Visionary Fiction

Despised by her mother’s people and demeaned by her absent father’s legacy, Meridia has one friend - Damon, an eccentric photologist. When Damon shows Meridia a stone he discovered in an old photo bag purchased from a vagrant peddler, she is transfixed. There’s a woman, she says, a dancing woman. And a song. Can a stone hold a song? Can a song contain worlds?

The tide of battle has turned. In a magnificent feat of maneuvering, Parno McLeod has lured his enemy into an ambush that has left the Imperial Army with half its strength dead or dying and all of its material support destroyed. And yet, the remaining Imperial Army on Soulan soil still numbers over 150,000 men. Men who are now angry and hungry, which is a dangerous combination.

Embodied in a fictional world of magic, mystics, and flying bears, The World Within addresses human philosophical questions: Why are we here? What happens when we go to sleep? It looks at the impact of good versus evil and the negative effects of power-hungry leaders in politics. In The World Within, an alien perspective sheds light on the importance of transpersonal psychology, spirituality and consciousness as necessary tools for inner peace and development.

Com cada divendres després de sortir de la vella llibreria on treballa, en Pedro realitza un trajecte amb autobús per visitar la seva nòvia, la Rosane, que viu als afores de la ciutat. Durant el viatge, marcat pel congestionat trànsit de l'hora punta, en Pedro s'entreté llegint un relat sobre el pas de Darwin per Brasil, escoltant rumors sobre revoltes als afores, observant la ciutat i als passatgers de l'autobús. Tot això influirà poc a poc en el seu voluble pensament. Al final del viatge ja no serà el mateix. Tot el que ha vist i pensat durant el trajecte el portarà a un coneixement més crític i profund de les coses, les persones i la societat en què viu, una societat que decideix el seu destí amb unes cartes marcades des de l'inici.

I dream of dead people. My dreams control me. Until the day I control them. My waking life is a nightmare. Dreams should give me a break, except they don't. I dream of people who are dead: their best moments, their worst moments, and far too often, their deaths. Now, my dreams begin to revolve around Victorian-era Lucy and her happy, mundane life. It's a welcome change from my nightmares, especially when her super-cute future cousin-in-law is around.

La certeza de vivir al final de los tiempos desafía a nuestro personaje a desentrañar un misterio que lo abarcará todo: el pasado, el presente, el futuro, la Tierra, la vida en la Tierra, su propia gesta personal. Develar cuál es su papel en el momento más trascendental de su mundo, le exigirá descubrir el propósito de la existencia y la herencia genética. Para proyectarse al futuro y cumplir su misión, tendrá que escapar de la matrix alienadora y alcanzar la libertad de la reconciliación.

A gloomy seascape is of little consequence to Julia, as a ferry transports her to an isolated Welsh island, to undertake a Spiritual Development course. Soon, Julia finds herself surrounded by new friends and questions. As their relationships deepen, so does Julia's feeling that something crucial is missing from her life.

Humanity has come face to face with its own mortality. The Earth, its environment overwhelmed by the products of an increasing human civilization, no longer offers its inhabitants quality of life. Survival, for all of the Earth's species, has become the only goal. Then they came. Not many, just a few. Their behavior and instincts were more like the bear and the deer than human but they possessed powers beyond humanity's comprehension. They came to restore paradise on Earth.

The TV is on, and I’m on the couch, leaning as far back as I can. My heavy, indecisive brown eyes - their lenses blurred ever since my tumultuous, too-soon entrance into the world - flutter between open and shut. I am half-watching half-listening to a football game on a Sunday afternoon. Was that the doorbell? “Who is it?” I call out, expecting to hear my daughter, Megan’s, voice. These days, she is the one person who visits me. The only person who knows I’m making my home in this little oasis fashioned from wood felled by my own hand. “Terry, it’s Mom.

To save his daughter from a serial killer, Headlock Hartington, who harbours a dangerous secret, must step into an alien world where reality has no meaning. And when he meets mysterious model Solo Blue, their worlds change forever. As they battle against time under a blood moon to find the girl, Solo is pursued by a power-crazy tycoon and government agents who control her fellow citizens through implanted microchips.

Born of guilt and grief, a colossal tower rises from the ruins of Andy Cate's shattered mind. He is the sole captive of a prison filled with countless rooms housing the memories of his life. Hoping answers and escape hide within, he investigates the rooms, moving ever upward toward the tower’s pinnacle. Across each threshold, scenes from his past are revealed. As he pieces experiences together, Andy discovers every observed event set another of his prison’s stones into place.

Weather Menders is a cli-fi novel for the hopeful. What if time travelers from 300 years in the future told you that there was a chance that you could prevent catastrophic climate change, plagues, and wars by going back in time to key pivot points and ethically altering the outcome of rigged elections? What if failure would result in the end of all life on the planet? Would you go?

Lucian Taylor, the hero, is damned either through contact with an erotically pagan "other" world or through something degenerate in his own nature, which he thinks of as a "faun". He becomes a writer, and when he moves to London he becomes trapped by the increasing reality of the dark imaginings of this creature within him, which become increasingly real. One of the first explorations in fiction of the figure of the doomed artist, who is biographically so much a part of the decadent 1890s.

Paul is a top business executive hoping to be the next CEO of Ascendant - a New York-based tech giant. His fast-paced life is interrupted when he travels to Glastonbury, England, to visit friends in a village rich in history and mysticism. When he returns to New York, his wife, Mary, is skeptical. His journey both scares and intrigues her as she watches him struggle to navigate between the business and spiritual worlds. A series of events draws Paul closer to Glastonbury and Christine, compelling him and a reluctant Mary to return, unaware that their lives will never be the same.

Winner of the 2017 Red Hen Press Women’s Prose Prize, Like Wings, Your Hands is both a philosophical novel and a coming-of-age story, exploring a mother-son relationship in the context of disability and interdependence....

During his senior years, John, a retired high school English teacher, decided to finally write his memoirs. His story begins at a young age, with his first visit from a spirit playmate his own age. To John, Jason is just an ordinary child like him, and John never gave much thought to where Jason came from or where he disappeared. As years passed by, more playmates followed, and as John got older, his playmates shared more and more information about the spirit world with him.

Finally, Cameron Decker is reunited with Heather - the love of his life, now a fellow galactic traveler in her own right. Each has survived their own hellish experiences. Now onboard their new starship, they settle in for the journey home to Earth - or what's left of it. News is not good: the massive, tentacled Loths are multiplying at an astounding rate, and much of humankind has either perished, succumbing to the rampaging beasts, or moved on to other worlds.

Soulwaves is a metaphysical and cosmological adventure across space and time. Soulwaves are the missing dark energy and dark matter that cosmologists can’t find. They bond people to people, moons to planets, planets to stars, and stars to other stars to form galaxies. When this book proper begins in 2059, China has become the predominant force on the world stage. You will discover that events on planet Earth, and all other sentient planets, are nano-managed by greater and even more pervasive forces.

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?