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2110. Earth is suffering major resource shortages, and the impact of climate change is peaking. Colonies have been established on Mars and the Moon, but these cannot hope to sustain any more than hundreds of citizens. Attention has turned to the need to discover an extra-solar colony world. Scientists have identified the means of creating a wormhole in the space-time continuum, which would allow interstellar travel. However, to do so they must first physically transport one end of the wormhole to where they want it to be, so setting up a wormhole will always rely on physical travel.

The autobiography of one of the greatest pilots in history. In 1939 Eric Brown was on a University of Edinburgh exchange course in Germany, and the first he knew of the war was when the Gestapo came to arrest him. They released him, not realising he was a pilot in the RAF volunteer reserve - and the rest is history. Eric Brown joined the Fleet Air Arm and went on to be the greatest test pilot in history, flying more different aircraft types than anyone else.

Five hundred years from its launch, the colony vessel Lovelock is deep into its sub lightspeed journey, carrying four thousand humans in search of a habitable planet. When a series of explosions tear the ship apart, it is forced to land on the nearest possible location: a polar section of the Helix—a vast, spiral construct of worlds, wound about a G-type sun.

Featuring contributions from fabulous horror indie authors, this filthy collection of extreme body horror tales is not for those easily offended. These stories contain common tropes used within the broader horror genre, as well as some characteristics more specific to the body horror subgenre to include; pornography, invasion, contagion, mutation, transformation, disease, mutilation, or other unnatural or violent distortions of the human body.

It's the 22nd century. Humanity has taken its first steps into the galaxy, and we've found ourselves in a vast playground of alien races, environments, and cultures. As the newest players on the universal stage, though, our position is readily apparent - we're at the bottom of the food chain.

Cole has heard it all before - token, bougie, oreo, Blackish - the things we call the kids like him. Black kids who grow up in white spaces, living at an intersection of race and class that many doubt exists. He needed to get far away from the preppy site of his upbringing before he could make sense of it all. Through a series of personal anecdotes and interviews with his peers, Cole transports us to his adolescence and explores what it's like to be young and in search of identity. 

Lowah, Alaska was a quiet, little town in the middle of nowhere—until workers sent by an American corporation arrived to reopen its long closed mine. Protests erupted, but they were nothing to what was coming next. No one knew the Sasquatch tribes in the woods surrounding the town had claimed the mine as their own until it was too late.

Danny's family were brutally slaughtered by a Sasquatch before his eyes when he was a small child. No one believed him. Now, grown up and a professional soldier, Danny has returned home to make the beast pay. Unfortunately for him, not everything is as it seems, and there just may be more lurking in the woods than he's prepared to deal with.

Embark on an electrifying adventure as a daring expedition plunges deep into the untamed heart of the Amazon rainforest, in search of the legendary lost city of Nakaq. But the thrill of discovery quickly transforms into a fight for survival, as the fearless explorers uncover a terrifying secret: a barbaric tribe of flesh-eating savages.

Dr. Jason Phisher has been haunted by nightmares his entire life. They show him glimpses of the future and of dark things yet to come. Now Phisher finds himself kidnapped by ruthless mercenaries who demand his help in locating the pieces of a lost, ancient artifact that holds immense power. Phisher is about to find out that monsters of his nightmares are very real as he encounters Yeti, Sasquatch, and more on a globe-trotting adventure to find The Lost Relic.

Once every 10,000 years, the walls between worlds grow thin. The stars align, and hell is close. It is the time of The Sha’Daa. Ground Zero for this bloodcurdling attack is none other than New York City’s Central Park, a battlefield resurrecting all that ever lived and died in planet Earth’s history.  

The rains came, flooding the sleepy little town of Sylva. Sheriff Hanson never thought that he would be fighting a battle to survive against real life monsters, but with the waters came hungry, flesh-eating creatures that swept through Sylva's streets like locusts, devouring everyone in their path.

A group of friends head into the woods for a hike that will forever change their lives. Their grand adventure soon becomes a desperate fight for survival as they very quickly learn that some monsters are indeed very real...and very hungry. 

All David Conway wants after the death of his daughter and the break-up of his marriage is a quiet life away from Earth, and when he comes to Chalcedony, he thinks he's found that. What he does find is a group of people whose friendship will change his life forever, as well as a haunted starship, extraterrestrials with an uncanny ability to read future events, and a conflict between alien races that has lasted for millennia - and is about to begin all over again. 

In the market for a home, but don't know where to start? Not to worry! From financing, mortgages, and credit scores, to closing the deal, best-selling real-estate authors Eric Tyson and Ray Brown walk you step by step through the entire home-buying process.

Bigfoot War: After the Fall picks up where the original Bigfoot War and Bigfoot War: Redneck Apocalypse left off. A mixed group of soldiers and civilians have taken shelter inside a paper mill, making it their home. There they hope to survive the Sasquatch Apocalypse.

No one would have believed that planet Earth was being watched by creatures more intelligent than humankind. But planet Earth was not only being watched--soon it would be invaded by monstrous creatures from Mars who strode about the land in great mechanical tripods, bringing death and destruction with them. What could possibly stop an invading army equipped with heat rays and poisonous black gas, intent on wiping out the human race?

"On this machine, I intend to explore time..." The time traveller has invented a time machine. Its capabilities are beyond even his fertile imagination. Hundreds of thousand of years in the future, the beautiful Eloi people live in a Garden of Eden. But why are they so fearful of the dark? What horrors lurk beneath the surface of their world? What will the time traveller learn about the future? Will he survive the evil he encounters? Even if he can find his stolen machine, will it return him safely home?

A century later, the Farr family continues to thrive. A new generation of wolves walks the Earth with Zed as their leader. From the depths of space arrives an army of aliens with superior technology and a massive power-armored force of troops. Their goal: To take the Earth and make it their own. Now only the Farr family and their allies in the world of the supernatural can save the human race from being utterly destroyed. It's werewolves vs. aliens in this action-filled tale of war and interplanetary conquest.

A small band of survivors is on the run during the zombie apocalypse. Led by a mysterious man with an arsenal of deadly military weapons, they must work together to stay alive. In a desperate attempt to locate other survivors, they find sanctuary in a lone farmhouse, only to discover the surrounding woods hold more dangers than just bloodthirsty undead. Featuring Sasquatch, roving rotters, and even more surprises, Last Stand in a Dead Land is an explosion of cross-genre action.