The Shanghai Connection – Science fiction space opera adventure inspired by Mass Effect

The Shanghai Connection – Science fiction space opera adventure inspired by Mass Effect
Author: Alexei Cyren
Publisher: Alexei Cyren
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2014-03-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Ariel Blake is a rookie Guardian cop who’s trying to get revenge against the Black Phoenix terrorists who killed her mother. She’s willing to do almost anything it takes and is worried that she’ll cross the line. She finds herself in the middle of a possible gang war but a beautiful information broker hints that the Jade Dragons might know a way to find her elusive prey. She must discover the link between the gangs and her mom’s killers. Her hunt will lead to a post-apocalyptic virtual world to find the answers though the stakes are high: someone will die in less than 48 hours unless she succeeds. Drug kingpin, kung fu master and Jade Dragon lieutenant Wen Chang, however stands in Ariel’s way. He is a man who has never been defeated in combat and he wields fearsome powers that she can’t even fathom. If he gets what he wants, the System Alliance worlds could be plunged into chaos. The Shanghai Connection is part of an action packed science fiction novel space opera that is inspired by Mass Effect, Star Wars, Judge Dredd, Die Hard, Continuum and Blade Runner. Adventure, romance, revenge, mecha, paranormal powers and intrigue fill the pages of this continuing saga. If you’re looking for nearly non-stop, blood pumping excitement you should get this book! Solid State Sigma Series Solid State Shadow Arc Night Harbour (http://amzn.to/1gPZACR) Gilead’s Gambit (http://amzn.to/1csMn67) Trinity Tower (http://amzn.to/1cAwYLm) Solid State Shadow Omnibus Edition (Night Harbour, Gilead’s Gambit, Trinity Tower all in one; http://amzn.to/1fGalVS) Solid State Rising Arc Escape from Sericent (coming soon; 2014-2015) Dark Star Station (coming soon; 2014-2015) Queen’s Sacrifice (coming soon; 2014-2015) Solid State Supremacy Arc Hunt for Hightower (coming soon; 2015-2016) Cygnus Showdown (coming soon; 2015-2016) Betrayal at Ares (coming soon; 2015-2016) Battle of Sericent (coming soon; 2015-2016) Solid State Universe Prequels The Shanghai Connection (Kindle | Preview) coming soon… http://alexeicyren.com/escape-from-sericent-coming-soon/

Dark Star Station Part 1 - Science fiction space opera adventure inspired by Mass Effect

Dark Star Station Part 1 - Science fiction space opera adventure inspired by Mass Effect
Author: Alexei Cyren
Publisher: Alexei Cyren
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2016-12-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Ariel Blake was a merciless Siren agent whose guilt drove her to sacrifice her career to rescue her childhood friend Eve. Unfortunately, she’s got a massive $250,000 credit bounty on her head and treading through foreign space. The SRA, Black Phoenix, Aminon and genius Gilead Hightower are closing in on Eve’s location. Ariel’s running out of time. She has to recruit a crack team of allies to help her breach the defences of Eve’s prison. This includes a bounty hunter she knows will betray her and a master thief whose loyalty is only to money. It only gets worse when Rake Ashcor comes a calling. The infamous assassin Ariel thought she killed has returned from the dead and is the master of an entire guild of murderers-for-hire called the Assanti. They are beholden only to themselves and Death. He’s also allied himself with Patrik Prokop, Eisam’s half-mad lieutenant who desires Eve for himself. If Rake gets his way, he’ll derail all of Ariel’s plans at the worst possible moment… … And Eve will be lost to her forever. Solid State Rising: Dark Star Station is part of an action packed science fiction space opera that is inspired by Mass Effect, Star Wars, Judge Dredd, Die Hard, Continuum and Blade Runner. Adventure, romance, revenge, mecha, paranormal powers and intrigue fill the pages of this continuing saga. If you’re looking for nearly non-stop, blood pumping excitement you should get this book!

Dark Star Station Part 2 - Science fiction space opera adventure inspired by Mass Effect

Dark Star Station Part 2 - Science fiction space opera adventure inspired by Mass Effect
Author: Alexei Cyren
Publisher: Alexei Cyren
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2016-12-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Ariel Blake was a merciless Siren agent whose guilt drove her to sacrifice her career to rescue her childhood friend Eve. Unfortunately, she’s got a massive $250,000 credit bounty on her head and treading through foreign space. The SRA, Black Phoenix, Aminon and genius Gilead Hightower are closing in on Eve’s location. Ariel’s running out of time. She has to recruit a crack team of allies to help her breach the defences of Eve’s prison. This includes a bounty hunter she knows will betray her and a master thief whose loyalty is only to money. It only gets worse when Rake Ashcor comes a calling. The infamous assassin Ariel thought she killed has returned from the dead and is the master of an entire guild of murderers-for-hire called the Assanti. They are beholden only to themselves and Death. He’s also allied himself with Patrik Prokop, Eisam’s half-mad lieutenant who desires Eve for himself. If Rake gets his way, he’ll derail all of Ariel’s plans at the worst possible moment… … And Eve will be lost to her forever. Solid State Rising: Dark Star Station is part of an action packed science fiction space opera that is inspired by Mass Effect, Star Wars, Judge Dredd, Die Hard, Continuum and Blade Runner. Adventure, romance, revenge, mecha, paranormal powers and intrigue fill the pages of this continuing saga. If you’re looking for nearly non-stop, blood pumping excitement you should get this book!

Night Harbour - Sci fi novel space opera adventure inspired by Mass Effect, Star Wars, Judge Dredd, Blade Runner

Night Harbour - Sci fi novel space opera adventure inspired by Mass Effect, Star Wars, Judge Dredd, Blade Runner
Author: Alexei Cyren
Publisher: Alexei Cyren
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2013-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Ariel Blake is a Siren agent out for revenge against her mother’s killers and one of the government’s most merciless operatives. She is charged with investigating a high profile, armed robbery of a Shiro Express courier. The trail leads to the ruthless genius Gilead Hightower and the Black Phoenix, the terrorists responsible for her mom’s death. Both are after a black ops government project so secret no one, not even the government itself, even realized it existed… until now. She has to stop the Black Phoenix from getting powerful new technology but she has to find it first. Only Gilead Hightower has the answers and he isn’t talking. Rake Ashcor, one of the deadliest assassins in the star system with over a thousand kills to his name, has been hired by the Phoenix to get the technology and silence Gilead for good. When Ariel’s friends get trapped in a virtual world that can kill, she has a tough choice to make: is finding the location of the black ops project worth her life and the lives of her friends or will she let the Black Phoenix get what they want? If Rake and the Phoenix succeed, the System Alliance could be torn apart. How far will she go for vengeance? Solid State Shadow: Night Harbour is part of an action packed sci-fi space opera that is inspired by Mass Effect, Star Wars, Judge Dredd, Die Hard, Continuum and Blade Runner. Adventure, romance, revenge, mecha, paranormal powers and intrigue fill the pages of this new saga. If you’re looking for nearly non-stop, blood-pumping excitement you’ll want to start here! Night Harbour is Book One of the Solid State Sigma Series.

Solid State Shadow Omnibus - Science fiction space opera adventure inspired by Mass Effect, Star Wars, Judge Dredd, Blade Runner

Solid State Shadow Omnibus - Science fiction space opera adventure inspired by Mass Effect, Star Wars, Judge Dredd, Blade Runner
Author: Alexei Cyren
Publisher: Alexei Cyren
Total Pages: 808
Release: 2013-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Solid State Sigma Series — Solid State Shadow Volumes One to Three Volume One — “Night Harbour” Ariel Blake is a Siren agent out for revenge against her mother’s killers and one of the government’s most merciless operatives. She is charged with investigating a high profile, armed robbery of a Shiro Express courier. The trail leads to the ruthless genius Gilead Hightower and the Black Phoenix, the terrorists responsible for her mom’s death. Both are after a black ops government project so secret no one, not even the government itself, even realized it existed… until now. She has to stop the Black Phoenix from getting powerful new technology but she has to find it first. Only Gilead Hightower has the answers and he isn’t talking. Rake Ashcor, one of the deadliest assassins in the star system with over a thousand kills to his name, has been hired by the Phoenix to get the technology and silence Gilead for good. When Ariel’s friends get trapped in a virtual world that can kill, she has a tough choice to make: is finding the location of the black ops project worth her life and the lives of her friends or will she let the Black Phoenix get what they want? If Rake and the Phoenix succeed, the System Alliance could be torn apart. How far will she go for vengeance? Volume Two — “Gilead’s Gambit” Ariel Blake is one of the top Siren agents of the System Alliance who is driven by one thing: revenge. She discovers the Black Phoenix terrorists are after her childhood friend, Eve Lang when they attack the mall in their home town. Worse still, Eve is not all she appears to be and Ariel must wrestle with her transformation into something that is no longer… human. That doesn’t stop her from putting Eve’s safety as priority number one and keeping her out of Phoenix hands. Rake Ashcor, the assassin who nearly killed her at Night Harbour is also gunning for Eve. If Rake gets her, the Black Phoenix may obtain the key to using the Solid State Shadow technology. Something Ariel fears more than anything. Volume Three — “Trinity Tower” Ariel Blake must rescue childhood friend Eve Lang from Gilead Hightower. The team tracks the genius down and find themselves caught up in a chaotic firefight while trying to rescue her. The situation gets worse when Aminon, a mysterious shadow organization tries to silence Eve at the same time… for things she can’t even remember. Finding Eve and Gilead isn’t Ariel’s only challenge. The ruthless Phoenix have planned something big. It will be the opening act of a new chapter in history. Assassin Rake Ashcor strikes a deal with Gilead for Eve and if he gets her, nothing will stop the Black Phoenix from killing millions in a few short hours. Guaranteed.

Time and Again

Time and Again
Author: Clifford D. Simak
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2015-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504024168

After two decades in space, a man returns to Earth as something new and not completely human, in this “enormously inventive” novel by a Nebula Award winner (Galaxy Science Fiction). Twenty years ago, Asher Sutton vanished somewhere in the star system 61 Cygni, an inaccessible corner of the universe that humankind has thus far been unable to explore. Now Asher has returned to Earth, having impossibly survived catastrophic damage to his spacecraft. But the star-traveler is not the same man he was when he began his journey two decades earlier. He is, in fact, no longer completely human. And he is not alone. But he has a message to convey that could have reality-altering consequences for the human galaxy-conquerors who consider themselves almost gods, and for the nearly human androids they create, enslave, and oppress. It is Asher’s destiny to change everything. His mission has made him a hero to some, a pariah to others—and a target for determined time-traveling assassins from the future whose mission it is to silence him at all costs before everything they cherish is obliterated. A true science fiction visionary, SFWA Grand Master Clifford D. Simak infused thrilling stories of time travel, space exploration, artificial intelligence, and alien contact with powerful, thought-provoking ideas. An enthralling masterwork of speculative fiction that astonishes while exploring humanity in all its disparate aspects, Time and Again can be counted among the prolific, multiple Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author’s most brilliantly imagined and successfully realized creations.

Wolf Totem

Wolf Totem
Author: Jiang Rong
Publisher: Penguin Books
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2015-09-08
Genre: Mongolia
ISBN: 0143109316

Chen Zhen volunteers to live in a remote settlement on the border of Inner and Outer Mongolia. There, he discovers life of apparent idyllic simplicity based on an eternal struggle between the wolves and the humans in their fight to survive. Chen learns about the spiritual relationship which exists between these adversaries.

The 2030 Spike

The 2030 Spike
Author: Colin Mason
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1136555110

The clock is relentlessly ticking! Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization. Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Depleted fuel supplies, massive population growth, poverty, global climate change, famine, growing water shortages and international lawlessness are on a crash course with potentially catastrophic consequences. In the face of both doomsaying and denial over the state of our world, Colin Mason cuts through the rhetoric and reams of conflicting data to muster the evidence to illustrate a broad picture of the world as it is, and our possible futures. Ultimately his message is clear; we must act decisively, collectively and immediately to alter the trajectory of humanity away from catastrophe. Offering over 100 priorities for immediate action, The 2030 Spike serves as a guidebook for humanity through the treacherous minefields and wastelands ahead to a bright, peaceful and prosperous future in which all humans have the opportunity to thrive and build a better civilization. This book is powerful and essential reading for all people concerned with the future of humanity and planet earth.

Stormblood

Stormblood
Author: Jeremy Szal
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2020-06-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473227445

Vakov Fukasawa used to be a Reaper: a bio-enhanced soldier fighting for the Harmony, against a brutal invading empire. He's still fighting now, on a different battlefield: taking on stormtech. To make him a perfect soldier, Harmony injected him with the DNA of an extinct alien race, altering his body chemistry and leaving him permanently addicted to adrenaline and aggression. But although they meant to create soldiers, at the same time Harmony created a new drug market that has millions hopelessly addicted to their own body chemistry. Vakov may have walked away from Harmony, but they still know where to find him, and his former Reaper colleagues are being murdered by someone, or something - and Vakov is appalled to learn his estranged brother is involved. Suddenly it's an investigation he can't turn down . . . but the closer he comes to the truth, the more addicted to stormtech he becomes. And it's possible the war isn't over, after all . . . 'A high-power augmented SF adventure that will keep you reading!' - Garth Nix ' This is what 21st century Sci-Fi ought to be' - Miles Cameron, author of Artifact Space

Crownchasers

Crownchasers
Author: Rebecca Coffindaffer
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2020-09-29
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0062845187

A deadly race across 1,001 planets will determine more than just the fate of the empire. This explosive first book in a duology jam-packed with tension and thrills is perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, Aurora Rising, and Three Dark Crowns. Alyssa Farshot has spent her whole life trying to outrun her family legacy, even leaving behind the Kingship and her uncle, the emperor, for a life of exploring. But when her dying uncle announces a crownchase—a search for the royal seal hidden in the empire that will determine the next ruler—Alyssa is thrust into her greatest, most dangerous adventure yet.