System Fiction

In the vast, artificial galaxy called the Spin, a rebellion has been crushed. Viklun Hass is eliminating all remnants of the opposition. Starting with his daughter. But Fleare Hass has had time to plan her next move from exile to the very frontiers of a new war. For hundreds of millions of years, the planets and stars of the Spin have been the only testament to the godlike engineers who created them. Now, beneath the surface of a ruined planet, one of their machines has been found.

Descubre la adaptación de Cuento de Navidad de Charles Dickens. La adaptación ha sido realizada por Kathleen Hershner y está concebida para que la comprensión auditiva se adapte a un nivel intermedio, de esta forma puedes seguir la historia y mejorar tu inglés al mismo tiempo.

Ryan DeBruyn presents Book 3 in the New System, Who Dis? series.

Step into the twisted geometry of nightmare in H. P. Lovecraft’s The Dreams in the Witch House. When Walter Gilman, a student at Miskatonic University, rents a room in Arkham’s infamous Witch House, he believes its strange angles hide cosmic secrets. Gilman is drawn into a nightmare of black magic, forbidden mathematics, and sacrificial horror.

Step into the macabre world of Herbert West–Reanimator, H. P. Lovecraft’s chilling tale of science gone too far. First published in 1922, this groundbreaking horror classic follows the brilliant but unhinged Dr. Herbert West, a medical student obsessed with conquering death itself.

Step into the chilling world of H. P. Lovecraft’s The Colour Out of Space, a landmark tale of cosmic horror and science fiction. When a strange meteorite crashes onto Nahum Gardner’s farm, it unleashes a terrifying force beyond human comprehension—an indescribable “colour” that poisons the land, warps nature, and drives the Gardner family into despair and madness. Blending eerie atmosphere, rural isolation, and the unknown terror of extraterrestrial presence, this story stands as one of Lovecraft’s most haunting masterpieces.

Step into the perilous streets of Zamboula in Robert E. Howard’s Shadows in Zamboula, a gripping sword-and-sorcery adventure featuring Conan the Cimmerian. In this pulse-pounding tale of intrigue, betrayal, and survival, Conan faces sinister tavern keepers, bloodthirsty cannibals, and a treacherous priest in a city where danger lurks at every corner.

Within a space opera landscape, Harmony explores the spirituality of a different human culture bound by a rigid caste system. Laudae Sissy, the new High Priestess of the world called Harmony, reaches across all seven castes of her society, seeking a new unity that will protect their isolation from the rest of the galaxy. But other cultures and races are testing their borders, searching for the most valuable commodity in civilized space.

Auf der Spur einer Verschwörung: Bei einem magischen Fest in London wird Lucys Leben mit einem Schlag auf den Kopf gestellt: Ihre Großmutter wird vor ihren Augen entführt und Lucy kann sich danach an nichts erinnern! Zum Glück hat sie Freunde, die ihr zur Seite stehen - und ihre magischen Objekte. Denn Lucy hat ein ganz besonderes Talent: Sie ist eine Spellcrafterin und kann Gegenständen Magie einhauchen. Doch die Suche nach der Wahrheit führt sie auf eine gefährliche Spur. In London ist die Magie außer Kontrolle geraten.

His heart is dead, The Emperor's mighty army roams the lands with impunity, and Sabashton's puny 'rebellion' is in jeopardy of ending before it even gets started. This isn't a game anymore, he isn't sure it ever was. With the future of Infinity and the entirety of human history on the line - Ash must follow Lady V into the underworld to find The Key and claim The Orb before The Corruptor does.

In its oppressive atmosphere of fog, mist, and mud, nothing conjures up the dreary days of November and its "implacable" weather like the celebrated opening of Bleak House. The plot concerns a long-running legal dispute (Jarndyce and Jarndyce) that has far-reaching consequences for all involved. Dickens' assault on the flaws of the British judiciary system is based in part on his own experiences as a law clerk.

Twenty-one-year-old narcoleptic Angel Duet knows her father harbors secrets. He loves and protects her, but his suspicious refusal to discuss her mother's death drives Angel to worship an image created from the little history she does have: her father's sketchy stories and her mother's treasured photography, studies of clouds that have hung in the their foyer for more than twenty years. When her father's girlfriend moves in, the photographs come down, and Angel's search for truth becomes an obsession.

A space cloud of unknown composition is on a collision course with Earth as the world holds its breath. The anomaly sails through the solar system, and the International Space Station, along with three astronauts and one cosmonaut, are thrown back to the Cretaceous period, where dinosaurs roam Earth hunting prey and great pterosaurs patrol the skies.

Die Terranisch-Imperiale Liga führt seit Jahren Krieg gegen die Drizil. Als die Drizil schließlich eine erfolgreiche Invasion des Sol-Systems durchführen und ihnen nach erbittertem Kampf sogar die Erde in die Hände fällt, scheint alle Hoffnung verloren. Vielerorts bricht der organisierte Widerstand zusammen. Lediglich einige wenige, isoliert liegende, menschliche Kolonien entgehen dem Zugriff des Feindes. Eine dieser letzten freien Enklaven der Menschheit ist der abgelegene Planet Perseus die Heimatbasis der 18. Legion.

How much of yourself are you willing to sell? At twenty-five, Simon Worth is a med school dropout, facing the grim reality of failure and massive student loans. Left with few options, he becomes an organ broker for a black-market organization, matching cash-strapped donors with recipients whose...

When a deadly plague ravaged the Earth refugees fled into space, crowding into any space station or lunar colony that would take them. Decades passed and the descendants of the survivors struggle to live in anything remotely spaceworthy. Omesh, banished from his Earthly home, finds himself in Barnacle Town. A collection of salvage clinging to the hull of a space station in lunar orbit. Thousands of lives cling precariously to the hull, at the whim of the corporation that owns the station.

Jacob, Ron, and the two editors-in-chief are on their way to a meeting that will be held at the Washington Sentinel's building. The four will sort through the information from the Valley of the Dead field doctor. The four newspaper professionals will lay out their strategy for breaking the story to the world. Every consequence must be discussed. The legal portion must be considered if Names are to be Named. Back at the university, the four research students have gained permission to study off-campus at Deborah's place, but is it safe?

After carving out a foothold in this odd new world, Long Fang must now defend it. Enemies swarm when the System calls for war, but cultivators thrive on the brink of disaster. As foes of incredible strength gear up to destroy Lonely Mountain, Long Fang pulls out all stops in his quest for power. But can he make it in time, or will the sect fall? Fortunately, he is no longer alone. The world's most inventive kobolds are about to turn the System on its head.

"For a woman who thinks of herself as a New Yorker at this point, I buy a lot of clothes from companies named things like Shrimp & Grits. Why? Because identity is complicated." Elizabeth Passarella is content with being complicated. She grew up in Memphis in a conservative Republican family with...

Amy Hawkins, a young dot-com executive from California who has made her fortune at the top of NASDAQ, sets off for Europe to find culture, her roots, and maybe a cause to devote her considerable fortune to. Amy starts her quest at one of the finest small hotels in the French Alps--a hotel noted...