Deal : Science Fiction

"This is skillfully structured, suspenseful, handsomely descriptive, mysterious science-fiction. It moves fast and brims with humor and wonder about morality and the nature of genius and the self. Once again, and amazingly enough, Charles Wachter manages to meet us where we are in the uncertain, ever-shifting moment." Wesley Morris, Critic at Large, The New York Times "Science. Twists. Big ideas. The Twin Paradox has it all." A.G. Riddle, international bestselling author of The Atlantis Gene. "It's a rollercoaster of fun." Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better With ten years passing for every three minutes on a...

A virgin landmass is ‘extruded’ into the Bay of Biscay by a solar-tidal magmatic pulse. Waiting to claim the emerging island are 80 people in a flotilla of trussed up barges with supplies to last a year.Who are these accidental tourists?How did they know the island would be surfacing?And what do they plan to do with it if their claim to sovereignty is accepted by the world community?Racy and thought-provoking, The O.D. paints a picture of how humanity’s rush to self-destruction could be halted, given the global will to take a colossal leap… backwards. FREE eBook from August 28 -...

The price of greater life is death . . . . In an age of exploding stars and other cataclysmic galactic events in which Homo sapiens has long since split into different kinds, Mallory Ringess becomes a pilot of the Order of Mystic Mathematicians and Other Seekers of the Ineffable Flame. His quest to find the Elder Eddas – nothing less than the secret of life embroidered in humanity’s oldest DNA – will lead him from Neverness’s streets of colored ice into the deadly manifold: the "space beneath space" whose topology writhes and twists with hideous complexity like a nest...

At the bleeding edge of space... In the 35th Century, mankind has colonized vast reaches of space, yet war remains constant as galactic governments and interstellar corporations fight for control of resource-rich planets and lucrative interstellar trade routes. And if centuries of war has taught man one thing, it's that planets are valuable and lives are cheap.In a desperate attempt to escape his current life, Mark Rizer drops out of his prestigious university and enlists in the elite Marines of the United Systems Alliance defense forces. It's a decision that will take him across the galaxy, first to endure a...

What if there was a power like no other? What if one drunken slouch happened to stumble where nobody has stumbled before and discovered the ability to teleport! Kurt Wiseman is your average mid-twenties slouch with a serial thirst for alcohol, that is until destiny calls upon him to stumble where no man has clumsily stumbled before.Whilst investigating a politically loaded story arc Kurt accidentally acquires a super power like no other. The ability to teleport! Before he can think about saving the day, Wiseman must endure a journey of self-reflection by earning the trust of his friends and overcoming...

Praise for America the “Beautiful”: “This book is very insightful and easy to read. It sparked my imagination in the same was as George Orwell's 1984 novel” – Book Reviewer “Beautiful it is!! I loved the book and could not put it down the first time that I read it. It was so refreshing that I read it two more times. It gave me a new perspective into what it could actually be like in 2066. If I had to say what I disliked it would be that it left me wanting to know what else is to come.” –...