Kazro never asked for the quest. With nothing but a broken interface and dogged determination, he sets out to deliver a ceremonial scythe to a princess he’s never met. But when he glimpses her in the crowd, a jolt of familiarity strikes like thunder. Before he can uncover the truth, chaos erupts—the King of the Sundust Reaches storms the city, smacks Kazro aside, and abducts the royal family for a mass sacrifice.

After a decade of silence the Battle Engines march once again... The ancient world has given way to chimneys billowing the smoke of industry into the sky of Tarn. With industry comes technology no one a hundred years prior could have dreamed of. And with those dreams came weapons more destructive than ever. The Engines were invented to benefit the people yet were instead used as massive engines of war. The cannons of the great battle engines have been silent for a decade, their marches only echoes from long ago. While the battles are long gone, the scars linger. Then unstable peace is ...

Thousands of years have passed since humanity first broke free from the shackles of gravity and finally reached for the stars in search of its destiny. The journey into the future was perilous and challenging, but the rewards were beyond compare: Light speed is no longer a limit, AIs are no longer a dream and – for some – death is no longer the end! However, this is not an historical archive, so let us fast forward through the timeline: We move past the early colonial days, when humanity first dared to reach for the stars; past the age of discovery, when the secrets of interstellar ...

If you give Oberon the Irish wolfhound a bath, he's going to ask you for a story. Fortunately, his human, Atticus, has many centuries of life under his belt as the Iron Druid, and a whole lot of stories to share. Enjoy twelve new short stories from the New York Times bestselling series the Iron Druid Chronicles. Join Oberon and his Boston terrier buddy, Starbuck, in the tub as they hear about Corrie Ten Boom, Junko Tabei, Francisco de Miranda, Johannes Kepler, and many other figures from history spanning centuries. Sack Rome with King Alaric of the Visigoths or have a think with Auguste Rodin!

The gripping adventure of an alien society's disintegration. The first technological race in the early universe created an egalitarian society out of the ruins of planet-wide destruction. It lasted for three hundred years, quietly managed and manipulated by an AI. When a new leader seizes power, self-preservation becomes a struggle. An AI determined to maintain the status quo and a dangerous new leadership clash violently. A scientist, Daxx, and his biologist partner, Janna, are thrown into the fray when they discover a mutation that makes free, unlimited power a possibility. Both sides of ...