Metaphysical Fiction

What would you do? What if you found a winning lottery ticket and could locate the owner? Imagine encountering your future self. Would you want to? Would you do something illegal to save a loved one? Eight short stories crafted to provoke deep thought, inspire new perspectives, and challenge your conscience. Start now. “The author’s crisp, vivid writing quickly brings characters and situations alive with endings that often caught my breath. Although many of these stories had me begging for more of an ending, I realized that the “ending” is intended to be the discussion had with ...

Banished from their planet. Attacks against his wife. And now one of them has had the audacity to blow up his home planet. Hades always resented the people of Earth and now he is seeking retribution and does not care if that means defying the Earth Pact that protects the Earth to get it. With pending destruction heading Earth's way the defence of Earth looks to be resting on James's shoulders. But will the rest of the galaxy idly watch on as the Earth Pact is broken? Or will another saviour emerge?

As a science journalist, Jade has seen more than her fair share of peculiar oddities—none weirder than her socially inept fellow reporter Antigone. When the test of a teleporter using an electron collider goes awry, the two women find their world changed in subtle ways, with anomalies breaking out in their personal lives. Their increasingly unstable dimension gives Jade the ability to shapeshift while Antigone can see portals into other worlds.

It’s been a year since Yuki Hirano left home - or more precisely, was booted from it—to study forestry in the remote mountain village of Kamusari. Being a woodsman is not the future he imagined, but his name means “courage,” and Yuki hopes to live up to it. He’s adapting to his job and learning constantly. In between, he records local legends—tales pulsing with life, passion, and wondrous gods. Kamusari has other charms as well. One of them is Nao.

Hailed by Thomas Pynchon as "graceful, dark, authentic, and funny," George Saunders gives us, in his inventive and beloved voice, this best-selling collection of stories set against a warped, hilarious, and terrifyingly recognizable American landscape.

Catherine Bermond is an investigator of traditions and antiques. This novel is the fruit of years of compiling prescriptions and procedures for love's magic. She says that love is a marvelous emotion, especially when we discover its magical essence. Bermond reveals the secrets, spells, talismans, and rituals that help us harness our own personal enchantment. Listeners will be able to tie her enchanted secrets to the mystery of the heart and modern esoteric techniques with ease.

Following the coronation of Charles III, Scotland’s most revered artefact, ‘The Stone of Destiny’ arrives at its long-term home in Perth Museum. Desperate to rebuild his shattered credibility, Gill is working hard on several stories along the Firth of Forth. But he’s presented with a problem when the discovery of an ancient inscription in a ruined church throws question marks against the authenticity of The Stone. On the trail of an age-old story, Gill finds himself opposed by someone prepared to kill to prevent the truth from being revealed.

A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are magically taken from them and instead they have only tarot cards with which to tell their stories. What follows is an exquisite interlinking of narratives, and a fantastic, surreal, and chaotic history of all human consciousness.

A post-apocalyptic human resistance sci-fi fantasy novel A lone hiker isolated on the trail, encounters a blinking light in the forest. His curiosity overtakes him. He leaves the trail to investigate the blinking light and encounters a trail of dead soldiers in the woods whose deaths cannot be explained. They appear to have fallen dead where they stood. The trail of dead bodies leads him to a seemingly deserted military bunker where he learns that the military has been conducting a project in artificial intelligence in secret. As he enters further into the compound, he comes to realize that...

Rose, Olaf, Verdandi, Sophia, Li, and their friends now embark on the next stage of the Future Humans Quest for the co-creation of a thriving world and planetary home for all. Empowered with the knowledge of the cosmic architecture of life, you'll discover how to decode the economics of domination and the governance of disunity. Explore the new choices and possibilities that open up by developing your future human powers and potentials through the wisdom of the higher heart and cosmic mind, with the help of the Cosmic Architect Tools, the Avatar interface, and transformation practices.

The tide of battle has turned. In a magnificent feat of maneuvering, Parno McLeod has lured his enemy into an ambush that has left the Imperial Army with half its strength dead or dying and all of its material support destroyed. And yet, the remaining Imperial Army on Soulan soil still numbers over 150,000 men. Men who are now angry and hungry, which is a dangerous combination.

How Molly has survived military life this long, we'll never know. When her implanted computer interface is hacked by a nascent AI, Molly has to escape. Between the militaries' high tech security shields and advanced personnel protocols, it makes getting out in one piece for Molly nigh on impossible...And her biggest problem? The swiftest and most efficient way to get out is also the most embarrassing.

A proud and reserved alien society finds its homeland destroyed in an unprovoked act of aggression, and the survivors have no choice but to reach out to the indigenous humanoids of their adopted world, to whom they are distantly related. They wish to preserve their cherished way of life, but doing so may mean changing their culture forever. Working together to save this vanishing race, a man and a woman from two clashing societies will uncover ancient mysteries with far-reaching ramifications.

Ethan McQuarry is a young lighthouse keeper on a tiny island, the rugged outcropping of easternmost Cape Breton Island on the Atlantic Ocean. A man without any family, he sees himself as a silent vigilant, performing his duties courageously year after year, with an admirable sense of responsibility.

Reneé Drummond-Brown’s tome My INK Bleeds Black, speaks volumes to our testament as wisdom turns her poetic pages on women of color. Therefore, writing is a vital tool for me to pen (snippets of) our honest historical dark accounts if I want to live and prosper in this thing called life. Furthermore, vantablack INK is brilliantly lent and smeared throughout this book. As a result, the infallible scripted Word “For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled” (Matthew 5:18 King James Version - KJV) ...

This is one of the defining novels of English writer Julian Barnes. An entertaining melange of stories starting with a contemporary account of the launch of Noah's Ark takes us into unexpected areas of human foibles, activities, and tendencies.

Skylar had it all - riches, success, and fame - until he traded it all for Enlightenment. Skylar Seequn's wife and true love has just asked him to leave home. He can afford only a flophouse room. No one wants to buy the obsolete computers he is selling. But the magic of time travel takes him back to the first days of love, to school, and to delightful memories. As he wanders through the circus that is North Beach, San Francisco, Skylar struggles to rediscover his lost bliss. Remembering Eternity: The Sun Inside - Seekers in a New Land is the second book in an inspiring series of spiritual ...

Run away, one drowsy summer's afternoon, with Holly Sykes: wayward teenager, broken-hearted rebel and unwitting pawn in a titanic, hidden conflict. Over six decades, the consequences of a moment's impulse unfold, drawing an ordinary woman into a world far beyond her imagining. And as life in the near future turns perilous, the pledge she made to a stranger may become the key to her family's survival....

Hundreds of thousands of people have totally lost the ability to sleep. Run by the wealthy and enigmatic Storch brothers, the Slumber Corps is at the forefront of the fight against this deadly new disease. But when Trish is confronted by "Baby A", the first universal sleep donor, and the mysterious "Donor Y", whose horrific, infectious nightmares are threatening to sweep through the precious sleep supply, her faith in the organization and in her own motives begins to falter.

Korus Kezz’arg, known as the latest incarnation of the revered Ocean Serpent, has finally begun to fulfill the dream of his father, Kalligus. As he struggles to unite the Sendyne continent and build an extended empire, he faces the same threats that his late father and brother faced themselves. There are potential enemies at every turn, from his own court to criminal syndicates, from far flung battlefields to the high seas, from religious zealots to his own blood itself. Meanwhile, Telldor the Prognosticator plots his own version of the future for Lower Sendya. Invited to discuss peace ...