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Athanasios is forced to work in a glorified arcade, until one day, he receives an invitation in his mailbox to try a new game. But it's not the exciting new adventure he was expecting. He is tricked, and transferred to a world where goblins plague villages, dragons tear down cities, and adventurers try to loot dungeons. Trying to find a way out, he is turned into a vampire sorcerer. Condemned to a lifetime of trouble, Athanasios is dragged into a war with vampire slayers, ghoul-infested dungeons, and wizards from all over the continent.

Teenage Breq escapes the grim streets of a resource-low, near-future world to take a job as a "corpse diver" in a massive online sci-fi game, Bane. Breq finds himself in a dangerous, life-threatening adventure within the game as he searches for the reason for the death of his best friend. With landscapes and settings that evoke the sci-fi classics, our hero must level up his character as fast as he can, so as to be able to take on and defeat a sinister, masked figure. Especially as the threat posed by the unknown character is not limited to events within the game.

What's better than frisky cat girls and reapers? Life suddenly gets more interesting for Vampire Sorcerer Athanasios and his warrior women when he transfers his vampire castle into the Dead Bog, a place filled with monster girls. Unfortunately, what he thought would be a walk in the park proves to be the exact opposite once he meets the Blood Fairy, the true ruler of the Dead Bog. Will Athanasios be able to devise a plan to save his vampire castle and form new alliances, or is he destined to fail?

As Vampire Sorcerer Athan travels the world of Anatolia freeing demi-humans, an ancient threat lurks in the most remote parts of the world. It forces him to join hands with an unlikely mantis girl, an ancient dragon chick that is too powerful for her own good, and a voluptuous mimic that can morph into a deadly sword.

After being transferred to another world, Athanasios has become the Dungeon Core of the most powerful Vampire Castle the world has ever seen. As his team of sexy monster girls help him rise to power, something evil awakens inside the depths of the castle’s dungeon, and if the former Vampire Queen’s powerful seal wasn’t enough to stop it, what can Athanasios do to control it?

Light years from home, an off-the-books corporate mission beyond the boundary goes horribly wrong, and the crew’s starship crashes onto an alien world that shouldn’t exist. To make matters worse, they trigger an ominous light that appears in the sky, and provoke the native wildlife. Though saved from disaster, the survivors learn they’ve moved out of the frying pan and into the fire.

With the station secure for now, Operation A-Team is a go! Assistant Engineer Sky and her fellow crew must journey back to the planet they originally crashed on to rescue those they left behind. With the help of a new program and the cybernetic Princess Klaala, the crew also assigned a hunting competition task by Goldenrod; hunt as many creatures with specially provided weapons as they can. If they succeed, then a path to the inner station will be open.

The day the demons came, we all fell asleep. Two-thirds of the Earth's population didn't wake up. Others, like myself, were different. Transformed by some alien power. They sat at the edge of our solar system drifting toward our home. With our new powers, we were all that stood between those we had to protect and the end of the world.

Sky and her crew plunge into the shadowy depths of Goldenrod Space Station, unearthing ever-darker secrets and confronting horrific echoes of the unknown past. Loyalties begin to crack as they explore the station's nightmarish underbelly, and Sky's quest for truth takes a harrowing twist. Meanwhile, on Alpha, another group of survivors embark on a perilous journey to reach the McEagle's wreckage. Alien monstrosities and the twisted remnants of human ambition stand in their way as they struggle to survive in a world defined by hubris and despair.

Their loving union should have marked a new era. Instead, they’re racing headlong into all-out war. Chrysalis longs to heal the rift tearing her realm apart. Picturing her marriage to an elf as the perfect symbol of hope, the strong-minded faun is determined to fight for unity against a malevolent king intent on sowing division. But the happy couple has barely begun their honeymoon when her husband is ripped from her arms by savage bounty hunters.

Arianna struggles to control the tempest deep in her heart. Longing to rid herself of the quick-tempered Lightning Spirit trapped within her, she’s desperate to cool her emotions and save her people from the devastating drought that began the day she was born. But when her father is murdered during a quest to break the curse, Arianna vows to channel her powers to end the suffering and take revenge.

As the months go by with no sign of rain, Egris must find a way to provide for his family and his village without betraying the faun's ancient commitment to live in harmony with all living things.

Stars of Ea is a short science fiction story written by Stephen Landry, originally to be published as a part of a collection of short stories. Stars of Ea is a story about immortality, survival, space adventure, and mythology. Stars of Ea has the honor of being edited by Terry R. Hill, writer of the amazing In the Days of Humans series.

This is a short story about two people in love at the end of the world and the beginning of another. It was written on the last day of the year 2014.