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  The Brave New World Collection -...

  Aldous Huxley

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  Aldous Huxley’s dystopian classic about a perfectly engineered society, and his book of essays reflecting on it almost three decades later, in one volume.   This book includes:  Brave New World: Half a millennium from now, no matter what class of human you are bred to be—from the intellectual Alphas to the Epsilons who provide manual labor—you are a part of the efficient, well-oiled whole, nourished, secure, and blissfully serene thanks to the freely distributed drug soma. But when a man and woman journey beyond the confines of their ordered life to where the “savages” reside, and bring back two outsiders, the cracks begin to show…Named as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century by the Modern Library, Brave New World is one of the first truly dystopian novels, a remarkable depiction of the conflict between progress and the human spirit as relevant, if not more so, today than when it was written.  Brave New World Revisited: Nearly thirty years after the publication of his groundbreaking novel, Huxley composed this collection of essays comparing the “future” of 1958 with his vision of it from the early 1930s. Touching on subjects as diverse as world population, drugs, subliminal suggestion, and totalitarianism, it provides a fascinating look at ideas of early science fiction in the context of the real world.   “Aldous Huxley is the greatest twentieth-century writer in English.” —Chicago Tribune   “A genius. . . . a writer who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine.” —The New Yorker

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  Superhero World - A Colin McCool...

  M.D. Massey

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  All this druid wants is to visit Superhero World, snag some exotic tech, and go home. Unfortunately, fate has other plans. What’s a mythological hero to do when he’s forced to become a supervillain to save his world… and himself? 
  Colin is a druid on a mission. Namely, traveling to an alternate dimension where technology rules, to snag the tech he needs to save his friends in the Hellpocalypse timeline. 
  At first, it sounds simple. He’ll slip through the timestreams, do a little sightseeing, and go home. Heck, it might even be fun to visit a world where actual superheroes exist. 
  But for creation’s unluckiest druid, nothing is ever easy. When things go horribly wrong, Colin finds that his magic is almost completely on the fritz. 
  To complicate matters, he’s soon mistaken for a supervillain, making enemies with the planet’s most powerful superhero in the process. 
  Stranded in a world where heroes aren’t quite heroic, and where villains have no rights, the druid sees only one path forward… 
  He’ll figure out his powers and clear his name, all while being hunted by every superhero and government agent on the planet. 
  At least there’s an upside—things couldn’t possibly get worse, right? 
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  Superhero World is the first novel in a planned superhero fantasy fiction trilogy by paranormal and urban fantasy author M.D. Massey. 
  Written in the tradition of gritty, realistic comic book fiction, this series follows in the irreverent footsteps of works such as The Boys, Wild Cards, Watchmen, Invincible, and a long list of other trailblazing sci-fi and fantasy worlds too extensive to reference here. 
  If you enjoy classic superhero fiction with an edge, grab your copy of Superhero World today!

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  Snowblind Friend - Tales From...

  Douglas A. Walker

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   The Recollector 
  I am the watcher, the memory, a wanderer and a collector. You can't discern me, but I leave my footprint. Very young children and animals can detect me sometimes – their parents or owners catch a glimpse as a result. This is not a role anybody wants, no; ego has no place here. It needs to be removed before one can resume the process; an arduous task. 
  I'm just a warrior, I'm not even sure what that means, I know that love and kindness are my tools, I guess you could say they are my weapons, but somehow that doesn't fit because I use them to heal rather than maim. It is an inner battle, but that reverberates outward. Most of it is just following orders, to go with the flow, understand what is being imparted and finding ways to soothe my restless spirit so it can become more, understand more, and become even more kind. That way I can be there for others when they need me. I have a feeling that I need to do everything I can to be at peace with myself. Kindness and love, kindness and love, that's how we fight this battle....Wildheart aka Snowblind Friend 
  Catharsis 
  [kəˈTHärsəs] 
  NOUN 
  The process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions. 
  "music is a means of catharsis for them" 
   

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  Burning Earth (2 of 2)...

  Nicholas Sansbury Smith

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  The war started and ended in a day.The machines won.Now the fight for survival begins...E-Day: The moment the machines evolved and humans nearly went extinct. In the chaos, one million people escaped Earth and fled to a secret colony on the dark side of the Moon. Deep beneath the lunar surface, in the cold, they wait for the inevitable--a second attack that will wipe humanity out forever.Sergeant Tadhg Walsh is tired of waiting. He wants to fight back and return to Earth to search for Shadow Squad. But he has new orders from the Lunar Defense Corps: protect the colonies at all costs and forget about any survivors back home.Captain Akira Hayashi is one of those survivors, forced to heal from his injuries in a submarine while the planet burns. Shadow Squad won’t be hiding for long, but before they can don their armor again, they must find a safe haven to plan their attack. When they locate a research station in the Mariana Trench, their submarine heads into the depths. What they find in the darkness changes everything they know about E-Day.On the Moon, the LDC will do everything in its power to keep the truth about survivors on Earth a secret, even if it means sacrificing the few for the many. On Earth, Shadow Squad will have to make tenuous alliances with old enemies to stand a chance against the enemy. If they can unite, they might just have a chance of stopping the machines from wiping out humanity on Earth and the Moon.Adapted from the novel and produced with a full cast of actors, immersive sound effects and cinematic music!Performed by Michael John Casey, Tony Nam, Wyn Delano, Anthony Palmini, Kelly Baskin, Chris Davenport, Dan Delgado, Terence Aselford, Matthew Bassett, Karenna Foley, Bradley Foster Smith, Kimberly Gilbert, Mark Harrietha, Chris Stinson, Jonathon Church, Michael John Casey, Nora Achrati, Christopher Walker, Tyler Hyrchuk, Holly Adams, Laura C. Harris, Adrian Garcia, Andrew Quilpa, Ryan Haugen, Keith Richards, Eric Messner, Steve Wannall, Danny Gavigan, Joe Mallon, Rayner Gabriel, Yasmin Tuazon, Jameson Hunt, Steven Carpenter, David Cui Cui, Elena Anderson, Kenneth Jackson, Michael Glenn, Gregory Linington, Megan Hastie, and James Konicek.

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  The Queen of Sorrow

  Rachel Lawson

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  Sorrow 
  Astra Queen of Vampires was born of the union of two monsters a mad killer for a mother and a evil sorcerer for a father he mother was under a spell until she was born so sad was her mother by her marriage to the hated enemy of her people and bearing his child she named her child Sorrow. 
  The pair were murdered by a lunatic themselves when Sorrow was a baby. 
  Her uncle raise her with his own children who didn't have powers like their mother a fate from a parallel world and their father a necromancer and enchanter Sorrow's uncle. She later became not just a vampire but their queen. It was Sorrow's uncle who named her Astra as it was a better name for a child to forget her sad start in life with a new name her old name it was like a man being called Sue nothing a man could life down. 
  She later married a friend Max Starfire the Sun's King and had a child called- Astra known as Astry. She would never give her child a bad name like herself. Astry was a vampire/ werewolf like her mother and father. 
  Not alive or dead something in between. 
  They were day walkers Max, Astra and their daughter. 
  Strange creatures neither vampire nor werewolf they were 
  Includes stories with Sorrow or Astra Queen of Vampires from my the Magicians series 
  Narrated by the author and guest narrating Addison Fell as Alexa in Bad Omens

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  3 Stories - Dark Romanticism - A...

  Edgar Allan Poe, E T A Hoffmann,...

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  There is something about the number 3.    
   
  The Ancient Greeks believed 3 was the perfect number, and in China 3 has always been a lucky number, and they know a thing or two.   
   
  Most religions also have 3 this and 3 that and, of course, in these more modern times, three’s a crowd may be too many, except when it’s a ménage à trois.  It seems good things usually come in threes. 
   
  Whatever history and culture says WE think 3, a hat-trick of stories, is a great number to explore themes and literary avenues that classic authors were so adept at creating. 
   
  From their pens to your your ears.

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