Metaphysical Science

Booklist calls the world of Hugo Award winner Elizabeth Bear’s spellbinding Jacob’s Ladder series “magnificently populated, well worth visiting.” Here the trilogy that began with Dust and Chill draws to its stunning conclusion. The passengers of the generation spaceship Jacob’s Ladder have found a new home at last. But the planet Grail is already inhabited - and its population of genetically engineered humans has no intention of sharing the world.

Altai has always considered himself lucky, but this time, his luck at the Range may have run out. His first venture into the Orange Zone turned out to be a setup, a standard leveling up mission proved to be disastrous, and an epic quest cost the lives of his squadmates. Moreover, he found himself teetering on the brink of survival. Now, Altai's life depends on an experimental neural network and an alien creature whose sole purpose is to subjugate his consciousness and turn him into a living weapon.

In 2296, an unstoppable mass extinction is underway, and history proves society will collapse before it can change. Climate Council scientists have no choice but to unveil the Dawn Project. Their audacious plan will terraform the planet back to life… by erasing its civilization. Biologist Kaia Badra commits her life to the project’s success at all costs after a storm surge takes her parents.

In isolated British Columbia, girls, mostly native, are vanishing from the sides of a notorious highway. Leo Kreutzer and his four friends are barely touched by these disappearances-until a series of mysterious and troublesome outsiders come to town. Then it seems as if the devil himself has appeared among them.

When MIT physicist Dr. Velcro Threadbare builds a Sock Singularity Engine to solve the mystery of missing socks, she accidentally tears a hole in the fabric of reality—literally. Now socks across the multiverse have gained sentience, and they're not happy. The matched wage war against the unmatched. A pug named Sir Barksalot becomes the Sock Pope, preaching liberation through deliberate mispairing. Criminal flamingo syndicates trade in celebrity sock radiation.

In the 1000th iteration of the universe, sensing that her death is drawing closer, the Supreme Deity of the Milky Way Galaxy decides to reincarnate into a human form to stop her demise. In her visions, the only one who can save her is a human who is yet to be born. The True Maker creates Gaia and sends her on a mission: to join the Zetan species and create the Garden of Eden on Earth to prevent humanity from going extinct during the Mount Toba Ice Age. On her quest to save humankind, Gaia meets the Zetan siblings Kailow and Areela. Together they set out to find the Zeto Crystals.

For Bobbie, the normal difficulties of growing up are overshadowed by his unique condition. Bobbie's inability to communicate normally is misdiagnosed as autism, and masks the great part in history he is destined to play. His unique ability to create beautiful works of art is just the tip of the iceberg. Coveted by those who would use him for their own purpose, Bobbie and his mother flee their home out of desperation. In the course of their escape, the truth behind Bobbie's gift and its effects on the planet begin to reveal themselves, as the future of humanity hangs in the balance.

This audiobook inquires into the fundamental nature of human beings and what makes each of us function as a unique identity. This inquiry is essential in identifying what's actually present when you and I (human being) shows up.

Lucille was never meant to walk the path of the ordinary. Born of spirit, shadow, and fire, her calling was written beyond the veil. Pulled between family duty and a destiny whispered by spirits, she carries a sight that reaches deeper than the living world. Guided by Mama June’s wisdom, tested by shadows that seek her soul, and marked by Sophie the raven’s watchful eye, Lucille must decide, shrink into silence, or rise into the woman the ancestors named before her birth.

The 1018 presents the African Love/Wisdom System of the Laws of One—The works of Army Special Forces Veteran Obalajii Khephren Rust. What was a chance meeting during the Vietnam war sent Obalajii Khephren Rust on a 40-year journey in search of metaphysical principles that underlie everyday life. Over the course of 40 years Obalajii Khephren Rust produced thousands of pages of handwritten 'fact-sheets' on the 11 areas of human activity: economics, education, war, sex, politics, labor, entertainment, law, metaphysics, religion and energetics.

Embark on an epic fantasy adventure with reimagined divine beings in this alternate telling of one of humanity's famed creation stories. Adonai and Helel are equal and co-existing on their realm of Alegion. Together, they utilize a planetary dominion in the effort to grow an instinctual need to create and learn about their evolving powers.

It's August 1965, and Los Angeles is scorching. Americo Monk, a street-haunting aficionado of graffiti, is frantically trying to return home to the makeshift harbor community (assembled from old shipping containers) where he lives with his girlfriend, Karmann. But this is during the Watts Riots, and although his status as a chronicler of all things underground garners him free passage through the territories fiercely controlled by gangs, his trek is nevertheless diverted.

In this epic, mythical debut novel, a newly-wed couple escapes the busy confusion of their homeland for a distant and almost-uninhabited lakeshore. They plan to live there simply, to fish the lake, to trap the nearby woods, and build a house upon the dirt between where they can raise a family. But as their every pregnancy fails, the child-obsessed husband begins to rage at this new world: the song-spun objects somehow created by his wife’s beautiful singing voice, the giant and sentient bear that rules the beasts of the woods, the second moon weighing down the fabric of their starless sky, and the labyrinth of memory dug into the earth beneath their house.

The survivor writing to us is an empathic 18-year-old named Tommy. He’s been sealed in a three-acre biosphere with just one other person, and the outside world has been radio-silent for the three years of their enclosure. Tommy is in telepathic contact with someone living during our time who may hold the key to an evolutionary metamorphosis. The journals, entitled Parallel Journeys, have been sent back in time to inspire you to create your own metamorphic butterfly effects to help our species avoid extinction and survive in a new form.

This work is dedicated to the listeners who seek narratives that challenge, provoke, and ultimately resonate with the very essence of their being. To those who appreciate the intricate dance between fact and fiction, science and speculation, and who are unafraid to confront the uncomfortable truths hidden beneath the surface of reality. Your intellect, your curiosity, and your willingness to engage with complex themes are the driving force behind this endeavor. Your imagination, the boundless canvas upon which these words are painted, is what truly gives this story life.

En esta emotiva novela descubriremos que el mundo fue creado por 22 dioses, fundadores de las diferentes razas humanas para aumentar ¡su poder! Seremos testigos de cómo esos dioses utilizaron las 22 Cartas Arcanas Mayores del tarot egipcio, en un juego creado por la luz y la oscuridad para incrementar el control sobre la raza humana. En el centro de esa lucha conoceremos al SCAN, grupo político-económico secreto que domina los recursos del poder en la Tierra.

An ancient map, a strange prophecy, and anyone who dares speak of it, dies. A new enemy enters the Valla arena, but this one is as old as time and seeks a forbidden place. An ancient map points the way. Sorcery and technology work together to contain a creature created of time and fire. The terrible secret of the source of Valla power is uncovered and, as friends and family are murdered, Torrullin reveals the truth about the Valla Dragon, a secret about greed from the era of Nemisin.

What if all brain disorders were treatable? Few would lament the passing of dementia or autism, but what if the twisted mind of a sex offender or murderer could be cured, too? Or how about a terrorist or maybe a political extremist? What if we could all be "corrected"? Welcome to the Condition: The Complete Trilogy, a series of near-future fiction novels on the cusp of becoming a frightening reality.

From the realms of prophecy and reincarnation to the reality of ancient dragons, feathered magicians, and Darak Ors, from dreams to the scrying bowl, from thrones to forest clearings, this epic sci-fi/fantasy omnibus edition journeys through, and finely weaves, fact, and fantasy. Part One includes The Kallanon Scales, and The Nemisin Star. A city of stone is discovered in a place forbidden to all. An ancient map leads them there and it changes the future. Ancient kingdoms are exposed, as well as shadowy spheres of influence.

The Andy Series: Season One is an omnibus collection of the eight novellas in the thought-provoking Andy science fiction series. If you like AI with a soul, biting social commentary, and quirky characters, then you’ll love Dirk Walvoord’s futuristic fable.