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The Earth is changing. Aliens invaded, bringing with them social upheaval, advanced technology, and an armada of peacekeeping robots. But Alan, a college student pursuing a now-useless degree, cares little about all of this — he has only one thing on his mind: the Game. A fully immersive virtual reality, the Game appears to be a major part of the invading civilization. Soon, Alan realizes the Game is anything but simple, and the stakes are higher than he ever imagined.

Percy was born with little hope of standing out — just another face in a world ruled by bloodlines and class, starting with the lowest Red core and mocked as a waste. When his bloodline awakens with the power to send clones across worlds, he seizes the chance to shatter those expectations. Exploring strange realms full of danger, Percy returns with divine techniques, obscure knowledge, and treasures stolen from advanced civilizations. But mastering alchemy, outmaneuvering scheming Great Houses, and surviving invading gods will test whether a so-called waste can truly reach the stars.

Generations ago, violence was banned on New Earth. Society is governed and conflicts are resolved in the arena of a fantasy computer game called Epic. Everyone plays. Win, and you earn access to university, more supplies for your community, and a chance to fulfill your dreams. Lose, and your life inside and outside the game is worth nothing. When Erik, seeking revenge for the unjust treatment of his parents, dares to subvert the rules of Epic, he and his friends find themselves up against the ultimate masters of the game: the Committee.

Taking down a god is not easy. In order to escape a prison at the edge of the world, con artist Kalsis Chiroptera agrees to do the impossible: overthrow the Princeps, the immortal ruler of all mankind. It seemed like a good idea at the time. With only a handful of survivors by his side — plus a cheerfully murderous golem girl — Kal has a long way to go before he is ready to challenge an empire. He will need allies, weapons, warships, and an ancient mecha that feeds on the bones of the world to grow stronger. A military progression fantasy featuring magitech, sandships, dark comedy, and a group of losers on a long road from dodging cannibal bikers to building a fleet of starships.

Coming off humanity's first multi-planet war, the Inner Dolcir Coalition barely survived — thanks in large part to Earth. Rhidi, a Kafya and member of the dominant IDC race, served in a specialized force during the war's final phase. With the war over and her mother pressing her toward marriage and children, Rhidi signs up for a joint military training program: a statement to the Humans that IDC members are their equals. The program turns out to be far more than Rhidi bargained for — not only in challenge, but in the freedom she has always craved.

Born to die and be born again, Gell the Jellyfae must discover her strange connection to the horrible monsters called humans — creatures that speak with words she understands yet seem to want nothing but her death. Driven by a desire for safety and freedom, she ventures forth to Tread the Sky and finds more worlds than one.

Arc Sandhurst will become a mech pilot, even if it kills him. After his sister's ship is destroyed by the Pirate Queen of Nepenthe with all hands lost, Arc enters the Imperial Mech Academy on the deathworld Vidako to get revenge — the only path available to the son of a silk-worker who needs the academy's enhancements just to pilot a mech. First he must survive disagreeable roommates, hazing from upperclassmen, the friendship of an imperial princess, and the steaming jungles of Vidako. But the Imperium Stellarum will need every good pilot it can get — because empires are built on a foundation of blood, and the sins of the first emperors are about to come due. Lost fleets lurk on the edge of known space, the ruins of ancient races are spread across long-dead worlds, and enemies thought defeated are gathering their strength once more.

A great race faces extinction and tries to leave a legacy for the future. Young races build on the ruins of the old. When one of the old ones wakes to find the universe changed, she must decide: seek new meaning, help the younger races, punish those who have plundered her people's ruins — or simply try, at last, to find happiness of her own.

A Star Wars fan wakes up inside the Jedi Temple, 72 BBY — clanmates with Mace Windu, which is objectively awesome. Less awesome: he knows the Order is doomed, the Sith are plotting, and the galaxy is on a countdown to collapse. Now he has to change history without breaking it.

A girl suddenly vanishes from her world and finds herself drifting in and out of consciousness in a place of pure darkness. Queen in the Mud follows a female monster protagonist as she makes her way through a vicious, untamed world ruled by a system.

In space, isolation is a slow killer. Company quickens the pace. Waking up adrift in an ancient battleground, Alex is left dazed and confused with no clue how she ended up trapped aboard a failing vessel. With only a mysterious voice in her head to guide her, she must act in order to survive. Every piece of the puzzle she collects only leads to more questions about her origins — and the star she's trapped around might not be as deserted as she first thought. All she knows for sure is that she could die at any minute. Alex is not going to go down without a fight.

Every year on Power Day, people across the world awaken new abilities and are labeled Heroes or Villains. Emily Wright wants nothing to do with any of it — she just wants to get her degree and manage her social anxiety. Instead, she awakens with the power to summon little sisters and is officially categorized as a Villain. Accidentally conjuring a pint-sized supervillain sidekick is only the beginning. With an ever-growing family of mischievous sisters to babysit, Emily tries to stay under the radar — even as her reluctant "evil empire" grows larger than she ever intended.

In ages past, the world was wracked with upheaval — flooded with monsters while humanity gained the power of the gods. The present is filled with youngsters desperately attempting to match the heights of those original heroes, while old monsters in human skin struggle for supremacy and daring explorers probe the cosmos. As the younger brother of one of the most famous trailblazers, Derek Thoma is expected to become strong or die trying. When his older brother returns from outer space, the pressure only intensifies — even as centuries-old threats rear their ugly heads.

Emie Mercer was one of several billion people who survived the apocalypse and was introduced to a new reality where magic was commonplace and everyone had access to a system. Unfortunately, the rest of Emie's family wasn't so lucky. As far as world-changing events went, Earth's reintegration into the Atlantis Alliance was remarkably tame — the post-apocalyptic universe mirrored the wildly popular deep-immersion VRMMORPG Atlas Online, allowing those who played to quickly adapt to their new reality. More than a decade later, Emie manages to create a formation that relies on her Time and Space affinities to return her consciousness to the past. When she arrives nearly four years earlier than expected, she realizes she has a unique opportunity to prepare and train for what is coming. A regression story focused on preparation, growth, and the cost of making herself exceptional — without relying on perfect foreknowledge.

Terrans are not the strongest species in the universe. They are not the fastest. They are most definitely not the smartest. But Terrans are the loneliest — willing to befriend anything that moves and several things that don't. After humanity nearly made themselves extinct with a "Terran brand oopsie," billions of Terrans awaken from stasis and set themselves upon a galaxy teeming with alien life, each writing their own story among the stars. Stories of compassion, anger, revenge, and justice. But mostly stories of Terrans looking for the one thing all beings desire: friendship in a lonely universe.

In a distant future, Alexander wakes to find his past is a fog and his consciousness inhabits a robot body. Faced with fragmented memory and an uncertain future, he scrapes by running a repair shop while trying to piece together the mystery of his transformation. As Alexander forges ahead stitching together his identity, unexpected companions join his journey—among them a precocious girl whose presence sparks forgotten emotions. But in the shadows lurk those drawn by his technological prowess, casting a growing threat over everything he is trying to build.

The world of The Boys is full of villains masquerading as heroes. Adding a self-insert character with the memories of a villain to that mix shouldn't change much. What's one more bad egg?

Having gained self-awareness while still in his mother's womb, Michael Kaiser knew this was his chance. Being born was only the first step — at one year old he would have a college degree, and at five he would be a billionaire. This being a magical world with advanced technology, he'd catch up in no time. Except he nearly died in the first minutes of his life. Something had to be done. Michael Kaiser has the talent of Adaptation and nanomachines in his blood — and in a world where aristocratic bloodlines with magical abilities hold all power, he intends to climb from infant prodigy to unstoppable force.

When a world falls through the false vacuum of its native universe, it ends up in the Spiral — an endless twisting helix of planets, stars, and civilizations, where a thousand different fundamental rules mix and blend to form the patchwork cosmos of the Weave. In the Spiral, magic and technology co-exist, freely used by traders, adventurers, and plunderers to make their fortunes. Miles is a human refugee, fresh from an Earth that has recently fallen into the Spiral. Unlike most of his peers, he's chosen to pursue a specialization in magic, and has just taken his first step on a journey that will take him to the highest and lowest points in his strange new universe.

Each year, teens around the country are spirited away to other worlds to fight on their behalf. One government department has been empowered to bring them back. Cole had his entire career planned — another year in the Airborne, then Ranger School, then Special Forces — until his fireteam was plucked from a war in Syria and thrust into a world of demons with an endless appetite for human hearts. Barely getting his squad to safety with the aid of the Department of Otherworld Rescue, Cole joins as an elite operative: venturing into dying, desperate worlds to retrieve stolen children and teens. These worlds run on strange rules enforced by vindictive gods and omniscient systems, filled with monsters, demons, and worse. But playing in their sandbox lets Cole and his team share in their rewards — rewards that could elevate even an ordinary soldier into a one-man army.