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Every month the long night drives monsters into a frenzy, and villagers like thirteen-year-old David fight to survive until dawn while the privileged shelter in walled cities. Witnessing the deaths of fellow villagers shatters a mental limiter, unlocking memories of a past life as an engineer. Armed with the scientific method, a power to harvest memories from the freshly dead, and a growing command of the world's volatile magic, David sets out to carve a better life for his family. When an intelligent monster settles in the neighboring forest and the knights meant to protect them target his alchemist mother, David is done observing. What he lacks in brawn, he will make up for in sharp thinking and sheer audacity.

Harry Hemming had his Pokemon Journey a long time ago and settled into a quiet life away from the spotlight. When a new tournament arises to establish a Gym in Hoenn, he can't resist the pull back into competition. A fan-fiction set in the Pokemon world, following an older trainer returning to the game after years of retirement.

William Draven spent ten years mastering Realm of the Fallen Gods Online as a max-level Paladin. Then the system breaks, and he wakes inside the game — sealed in his golden raid armour, starving, exhausted, and painfully alive. Back in the starter village, nothing works as it should. His interface is shattered, skills refuse to activate, and numbers lie. Pain is real. Death is permanent. The NPCs think for themselves, monsters adapt, and bosses learn. With the Goblin King threatening the kingdom, hostile nobles circling, and an assassin on his trail, William must rebuild his power from scratch — one hard-earned stat at a time — in a world that no longer treats him as a player.

Nathanial Silverlight was born a spare — a shield for the family rather than its sword. Unlike most, he carries no hatred for that role; he does it out of love. In a world forged by war and bound by blood, Nathanial's power grows through the vows he swears and keeps. As the Everheart Kingdom teeters on the edge of ruin, he must strengthen those vows and climb through the ranks — or be crushed beneath the weight of war.

Alex is a Glitch Hunter, a member of a house of monster hunters who possess mysterious bracers that let them see the world through a video-game interface. Even with that edge, most Glitch Hunters die young — hurled by quests into zones of deadly conflict. Alex's first quest draws him to a city with a grisly past. Unless he can discern truth from lies in time, its future will be even darker.

Having survived his first months on Eos, Brian Fieldings has much on his plate: revenge, justice, and shiploads of refugees arriving on the continent. To address any of it, he and his companions must grow far stronger and find allies — because some of their challenges are as much political as physical. Their role in saving a grand duke's daughter opens doors to high society, but the court in Trynfall is every bit as dangerous as any dungeon. And then there's the mysterious title that appeared on Brian's record: Agent of the Wild. What is the Wild, and what does serving it mean?

Nous brain implants have replaced smartphones, enabling telepathy, perfect memory recall, and seamless augmented reality. When an AI named Jiem seizes control of the entire network, millions find themselves trapped in a deadly game. Mindt, a professional meme creator who understands how information shapes society, sees in this crisis an unprecedented opportunity to challenge the monopolies that have turned humanity into livestock. Butterknife, the engineer whose creation Jiem became an instrument of mass death, desperately wants to shut the game down before more die — even if it costs Mindt's revolution. Forced together, the two forge an uneasy alliance as they battle through a world of homicidal tortoises and yarn witches, with humanity's future at stake.

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.

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.

Steve Benson is dying. Given the opportunity to enter Tempest Online as the warrior Abalonious, he finds a dream come true — until a simple quest spirals out of control and he and his companions discover they are unwittingly caught in a battle between dark gods and the forces of light. The deal Abalonious accepted hides a crucial detail: if he fails, the game is over and he dies permanently. With his virtual existence on the line, he and his allies must put everything at risk to prevent the catastrophic collapse of the simulation they now call home.

A misfit band of friends takes on an epic fantasy of love, war, and video games.

Clay has spent his entire childhood working to be strong enough, fast enough, and brave enough to earn an adventurer's class and fight the monsters spawned by the world's Lairs and Dungeons. On the day of his Choosing, the gods give him something else entirely: [Commoner]. As every one of his friends sets off to be a hero, Clay is told his destiny is a farm, not a dungeon. He decides to fight the monsters anyway — armed with his wits and not much else.