Global Fiction

Tumult in Mecca masterfully weaves Henrik’s personal quest for fulfilment with the global turbulence of 1979, capturing the tension between career and adventure, ambition and family, security and risk.

This story by southern author, William See, also known as "Tennessee Bill" is a story of a boy who climbs out of a horrific childhood event and uses his natural witts to improve himself and chase his ambitions. The story travels with fun and frequen hillarity through past and present on a journey of adventure, accident, and discovery. There are a few suprises along the way.

Waves of crime were washing the shores of Kenosha by Lake Michigan. Could the police solve the crimes before the next person got hurt? Teressa LeRoy, a young worker at Kenosha Public Library used to rescue street children on her own time. She went missing on the gala night from her workplace and Detective Nathan Adams was assigned the case to find her. One afternoon the gown that Teressa wore on the gala night was found hung on a bookshelf of the library. On another evening, some of the children saw a ghost in the library. One morning, a mangled body appeared in the Library Park and ...

The saga of the alien hybrid, James Ripley, continues in volume 2 of the series. The hybrid alien is Earth's last hope to stop a 93-mile-wide comet on a collision course with Earth. The aliens sent James to Earth as an infant to grow, witness, and record Earth's final chapter, not to save the Earth. But James rebels and decides to fight for Earth despite all its faults. In this hard SciFi, James, a computer programmer, struggles with AI and quantum mechanics to devise a plan using Quantum Tunneling. The ending is a high-tech mind-bender that expands far beyond the dangerous Comet.

Shadows of the Multiverse: Signal of Shadows The truth is out—but so is the chaos. In the wake of Quantum Whispers, the world reels from revelations of covert UAP technology, rogue nations exploiting alien advancements, and the chilling potential of Project Epsilon—a program blending humanity’s darkest ambitions with the mysteries of quantum AI. With secrecy shattered, global tensions erupt as governments scramble to control the narrative, rogue factions consolidate power, and conspiracy theories spark panic worldwide. Nolan Reyes, the once-idealistic quantum AI engineer, is now both ...

SHORT STORY – Prequel to the new, Near-Future, Hard Science Fiction Series "Plasticity Island". The epic adventures of Brent Brodie began in the South Indian Ocean long before the construction of Plasticity Island. Before he became an Enhanced Human, before he fought the Mexican Drug Cartels and the Chinese Water Pirates; Brent Brodie saved the world! Even if you’ve already read the first book in the series; Plasticity Island – The Water Wars, this prequel will add to the mystery and suspense. Despite his desire to be a conscientious environmentalist, Brent and his friend Bijay, take ...

As beautiful as marriage is intended to be, many of us have learned through firsthand experience that expectations are often a far cry from reality. The covenant of marriage is always riddled with paradoxes that are seemingly a struggle to make feasible and such seems to be the case for Marcellus and his wife Sara in this touching narrative, U.N.I.O.N, (undermining, neglect, infidelity, omission, and naive), all traits that exude the opposite of a healthy and loving partnership.

They took away our history. But they can’t steal our souls. I'm Ellan Weis, a teen kickboxer. Something happens to me, where I can sense disaster. Before it happens. I live in a world where everyone has a com chip in their wrist...where the only truth of the past cataclysm lies in darkweb. The schools are rough, bullies walk the halls, gangs work the streets. My mother’s a key player in rolling out the new haloband, a smart-VR headgear technology at Starcom. My brother’s a hacker working at the same company. A conspiracy is among us. Something to do with the haloband. My family is in ...

Melbourne, Australia. As bushfires rage outside the city, three women watch a performance of a Beckett play. Margot is a successful professor, preoccupied by her fraught relationship with her ailing husband. Ivy is a philanthropist with a troubled past, distracted by the snoring man beside her. Summer is a young theatre usher, anxious about the safety of her girlfriend in the fire zone. As the performance unfolds, so does each woman's story. By the time the curtain falls, they will all have a new understanding of the world beyond the stage.

Lifestyle of a Hustler, Vol. 1 tells the story of a young black man trying to find his way, learning how to be an entrepreneur—from childhood hustles, to hustling to pay for college. This is the autobiography of a fictional character, Keynote King, based on the life of the author, Kayo Hustle.

Il rapporto tra Islam ed Occidente è al centro di questo saggio sociologico e storico. L'autore chiarisce subito che l'Islam non è un sistema omogeneo nè tanto meno statico, ma sta attraversando una profonda crisi di passaggio. La reazione estremista, il nuovo fondamentalismo, che associa la violenza al sacro, nasce dalla frustrazione di una comunità che si sente usurpata della propria autonomia.

Cal Thereus did not become a billionaire by playing it safe. With deadly viruses sweeping the globe, the Thereus Corporation and their advanced medical technology receives more and more authority to oversee the rising numbers of dead. Yet with micromachine treatments and a specific drug cocktail, Cal is able to revive the dead in service to himself. As the viruses spread, his own personal empire grows and grows — a Legion of the Dead in service to him alone.

Humanity begins to move out from a dying earth. On a particular planet, colonists are attacked by monsters looking like an ancient Egyptian God. On another planet, a young explorer finds a race of dragons through a transit portal. Befriending them, she discovers how to use powerful space ships left behind by another race, long gone.

Im post-revolutionären Ägypten bestimmt das Tor über das Schicksal der Menschen. Ein nicht näher benanntes Land im Nahen Osten: Seit der Niederschlagung der Revolution brauchen die Bürger für jede noch so kleine Kleinigkeit in ihrem Leben die Genehmigung des Staates - sei es für die Überweisung zum Arzt oder für die Erlaubnis, Brot zu kaufen. Um die zu erhalten, müssen sie sich vor einem riesigen Tor anstellen, das angeblich jeden Tag nur einer gewissen Anzahl an Anträgen stattgibt.

When I crashed on this planet 15,000 years ago, I thought that my friend - the living spaceship Sleipnir - was destroyed. But it turns out the mysterious signal I’ve been receiving for the past nine years is his cry for help. It’s led me back to Romania, back to the mountain I almost died on, and - just maybe - back to the legendary being who once saved my life.

A civilization experiencing global cooling that will herald in a new ice, age follows in the path of denial that plagued a long extinct civilization.

The stalker is back and worse than ever with new ways to kill for fun. Juicy finds herself at his mercy, trapped in a cage, screaming and crying for dear life, praying her sister will continue to be her keeper, and that she and her girls, Shanell and Kandy Kola, find her before it’s too late.

Seit mehr als einem Jahr herrscht Krieg. So lange ist es her, dass China einen Überraschungsangriff auf die Vereinigten Staaten durchgeführt hat. An jenem schicksalhaften Tag stürzten EMP- und Cyberattacken große Teile der Nation in ein heilloses Chaos. Tausende von Anti-Schiffs-Raketen zerstörten die US-Pazifikflotte. Das mit China verbündete Nordkorea startete einen Großangriff auf Südkorea. Und die chinesische Informationskriegsführung löste einen eingeschränkten Atomschlag Amerikas aus.

Stories and poems from thirty-nine UK based writers of the Global Majority from African, Asian, Middle Eastern, Carribean, South American, Chinese and Malay communities write about maps and mapping. Stories and poems of finding oneself and getting lost, colonialism and diaspora, childhood exploration and adult homecoming.

God Bless America ... before it's too late! Germany to the rescue when Alt-Nazi threatens the US. David Alexander has penned the ultimate technothriller, a groundbreaking new vision that will set the trend for military action fiction for years to come. Alexander may be the first to credibly outline how why and when a crippling blow to cyberspace could be dealt by hybrid forces with destructive cascading impact on the United States in an unprecedented act of war. The New York Times called POTUS by David Alexander "...perhaps the best thriller of its type to have come along all year!" USA ...