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Set in our world, spanning the near to distant future, the author, Arwen Elys Dayton, explores the possible consequences of advanced medical breakthroughs and how they may shape and reshape humanity. From organ donation to plastic surgery to full bodily reconstruction, these stories take you by your (for now, organic) hand and lead you into a future where the line between person and machine becomes increasingly blurred. Deeply thoughtful, poignant, horrifying and action-packed, this novel strikes new ground while also seeming so strangely...likely. Just try to disconnect.

Doug has a normal, quiet life: he has a decent job, eats a lot of tacos, and plays video games with his best bud Ray. But it all goes out of control when Ray brings over a chemical he stole from his job, with the ability to turn animals into amazing human-animal hybrids and people into super soldiers.

In a future where birth is rare and obedience is engineered, one girl becomes the wild card in a game no one fully controls. The year is 2084. Civilization hasn’t collapsed—but it’s quietly dying. Fertility rates have plummeted. Automation has replaced most human labor. Governments cling to order by any means necessary. When Jane Aldridge, the daughter of a powerful Air Force general, is offered a place in a secret neuroscience program, she doesn’t realize the procedure will do more than alter her memory. It changes her.

En un futuro lejano, la humanidad está al borde de la desaparición. Dispersos en pequeñas tribus bajo el cuidado de unas enigmáticas «Madres», los últimos humanos intentan sobrevivir en un planeta irreconocible. Algunos niños nacen en fábricas, creados a partir de células de animales; otros se nutren a través de la fotosíntesis, como las plantas. Tal vez la continuidad de la especie dependa del mestizaje con estas nuevas criaturas, pero nadie sabe si los vínculos y la sociedad lograrán perdurar.

In this action-packed sci-fi thriller from the bestselling author of the Sol Saga, a man is on a mission to stop his family's killer no matter what—or when. Andrew Frost had been gone no more than fifteen minutes. It was just supposed to be a quick run to the store. But in that brief interval...

Persephone Station, a seemingly backwater planet that has largely been ignored by the United Republic of Worlds, becomes the focus for the Serrao-Orlov Corporation as the planet has a few secrets the corporation wants to exploit. Rosie, owner of Monk's Bar, serves members of a rather exclusive criminal class and those who seek to employ them. Angel, ex-marine and head of a semi-organized band of beneficent criminals, wayward assassins, and washed-up mercenaries with a penchant for doing the honorable thing, is asked to perform a job for Rosie.

On a rescue mission in the heart of the Indonesian jungle, Dr. Draden Freeman and his GhostWalker team need to extract the wounded as quickly as possible - or risk spreading a deadly virus unleashed by a terrorist cell. When Draden gets infected, he forces his team to leave him behind. He won’t risk exposing anyone else. He intends to find the ones responsible and go out in a blaze of glory. Shylah Cosmos’ mission is to track the virus and remain unseen. Her enhanced senses tell her that the gorgeous man eradicating the terrorists one by one is a GhostWalker.

At first, it was hailed as a miracle of science. In reality, it was a catastrophic mistake. Dr. Elliot Alere never imagined his greatest achievement would become his greatest regret. Driven by ambition and the promise of medical breakthroughs, he accomplished the impossible: resurrecting an extinct marine predator—the cameroceras. He believed the ancient cephalopod could unlock new frontiers in science. Instead, he unleashed a monster. When the creature escapes mid-transport, it vanishes into the waters surrounding Green Pastures, a quiet island off the West Coast.

The final book in an action-packed science fiction trilogy set on a far-future world where the fate of nations is determined by single combat: "that rare book that fully satisfies me as an action fan." (Fonda Lee, author of Jade City) The Grievar War has engulfed the Empire of Kiroth and Silas...

They won the battle. For now. But Junco lost more than she can handle to get that job done. The ancient aliens are returning to Earth and their long-awaited prophecy is about to unfold. Lucan and his army need Junco to do her job if they have any chance of living through the ancient prophecy. They need her to follow directions and focus. But Junco’s friends are dead - some of them at her own hand. Her home is gone, her mind is more unstable than ever, and ghosts from the past are haunting her.

When an alien spacecraft crashes near a university, two average student-athletes, Bill and Greg, survive a freak accident—only to discover that their bodies now host nanites designed for healing. Instead, the nanites elevate their intelligence, accelerate their recovery abilities, and make them targets in a global game of power, surveillance, and secrets. Determined to use their abilities for good, they begin developing world-changing technologies: clean energy systems, self-sustaining infrastructure, and tools designed to empower the forgotten corners of the world.

On May 1st, 2067, the world fell. One thing Zebadiah Pratt - or Zee to his friends - won’t abide, though, is slavery, even in a Fallen World. So when friends of his find a shipment of gene-modified child slaves, he knows something must be done. There’s only one problem: The slaves came from an island owned by the infamous Dr. Laroue, a noted geneticist and the creator of many of the imprints the Obsidian Corporation used to create its super-soldiers. He’s going to need help.

U.S. spy satellites over Asia make a disturbing discovery. An arachnid, an elephant-sized creature created by an alien race, is roaming a forest in North Korea. How did it get there? What is its purpose? Is it a weapon of some kind? When there’s complete radio silence from the North Koreans, and further satellite images show the area around the creature being evacuated, the U.S. decides to send a joint military and scientific team to investigate.

A French diplomat is walking alone down a darkened Paris side street when a killer emerges from the shadows. He stuns the Frenchman, cuts his body into quarters, and leaves a note that reads: "This is for Brazil!" It is the ninth murder in this fashion in the last two months—a string of round-the-world killings that strikes fear into the hearts of all those connected with the bloody Brazilian wars of the past decade.

A plane carrying a Russian biochemist crashes in the Alaskan wilderness with no survivors. A dying billionaire launches a final fight against death amid whispers of a now defunct military bioweapon: Project Snowcap. The world's leading CRISPR virologist, Doctor Elijah Vance, hovers on the edge of a breakthrough that will alter humanity at its most fundamental level. 

There are always scourges in the universe. This time, they found the wrong prey. Bethany Anne is trying to ignore that Michael is out hunting a beast to bring back 10 tons of meat when she gets an unexpected call. The group of friends hanging out on New Devon have come up with a devious way to protect their client's money, while building a fortune by outsourcing their jobs. Will Bethany Anne take high Tortuga to war? The children work to make something special for Mother’s Day. Unfortunately, it comes with an unexpected adventure.

Toorop, a hard-boiled leatherneck veteran, has been hired to escort a young woman from Russia to Canada. But Marie is no ordinary girl. A schizophrenic and a possible carrier of a new artificial virus, Marie is bearing a mutant embryo created by an American cult, which dreams of producing a genetically modified messiah that will end all human life as we know it.

Civilisation has ended. In a bid to make us more productive, to give us more time, science took sleep from humanity. But sleeplessness turned people into feral monsters, and now a small group of scientists are trapped in the Tower of London, consumed by guilt at what they have done and desperately searching for a cure. And then one day, as the last ravens circle, two miraculous survivors walk into the Tower.

In a not-too-distant future, a simple outpatient procedure that has been promised to increase empathy between romantic partners has become all the rage. So when Briddey Flannigan's fiancé proposes that he and Briddey undergo the procedure, she is delighted! Only, the results aren't quite as expected. Instead of gaining an increased empathetic link with her fiancé, Briddey finds herself hearing the actual thoughts of one of the nerdiest techs in her office. And that's the least of her problems.

Carter Langston is murdered whilst salvaging a derelict vessel - a major inconvenience as he's downloaded into a brand new body on the space station where he backed up, several weeks' journey away. But events quickly slip out of control when an assassin breaks into the medbay and tries to finish the job. Death no longer holds sway over a humanity that has spread across the solar system: consciousness can be placed in a new body, or coil, straight after death, giving people the potential for immortality.