Metaphysical Science

On December 21st, 2012, the world was supposed to end. When the apocalyptic date came and went, the world concluded the Mayan prophecy was a myth. But it was not. The Earth was saved by extraordinary intervention from planet Akara — home to an awakened civilization far more evolved than our own.

Meet Louise Patterson. She's dead. She's also in Hell: a place where everyone must face the challenges of being damned. This includes below-code living arrangements, a supernatural closet that makes getting dressed every day punitive, and absolutely horrible coffee.

Anthropologist Calliope Santiago awakens to find herself in a strange and sinister wasteland, a shadow of the New Mexico she knew. Empty vehicles litter the road. Everyone has disappeared - or almost everyone. Calliope, heavy-bellied with the twins she carries inside her, must make her way across this dangerous landscape with a group of fellow survivors in search of answers. Long-dead volcanoes erupt, the ground rattles and splits, and monsters come to ominous life. Calliope will be forced to reconcile the geological record with the heritage she once denied.

The Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years. They expect to face many hazards—some strange and other-worldly—but they cannot yet foresee how their journey will reveal to them dark and forgotten corners of their love for one another.

When Lily, a little girl with psychic abilities, is terrorized by Shadow People, she and her family seek the help of experienced psychic medium Edith MacKenzie. Together they navigate portals, vortexes, time travel, and encounter Ancient Egyptian Gods who help them open a Stargate to rid the Earth of a dark entity brought forth by a military experiment gone terribly wrong.

For decades, the singular and provocative paintings by Cree artist Kent Monkman have featured a recurring character—an alter ego of sorts, a shape-shifting, time-travelling elemental being named Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Though we have glimpsed her across the years, and on countless canvases, it is finally time to hear her story, in her own words. And, in doing so, to hear the whole history of Turtle Island anew.

Mo has been sent to explore the furthest reaches of the universe to find proof of God, but secretly he’s hoping that an alien will put him out of his misery. He’d love to drink himself to death like his dad, but drinking is haram, like suicide. His journey through alien cultures and faiths holds a mirror up to Mohamed's own beliefs, causing him to question everything he knows. The only certainty left is that he wants to die, but how can he commit suicide when his mom phones him every day asking about his marriage prospects? Maybe a pious Muslim woman will help him move past his dad’s ...

After living in the city of Orphalese for 12 years, a prophet is about to board a ship which will carry him home. He is stopped by a seeress and the people of the city, who ask him for his insights into life. The book is divided into chapters dealing with love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, houses, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death.

When we left Sophie Edwards at the end of Savy Wisdom 2, Sophie had earned her joy: loving husband, beautiful baby, successful career. The only gray cloud in Sophie’s life was the death of her dear friend and mentor, Savy, also known to the world as billionaire Stephen Alexander Vaughan.

It's finally Thanksgiving break at the Paranormal Institute for Witches. With a week off from school, the Witch Squad thinks they're finally going to get to enjoy some downtime. But as the girls start making plans for their big Thanksgiving dinner party, they discover that Alba has yet to contact Tony, her husband from back home. After finally convincing her to call him, what she discovers sends the girls into a state of shock. Will their Thanksgiving be as magical as they'd all hoped it to be? Or will the tragedy that has befallen one of their loved ones ruin Thanksgiving forever?

In the year 2129, a storm of meteorites unleashes strongzine, stradamine, and starlox, poisoning Earth's atmosphere. Acid rain decimates life, sparing only a handful of humans. This disaster, known as the Ruin, shapes a world where survival is brutal. Five centuries later, humanity persists. Conn Brataich, a noble Cloudwalker, navigates the treacherous New York Skylands above the cloudbank. Misty Casper, a Grounder, endures the harsh life in the remnants of Manhattan's subway tunnels below.

Hari, a remarkably well-set-up young lad, has spent his entire life in a small village with his pious widowed mother, and the purity of his soul is largely uncorrupted by worldly sophistication. But now, poised on the brink of manhood, he feels himself moved by strange new urgings - urgings that will lead him far from the quiet life he has known. Though these strings are unfamiliar to him, virtuous Hari recognizes them for what they are: a hunger for spiritual enlightenment.

Welcome to Charon's Crossing. The tea is hot, the scones are fresh and the dead are just passing through. When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own sparsely attended funeral, Wallace is outraged. But he begins to suspect she’s right and he is in fact dead. Then when Hugo, owner of a most peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace reluctantly accepts the truth. Yet even in death, he refuses to abandon his life - even though Wallace spent all of it working, correcting colleagues and hectoring employees.

Death is the doorway to the in-between where time is nonlinear and geography is fluid. Following an armed robbery gone terribly wrong, J awakens in a black void and meets Sarah, a spiritual guide tasked with mentoring the transcendence of souls. She explains that perfection is impossible. Sublimity is the goal.

Krygelski writes a compelling and startling story centered on the mysterious arrival of a man who claims to be the Creator. Clearly not a mortal, Elohim - as the stranger prefers to be known - astounds those he meets with unexplainable miracles and reality-altering answers. All of this is but a prelude to his announcement that he has come to do something...something which will affect every person on Earth...something which will occur in five days.

A ship with a sinister agenda. Danger seething in every crevice. Voices whispering in her head. Diana embarks on a voyage that will take her back to the Mortal realm, but at what cost? The brutal murders of a powerful supernatural being and a dear friend onboard send ripples of fear and uncertainty through Diana and Adrian. Will they make it out alive? With their powers diminishing and enemies closing in, Diana has no choice but to trust Adrian if they hope to survive. Before it’s too late. The Voyage at Dawn is the second novelette in a five-book series, ending with a cliffhanger.

Will a journey through time be enough to save the world from certain doom? Suddenly transported to the past, Diana and Adriane uncover the shadowy secrets of the Conspirators and their ancient, dark magic. As they reveal the truth behind a fallen angel’s sinister plan to tear the veil between the Other Side and the Mortal side, they realize Diana is the only one who can both free him and destroy him. They must race against time to stop the evil that lies in the past. Is this the ultimate battle that Diana and Adrian have been destined to fight? Origin is the final novelette in a five-book...

Destruction, chaos and death. With their supernatural powers fading and innocent people dying, Diana and Adrian fear the worst. Adrian reunites with Diana just as she is staring death in the face. And when the sacred relic they’ve been protecting is taken, they question everything they know and trust. Including their own powers. The fate of civilization hangs in the balance as evil confronts them at every twist and turn. Are Diana and Adrian powerless against the dark fate looming on the horizon? As The World Ends is the fourth novelette in a five-book series, ending with a cliffhanger.

Prepare to lose yourself in the heady, mythical expanse of the Vorrh. In B. Catling's twisting, poetic narrative, Bakelite robots lie broken - their hard shells cracked by human desire - and an inquisitive Cyclops waits for his keeper and guardian, growing in all directions. Beyond the colonial city of Essenwald lies the Vorrh, the forest which sucks souls and wipes minds.

God sees everything...but who’s watching him? The time period in which these events took place is not disclosed. Five very talented and ambitious scientists asked themselves an age-old question: Where do our souls go after we die? The question was posed, not in the esoteric sense, but in a geographical one. They committed themselves to find out the exact physical locations of “Heaven and Hell”. However, their research gave them more than they bargained for.