Will Carys and Carl let a little bit of Necromancy get in the way of their relationship? What drove Ellis Straylight become a Forward Scout? Who was Derek, before he was Void's arch-nemesis? These questions and more are answered in these five stories, set in the years and months before Superdome. Fans of Casca Green's Superdome will find more intense action and adventure in Tales from the Dome: Villains, the second of two companion anthologies to the Shadeshifter Chronicles, an LGBT-friendly series of superhero-centric science fiction oriented toward older teens and adults. For people just discovering the Shadeshifter Chronicles, Tales from the Dome is also a great introduction to the world and lives of these dynamic characters, exploring their origins without giving up all their secrets. In a world where everybody is dangerous, and the powerful make the rules, what defines a Villain?
How did Impulse and Seer discover their superpowers? What happens when a disillusioned Shadowmancer comes home from active military duty? How did Void become Rosie's adoptive father, and how did Carys become Mind Melter's pet Necromancer? These questions and more are answered in these six stories, set in the years and months before Superdome. Fans of Casca Green's Superdome will find more intense action and adventure in Tales from the Dome: Heroes, the first of two companion anthologies to the Shadeshifter Chronicles, an LGBT-friendly series of superhero-centric science fiction oriented toward older teens and adults. For people just discovering the Shadeshifter Chronicles, Tales from the Dome is also a great introduction to the world and lives of these dynamic characters, exploring their origins without giving up all their secrets. In a world where everybody is dangerous, and the powerful make the rules, what defines a Hero?
The conclusion to King's tale of Chester's Mill, Maine, a town that's inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field, and which inspired a CBS TV drama.
"Who do you become in the dark?" Mind Melter, an esper who fully embraces his over-the-top name, has everything he wants, including the unquestioning loyalty of his protégé Rosie, until he sets his sights on the Bogeyman. After pushing Rosie too far, Mind Melter?s enemies prepare to strike back and take everything away from him. Ellis Straylight is many things: soldier, shadowmancer, oldest sibling. In the chaotic world of the Dome, Ellis will learn how identity can destroy you and trust can put you back together.? In a place of false suns, alter egos, and rampant inequality, what does it mean to be a hero, and what will it take to survive? Find out in Superdome: Volume 1 of The Shadeshifter Chronicles, a series featuring diverse characters, including MOGAI and neuroatypical characters central to the main narrative.
On a beautiful fall day, the town of Chester's Mill, Maine, is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. No one knows what this barrier is and when--or if--it will go away.
25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
Throughout the Villains series, the Odd Sisters have meddled in the lives of the Wicked Queen, The Beast, Ursula, Maleficent, and Mother Gothel, changing the course of fate for the greatest villains ever known. Now, it's time for their reckoning. This latest novel by the author of the wildly popular Villains series goes deeper into the lives of the twisted, diabolical Odd Sisters, finally revealing the dark truth about who they are and where they're from . The Odd Sisters will appeal to fans who can't get enough of the mischievous sisters, as well as draw new readers to Serena Valentino's darkly fascinating take on the Disney Villains.
She's from the past, locked inside a world within a world. He's from the future, haunted by her death. A chilling secret binds their lives together. A sensible young nobleman and his sister live in an experimental medieval village. Sealed inside this biodome since infancy, Leaf and Willow have been groomed by The Code to build a sustainable world, one devoid of Outsider interference. One that believes death will give way to life. All is ideal until their father bequeaths a family secret with his dying breath, placing an invisible crown of power on Leaf's head. A death Leaf believes is the result of murder. Now everyone in their quiet town is suspect. Risking banishment, the siblings search for clues, leading them to Fillion Nichols, an Outsider with a shocking connection to their family. Their encounter launches Fillion into a psychological battle with his turbulent past as he rushes to decode the many dangerous secrets that bind them together--a necessity if they're all to survive. The Middle Ages clashes with the near future in an unforgettable quest for truth, unfolding a story rich in mystery, betrayal, and love. Are you ready to discover what is real? UNTANGLE HOW THE FUTURE MEETS THE PAST in this multi-award winning series! For fans of eco-pagan science fiction, young adult dystopian fantasy romance, and murder mysteries. The Biodome Chronicles is sure to keep you on the edge of your seat!
The Strange Bird—from New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer—is a novella-length digital original that expands and weaves deeply into the world of his “thorough marvel”* of a novel, Borne. The Strange Bird is a new kind of creature, built in a laboratory—she is part bird, part human, part many other things. But now the lab in which she was created is under siege and the scientists have turned on their animal creations. Flying through tunnels, dodging bullets, and changing her colors and patterning to avoid capture, the Strange Bird manages to escape. But she cannot just soar in peace above the earth. The sky itself is full of wildlife that rejects her as one of their own, and also full of technology—satellites and drones and other detritus of the human civilization below that has all but destroyed itself. And the farther she flies, the deeper she finds herself in the orbit of the Company, a collapsed biotech firm that has populated the world with experiments both failed and successful that have outlived the corporation itself: a pack of networked foxes, a giant predatory bear. But of the many creatures she encounters with whom she bears some kind of kinship, it is the humans—all of them now simply scrambling to survive—who are the most insidious, who still see her as simply something to possess, to capture, to trade, to exploit. Never to understand, never to welcome home. With The Strange Bird, Jeff VanderMeer has done more than add another layer, a new chapter, to his celebrated novel Borne. He has created a whole new perspective on the world inhabited by Rachel and Wick, the Magician, Mord, and Borne—a view from above, of course, but also a view from deep inside the mind of a new kind of creature who will fight and suffer and live for the tenuous future of this world. Praise for Borne *“Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy was an ever-creeping map of the apocalypse; with Borne he continues his investigation into the malevolent grace of the world, and it's a thorough marvel.” —Colson Whitehead “VanderMeer is that rare novelist who turns to nonhumans not to make them approximate us as much as possible but to make such approximation impossible. All of this is magnified a hundredfold in Borne . . . Here is the story about biotech that VanderMeer wants to tell, a vision of the nonhuman not as one fixed thing, one fixed destiny, but as either peaceful or catastrophic, by our side or out on a rampage as our behavior dictates—for these are our children, born of us and now to be borne in whatever shape or mess we have created. This coming-of-age story signals that eco-fiction has come of age as well: wilder, more reckless and more breathtaking than previously thought, a wager and a promise that what emerges from the twenty-first century will be as good as any from the twentieth, or the nineteenth.” —Wai Chee Dimock, The New York Times Book Review
