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Omega Force ist zurück! Nach der gewagten Rettung eines politischen Dissidenten wird Omega Force beauftragt, eine Reihe von Angriffen auf zivile Raumschiffe innerhalb einer Gruppe von Sternensystemen zu untersuchen, die als Concordian Cluster bekannt sind. Es scheint ein einfacher Auftrag mit einer enormen Belohnung zu sein. Das ist genau das, was die bunt zusammengewürfelte Gruppe von Söldnern braucht, um ihr Schiff im Schuss zu halten und denjenigen, die sie jagen, einen Schritt voraus zu bleiben.

The Laemion Ancestry has begun their invasion of Anshald. As the call to arms goes out and young men and women from across the nation begin to answer the call, three people enlist in the small mining town of Stonlinge. Among them is Sigfried Rium, who is quickly recruited to be a live fire airship saboteur as a part of the division known as the Wind Walk Archers.

Magic runs the machines. Secrets run the city. And Squad 54 stands between order and chaos. Conall thought he'd buried the past with his brother. But when a cryptic summons surfaces—tied to a long-vanished village and a wolf who should be dead—he's forced to retrace the path of the disbanded...

Nothing from Liam's old life as a local factory worker could've prepared him for the reality he's since found himself in. Reincarnated as the noble Percival Shadestone, he's been imbued with unbelievable magic. His days of carefully honing the delicate components of various contraptions are finished as he chases a life of patrician politics and sorcery schooling. But even a protected son of the aristocracy must face hardships. As Percival hones his skills as a magical machinist, he longs for friendly faces in this unfamiliar realm.

Ella Pickering is drowning in debt. Once a Unity skymage trained to make aerial supply runs in the Great War with the Ranneas Empire, following a crash, she now uses a wheelchair and works gruelling shifts making magical weapons in the Unity workshops, thinking of better days. One night, Ella witnesses an experiment by engineer Jackan Grissom go awry. His device morphs into a crude rocket blasting skywards before falling into the war's spell-ravaged No Man's Land. But this inspires a dangerous dream: could such a device reach the moon—the forbidden home of the gods? 

A small-town hero. A numberless horde. No turning back. Beast hunter and local hero Keltin Moore joins a desperate campaign to save faraway Krendaria, a nation on the verge of revolution. A swarm of beasts threatens to destroy the country’s desperately needed crops, and an unprecedented team of hunters is assembled to cleanse the infested farmlands. But the grand adventure quickly becomes a desperate fight for survival as the horde of beasts seems endless and distrust among the hunters eats away at the campaign from within.

Writer on Demand TM Vol. 5: Tales of an Altered Past Powered by Romance, Horror, and Steam includes four stories:

"Dashed Hopes" (approximately 4,250 words) is a tale of invention, romance, and tragedy set in the coal fields of England. This story originally appeared in "Hot & Steamy: Tales of Steampunk Romance," edited by Jean Rabe and Martin H. Greenburg (DAW Books. Inc. 2011) and is narrated by Bruce Pilkenton.

Sick of toiling his life away on the Thistlethorn estate, Rylan tries everything he can think of to unlock his first Skill—from juggling, to sewing, to singing—until one day, he unexpectedly succeeds. However, instead of celebrating Rylan's achievement, the Thistlethorns attempt to trap him in a Spirit Contract. Seeing no other choice, Rylan flees into the cloudsea, carrying only what supplies he manages to grab on the way out and a mysterious note bearing a cryptic warning...

Her airship has crashed. Her magic is gone. And the pirates aren't done with her yet... Sira always dreamed of becoming an airship pilot. She's gone against her family's wishes and suppressed her magical gift to train at the Academy. Top of her class, she's almost guaranteed to pass, until her...

Ostfriesland 1885: Der junge Tammo Freese ist vieles: Wanderprediger, Rebell – und ein Hochmagier mit seltener Gabe. Eine gefahrvolle Mischung für jemanden, der ins Visier des gefürchteten Inquisitors Falk van Arden gerät. Als der erfahrene Verhörmeister seine Hexenjäger entsendet, macht sich Tammo im letzten Moment aus dem Staub. Eine wilde Hetzjagd durch das historische Ostfriesland beginnt, bei der der Ermittler dem jungen Heißsporn immer an den Fersen klebt, um ihn im letzten Moment wieder zu verlieren.

Stranded on a world of sorcery and monsters, one AI will unleash the fury of the universe to protect her humans. Sapphiria was performing her duties as a fleet admiral of the Terran Federation, leading a goodwill tour of the fringe worlds, when she was caught in a hyperspace anomaly. Now, she’s crash-landed on a planet ruled by magic and monsters, cut off from reinforcements, with only her escape pod and her genius to rely on. But she’s not just any survivor—she’s an Artificial Intelligence forged from the minds of humans and fragments of the Federation's greatest AIs.

Les temps sont durs sur Horalis.Diyana est prisonnière du machiavélique Toscan Ghornvil qui la condamne à mort par les fourmis géantes du désert.Déterminé à la sauver, Edhelja se lance dans une dangereuse mission pour la libérer de l'impitoyable cartel du Saragor. Aenore et ses hommes trouvent refuge chez les Elfes, mais l’Impérium entre en guerre et traque sans relâche la Résistance avec ses redoutables légions de Stéostoons en armure et le terrifiant Sacquarr.

In 1942, New Chicago was born. The goal was to build a new world that promised the American dream. Now, two years later, the city is a volatile mixture of high society and organized crime. Smiling corporate devils peddle the future while wrestling for control with criminal kingpins from a rapidly fading era. Caught in the middle of this transitional period are the young Whitlock siblings and their friends—the last remaining members of the infamous Whitlock gang, once led by their now-deceased father.

Vom Bestseller-Autor der Schwarze-Flotte-Serie und des Riesenhits „Kriegsschiff.“ Jason Burke war ein Mann, der sich in einer kleinen Hütte hoch in den amerikanischen Rocky Mountains vor sich selbst versteckte, als sein einfaches, ruhiges Leben eines Nachts von etwas erschüttert wurde, von dem er zuerst annahm, dass es sich um ein Flugzeugunglück handelte. Aber als er den Absturz untersucht, zwingt ihn das, was er findet, aus seinem selbst auferlegten Exil und stößt ihn in eine Welt, die er sich nie hätte vorstellen können.

Vyran: I was the fearsome right hand to the Infernal Empress—but her demonic empire fell. Two hundred years later, it’s my duty to resurrect it. To do that, I’ll need a battle queen by my side—and she’s the perfect specimen. Broken, betrayed, abandoned … yet burning with a spark that could set the whole world ablaze. I can remake her into a demon worthy of the infernal court, but to accept my power, she’ll have to survive it. Her will is strong. But if I have my way with her, she’ll beg to bend to mine.

After falling from the sky, Fieran is sent home to heal. But healing his body is only a minor battle compared to healing his friendship with Merrik and pursuing his relationship with Pip. Pip travels to Aldon to work at the AMPC and solve a tricky mechanical problem. But inventing mechanics is nothing compared to meeting more of Fieran's family. Can she embrace this new step? Whether at home or at the front, the war threatens those Fieran and Pip love. With his squadron at his back and Pip at his side, Fieran fights as he has never fought before to protect the Alliance.

When watchmaker Elias Thorne repairs a peculiar pocket watch, time stops—then breaks. Pulled from his quiet workshop into Aevum, a vast clockwork city that governs the rhythm of time itself, Elias discovers a world built on perfection and slowly dying because of it. Its gears no longer breathe. Its harmonies no longer bend. And its creator, the Chronomaster Vorran, believes flawlessness is the only path to survival. But Elias carries something the city has lost: an understanding that imperfection is not failure—it is adaptation.

Einst waren sie befreundet. Nun wollen sie einander tot sehen. Die Freundschaft zerbricht, als Constantine wegen Serienmordes verhaftet wird und Ari sich den Ruf eines Helden verdient. Als der Häftling entdeckt, dass er wie Ari über Superkräfte verfügt, entkommt er aus dem Gefängnis. Wissend, dass seine übernatürliche Begabung Ari in den Selbstmord treiben könnte, beginnt Constantine seinen Rachefeldzug.

Zoe & GlicoEine kurze, gnadenlose LitRPG • Geschichte aus der Welt von Steve Wilds „Klassenlos“. Als die Welt stirbt, bleibt nur der Kampf. Zwei junge Frauen, wie sie unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten, stellen sich dem Ende – und entdecken, dass der wahre Feind nicht immer tot ist. Zoe war Söldnerin – abgebrüht, pragmatisch und bewaffnet. Glico war das Gegenteil – chaotisch, bunt und Gewalt kennt sie höchstens aus Videospielen. Als die Toten aufstehen, bleibt ihnen nur eine Hoffnung: das Lager eines alten Freundes zu erreichen, der sich jahrelang auf genau diesen Tag vorbereitet hat.

Maxim Volt has defended his rule against the depredations of industry, but a greater challenge awaits him. Marriage. For not only does he have to organize a rite of fealty, where the various powers of the Grimm Valley swear loyalty to him and his house, but he must fend off a bevy of sometimes murderous brides eager to become the mistress of the castle.