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The Stories Behind the Series Though perhaps most famous as a novelist, Philip K.

Solo_Lobo is a gamer who prefers to play by himself. But then he winds up in a virtual game set aboard an alien space station with a know-it-all robot named Spec.

For Henry Franks, Death is Everywhere. It claimed his mother a year ago, in an accident that robbed him of his memory and left him covered with horrific scars.

Silence is safe. Fate is not. When Sovern Briggs survives a car crash, she stops talking in order to seal in the memory of the final sounds of her mother's life.

The holograms lied to everyone on Earth and only Alexandra Lucas knows the truth. Now she's trapped in the year 2359 without family or friends-worse, without her anxiety medication.

As if 17-year-old Alexandra Lucas' anxiety disorder isn't enough, mysterious holograms suddenly appear, heralding the end of the world.

In 2300, most citizens live in the high-tech City, but Matt Kilpatrick chooses to farm in the outlaw “Margin” on the borders of civilization.

Jeritt Troy is a Scourge, a guardian tasked with patrolling cracks in time and righting the unspoken wrongs in history.

Terry is grieving the loss of his former lover, Dante, when an enigmatic and very attractive stranger named the Professor drags him into an Airstream trailer/time machine.

A man too busy for love... Reed owns an upscale men’s boutique with a naughty back room. While making a late delivery to a client, he runs into Taz.

When a certain kind of man is needed, why not make him to order? Such things can be done, but take care: much can go wrong—but then, sometimes it can go wonderfully right. Imagine...

Two weeks from his 30th birthday in the year 2020, Temporal Agent Charleston Meeks Jr. is assigned to work for his father on a special project.

Kody Higgins is crossing the park in a spring thunderstorm when—kapow!—he suddenly wakes up in 1898.

A collection of three M/M science fiction novellas by Madeleine Urban: Enhanced, Close Encounter, and Following the Sun.

In a future where the United States has split along party lines, Agent Matt Tennimore’s job is to get people out of the Confederated Red States, whether they’re captured special ops agents from his