Metaphysical Fiction

God sees everything...but who’s watching him? The time period in which these events took place is not disclosed. Five very talented and ambitious scientists asked themselves an age-old question: Where do our souls go after we die? The question was posed, not in the esoteric sense, but in a geographical one. They committed themselves to find out the exact physical locations of “Heaven and Hell”. However, their research gave them more than they bargained for.

When a blip appears on the Ogg-Estarian military radar monitoring the Outer System, things in the system are set to change forever. Molly and her crew face one of their biggest challenges yet, and the problem isn’t the supposed threat from outside. It’s from the planet itself. Molly rallies the troops for a particularly dangerous encounter, but also needs to call in some favors from some old friends. Will she be able to stop things from boiling over in time?

An artefact known as the Pebble is found. When the Trauma begins, no-one is prepared. Terror descends, as life on Earth changes in an instant. The effects are felt worldwide as survivors face the greatest danger. Strange beings walk the surface of the planet as science, religion and criminal enterprise struggle to comprehend the offensive.

The narrator of Rob Doyle's Threshold has spent the last two decades traveling, writing, and imbibing drugs and literature in equal measure, funded by brief periods of employment or "on the dole" in Dublin. Now, stranded between reckless youth and middle age, his travels to far-flung places have acquired a de facto purpose: to aid the contemporary artist's search for universal truth.

Farya Navurian seems like an ordinary young woman trying to get ahead in the city while struggling with depression. But her depression is anything but ordinary - it has the power to destroy time and space. Growing up the moody daughter of a space-faring hero of the Greater Anointed Imperial Ohioan Commonwealth, Farya annihilated most of that world and its history, leaving behind the husk-like Buckeye State. One day at a record swap, she meets Bryan, a divorced telecom CEO. More than record collecting, what they share is that they each carry a howling secret.

An unorthodox and controversial slap to the face of the status quo, Into the Light Boldly: …an odyssey of self-discovery, an audacious new novel by Amazon best-selling author, Val Edward Simone, is a shockingly frank, honest, and daring undertaking regarding death and dying - a most frightening subject.

Aspiring engineer Hank Galloway wants two things in life: to snag a coveted position working for NASA and to get an accurate diagnosis of his mental illness. Hank doesn’t realize how serious his disorder is until he’s hospitalized following a mental breakdown near his college in California. Medical experts try to give him answers but can’t provide him with the peace or relief he desperately craves.

Death is the doorway to the in-between where time is nonlinear and geography is fluid. Following an armed robbery gone terribly wrong, J awakens in a black void and meets Sarah, a spiritual guide tasked with mentoring the transcendence of souls. She explains that perfection is impossible. Sublimity is the goal.

Is death really the end? On the night of his 35th birthday, Jared November sits with a shotgun under his jaw and hopes beyond hope that it is. He is a man in pain, chasing intoxication and distraction in a tightening spiral. The mask he wears to pretend he’s a regular person is slipping, and he’s arrived at a state of grim resolve. But when he pulls the trigger he finds himself cast into an endless void. There, a singular voice tells him: You are not finished! Now, Jared is forced to examine his life with new eyes.

Months have passed since the incident on Titan. For Emile and the Formists, life is returning to normal now that their enemies have been dealt with. Or so they thought. On the Jovian world of Europa, a mysterious document has been released that threatens to reveal everything. The Jovian Manifesto, as it’s called, has the Outer Worlds up in arms and the Inner Worlds fearing a civil war.

It’s the year 1675. Eighteen-year-old Lukas Pietersen is about to consume the ceremonial substance, known as Moon Flower. The potent seeds from this nighttime blooming plant, as prepared and administered by a shaman, will cause Lukas to lose his memory and begin his quest to become a warrior of the Pequawket tribe. This epic tale follows Lukas, a young boy in the Dutch controlled territory of New Amsterdam, as he meets chiefs, shamans, warriors, and the English army on his quest to seek a connection with the Great Spirit.

George is a middle-management, middle-class, middle-aged guy who hates his job and struggles to stay connected to his wife and teenage children. Most guys might end up with a steamy affair and a flashy car for their midlife crises, but George gets dragged into awkward conversations about love, fear, music, and the meaning of life with a quirky philosophical physics professor, who also asks George to beta-test an app he wrote. When tragedy strikes, George learns that Shiloh’s app lets him journey through alternate versions of his past.

Ma chi sono questi uomini, chi sono i "demoni"? I demoni sono anzitutto "uomini d'idea", come li definisce Bachtìn, cioè uomini posseduti, tormentati, divorati da un'idea, cioè da una concezione onnicomprensiva, onniesplicativa e onnirisolutiva della realtà, uomini che si credono in possesso della "Verità", ma ognuno dei quali si è costruito una sua "verità" in una forma aberrante, distruttiva, catastrofica.

The same military base where Oz was created witnesses the birth of another AI. The only problem? The military is the one who sets the ground rules. So, what is a new daddy AI supposed to do? Meanwhile, others are attacking the college, and Giles has to get his game on to protect his students - Space Archaeologist style. And Molly is faced with the biggest and most dangerous meeting of her whole adult life. She is going to meet her parents.

It’s 2009, when Mary Howard, 24-year-old artist, completes her fairy magic degree and returns to her ancestral house on Wilmington Island, Savannah, Georgia. Intent to quash false belief systems, Mary gets caught in a dredge with DHEC food police, Mayor Doolittle III who is also CEO of Doolittle Development Inc., and her primitive Calvinist neighbor, Mr. Nicopane. Solo camping on Daufuskie Island, just after the hurricane rains let up, and the full harvest moon floats above the marsh, Mary has validity that “soul desire will shift humanity to love-based.”

Una parabola di tre amori: Myskin e Nastàs'ja, Aglàja e Myskin, Nastàs'ja e Rog'zin: "Se davvero tutte queste sono forme d'amore, ebbene è il concetto stesso di amore che ci si dissolve tra le mani, come una chimera che può assumere le forme più assurde e contradditorie, fino a far perdere qualsiasi senso al suo stesso nome". Un romanzo intessuto di tutti i principali temi della narrativa dostoevskiana, del dilemma dell'esistenza; un racconto polifonico di personaggi ambigui, non conclusi, che ruotano attorno alla figura del principe Myskin.

Ma chi sono questi uomini, chi sono i "demoni"? I demoni sono anzitutto "uomini d'idea", come li definisce Bachtìn, cioè uomini posseduti, tormentati, divorati da un'idea, cioè da una concezione onnicomprensiva, onniesplicativa e onnirisolutiva della realtà, uomini che si credono in possesso della "Verità", ma ognuno dei quali si è costruito una sua "verità" in una forma aberrante, distruttiva, catastrofica.

In 1923, 17-year-old Esther arrives in Köln "with a hardened heart as her sole luggage.” Thus begins a 22-year journey, woven against the European Holocaust and the Hindu Kali Yuga (the “Age of Darkness” when human civilization degenerates spiritually), in search of a place of sanctuary. Throughout her travails, using cunning and shrewdness, Esther relies on her masterful tailoring skills to help mask her Jewish heritage, navigate war-torn Europe, and emigrate to India. Esther’s traveling companion and the novel’s narrator is Ganesha, the elephant-headed Hindu God....

Louie Hake is 43 and teaches architectural history at a third-rate college in Michigan. His second marriage is collapsing, and he's facing a potentially disastrous medical diagnosis. In an attempt to fend off what has become a soul-crushing existential crisis, he decides to treat himself to a tour of the world's most breathtaking architectural sites. Perhaps not surprisingly, Louie gets waylaid on his very first stop in Rome - ludicrously, spectacularly so - and fails to reach most of his other destinations.

Not everything someone sees is real. Now, both sides of the story are tested by those who hide their reasons. For some, the reasons are good, for others not so much. Molly, Oz, Joel, Sean, Jack, and the others are back in action, supporting the Etheric Federation to stop a planet from being destroyed. At the same time, Molly is working on a personal project to implement teaching at a higher level.