Humanity was forced to seek the stars. Destined to lead mankind into an ever expanding presence, the inhabitants of HD 85512 b have known no other rule than those of the benevolent machines. The same machines that brought their ancestors there hundreds of years before. But what is man if he isn't free? What is man without being able to choose for himself? Ask yourselves the same question and remember: Whom do you love the most?
Ethan Whittmore is a Captain in the Royal Marines, training men of the Nigerian Armed forces during the civil war in Biafra. When his brother Andy - a doctor in a Red Cross caravan goes missing - Ethan risks life, limb, and career to find him, dead or alive. With a little help from some friends, he embarks on a dangerous mission that will reveal the true nature of the civil war and his brother's part in it.
Set in Blizzard's StarCraft universe, this story is told from the eyes of a terran Valkyrie pilot and a Protoss Templar. A Valkyrie barely escapes from a Protoss all-out attack, only to crash near an off-limits laboratory station. A Protoss Templar is on a personal quest to uncover machinations and treason amongst the Protoss that will shake their very beliefs and foundations. His search leads him to the same installation as the terran pilot, and to a much more horrifying truth..
A uncanny sort of buyers finally find an item they had been looking for in a shady shop. They're not actually looking to buy though, and the business goes awry for the proprietor. When the orbital's law enforcement arrives to investigate, their true intentions become apparent.
In a world dominated by a theocratic regime, a rebel and a thinker embark on an unwilling adventure that will challenge everything about the past and shape their future in ways they could not have ever imagined. A strange pilgrim sets out on a journey that will bring him to the heart of everything, while all the while a revolution that will turn brother against brother is brewing. The truth behind everything will shatter their world, and nothing will ever be the same again.
A japanese geologist, Sousuke Takahashi, is stationed in Field Zeta, the world's largest thorium-based nuclear power production site at a time when the internet is a thing of the past and the sea levels have risen by ten feet. Sousuke and some like-minded individuals are about to force humanity into a necessary struggle, and each one has a dreadful task to accomplish.
The Intrinsic Enthalpy Facility is host to an experiment that seeks to blur the line between Heaven and Earth. But when the critical point of no return is passed, thing unravel in quite an unbeliavable fashion.
A unique human being, a man enabled to travel intergalactic distances with his mind, recounts his experiences and soon finds out that reality can be a very subjective experience, and the mind a wonderfully mysterious thing.