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Raven Astray: The Rise of Yoon Ji is a two part novella. Part 1 is a science fiction narrative following Commander Jang Seo-Ah, a decorated starfighter pilot, as she battles to save a convoy of refugees from cosmic disaster while simultaneously giving birth aboard her disabled warship. Part 2 Kongdra is a wild and dangerous world, where vapor dragons roam and the Unio lies grounded. As weeks stretch into years, a girl born from chaos will learn to navigate the wreckage.

The road ended long ago. Now only war remains. When the survivors known as the Iron Ravens are torn from their dying world and thrown into the endless conflict of the War for the Adamite Throne, they discover a universe where entire civilizations fight for control of ancient power beyond...

In the frozen northern outskirts of Norskheimr, beneath the cursed fjords of Nvallrden, a child is discovered inside a woven basket wrapped in raven feathers and marked from head to toe with shifting Elder Futhark runes glowing ice-blue beneath his skin. The boy possesses a terrible gift. One...

Unleash the Power of the Raven and embark on an extraordinary sci-fi adventure.In a city on the brink of collapse, Raven an intelligent, sentient black bird and Echo a mysterious holographic girl forge an unlikely alliance when a strange device triggers an ancient bond between them. As they...

Henry Wong and the United Planets Alliance Expeditionary Fleet have broken open the blockade their enemies forged around their allies, the Terzan. Now, thanks to that restored alliance, they know the truth of their enemy: a genocidal war machine determined to destroy not only its creators but every other organic sentient it can find. New tools allow Henry and his partner, Ambassador Sylvia Todorovich, to call on old alliances as they rush to save their other enemies from annihilation at the hands of the Liberated Intelligence.

Born to privilege, with preselected genetic advantages and the best nanotech augmentation his father's fabulous money can buy, Daryn spurned the lucrative family Media Network to seek his own path, a crafty raven among soaring eagles. After serving with distinction as a space pilot in the military, he enjoys success as a media consultant. But when he finds himself the target of sophisticated murder attempts, his world is turned upside down. 

The United Planets Alliance fought the Kenmiri Empire with a hundred allies at their side. Bound in common cause until genocide broke the Kenmiri—and Kenmiri schemes broke the alliance in turn—those one-time allies still left deep debts of blood and friendship behind. Still, the UPA has forged ahead in the post-Kenmiri times, weaving new economic and military alliances despite their more limited reach. The last thing they are expecting is for a soldier of the Londu, one of those half-forgotten allies, to arrive in Sol itself and ask for help.

David Wayne just wanted to repair his battle-scarred mech, Raven One—but life had other plans. A remote colony on Therasis begs for rescue, thieves and pirates plague the galaxy's shadows, and a brilliant scientist's research could save millions . . . or become a weapon that topples empires. His secret weapon? A fiercely protective, sometimes sarcastic AI named Tabitha. Together, they skirt the law with forged sedation logs, bribe corrupt officials, and hack Federation databases—all while rushing headlong into a war that corporate giants would rather keep hidden.

If she can’t let go of the past, there won’t be a future for anyone. Eighteen-year-old Raven is a thief with a disturbing past. Her life of pilfering expensive tech vaults on space freighters takes a nosedive when she finds a frightened 12-year-old boy on her newest stolen spaceship. In his possession is a glowing sphere he swears to protect at all costs. Moved by the kid’s courage, Raven does the one thing she hasn’t done in a long time - she cares...a little.

The territory-holders are broken. The talisman network that caged the basin is ash. For the first time since the splintering began, the Unbound of Delaney Rim are free to build something no one in either world has seen: a community held together by teaching instead of tether. Freedom, it turns out, has teeth.

Seven years after Kongdra, the survivors live scattered between worlds. Yoon Ji has grown into the pilot her mother once was—sharp, steady, and haunted. The galaxy she inherits is breaking apart: the Horub Empire is rotting from within, war with the Faction refuses to die, and something far older is stirring beneath the ruins.

Danny Ortega was a failure. He couldn't tolerate the implant to be a starship captain. But Danny Ortega has run his deep-space research vessel Ghost alone for years, flaky AI and all, mapping the most unstable and unexplored regions of the Rift for the Cartographers Guild. When his latest mission lands in a mass graveyard of ships, including some ships out of legend, lost for hundreds of years, the guild isn't happy with him. He picks up a misfit crew out of the asteroids, and the games begin! 

After the dust settles, Jackson awakens to a world torn apart by his own actions. Just when defending his homeworld seemed impossible, Jackson hatched a desperate, last-ditch plan with is CO: activate and launch highly experimental nuclear missiles contained in a nearby silo. Unfortunately, the missiles were far more effective and unstable than they could have imagined. Waking up in a cavern, Jackson quickly realizes that the world around him has changed, and not for the better.

Atlanta cabbie by day, amateur autoduellist by night, Ricky Turner is living the dream. That is, until he wakes up in a Gold Cross facility to discover his last match was more than a failure, it was a fatality. Indebted for the cost of the clone body and reboot, Ricky heads back to the arena to do the one thing he’s good at: drive offensively! But at the rate amateur matches pay out, it’ll take several lifetimes to clear his debt.

Ineffable is not for the faint of heart. Revolving around the progression of our two main characters as they venture forth into the perilous scape of Venus, their story is a grim one. Through action, scene theme, and strictly narrated emotions, the listener gains context of characters and their state of peril without a single line of dialogue. In all this story is one that has been told before and yet never in this manner and never without words. This story is meant to prove that sometimes words aren’t necessary. 

These days he’s scraping out a living in the Hampton Roads Dead Zone, chased by old age, regret, and a cannibal horde. If he slips up, his wife Kat stays dead, and he really will be a has-been. But opportunity is knocking ... Gordon Cory, an old pal from his bygone days of glory, has Bobby in mind for one last ride – the Dead Man’s Run, a nationwide road rally ending in the badlands of North Dakota.

The Fate of Eleven Universes Rest in the Hands of a Hapless Trucker who Can’t Read a Map… Eleventh World is widely considered the largest waste of magic and technology ever perpetrated by a governing body. We call it Earth. Humanity? We’re a bad joke told only in posh backrooms by the raunchiest politicians. Even so, when villainous forces threaten to destroy our universe, the beings profiting off Eleventh World take notice. They summon their best cybernetic dwarf problem solver to find the bomb and save the day.

A once upon time California Game Warden, Alex McClain and his fourteen-year-old daughter, Maggie McLain, face the wilderness challenges of Pacific Crest Trail north of Lake Tahoe towards what they believe to be a new civilization. They were told of a peaceful place called New Canaan, by a young Native American hunter, named Daniel.

What if tomorrow, you tasted freedom for the first time, but that freedom came with a cost? After a government-sanctioned privateering mission goes sideways, the crew of the Betty finds themselves fighting for their lives, light-years from home. Prepare yourself for an adventure with a lovable crew of degenerates and misfits as they dive into the dark unknown....

People began to develop unexplained abilities. Biological Enhanced Nascent Talents seemed to appear at random. There was no particular genetic reason for 15 percent of the human population to be affected. Talents developed skills that set them apart from the great majority of those affected.