A Sci-Fi saga set in the “Retro Worlds” universe created by Julia Verlanger, one of the most celebrated French science fiction authors of the 1970s.

Diego believed he'd found his freedom, but little did he know his real journey was just beginning. After the Resh's defeat, he's thrust into a role as a sub-commander in the Seressin Empire, under the watchful eye of the formidable Commander Ziron. Yet, the world he was born in is gone, leaving him struggling to make sense of it all. Setting out on a trip to Grrlock with his best friend, Rreengrol, to visit family, Diego anticipates a relaxing vacation. But when they're unexpectedly abducted by toad-like Resh forces and taken to the dreaded Resh system, his reality takes a dark twist. Forced into a team of assassins with a chilling mission—kill Commander Ziron and the Supreme Commander—Diego has no way to warn his mentor or stop the impending disaster. He must have confidence in his own abilities and those of his otter-like friends, the Turengen, if they are to prevent the assassins' deadly plot. Then, Diego must face a deadly decision: return to the nightmarish world of Resh. His mission—to rescue Seressin hostages—is a daring, make-or-break gamble testing his courage to the limit. In this gripping sequel to Moon Crusher, Diego's journey unfolds against a backdrop of unrelenting suspense and self-discovery. Will he rise as the hero Seressin needs, or will the shadows of his past consume him? Join Diego on an epic odyssey through space where destiny and courage collide, and the fate of an entire empire hangs in the balance.

The Existence By: Theodore Ihejieto The Existence is a book of love and life that talks about the world as the existence of human beings, and tells human beings to understand that the world is the love and the life. It is a book of Planet Earth, which the Planet Earth gave to the author, because the author asked the Planet Earth for the book of the world. The author is a human being who lost faith in God and called on Planet Earth to do work and save human beings from evil and death in the world. This is a book of a human being who was challenged by evil and death in the world, and the human being called on his existence for help and protection. The author did not like to die in the world and told his existence that he did not want to die, because the author believed that Planet Earth has the power to save human beings in the world. The Existence is the faith, the hope, and the charity that God challenged human beings to find and tell the mountain of evil and death to move away from human beings.

An otherworldly coming-of-age tale of a woman who believes she is an alien, from the author of the international sensation Convenience Store Woman. Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman was one of the most unusual and refreshing bestsellers of recent years, depicting the life of a thirty-six-year-old clerk in a Tokyo convenience store. Now, in Earthlings, Sayaka Murata pushes at the boundaries of our ideas of social conformity in this brilliantly imaginative, intense, and absolutely unforgettable novel. As a child, Natsuki doesn’t fit in with her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut, who talks to her. He tells her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth. One summer, on vacation with her family and her cousin Yuu in her grandparents’ ramshackle wooden house in the mountains of Nagano, Natsuki decides that she must be an alien, which would explain why she can’t seem to fit in like everyone else. Later, as a grown woman, living a quiet life with her asexual husband, Natsuki is still pursued by dark shadows from her childhood, and decides to flee the “baby factory” of society for good, searching for answers about the vast and frightening mysteries of the universe—answers only Natsuki has the power to uncover. Dreamlike, sometimes shocking, and always strange and wonderful, Earthlings asks what it means to be happy in a stifling world, and cements Sayaka Murata’s status as a master chronicler of the outsider experience and our own uncanny universe. Praise for Earthlings A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, TIME and Literary Hub Named a Most Anticipated Book by the New York Times, TIME, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, the Guardian, Vulture, Wired, Literary Hub, Bustle, PopSugar, and Refinery29 “Intimate, deadpan, and unflinchingly unhinged. . . . Exceptionally fun. . . . Amid all the hedgehog and alien talk is a novel that asks how happiness and freedom can be possible inside a stiflingly anxious world, and its answers, while grotesque, are worth reading.” —Wired “If you’re in the mood for weird, Sayaka Murata is always a reliable place to turn. . . . [Earthlings] centers on Natsuki, a character whose story begins in childhood with her cousin in the mountains and spirals ever more darkly (and bizarrely) into adulthood and its many strange reckonings. This is a story that’s best not to spoil, but it will get into your head.” —Seattle Times “It’s the book’s visceral, grim savagery, and those final shocking pages, that makes this such a vital, powerful novel. . . . Earthlings is the sort of challenging, confronting fiction that wakes you up with a jolt and leaves a lasting impression.” —Locus

Celebrated urban theorist Davis provides a global overview of the diverse religious, ethnic, and political movements competing for the souls of the new urban poor.

Award-winning author Ben Bova brings us New Earth, his latest tale of science fiction in his Grand Tour series. The entire world is thrilled by the discovery of a new Earthlike planet. Advance imaging shows that the planet has oceans of liquid water and a breathable oxygen-rich atmosphere. Eager to gain more information, a human exploration team is soon dispatched to explore the planet, now nicknamed New Earth. All of the explorers understand that they are essentially on a one-way mission. The trip takes eighty years each way, so even if they are able to get back to Earth, nearly 200 years will have elapsed. They will have aged only a dozen years thanks to cryonic suspension, but their friends and family will be gone and the very society that they once knew will have changed beyond recognition. The explorers are going into exile, and they know it. They are on this mission not because they were the best available, but because they were expendable. Upon landing on the planet they discover something unexpected: New Earth is inhabited by a small group of intelligent creatures who look very much like human beings. Who are these people? Are they native to this world, or invaders from elsewhere? While they may seem inordinately friendly to the human explorers, what are their real motivations? What do they want? Moreover, the scientists begin to realize that this planet cannot possibly be natural. They face a startling and nearly unthinkable question: Could New Earth be an artifact? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Lies are exposed. The façade is shattered. All promises of peace are broken. War is inevitable; survival is unlikely. But we fight! Beverly Surimoto is a Phoenix leader and dedicated to the fight. Though born deaf, she was also born with the gift of psychic empathy and can sense deception in a person the way some smell flowers. It’s natural; an asset in her position of trust. Something tortures Victor’s mind, threatening his sanity and stealing his control. His brethren sought to subjugate Earth, but he willingly betrayed them to save Michael Tanner. Victor’s life is forfeit, and now he is amongst Humans. Revolutionaries. In Victor, Beverly senses no deception. No hate. His mind is overwhelmed by confusion, pain… and fear. She shouldn’t consort with “the enemy.” She has the unique ability to calm his soul, and she can’t deny that act of comfort. The enemy’s mask has been ripped away. Earth has been plunged into a war it isn’t prepared to fight… and ill-equipped to win. There may be allies beyond the edge of Earth’s system, but will the messenger sent on behalf of all Humanity reach his destination in time?

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic science fiction double novels. The first novel, “Secret of the Black Planet” is a grand futuristic opus by Milton Lesser about a great mystery in the Asteroid Belt. His name was John Hastings…or was it? No…it was Bok-kura, the Jovian StrongMan who thrilled thousands in Dufree’s circus sideshow. Bok-kura had very big muscles and almost no problems—until a girl from Mars made a remark that got him elected as the man most likely to be murdered! But he was a man with no past, at least not one he could remember. Then his memories started to come back—slowly. Memories that would eventually lead him to Mars, and soon after, the mysterious Asteroid Belt—within which lay the secret of his past. But even more so, the secrets of Mankind’s past, as well as its future. Come along with master sci-fi storyteller Milton Lesser as he spins one of his finest tales. The second novel is a tale about the secrets of space-time travel by Emmett McDowell, “The Outcasts of Solar III.” The Corporations of Terra were locked in a deadly battle to wrest control from the Government. The mysteries of space-time travel had finally been discovered and were now ready to be tested. Spies for General Atomic were closing in fast on the Government’s men, but Jon Saxon was not your average G-man. He had powers. Extra-sensory powers. Accompany Saxon and his crew of specialists, onlookers, and mutineers as they hurtle across the void toward Alpha Centauri—toward yet another world of intrigue and manipulation in this fantastic tale of interstellar flight and the darkest secrets of mankind’s origins.

The end has come, not only for the outcasts but for all of Dulunae. The planet is shaken by dormant volcanoes, and the ultimate agents of destruction arise from the inferno. The Outcasts continue to forge their way to a safe HayVen that may or may not exist. Grim and dubious alliances form, and their trusted scout, Jax, goes missing. The fourth and final book of this series will reveal who controls the destiny of Dulunae! "The eyes drew closer. Silent and deadly, like a knife. Closer. Eyes, staring, burning. Like the hundreds of Antibody eyes Lynai'seth had seen as they destroyed her community. Eyes without pity or remorse. Never again!"