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The first pulse occurred in the old calendar year of 2022. Gigantic solar flares created massive electromagnetic pulses that stopped the heart of our modern world and returned us to the Dark Ages. And Marine Master Gunnery Sergeant Nathaniel Hogan finds that he has been changed by the gamma radiation in the solar flares. They have enhanced his natural abilities, giving him increased speed, strength, and healing; indefinitely extending his life span and enabling him to be able to draw on the power of the solar flares to create magik. But even he was not prepared for what happened next.

Animal Farm tells the story of Farmer Jones’s animals, led by Napoleon the pig, who rise up in rebellion and take over the farm. Tired of being exploited solely for human gain, the animals—who have human characteristics such as speech—vow to create a new and more just society. However, as time goes on, it becomes clear that the society the animals have constructed is not equal at all when the pigs begin their crusade to consolidate their power and the other animals make the daunting realization that “some animals are more equal than others.”

The Forever Man: Onslaught is the ninth book in the genre-bending Forever Man fantasy series. If you like post-apocalyptic heroes, battles against mythical creatures, and wild temporal jumps, then you’ll love Craig Zerf’s crackling mashup.

The Forever Man: Cavalry is the eighth book in the genre-bending Forever Man fantasy series. If you like post-apocalyptic heroes, battles against mythical creatures, and wild temporal jumps, then you’ll love Craig Zerf’s crackling mashup.

Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor, is dismayed to find that many of the people he knows support presidential candidate Berzelius Windrip. The suspiciously fascist Windrip is offering to save the nation from sex, crime, welfare cheats, and a liberal press. But after Windrip wins the election, dissent soon becomes dangerous for Jessup. Windrip forcibly gains control of Congress and the Supreme Court and, with the aid of his personal paramilitary storm troopers, turns the United States into a totalitarian state.

The Quantum Wayfarers are under attack. Their gates have been blown wide open, and a rift in the multiversal space-time continuum is now expanding on a lonely research planet within the cosmic boundaries of TriColony Sigma. The Court of Enigmus is subsequently called to arms, equipped only with Zira’s warnings of the ‘other-place’ and all the dangers it contains. He and Qaira are assigned to cross the rift, find out what has caused it, and amend its expansion.

Near the end of the 21st century, corporations have replaced state and federal governments following a bitter civil war, making way for a rewritten Constitution and a new America. The planet is plagued by a runaway greenhouse effect and the once exotic diseases that come with it, exposing a dramatic rift between the untreated poor and the few who can afford a highly sophisticated regimen of nano-injections.

When a secret research facility is invaded by hostile forces, Hawkeye and the Titan Six covert ops team are called into action. Thwarted at every turn by a mysterious enemy, Titan Six races against time to unlock the secrets of an ancient message encrypted in our DNA and rescue the daughter of Catherine Caine, the billionaire CEO of Titan Global.

Students at a small college in Southern California program their supercomputer to learn language, but the school is adjacent to an aquatic amusement park and the computer mistakenly learns to communicate with the world's dolphin population. The dolphins ultimately reveal explosive information about the true origins of mankind, which falls into the wrong hands and sets off a chain of events that threatens to unravel society as we know it.

Arena has left the nation's administration with a dead president and a weakened military, and while the tragic memories continue to scar her, the government struggles to regroup without its leader. For the people who still remain in hiding, it's evident the country is all but lost, and with Russian operatives taking over, the nation's hope of recovering is grim.

Fifteen-year-old Arena Power blindly accepts her destiny in a world filled with tragedy, chaos, and a lingering wickedness that will tempt every man's soul until the last days on Earth. In the United States in the year 2053, America, like most of the world, has undergone catastrophic earthquakes, famine, and an economic collapse, which have rendered the nation hopeless. It has turned to other nations, like Russia and China, to help restore what was once a world power.

Beginning with the funeral of a renowned classical violinist in a sleepy rural hamlet in the Lake District, a former theoretical physicist tries to make sense of his brother's suicide. Across the country, a university student, enjoying the unexpected attentions of an enigmatic seductress, is disturbed when his best friend falls to his death from the thirteenth floor of a neighboring campus tower block.

AltaMira Pharmaceuticals releases Vigorex, a drug that allows people to sleep and experience R.E.M. while they're awake. A colorful cast of characters begin to take the drug, which if not taken properly will have hazardous consequences. But each of these people has undergone a deeply traumatic episode in their formative years, which will affect them in differing ways; murder, arson, kidnapping, vigilantism, among other crimes, will characterize their nightly personalities and send them crashing into one another.

A yacht cruising the South Pacific is pulled through a strange corridor of fog. On the other side, the crew find themselves on the shores of an extraordinary island, a monstrous place of dinosaurs and terrifying creatures that should not exist in this world. Sierra Nevada Smith was always chasing monsters, whether through the pages of her favorite books or in the films of legendary stop-motion animator Russell Boylan. Now those monsters are all too real, and to survive, she will need that knowledge to learn the secrets of this mysterious Monster Island.

A beer run becomes an interdimensional excursion. Two men settle their differences after discovering an extraordinary secret in the wilderness. A woman faces the bureaucracy of a digital afterlife. A grieving man seeks to know where his wife was reincarnated. Strange lights in the sky transform the lives of a small town. God and the devil play billiards for people's souls. A teenage deity's science project sprouts a startling discovery. These and more dream-like detours into the surreal, interstitial, and inexplicable await within. Chock full of gooey, mind-bending goodness.

Imagine a secret, hidden city that gives a second chance at life for those selected to come: felons, deformed outcasts, those on the fringe of the Outside World. Everyone gets a job, a place to live; but you are bound to the city forever. You can never leave. Its citizens are ruled by a monstrous figure called the "Man" who resembles a giant demented spider from the lifelike robotic limbs attached to his body. Everyone follows the man blindly, working hard to make their Promised Land stronger, too scared to defy him and be discarded to the Empty Zones.

The Celestial War is past. The Court of Enigmus has been under new management for half a century. Leid Koseling awakens to find she can see things that her subjects can't. As the Court of Enigmus tries to identify exactly what their Queen has become, a deadly mistake sets the stage for a new discovery: there is much more to Exo'daius than they realized. And with that discovery brings a new threat, set to wipe the Vel'Haru off the face of the Exodian map.

The Argent Forces have been crippled. Two Vel’Haru are dead. Calenus Karim, Exodian Silver King, is no longer willing to stand by and let the war continue. And in the middle of this all, Yahweh is forced to deal with the death of his brother and his permanent placement as Leid’s newest guardian. The carrion crows are circling Qaira and Leid once more, their wings beating to the countdown of the doomsday clock that permanently looms over the Jury’s heads.

A storm has swept across The Atrium, fueled by famine, fear, and the desperation for survival. Hell has declared war on Heaven, and Argent Commander Yahweh Telei is left without any time to prepare. Leid and her guardians face exile from The Atrium, as the end of the Contest means the end of their contract. With expiriation quickly eating away at her, it won't be long before Calenus Karim and the Court of Enigmus come to drag Leid back to Exo'daius. But she won't go without a fight.

Civil war between demons and angels lies just on the horizon. Justice Alezair Czynri, newest recruit of the Purgatorial Jury, is thrown into a world of murder, exploitation, mind-altering substances and bureaucratic red-tape as he and his court attempt to diffuse escalating conflicts. And beneath the turbulent surface, things are very wrong. Ever since his induction into the Celestial Court, Alezair has been treated with disdain by the Justice Commander, Leid Koseling.