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Pirates and kraken, boats and submarines, deadly sirens, mermaids, and the women who face them all. These are our heroes. High seas adventure, fantasy, and magic weave together in this sapphic anthology focusing on the joy of the unbounded oceans.

One of Amazon's Top 10 YA novels for 2013. Featuring stories by Neil Gaiman, Garth Nix and the authors of Beautiful Creatures, Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, this is a unique and imaginative collection for readers of all ages. There are some stories that will always be told, tales as timeless...

What begins as a trip to unlock the secrets of famed healing springs transforms into far more when Alaeron, an alchemist and explorer, learns of a tomb full of ancient relics and wealth. There's only one problem - the other would-be tomb robbers got there first. Can Alaeron talk his way to treasure, or would he have been better off staying in the healing pools?

After her grandmother is murdered in a home invasion, Tamsin Culver leaves her cushy programming job in San Francisco and returns to her Midwestern hometown to settle the estate. What she doesn't expect is to find out her grandmother's life-changing secret. She's not an Earth native but an exile from another level of the Nigh-Space continuum, an adjacent reality with technology far more advanced than ours. What's more, her grandmother ruled there as an oligarch, meaning Tamsin is the heir to vast wealth only accessible by someone from her bloodline.

Die Galaxis steht am Rande des Krieges, doch noch besteht Hoffnung, dass das riesige Netz von Intrigen aufgedeckt werden kann, bevor es zu spät ist. Als die Agentin Amina Azad einen hacanischen Botschafter vor einem Attentat rettet, zieht sie ihn in ihre Ermittlungen über eine gewaltige Verschwörung hinein. Unsichtbare Kräfte destabilisieren die gesamte Galaxie, und das zum denkbar ungünstigsten Zeitpunkt – denn gerüchteweise kehren die uralten „Herrscher der Galaxie“ zurück. Verfolgt von Agenten Dutzender anderer Fraktionen, können Azad und der Botschafter nur etwas erreichen, wenn sie sich mit ihren Feinden verbünden.

The Unidentified Funny Objects series delivers an annual dose of funny, zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices!

Das Geheimnis zur Herrschaft über die Galaxie ist auf einem weit entfernten Planeten versteckt, und interplanetare Mächte würden alles tun, um es zu entschlüsseln. Der zweite Band, nach Zerbrochene Leere, der epischen Space Opera im Universum des beliebten Brettspiels Twilight Imperium. Bianca Xing hat ihr Leben auf einem Provinzplaneten damit verbracht, davon zu träumen, die Sterne zu bereisen.

Eine tapfere Raumschiffbesatzung wird in die Machenschaften interplanetarer Mächte hineingezogen, die um galaktische Vorherrschaft streiten. Ein grandioses Weltraumepos zu dem Strategie-Brettspiel "Twilight Imperium". Captain Felix Duval und die Crew der Temerarious sind gerade auf Patrouille in einem abgelegenen Kolonialsystem der Mentak-Koalition unterwegs, als ein Notruf von einem Mond, der unter Beschuss steht, der beschaulichen Ruhe ein Ende setzt. Sie retten einen Wissenschaftler namens Thales, der eine revolutionäre Technologie zur Erschaffung neuer Wurmlöcher entwickelt hat.

Welcome to the monthly Student of Life Podcast with Tim Pratt Jr. This is a space where we lean into real life with honesty, authenticity, and balanced transparency. It’s not about chasing more information, we already have plenty of that. We’re not here just to collect more knowledge, we’re here to apply it, to walk it out, and to grow in wisdom. My prayer is that as you listen, God meets you in a personal way, revealing truths that have been with you all along and equipping you for the journey ahead. For more information go over to https://linktr.ee/tlprattjr

Teenager Miranda Candle finds a mysterious necklace and is suddenly transported to The Nex, the bizarre city at the center of all possible universes, where she falls in with a pair of would-be revolutionaries - the skinshifter Howlaa and the bodiless Wisp - fighting the oppressive regime of the city-state's Regent and his army of steam colossi, cynical cyborgs, and the depraved royal orphans.

This delightful true story, written in the first person by the spouse of the title character, will have readers reliving their own pasts. Baby boomers will surely savor references to the pop culture, history, and politics of their collective youth as they get caught up in the personal lives of the author and his spouse. In an afternoon you will learn how a speeding ticket and an interest in four-part a cappella harmony intersected with the Cold War to start the protagonists on the road to holy matrimony.