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When the world loses electricity and mana-twisted beasts begin to prowl, Matt — an ordinary guy left for dead at the bottom of a gully — grasps at his only chance of survival: a glowing, dangerously pulsing Dungeon Core. With his reality permanently altered, Matt must race to deploy the Core before it detonates. Fighting through hundreds of people standing between him and safety, he carves out a foothold in a world that will never be the same again.

The last soul-shard of Aelryinth is cut free and drawn through astral space to a new realm — one with no exposure to the gods, powers, or system of the Power of Ten. It is a world of Magery, where Elements of Magic is the science, power resides in people, and humanity dwells alongside countless magical creatures that actively contest the world with them. Shard Zeben must hit the ground running and make major adjustments to a gamer's outlook as she introduces this world's mages to what it means to be a truly versatile wizard — and brings the Light of Heaven to a world that has never known it.

What do you do when you find yourself the sole survivor of the complete destruction of Earth? Nikola winds up in that position — disembodied in a half-built asteroid outpost, the last remnant and only hope of the human race. Nikola exists now only in digital form, controlling drones and cameras to interact with the world. But memories are fractured, and there are endless obstacles between awakening as a glorified computer program and saving the species. Is Nikola even human anymore? Is it even possible to resurrect humanity?

Despite his youth, Declan Idrys knows the evils of the world — the brigands plaguing the King's lands, the monsters lurking in the wooded depths. Together with his companion Ryn, a horse of peculiar talent, he has spent a decade beneath the bloody banners of mercenary guilds hunting precisely such wickedness. When a troubling contract goes sideways, Declan and Ryn are thrust into a war thought legend and long-ended — one so old it is synonymous with a time when dragons still ruled the western skies. As dead men rise from their graves and terrible beasts descend from the north, Declan must choose: flee an ancient rising horror, or face it and learn to wield an ageless power all his own. Centuries pass, but the Blood of Kings does not fade.

His name is Eight. Not really, but that's what the System decided after a slip of the tongue. One moment, he was stepping out the office door on the way home, and the next waking up on a hillside below a town wall — and the gate guard drove him off, thinking he was a monster. Life's tough when you're an old man trapped in an eight-year-old body on another world. But there's sixty-four years of hard-won wisdom inside that small frame, and Eight will use every bit of it to survive.

Tanya Degurechaff is back — this time reincarnated as a Chansey, a Pokémon known for its kind soul, healing ability, monstrous durability, and a born career pipeline to a life of helping others in Pokémon Centers. Determined to finally get an easy life away from all the battling nonsense, Tanya figures a starting position like this will make things simple. She is wrong.

When humanity first encountered alien life, we were judged and found wanting. The Galactic Consensus found us selfish, wasteful, and boorish — blockaded Earth and left behind little more than a hypercomm relay and a handful of subscriptions to a massively multiplayer game played in one's sleep. The game, they said, would teach us to be better galactic neighbors. The megacorporations ignored it until they learned the powers earned from clearing dungeons were just as real when day broke. Magic and supernatural abilities exploded into existence, and a subscription to the Tower of Somnus became a status symbol. Katherine "Kat" Debs doesn't have much, but she wants something more — a chance to claw her way up the rigid social ladder from the arcology where she was raised. When she gets the opportunity to enter the Tower free of corporate control, she jumps at it, knowing the game might be her only path to taking control of her own destiny.

Just one semester until graduation, a young man dies saving a little girl — only to wake up in another world, in the body of Kupiec Aiden, chosen by a deity to save the realm of Zemia. Unlike the isekai stories he's read, he retains none of Aiden's memories and must learn everything from scratch. When his exceptional innate talent for Aether Gathering is discovered, he earns a scholarship to Azyl Academy, the city's premier institution. Now he must figure out where he fits in this world — and how he's supposed to be the key to saving it.

A thousand-year-old succubus, tired of devouring men, invents a new spell to grow more powerful in a less distasteful manner — by kidnapping twenty students and forcing them to level up in the Underworld. Elorion is just an average high school student when he wakes to find himself and nineteen others captured and given the ability to use magic and gain levels. If he doesn't fight the monsters of the Underworld, he will die. But if he does fight, will he survive?

Orphaned as a teenager and later saved by Duke Kinson, Morgan Lovecraft found a new life in the world of Dunnishire — until the day he turned sixteen and discovered he had a death affinity and was a necromancer. The old prejudices ran deep, and Morgan went from having friends to being an outcast all over again. Hoping his scholarship to the Mages Academy will be a new turning point, Morgan finds himself challenged to an honor duel on his first day of classes. Making mortal enemies in five minutes, then being asked by the duchy to speak to the dead, investigate assassination plots, and root out corruption — the former Earth gamer finds himself center stage as The Duchy's Necromancer.

Richard "Dodge" Forthrast founded a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire. One day, during a routine medical procedure, something goes irrevocably wrong — Dodge is pronounced brain dead. Long ago, he directed that his body be given to a cryonics company, and so his family has his brain scanned and its data structures uploaded and stored in the cloud. In the coming years, technology allows Dodge's brain to be turned back on. An eternal afterlife — the Bitworld — is created, in which humans continue to exist as digital souls. But this brave new immortal world is not the utopia it might first seem.

Max Best is back, and exactly the same as ever. His grinding is paying off: his football club's new stand is rising, his team tops the league, and his personal wealth is exploding. He even has his face on the cover of Soccer Supremo, the best-selling football management game. But just as things are finally going his way, he decides to risk it all by taking on a new challenge and a new enemy. There's no way it will work and no way he will get away with it — and that's just the way he likes it. This is book 15 in the Player Manager series; new readers can start here.

Summoned to another world and asked to be a great hero, the protagonist wants none of it — the world already has a hero. Instead, he chooses the simplest class available: Potion Maker. He has no interest in defying the heavens or cultivating mana. But the nearby town is suffering from crippling inflation and losing businesses fast. Someone has to do something about it. An unlikely potion shopkeeper and his apprentices begin building what they hope will become an S-ranked potion shop — though that turns out to be far easier said than done.

To be summoned to another world, given the class of [Hero], and tasked with defeating the demon king — some people might call that the opportunity of a lifetime. The chance to master the sword, grow more powerful than anyone on Earth could dream, and fulfill your destiny. Or not. It turns out that people summoned from another world are easily charmed by the title of "Hero." And they really should not be.

For allegedly average high-schooler Leonard Dunning, the rhetorical question of how you'd react to finding yourself in a world running on tropes and clichés became uncomfortably real. He woke up on a strangely pristine island country in the middle of the Atlantic — without memories, surrounded by countless characterless placeholders, with a classic harem protagonist and his love interests for friends. As he investigates the rules governing the world and works to sabotage the harem tropes, his outside-context knowledge, unique abilities, and talent for causing trouble draw the attention of the world's nebulous narrative.

Given his first weapon as a child, Edward Lee lived a life full of violence in a nation torn by war. Tormented by the demons of his past, he believed death would free him. Through the schemes of beings beyond his understanding, his death instead becomes the starting point of a new life — as a young teenager in a strange world of magic and monsters. Beyond simply surviving his new existence, Edward will soon realize there is still a price to pay for the actions of his past.

As the perfect sacrifice, it is only natural that Nix be sacrificed to the ancient gods lurking in the depths of the black hole. But she didn't die. Finding herself seven years in the past — to the day of her first cursed mutation — Nix is determined to correct her regrets, enact vengeance on her murderers, and simply live the life she never got to. But even with this second chance, freedom from the cults remains a pipe dream. To achieve everything she never could in her previous life, there is only one path before her. Nix will twist the curses that once bound her into the very source of her strength. The cults will regret sacrificing her — without ever knowing they already succeeded.

Ash just wanted to clear his family's debts in the frontier town of Dawnwatch. A dungeon run gone wrong turned up a Soul Gem worth a kingdom — and instead of selling it, he forged it into a sentient, armor-crushing warhammer who demands blood sacrifices, won't sleep on anything less than satin, and firmly believes he is the main character. Now Ash has to slay enough monsters to keep his weapon fed, protect the people he cares about, and survive the impending monster waves — all while arguing with a tool who has strong opinions about everything.

Michael didn't want to die. After a lost battle with cancer, he'd lived what many would call a full life — but it wasn't enough. He wanted more time with his wife, his kids, his grandkids. When he found himself drawn toward the light, he fought his way away from it. Unfortunately, that didn't take him back to the life he wanted. Reincarnated in another world, Michael is forced to become a Penitent — a soldier in the country he was reborn into — in order to pay a debt to society for taking the life of the child whose body he now inhabits. It's not the life he wants, but it's the only one he has.