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When the alien Exlian invade, humanity’s only hope lies with the empowered, those rare few granted supernatural abilities. Mark Fields isn’t one of them. He’s a dishwasher with broken dreams, no powers, and even less luck. Until a dying stranger changes everything. Suddenly, Mark has what he’s always wanted: the power to fight back. To prove himself. To rise. But as he joins the Defense Force and begins to level up, he quickly learns that the System hides secrets of its own—and that monsters aren’t always alien. Some wear human faces.

Wormhole technology has revealed that our sun will die in 5,000,000 years. A race of superbeings, the fabulous Xeelee, owners of the universe, are thought to be responsible. The bizarre and wealthy cult, the Superet, funds two projects aimed at combatting the force that will murder the sun.

Il professor Albert Wilmarth, insegnante di letteratura inglese presso la Miskatonic University, è anche un appassionato studioso del folklore del New England. In seguito ad alcuni suoi articoli sul giornale locale, che tendono a mettere in ridicolo voci di apparizioni di "strani esseri" nei boschi del Vermont, egli viene contattato dallo studioso Henry Akeley, che afferma di aver avuto un contatto ravvicinato con entità aliene sulle colline del Vermont.

Secondo l'"Enciclopedia della Fantascienza" ""A Martian Odyssey" fu il primo tentativo di descrivere la vita su un altro pianeta come un complesso di equilibri biologici, ecologici ed etici, con approfondimento e credibilità, ben lontani dalla descrizione di mostri e mutazioni spesso demenziali che erano la linea generale seguita dagli altri autori del periodo." Tutto ciò vale anche per le altre storie interplanetarie di Stanley Weinbaum, che molti considerano fondamentali per l'evoluzione della fantascienza moderna, e in particolare per questo "I mangiatori di loto".

Forced to sacrifice herself by disappearing into Earth's distant past to preserve humanity's future and escape a galactic menace even she cannot resist, Valerie begins a new life 7,000 years in the past. She feels safe in this realm until confronted by an alien resource seeker drone determined to reveal the secret of Earth's riches to those that would covet them. The vile thing is quickly destroyed by the awesome power of the five rings, but not soon enough...

In a galaxy on the edge of cosmic oblivion, one girl must embrace a power she never summoned and fulfill a destiny she never chose. An action-packed, coming-of-age fiction series about a girl who must navigate her way through a purpose she never knew existed. Book One in The Hesaurun Ring Series kickstarts the epic scifi thriller that'll have listeners clutching their seats in suspense and excitement.

Lynn Raven may be the boss master of WarMonger 2050 with her online persona of "Larry the Snake", but when the CEO of Tsunami Entertainment personally asks her, as a favor, to beta test a new augmented-reality game, she has to face her greatest fear: going outside and dealing with, ugh, people.