Metaphysical Fiction

The power unleashed during the Ascendance, lingers. After defeating the Revenant, Monty realizes Simon’s blood has been poisoned—tainted. Simon is slowly transforming. His body is harnessing dark magic in ways thought unimaginable. Now, Monty is faced with the hardest choice. Let the poison run its course, transforming Simon into a dark immortal, increasing his power, but drawing the attention of those who would want him dead, or allow Simon to take the blood lessons, risking his friend’s life? Can Monty help Simon before he’s too far gone or will Simon become an unstoppable threat?

In the ancient lands of Judea, where the boundary between life and death is both sacred and feared, one man crosses that divide and returns irrevocably changed. Lazarus, raised from the grave by the hand of Christ, emerges not as the man he once was but as a shadow of his former self, haunted by the specter of death. The miracle of Lazarus's resurrection reverberates across the land, drawing pilgrims and skeptics alike. Yet, as Lazarus walks among the living, he carries with him an unsettling aura that instills dread and despair in all who encounter him.

Big bugs, cloned cats, and feral star-children play leading roles in the seven stories that make up Fast’s unconventional and thought-provoking collection. The Edge of Tomorrow is a significant foray into science fiction by one of the 20th century’s most prolific novelists. In looking beyond our universe, Fast reveals much about the America of his time - where the Cold War and a nascent civil rights movement stoked unconscious fears and desires.

In a world where unemployment is obliterated by putting all jobless people in the military to maintain the endless ongoing warfare, Warrant Officer Viveka Vanachek finds herself in a weirder place yet. Captured, raped, and interrogated she is finally exiled to a remote snow-bound prison camp where she is placed in solitary confinement. It seems like the end of the world when she also becomes too sick to eat, and starts seeing ghosts and hearing mysterious chanting within the noises of the camp.

Art isn’t about beauty, in the dictionary, art is literally “producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power”. If you want other people to give you their money, you have to do something that they are willing to pay you for. What is art? Who says a piece of anything is considered art? Why are some paintings so expensive and not accessible to everyone? Wealthy buyers will shell out hundreds of millions of dollars for a work of art. So, what makes some art so valuable?

Every tree in the sacred Forest of Laida houses a soul. And each of those souls will return to the mortal world for many future lives. But not all of them deserve to. Seycia’s father told her this story as a child - a story of the most holy place in the Underworld, the Forest of Laida, where all souls go to rest before embarking on a new life. But Seycia’s father is dead now, and his killer has put a target on her back.

After breaking the 100m world record, 16-year-old Calli is whisked away to a secret facility where she's placed with other teens who possess superhuman speed. She soon finds herself in a deadly situation involving other superpowers, a magical diamond, and a centuries-old clan vying for world domination. Calli will have to rely on her quick wit and gut instinct to navigate her new world, which includes secretly carrying a power-infusing diamond, all the while steering clear of the young man who mistakenly believes she's his soul mate.

A young outcast followed by crows finds a flower in the forest one night - it is the Dreamer's Lotus, a powerful hallucinogen that opens the mind to the meanings of the symbols. This can be helpful, especially when you live in a world where everything is symbolic. Corvus suspects the Elders of the White Village have rewritten the meanings of the symbols somehow. They say the forest is a perilous place, a land of madness and illusion. They might be right, after all, inexplicable things have been seen there....

Tiffany could no longer outrun her demons on that Los Angeles mountain crest. Finally, falling to her knees, the pain in her heart could no longer be denied. "Why...?! What is the point of this life if all I do is suffer?! If you exist you have to show me you are real! I can't endure anymore!" she commanded, crying out to creation as the sky responded with crackling lightning and thunder all around her.

Mira’s body lies lifeless in her designer recliner, an empty pill bottle on the floor beside her. Her frozen eyes are no longer able to see the Seattle city lights sparkling below, and her lungs no longer able to breathe the fresh Puget Sound air. Joined by the spirit of Jakob, who departed his body lying dead on the bloody battlefield of Lexington, Massachusetts on April 19, 1775, their spirits hover together near the ceiling of her downtown high-rise.

A "La gran caiguda", Peter Handke ens porta a seguir a un personatge durant les seves aventures per la ciutat. El protagonista, un actor experimentat, desperta a casa d'una dona desconeguda. No recorda com o per quin motiu ha arribat allà. Començará a caminar sense rumb per la ciutat a l'espera del rodatge que comença el dia següent, i durant el seu camí es trobará a tot un conjunt de personatges a partir dels quals en Peter Handke parla de temes com la memória, la identitat i el passar del temps.

This is a dramatic story, a wild dream, at times a nightmare, at times a hilarious and subversive satire. It involves a quest, a monster, and a shape-shifting hero, strange characters and dangerous goings-on, and an end that is a beginning - the tightest corner of hell opening out into the widest smile of heaven, the darkest of nights turning into the early morning freshness of the world.

The Journeyman has changed the lives of all who have read/heard of the story of Musa, a young boy who reluctantly unlocks the dormant power of his dreams. Haunted by a mysterious calling, Musa unwittingly sets himself on a path of painful discovery that forces him to confront his true purpose. This “universal story of hope and personal will” tells the magical tale of a poor boy who yearns to find the answers to his dreams.

The Butterfly’s Apprentice is a modern day tale of universal wisdom and spiritual discovery reminiscent of Carlos Castaneda and Richard Bach. Written in a fashion that is as driving as a thriller yet as thoughtful as a philosopher’s contemplation, this literary work seamlessly blends heart-pounding momentum with profound introspection, leaving readers exhilarated and enriched in equal measure.

Alcuni fatti misteriosi scuotono la vita semplice e apparentemente tranquilla di un villaggio abbarbicato sulle montagne andine. Tutti gli abitanti della piccola comunità appartengono a uno dei due clan familiari, i Rojas e i Montoya: due ceppi dinastici che convivono da sempre pacificamente, anche se in un clima di concordia obbligata più che voluta. Ma all’improvviso strane e inquietanti apparizioni cominciano a manifestarsi nei sogni di uno dei capifamiglia, per poi diffondersi in quelli dell’altro patriarca e infine di tutti gli abitanti del pueblo.

After Gleb Yanovsky, a celebrated guitarist, is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease at age fifty, he permits a writer, Sergei Nesterov, to pen his biography. For years, they meet regularly as Gleb recounts the life he's lived: a difficult childhood in Kyiv, his formative musical studies in St. Petersburg, and his later years in Munich, where he lives with his wife and meets a thirteen-year-old virtuoso whom he embraces as his own daughter. In a mischievous and tender account, Gleb recalls a personal story of a lifetime quest for meaning, and how the burden of success changes with age.

The metaphysical poets were a loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century. In this collection read by Sir Cedric Harwicke, Robert Newton and David Moore are poems by John Donne, Robert Southwell, Richard Crawshaw, George Herbert, Henry Vaughan and Andrew Marvell.

A surreal theme park where nothing is as it seems. Jade and her sister Louise are in the Belle Epoque, a twisted and strange version. For fans of Poor Things and Westworld, this novella is delightfully absurd.

Edmund Gunderson—former Terran governor of the colony world of Belzagor—returns eight years after the planet has gained independence, drawn back for reasons he can’t quite explain. Things have changed significantly since he left, and he plays his part well—slightly pompous, former government official—for the tourists he encounters on the way down. But this is more than a simple sight-seeing visit. As Gunderson comes face to face with the consequences of his former attitudes and actions, he finds himself on a journey—both physical and spiritual—to the legendary mountain of rebirth.

The half-Drow, Ellis Burton has finally reunited with her mother, Claire but something's not right. Her mother is hiding something where the agency, DRI is concerned, and Ellis isn't sure she can trust her. But she's willing to give her the benefit of doubt for now. Trust, verify, and then bring out the magic. Charlie is still locked up in the DRI offices. The director, who looks strangely familiar offers him a job. Question is, is he considering it to help Ellis or to save his own skin? Before he answers, he's got a plan to check out the facility, while no one is watching him.