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Two years ago, Kit's blossoming plant magic put a target on her back and forced her to flee for her life, leaving her beloved Prince Bryce behind. Now established as the leader of the rebel flora magi, she clings to hope that they can be reunited. However, the arrival of the charming and persistent Regyn, heir to the supposedly extinct quickened magi, challenges her fidelity.

The loss of his father leaves Auric reeling even as Jericho and his wife, Rill, are overwhelmed by the arrival of twins. When a mysterious Fey begins abducting local children, Spellsmith and Carver prepare for a full-on assault. An attack close to home drives a sudden wedge between Jericho and Rill. With his friend's heart and confidence shattered, Auric steps up to defend their fractured family. Time's running out to save the stolen children, and the family must rally together to stop the Fey predator. But the cost might be Rill's very soul.

Auric Spellsmith and Jericho Carver saved the world - but the world is less than pleased. Accused of causing a magical energy crisis and of "conduct unbefitting magicians", the pair travels to the big city to defend its case, Rill and Jaspyr in tow. But they soon find themselves embroiled in a world where everyone has an ulterior motive. Then Auric discovers Lotta, an attractive but eccentric engineer whose invention could solve the Republic's energy crisis - if they can survive long enough to test her theories.

A preacher's daughter's excessive appetite for the dark side compromises her relationship with a young atheist; his desperation to save her catapults him into a strange world that is literally about to blow up in his face; and a theology professor turned demon hunter tries to save our world by battling a creature from the River Styx. In a hidden place where demons float in and out of earth's realm through a swirling mystical hole, what can save us?

Why are so many old people dying of starvation - yet their pockets are stuffed with money? Based on a story by H.L. Gold. this episode of X Minus One originally aired on July 17, 1956.

With the Developers destroying any race they find a threat to their advancements, the Renegades must destroy them quickly or risk losing more civilizations. Bixom is back from behind enemy lines, and he knows the threat is even greater then he could have imagined. He is ready to wage war when he unexpectedly runs into his lifemate. How can he protect her in the midst of a battle he does not even understand himself?

After Rikar's abduction, he finds himself once again fighting for his life in the gladiator arena called the Kingdom. Some of his genetically mutated foes are so far gone they can only be described as monsters. Rikar is forced to undergo the life-altering Nano treatments, and he fears he will become just like those he fights. As his sanity slowly dissolves, the only peace he finds is with beautiful fellow prisoner Lindsay. Does Lindsay dare to fall in love in a place like the Kingdom? Even if they could escape, where would they go? Is any place safe for people like them?

What is this Christmas thing? Well, Jar, a resident of the planet Hwaran, is about to find out firsthand when he falls into a wormhole that drops him in the bathroom of a beautiful Earth woman. Jar wishes nothing more than to bring his sister-in-law and her children back together. The only problem is that the children are on Earth, which is a whole different planet in a whole different solar system.

Theresa Kent is a wife, mom, and hardworking nurse living in rural Colorado. Life is good until her increasingly despondent, unemployed husband suddenly snaps - his vicious attack leaves Theresa fighting for her life as she tries to escape the insane version of the man she loves. Ryan Tucker appears to have it all, except he’s been merely existing, not living, for the the last three years. His emotions get a much needed jump start when he rescues Theresa from the torment her life has become in just a matter of days.

Teenage Russell Sooner has finally discovered he's a werewolf, and he's pissed. Charlton Daniels is back in town looking for the wolf who bit him and wants revenge. Jewel Porter's use of Black Magic could wipe New Berwick off Illinois' map. So, what can go wrong in light of a defiant witch and two pissed off werewolves? EVERYTHING!

X Minus One premiered in April 1955 on NBC and ran until January 1958. Like its predecessor series, Dimension X, X Minus One featured stories by the greatest names in modern science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Robert Bloch, and many more.

What if instead of reading human thoughts and feelings you could read those of machines? That's what happens to Lester Shay when he becomes the "Inside Man". Soon he is driving himself, along with friends and coworkers, crazy every time he encounters an aging, ill-treated mechanism. For Lester can feel their pain, and it won't stop till the machine is fixed and running happily again.

"Pobeg na ryvok. Prizraki Ojkumeny" - fantasticheskij roman Genri Lajon Oldi, vtoraja kniga iz znamenitogo cikla "Ojkumena". Svet klinom soshelsja na Diego Perale, skromnom uchitele fehtovanija. Velikaja Pompilija, imperija ljudej-volkov, stavit ul'timatum: sotrudnichestvo ili rabstvo? Hladnokrovnye gematry, ljudi-komp'jutery, terjajut samoobladanie, edva rech' zahodit o majestro: spasat' ili likvidirovat'? Genij-professor gotov na vse, lish' by Diego pozvolil sebja izuchit'. Mertvaja devushka krichit v kosmose.

Trauma has left telepath, and former superhero, Aiden Powell burned out. Now retired, he wants to focus on his new civilian career as an EMT, and his budding romance with former colleague, Tanvi. He has no interest in the dangerous work that cost him both his parents, and almost his life. However, on the anniversary of his mother's death, a strange woman approaches him.... Aiden's mother is alive, out of her proper place in time. With time running out, Aiden must race to save his mother, while trying to avoid shattering the timeline that contains everyone he loves.

Pulp writer H.L. Osterman gives mystery lovers a new kind of “detective", Walter de Worcester - better known in Key West as Walter the Weirdo. A disbarred lawyer, Walter is a homeless man living on the streets of the Southernmost City in the Continental United States. Walter likes his carefree life - other than getting hassled by local cops. But he redeems himself by helping Chief Sam Marrero solve murders. With a personality somewhere on the autistic spectrum, his mental gears work in strange ways allowing him to add two and two to get 22.

Гюнтер Сандерсон - молодой эмпат с просвещённого Ларгитаса, обладатель уникальных способностей. Мирра Джутхани - бродяжка с нищей Чайтры, звёздная автостопщица, зарабатывающая на жизнь энергоресурсом собственного тела.

Герой "Дикарей Ойкумены" - солдат Марк Кай Тумидус. Можно сказать, герой-профессионал. Астлантида, мир энергетов-убийц, в кольце эскадр Ойкумены. Совет Галактической Лиги спорит до хрипоты: как поступить с упрямым Островом Цапель? Три решения - карантин, уничтожение и насильственная технологизация - имеют свои плюсы и минусы. На кону - судьба целой расы.

When a young man much like her dead father offers her protection, will trusting him bring another massacre, one that takes her life too? Elizabeth (Beth) Sanchez, daughter of the man who formed a militia and drove out the Del Rio Cartel, was the lone survivor after drug lord, Hector Suarez, retaliated, massacring the people in her town. Seven years later, Beth has an MBA, American citizenship, and is ready to chase her dreams. While on a Big Bend hiking excursion, Beth encounters Suarez who is bent on killing the one remaining symbol of resistance to his power, Beth Sanchez. After once ...

American journalist, essayist, satirist, and cultural critic H.L. Mencken makes his 3-pronged case for the death penalty for those who take the lives of other people, challenging civilized order. Mencken argues the death penalty is a form of catharsis for the immediate victims of the crime, and is not solely for deterring other criminals, but also to give peace of mind to the society that has been wronged.

Nothing is as dangerous as a government agency scorned. When Dr. Meiling Chen-Adams is threatened with prison for practicing without a license and accused of killing people in Africa with her monoclonal antibodies, she finds herself in the crosshairs of a high-stakes political battle.