A vampire struggling to find his purpose. A Virtue, pledged to hunt evil but unable to live alone in a city of strangers who know nothing about monsters. A sixteen-year-old ward of the Wolf King. A college-bound high school senior whose life is shattered when he wakes up in a field, covered in blood. These four must come together to unravel a plot by Wickers, witches who gain power from human sacrifices and have the power to turn any human into their puppet. Four people who have lost everything must struggle to save Boston by saving each other.

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A century and a half after the Martian Separatist Wars and the solar system still does not know peace. The brilliant, mad artificial intelligence known as Copernicus, the being ultimately responsible for the Solar System‑wide civil war, has formed an alliance with something else out there in the void of space. Its goal: wipe humanity from the galaxy forever.

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Caine Riordan, fresh from serving as envoy to the aliens known as the Slaasriithi, has been given yet another daunting task: apprehend raiders that are terrorizing a distant planet. As difficulties mount, Caine becomes aware that the mission his superiors sent him to perform may not be the one they actually hope he will achieve. Which means Caine may be forced to choose between honoring a promise to friends or following orders—a choice that could ultimately put him in front of a board of inquiry. Or a firing squad.

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In the cold vacuum of space, following rules and regulations may just save your life. It’s something astronaut and mission engineer Hartman knows well. Sure maybe doing things “by the book” takes more time and isn’t as flashy, but when an orbiting fuel station malfunctions, Hartman has every intention of making repairs in as boring—and safe—a fashion as possible. But soon the cold equations of space and the folly of his all-too-human crewmate make what should have been a routine repair a desperate bid for survival. If he’s to make it out alive, Hartman may have to think outside of the rules and regulations.

Read “Tethers” by William Ledbetter here.

Helicopters capture the imagination perhaps more than any other aircraft. As military helicopter pilot Kacey Ezell puts it, “We can light your world on fire, or we can find you when you’re lost.” But writing about helicopters—getting the details right—can be tricky. In this month’s nonfiction essay “Of Dragons and Valkyries: Helicopters in Fiction,” Ezell uses her years of experience, as writer and as a helicopter pilot, to examine the ways authors can get helicopters right, and why it is they so ignite the imagination.

Read “Of Dragons and Valkyries: Helicopters in Fiction” here.

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