Metaphysical Science

When the Earth began to change, it didn’t start with earthquakes or fire—it began with silence. Cracks opened in the ground, not just in stone, but in memory, in truth, and in time itself. As strange breaches appear across the globe and reality begins to bend sideways, a team of scientists, skeptics, and dreamers must uncover what the planet is trying to say before it's too late. This is not a tale of destruction. It’s a story of recalibration. Of forgotten agreements. Of second chances whispered through roots, reflections, and rain. Join Kip, Juno, Langston, and Mara on a journey ...

Nyriaana and Juaan are no longer protected by the might of the Hunting Bear Clan. Alone and on the run, they need to choose their allies and enemies wisely if they are to evade the vengeful clutches of their former chief, Eldrax. But with nowhere to hide, can they truly run forever? Tormented by visions of the fabled Last Kamaali, Nyriaana must now decide if she is ready to sacrifice everything in order to fulfil her ultimate destiny. In doing so, she may not only lose those she loves most, but unwittingly awaken ancient powers that will jeopardise the very existence of humanity.

“His multicultural viewpoint may yet give us the best SF novel of all time” — AnalogFor twenty thousand years, the godlike Inquestors have held sway over the one million worlds of the Dispersal of Man. S.P. Somtow’s limitless imagination has created a universe of breathtaking majesty, amazing beauty, and shattering cruelty. In games of makrugh played in elegant floating palaces, planets are destroyed or saved to preserve the balance of the galaxy. Exotic languages and customs, servocorpses, tachyon bubbles, childsolders with implanted laser-irises, people bins that hold populations ...

The Overlords are on the run.Simone over-estimated the power of her Razor battleships. Captain Trey Clarke’s New Jersey battleship bested her in several engagements, and then her attempted coup on Devonia Axxiom failed.Overlord Senators and Representatives are being arrested. Prime Minister Aeon’s security forces have become a terror, disappearing people in the dead of night. Did the bad guys really lose? Or are things worse than ever?Chairman Vermillion’s focus is the Samson Corporation’s secret fuel supply development and starship production. They’re making progress on both, but...

Imagine if FIRST CONTACT happened in 1947 Roswell, NM just after WWII ended and they needed our help. In 1947 Geogram makes first contact with Malcolm Dow and Adam Rabinowitz. The army privates agree to help the life-form, and try to contact General Jones, while avoiding the anti-alien majority in their chain of command. With junior reporter Charlotte Baker hot on their heels, time is of the essence before panic sweeps the globe. Dow and General Newman recruit scientist Mary Goss to help incorporate the alien tech into their equipment for their desperate mission. Failure means not only the ...

Anja Petersen loves everything about her life – but she wishes she could not see what is coming. The future branches out before her, premonitions haunting her waking hours, stalking her dreams. And they are only the beginning. A frantic phone call, a moment of transformation, and a whole new world opens. A world filled with hope, shock, and fear. A world of amazement and disbelief, where nothing is impossible, and where the fate of the planet is uncertain. Anja is torn between a desperate desire for the peace and calm of the past, and a frantic urgency that compels her forward into the ...

Whether part of polytheistic or monotheistic systems, the concept of God is one of humanity’s oldest attempts to explain the mysteries of life. Today, however, the idea of God feels increasingly foreign, gradually fading from the consciousness of many. The gap between humans and the divine seems to grow wider, and religion appears increasingly out of place in a world dominated by scientific culture, which directs our attention to the physical, material world. In philosophy, the question of God’s existence is a central metaphysical issue—arguably, the metaphysical issue par excellence....

A middle-aged man with the crushing weight of his American past seeks peace and a simpler life in rural Kenya. Armed with only his smokes and coffee he discovers a friendship with the most unlikely of friends - a lioness he rightfully names Malaika ("Angel" in Swahili).

Do the theories of common ancestry and natural selection have any bearing on the origin and meaning of life? One fateful evening, Charles Darwin and two of his closest friends, an English lord and a Catholic Priest, meet at the Beagle Inn. A wine-filled dinner is followed by a lively discussion on this very question resulting in each man inscribing his hypothesis on a parchment. Nearly three thousand years later, angelic life is discovered on a remote planet that could answer this question. Three groups, each one subscribing to a different hypothesis, referred to as a prophecy, head to the ...

From the #1 bestselling author of the Noah Hunter series, and Grim Measures, comes the sequel to Edge of Time. Where a former FBI agent and time traveler Brad Sheppard is once again thrust into the quantum realm so there will be a future worth returning to. Former FBI agent and time traveler Brad Sheppard witnesses an impossible murder in the Late Middle Ages, but upon returning to the present, his family has vanished. History has been rewritten. With nothing left to lose, Brad tears through the quantum realm and the centuries, desperate to restore his wife and daughter. But he must do so ...

Is there anything better than a quiet life? Well, there's a quiet life surrounded by people you care about, people who love you in return, of course. But Tailyn Vlashich knew nothing of the kind. His parents had died years before, the townspeople stayed well away from the god's favorite, and his guardian just wanted to be rid of him. That was the setting when Tailyn was again placed on the road to uncertainty, beset by terrifying lixes, and hounded by a harsh trainer it was impossible to please.

The Seeker blends inspirational Visionary Fiction with Mythic Fiction in this epic reimagining of the tale of Icarus. In his plunge from glory, rather than perishing in the waters of the Aegean, Icarus is rescued by a passing mariner, fictional demigod Amitayus, who is unaware of his own divinity. The two embark on an epic odyssey, braving impediments only Zeus himself could whip up, as Amitayus seeks the truth that will earn him a place in Elysium. Told through the lens of Greek Classicism, The Seeker puts a modern spin on classic archetypes that lend it unmatched spiritual resonance.

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.

Who knew the path to enlightenment could start with a cup of tea? Learn the hidden significance behind the deceptively simple Zen tea ceremony - one which can lead directly to Buddhahood and its absolute truth. D.T. Suzuki, once Japan's leading authority on Zen Buddhism, describes the tearoom and the tea ceremony and explains the guiding principles of harmony, reverence, purity, and tranquility.

The world’s only superhero was discovered in 1969. No others were ever found. Until now. With Station destroyed and their friends dead, might Daniel and Abos finally be allowed some peace? Yeah, right. Daniel’s talents are needed by a UN department taking on the bad guys, including rogue halfheroes. Abos is searching for more of her species. She soon finds she’s not the only one looking. There’s a new threat that no one saw coming. And halfheroes are being targeted. When Daniel goes missing, it’s down to Abos to find out what’s going on and try to stop it.

Lottery is a novella taking place in Hugh Howey's World of Wool. In the world of the silo, falling in love comes with its own set of rules. As young Tabitha and Justin begin their lives together, they know what they can and cannot do. Then the impossible happens and Tabitha finds out she is with child. With no lottery ticket to redeem, the consequences for pregnancy are harsh: every addition requires a subtraction. From the Down Deep to the Up Top, there is nowhere to hide. It won't be long before the truth comes out and her husband is sent outside and put to cleaning. There is just one way...

The teachings of Jesus contain some major league spiritual Truth. An entire religion was created from them "for God's sake!" But do we really understand them? Have we plunged the depths of this mega-spiritual wisdom, or has our understanding of them remained on the surface? Jesus spoke in code. He said, "Let those who have eyes see, and those who have ears hear." Our human ego understands the surface and literal meaning of Jesus' parables, but we must connect with our "True Self" to glean the deeper, hidden, and true meaning of this ageless wisdom. In "Lighten Up," this deeper meaning 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 ...

PLEASE NOTE: Feel free to read the first two books in the series in any order—they both will work just fine! This is deliberate—both storylines are intertwined, but they do not necessarily impose, which part in the series should be read first. The first human interstellar flight. A terrorist organization working against all sanity. And a terrifying discovery to be made just outside the Solar system. Humanity is working tirelessly at getting ready to travel to the stars and spread its eggs around several cosmic baskets. Julius Cousteau, a long-thought-dead former captain of a failed ...

Mature Readers: combat, violence, elements of horror, some sex, some language. She awakens in a windowless room full of lab equipment and spends a minute getting used to the pumping heart, tingly skin, and air filling the lungs of her new healthy body. Her name is Mary, and she has returned from the Ten Sigma Program, a virtual universe designed to produce the greatest fighters the Earth has ever seen through the harshest training methods ever devised. Now stuffed with every type of lethal knowledge and a victor in countless life-and-death struggles, she has one goal: to reunite with her ...