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Legacy by C.G. Cooper
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"My name is Benjamin Dragon. I have a gift. Scratch that. I have more than one. It's something I guess I was born with. Sure it sounds cool, but everything's changed. How do you go to school like a normal kid when you're ten and you can lift boulders with your mind or heal people with a touch? Now things are really bad. I got home and my parents weren't there. I waited. They're still gone...Categorized as:
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![The Wraith: Welcome Home by Jeffery H. Haskell]()
The Wraith: Welcome Home by Jeffery H. Haskell
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsKilling is her art, and she's about to paint her masterpiece! Madisun has returned home to New Orleans, almost a year to the day her family was murdered. The people who did it are still free. The man who betrayed her is still alive. Justice is coming to the criminals of the city, justice without mercy. Welcome home, Madi. Try not to burn the whole city down...Categorized as:
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![Bursting Out by David Burke]()
Bursting Out by David Burke
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPenultimate book of the Descend series.The dungeon has become too small to contain their power.Jay and the others are aware of the fact that they are on a ship the size of the moon.More than that they know they are the last survivors of Earth.They have to round up the rest of the clusters. Build their power further and burst out of this prison...Categorized as:
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![Generation One by Pittacus Lore]()
Generation One by Pittacus Lore
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe first book in a pulse-pounding new series that's set in the world of the #1 New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series. The war may be over—but for the next generation, the battle has just begun!It has been over a year since the invasion of Earth was thwarted in Pittacus Lore's United as One... -
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![Quicker by Laurence E. Dahners]()
Quicker by Laurence E. Dahners
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsQuicker is a near future SciFi/Thriller whose young heroine Ell Donsaii is an intrepid athletic phenom who reminds one of David Weber's Honor Harrington. Like Stieg Larsson's Lisbeth Salander (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) Ell is also a mathematical genius who, instead of counting sheep, works on her own theory of quantum mechanics to help her drift off to sleep...Categorized as:
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![Death's Handmaiden by Niall Teasdale]()
Death's Handmaiden by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Clan Worlds Alliance is the larget political body in the known galaxy. At its centre lies Shinden, home to the Clan Assembly and the Shinden Alliance School of Sorcery, probably the best educational facility of its type anywhere. Students from all over the Clan Worlds go there to study a form of magic based squarely on scientific principles... -
![Radio by Sophia Elaine Hanson, Sophia Slade]()
Radio by Sophia Elaine Hanson, Sophia Slade
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter the traumatic events at the dreaded prison Red Bay, Ronja is hanging by a thread. Whispers trail her through the Belly, carrying rumors of her borderline supernatural voice. Plagued by nightmares and haunted by the memories of those she could not save, she clings to the promise that her gift will soon become the weapon of the Anthem... -
![A Bounty with Strings by Markus Matthews]()
A Bounty with Strings by Markus Matthews
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a blue-collar steel town……these bounty hunters needed more than their powers.Were they in over their heads?From the roof of the business park, the six-story height gave Zack a perfect view of the club. The bounty was clear - dead or alive, and knowing what he did about this particular Earth Elemental, it would likely be the former. He was ready but didn’t expect guests...Categorized as:
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![The Wraith by Jeffery H. Haskell]()
The Wraith by Jeffery H. Haskell
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsIf Punisher and Batman had a baby raised by John Wick... How far would you go to see justice done? How far is too far? For Madisun the answer is simple. There are people in this world that need killing, and she's just the woman for the job!From the bestselling author of the Full Metal Superhero comes an exciting new ongoing series set in the same world as Arsenal...Categorized as:
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![Maker Space by K.B. Spangler]()
Maker Space by K.B. Spangler
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsConspiracies, political cover-ups, acts of terrorism… As one of the first cyborgs employed by the federal government, Agent Rachel Peng thought she had already lived through it all. Then, without warning, fourteen blocks of downtown Washington, D.C. are gone, blown apart by bombs unlike anything Rachel has ever seen... -
![Okay, But Try Not to Murder Anyone by Eric Vall]()
Okay, But Try Not to Murder Anyone by Eric Vall
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMy days used to be filled with working my minimum wage job at a local shipping store, but one night, I was in the wrong place at the right time and came into possession of a weird metal bracelet.The good news: Now I suddenly have a superpower... -
![Universal Alien by Gini Koch]()
Universal Alien by Gini Koch
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBeing the wife of the Vice President isn’t easy. Especially when your talents lie in kicking butt and rocking out . . .Jeff and Kitty Katt-Martini find out just how easy it is for the wife of the Vice President of the United States to unintentionally insult an ally... -
![Alien Diplomacy by Gini Koch]()
Alien Diplomacy by Gini Koch
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBeing newlyweds and new parents is challenging enough. But Jeff and Kitty Martini are also giving up their roles as super-being exterminators and Commanders in Centaurion Division while mastering the political landscape as the new heads of Centaurion's Diplomatic Corps. Enter a shadowy assassination plot and a new set of anti-alien conspirators, and nothing will ever be the same.. -
![Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick by David Wong, Jason Pargin]()
Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick by David Wong, Jason Pargin
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author David Wong's Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick is the latest—and arguably greatest–sci-fi thriller in the Zoey Ashe Series.In the futuristic city of Tabula Ra$a, Zoey Ashe is like a fish so far out of water that it has achieved orbit... -
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![Alien Proliferation by Gini Koch]()
Alien Proliferation by Gini Koch
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAlien Super-Being Exterminator Kitty Katt is expecting her first baby. But the alien attacks are getting more dangerous, and now Kitty and her Alpha Centaurion husband, Jeff, have to find out who's behind the conspiracy to kill Kitty's secret agent mom and what caused Kitty's transformation into a superhuman-and they've got to do it all before the baby shower.. -
![Villains Don't Train Heroes! by Mia Archer]()
Villains Don't Train Heroes! by Mia Archer
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsNight Terror, the greatest villain the world has ever known, has problems. Life should be great. She saved the day again. She sort of defeated her new archnemesis again. She got the girl again. Only Night Terror is learning that if she starts doing heroic things then the world, and her girlfriend, is going to start expecting her to be heroic... -
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Guiding by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTaking care of folks in the wild is her hobby, but when two of the Shadow Folk need her help getting everyone out alive, her skills as a guide will be tested.Teyha enjoys being a historian and educating the next generation of Gaia on how they arrived... -
![Fields of Gold by Shelley Adina]()
Fields of Gold by Shelley Adina
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBook 12 in the Magnificent Devices steampunk series!If a wedding won’t stop a war, what will?Gloria Meriwether-Astor’s belief in doing the right thing has carried her across the world and through dangers that would have felled a lesser woman. She believed that if she married the dashing Captain Fremont, she could approach the Viceroy of the Royal Kingdom of Spain and the Californias with impunity...Categorized as:
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![DeathWeb by Niall Teasdale]()
DeathWeb by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA serial killer has murdered eleven people over the last four years, the link between the crimes unnoticed until Fox Meridian’s AI personal assistant, Kit, makes the connection. The only thing which seems to connect the victims is LifeFit, a plug-in application which allows users to find virtual exercise companions over the most popular social network in the world, LifeWeb... -
![Gunwitch: Rebirth by Niall Teasdale]()
Gunwitch: Rebirth by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAnnette Louise Barrington never wanted to be a hero, but she did want to help. She wanted to keep her city safe form those who wanted to bring it down. She wanted to follow in her brother’s footsteps, fight the good fight, even if her father would have preferred that she stay home. And in many ways, Annette got wanted she wanted... -
![The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by Tananarive Due]()
The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by Tananarive Due
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn her first new book in seven years, Tananarive Due further cements her status as a leading innovator in Black horror and Afrofuturism “Tananarive Due is the master of Black horror, even teaching a class where Jordan Peele guest-lectured. So her new collection, The Wishing Pool, out in mid-April, is a major treat, full of major scares... -
![I Did NOT Give That Spider Superhuman Intelligence! by Richard Roberts]()
I Did NOT Give That Spider Superhuman Intelligence! by Richard Roberts
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the internationally bestselling author of Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain comes the story of Spider, Mourning Dove, Goodnight, Mish-Mosh, and Psychopomp! Before there was Bad Penny and the Inscrutable Machine... there was TEAM TINY! Being a superhero should be fun... -
![Dawn of Dae by Trillian Anderson, R.J. Blain]()
Dawn of Dae by Trillian Anderson, R.J. Blain
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is a republishing of an older work, and it has undergone substantial editing and rewriting, including the addition of new scenes. The morning Alexa Daegberht’s macaroni and cheese develops sentience, the world changes. She thought escaping poverty and moving up in the world would be the challenge of her life, but the new arrivals, who call themselves the dae, waste no time proving her wrong... -
![Uncanny Magazine Issue 15: March/April 2017 by Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas]()
Uncanny Magazine Issue 15: March/April 2017 by Lynne M. Thomas, Michael Damian Thomas
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe March/April 2017 issue of Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Beth Cato, Stephen Graham Jones, JY Yang, Sarah Pinsker, and S. Qiouyi Lu, reprinted fiction by Kameron Hurley, essays by Sam J. Miller, Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, Shveta Thakrar, Dawn Xiana Moon, and Paul Booth, poetry by Cassandra Khaw, Brandon O’Brien, Bogi Takács, and Lisa M... -
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![Bad Girls Abound by Jay Aury]()
Bad Girls Abound by Jay Aury
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe four rules of freelance villainy are as follows:1. Always wear a mask2. Never hurt civilians3. Never kill the heroes you’re paid to fight.4. And the bad guy always loses.As a villain for hire I followed those rules, facing down heroes in scripted fights to make them look good for the press and brand deals. Sure, losing every time was a pain, but the money was good. Well, decent... -
![Leviathan by Erik Schubach]()
Leviathan by Erik Schubach
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen the Earth is threatened by a slowly expanding sun, mankind embarks upon a mission to send a mammoth Worldship to settle a new planet across the stars. The preternatural races step out of hiding to work with the humans to save what they can from their dying world... -
![Damsels and Deathrays by Jay Aury]()
Damsels and Deathrays by Jay Aury
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe four rules of freelance villainy are as I've made a good career following the rules and taking on superheroes in scripted fights. But I'd never dreamed it would end up with me dating two stunning supervillainess, getting a household death ray, and having a horny mad scientist living in my basement.But you roll with the punches in this business... -
![Alien Tango by Gini Koch]()
Alien Tango by Gini Koch
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsFor Alien Super-Being Exterminator Katherine "Kitty" Katt, anti-alien conspiracies, threats from outer space, and a couple of killer alligators are all in a day's work. It's been five months since Kitty joined Centaurion Division, working with the aliens from Alpha Centauri. She and Jeff Martini have grown closer and life looks rosy... -
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Hero by Michael Grant
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMonster. Villain. Hero.Four years after the Perdido Beach dome went down, the alien virus that created it is still wreaking havoc, and virus-infested rock has created a new set of humans with mutant powers... -
![Grievers by Adrienne Maree Brown]()
Grievers by Adrienne Maree Brown
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA tale of what happens when we can no longer ignore what has been lost in this world.Grievers is the story of a city so plagued by grief that it can no longer function. Dune’s mother is patient zero of a mysterious illness that stops people in their tracks—in mid-sentence, mid-action, mid-life—casting them into a nonresponsive state from which no one recovers... -
![Blood Binds the Pack by Alex Wells]()
Blood Binds the Pack by Alex Wells
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJoin the fight for the people and power of Tanegawa’s world in this thrilling sequel to Hunger Makes the Wolf War is coming to Hob Ravani's world... -
![Kill Your Heroes by Slade Grayson]()
Kill Your Heroes by Slade Grayson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEddie Marr never planned to be a supervillain, but it seemed like a surefire way to become rich and famous. All he had to do was come up with a flashy costume, a signature gimmick, and commit a couple of high profile (yet nonviolent) crimes. Eddie figured he’d eventually get caught and spend a year or two in a minimum security prison...Categorized as:
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![Villains Don't Save Heroes! by Mia Archer]()
Villains Don't Save Heroes! by Mia Archer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsSequel to Villains Don't Date Heroes! Night Terror, the greatest villain Starlight City has ever known, finally had it all. A beautiful girl she couldn’t get enough of. The city finally sort of liked her after she saved it from a giant robot attack. Now it was time to live happily ever after, right? Yeah, right... -
![Lightspeed Magazine, June 2015: Queers Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue by Seanan McGuire, John Chu]()
Lightspeed Magazine, June 2015: Queers Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue by Seanan McGuire, John Chu
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales... -
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![Earth's First by M.J. Caan]()
Earth's First by M.J. Caan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNo one ever said that you have to accept the great responsibility that comes with great power. Maura Riley learns this the hard way after a fateful first contact with an alien being that literally fell from the stars... -
![Silence in Solitude by Melissa Scott]()
Silence in Solitude by Melissa Scott
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn Five-Twelfths of Heaven, Silence Leigh discovered that she was not only unusual, as a female pilot, but that impossible thing, a female magus. Her unique abilities make her the only person capable of reaching Earth, humanity's original home, now sealed behind a mysterious barrier — but first she must learn to use her new-found talents... -
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Lightspeed Magazine: Queers Destroy Science Fiction! by Various
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings[Edited by Seanan McGuire][Read by Gabrielle de Cuir, Vikas Adam, Paul Boehmer, Cassandra Campbell, Justine Eyre, Susan Hanfield, Alex Hyde-White, Arthur Morey, Stefan Rudnicki]A groundbreaking collection of science fiction short stories and flash fiction from the creators of Hugo winning Lightspeed Magazine , written and edited by queer creators and produced through crowdfunding on Kickstarter...Categorized as:
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![Gauntlet by Holly Jennings]()
Gauntlet by Holly Jennings
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPlug back into the dangerous world of virtual gaming, in the next thrilling novel from the author of Arena. Kali Ling isn’t afraid of dying. She’s been killed hundreds of times in hundreds of different ways. And she knows there are things much more terrifying than death… There’s a new game in town... -
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Villain by Michael Grant
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt’s been four years since the events of GONE.The Perdido Beach dome is down, but the horrors within have spread, and now all of humanity is in danger. The alien virus-infested rock that created the FAYZ is creating monsters–monsters that walk the cities and countryside, terrorizing all... -
![Payback by Francine Pascal]()
Payback by Francine Pascal
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsPrey on the old and you’re a coward. Prey on the young and you’re pathetic. Prey on the weak and you’re even weaker.Prey on my friends…and you’re history...Categorized as:
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![Superior by Jessica Lack]()
Superior by Jessica Lack
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA superhero's intern falls in love with a supervillain's apprentice in this star-crossed LGBT YA story from The Book Smugglers. Here's the thing about being a superhero intern: there's a lot less crime fighting than you think there will be, what with the whole liability issue and the administrative headache of constantly monitoring the Heroic Help Hotline... -
![Januaries: Stories of Love, Magic & Betrayal by Olivie Blake]()
Januaries: Stories of Love, Magic & Betrayal by Olivie Blake
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJanuaries is a collection of new and iconic short stories and novellas from New York Times bestselling author Olivie Blake.Once upon a time in a land far, far away, the tutelary spirit to a magical bridge rapidly approaches burnout... -
![Blood by Francine Pascal]()
Blood by Francine Pascal
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsGaia Moore is genetically incapable of feeling fear. Following the death of a friend, for which she holds herself responsible, Gaia is in the grip of depression. She spends her days looking for fear, and it's becoming a death wish... -
![Brännmärkt by Lizette Edfeldt]()
Brännmärkt by Lizette Edfeldt
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsVänskap har aldrig varit så dödlig. Efter flera hundra år av översvämningar, orkaner, epidemier och krig tvingas återstoden av mänskligheten att hålla hårt i sina resurser för att inte gå under. Befolkningen är inordnad i ett hierarkiskt system, där bara den som fötts som Alfa kan göra sin röst hörd.En värld, fyra zoner, tio rang. Detta är Imperiet... -
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![Trust by Francine Pascal]()
Trust by Francine Pascal
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGaia is a girl born withour fear and her world is becoming a painful mess. The beautiful, perfect Sam has fallen for Ella. Ella's hate for Gaia is growing and she's out to get rid her. Gaia's friend Ed is no help, he's lost his heart to her arch-enemy, Heather...Categorized as:
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![Heat by Francine Pascal]()
Heat by Francine Pascal
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNow Gaia has told her secret to a true friend she begins to soften a little. There is a even a hint of happiness as she, Mary and Ed become inseparable. But heartache and danger are just around the corner...Categorized as:
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![Critical Point by S.L. Huang]()
Critical Point by S.L. Huang
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsS. L. Huang's Critical Point is a breakout SF thriller for fans of John Scalzi and Greg Rucka.Math-genius mercenary Cas Russell has stopped a shadow organization from brainwashing the world and discovered her past was deliberately erased and her superhuman abilities deliberately created... -
![Hammer of Angels by G.T. Almasi]()
Hammer of Angels by G.T. Almasi
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn G. T. Almasi’s thrilling alternate reality, the United States, the USSR, and the Republic of China share a fragile balance of power with Greater Germany, which emerged from World War II in control of Europe and half of the Middle East...Categorized as:
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![The Assassin's Guide to Babysitting by Natalie C. Parker]()
The Assassin's Guide to Babysitting by Natalie C. Parker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis riveting, superpowered adventure unveils a shadow world of Talented bounty hunters—and plumbs the nature of identity, deadly secrets, and found family.Tru has been hiding all her life. Her parents taught her to conceal her bastion Talent: indestructible skin, muscles, and bones. In a world where Talents are common and varied, no one trusts a bastion—they’re too powerful... -
![Overemotional by David Fenne]()
Overemotional by David Fenne
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSometimes, emotions can be a little too powerful... Seventeen-year-old Steven has a big problem... Whenever he feels intense emotions, weird things happen. Like when he kissed a boy for the first time, and the boy's head literally exploded...
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