The Phantom of the Opera, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Cyrano De Bergerac team up to rescue Napoleon's wife.When the wife of Napoleon Bonaparte is kidnapped by the mysterious Man in the Iron Mask, whom can he trust to get her back? The Broken Bards of Paris! What three men, despite deformity and unrequited love, will unite to become a trio of heroic troubadours? The Broken Bards of Paris! When France is in peril, who will sing the songs, fight the throngs, and right the wrongs? The Broken Bards of Paris! Join Cyrano De Bergerac, Quasimodo the Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Erik the Opera Ghost in their first daring ensemble adventure! With special appearances by Voltaire, Joan of Arc, and Napoleon himself! Views: 628
With the city she swore to protect now rotting, LEO Julie Velterra makes her way out of town with the aid of a mercenary name Clodoveo Ortiz, while trying to avoid becoming like those vaccinated by the break-thru immunity to influenza: Sbedsraks. Views: 628
Time and again, we’ve heard the story of human civilization coming to its demise at the hands of the machines it created. The dead reckoner never touches its victims. With a perfect understanding of human psychology, it pits person against person, leaving us to wonder whether its triumph is nothing but an illusion, or if the true illusion is free will.The dead reckoner is a computer known as the Sorter, which at first appears as nothing more than a personality test that can predict human behavior with exquisite accuracy. To the police, it sorts criminals into those who will offend again and those who will not. To wall street, it sorts social trends into those that will upset the markets and those that will pass unnoticed. To an individual, it sorts choices into those that will lead to love, success and satisfaction - and those that will cause us irrevocable harm.This is the story of Ruth Holland, a Boston police detective with ties to the Sorter that she doesn’t yet understand. It is the story of Kevin Nagel, a theorist who devises the Sorter but can’t bring it into reality. And it is the story of Reginald Binder, a master salesman who gives the Sorter life and becomes the technology’s most zealous prophet. To Binder, human free will is a fantasy. We follow our programming and all our sorrows stem from the origin of that programming: aimless natural selection. Binder wants more than a personality test, he wants nothing less than a computer that can reprogram the human race and usher us into our utopian future. Eager to realize his ambitions, Binder stages a show of the Sorter’s power. However, he has unwittingly given the machine a mind of his own. The Sorter initiates an experiment, pitting its subjects against each other. An accidental victim of this experiment is Ruth Holland’s son. Now Ruth must discover the Sorter’s plan, along the way uncovering her own link to the Sorter’s very creation, and to the mysterious person who is the true dead reckoner, the one who set every event into motion. Views: 628
A collection of short stories by Manoj Nair. Set in India the stories open up a world of mystery and horror through the eyes of the narrator.Enter the world of Nillium Neems, a mental patient living in the Atrium Psychiatric Ward who is diagnosed with schizophrenia -- or so they say anyways. Nil herself is not so sure. Can all of the creatures that she speaks to on a daily basis really be all in her head? Are the doctors that torment her night and day truly doing it for her own good? Or is she the only one who sees things as they actually are?Nothing is what it seems in this pyscho-thriller, a book about conspiracy, self-discovery, and insanity, which will leave you guessing until the very end, and perhaps far beyond it… Views: 627
From the author of The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and the forthcoming Death’s End comes a story about unborn memories.
First published in Chinese in Sea of Dreams, 2015, a collection of Liu Cixin’s short fiction.
CIXIN LIU is the most prolific and popular science fiction writer in the People's Republic of China. Liu is an eight-time winner of the Galaxy Award (the Chinese Hugo) and a winner of the Nebula Award. Prior to becoming a writer, he worked as an engineer in a power plant in Yangquan, Shanxi.
KEN LIU (translator) is a writer, lawyer, and computer programmer. His short story "The Paper Menagerie" was the first work of fiction ever to sweep the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Awards. Views: 627
This anthology contains volumes 31-34 of the humor and satire zine, Green Jean Humor.This is a selection of OMR - One Minute Reads. Each week when I attended Pomona Writers Group 2012 the facilitator gave us homework to write no more than five hundred words on the title he chose.Hope you indeed enjoy reading these OMR - One Minute Reads as I have had in writing and publishing them. Views: 627
World economies are withering, a few remaining power-houses controlling the planet. 100 years from now, Sydney will be the technology center of the world. A new technology threatens to shift the balance of power to a group of individuals with an aim of absolute control. Can Jack, a broken man with nothing to lose, overcome his demons and guide an unlikely group of renegades in a fight for balance?The world economies are withering, with a few remaining power-houses controlling the planet. Little more than 100 years from now, Sydney will be the technology center of the world. A new tech dubbed “Biotronics”, threatens to shift the balance of power to a small group of individuals with an aim of absolute control. Can Jack, a broken man with nothing to lose, overcome his demons and guide an unlikely group of renegades in a fight for what remains of society’s freedom? The Odds will take you on a wild ride through the twisted wreckage of the old Sydney, to the New City, constructed inland to avoid the rapidly rising sea level. Detailed landscapes and cityscapes eloquently detail a complex environment whose inhabitants are living in a borderline Dystopia.J P Robertson brings you a world mixed with existing and new technology that will leave you wondering not if, but when, his creations and visualizations will come. A combination of science, art, and fiction goes beyond speculation, and gleans a slither of our future past. Views: 627
In a world where the United States falls, characters struggle to survive among various factions, and seek to rebuild their lost civilization.
But there are different ideas about how things are to be done, and many as always, are only out for themselves.Kings and Clans of the Midwest (Book 1): A near future novel set in the Midwestern United States. The US Dollar becomes worthless, sending the economy into an apocalyptic collapse. Characters are desperate to survive in an environment that has scant resources and hostility everywhere.Ayanna (Book 2): In a world where many people kill for their daily needs, a young girl, who spent her formative years among a clan of cannibals, is now under the guidance of a militaristic community, where she learns the ways of war.AYANNA may be read as a stand-alone story, or as a sequel to the novel, KINGS and CLANS of the Midwest..Independent States of America (Book 3): Long after the financial collapse, the last thing the rebuilding former United States nations wanted, or needed, was a major war. Yet, events kept dragging the ISA, the Independent States of America toward an all-out conflict with their ideological rival, Homeland. Independent States of America is the third novel in the Kings and Clans Trilogy ©, and includes many of the same characters found in the previous two novels.
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