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Coast Guard Captain Jesse Watkins is killed in action. Instead of moving on to the afterlife, Watkins wakes up as something different — he has been reborn as the core of a war-ravaged starship and must work to repair his vessel if he wants to find his way home. Threats to his new existence abound, both in the darkness of space and lurking aboard the ruined hulk of the ship he now commands. With a lifetime of naval service experience to draw upon, Captain Watkins must become something more than he was before — a vessel powerful enough to survive the journey home.

Two years ago, Corey Vash got abducted by aliens. A few months later, mostly by accident, he saved the universe. The parades and free drinks are long over, leaving his crew of bounty hunters with nothing but the expectations of a frightened galaxy and the overbearing attention of governments who want picture-perfect heroes. Now a murderous new threat is stalking their every move, forcing Corey and the crew of the Wild Card Wanderer to move past the bullets, booze, and blind luck that kept them alive — and become actual heroes, even if they aren't very good at it.

After the arrival of the Multiversal Monopoly BuyMort, life got brutal. All systems were through BuyMort. All currency was through BuyMort. You could resist or compete, but in the end you used BuyMort — or you perished. Enter Tyson Dawes, a no-cares slacker with a traumatic past, two wrinkled bucks in his wallet, and a crap job caretaking a campground in Arizona. He had a deal with the world: he didn't change it, and it didn't change him. BuyMort broke that deal the moment it unleashed alien entrepreneurs upon his planet, intent on selling everything not already tagged as private property. When a man has little, he cherishes it. When that little is lost, he'll do whatever it takes to get it back.

Successful gamer Samantha Jade Jacobs, formerly known as Titania, was feeling the bitter sting of betrayal — kicked from the team she founded and made great — when the gaming world was turned upside down. A new type of game was going into Beta, and Samantha would be one of the few testers. Little did anyone know that the road would be longer than anybody thought. Follow Samantha's journey into the world of Mundus and beyond on a trip nobody could have foreseen, not even the gods themselves.

In post-System Toronto, Alex doesn't slay monsters to get by — he delivers pizza. Broke and rejected by both the Adventurer's Guild and the Courier Guild, with nothing but a crumbly resume, he takes the only job left in town: delivery boy for Nino's Pizza, a Lich Pizzeria run by a married couple literally bound to the building. He must deliver enchanted pizza to Dungeon Bosses in sixty minutes or less, or suffer the wrath of both the Bosses and the old couple. With nothing but a seemingly useless ability, Alex must stay alive, deal with psychotic exes, and pray for loot in place of tips.

Titan Maximus Chadman, the seventh head of the Alpha Cultivation sect, practices the Dao of Chadness and cultivates Big D energy. Now that foreign cultivators have taken over Earth, he may be modern civilization's only hope.

They asked Amber to become a magical girl three times. She refused. That only made her more interesting. The fourth time, she asked them.

To enter Five Peaks Magical Academy you must have a familiar. Abigail hoped for a bird, maybe an owl like her best friend's, or a cuddly cat or loyal hound. She would have been happy with a particularly smart toad, even. Instead she got you.

Punished for his toxic online behavior, Chad faces a thirty-day sentence of full-immersion therapy designed to improve his anger issues. For his endless trolling, he's forced to play as a forest troll — the most hated race in Isle of Mythos — so that he can finally experience what it's like to be on the other side. To make matters worse, the heroes sent to rid the world of evil aren't heroes at all: they're violent felons on their own twisted paths to redemption. Playing as a monster in a world where it ain't easy being green, what could possibly go wrong?

What happens when you find yourself immersed in a fantasy world you have never imagined, and you don't know the rules? How much can one bathrobe and a spoon change the fate of the world? Is there enough ramen to ever sate a gamer's hunger?

Paralyzed in a workplace accident, Lox's life is looking bleak — he cannot even use the hardware that would let him play the full-immersion games everyone else enjoys. Then a company called New Universal Frontiers makes him an offer: access to their technology despite his injuries, in exchange for one condition — he can never leave the game. Once inside, Lox quickly realizes this is far more than a game. Given a class everyone considers useless due to its inherent dangers, he endures a long and painful series of trials as he masters his magical abilities. As he explores the depths of the game's magic system, he discovers there is far more going on than anyone ever expected.

Kay's life takes an unexpected turn when he is transported to a mysterious world brimming with unfamiliar Skills, Classes, and a System. There he discovers a unique Class never seen before — a powerful new form of blood magic that allows him to shape and manipulate the life force coursing through his veins. But the powers that be view Kay as a threat and are more than happy to eliminate him to maintain the status quo. Outnumbered and underpowered, he'll need to level up his Skills, harness his unique Class, and decipher the ever-shifting schemes of his enemies — all while keeping his true potential under wraps.

Lucan is the son of a landed knight in a kingdom surrounded by diverse threats. As he comes of age, he must make peace with both the tasteful and distasteful aspects of his responsibilities — but most important of all, he must find a way to either tame or accept his own ambitions. In a realm where an underground labyrinth births monsters that hunger to climb into the world of man, it's difficult to be a noble and dangerous to be a warrior. Lucan must navigate a maze of mortal peril and political intrigue if he is to survive and, perhaps someday, thrive. An action-adventure kingdom-building LitRPG focused on individual-level progression — no territory status sheets, and the RPG elements stay grounded rather than overwhelming the story.

Twenty years ago, the hero Glorybeam and the villain Blacktime fought. The aftermath leveled twenty city blocks, killed thousands, and orphaned hundreds. Neither has ever faced consequences. Isaac Hartson was one of those orphans. As a nominal-class metahuman — a dreg — he knows he'll never hold them accountable by force. But years as a janitor have taught him the value of simple plans and hard work. Once set in motion, events stay in motion. In Star City, there is always someone with an angle, and Isaac will need more than hard work to keep from being buried under the tide of consequences he has set in motion.

A truck driver in his mid-thirties is stranded 700 miles from home when the System arrives and ends the world as he knows it. With no truck, no supplies, and only his loyal dog for company, he has to cross a monster-infested country to reach his family. The System mutates plants and animals and spawns dungeons. Getting home means surviving all of it.

Sergeant Marcus Bola and his platoon flew to a newly uncovered desert temple on an unusual mission — something in the ruined holy place had killed many, and survivors met an ambush before reaching safety. The attack left Marcus wounded and medically discharged from the only life he'd known. Laying low and tending bar while waiting for answers, Marcus finds that slinging cocktails and talking to the patrons is not as easy as it sounds: gods, monsters, and devils keep showing up to try the mixers. Something inside him is calling the shots — and it is not tequila.

After a short-sighted endeavor to quietly make some money, Maxis Troy finds himself a target of the Brotherhood of Cain — a violent gang led by a man renowned worldwide as the Grim Reaper. Luck appears to be on his side when a girl with her own agenda comes to his aid. Armed with the superpower to alter and improve any technology with just a touch, the two enter a three-way stalemate between the embodiment of death itself, a worldwide organization of religious zealots, and a woman who fancies herself a Goddess. In a world rampant with superpowers, criminal organizations, and questionable authorities, Maxis will quickly learn that a cruel world only breeds crueler people.

Max Stone's laid-back life ends when a foolhardy rescue attempt earns him a trip to the afterlife. Instead of heaven or hell, his soul becomes a bargaining chip in a game between gods. He wins a second chance and chooses to keep his memories, awakening reincarnated in the frail teenage body of a recently deceased boy on Eedan — a world of chi cultivation, magic, and monsters. Starting weaker than the lowest-ranked cultivator and immediately drawing the ire of arrogant nobles, Max must leverage his Earth-born wits and a unique blessing to survive, master chi, and claw his way up in a world where power is everything.

Emma was slinging hotdogs at Comic-Con when the whole crowd got Portalled to another Realm — a world where the laws of physics don't apply and even the grass is trying to kill her. She better make friends fast, because out here it's thrive or die. No amount of videogames prepared her for a world where she can actually gain Skills and level up, or for a series of trials that seem designed to kill her rather than teach her to survive. What could possibly be the real goal of the mysterious predecessors who built them?

A serpent at the top of the food chain, master at threading through the rifts of distorted space, rules its territory — until something beyond comprehension destroys everything it has claimed. With sapience now forced into its mind, the serpent faces problems it was never equipped to handle. With no territory left and the distorted caverns collapsing around it, the only option is to search for an escape. A progression fantasy xenofiction following an actual monster gaining sapience — not a human reincarnating — exploring what it truly means to grow when you are, by all definitions, monstrous.