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Governments, black ops, rich businessmen.... All want alien tech, and some are going to great lengths, illegal lengths, to procure it. Someone went so far as to endanger a young girls family. A young girl who wrote a letter to the Queen Bitch. Now, those that are searching for the technology will have to deal with TQB. If there is one thing that will get Bethany Anne's attention... it's mistreating the defenseless.

Short stories, each alike in dignity... but maybe not in length. Stories bound by a single element, represented by a color: A similarity to not so much tie together two similar tales, but to provide a small thread of commonality between disparate worlds. For this pair, The color is Orange, the color of the aged, when the skin tone begins to fade, and hair loses color. Age and death, the great equalizer that comes for us all. But… what if it didn't? The first tale: 'An Old Immortal' Visit the bedside of the Oldest Human, who was there when the secret to eternal youth was unlocked, and has ...

The sky was a lie. The earth was a grave. And Kaelen Thorne just opened the door. For three hundred years, the citizens of Silo 1 believed the surface was a toxic hellscape. They lived in the subterranean dark, recycling the same air and fearing the "outside." Kaelen Thorne, a low-level structural analyst, thought he knew the rules: keep your head down, fix the pipes, and survive.

While normally a death in the family, brings people together, that is just not the case for Lonnie Grambell. After the mysterious death of his older brother, his rich parents decide to send him away to boarding school, cutting off all communication for the better part of a decade. Now on the night of his graduation, Lonnie finds his world flipped upside down once more as he receives a formal invitation asking him to return for the summer before college.

Too many years of hunting psychotic vampires night after night have left Rachel with a need for change. So when the opportunity to travel across the galaxy aboard a Lasaran warship to a utopian planet arises, the powerful Immortal Guardian jumps at the chance. Rachel eagerly looks forward to making a fresh start . . . until an enemy attacks and she ends up alone in an escape pod so far from alliance-occupied space that no one can hear her communications. No one except a renegade cyborg who shouldn't exist.

Humanoid robots are surely in our future, but their uses are likely to be limited to body guarding, childcare, companionship, and sex. Other chores can better be done by smart non-humanoid machines designed for those specific tasks. But for these limited purposes, the best robots must be so realistic that they are indistinguishable from live people. Elasa is such a robot. You can't tell her nature if she doesn't reveal it. You can talk with her, embrace her, kiss her, and she is the perfect woman. Until she becomes the first conscious robot.

I stand on the edge of a world reborn. My purpose fulfilled in eradicating our enemies. But a deep emptiness remains, an abyss within me. There is nothing left to offer this new world rebuilding from the ruins. I must return home. Her arrival is ordinary. A hyu’man like the others. But one I did not expect to change the core of my very existence. Soh’fee arrives at the site of this new Er’then city, at the same time that I sense a disturbance that will change our paths forever.

Joni, the daughter of World Walker Seb Varden, has never met her father. And the world he left behind has become a dangerous place for the last generation of Manna users. Mee and John insist Seb will return, but what if they're wrong? Could it be possible she has none of Seb Varden's powers? Or might her abilities reveal themselves as she leaves childhood behind? In her 17th year, Joni will be forced to leave those she loves, face a great evil, and finally learn the truth about her father.

We colonized 700 planets. Humankind enjoyed the benefits of expansion room and the end of wars. We even disbanded our military. Then the Krall found us. The Krall have used thousands of years of combat to select the genes of the strongest and fastest warriors. They are a species determined to dominate the entire galaxy, through destruction and annihilation of every opponent.

Koban is an uninhabited high-gravity planet with impossibly fast savage animals, which employ organic superconducting nerves. This deadly world is where the Krall tested humans for war capability.

My name is Rex. I am a good dog. Rex is also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy calibre weaponry and his voice resonates with subsonics especially designed to instil fear. With Dragon, Honey and Bees, he's part of a Multiform Assault Pack operating in the lawless anarchy of Campeche, Mexico. A genetically engineered Bioform, he's a deadly weapon in a dirty war. All he wants to be is a Good Dog. And to do that he must do exactly what Master says and Master says he's got to kill a lot of enemies.

The secret is out, alien attacks haven't slowed, and the SPED has pushed the governments of the world against superheroes. Unity goes into hiding to strike at the source of the conspiracy. Meanwhile, we're still on the hunt for Psyche.

In a world ravaged by the undead, survival isn't just about brute strength—it's about the will to keep humanity alive. Big Jim Richards thought he had seen it all. But as he fights to maintain a fragile order in a chaotic new reality, he'll face threats that challenge not just his leadership, but his very soul. Flesh-eating monsters lurking in every shadow, nature itself turning against the survivors, and ruthless raiders eyeing their hard-won sanctuary. Just when hope seems within reach, an old enemy emerges from the ashes of the past, threatening to topple everything Jim and his people ...

After his wife, Helen, is brazenly abducted before his eyes, Special Agent Pendergast furiously pursues the kidnappers, chasing them across the country and into Mexico. But then, things go terribly, tragically wrong; the kidnappers escape; and a shattered Pendergast retreats to his New York...

Immortal Ops Team Captain Lukian Vlakhusha is having issues with his newest target, Peren Matthews. His higher-ups want her eliminated. He simply wants her. The alpha side of him demands he claim her - that is, if she'll have him. After all, he's what she fears most - a wolf shifter. But there is more to Peren than even she's aware of and the enemy is closer than anyone imagined.

Burri is a fashion designer and icon with a biochemistry background. Her latest pieces are African inspired and crafted to touch the heart. They enable wearers to absorb nanorobotic memories and recount the stories of Black lives and forgiveness. Wenda doesn’t buy it. A protest performance artist, Wenda knows exploitation when she sees it. What she’s going to do with Burri’s breakthrough technology could, in the right hands, change race relations forever.

Seth is a surveyor, along with his friend Theo, a leech-like creature running through his skull who tells Seth what lies to his left and right.

In the universe containing Seth's world, light cannot travel in all directions: there is a "dark cone" to the north and south. Seth can only face to the east (or the west, if he tips his head backwards). Every living thing in Seth's world is in a state of perpetual migration as they follow the sun's shifting orbit and the narrow habitable zone it creates.

In picturesque Moonlight Cove, California, inexplicable deaths occur, and spine-tingling terror descends to this "edge of paradise". Growing numbers of residents harbor a secret so dark it is sure to cost even more lives.

Captain Brent Parthet and the Archangels shattered the Consortium’s grip on humanity, killing the architects of a corrupt system that fueled war, exploitation, and genocide. The victory was real—but it left a vacuum no one is prepared for. With the Consortium leaderless and intelligence agencies in disarray, factions across human space scramble for power. Old enemies maneuver in the shadows, new tyrants rise overnight, and the truth Parthet exposed threatens to tear civilization apart. Chaos is spreading faster than any fleet can contain it.

Pursued by a relentless assassin, Alan and Jinny race across the galaxy in search of a secret truth that has eluded humanity for centuries. The 47 colonies have been at peace for over 700 years. But nothing is as it seems. The Council government of all humanity controls the populace through lies, fear, and genetically-engineered agents who do its terrible bidding.

Former Marine Raider Max Ahlgren booked the fishing adventure of a lifetime—until a fiery plane crash strands him and his son, David, in the vast, unforgiving wilderness of northern Canada. Starving and exhausted, they stumble onto a top-secret pharmaceutical compound guarded by ruthless mercenaries. Captured and imprisoned, Max and David must muster every ounce of ingenuity and grit to engineer a daring escape.