Runs In The Family

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Ikenberry, Kevin

Science Fiction

Soaring Leaf Press

Story of the Month Club brings together a magical collection of tales for its 2015 anthology. Take a journey to the vacation destinations of tomorrow. Experience miracles and magic, the dirty side of science and the noble side of bandits. Discover what one man can accomplish with dedication and perseverance. Believe in the power of holiday legends and a woman's faith. A Baker's Dozen of Magic collects stories from thirteen authors, transporting you into worlds of adventure populated by mad scientists and magicians from across the globe.

A Baker's Dozen of Magic: Story of the Month Club 2015 Anthology (Story of the Month Club - Anthology)

Literature & Fiction

MARTIN, Frank

Brawner, Jessica

Vogt, Josh

Moore, Fiona

Johnson, Anne E.

Fowler, Thomas A

Forrest, J.L.

Sheridan Rose, Rie

Rozas III, Ramon

Short Stories & Anthologies

Story of the Month Club

An outcast of the Eden Academy, physically unfit for military duty, and lacking a civil service assignment, Mairin Shields is going nowhere fast. With little hope of leaving the outer rim of the Milky Way, Mairin agrees to participate in a classified experiment offering her genetic perfection and a chance to see the galaxy. Now, armed with her great-grandfather's military knowledge and combat-refined instincts, Mairin is tasked with leading inexperienced troops in a war against a shadowy enemy using hauntingly familiar tactics. But the first rule of the military is "hurry up and wait," and Mairin learns this firsthand. Without transport to the fight, Mairin spends the downtime on a lush paradise world, getting to know her new body, her imprint, and her heart. Mairin meets Tallenaara, a beautiful Styrahi architect whose mission and past will come to challenge them both. Faced with the most difficult choice of her young life, Mairin Shields can only watch as her world spins out of control.

Runs in the Family

Strigidae Publishing

Story of the Month Club brings together its final collection of tales in its 2016 anthology. Woe and Wonder offers a collection of tales from North American authors in a variety of themes and tones. This year's submissions came from across the country and across the spectrum of fiction genres. These tales will thrill readers who long for twists and surprises at every turn. Travel through time, meet a superhero with questionable judgement, and experience the human race's enslavement. Psychics, zombies, and mermaids await. Dive in and enjoy.

Woe and Wonder: 2016 Story of the Month Club Anthology

Knight, Sam

Wacks, Peter J.

Muk, Derek

Hogan, Andrew J.

Sears, Steven L.

Paradigm, S.R.

Taken from their planet and their century,they are?the Lost Soldiers.The hijacked Twentieth Century troops known as Murphy's Lawless have made planetfall on the planet R'Bak and accomplished their first main objective. Led by Lieutenant Harold Tapper and some of the Lost Soldiers, a clan of proudly independent nomads successfully attacked a unit of the J'Stull Satrapy and made off with a number of much-needed combat vehicles. But the J'Stull won't-can't-let that defeat go unanswered. They are the servitors of the overlords of Kulsis: outsystem autocrats whose forces shall soon return to take whatever resources-and vengeance-they wish. And the J'Stull can't afford to be the objects of their wrath. Captain Bo Moorfield-a dishonored US mechanized cavalry officer before waking up in this strange future-now has to shepherd the convoy of armored cars, APCs, and other all-terrain vehicles-back to the Lost Soldier's base high in the forbidding desert terrain. Unfortunately, the stolen vehicles aren't at the peak of performance, and Lieutenant Tapper is barely able to keep ahead of the J'Stull force racing after him.But Moorfield has two things the J'Stull don't: training as a professional cavalry officer and a force of half-trained troopers mounted on whinnies. If he's able to get his own forces into the right position, maybe-just maybe-he will be able to snatch victory from the jaws of almost-certain defeat. If not, the J'Stull will roll up Moorefield's small unit and push straight on through to the Lost Soldiers' makeshift base, killing them all.And if that happens, the future for the rest of Murphy's Lawless isn't merely bleak: it's nonexistent.

Obligations (Murphy's Lawless (Original Novellas))

Literary

Beyond Terra Press

From the outside, The Lyon’s Den doesn’t look like much; there isn’t even a sign. But Mercs of all species know that if you head to southwest Houston, near the Starport, there’s a particular run-down strip mall that looks like it’s been abandoned for years. The glass door second from the south end of the strip is plastered over on the inside with blue paper, and the faint golden outline of a rampant lion is the only clue. 
The door is locked, of course, and beyond the door is nothing but a darkened hallway with a downward slope and a slight curve to it. Once you follow this curve far enough, you are greeted by two very large, very well-armed Lumar. “Welcome to the Lyon’s Den,” the larger of the two says without a translator, and without a trace of an alien accent. “You know the rules?” 
Welcome back to the Four Horsemen universe, where only a willingness to fight and die for money separates Humans from the majority of the other races. Edited by bestselling authors and universe creators Mark Wandrey and Chris Kennedy, “The Gates of Hell: More Tales from the Lyon’s Den” includes fifteen all-new stories in the Four Horsemen universe by a variety of bestselling authors—and some you may not have heard of…yet. Want to know why Asbaran Solutions changed its logo or where Roland’s head went? Better learn the rules to the Lyon’s Den…and then step inside! 
Inside, you’ll find: 
Bayonets by Kacey Ezell 
The Price Of Victory by Zane Voss 
The Bitter End by Mark Wandrey 
Freedom Of Maneuver by Kevin Ikenberry and Casey Moores 
Jaws Of Defeat by Jon R. Osborne 
They Called Him Pops by Kevin Steverson 
Bushwhacked! By Terry Mixon 
First Steps by Richard Alan Chandler 
Unnatural Selection by Dan Bridgwater 
Long Live The Huma by Chris Kennedy 
Fire From Fire Quickened by Rob Howell 
Roland The Headless Mech Driver by William Alan Webb 
The Mushroom Farm by Casey Moores 
No Good Deed by Alex Rath 
The Thelosi Gambit by Quincy J. Allen

The Gates of Hell: More Tales from the Lyon's Den (Four Horsemen Sagas)

Ezell, Kacey

Mixon, Terry

Steverson, Kevin

Kennedy, Chris

Osborne, Jon R.

Wandrey, Mark

Bridgwater, Dan

Voss, Zane

Chandler, Richard Alan

Seventh Seal Press

Peacemakers. The Galactic Union’s most capable enforcers and resolute negotiators, their name alone elicits fear and awe among the Union’s citizenry. 
After the vicious attacks on Victoria Bravo, Commander Tara Mason and the newly formed Force 25 have no time to refit and reconstitute their depleted forces. Deputized by the Peacemaker Guild and charged with a time-sensitive mission—finding James “Snowman” Francis—Tara and her mercenaries deploy to the wintry world of Snowmass to follow a fifty-year-old lead on Snowman’s disappearance. 
Snowmass, though, is far from peaceful. A project of the controversial Dream World Consortium, the planetary government’s promises of pleasant weather and long growing seasons have fallen far short of expectations. Tempers are rising, and unknown attackers are damaging the Dream World Consortium’s equipment and drawing the ire of Mayor Citsym and the Trenta Knights—Zuul mercenaries with more than forty years of less-than-stellar experience providing the planet’s security. 
Force 25 arrives on the planet and clandestinely deploys their attached Peacemakers, Vannix and Jackson Rains, but their hopes for a peaceful investigation of Snowman’s past are doomed from the start. Not only do they run into an assassination staged by the rogue Enforcer Kr’et’Socae and his minions, but the Trenta Knights also believe the newly-arrived mercenaries to be a threat and stage an attack to drive them from the planet. But neither Kr’et’Socae, the local government, nor the Trenta Knights have ever seen anything like Force 25, and when the battle is joined, all of them—including Force 25—will be forever changed.

Fields of Fire (Rise of the Peacemakers)

Peacemakers. The Galactic Union's most capable enforcers and resolute negotiators, their name alone elicits fear and awe among the Union's citizenry.Being a Peacemaker isn't easy. They're charged with setting the terms and doing anything which needs to be done-even if it personally costs them everything. They must learn to honor the threat to all life, and, in the end, they must stand or fall, based on their own convictions. Welcome back to the Four Horsemen universe, where only a willingness to fight and die for money separates Humans from the majority of the other races. Edited by Mia R. Kleve and bestselling author Kevin Ikenberry, "Set the Terms" includes fourteen all-new Peacemaker-themed stories in the Four Horsemen universe by a variety of bestselling authors-and some you may not have heard of?yet. From pigs flying to cats landing on their feet, "Set the Terms" shows Peacemakers at work from the origin of the guild to present day. Journey with a Lumar Peacemaker as he tries to complete his first mission and watch as a Phidae Peacemaker tries to complete his final one. They will have to use their wits as well as their weapons if they hope to remain standing at the end of the day.Are you ready to set the terms? If so, then step inside!With stories by:Mark WandreyChris KennedyWilliam Alan WebbQuincy J. AllenKevin SteversonMarisa WolfJon R. OsborneTerry Mixon	Casey MooresJamie IbsonKevin Ikenberry & Peter J. Aldin Matt NovotnyMarie WhittakerMark Stallings

Set the Terms (Rise of the Peacemakers)

Webb, William Alan

Wolf, Marisa

Kleve, Mia R.

Allen, Qunicy J.

Fifteen outstanding authors. Fifteen stories of rising from the ashes! 
The apocalypse is coming! Scientists and science fiction novelists have long predicted various forms of the apocalypse, from plagues to wars to aliens. If there’s a way to end civilization, someone has probably prophesized it. Civilizations rise and civilizations fall…but are you ready for it to happen to you? How will you survive and thrive in the event of an apocalypse? 
Edited by Jamie Ibson and Chris Kennedy, “We Dare: Semper Paratus” is a collection of 15 all-new stories that explore the apocalypse and what happens next—from surviving the fall to getting through those first perilous days, to learning how to adapt and survive in the new world survivors find themselves in. 
What happens when the nations of Earth fall to a nuclear war, and you’re trapped between the combatants on Mars? What if you need to cross a continent to get to the only safe place? How do you survive living in a Fallen World? 
One thing is certain—like every civilization before ours, at some point, ours will fall. Will you be ready when that happens? Our authors have dared to look at every type of apocalypse from nuclear war to shadow monsters to darkness falling, and they are ready for the end of the world…are you prepared as well? 
With stories by: 
Chris Kennedy 
Jamie Ibson 
Robert E. Hampson 
Rob Howell 
Kevin Steverson 
Kevin Ikenberry 
Jon R. Osborne 
Christopher Woods 
Marisa Wolf 
Jason Cordova 
Marie Whittaker 
Brent Roeder 
Christopher L. Smith 
Kevin Fritz Fotovich 
Philip Wohlrab

We Dare: Semper Paratus: An Anthology of the Apocalypse

Woods, Christopher

Howell, Rob

Cordova, Jason

Ibson, Jamie

Hampson, Robert E.

Theogony Books

Major Rodger Y. Murphy should have died when his helicopter crashed off the coast of Mogadishu in November, 1993. Instead, he woke up in August, 2125, in a binary star system 152 light years from home. Without any memory of the otherworldly abductors who spirited them away in cold sleep, Murphy and 100 other “Lost Soldiers” have been retrieved and awakened by officers of the Consolidated Terran Republic. Promising to return to the 55 Tauri B system after completing a distant mission, they leave the twentieth century castaways with a daunting objective: establish a base of operations on the main world, using local allies they have yet to recruit and enemy equipment they have yet to seize. If that weren’t hard enough, 55 Tauri A, the system’s primary star, is rapidly approaching, and the technologically superior powers from that neighboring system always visit during the close approach . . . to raid, pillage, and cull the locals. Worse, the Lost Soldiers left behind with Murphy were the losers and ne’er-do-wells deemed “sub-optimal” for inclusion on the rescue mission. Defiant and determined to live down that judgment, they have given themselves a different, more suitable label: Murphy’s LawlessNote: this book incorporates six previous novellas and adds 40k of new worldbuilding from Charles E. Gannon that Caine Universe readers won't want to miss!

Murphy's Lawless: A Terran Republic Novel

Massa, Mike

Gannon, Charles E.

Barber, Griffin

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