Have you ever wondered how your life evolves/progresses? What control/influences you actually have over your own life? No? Then how would you feel if you woke up one day and realised that in fact you had no control over your own life, that you had actually given control of your life to someone else, without even realising it? And that the amount of control you had was minimal, that you were living your life solely for the benefit and happiness of others? How would you feel, what would you do to change, if anything? So, as you read this story, will you laugh or cry, will you sympathise or...

Fourteen-year-old Abbey Sinclair likes to spend her afternoons in the physics lab learning about momentum and gravitational pull. But her practical scientific mind is put to the test when her older brother, Simon, discovers a mysterious path of stones that allows them, along with Abbey's twin, Caleb, to travel back and forth between their world and what appears to be...the future. Unfortunately, they're not the only ones who know about the stones, and they soon realize their lives are in danger from a man known only as Mantis. Abbey, Caleb, and Simon must follow a twisting trail of clues that...

In a world torn apart by economic collapse, Natalie and her husband Richard establish an island of relative safety on a communal farm. Death-by starvation, raiders, and sickness-stalks them daily, and their survival hinges on working together for the common good. But in a lawless land with no shortage of suffering, good is a malleable concept. As the constant grind of survival and the frictions of farm politics expose the rifts in Natalie and Richard's marriage, Natalie finds herself seeking refuge in the company of Richard's twin, Daniel, a solitary man with little interest in politics. In...

Pennsylvania. The groundbreaking dystopian vision Hugh Howey called "a brilliant tale of extra-planetary colonization." Now you can revisit USA Today Bestselling Author Michael Bunker's unique world in this anthology of original short stories-authored by ten of his fellow master storytellers and including a new Pennsylvania story by the creator of the Pennsylvania World himself. In Tales from Pennsylvania, Transport's ever-growing desire for complete control forges new heroes as imagined by today's leading voices in speculative fiction. You'll meet an Amish family torn between their...

Now that the witches have been rescued from Nowhere and Mantis no longer seems to be a threat to Simon, Abbey Sinclair just wants to return to her quiet life of chemistry experiments and physics textbooks. But life is anything but quiet for the Sinclairs. Abbey's mother is taking secret trips to the stones with Caleb, Simon has been arrested for hacking into the City Hall computer, and to really complicate matters, the witches from Nowhere have moved in across the street. Meanwhile, Mark has become increasingly obsessed with some old maps of Coventry, convinced that their strange markings...

Alana Matheson always tries to do the right thing for the environment, even when it means boycotting school meatball day, forgoing the use of makeup, or getting entangled in a bet with her non-chicken-loving ex-husband over which of them can be the most environmentally conscious. So when a mining company proposes developing a mine right in the middle of the community watershed, well, of course Alana is going to be on the front lines opposing the development. Except she isn't. To her own shock and dismay, she finds herself taking a job... with the mining company. Worse, she finds herself drawn...