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Eric Elwyn thought he was just another overworked husband and father, driving home after a long day. Then the sky tore open and dragged him into another world. Rebuilt from the soul-thread itself, Eric wakes as an Outworlder — a rare race with higher than average stats, a lightning affinity almost no one has, and a profession tailored to his nature: Artificer. In a world where affinities define power and trust is rarer than gold, Eric finds himself bound to Welyvyne, a sharp-witted lowlander elf with her own scars and ambitions. Together, they’re outsiders in the Arcanum — the most prestigious magical academy in the realm — where every whispered rumor can ruin reputations, and every misstep can mean death. Eric quickly learns that his power makes him a target, his inventions make him dangerous, and his bond with Welyvyne makes them both infamous. But Eric isn’t here to play the prodigy. He’s here to build — to bend magic into tools, weapons, and wonders the world has never seen. If he can survive politics, professors, and the ever-growing shadow of those who want his power, he just might craft more than artifacts. He might craft a way to bring his family there.
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After 127 jumps toward the galactic core, the crew of the Constellation encounters something impossible: a nonhuman object hanging in space and strange signals that may be interfering with the ship’s AI. As Commander Gerald Younge investigates unusual fracture patterns in the jump coils, Dr. Hysen reveals the deeper they travel, the more the fabric of spacetime itself may be distorting around them. With the ship’s drive at risk and an unknown intelligence nearby, the crew must modify the Hysen Fold Drive before they end up stranded far from home.
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Untethered
Lucas Cadalain has spent his entire life refusing the neural implant nearly everyone else depends on. In a civilization too complex to navigate without one, that decision has condemned him to the bottom rung of society, but Lucas would rather stay a baseline than let a corporation decide what he can know, what he can become, or whether his own mind keeps working. Then a dying old man gives him an implant that shouldn’t exist. No subscription. No corporate owner. No skill ceiling. And when Lucas discovers his implant can remove the restrictions from other people’s implants too, Aethis Heavy Industries suddenly has a much bigger problem than one runaway baseline.
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The Mana Engineer
Eric Elwyn thought he was just another overworked husband and father, driving home after a long day. Then the sky tore open and dragged him into another world. Rebuilt from the soul-thread itself, Eric wakes as an Outworlder — a rare race with higher than average stats, a lightning affinity almost no one has, and a profession tailored to his nature: Artificer. In a world where affinities define power and trust is rarer than gold, Eric finds himself bound to Welyvyne, a sharp-witted lowlander elf with her own scars and ambitions. Together, they’re outsiders in the Arcanum — the most prestigious magical academy in the realm — where every whispered rumor can ruin reputations, and every misstep can mean death. Eric quickly learns that his power makes him a target, his inventions make him dangerous, and his bond with Welyvyne makes them both infamous. But Eric isn’t here to play the prodigy. He’s here to build — to bend magic into tools, weapons, and wonders the world has never seen. If he can survive politics, professors, and the ever-growing shadow of those who want his power, he just might craft more than artifacts. He might craft a way to bring his family there.
Updated Aug 28Before The SunsetDiscover fiction
Before The Sunset
Alya has always felt different. Mocked for how she looks and branded a freak for her strange abilities, she's learned to live as an outcast. When a surge of unexplainable power rips through her classroom and a mysterious boy named Jayden appears in her life, the strange abilities she's spent years hiding become the key to a realm beyond her imagination. He's protective, kind, and infuriatingly charming, but there's something about him that doesn't quite add up... something almost as strange as she is. Driven by Jayden's push and the pull of her own unanswered questions, Alya sets out to find the mother she thought had abandoned her and discovers a whole hidden world with people like her, and a family who's been waiting for her. But her arrival awakens an ancient darkness. A Rot that has waited a thousand years for the extraordinary power within her. To protect the family she has just found and save all life under the moon, Alya must journey alongside a blunt, ice-gliding elf and her cousins to master her powers, before the darkness finds her. Before the Sunset is Book One of the Children of the Tide series: a fantasy tale of love, loss, self-discovery, and the courage to embrace who you truly are... against all odds.
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