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When alien beings address all of humanity, they deliver a warning: forces that destroyed their species' males are heading for Earth. In exchange for access to the System, they ask only for cooperation and survival. Mathew Alexander Dunphy knows it's all a lie. He saw the truth with his own eyes. Nobody believes him. They call him mad. In a world of alien-controlled survival games, Mathew fights back with mad-scientist ingenuity, crafting-based powers, and a stubborn refusal to let either the aliens or the apocalypse win.

In ancient times, the Eifni Organization reached heaven through violence and tore gods from their thrones. Now their methods are more precise: etheric technology measures love, creates beauty, and reincarnates the dead. By embedding specially trained operatives — godslayers — into a culture, they engineer the exact conditions needed to kill a god and save the souls it would otherwise devour. Lilith was a run-of-the-mill college atheist until a divine being took a bite out of her soul. Rescued by the Eifni Organization and trained as a godslayer, she is now deploying on her first real mission to a planet called Theria. Objective: reconnaissance on the local pantheon and clearing out as many gods as possible before the strike team arrives. There is just one problem — the Therians seem to know they are coming.

Matt Callaghan is in trouble. In a world where everyone has superpowers, he's got none, and has spent five years faking clairvoyance to avoid getting caught. When a desperate bluff backfires, he'll need every ounce of cunning and juvenile delinquency to stay alive. Jane Walker is trouble. In a world where everyone is powerful, Jane stands alone and apart, hated for her ability to copy abilities and atrocities far beyond her control. A chance encounter sends her hurtling toward her lifelong dream — or a violent, painful death. Unbeknownst to both, their paths are intertwined, and an unseen force draws them toward a secret whose existence threatens not just their lives, but the fate of the entire world.

A massive wormhole rips open above Earth and aliens arrive — not conquerors, but merchant traders called the Iglax, who offer advanced technology in exchange for cheap labor in the asteroid belt. The aliens test humans individually for miner rentals, and a skilled pilot can earn a spaceship and a contract. When one puddle-jumper pilot tests above and beyond all expectations, he is offered something better than a mining ship: Earth's First StarFighter.

It's the end of the world, and all Dave wanted was to eat his eggs in peace. Thanks to a talking bird, he's been transported to another universe with only a few years to either grow powerful enough on his own to save his home, or find someone who can help him do it. With new friends by his side, Dave pushes against a System that keeps nudging him toward dangerous experiments, working to understand the rules of his new world before time runs out.

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In the Dark Age of Technology, a dormant bioweapon waits in the shadows of mankind's forgotten past. A sinister ritual threatens to merge this weapon with a soul from a higher dimension and unleash Chaos upon the grimdark 41st millennium. The soul in question is a long-dead average girl from 21st-century Earth with a passion for sci-fi, yanked from her boring afterlife and reincarnated into the body of an eldritch bioweapon on a desolate world. Now she must wrestle with both her monstrous nature and her own identity as the dark undercurrents of a grimdark future close in around her.

Walter's normal life is turned upside down when the human race is judged worthy of Ascension — granting powers beyond comprehension to those who complete Trials as an Aspirant. The Trials are run by otherworldly abominations who view humanity as little more than amusing playthings. Walter has been chosen by the Absolute Luck System and has infiltrated the Trials as a Lord Arbiter. The problem: he must now balance life as both an Aspirant and an Admin, and he's doomed if either side finds out he's not who he says he is. Navigating this double life with wit, smarts, and a little luck, Walter must survive long enough to become an Unwilling Eldritch Horror of Fortune.

Anya Nowicki, along with thousands of people around the globe, has found herself a host for alien technology known as the Archive. The Archive allows its hosts to alter their minds and bodies in an instant through holographic menu systems — granting super strength, magical abilities, or mastery in an almost infinite number of skills. However, Anya has also become the target for nightmarish shape-shifting creatures that came to Earth following the extraterrestrial tech. The Archive can grant great power, but it may not be enough to survive the horde of murderous aliens hunting them down.

A cyborg transhuman escapes her corporate indenture and, through unfathomably unlikely circumstances, ends up in a fantasy world full of unique magic, angry people with sharp implements, and the whole flavor-spectrum of divine entities. Hard-ish sci-fi meets hard-ish magic in a rational, character-driven story that explores dark themes — including slavery, speciesism, and questions of identity and consciousness — while remaining darkly funny and occasionally absurd.

Earth was invaded, conquered, and humanity was subjugated — 400,000,000 people culled in a second, without any chance to fight back. The Peacekeepers claim to be benevolent: they don't want to rule Earth, they just want humanity to stop playing around with AI and genetics. Willing or unwilling, Morgan and the rest of humanity are now members of the Collective. And like every species in the Collective, they have to learn to play the Game. When an AI offers you the opportunity to play the greatest tower-defense game the universe has ever created, you accept — and figure out the rules for survival later. Morgan certainly thinks so. But when aliens are attacking your station and giant six-eyed rats are eating your robotic face, doubts start to creep in.

As an engineer on the arkship Pilgrim-9, bound for the Tau Ceti solar system, Morgan Hall expected a quiet 240-year stasis. Instead, he's roused early to chaos and brought down to a dangerous planet where magic is as real as science. Forced to fight for survival without their technology, Morgan and his shipmates must adapt quickly. They begin to carve out a new existence — until they discover the planet is already inhabited by a cunning, powerful, and lethal native species.

Alexander died and woke up in a world not so different from his own — except for the aliens, the superhumans, and somehow becoming a villain with a supervillain team. Now every hero and bounty hunter in the country is after him. In a world where the rich get away with murder and heroes cause as much destruction as the bad guys, Alexander intends to change that. At the center of all the madness is a System still being born — shaped by humanity's hopes, greed, and desperation — and it doesn't just want this world. It wants all of them.

At the end of everything, the Final Reaper won — but it was a hollow victory. Having killed everyone who wronged him or his people, he was left utterly alone. When Order's Voice offered a chance to reset the multiverse to an earlier time in exchange for most of his power, the choice was easy: start over from when Earth was first brought into Order. Landing in his old body, the Final Reaper becomes Thomas again — and chooses a new name for a new life: Serenity. He has ten years from the moment the Voice arrives to prevent Earth from losing the second round, as it did before. It will require a group effort, which is difficult for someone who has been alone for longer than he can reckon. A system apocalypse story designed so that a large percentage of humanity can survive and prosper — if they work together.

The gods are real — and they hate you. This wouldn't be true for most people, but for Samuel Lin, whose first interaction with a god was cursing them out, well, you get the idea. Sam was behind on his Master's thesis when he was selected as one of humanity's representatives in an interstellar battle royale: a fight to the death on the grandest cosmic scale. Dropped through a portal onto the slopes of Mt. Olympos, he discovers the only way to survive is to climb, and the only way to climb is to fight. Surrounded by enemies and marked for death by grudge-bearing gods, Sam faces a very interesting question: does he have what it takes to kill a god? Each Ring of the climb is a new world with new quests, new party members, and new ways to die.

A man from our world is dropped into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with nothing but a watch on his wrist to make a life with. Luckily, it's one hell of a cool watch. Now if only he'd gotten the manual.

Zed is a washed-up MMA fighter with little future ahead of him. While out with friends, he meets a woman with an unbelievable story: aliens are going to take over the solar system in two years. He dismisses her — until she shows him things that aren't possible, including healing his chronic injuries and revealing her true, non-human appearance. There's no stopping the takeover. Humanity will be transported to an already-populated planet and must find a way to survive. A few humans are to be sent ahead to prepare the way — the Forerunners.

One night, a bioweapon escaped its laboratory in Zalcien, only to die in a dark alley. One night, a young man lent a helping hand, only to die alone in the dark. One night, a deity of death saw two lost souls and offered one a second chance in the other's body. Now a strange creature made of darkness, James must deal with his new form in a world where superpowers, heroes, and villains are commonplace — far from the Earth he knew. As he learns to use his powers and meets allies and enemies, James faces the paths of heroism and villainy and chooses a third way somewhere in between. Follow the story of a lost Earthling soul as he becomes Silhouette, the mysterious power in the shadows.

Death is just the beginning for Deacon Roy. When he is pulled from his eternal rest to go on an adventure, he does his best to hit the ground running. In a galaxy where the Force is the dominant power, how will a Battlemage fare?

Deep in the Afghan mountains, Sergeant Michael Pitcher discovers an object with powers that defy explanation. After interacting with it, he suffers a traumatic seizure and is flown home for evaluation. Cleared by doctors, Michael returns to his wife Josie — but he is a changed man. The once-loving husband is now coldly withdrawn, and soon disappears after emptying their bank account. When a team of scientists connected to Pitcher also vanishes, CIA agent Dean Ninemeyer joins forces with Josie in a desperate race against time to unravel a chilling conspiracy that already has the fate of the world in its grip.