A Sci-Fi political thriller set in a terrifyingly real future. When all of humanity is connected, the center of the Web is the seat of true power. In a century, the world's old political borders have dissolved. At the center of what remains of civilization sits the NAU, a nation ruled by two political parties: Enterprise, the sink-or-swim party where each party member has no one else to blame for their starvation or astronomical wealth, and Directorate, whose members have a guaranteed safety net but can never rise above their station. Every six years, an election determines the course of the NAU's future. The process is called Shift, and the next one is coming soon. With humanity intertwined by way of the Beam -- a hyper-advanced version of the Internet that serves every whim and need -- Shift is the be-all and the end-all. More than an electoral method, it is the future's political discourse.. In the midst of the country's tumultuous politics, certain players are making their own moves. Doc, a black-market nanoenhancement vendor, has caught wind of a disturbing trend of enhancements among his clientele. Nicolai, political speechwriter for the head of Directorate, struggles to find his independence in a life that is supposed to be devoted to the Party, all the while unaware of his own terrifying connection to the Beam. And Kai, an escort and assassin as lethal as she is flexible, becomes embroiled in the machinations of her top clients -- because after all, the political elite choose only the best to warm their sheets at night. And through it all, a shadowy group is pulling strings behind the scenes, guiding Shift exactly where they want it to go. Their identities are unknown to all but a few, and anyone who stumbles upon them by accident -- or, worse, learns their true goal -- is swiftly disposed of. But if their power goes unchecked, their cloak-and-dagger actions will shape the fate of millions for years to come ... Plug your mind into The Beam. It's been waiting for you.

The Beam: Season One

Sean Platt

Johnny B. Truant

Sterling and Stone

Death Has a Brand New Appetite...When overweight treadmill salesman Reginald Baskin finally meets a co-worker who doesn't make fun of him, it's his own bad luck that tech guy Maurice turns out to be a two-thousand-year-old vampire.And when Maurice turns Reginald to save his life, it's just Reginald's further bad luck that he wakes to discover he's become the slowest, weakest, most out-of-shape vampire ever created ? doomed to "heal" to his corpulent self for all of eternity.But as Reginald struggles with the downsides of being a fat vampire (too slow to catch people to feed on, mocked by those he tries to glamour, assaulted by his intended prey, and left for undead), he discovers rare powers in himself that few vampires have ? and just in time, because the Vampire Council wants him destroyed as an inferior representative of their race.Fat Vampire is the story of an unlikely hero who, after having an imperfect eternity shoved into his grease-stained hands, must learn to turn the afterlife's lemons into tasty lemon danishes.Fat Vampire is a fresh twist on the tired old undead myth by Johnny B. Truant - author of many bestselling series, including Invasion, The Beam, Unicorn Western, The Dream Engine, Robot Proletariat, and more.

Fat Vampire (Fat Vampire Book 1)

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

The SMASH HIT SERIES is now a new TV series on SYFY: Reginald The Vampire!!Angels and Demons, Myths and Legends?It's been six months since Reginald Baskin became a vampire too fat to live happily with the beautiful undead - six months in which Reginald and his two-thousand-year-old maker Maurice have learned that safety does not come with power. These days, Maurice is Deacon of the Vampire Nation, but plenty beneath Maurice are still plotting to depose him ? or dispose of him.But when a new and ancient threat rears its head, the Nation faces extinction and the truest of deaths - and Reginald, Maurice, and Nikki might be the only vampires who can stop it.This sequel to the cult hit picks up where Fat Vampire left off, following a trio of unlikely heroes down a path of myth and superstition into truths that have been buried for centuries - pitting the world's darkness against the unfathomable power of its angry creators.Keep on reading Johnny B. Truant's blockbuster series, and you'll never look at vampires (or vampire stories) the same way again.This fresh twist on the tired old undead myth is the second in the Fat Vampire series by Johnny B. Truant - author of many bestselling series, including Invasion, The Beam, Unicorn Western, The Dream Engine, Robot Proletariat, and more.

Fat Vampire 2: Tastes Like Chicken

Immortality Has Met Its Match...Ever since the Ring of Fire, the world's vampires have seen their mortality. They won't live forever after all - not if the angels who created them decide to snuff them like candles.What do the angels want? What did their command to "restore balance" truly mean? For most, the angels' decrees mean mass murder and mass turnings ? but the humans aren't sheep, and won't just lie down and take it forever.As Deacon Maurice tries to maintain order with Reginald by his side, panic consumes the Vampire Nation. The center begins to fall apart and chaos grows like cancer. But as war between vampires and humans threatens, Reginald begins to discover strange new abilities within him: to navigate through blood history like no other vampire before him. To glamour those who can't be glamoured. And seemingly, to stop time itself.Fear has reached its tipping point. War is close. Reginald might hold the key to the angels' mystery ? but whatever could help him intervene just might be too late.This fresh twist on the tired old undead myth is the third in the Fat Vampire series by Johnny B. Truant - author of many bestselling series, including Invasion, The Beam, Unicorn Western, The Dream Engine, Robot Proletariat, and more.

Fat Vampire 3: All You Can Eat

Genre Fiction

The SMASH HIT SERIES is now a new TV series on SYFY: Reginald The Vampire!!A New Dark Leader Has Emerged.Following Maurice's near-assassination and the overthrow of the American Vampire Council, Reginald, Maurice, and Nikki have fled to Luxembourg, where they've taken refuge under the protection of Karl Stromm and the EU Council.Things in America have continued towards chaos with no end in sight - until a coup shakes the world and a new American leader arrives with promises to restore order and derail the imminent human-vampire war.But things are not as they seem. A dangerous, genocidal faction has arisen to upset the fragile balance. The New World Order in America is not what it seems. And all the while the world's vampires face a war on two fronts: deadly, prepared human forces on one side, and their immortal creators on the other.This fresh twist on the tired old undead myth is the fourth in the Fat Vampire series by Johnny B. Truant - author of many bestselling series, including Invasion, The Beam, Unicorn Western, The Dream Engine, Robot Proletariat, and more.

Fat Vampire 4: Harder Better Fatter Stronger

The SMASH HIT SERIES is now a new TV series on SYFY: Reginald The Vampire!!What the New Order Seeks, Reginald Must Find.The new vampire president and his psychotic right-hand man have been playing a dangerous game with the humans over the past six months. In the public eye, the two races appear to be at peace ? but the situation below the surface is hot enough to boil.And while the untrusting humans mass their defenses, vampire armies have been building to match them - with plans to exterminate the planet's current inhabitants, saving only a handful of blood slaves.Reginald, Nikki, Maurice, and the others bunkered in at Maurice's estate find themselves in the middle of a no-win scenario: Is it better to fight with their own kind in the vampire revolution? Or should they turn traitors - and risk extermination by the angels - in order to protect the humans?But just as the cold war outside is about to turn hot, Reginald's ever-expanding vampire brain reveals the existence of an artifact that could predict the outcome of the coming war ? and maybe even a way to stop it. The only problem is that nobody knows where the artifact is, and when war then breaks and mass slaughter begins on both sides, it seems that time may have run out.Fat Vampire 5 is the biggest, bloodiest, most snack-filled installment in the Fat Vampire series so far, and sets the stage for the sixth book's epic series-ender - a conclusion so big it'll shake the human world's foundations.This fresh twist on the tired old undead myth is the fifth in the Fat Vampire series by Johnny B. Truant - author of many bestselling series including Invasion, The Beam, Unicorn Western, The Dream Engine, Robot Proletariat, and more.

Fat Vampire 5: Fatpocalypse

The Era of Nighttime Has Begun.\nForty years have passed since the end of the vampire/human war. Vampires have taken over the planet and have settled in, making themselves comfortable in the infrastructure their predecessors built, with just a few adjustments to ensure a permanent night.\nHumans still exist, tightly controlled, because the alpha species needs to eat. But even after four decades of peace, Reginald can't shake his conviction that the war never really ended - that the archive he still holds in his blood warns of an ominous change on the horizon.\nAs old foes rise, the power structures of both races begin to falter and the very existence of life on Earth (both hot-blooded and undead) hangs in the balance. Rebel humans have developed new and frightening weapons, and they aren't afraid to use them even if it could mean the end of everything. And Reginald Baskin - always an outcast, always neglected - may be the only chance to stop it.\nBut as Reginald steps into his destined role as a leader, he faces a hideous inevitability that even he never saw coming ... and that he may be too late to prevent.\nThis fresh twist on the tired old undead myth is the final installment in the Fat Vampire series by Johnny B. Truant - author of many bestselling series including Invasion, The Beam, Unicorn Western, The Dream Engine, Robot Proletariat, and more.

Fat Vampire 6

From the bestselling authors of the Invasion and Yesterday's Gone series comes Dead Nation, a gripping biological technothriller that blends real-world genetic engineering and high-stakes corporate espionage to deliver a heart-pumping race against the clock to save humanity from the zombie plague ...The virus has evolved and is spreading again with a new wave of infections, far worse than before.Yosemite's fully-contained zombie population breaks out and now it appears that animals are carrying the infection as well.The walled-off, zombie-overrun city of Bakersfield is attacked and eventually obliterated, but still there's no going back as the virus slowly overtakes a nation hell-bent on containing it.Jordache Dale has heeded Golem's call and is traveling west, like a Typhoid Mary, leaving a path of viral destruction in her wake.Bobby Baltimore has gone to Yosemite to repent and live the rest of his life as a zombie.Park Rangers Brie and Ramon have discovered something they really didn't want to know, while Parvati Bahl, mayor of the neighboring town works to keep their community from falling apart.And BDS agents, Krystopher Bryce and Alexander Zakrey are forced to make a new deal with an old devil.But this time the virus is spreading too fast for anyone to stop. And with Archibald Burgess still up to his old tricks, his evil clarifier henchman wreaking havoc across the nation, and anti-necrotic hate groups popping up across the country, the dead have never been more alive.Dead Nation is the second book in the Dead World Trilogy, an intelligent, hard science fiction exploration of the zombie sub-genre.

Dead Nation

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Dead Planet

The Vampire Maurice

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