Editorial: Jovian Press
The town of Superior, Ohio, certainly was living up to its name! In what was undoubtedly the most spectacular feat of the century, it simply picked itself up one night and rose two full miles above Earth!
The groundbreaking dystopian novel that inspired 1984 and Brave New World. “The best single work of science fiction yet written.” —Ursula K. Le Guin When society has programmed you to sleep . . . How do you wake yourself up? The One State is a world where people are merely numbers, and free will itself is a disease. Most are happy in their role as cogs in a huge machine, controlled by the ever-watchful Benefactor. However, on the eve of the launch of the Integral—the spacecraft that will impose the One State’s way of life everywhere—starship architect D-503 meets I-330, a female number as irreverent as she is beautiful. The Benefactor has quantified human experience, circumscribed edit, reduced it to nothing but a series of mathematical equations—that is, until one man tries to factor in the ultimate unknown: love. Before Huxley. Before Orwell. There was Zamyatin. Discover it for yourself today. Bonus: includes Zamyatin’s famous “Death Sentence Appeal” letter to Stalin, and “Love Is the Function of Death” a bold new essay by noted science fiction author, reviewer, and scholar Paul Di Filippo. “How could I have missed one of the most important dystopias of the 20th century? . . . I was amazed by it.” —Margaret Atwood “One of the literary curiosities of this book-burning age.” —George OrwellVer libro
"Shapeshifting aliens, endangered earthlings and a sci-fi adventure full of whimsy” -BookTrib "A creative masterpiece. Danielle Palli takes us on an interplanetary journey of intrigue, conspiracy, and possibility." -Author, Dr. Roger Landry, MD, MPH Lucene Jones has a secret. Except, even she doesn’t know what it is. Working as an assistant to the priestess Reverend Isabella in a small spiritual temple in Florida, and renting a room from her best friend, Fatima, her world is upended when a mysterious stranger shows up one late afternoon in the middle of a storm. Following his arrival, memories from her past, ones she had buried long ago, begin to resurface. Meanwhile, news reports speculate that aliens might already be among us, collecting data on all areas of human life. Unknown to the general population, however, is that the Data Collectors are trying to determine what is causing Earth’s near extinction and save the human species. However, beings from neighboring planets would rather see humans die off sooner rather than later. After all, if they can preserve what natural resources we have left, Earth becomes prime intergalactic real estate. The Data Collectors trilogy is a journey from Earth to earthlike worlds, where a battle between the Peace-Keepers, the destructive Royals and the opportunistic Vitruvians ensues. Lucence must join forces with some unlikely allies, such as Cepheus, a lizard-like Peace-Keeper with psychotic, traumatic-laden episodes, her well-meaning but hermit-like neighbor, Ivan (“the tinkerer”), and Tanager, a professor of TARA, an academy on planet Erde specializing in helping students develop empathic powers. This is a classic tale of good versus evil, with a political space opera twist filled with lots of gray area.Ver libro
He knows she’s his mate. But the rival Alpha has already laid claim. North has always held his wolf closer to the surface than others. He knows Lexi could be his mate, but he’s not ready to share the darkness already entwined with his soul. As a latent wolf, Lexi has spent her life on the run. She wants to find a home for her son and her future, but her former Alpha won’t let her. Lexi’s wolf wants North, and it will take the strength of her magic, hidden and secret, to save them both.Ver libro
Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media and narrated by Matthew Schmitz, and includes a fully immersive cinematic music score. "The Doom That Came to Sarnath" (1920) is a fantasy short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It is written in a mythic/fantasy style and is associated with his Dream Cycle. It was first published in The Scot, a Scottish amateur fiction magazine, in June 1920. According to the tale, more than 10,000 years ago, a race of shepherd people colonized the banks of the river Ai, in a land called Mnar, forming the cities of Thraa, Ilarnek, and Kadatheron (not to be confused with Kadath), which rose to great intellectual and mercantile prowess. Craving more land, a group of these hardy people migrated to the shores of a lonely and vast lake at the heart of Mnar, founding the city of Sarnath. But the settlers were not alone. Not far from Sarnath was the ancient grey-stone city of Ib, inhabited by a strange race who had descended from the Moon. Lovecraft described them as "in hue as green as the lake and the mists that rise above it.... They had bulging eyes, pouting, flabby lips, and curious ears, and were without voices." These beings worshipped a strange god known as Bokrug, the Great Water Lizard, although it was more their physical form that caused the people of Sarnath to despise them. The citizens of Sarnath killed all the creatures inhabiting Ib, destroyed the city, and took their idol as a trophy, placing it in Sarnath's main temple. The next night, the idol mysteriously vanished, and Taran-Ish, the high-priest of Sarnath, was found dead. Before dying, he had scrawled a single word onto the empty altar: "DOOM"....Ver libro
As a con man-turned-MPD-Agent, I'm fairly new to the whole "upholder of justice" thing, but even for me, there are some lines you just don't cross. Agent Söze of the MPD's Internal Affairs department, on other hand, seems determined to slime his way across every ethical line in existence like an over-sized eel on a power trip. Can you tell I don't like this guy? While he's dismantling the precinct and hunting down rule-breakers among the staff—a category which my partner and I definitely fall into—a veritable storm of crazy is spreading through the city. Local troublemaking guild, the Crow and Hammer, has been accused of harboring a demon mage, and while I'm not sure what to believe, I've got bigger problems to tackle. That is, until a certain notorious rogue druid calls me up about that big IOU I accidentally promised him. Now I have no choice but to dive into the chaos—though if I can knock Söze down a peg or two in the process, it'll be worth it.Ver libro
Loki vowed that Asgard would burn. Bohdi Patel, latest incarnation of Chaos, wants nothing to do with Loki's psychotic oath. Stranded on the icy world of Jotunheim with Amy Lewis, his friend Steve Rogers, and an unlikely band of civilians, magical beings, and elite military, Bohdi just wants to keep himself and his friends alive—but when you're Chaos incarnate, even the simplest goals are complicated. If Jotunheim doesn't kill them, Odin will, and if Odin doesn't, the secrets they harbor might. In the final installment of the I Bring the Fire series, Bohdi, Amy, Steve, and their companions learn that Chaos cannot be contained, some secrets cannot be kept, and some vows cannot be broken.Ver libro
