He wants to escape. She wants him dead. But the giant flying cats want something else entirely...Fledgling pilot Jayden is one of the first generation to be born on the newly colonised planet of Osivirius. Now he’s determined to get his family out of ‘Wormsville’, the part of the colony where people are little more than numbers. So when Commander Tun offers a huge reward for finding the location of the rebel base, he jumps at the chance.Nettle hates everything to do with the colony—especially the military arm—and is fiercely protective of the simple, grounded ways of the rebels. So when she and her brother Flint discover Jayden after he crash-lands, she’s ready to slit his throat without a second thought. But as Flint nurses him back to health, Nettle’s antipathy turns to empathy, and then an unwanted attraction.Jayden, meanwhile, has made secret plans to escape on a Masu, one of the giant flying cats the rebels ride, but though his blood family still need him, the lure of the valley might just prove stronger.In this award-winning, action-packed, and visionary novella, the mystical connection to nature of Avatar, the romantic tension of Outlander, the dystopian political struggle of The Hunger Games, and the character evolution of Ender's Game all meet. It's a perfect read for teens and adults who enjoy spiritual elements and clean enemies-to-lovers romance in a high-stakes futuristic setting.Click ‘BUY NOW’ and dive into the world of Osivirius today!"A lushly imagined, and hopeful serving of adventure filled with heart, humanity and flying cats. I loved it!" — Trent Jamieson, award-winning author of Stone Road, Day Boy, the Death Works Series, and the Nightbound Land Duology"Delicious worldbuilding and characters that sparkle with agency. Son of Osivirius deftly highlights the importance of the natural world and humanity’s place within it. Cathryn DeVries weaves a brilliant tale.” — Pamela Jeffs, Aurealis Award winner and author of Wilder"I adored this story from start to finish. A gripping plot, believable characters, and a richly immersive world that overflows with imagination and compassion." –Kylie Chan, best-selling author of the Dark Heavens series and the Dragon Empire series.

Humanity Survived…Barely, and thanks to networks of gigantic Tower systems created to surround small villages with a protective barrier of lethal energy. It kept everything out. And everyone in.Sixteen years have passed, and a girl born the night the world fell apart learns that she has a strange talent.The Towers can speak.and she is the only one who can hear them…

No more deepfakes. No more misinformation. No more doubt. And every one of us is in danger.Fourteen years after the Verification Act reshaped American society, a biometric implant behind every ear broadcasts who you are, what you're worth, and whether you belong. The system was built to end an age of disinformation — and it worked. The deepfakes stopped. The conspiracy theories died. So did the freedoms no one thought to miss until they were gone.Maya Chen is a star journalist at the Washington Herald, winning awards inside a system designed to make her work harmless. When a classified document crosses her desk, she begins to see the architecture of the cage she's been decorating. Marcus Webb, a decorated FBI agent haunted by his father's role in building the Verification system, follows a thread of falsified data into its rotten foundations. And in the Red Zone — where the Unverified survive without status, without medicine, without names — a former federal prosecutor named Emma Brennan runs a pirate broadcast network, willing to sacrifice everything for the revolution. Everything except the daughter the state took from her three years ago.As their paths converge, Maya, Marcus, and Emma must decide what truth is worth when the system that defines it can erase you with a single scan. In a world divided into Green, Yellow, and Red — where your zone is your destiny and compliance is your currency — the most dangerous act left is to speak.Verified is a novel about surveillance and complicity, about the seductive comfort of certainty and the terrible cost of letting someone else define what's real. For readers of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Dave Eggers' The Circle, and Christina Dalcher's Vox.

2023 San Francisco Book Festival WINNER - Science Fiction"Prepare to be swept away with this riveting, character-driven sci-fi thriller. This exceptional and one-of-a-kind, sci-fi journey is a must-read for anyone seeking a thrilling and meaningful story, as it is truly–like many reviewers have said–a 'page-turner.'" (Amazon Reviewer)Everyone remembers exactly where they were, the day the ships came.What no one knew back then, though, was that there were people who were already expecting them.Scottish psychologist Elspeth McGann thinks her patient Lester Rains-a suave, enigmatic man who claims to be have been alive for 2,000 years and to be part of a team of extraterrestrial 'farmers' waiting on Earth for an alien harvest-is a delusional schizophrenic. But when vast ships suddenly appear over Moscow and vacuum up 50,000 people in a matter of hours, she realizes she must track down the elusive Rains. In her search, she stumbles upon a group who are already trying to track down the farmers. This band of renegades is led by Cassius C. Trenton, a former NSA analyst who has been on the run since he broke the code on a mystery transmission beamed into space from Earth years ago, and which bore a single, chilling message: Ripe.With the aliens set to return, and some world leaders complicit in their plans, Elspeth and Trenton must seek out Rains and find a way of escaping the impending apocalypse, a hunt that takes them from Edinburgh to the White House, only to discover the harvest is just the beginning.

For over a century, the Terrani Republic and the Eranian Kingdom have been at war. After a recent defeat, the Terrani Republic had no choice but to evacuate their worlds, abandoning everything they knew. They fled in a massive fleet, with the Eranians in pursuit. For seven bitter years, they evaded the Eranian forces, their circumstances unchanged. Yet, the desire for change only grew among the Terrani, a hungry tinder that had been building for years, waiting for a spark. Can a few visionaries truly alter such seemingly immutable circumstances? Can a defeated nation rise again and fight? Or is the fate of nations predetermined, unchangeable no matter how fervently a visionary may dream?

Davlok Asterian has to survive for 6 days and nights on the moon Kellora-5, and then he'll be free.
Kellora-5 is empty, so this shouldn't be a problem.
However, Davlok soon learns that even the quietest moons can come alive at night.
From the editor:
Dead Moon is a survival Space Horror in the mode of Aliens, Enemy Mine and The Thing.