Faith’s world has ended. Broken, poisoned, and increasingly infested with the shambling dead, it isn’t much like the world she used to know. She made it through an apocalypse with a handful of strangers, but what does she do next? This is her story, told in real-time as she tries to keep a journal of her group’s journey, searching . . .
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Liz is a survivor, one of the few, of the zombie apocalypse. A teenager who just recently was a cheerleader, dating the Quarterback, and doing everything right, finds herself in a world where everything is wrong. Another survivor, Anna, lived just long enough to give birth to a daughter, before dying in childbirth, leaving the young Liz to care for . . .
The Philosopher in Arms is the massively-revised version of my two traditionally-published fantasy novels, Lion’s Heart and Lion’s Soul (Baen Books, 1991) set in the “Fifth Millennium” world collaboratively created with S.M. Stirling and Shirley Meier. Almost 3,000 years after a human-made cataclysm reduced both human population and technology back to primitive levels, civilization is rising again slowly. Here . . .
Rebooted – In a world where the Cold War never ended and Corporations struggle in secret for the future of mankind, three people are brought together by a shared destiny they fight to escape. Nothing is truly forgotten, and in the darkest places lie gateways to another reality, where the deeper secrets are pushed the more powerful they become. . . .
Most folks reckoned that when humankind finally up and destroyed itself, it would do so with bombs, blades, brimstone and all those other things that politicians and priests had warned about. Turns out it was a poet who guessed the right of it. The end came more with a whimper than a bang. There were no great wars, no . . .
asa kraiya is the sequel “that never should have happened” to my two traditionally-published fantasy novels, Lion’s Heart and Lion’s Soul (Baen Books, 1991). Greatest of warriors and greatest of leaders, Fourth Chevenga Shae-Arano-e lives “the life of other men’s dreams”—except that he faces certain death by the age of thirty. When a healer with the gift of seeing . . .
Tracker, starting with Tiger and Fox, is the story of a genetic construct in a post-apocalyptic America learning to live with his differences where the Enhanced are despised and frequently destroyed in the name of racial purity. He is a non-human in a world of humans. . . .
Marin Astoris had a vision a few years ago, of a mushroom cloud rising beyond the university’s iconic clocktower. A voice whispered in her ear, take a breath and wait to die. That vision never came to pass. Something else happened instead: an asteroid, a botched attempt to stop it from hitting earth, and a resulting cataclysm that left only . . .
Early next year, a deadly and unexplained virus emerges on the U.S. continent. Within weeks, the entire world’s population faces extinction. Amongst the chaos and desperation of a ruined world stand a few mysteriously unaffected individuals. Lost, confused, and alone. This is the bizarre story of one of those individuals, Matthew Cahill, as he travels from Pittsburgh through the Pennsylvania . . .
The British Isles, the 16th century. Decades ago, the fae returned to the mortal world. Released by a coven of magicians after centuries of imprisonment, they swept across the British Isles, covering the land with a tangled forest of enchanted trees. Cities fell. Thousands died. Only a handful of cities were saved. Years later, the people of the . . .
Polymerists are a race of humanoids who can take the shape of animals or hybrids of them based on pacts that they have made. After spending almost a millennium helping humanity to rebuild from the end of the world, a group with unusual abilities appears, seizing control and calling for the extinction of the Polymerists. The few survivors of these . . .
With the official Second Civil War coming as a result of political turmoil, sides were taken. Between those two sides,a never-ending battle of mudslinging and using loop-holes in the law took place, until the Government forgot about the people it had been intended for. In times such as these, there are many people who would go to great lengths to . . .
The Persephone virus swept throughout the known world, bringing civilization to its knees within days. Now, twenty years later, the survivors of Persephone have adapted to a new life in the remnants of the old civilization. The world is littered with small communities of traders, gangs, slavers and religious cults. One thing is certain. There is no law. There . . .
I have to give this story a lot of credit for literally making me laugh out loud. The dry humour in the narration of the main character – a true anti-hero - is great! Michael Cooper really has a way with words: sarcastic, funny, and also, very descriptive in an original way. You’ll see what I mean.This story is scary, [more . . .]
Summary: Lilith has lived underground for her whole life. After getting tickets to a show Above Ground, a freak accident sends her left alone with no way home. She meets a werewolf, who saves her life and now she has to find her way back home, if only things were that simple.