Steve Rzasa

Brandon Tusk is a dedicated librarian and a struggling father who would give anything to hold his wife again. When he fatefully discovers a mysterious medallion endowing him with the power to manipulate gravity, he finds he can suddenly stop bullets, fly, and stop evildoers.His new powers pull him into a centuries-long battle between the Garrison and the Ashen, two organizations that control the medallions and seek to keep their use hidden from the world at large. As a mysterious stranger trains Brandon relentlessly to be a weapon of the Garrison, Brandon forms his own plans with the medallion, choosing instead to fight crime, to make his city safer, to show his son that good can be achieved. But there are other forces at work-dark forces unsatisfied with the cold war waged by the medallion holders. Their plans will threaten everything and everyone Brandon cherishes.Despite everyone's intentions with the medallions, one thing is clear: Drake City needs a superhero. It needs Airfoil.

Hold your breath... Mercury Hale is hunting Syndax, the evil soldiers bent on summoning astral fiends, when he finds himself reliving the trauma of his battle against the Hedron of Orbits. Suddenly his bravado, his boldness, and his abilities are called into question. Meanwhile, Homeland Security dogs his steps as he and Loredana trace a mysterious mutated creature across the country, from the American heartland to the Florida coast. Forces converge in the depths of the Atlantic, where Mercury races Syndax and Homeland to the source of the trouble, only to face his greatest enemy yet... His fear.

The hills of San Camillo are burning. Mercury Hale is preparing for his impending wedding, but those plans are interrupted by the assault of an astral fiend that's literally on fire. When he tracks it down, he runs headfirst into an unexpected ally. Bowen Cord and Niall Phelan are hunting an arachnafury warped by dark magic that has terrorized a distant archipelago. Cornering their prey leads them through a strange gateway that lands them in another world-one with which Bowen feels he's strangely familiar. Forces collide in a frantic race to corner and slay the monstrous new threat, before it burns everything down.

Worst. Party. Ever. Mercury Hale's dull day is interrupted by Dominic Zein and the rest of the Procyon heroes - the guys, that is. They take him across the world for a bachelor evening to relax after recent conflicts. But an enemy reappears in a European nightclub, wielding a powerful weapon thought lost, one that can summon an ancient force capable of bringing the teammates to their knees.Or turning them against each other. Mercury must uncover new allies and hunt down his friends, before they grind the resurgent Procyon into the dust, and before the wedding bells chime.

Vincent Chen keeps star systems in close communication with each other as he tends to the comms ferry satellites that connect the Realm of Five. He doesn't take risks for others.All it takes is answering the wrong distress signal...Rescuing the wrong woman...Making the wrong trip home...Helping the wrong spies...And Vincent races across the galaxy, saving people in need, bringing criminals to justice.

Mercury Hale is out of a job. That's not stopping him from fighting crime in San Camillo - for a fee, of course. His much simpler yet financially unstable situation is interrupted when Procyon Foundation comes to him with a problem: one of their top Tracking specialists is missing. The good news? Mercury may have found a way to get back into his employer's good graces. The bad news? A new breed of monster is terrorizing his city. Couple that challenge with the emergence of a rival force to Procyon that wants astral fiends for experimentation, and the appearance of a mysterious stranger who's traveled across dimensions, Mercury has his hands full juggling dangers - and grappling with a lovesick heart. And if he drops anything, he could lose it all.

Mercury Hale is not a hero. Not in his mind. He's happy spending his late nights slicing his way through monstrous astral fiends, using a weapon imbued with a mysterious power, at the behest of the secretive Procyon Foundation. It's a strange way to earn a paycheck, but hey, he's good at it.The problem is, things are getting worse. More attacks. More public exposure. None of which Procyon wants. When he tries to get to the bottom of the mess, Mercury is confronted by a tightly-guarded secret about Procyon - its true purpose, and what that means for the fate of the world.Worse, Mercury is not who he thinks he is.And he's not alone.

Dominic Zein is overwhelmed. Work pulls him in every direction except where he wants to go-home to his wife, out with his friends, away from the constant strain.Then Nick shows up. He's the spitting image of Dominic, a man who can imitate him perfectly. And he claims it's his destiny to help his doppelganger as thanks for all the fortune he's received. Dominic happily accepts the deal, and soon finds himself getting everything he wants. But the more Nick gets involved, the more Dominic's relationships spiral out of control. Until it's no longer his life.He'll have to uncover the truth about Nick, and that truth could tear his world apart.

This anthology aims to collect the best available speculative fiction short stories written by Christian authors. That's whether the stories have openly Christian themes or characters or not, without requiring the stories to have any specific theme. (The anthology also limits itself to clean fiction--that is, no profanity, graphic sexuality or extreme violence.) Over the past year, an online acquaintance questioned the purpose for the Mythic Orbits anthologies, stating that an anthology requires a unifying theme in order to succeed. To make sense and be marketable. But there have been previous yearly anthologies based on the best science fiction and even fantasy from a given year (World's Best Science Fiction, edited by Donald A. Wollheim, Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year and Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year). So simply seeking the best available can be the goal of an anthology. And anthologies can be organized around the writers as well, especially when there's something unusual about the category. For example, Ciencia Ficci n Argentina: Antolog a de Cuentos (Argentine Science Fiction: Anthology of Stories) was an anthology known by its authors--the nationality of the writers important because Argentinians are not widely-known to write science fiction. So, is it widely-known all over the world that Christians write speculative fiction? Well, clearly Christians who themselves are speculative fiction writers know what they write. But does everybody else? Especially when we're talking about theologically conservative Christians, Evangelicals of some sort, professed Bible-believing Christians, do people know about their works? Is it legitimate for people to wonder if writers with personal convictions along these lines produce speculative fiction, that is, science fiction and fantasy and related genres like LitRPG, paranormal, and horror? This book provides an answer: Not only do Christian writers produce speculative fiction stories, they write some great ones. Enjoy these examples

Chief Warrant Officer Graven Tower is a ruggedly handsome military policeman who hates aliens. Fortunately, as a member of His Grace's Military Crimes Investigation Division - Xenocriminology and Alien Relations, he gets to arrest a lot of them. Sometimes he even gets to shoot them. Chief Tower and Detector Derin Hildreth of the Trans Paradis Police Department are investigating the murder of the Crown Prince of Morchard on the shadowy streets of Trans Paradis City, but the alien government-in-exile is less than entirely helpful. The royal house of Morchard appear to be considerably more interested in seeking revenge than seeing justice done. But there is no way that Tower or MCID is going to let any vengeful xenos start another war in their house QUANTUM MORTIS is a fast-paced military science fiction murder mystery series.

Watch your back...Vincent Chen makes sure his comms ferry satellites don't harbor malfunctions. He'd prefer they didn't hide people inside, too.The woman left comatose aboard one he recovers is on a vital mission. She must stop criminals from stealing classified secrets and selling them to the highest bidder. But those criminals know she's on the run, and Vincent is caught up in the chase.Determined they stay silent, she's left him only one choice: to seek help from his fellow comms jockeys, in hopes they can fend off a raid and keep the data safe. When their plans fall apart, Vincent must rely on others when he'd rather be on his own...And trusting anyone is dangerous.

The enemy of my enemy...Vincent Chen keeps star systems in close communication with each other as he tends to the comms ferry satellites that connect the Realm of Five. When he responds to small colony's apparent malfunction, though, he stumbles onto an enslaved people.The problem is, the enslaved used to be the oppressors.They're all former agents of Kesek, the secret police that spent the last century suppressing religion by arresting, torturing, and killing believers-including Vincent's uncle. But it also includes the children and families of those agents.Vincent is drawn deeper into the plot against them, until he's forced to choose the right side...Whether or not he can forgive, however, is the most dangerous question.

City-states rule the land, machines run by steam, and believers in the Savior contend with dark forces.When reporter Winchell Sark investigates a biplane crash at the foot of Perch, the finest center of aviation in the Sawtooth Mountains, he's drawn into a conspiracy that threatens to destroy his home. It's up to Winch and his brother Copernicus, a hotshot pilot, to save their people.And Thel knows, it ain't going to be easy.

Chief Warrant Officer Graven Tower is a ruggedly handsome military policeman who hates aliens. Fortunately, as a member of His Grace's Military Crimes Investigation Division - Xenocriminology and Alien Relations, he gets to arrest a lot of them. Sometimes he even gets to shoot them. But while he doesn't like aliens, Chief Tower does very much like Detector Derin Hildreth of the Trans Paradis Police Department, who is unmistakably human. So when Tower has the chance to investigate the mysterious murder of an alien on the streets of Trans Paradis with her, he's not about to miss the opportunity. Especially when their mutual investigation just might give him the excuse to shoot an alien or three.QUANTUM MORTIS is a fast-paced military science fiction murder mystery series.

You do not have the right to drive.Roman Jasko patrols the automated highways of 2067 America, watchful for illegal cars. He's put on a robbery case that leads to a band of sophisticated thieves armed with stolen military technology.Things take a turn for the worse when he discovers a personal connection to the thefts, and finds himself in the middle of a vicious attack. Suddenly, he's stuck on the wrong side of the laws he upholds.Rome will have to use all his skills to avoid every obstacle in his path, and determine the quickest route to the truth.