Here Comes the Sun! Rising temperatures, melting glaciers, violent storms, and excessive heat. The future seems bleak...but there are signs of hope. In Solar Flare , we ask you to step into a world where we have managed to mitigate or even reverse the disastrous effects of climate change and our own destruction of our world. Race down the depleted waterway of the Mississippi in a solar-, wind-, and water-powered boat. Sail through the skies in a floating hydroponic dirigible. Skim along a solar-powered road in order to expose a corporation's secret. Hover weightless in space in a last-ditch effort to repair an umbrella-like solar collector. Or cower in a shelter as fire rages outside...only to emerge and discover the rebirth such fire can bring. Experience all of this and more in these seventeen solarpunk stories brought to you by today's hottest authors, including David Keener, Anthony W. Eichenlaub, Sarena Ulibarri, Jason Palmatier, Lauren C. Teffeau, S.C. Butler, Devan Barlow, Chaz Brenchley, Liam Hogan, Nicole Givens Kurtz, Christopher R. Muscato, Rhondi Salsitz, Ember Randall, Gail Z. Martin & Larry N. Martin, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Kristine Smith, and Anthony Lowe. Time to turn the tide and dream of a better future.

What might we run into as we expand beyond Earth and into the stars? As we explore our own solar system and beyond, it seems inevitable that we'll run into aliens ... and what they've left behind. Alien artifacts: what might they reveal about us as we try to unlock their secrets? What might they reveal about the universe? In this anthology, nineteen of today's leading science fiction and fantasy authors explore how discovering long lost relics of alien civilizations might change humanity. Join Walter H. Hunt, Julie Novakova, David Farland, Angela Penrose, S.C. Butler, Gail Z. Martin & Larry N. Martin, Juliet E. McKenna, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Andrija Popovic, Jacey Bedford, Sofie Bird, James Van Pelt, Gini Koch, Anthony Lowe, Jennifer Dunne, Coral Moore, Daniel J. Davis, C.S. Friedman, and Seanan McGuire as they discover the stars and the secrets they may hold—both dark and deadly and awe-inspiring.

A military attack drone turned shepherd. A train on the London Underground evolving into something new and wondrous. A troupe of robotic actors struggling to find meaning when the audience has disappeared. Explore the myriad ideas of what happens when out-of-date and abandoned technologies are given a second life—one that takes them in a new direction, far outside their intended programming and beyond their original purpose. My Battery Is Low And It Is Getting Dark features fourteen stories of quiet hope, heartbreak, creation, and death from fantasy and science fiction authors Dana Berube, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor, Jacey Bedford, Anthony Lowe, Chris Kocher, Brian Hugenbruch, William Leisner, José Pablo Iriarte, Alethea Kontis, Kari Sperring, Edward Willett, John G. Hartness, Alexander Gideon, and Stephen Leigh. You may never look at your smart speaker the same way again.

This book present thc basic theoretical concepts in a way which empthasizes the essential unity of' physical chemistry. Current trends in the teaching of chemistry call for a thorough grounding in physical principles at an early stage and, with this in mind, the authors have set out to show how a physical chemist thinks rather than how he acts. While the theoretical principles have been stressed, discussions of measurement methods and practical applications found in conventional texts have largely been omitted. The book is written for first and second year undergraduates; it is also suitable for Higher National students and those working for the new B.Ed. Chemistry. It willalso be useful to sixth-form pupils studying for university scholarship papers. The terminology follows the recommendations of the Chemical Society and is therefore in accordance with the requirements of the major examining bodies.

Three friends from our world woke up one day to find themselves in a realm of swords and sorcery. Granted new bodies with new lives and memories to match, they set out into untamed lands to live out their fantasy-genre fantasies as wandering sellswords. But it's been a few years... Now they're bored. In this adventure, which the trio have tried desperately to avoid, an unexpected detour drops the companions in the middle of the labyrinthine coastal city of Elsingr, where they are attacked by the most vicious, most regicidal assassins' guild in the land: the dreaded Backblades. Now, they must plot their way through the city's winding roads, and survive long enough to determine who paid such a large price for their heads... Also, they're suffering from hunger, sleep deprivation, and they're generally pretty annoyed with each other, so there's a good chance they'll kill each other off before the Backblades can. BLADES IN ELSINGR is the next standalone story in the Lore of the Reluctant series. Sword and sorcery in a high fantasy land where the adventurers are pretty much over it. The Lore of the Reluctant series: The Outcasts of Vampire Flats Blades in Elsingr "Define Heroes"