Science Fiction & Fantasy

As chaos and mass panic spread outside the dungeon in the wake of Faction Wars, Carl and Donut find themselves on the tenth floor, where they’re forced to compete in a surprisingly normal set of tasks. Well, normal for the dungeon. Races. Get from point A to point B, and don’t come in last. After each race, they pick an upgrade for their vehicle and the track gets more challenging. It all seems a little too normal, a little too simple.

A deadly new threat emerges…one that can tear the Sangha apart. Maya grapples with the mysteries hidden in her father's diary. But nothing could have prepared her for the haunting secret contained in its pages. Arjun embarks on a perilous race against time as he is put to the test like never before. And this time, he may not make it out alive...

A most-anticipated title from USA Today, Goodreads, BookPage, BookRiot, Seattle Times, and The Nerd Daily! Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment of Martha Wells' bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series. Having someone else support your bad decision...

Volume 12 of The Beginning After the End! Arthur Leywin's victory has shifted the power scales of his entire world, but the danger is perhaps greater than ever: mysterious waves of mana-stealing energy roll across Alacrya; Dicathen considers an assault on its weakened enemy; and the great lords...

A girl playing guitar in a bar was more than enough to catch Daniel's attention. But she was more than that: something hypnotic, something ethereal, something familiar. What if the girl of your dreams—the girl in your dreams—was someone you knew all along? What lengths will Daniel go to in order to find out? Or was the right answer always staring Daniel in the face?

In The Sleeper Awakes by H.G. Wells, a man falls into a mysterious sleep and awakens two centuries later to a radically transformed world. Graham, once an ordinary Victorian gentleman, discovers he has become the richest and most powerful man on Earth—known as "The Sleeper." But with great power comes a shocking truth: society has evolved into a dystopian system controlled by elites, and his wealth is the backbone of a deeply unequal world. As Graham struggles to understand his new reality, he becomes entangled in political intrigue, rebellion, and the fight for freedom.

When the crew goes rogue, the stakes get deadly. With Sebastian and Nessa out on their own, Jessie and the gang must join Austin to rally the shifters to their cause. The first stop: a collection of open-minded alphas Kingsley knows well. All Jessie has to do is keep her people in line, and...

“The drug can make a man the exact opposite of what he is…” John Sturman has everything except the one thing that matters: the creative spark that would win the heart of Sylvia March, the woman who believes her soul can only mate with genius. But when his brother returns from India...

In a world that showcases your every action every day in live streaming clarity twenty-four hours a day 365.25 days a year, the idea of being able to unplug even for a minute or two seems appealing. What would it take to be able to hide yourself for minutes at a time? After so many years of being on full display all day everyday, could the ultimate form of power be the ability to be anonymous? What happens when CENSORSHIP is exactly what you have been craving all along?

The portal surge is over. Kade Noelstra’s build is complete. He’s about to reach D-Rank and take his first steps on the Stormsteel Path, but Phoenix and Kade’s friends still need his help. The fortress guarding the S-Rank Carlsbad Portal has requested more supplies and reinforcements, and Kade’s best friend has to be in the convoy. He needs Kade with him.

Alex Rowan just wanted a normal college life. Then a pub night exploded into a chaotic maelstrom of magic, and he found himself at the epicenter of a power he can’t control—and never asked for. Swept into the secretive Court Cygnus, Alex is thrust into a hidden world of ancient factions and lethal politics. His crash course in survival comes with a catch: six stunning, powerful witches bound to him by an electrifying, dangerous connection.

A hilarious and heartwarming rom-com with bite… perfect for fans of Abby Jimenez and Mhairi McFarlane! Somehow, inexplicably, her cold skin makes mine ignite, a trail of fire following the path of her fingers until she lets go of my chin and the flames burn out. Undead phlebotomist Florence...

The gods whisper. The kingdom trembles. And two unlikely allies must decide its fate. Maegwin was a priestess devoted to her goddess—until she was sentenced to die. After escaping execution, she’s given a new mission: uncover a rebellion that threatens the kingdom of Amaury. But with a dark...

“In Rabbit Test and Other Stories, Mills examines the human spirit with a sharp eye and a gentle heart.”—Eugenia Triantafyllou A subversive debut short-fiction collection from one of the hottest talents in speculative fiction: 2025 Compton Crook Award winner and Pushcart Prize nominee...

"Memory's haunt conjures the most arrant of ghosts..." Python is a drifter, a vampire living his eternal life on the road and liking it that way. Beholden to nothing and certainly to no one. But such a lifestyle doesn’t come without creating enemies. Most notably, a pesky vampire hunter he...

The team returned to Earth from the Netherworld, having received absolutely no help from the useless Nether gods of Asgard. They will have to find a way to prevent a Convergence, without divine assistance. Fine. They will do that, somehow. Except first, they have to get back to their own Earth...

Hong Fei was a soldier until betrayal shattered his body and destroyed his future. Now broken and discarded, he wants nothing more than a quiet life, useful work, and no more causes worth dying for. But when he finds a card deck on a stranger's corpse, his life becomes entangled with forces...

Coming to Westin Pack is supposed to be a fresh start for Lucy. A single mother who spent years in captivity, she arrives with a lot of baggage, scars, and secrets. Finding her one true mate is the last thing she wants. But meeting the sexy Dr. Micah might just be exactly what she needs to heal...

Death tried to do them part. When Shanna O'Connell marries Simon Montague in an at-first-sight wedding during a magical night in Vegas, she believes the charming tech CEO would finally be the one to break the centuries-old curse placed upon her family—a curse that makes everyone forget Shanna...

In a war-torn city erupting in flames, a resurrected queen refuses to die quietly, in the second installment of this epic fantasy series. After being forced to fight as a gladiator and survive the horrors of Graedon's colosseum, Lilliana Silverwater has emerged victorious. She's since claimed...

Crypt currency is the future. The enchantments are reliable. The aethernet infrastructure is sound. And despite the fact the currency is stored in something called a pocket crypt, relies on phantoms of the dead, and often involves a worrying green glow, experts agree it has nothing to do with necromancy. All of the big crypt magnates say so.

Betrayed and broken, Eala Duir has sworn vengeance against the Faeries who destroyed her life. Once a promising folklore scholar in the human realm, her destiny with the Fae kingdom of Tír na nÓg, has cost Eala everything—her academic career, her position, her best friend Colleen, and most...

So much is broken. But the men who rule the Knights of Caliburn—the ancient order my four protectors answer to—don't know that. The White Brothers of St. Vincent have no idea what their sworn knights have done for me: vows abandoned, blood spilled, a sacred mission twisted beyond recognition. And time is running out. Kingston is fracturing under the weight of his choices. Kai's playing a dangerous game with men who never lose. Lanz is fading in ways that terrify me. And Callahan—steady, loyal Callahan—is being tested in ways that could shatter us from the inside. We can't hide for long.

In the battle for Time itself, love may be the most dangerous weapon of all. When beach-loving Brianna Sinclair can’t reach her sisters, she leaves her Caribbean life behind and heads to Scotland in search of answers. Her only clue comes from a strange Edinburgh shopkeeper who hands her a...

The Swathe faces its final stand, and it seems that history is doomed to repeat. In the wake of defeat, monsoon now reigns over the Swathe, and both human and demon wait to join in battle for the final time. It now falls to the Scions of the Sixth-Born to unify the bloodwoods in solidarity, or...

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

Prithvi, a twenty-one-year-old seeker, is drawn into a mystery when he learns that Om Shastri, a reclusive middle-aged Aghori, has eluded time for centuries. Captured and imprisoned on a remote, high-tech island lab, Om is interrogated under heavy sedation.

The war for immortality has only just begun. In the aftermath of Book 1, the protagonists suffer a setback: the sacred manuscript of Mrit Sanjeevani has been stolen and fallen into enemy hands. Nagendra, the charismatic and ruthless antagonist, emerges as a figure not content with mere eternal life. His true goal is far larger: to assemble a hidden verse of immense cosmic power.

The dead do not rest till they get what they want. You have arrived in the hills. In here, you are surrounded by dense, menacing forests, enveloped in a deadly silence... You never know what lurks here in the cold, dark night. Do not walk alone after sunset in the hills. A beautiful woman in white haunts the Lonely pathways, looking to enchant and ensnare men... All the people who died in accidents here... They say you hear their screams at night. And the deserted lodges sitting amidst lush greenery and calm streams...

Born in the quiet village of Shambala, Kalki Hari, son of Vishnuyath and Sumati, has no idea about his heritage until he is pitted against tragedies and battles. Whisked into the province of Keekatpur, which is under the fist of Lord Kali, Kalki sees the ignominy of death trumping life all around him. He learns that he has been born to cleanse the world he lives in, for which he must journey to the North and learn the ways of Lord Vishnu’s Avatar, from an immortal who wields an axe.

The final battle looms as ultimate secrets are unveiled. A single question haunts both sides: Who is the true "Devdhwaja" –Nagendra or Om? Tensions among allies reach a breaking point. Nagendra shocks everyone by returning from apparent death, unharmed and more powerful than ever before, suggesting he has unlocked some forbidden science or magic.

What happened after the great war? After the bloody war in which many heroes won and lost, Krishna, the avatar of Vishnu and the king of Dwarka, stood tall as a divine figure of justice and Dharma. But forty years have passed since that day, and now little is known of the elusive god. Pradhyuman, his firstborn son, now rules with an iron fist but his personal ambition seems to come in between. Will it redeem him or corrupt him further? Balaram, the brother of Krishna, and the Prime Minister of Dwarka, must find a way to form an alliance between warring clans.

A deadly new threat emerges…one that can tear the Sangha apart. Maya grapples with the mysteries hidden in her father's diary. But nothing could have prepared her for the haunting secret contained in its pages. Arjun embarks on a perilous race against time as he is put to the test like never before. And this time, he may not make it out alive...

Prithvi, a twenty-one-year-old seeker, is drawn into a mystery when he learns that Om Shastri, a reclusive middle-aged Aghori, has eluded time for centuries. Captured and imprisoned on a remote, high-tech island lab, Om is interrogated under heavy sedation. To everyone's astonishment, the Aghori prophetically claims that he has lived through all four cosmic ages (yugas) of Hindu cosmology and even witnessed the great epics themselves.

A Pallava prince travels to Cambodia to be crowned king, carrying with him secrets that will be the cause of great wars many centuries later. A Buddhist monk in ancient China treks south to India, searching for the missing pieces of a puzzle that could make his emperor all-powerful. A Neolithic tribe fights to preserve their sacred knowledge, oblivious to the war drums on the Indo-China border. Meanwhile, far away in the temple town of Kanchipuram, a reclusive scientist deciphers ancient texts even as a team of secret agents shadows his every move.

After thirty years of imprisonment, Doctor Doom (Ashish Vidyarthi) has freed himself and seeks revenge on the former allies who betrayed him on The Day The Villains Won.

In a post-apocalyptic future, Marvel's Wastelanders: Star-Lord finds Peter Quill (Saif Ali Khan) and Rocket (Vrajesh Hirjee) a little paunchier, a little slower, and a lot saltier than they were during the glory days of the Guardians of the Galaxy.

Welcome to The Paranormal Diaries, a bone-chilling horror podcast that unravels the darkest secrets of the supernatural. Join us as we explore the unexplained, the terrifying, and the macabre through gripping stories narrated by Jamshed Qamar Siddiqui. Each episode of The Paranormal Diaries takes you on a chilling journey into the heart of darkness.

Lukas Aguilar does not believe in gods. Despite—or perhaps because of—his deep knowledge of mythology and lore, Lukas has always valued what is practical, factual, and verifiable, eschewing faith for what he can see right in front of him. That is, until an earthquake destroys his home, and he wakes up in a dark cavern infested with bloodthirsty and unearthly creatures, wielding strange powers and hearing an even stranger voice in his head claiming to be a goddess.

The ancient magic of wizards was anything but dark. It was the enlightenment that lifted humanity from the squalor of superstition, and the worship of fell spirits and capricious gods, but those days are gone. The shining glory of the sorcerers burned away the subtlety of wisdom, replacing it with easy power, held only in the hands of the elite—a new age built upon the elemental supremacy of aristocrats and the ignorance of the masses.

In the not-too-distant future, a 21-member crew launches from Earth. Their mission: to establish a temporary colony on Mars. Little do they know that colony will become permanent–and the last stand of the human race. Because, without warning, every single person left on Earth simply...vanishes. Now, a thousand years later, the resources needed to sustain life are running out, and the very existence of the Mars colony is threatened. Humankind has only one option–to return to its home planet.

At a shadowy company (Karoli Robotics Corporation) owned by a Sillicon Valley billionaire, a scientist named Jim creates an AI that can fool the Turing test at the same time as his colleague, Daniel, successfully synthesizes DNA in a test tube. Daniel's attempts to reanimate dead chimps using his discovery have been unsuccessful, but when his friend Laura Bocelli is killed by being trapped inside a lab freezer, Daniel is presented with the perfect specimen. However, Laura is irreparably brain dead.

What happens when ill-treated farm animals gang up to throw out their lazy, corrupt and power-drunk rulers? Animal Farm is born. As humans get ousted from Manor Farm and animals take control, their utopian fantasy of running a farm on the basis of equality soon begins to crumble before their eyes. The rebellion of the animals, led by the two pigs Napoleon and Snowball, gives way to corrupt practices that lead to unthinkable consequences.

Published in the summer of 1949, George Orwell’s 1984 is one of the most definitive texts of modern literature. Set in Oceania, one of the three intercontinental super states that divided the world amongst themselves after a global war, Orwell’s masterful critique of the political structures of the time, works itself out through the story of Winston Smith, a man caught in the webs of a dystopian future, and his clandestine love affair with Julia, a young woman he meets during the course of his work for the government.

In this new recording, Paapa Essiedu breathes new life into the classic tale. Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy follows a respectable London lawyer as he investigates the strange relationship between his old friend Dr Henry Jekyll and the evil Edward Hyde. Its sensitive portrayal of man's dual nature is moving, beautiful and terrifying in equal measure.

A vengeful Hiranyakashyap seeks to destroy Indra's kingdom, but he's haunted by his son Prahlad's decision to oppose him. Narasimha is on a quest to find Prahlad but, on his way, he comes across an old friend and an ancient poison that threatens to derail his plans. A furious Holika hunts for her nephew, only to discover painful details about his childhood that make her rethink her actions. Will Hiranyakashyap be able to defeat Indra? Can Holika forget her rage against her nephew? And will Narasimha find Prahlad and fulfil his destiny?

I'm a doctor and a researcher. My pack is small, in a quiet part of central Texas. It's a simple existence, and I like it that way. It's just me and my two besties, living our best single lives. That is until the mandate comes. Every unmated wolf in the entire world called to one place. I'm a psi, the weakest designation there is. I can barely shift, and there's no chance of me getting matched—only humiliated. It can't get worse—until it does. I've barely made it off the bus when I lock eyes with the hottest wolf I've ever seen, and he reeks of power.

Thirty years ago, Super Villains won. After killing the Avengers, the X-Men, and nearly every other Super Hero, the Red Skull took over the United States. Since that day, a traumatized Wolverine (Sharad Kelkar) has wandered in a daze of survivor’s guilt and self-loathing over his failure to protect his fellow X-Men and their mutant students.

हितोपदेश का अर्थ है हितोपकारी उपदेश। नारायण पंडित द्वारारचित हितोपदेश की कहानियां सदाचार, राजनीती और व्यावहारिक ज्ञान से सरोबार है।.

Iron Age of India … around 900 B.C.E. Born in the arms of the Ganga, Vasu grew up in the raging province of Anga. His life shaped by a fate that failed to be just—neglected by his own, stripped of his birthright—he was raised to be lost in an abyss of desires and disappointment. Cursed by his guru, hurt by the only woman he loved, ostracised from society for being the son of a suta. With his only armour—hope—he ventured on an unforgettable journey. Alone. This is Vasu’s tale of survival, of endurance, of abiding courage in the face of all adversities.