Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission - and if he fails, humanity and the Earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie. But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits.

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive - and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet.

Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.

On a dark and lonesome night, a meteor that wasn't crashes to earth on a grieving man's land deep in the Arkansas mountains. Hunting the remains afterward, he finds more than expected and spends years investigating his find and changing the Earth. Along the way, his grief heals and he becomes revered to humanity, helping lift us from Earth to the stars. He finds love, knowledge and new friends along the way while building the empire of man in the heavens and on Earth.

Three college students find their assigned term paper is more important than they thought. Their research could literally mean life or death, comfort or hardship, depending on how well they perform. Their premature deaths aren't the end of life after all, because of a benevolent professor and their innate goodness. With the professor's help they embark upon an adventure of a lifetime, a chance to build a better world. Follow their life on a new planet. Watch them strive and succeed in a truly civilization changing task.

A science fiction fantasy story of a family of intergalactic explores that are telepathic and are endowed with supernatural powers. Derik, Wayne's son, takes command of reserected alian starship, The dreadnought and leads his small group of explores to the Carina arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. Where he finds a surprize aboard his ship that Vicky and Linda had left for him. However, the adventure lies in finding new planets to colonize as they explore the arm.

Warren, an out of work computer nerd, was indulging in one of his favorite pastimes--attending a renaissance faire--when, on the spur of the moment (and in desperation), he answers an advertisement for a job as a wizard. Little did he know it was an actual job in an impossible field or that it came with a wife! Within minutes of taking the job he finds himself and his new wife transported to another world where he is thrown into the situation of being resident magician in his new city of residence. Over the course of years he grows into his job and makes his new home a better place. During ...

Ninety-three year old Garrett Belvedere, a retired aerospace engineer was wiling away the remainder of his life in an assisted living facility when he was offered the chance of a lifetime, a chance to return to work and be useful once again. With some trepidation he agreed to take the newly offered position, a position that could result in his death or a chance to live years longer. His job? Allow himself to be transported to a new colony world where, if he lived, he would be young again. After riots and world upheaval on Earth the colony was abandoned, left alone to survive or not on its ...