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Humanity chose to suffer. The alternative was extinction. When genetic engineering nearly doomed the species, humanity made a desperate choice: let harsh colony worlds and brutal selection do what nature intended. Two centuries later, the Mandate has kept humanity alive — but at a price no one is allowed to question. Cadet Constantine Ramsey questions it anyway. As a frontier colonist at Earth's Space Fleet Academy, he keeps flinching at the hard calls, outperformed by cadets who do not. Then colonies start going dark — whole worlds, no survivors, no explanation. With senior classes rushed to the frontier, Constantine is thrust onto an unprecedented first-year team at the Inter-Colonial Games. When catastrophe threatens all four colonies at once, he faces the choice the Academy trained him to make — and makes the one they never expected.

Isaac Stein thwarted a beastman invasion and saved a city of millions — then was captured and dragged behind enemy lines. Now trapped in the Ice Lands, he discovers the beastmen are not the bloodthirsty savages he believed, but a people driven to desperation by a force working to destabilize both Tautellus and Earth. To restore the natural balance, Isaac must traverse hazardous frozen terrain, prevent a second invasion, and unravel the motives of a power manipulating events across two worlds.

이것은 모두가 과거로 돌아갈 때 마지막까지 회귀하지 않았던 한 사나이의 이야기다.

Anika DuPont — Magical Girl Understudy — is a small-town superhero heading to Tokyexico University, where the real action is. Every superhero on Earth is competing for better roles in a global reality show created for the amusement of alien children, and Annie is determined to work her way out of dead-end little-league slots. Balancing coursework, supervillains, rivals, and a budding romance with her drama classmate Bianca, Annie levels up through the Style System while questioning whether the entire Superhero System is actually worth fighting for.

Steve is dying. When a stranger offers him a last chance by sending his consciousness into another world, he takes it — waking as Abalonious, a warrior in a fantasy realm that was supposed to be an adventure but is already in peril from the actions of those who came before. A darkness is coming, secrets no one wants to name are circulating, and Steve must adapt, learn, and grow fast if he intends to survive.

A strange, foreign world. Mysterious judges with capricious rules. Thousands of gamers find themselves split into factions and pitted against each other at the whim of an unknown higher power, with no idea how they got there or why they were chosen. Dying hurts — but it is not the end; dead players always respawn. Echo, with his deep knowledge of fighting, armor, and weapons, has all the makings of a great leader. His ragtag unit, fighting under the less-than-threatening name 'Society of Pinprick Enthusiasts,' becomes the terror of opposing factions. But this game won't be won in straightforward skirmishes — it will require pacts, adaptability, and a strategic mind to carve a way to the top. Originally a massive hit in Russia and widely regarded as a forerunner of the LitRPG genre, this series is presented here for the first time in English.

When a Tutorial appears to help humanity against the monsters, it should be a good thing — but the humans who came before Brodie have other plans. Transported to a strange new world with an unfamiliar socioeconomic structure, Brodie goes from middle-class Earth dweller to the bottom rung of the Tutorial ladder. With the help of his companion Smegma and knowledge of the System, there is a glimmer of hope. But can Brodie learn enough to return as a true Hunter, or will he be stuck inside for decades?

When a multinational games company recruits Tom, a smart Dublin teenager, to bring a team to San Francisco and dive into a massive fantasy world, he thinks it's the job of his dreams. His challenge: level up fast enough to eliminate a rogue AI dragon that is blocking the game's release. But as Tom gets closer to that goal, he begins to realize the game is not what it seems — and a powerful cryptocurrency company may have funded its creation for their own hidden purposes.

Yamada Yuuki is an ordinary college student with one extraordinary pursuit: the classical martial art of Kukishin-ryu. When a demon tears through the fabric of space-time and drags everyone in his dojo to another world, Yamada and his fellow displaced humans learn they can only return home by conquering a dungeon that runs through the heart of that world. Armed with steel, faith, and guts — and facing endless hordes of monsters and countless traps — Yamada must stop being a student and become a samurai.

A feral girl named Burch is desperately fleeing an army of hobgoblins when she encounters something impossible: a living, self-aware sunflower. Bound together by old, strange magic the world no longer knows, the two begin to bond and communicate as Sunflower teaches her its unusual ways. Together they journey across a mysterious, magic-filled world toward a place spoken of only in whispers — Paradise, possibly the last safe haven left anywhere. But a hobgoblin horde hunts Burch relentlessly, and every shadowy corner holds danger.

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Zephaniah Kote is a gamer, coder, and hacker — not a murder investigator. But when he meets with the creators of the upcoming virtual reality game Fabula, he finds himself pulled into a crisis: one person is dead and two executives are trapped inside their own game. Zephaniah is the one they want to solve it. Forced to enter Fabula as a Ranger, his search for the missing executives leads him to the medieval city of Altour, where he must level up fast enough to investigate the dangerous territory ruled by the Thieves Guild.

Ninetoes is a hobgoblin wizard — unusual enough on its own — but stranger still, a twist of fate has made him an Adventurer rather than an NPC in the game world of Adrenon. With this new status comes access to power, magic, and skills his kind can rarely attain. In his first quest among the ancient ruins of Kavralach, Ninetoes faces danger and intrigue. Failure means the destruction of his home and people. To become their champion, he must master the magic system, advance as rapidly as possible, and find allies — for a wizard alone is vulnerable.

A girl named Beth, consumed by her own darkness, embarks on a fairytale-like journey that forces her to remember who she is and choose between the light and dark within her. Encountering memories of her past and facing challenges on her quest to go home, Beth must decide what she truly is.

Sally never played MMORPGs until her stepsister Darcy convinced her to try Shadow's Deep. One evening of dungeon raiding turns into a nightmare when they find themselves trapped inside the game world. With NPCs who now have their own motives and monsters with real teeth, Sally and Darcy must find other trapped players and form a party to survive — and learn to tap into bravery they never knew they had.

Varnoth the shadow panther awakens in the strange, cruel world of Albattara — humanoid, tied to a cross, and on the verge of death. With a unique set of skills and no knowledge of who he is or why he was left to die, he sets out on a journey of discovery through a world where only the strong survive. As Varnoth grows into one of the most powerful heroes in the land, a new dark threat from deep underground threatens all of Albattara — and he will need every ounce of that power to protect the people around him.

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A new app called HoloHeroes has turned the entire world into an augmented playground, reinventing retro party games for every kind of player. Loren has felt left behind — her father's death and a cross-country move have forced her to start over. Ghost Glasses given as a sweet sixteen gift let her become her own HoloHero. Local meetups offer new friends and cash prizes, but what starts as casual fun becomes an accidental rivalry with a veteran champion and an unlikely run toward the national stage.

With his mother saved and life beginning to settle, Asher turns his attention to improving conditions within the kobold's nest. Food is a constant problem and resources are scarce, but he has a plan. The 2nd nest has always had better access to what they need — and that's where he'll start.

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