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Once a seasoned gamer, Max has cheated fate, swapping his dying body for an immortal avatar in the world of sword and sorcery MMORPGs. He joins the ranks of a new race of people: perma players, forever stuck in the virtual castles and cities of AlterWorld. Now they have to obey the ever-changing rules of their new home while learning to live together in peace, love, and justice. But freedom and immortality are a poisoned chalice. Some of Max's new friends crave power; others become traitors and spies.

Ravirn is not your average computer geek. A child of the Fates - literally - he’s a hacker extraordinaire who can zero in on the fatal flaw in any program. Now that 21st-century magic has gone digital that makes him a very talented sorcerer. But a world of problems is about to be downloaded on Ravirn - who’s just trying to pass his college midterms. Great Aunt Atropos, one of the three Fates, decides that humans having free will is really overrated and plans to rid herself of the annoyance....

A UFO appears on Earth's orbit. Ignoring all contact attempts, it showers the planet with priceless artifacts. Choose: perfect health, $10 million, or seven years in prison, per the new amendment. The night of the meteor shower, Paul and his friends run around the city, engaging in quick fights with citizens gone crazy, trying to obtain one of the artifacts.

In 23 Years on Fire, Cassandra discovered that the technology that created her has been misused in her former home and now threatens all humanity with catastrophe. Returning home to Callay, she finds that Federation member worlds, exhausted by the previous thirty-year-war against the League, are unwilling to risk the confrontation that a solution may require. More frighteningly for Sandy, she has brought back to Callay three young children, whom she met on the mean streets of Droze, discovering maternal feelings she had not known she possessed.

Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this would be impossible. But all the players are "threeps", robot-like bodies controlled by people with Haden's Syndrome, so anything goes. No one gets hurt, but the brutality is real, and the crowds love it. Until a star athlete drops dead on the playing field.

Seth Kinnaman's dream has always been to become the best fighter the world has ever seen. After spending his entire life training, he's finally ready to test his skills in the biggest tournament on Earth, where hundreds of the fiercest competitors vie for the supreme title. In the semifinals, Seth is getting the upper hand when his opponent uses an illegal blow to take him out. Upon waking up from a coma, Seth finds out he's lost his sight. He's become blind, and he's completely devastated. All his dreams are now shattered, and he soon falls into depression.

In a perilous future where disposable duplicate bodies fulfill every legal and illicit whim of their decadent masters, life is cheap. No one knows that better than Albert Morris, a brash investigator with a knack for trouble, who has sent his own duplicates into deadly peril more times than he cares to remember. But when Morris takes on a ring of bootleggers making illegal copies of a famous actress, he stumbles upon a secret so explosive it has incited open warfare on the streets of Dittotown.

Now a Level 10 ronin, Seiki is slowly coming to terms with the death of Master Tsujihara and his new life in Shinshioka. Spending his days in the Wilderness, he’s venting his remaining frustration while staying away from the city drama and those griefers, like the Rogami Clan, who had made his in-game experience so challenging thus far. He has even taken up a trade skill. But when he’s presented with an offer he can’t refuse and accepts a simple mission to deliver a message to Kano Castle, he quickly finds his troubles are only just beginning.

Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the globe. Most who get sick experience nothing worse than flu, fever, and headaches. But for the unlucky one percent - and nearly five million souls in the United States alone - the disease causes "Lock In": Victims fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. The disease affects young, old, rich, poor, people of every color and creed. The world changes to meet the challenge.

Marid Audran has become everything he once despised. Not so long ago, he was a hustler in the Budayeen, an Arabian ghetto in a Balkanized future Earth. Back then, as often as not, he didn't have the money to buy himself a drink. But he had his independence.Now Marid works for Friedlander Bey, "godfather" of the Budayeen, a man whose power stretches across a shattered, crumbling world.

Mentre la Terra è sempre più depauperata di risorse e sfiancata da guerre, la nave spaziale Dormire trasporta nel paradiso incontaminato di Artemis, un pianeta nel sistema stellare Tau Ceti, migliaia di esseri umani addormentati. Nel viaggio di quattrocento anni necessario per raggiungere la destinazione finale, le loro vite sono salvaguardate da IAN, sofisticatissima Intelligenza Artificiale con poteri decisionali e di veto. Ma qualcosa va storto: i sei membri dell'equipaggio, tutti ex criminali che sperano di ripulire il proprio passato e ricominciare una nuova vita.

Eliot Lazar lavora per una compagnia che produce e vende spinner, gli androidi, simulacri di esseri umani creati a servizio degli heartbeat, gli uomini. La sua fortuna - o sfortuna - è quella di innamorarsi di una spinner modello C-900, Iris Matsuo: nella Los Angeles di fine XXI secolo le relazioni tra heartbeat e spinner, lasciate spesso impunite dalla legge, rappresentano un'offesa sociale, un crimine morale da perseguire. Eliot e Iris decidono allora di trasferirsi nell'isola artificiale di Avernus, una sorta di Stato pirata dove tali pregiudizi non esistono.

Terra, 2144. Judith "Jack" Chen è una vera e propria scienziata-pirata: la sua base operativa è un sottomarino, la sua missione piratare costosi farmaci e produrne delle alternative a basso costo, accessibili a tutti. Una sorta di Robin Hood in un mondo dominato dalle case farmaceutiche. Eppure, qualcosa è andato storto con la sua ultima partita di Zacuity: coloro che ne hanno fatto uso, sono andati incontro a effetti collaterali imprevisti, ridotti a veri e propri automi costretti ad azioni meccaniche e ripetitive che conducono la mente alla follia.

Montana Coggeshall spürt den Druck – und das nicht nur aufgrund seiner neuen Lederhose der Göttin Eona. Sein kleiner Zufluchtsort in der rücksichtslosen Welt von Vuldranni wird belagert. Von beiden Seiten. An der Spitze steht Lord Caticorix, ein erstklassiger kaiserlicher Lakai, wenn es je einen gab. Er ist eindeutig lächerlich, aber die Armee, die er mitgebracht hat, ist es vielleicht nicht. Außerdem wollen sie verhindern, dass Coggeshall Nahrung oder Vorräte von der Außenwelt bekommt. Und auf der Rückseite sitzen die Ursus, das überlebensgroße Bärenvolk, das seit jeher in diesem Tal zu Hause ist.

Als Montana in iNcarn8, seinem neuen Spielleben, anfing zu spielen, wollte er einfach mal einer der Guten sein. Aber trotz seiner beeindruckenden Statistiken und unglaublichen Heldentaten haben sogar seine Anhänger Angst vor ihm. In Montana gibt es immer wieder Ärger, sogar in der abgelegenen, vermeintlich sicheren Siedlung, die er zu seinem Herzogtum ausbauen will. All das muss sich ändern, wenn Coggeshall überleben will. Mauern werden hochgezogen und Häuser gebaut, aber Montana wird das Gefühl nicht los, dass das alles nicht ausreicht, um die Probleme des Imperiums fernzuhalten. Oder die Welt von Vuldranni.

Von seiner eigenen Freundin entführt und auf eine gefährliche Seereise geschickt. Clyde Hatchett hatte nicht vor, wegzulaufen und Pirat zu werden - das ist einfach passiert. Jetzt befindet er sich auf einer Meeresmission weit weg von Glaton und versucht verzweifelt, den einzigen Magier zu finden, der Clyde von dem Lichkönig befreien kann, der seinen Körper übernommen hat. Mach dich bereit für eine ununterbrochene Spritztour voller Geheimnisse, Verrat, Beute – und Meerjungfrauen.

Es könnte alles vorbei sein, bevor es überhaupt angefangen hat. Clyde Hatchett und der Rest der Freischaufler sollten besser ihre Karten richtig ausspielen – sonst wird ihre neu gegründete Gilde in einen Krieg mit der Eisernen Stille verwickelt, den übermächtigen Unsterblichen, die es lieben, ihre Opfer in die Wiederbelebung zu schicken und alles zu tun, was ihnen einen Vorteil bringt. So viel zum Ausruhen auf den Lorbeeren, was? Um seine Träume am Leben zu erhalten und seine neu gefundene Familie zu beschützen, ist Clyde bereit, alles zu tun, was nötig ist.

Montana Coggeshall, Herzog von Coggeshall, Bezwinger von Dungeons, er mit weit weniger Intelligenzpunkten als wahrscheinlich empfohlen, ist endlich bereit, mit dem Aufbau seines Herzogtums zu beginnen. Er braucht nur noch eine Sache, bevor er Osterstadt verlassen kann: ein paar fleißige Freunde, die ihn auf diesem Abenteuer begleiten. Na ja, und etwas Holz. Und Nägel und so weiter. Und genug Essen, um durch den Winter zu kommen. Und wahrscheinlich noch etwas Gold. Alles, was Montana braucht, bevor er Osterstadt verlassen kann, sind ein paar Freunde, Baumaterialien, Essen und Geld.

L'entreprise de Sancia Grado, une jeune femme capable de faire revivre le passé des objets et d'entendre leur enluminure, est au bord de la faillite face à la nombreuse concurrence. Pour échapper au Hiérophante, une ancienne puissance qui s'intéresse de près à ses pouvoirs, Sancia doit percer le secret des origines de l'enluminure.

For recently expelled college dropout Dirk Wilson, picking up and re-selling other player's scraps from cleared dungeons and side quests gone sideways is the only thing keeping him from living on the streets. Tired of ramen noodles, past-due notices, and feeling like his future is over before it ever started, Dirk decides that if he's going to make something of himself, it'll be within the game, taking advantage of the real-life payouts from selling in-game goods on King's League's River Market. But the game leaves little margin for error, and Dirk's virtual problems grow.