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Arcadia descends into chaos as old villains return to town and new ones are born! While X faces down suicidal psychos, superstitious mobsters, and thrill-junkie assassins, Leigh uncovers the secrets of his past . . . before he locked on his mask and became X!

Of all the sports played across the globe, none has more curses, superstitions, or supernatural events like baseball, America's national pastime. While some of these can easily be explained, there are just as many that cannot. Field of Fantasies delves right into that superstition with short stories written by several key authors about baseball and the supernatural.

Prometheus returned to his solar system, and de Finita’s forces prepare to defend what’s theirs. The AllSeer’s return threatens to conquer both militaries in one genius move. He’ll obliterate Mars and force Prometheus to make an impossible choice: Save his friend or save his insurrection. Will de Finita bend the knee or watch billions burn alive beneath the AllSeer’s magnificent power? Will Prometheus let his friend die? Or will he abandon everything that what he’s built and risk his own life for someone he once loved?

A gunshot wound has robbed Audubon, Texas, of its top lawman at the worst possible time. Clete Lanagan and his band of outlaws have hatched a scheme to plunder the town bank of a small fortune in railroad money. When the acting sheriff, Dalton Conyers - half-brother of Smoke’s niece Rebecca - is unable to raise a posse to hunt down Lanagan’s gang, he calls on Smoke for help. But with so much cash at stake, Lanagan won’t go down without a fight.

Rejuvenates fear the backlash caused by bad drugs: they want nothing to interfere with their pursuit of long life—or the profit that comes from promising it to others. Neighbor states fear the aggressive expansion of the Familias Regnant, fueled by population growth and extended lifespan. Within the Regular Space Service, those who have received experimental rejuvenations fear they may have been intentionally given bad drugs. Esmay Suiza's family fears that her marriage to an offworlder will damage their position.

The worst has happened: Fleet is tearing itself apart. Some of the mutineers see injustice in the unequal spread of the rejuvenation drugs that offer virtual immortality to the rich; others are simply thirsty for power, or for blood. The Loyalists, meanwhile, fight desperately to preserve the rule of law in Familias Regnant space. But when Esmay Suiza-Serrano is unceremoniously booted out of Fleet, the apparent victim of family politics, she has no idea of the whirlwind of conflict into which she is about to be drawn.

King Malcom of the kingdom of Redhart is dead. The kingdom has been overrun by the forces of the Unreal. Statues live, corpses walk and nothing is as it seems. One of Malcom's three sons may assume the throne, but two will have to die. Jordan, the great actor, is hired to impersonate Prince Viktor, who is ill, but can't be seen in public as weak.

Mr. Hatch ärgert sich gewaltig über den Professor, betrinkt sich und wird für die Fremdenlegion angeworben. Ehe er sich's versieht, muss er durch die Sahara zum Fort Bou-Yallah, das von wilden Beduinen belagert wird. Van Dusen macht sich auf, ihn zu retten. Er verkleidet sich als Marabout, isst Hammelaugen und erfindet, ganz nebenbei, den Helikopter. Mit diesem taucht er über dem Fort auf, verscheucht die Beduinen und rettet Hatch mittels einer heruntergelassenen Seils.

The last time the racist dictator known as the Archon came to Arcadia, he mistook X for an old nemesis and beat him to within an inch of his life. Now the Archon is back, along with his actual nemesis, a mysterious figure called the Mark--and their ancient battle threatens to tear Arcadia to the ground! Even if X can halt a superpowered grudge match, can he rescue his beloved city from the scars it leaves?

Tango’s gang was a handful, but the Archon and his army, the Chosen, are more powerful than any enemy X has ever faced! Betrayed or abandoned by his allies, X must face Arcadia’s newest threat the old-fashioned way: alone!

In 1766, an insatiable vampire sails from London to the Malabar Coast, aboard an East India Company ship. But along the shores of the Indus lurk darker and more ancient powers, and a war is brewing in the night. Two centuries after the first European ship sailed to the Malabar Coast and made landfall at Calicut, The East India Company seeks to secure its future along the lucrative Silk Route, in the year 1766. An old evil now sails aboard a company ship, hoping to make a home in this new found land.

Noch ganz überwältigt von ihrem Ausflug zum Planeten Venus wollen der kleine Major Tom, Stella und Plutinchen durch das Wurmloch zurück zur Erde fliegen, um ihren Bericht zum Einsatz der neuen Forschungsluftschiffe abzuliefern. Beim Technikcheck stellen sie fest, dass der Hitzeschild ihres Raumschiffs beschädigt ist. Ein Eintritt in die Atmosphäre der Erde ist so unmöglich. Kurzerhand entschließt sich die Crew des Space Racers, stattdessen zur Mondbasis zu fliegen und ihr Raumschiff reparieren zu lassen. Doch dort tragen sich merkwürdige Dinge zu.

Lola se réveille avec des mots doux dans la bouche. Il faut qu'elle les dise à quelqu'un, mais Papa s'en va déjà et Maman est trop pressée... Claude K. Dubois aime parler de tendresse aux enfants comme aux adultes, parfois avec humour, toujours avec complicité. Elle souhaite partager les choses, parler au-delà des mots.

Nous nous sommes connus au Star Circus, Oregon et moi. Il passait juste avant mon numéro et je le raccompagnais tous les soirs jusqu'à sa cage. Un jour, il m'a parlé, et voici ce qu'il m'a dit.