The Stragori Deception
The Stragori Deception

Author: Arlene F. Marks

Publisher: Brain Lag

Published: 2025-01-31

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1998795217

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Stragon is a powder keg waiting to explode. It's a fractured society plagued by extremist bombings and street violence. A political climate fraught with lies, deception, and widespread public unrest. And the Terran immigrant population is in ever-growing danger of being targeted as the cause of it all... because an impostor on the ruling Directorate is pointing fingers squarely in their direction. Exposing the fraud and defusing the violence will take a master manipulator, and Dennis Forrand is just the man for the job. As he pulls strings across three continents, former Earth Intelligence Service agents Isabela and Angeli have their own plans to subdue the radical factions. However, with both of them under Security's gaze, not only their cover but their lives may be at stake. Somehow, they must all work together to out-con the usurper and pull Stragon back from the brink before a bloody conflict breaks out. Humanity's struggle to claim its place among the stars continues in SIC TRANSIT STRAGON

The Bloodstone
The Bloodstone

Author: Arlene F. Marks

Publisher: Brain Lag

Published: 2024-03-29

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1998795101

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Sixteen years have passed since the corrupt Council of the First was purged. Since then, the Nash'terel, shapeshifting essence vampires from a distant world, have resumed their quiet lives on Earth, hiding their true nature from their human prey. In small town Ontario, Travis lives with his adoptive grandpas, dividing his time between school and hockey practice. Everyone, including Travis, thinks he's an ordinary Canadian teen, until a series of uncontrolled shapeshifts and a growing telekinetic talent reveal his Nash'terel heritage. Having "superpowers" sounds great, until he has to put his dream of NHL stardom on hold and move across the country to train them. He may not be happy, but he's going to need control of those powers in order to survive. Someone has put a bounty on dashkra, the alien mineral that all Nash'terel carry inside them. While Travis struggles to adjust to his new existence, his grandpas and their contacts must work to find out who has turned their kind into prey—yet again.

The Price of Memory and More Stories
The Price of Memory and More Stories

Author: Sally McBride

Publisher: Brain Lag

Published: 2024-10-08

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1998795144

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Sally McBride's haunting, mesmerizing short fiction has been captivating audiences for nearly forty years. It's been published in Asimov’s, Amazing, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, Northern Frights, Tesseracts, On Spec, and many more magazines, anthologies and best-of collections. It's won Canada's Aurora Award and been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Her stories have been reprinted time and again. In this volume, fifteen more of her short stories are collected for the first time. Visions of death and life, alien memories, magic spells gone awry, floating girls, and more. Prepare to get transported to a fantastic future, a terrifying present, or look at history and myth in a whole new light. Includes "Dance on a Forgotten Shore" co-written by Alan Dean Foster

The Relativity Bomb
The Relativity Bomb

Author: Arlene F. Marks

Publisher: EDGE-Lite

Published: 2018-05-28

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 177053167X

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Earth’s ancient past is coming home to roost, and it’s making Barry Novak, the Chief of Operations of the Earth Intelligence Service, very nervous. - First, a document written in an alien language surfaces at an archaeological site on Earth. - Then, a Stragori defector approaches Novak, offering another old document in exchange for sanctuary. This one was stolen from the alien’s home world. Once decoded, the document’s contents are mind-blowing. - Finally, an old enemy switches sides, bringing with him information that fills in the gaps and, if true, could rewrite the very definition of Humanity. Earth isn’t yet ready to learn these truths. Making them public would cause worldwide xenophobia. So, Novak does the only thing he can think of. He sends them as far away as he can—to Daisy Hub. In this eagerly awaited sequel to The Genius Asylum, long buried secrets arrive aboard the space station, carried by a mysterious one-eyed man who calls himself Max Karlov and claims to have been assigned there. But there are things happening on Daisy Hub that need to be kept “in the family”, and too many unanswered questions about this new crew member. Determined to unravel Karlov’s story, Townsend and his crew of maverick geniuses start digging for the truth. What they discover will shake them to their core.

The Cockroach Crusade
The Cockroach Crusade

Author: Arlene F. Marks

Publisher: EDGE-Lite

Published: 2019-05-27

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1770531955

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The Corvou are swarming, and they’re headed for Earth. When a botched first contact at Daisy Hub results in a declaration of war against Humanity by an alien race, battle lines are drawn. Not that they’re likely to be respected by an enemy determined to wipe out every Human they can find. As the Terran government scrambles to prepare for an attack they fear no one will survive, Drew Townsend and his crew of maverick geniuses set to work, trying to find a way to prevent it. Fortunately, the fiercest warriors in the galaxy will be fighting on their side. But will that be enough to save the Human race from annihilation?

The Identity Shift
The Identity Shift

Author: Arlene F. Marks

Publisher: EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing

Published: 2020-04-14

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1770532048

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Four years after the Corvou war, the battle for Humanity's future goes on. Drew Townsend and his surviving crew are back in business, aboard a new and improved Daisy Hub and with a new mission, one that will cement Humanity's place among the stars — but it could take years to complete. Earth Intelligence operatives have been sent to Stragon to protect the Terran colony there by heading off an impending civil war — but good and bad keep changing places, and appearances cannot be trusted. And on Earth, the Reformation has had dangerous consequences for Barry Novak and Juno Vargas, as they struggle to neutralize an old enemy — but the truth isn't what they thought it was. In the 25th century, the past is a puzzle, the present is a minefield … and the future is a mirror, wherein Earth's true identity lies.

Deus Ex: Black Light (Deus Ex: Mankind Divided prequel)
Deus Ex: Black Light (Deus Ex: Mankind Divided prequel)

Author: James Swallow

Publisher: Titan Books (US, CA)

Published: 2016-08-23

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1785651218

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ILLUMINATE THE SHADOWS The year is 2029, and the shining promise of a new age of human augmentation is in ruins in the wake of the devastating ‘Aug Incident’ – a horrific catastrophe triggered by a cabal of shadowy power brokers, where millions of cybernetically-enhanced people suffered a forced psychotic break. Awakening in the aftermath of a changed world, with gaps in his memories and suspicion on all sides, augmented ex-cop and former security operative Adam Jensen struggles to piece his life back together, in a new reality where ‘Augs’ have become the targets of hatred, fear and violent discrimination. Now the dark forces behind the Incident are gathering once again, reaching out to manipulate the course of global events through terror and intimidation. To find the answers that he seeks and the people who destroyed everything he knew, Jensen must return to the ashes of the past, reconnect with old allies, and risk all to expose a deadly conspiracy – but in a world shattered by secrets, can the truth be brought into the light? A brand-new official Deus Ex novel, bridging events between Deus Ex: Human Revolution and the brand-new game Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.

The Otherness Factor
The Otherness Factor

Author: Arlene F. Marks

Publisher: EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing

Published: 2017-03-22

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1770531351

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"I know where the Angel of Death plague originated, and so does every other ‘patient’ who left Thrygg that day..."Fourteen years ago, Thryggian scientists permitted a mass escape of test subjects from their laboratory on Thrygg, including Abner Dedrick, the youngest member of the powerful Forrand-Dedrick family on Earth. These patients all thought they’d been receiving an unapproved longevity treatment. In fact, they’d been infected with a bio-engineered virus and their escape was the first step in a horrific experiment.Now the day of reckoning is approaching. The plague unleashed on the galaxy by the Thryggians has finally been brought under control and they’re on trial for this and other scientific crimes. The viral strain Abner was carrying has wiped out an entire Human colony. Only his young daughter Lania and his voice log – a damning piece of evidence if brought before the tribunal – have survived. Aboard the Earth ship that rescues Lania is Ixbeth Minegar, a lone alien who becomes convinced that Lania is part of a prophecy that could spell life or death for Ixbeth’s entire race.The Thryggians are not going down quietly. They’ve broken planetary confinement and are determined to find and eliminate any evidence against them, even if it means entering Earth space and destroying Earth ships. Fortunately, the one carrying Abner Dedrick’s log has an alien or two up its sleeve...

The Genome Rally
The Genome Rally

Author: Arlene F. Marks

Publisher: EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing

Published: 2018-08-06

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1770531831

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The most dangerous race in the galaxy is the race against time. And the second most dangerous race? The Galactic Great Council believes it’s the Humans. However, as the captain and officers of the Earth ship Marco Polo are about to find out, Humanity has plenty of competition for that title. While visiting Kula’as, Captain Takamura and his crew are recruited by aliens for a covert mission. The Thryggians may be close to breaking out of their pocket universe using a psi-powered heavy ship left over from an ancient war. If they succeed in activating the ship, they’ll be unstoppable. Can a bickering bunch of Humans and aliens work together to find and steal the vessel before it is too late?

The Maiden Voyage of New York City
The Maiden Voyage of New York City

Author: Gary Girod

Publisher: Brain Lag

Published: 2020-05-15

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1928011322

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They call it the “Manhattan Miracle.” Half a century after the buildings of New York City sank beneath the rising seas, human ingenuity raises them up again, and the city is finally returning to prosperity... or is it? The economy might be revitalized, but Mayor Sophia Ramos knows that the Miracle is only a stopgap solution. Crippling debt and a surge in crime from the Boroughs threatens to sink the city as surely as the waves did, and to Mayor Ramos, only an even more radical idea is the solution. As Manhattan’s elite are targeted by a vast underground criminal empire, however, the city threatens to fall apart before she can enact its daring rescue. A world-famous gonzo journalist, an engineer who helped bring about the Miracle, and the chief of police butt heads over the mayor's solution. Meanwhile, two Boroughs cops fighting with their own demons and city-wide apathy for their home struggle to bring order into a place rapidly falling under martial law. In the end, who will stand atop America's tallest buildings?