Being a child of wealth hasn't made life easy for Daryn Alwyn but he hasn't wanted it easy and he's always been determined to choose his own path, abandoning the possibility of power and leisure with his family's giant Media Network for a solo career, first as a military space pilot, later as a freelance media consultant. Only when he becomes the target of a series of deadly attacks does he begin to realize the true depth of responsibility his heritage...

When refugees from a war-ravaged Earth first settled Harmony, they built a master computer as a guardian of the peace-a machine designed to keep people from developing the technology that devastated their old world. Their descendants, genetically altered to receive the computer's transmissions, worshiped its voice within-what they called the Oversoul. But after 40 million years, the Oversoul began breaking down. To be repaired, its core had to interface...

After fourteen-year-old Lacey Chu repairs a highly advanced smartphone/robotic pet companion, or baku, called Jinx, the baku gets her into her dream school, Profectus, where she is exposed to dangerous secrets.

"Knowing their lives are at stake, Shay and Odin Remby race to stay one step ahead of Singular Corp in their efforts to expose the company's secret and highly unethical experiments"-- The Singular Corporation has been experimenting on a girl, trying to implant a U.S. senator's memories into her brain-- with partial success. Fenfang is now a girl who literally knows too much. When Shay and Odin Remby liberate the girl, they hope to expose the company's...

Teenaged Amy, a cryogenically frozen passenger on the spaceship Godspeed, wakes up to discover that someone may have tried to murder her.

This is the first story collection ever from the bestselling fantasy and science fiction writer L.E. Modesitt, Jr. He began publishing as a short story writer in the SF magazines in the 1970s, mostly in Analog. Some of the earliest stories are kernels for his early SF novels, others display the wide range of his talents and interests, from satire to military adventure.

George and Lori discover the tiny bottled city of Shandar hidden deep underground for centuries. They must find a way to stop a death squad sent to destroy it and restore power to the city before it uncontrollably expands to its normal size annihilating itself and everything around it.

In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United States.

"Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano...