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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?

Two centuries after humanity colonized the stars, the peaceful Conclave faces a new threat: alien invaders attacking fringe settlements while the core worlds dream on. Captain Bill Gorman has vanished — but a clone set aside for exactly this emergency awakens and begins piecing together what went wrong on the frontier, what happened to the original Gorman, and why the colonies are being picked off one by one.

Talia, daughter of a wealthy conglomerate CEO, joins the droves of new human explorers combing through uncharted space to make her own mark on the universe. Her resilience is tested when her brand-new exploration corvette crashes onto an uncharted planet, Sigma 16. Equipped with a state-of-the-art exo-suit, a semi-operational colony bootstrap system, and a sometimes-annoying AI companion, Talia sees the crash as an opportunity. She sets out to build her base, explore the expansive dunes and jungles, and uncover the planet's resources and secrets. But Sigma 16 may not be as uninhabited as it first seems — and a potentially hostile alien species with equally advanced technology is watching.

Turlough is a mage — and an orc, generally considered less intelligent than humans, born with the Curse of the Barbarian that limits him to leveling only through combat. In his home world of necromancers, dragons, and invading armies, that would be manageable. But an unprecedented peace reigns across the land, leaving little opportunity to advance. When he spots a portal in his master's study, he steps through hoping to find a horde of demons. Instead he ends up in a modern city full of skyscrapers and people in colorful outfits: superheroes — and, of course, supervillains. What dangers and opportunities await him in such a strange world?

Joe's body is failing him. To make his final weeks bearable, he enters full digital immersion, meeting an Evolving Intelligence named Spooky who takes the form of someone he loved. Before they can even begin playing, both are summoned to a world where magic is real. Joe believes it's still the game — unaware the summoning has completely healed his dying body, making him near-immortal. Living every moment as if it were his last, he has no idea he has all the time in the world.

This is Perry's third world, or fourth if you count Earth. In the first, a brilliant scientist named Richter gave him a working suit of power armor before dying to an attack from a seemingly sourceless adversary. In the second, he became a knight fighting in a war against a callous enemy. There are others like him — thresholders, always in opposition — and it's becoming clear that hopping from world to world is going to be his way of life. Now he finds himself in a place doing its best impression of Victorian London, facing a new enemy that will test all the knowledge and power he has accumulated so far.

The future became a peaceful utopia in the Core Regions — no crime, no wars, no conflicts, even rude behavior is rare. People grew complacent and lazy. The main character isn't a hero or a typical protagonist. Calling him an opportunist would be the least offensive description. In an age of enforced peace, he sticks out like a sore thumb — particularly when nobody is around to notice a few shady happenings.

Logan was kicking back with a beer on his dock when the System Integration transformed his world. The planet became a sci-fi movie overnight — powers, levels, and impossible messages from an entity called the System that has deemed humanity a plague. Each day the dissolution of society gets worse, and in 365 days only the top-rated 1% will survive. Logan could accept his lot and go along with the flow, but he's worked out how to manipulate his new world: baseball bats with nails, cleavers, weed whackers — whatever it takes. He's good at killing things, and when the System threatens his sister and her kids, he'll show it what an idiot can really do. Features a bonded murderhobo octopus and a sentient weapon with murderous intentions toward the MC's friends.

Fantasy collides with the modern world in an epic struggle for power and survival. An emperor born from divinity and a dragon harbors aspirations for godhood. In a twisted act of ambition, he orchestrates a deceitful pact with a devil and sets in motion a quest to harness unclaimed souls from another realm. His pathway to divine ascent takes an unexpected turn when a rift opens in Ohio, bringing him face-to-face with a resilient human community unprepared to bow to a new deity. As magic clashes with machinery in the skies and fields of Ohio, alliances are tested, friendships forged, and the true cost of ambition laid bare.

In a cosmos fractured into human subspecies — shaped by extreme worlds and locked into brutal caste and race-purity hierarchies — an RPG-based System reigns supreme. Its second law forbids all automation: every machine, every spell, every tool must be guided by a living hand. Hope is a street-raised orphan from a dead-rock wasteland. Hurled onto an Earth-like planet full of grass, clouds, and color he has never seen, he must heed the ping of system messages, hunt and be hunted, and level up in a place built to test him. The planet-side survival arc gives way, in time, to the spacefaring world of feudal space pirates that defines his fate.

Eve Redding was seized in a dirty alley and injected with a virtual reality chip, a GPS tracker, and her first Seed — making her a Player. At first she loved the miraculous ability to level up any aspect of herself. Then she was yanked off her world and sent to fight for her life on a vicious alien planet, where other Players are just as dangerous as the monsters, and failure means death. Eve is the type to cling to life by the tips of her bloody fingernails — and she hates it when people try to control her.

A tired mage drops something. A flickering soul picks it up. Earth-Bet will never be the same again. A World Rune falls into unexpected hands through OC reincarnation — and what follows promises to reshape an entire world.

Samaya Dhar, codename Maya, is a Special Agent who finds herself transported to a strange and unfamiliar world mid-mission. Her immediate priorities: find appropriate clothes, figure out where she is — and decide what to do about the half-dead child she finds in an alleyway. She'll take the little bun with her. She'll still find a way home. Or so she thought, until the boy turns out to be a Prince, and his father wants him back at the Palace. This is the story of a woman protecting her found family while navigating politics, harem intrigue, and assassination plots — and one infuriating man at the center of it all.

Still reeling from the death of his parents, Jake finds a doorway to an abandoned space station in his grandfather's basement — and when he walks through, he discovers he's trapped there with company. The station's AI enlists Jake to reclaim the systems needed to support life, but he has only eight hours to complete the task or he'll die alone in the cold vacuum of space. With only a wrecking bar, work boots, and basic survival equipment, he must defeat the horrific monsters infesting the station before his air runs out. Hidden somewhere in the station is also a message that could spell doom for Earth and the entire universe.

Wynne might have been human once — it's hard to say. Now he's a bunker core, a nanomachine controller responsible for an entire complex. The place is a bit wrecked. The world outside is ruins. Whoever put him there is probably coming to look for him. And then there are the raiders. Dungeon core meets post-apocalyptic survival. Come for the mutants, stay for the dystopian adventure.

updated book at: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/73967/somebody-stop-her-superheroes-apocalypse [This is a placeholder archive backup of an old book, kept here only to fight copyright trolls in the future]

Liam is a down-on-his-luck gambler whose life is falling apart. When loan sharks come to collect, things end badly. But he gets another chance — by joining the Traveler Initiative, which promises the freedom to explore planets across the universe, a new body, and a slew of other benefits. Even in this strange afterlife, his gambling addiction rears its head, and he somehow ends up reincarnated as a slug. What follows is a largely solitary journey of evolution and survival, as Liam slowly crawls his way up from the bottom of the food chain.

Awakening somewhere completely foreign, with no memory of how or why, a new consciousness finds itself flooded with biological knowledge — how life forms adapt, how cells divide and heal, the microscopic patterns underlying all living things. This strange existence as a hive mind is both a gift and a burden: seeing through countless eyes, feeling through countless senses, understanding each creature within its domain as an extension of itself. In the sequel, reborn into a world where war is the only memory, the hive mind fights, bleeds, dies, and rises again — carrying every lesson from the drones it controls. Having crushed the dregs of the Triumvirate, it now prepares for the greater storm to come.

Constructing a portal is a monumental undertaking, yet the Forerunners have guided dozens of civilizations to that end and know exactly what is needed: thousands of laborers, hundreds of brilliant artisans, dozens of powerful mages. As the culmination of years of work, they tear a hole in the fabric between realities and travel between worlds. There is simply no reasonable way for only five people — prepared for a standard Isekai scenario yet now stranded on a hostile and alien world where mere survival is a challenge — to ever build a portal. But reasonable people don't become Forerunners.

Björk was an ordinary man living an ordinary life — working as a blacksmith in a nation plagued by recurring civil wars, raised with divorced parents, and burning with a desire for something more exciting than his mundane existence. That desire will make him truly understand the meaning of "Be careful what you wish for" as he finds himself ripped away from everything he knew. His only strength is his ability to simply go with the flow, no matter what happens. Will he survive? Thrive? Find a way home? A semi-interactive story where reader polls help shape the narrative.