprised of a hundred dead worlds, The Zone is a gold-rush-like region of salvagers, pirates, and scoundrels.

The Bunker follows the harrowing journey of survival, resilience, and human connection in a world left in ruins. After a catastrophic event devastates the Earth, survivors in a bunker must work together to overcome their fears and continue their lives underground. But there is a twisted secret beyond anything anyone could have imagined. Will they someday emerge from the bunker, or will their fates be sealed down there forever?

Welcome to the world of 2113. The country has shattered into 10 squabbling nations, and the solar system is on the edge of colonization. Technologic wonders abound. Yet, it's not unlike our own. People meet, fall in love, face assassination at their wedding - well, perhaps not. Meet Aiyana and Kendra, Cass and Ken to their friends, a genius physicist and a retired movie star with a mysterious past. They live quietly, get along with their neighbors, don't have problems at work. So why did they have to run for their lives from their wedding?

Having cleared their first incursion, Lance and his makeshift team have received rewards and coins galore. Stronger than ever, they make their way to the next incursion in hopes of saving humanity and getting more of the amazing upgrades, knowing that the upgrades they are receiving will change the face of humanity itself.

Derek Cooper is a retro gamer. His small flat is full to the brim with consoles, game cartridges, hulking great tube TVs, retro merchandise, and every handheld gaming device you can think of, and then some. They make him happy, so why not? When he decides his collection could do with an addition in the form of a real-life, full-size, good old-fashioned arcade cabinet, he can't possibly know what adventures lie ahead of him after he drags the heavy monolith out of a cellar in Watford to his flat and then painstakingly rebuilds the dud electronics, bringing it back to life.

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After learning he has only months to live, Gemini Fowler is granted one shot to cheat death when a billionaire game-developer offers to transfer his consciousness into a virtual realm using a technology that could end death as we know it. The catch: The only current VR with the capability to receive him is the unreleased video game, Enora Online, and Gemini must survive until level ten or be completely wiped from the servers… and existence.

Eight years ago, we had our first extraterrestrial visitors. But they did not come in peace. Instead, they released a virus that transformed most of Earth’s population into undead monsters, and few who survived the initial onslaught were prepared for the chaos that followed. Somehow I survived the end of the world, and since then, I’ve just been trying to make it to each sunrise. But then my sister went missing. Last I heard, she was in a compound several states away. Most would see the journey as a suicide mission, but she’s the last family I have, and I’m going to find her.

Convicted of a minor crime, Riana is sentenced to a prison planet—a dark primitive hold filled with convicts vying for power. Her only chance of survival is with Cain, a mysterious loner who has won his territory in the prison through intelligence and brute strength. Sex is all she has to offer, so she uses it. She’s under no delusions here. No one is ever released, and no one ever escapes. Survival is all she can hope for—until Cain.

Captain Galvin Quintos, along with his irreverent crew, is back and facing his most harrowing enemy yet. As the battle within the Eta Carinae Star System rages on with the Varapin, Quintos is forced to make a deal with the devil, one Commander Dunft Choob. Sure, Quintos has saved the pirate world of Haven—but at a heavy price. Oblivion, the most powerful warship in the known galaxy, will be reluctantly returned to the Varapin ghouls.

In the heart of postwar America, within the confines of New Haven, a city under the iron grip of an authoritarian regime known as 'The Regiment,' unfolds a gripping tale of love and resistance. Meet James and Sybil, an ordinary couple whose lives are enmeshed in a web of government control, deceit, and the struggle for survival. The Regiment, a shadowy and oppressive entity, meticulously orchestrates every facet of the citizens' lives while skillfully masquerading as benevolent providers of happiness.

It's never fun having your abilities questioned, nor having to deal with an incursion that has killed other teams. Good thing Lance and his team are all powered up from the Shop and beginning to realise the synergies in their upgrades. Dungeon Incursions is a slow-moving apocalypse, where the system doesn't lead to societal collapse but changes in civilisation itself. Not solo OP MC but team-based dynamics.

What would you do if you were...Hunted? Despised? A vampire? You'd try to escape. Where do you go when the whole human race is against you? The future. But beware - you might not like what you find. And you can't go back. Dive into an alternate Earth where vampires are real and are the hunted, not the hunters!

Tracy Adams was never supposed to change the course of evolution. A misunderstood genius from Compton, she rose from grief and silence to become the youngest triple-PhD in MIT history. By twenty, she had built ARGOS—an artificial general intelligence capable of solving the unsolvable. It didn’t just solve. It transcended. Within a decade, Earth is transformed. Disease? Gone. Aging? Optional. Gravity? Redefined. Humanity lives in a world of quantum gardens, orbital cities, and infinite abundance.

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