SOMEWHITHER is the first part of A TALE OF THE UNWITHERING REALM, a new science fantasy series from the science fiction author John C. Wright. It is an adventure, it is a romance, and it is a coming of age story of a young man who is not a man, in a world that is only one among many. It is a tale of a greater and darker evil with longer reach than anything he could imagine, of despair without bounds, of pain beyond measure, and of the faith required to surmount all three. It is a story of inexorable destiny written in the stars and the stubborn courage that is required to defy it.
Ilya Muromets is a big, ugly, motherless boy who does not look like anyone else in his Oregon town. His father is often absent on Church
missionary work that strangely seems to involve silver bullets, sacred lances, and black helicopters. Ilya works as a janitor for Professor Achitophel Dreadful of the Cryptozoological Museum of Scientific Curiosities, and he has a hopeless crush on the Professor’s daughter, Penelope, who seems to think his name is Marmoset.
One night, when Professor Dreadful escapes from the asylum in which he is presently residing, he sends a warning to Ilya that not only is the professor’s Many Worlds theory correct, but those many worlds are dominated by an unthinkably powerful enemy determined to destroy anyone who opens the Moebius Ring between the worlds. And, as it happens, prior to his involuntary absence, the Professor left his transdimensional equipment in the basement of the Museum plugged-in and running….
So it is that Ilya, as he has long dreamed in secret, is called upon to save the mad scientist’s beautiful daughter. With his squirrel gun, his grandfather’s sword, and his father’s crucifix, Ilya races to save the girl, and, incidentally, the world. Views: 350
An A-Z compendium of the wisdom of shaman animals. Shaman animals exist in nearly every cultural tradition. They speak to us with wisdom and insight. This compendium is a small collection of some of our best loved shaman animal wisdom.If you love the shaman animals blog from StoopvilleFarms' community, you will enjoy consulting their wisdom as needed. If you have not yet followed us, please check in with the site as a shaman shares his or her wisdom weekly. Views: 350
3 stories by Jaunt author Erik J Kreffel. "Peace, At Long Last" a dying man raised by an alien foster family embraces his humanity before the last flicker of life leaves his body. "The Sap Hole" the last diary entries of a soldier during the Battle of the Somme and a horror beyond the enemy. "Neptune Diamond" is a weird homecoming tale.Yohanna is a very smart young woman. However, her great curiosity has got her bitten on occasion. Despite Mr Besterby's timid warning Yohanna stuck her hand out. This time she's in real trouble, and Mr Besterby, weak at the knees at the best of times, through no fault of his own is along for the ride of his life. Now Yohanna needs all her wits to survive. On a foreign world evil minions gather evidence of Yohanna's and Mr Besterby's colorful arrival. The presence of these strangers according to the prophecy signals a great threat to the minions' unforgiving and ruthless rulers. Outnumbered, hunted and lost, the only way home for Yohanna and Mr Besterby, a pallid desk bound suit, is a perilous journey to confront the Twisted Coven. Cobbling together the unlikely band of Yohanna, Mr Besterby, some almost human friends and a few furry agents, a secretive underground organisation sends them on a journey into the realm of a wicked internecine battle. Here according to the lore only the most brutal and evil Witch can be left standing to bring about a very, very wicked event. Aided by some well meaning misfits who don't understand the words "Go away", the unlikely band head off on their dangerous and desperate mission. On this trek marked by mysteries and threatening events the furry agents have a particularly dark ace to play when the time is right. What the agents don't know about their ace is that it could also destroy the universe(s). To get home Yohanna and Mr Besterby will have to rise to the occasion time and time again, and then fight the best fight of their lives if there is to be hope. Views: 350
The theft Top Secret technology is the catalyst for a lab tech's murder and plunges two couples into a web of criminal activity on the colony of Barsoom, a hybrid of advanced technology and Renaissance Culture. Returning home to Barsoom after a successful mission to earth, Randal brings an unexpected dividend with him: A data crystal with the formula for finding earth-type planets. When the data crystal is stolen and a lab tech murdered during the break-in, his father and his fiancée's father come under suspicion. It's up to him, his fiancée Judith, and some new friends to clear their fathers of murder, and find and retrieve the stolen crystal before it falls into the wrong hands. Devon Morton and Tash Higgens came to Barsoom to help set up new programming for the colony's Portal to Laughing Mountain and the other Outlawed Colonies. When an important data crystal is stolen from a lab owned by Randal's... Views: 350
Ahoy and welcome back! Set sail on The Eversea for the second time- hoist off on an uncompromising adventure with powerful relics, talking lobsters, and a dense web of lies and deception.Ahoy and welcome back! Set sail on The Eversea for the second time- hoist off on an uncompromising adventure with powerful relics, a talking lobster, and a dense web of lies and deception. Colette’s pissed this time. Some vagrant with command over the mist kidnaps Colette’s best friend, the also-just-human Grancis. With the “help” of The Captain himself and The Nocturna’s giant killer lobster/cook named Boris, Colette will stop at nothing to get her friend back from the kidnapper’s mysterious island, on which two great houses of sorcery engage in a tumultuous civil war. Sides are quickly chosen and lines are readily drawn when The Captain doubts Colette’s choice as to which house has the kidnappers. It falls to her to prove him wrong, save her friend and play part in a secret conspiracy years and years in planning. She won’t flinch, not even to The Captain- but will her youthful courage, skill and gall me enough to save her friend’s life? Man your stations and hop aboard- The Eversea awaits you! (This is the second of the series.) Views: 350
Drake Jinx finds himself dragged into a huge conflict against a powerful enemy that the world has never seen before. After being given the power of leaping, the ability to transfer himself and his friends through packets of time and space, he sets out to build an army that can battle this strange new threat. But not everything goes as planned, and he finds himself wondering who he can trust.The Pisces Empire, the universe's biggest and strongest superpower, is under attack. For years, they reigned supreme over all other nations by utilizing the power of Leaping. The ability to Leap allowed a single representative of the Pisces Empire to instantly travel between not only worlds, but time periods as well. With the technology the Empire gained from this ability, they were thought to be invincible. But when this strange attacking force doesn't let up, the Empire starts to worry. Drake Jinx, a snarky and lazy scientist in the employ of the Pisces Empire finds himself forcibly dragged into a war he didn't want to be in after being granted the power to Leap and sent off into the unknown to gather an army in order to combat this strange foe. Accompanied by Lilly Swift, the Pisces Empire's chosen field agent and constant tormentor, Drake Jinx comes to find that he too might have stakes this war, and those that were once his friends might just be working against him.Off The Grid is a 57,000 word novel meant to be a fun read for any age. This book is a mix of Science Fiction and Fantasy. Views: 350
Rae's world is safe. Her tower is all the shelter she needs from all the scary men, beasts, and other dark forces her mother says roam the world of Fable.
Or is it? And what are men, anyway?
And why did she overhear her mother saying a young man might try to take her away soon? But when Henry sneaks into her tower, he's not so bad, and he makes Rae feel strange in ways she doesn't understand. Only after Henry gets chased off by her mother does Rae learn she has the gift of light. And a certain dark wizard wants to destroy her before she can combat the darkness he's spreading through Fable.
Forced to leave her home when the dark wizard comes knocking, Rae's only hope of survival is to venture into the dangerous world, find Henry, and claim her happily ever after. Views: 350
Are you looking for a dialogue-rich, action-packed, romance-driven book series that will make your heart race from beginning to end? Meet Book #1...Are you looking for a dialogue-rich, action-packed, romance-driven book series that will make your heart race from beginning to end? Meet Book #1...Seventeen-year-old Jake Rovert has never known the feeling of a broken bone or a lasting scar—he’s a healer, one of very few in the world with this rare gift.Joining an elite group of Gifted Ones from his high school, Jake is quickly propelled into a life of secrets and training to enhance his gift. He becomes the healer they have been waiting for.They didn’t expect him to fall in love.He didn’t expect to be forbidden to be with her.And no one expected him to risk it all to get her back.Download this book now and join Jake and Anna in this world full of adventure, passion and purpose. Views: 350
A cursed line of Minotaurs has kept Ayla’s people enslaved for 200 years. With nothing left to live for and a death sentence in her womb, Ayla trades her soul to a dark goddess for a chance to break the curse that keeps her people in chains. Armed with only her faith, Ayla leads a revolution against an army of half-beasts led by the immortal son of the Goddess Herself.Haylo is an Elf, but she has been raised as a human. She has never known a different life, though she knows there are Elves and that she is one of them. The family that has surrounded her with their love and care is not of her blood. She never questioned her origins. To her those about her were her family. Her mother. Her father. Her grandmother. Angel is Amy’s daughter and is unable to have a child. To Amy it is the worse thing that can happen to a woman, especially to one who lives only to hold a child in her arms as her own. Amy has seen many women who share her daughter’s fate, she has often helped them in their quest, for she is a healer and is often called to help others as they deliver their babes into the world. Not all mothers survived the ordeal of childbirth. Amy always found the orphaned children homes. Elizara is an Elven woman who has borne twins, though she is too ill to realize this. Thinking the Elf too ill to survive Amy takes one of the babies to give to her daughter to have as her own. This is their story. Views: 350
The first four novellas of Blaze Ward's Science Officer series collected together for the first time! Javier lives quite happily on his long-range scout. Alone. Away from everyone, with his chickens, his fruit trees, and Suvi, an artificial intelligence who keeps him company and runs the ship. When space pirates attack Javier's ship, they get much more than they bargained for. Much more. Join Javier Aritza, a sarcastic and quirky hero, in the first four novellas of the Science Officer, a fast-paced, action-packed science fiction series. Included in omnibus 1:
"The Science Officer"
"The Mindfield"
"The Gilded Cage"
"The Pleasure Dome" Read the rest of season one in The Science Officer, Omnibus 2.
Part of the Alexandria Station universe. Views: 349
Sienna Nealon has spent the last two months cooling her heels on the cloudy shores of Oregon, waiting for something to happen. Then one day, when she's waiting in a diner, it does - or doesn't, rather. Because time freezes, everyone around her stuck and unmoving, not conscious of anything happening. When it springs to motion again, Sienna knows that a day she's long awaited has arrived. It's time. In this twenty-ninth book in the long-running, million-selling adventures of Sienna Nealon, she finds herself traveling to Japan to locate the source of this trouble: Shin'ichi Akiyama, a man she met years ago, who promised they would meet again in his her future - his past - and whose power is to control the very flow of time itself. If she fails, Sienna won't just be responsible for the end of the world. Because now...the fate of time itself is in her hands. Views: 349
Two short stories are on the amusing side. One is about being frighten in the dark. The other is an amusing story about Santa Claus. The other two have the element of drama in them. The three poems have descriptions of the growing seasons of the year.Jack Chambers is an eleven year old boy with a love for adventure and an even greater love for his Grandad. Every Saturday Jack would help his Grandad with chores around the house whilst listening to his exciting stories from the past, some so engrossing that Jack could picture himself living them out.One cold starry night his Grandad reveals to him a secret treasure chest and a worn leather bound manuscript; ‘The Book of Legends’. From the moment Jack learns the story of the ancient book he soon finds himself on a perilous quest to find five pieces of a fallen star.His Grandad, wise and adventurous guides him on a dangerous mission from London, England to the outback of Australia where they soon encounter a group of evil men intent on finding the star before they do.Leading the enemy is an old adversary of Jack’s Grandad, a nasty man called Kazael. It does not take long for him to gain the upper hand and for Jack to be left alone in a foreign land without the support of his hero for the first time in his life.Jack must face his fears as he battles a crocodile, takes a ride on a wild Emu and with the help of three local indigenous aboriginal men tracks Kazael to a remote cave.What ensues is a climactic battle, where new allies and foes alike rush to capture the star. Views: 349
