16 Amazing Authors, 16 Incredible SciFi Stories, 1 Great NameFrom Allen to Woods, inside are some of the biggest and best names in Scifi, who have all come together under the banner of a name-Chris. What's in a name? Some of the best SciFi out there! The stories are awesome, and it's all science fiction?according to Chris!While there are other names that may have done okay in the past, this book takes you through the incredible imaginations of the authors who are hot right now! Fly along with Chris Fox in the cockpit of an Inuran spellfighter, hold back the squibs on the firing line with Christopher Hopper, and journey with Christopher Ruocchio's assassin as he goes to kill a king. Other stories in this volume will have you saving the Earth from the cockpit of a gunboat in space, fighting off an invasion of Earth hand-to-hand, and piloting a mech when pirates land on your world. What would you sacrifice to change the lives of your family and friends? How do you stop an unknown assassin who's come to kill the children you're protecting? Come inside and find out!Two things are certain-you can be sure that you're getting the complete and consummate Chris in The Dogs of God?and it's going to be great! Even the cover art is according to Chris!With stories by:Chris FoxChris Pourteau Christopher RuocchioChristopher G. NuttallChristopher HopperChristian KalliasChris KennedyChris Ficco writing as Quincy J. AllenChris DietzelChristopher WoodsChris J. PikeChris ReherChris A. JacksonChris MaddoxAnd Kevin Steverson to show you, "Chris Was Here"

The enemy of my enemy is my friend...until they're not. Cassandra Station is space dust. Anthony Taulke and the Council tighten their grip on Earth's resources to feed their ever-expanding empire. Inside the Council, jockeying to divide the spoils of corporate conquest has already begun-and so has the backstabbing. Meanwhile, we the people make our peace with a new normal: nothing is within our control. But new forces are on the horizon. An unlikely Neo leader emerges, rumors swirl of a rebel military alliance, and General Graves gets sucked into a new impossible mission. The Expanse meets The Godfather in Hostile Takeover, the third installment in The SynCorp Saga, the dark sci-fi series about the corporate takeover of our solar system. Experience SynCorp. Experience our future. _______________________________________ What readers are saying about HOSTILE TAKEOVER: ★★★★★ "...a pleasure to read." ★★★★★ "Great read that I highly recommend!" ★★★★★ "...just the right mix of unexpected turns, political workings, fighting, and hope for humanity." ★★★★★ "This whole series is FANTASTIC. This is Sci-Fi at it's best. These two writer's are phenomenal."

In Michael Bunker's Pennsylvania Omnibus, Jedidiah Troyer becomes the hero of TRACE's fight against the Transport Authority. But even before Jed's adventure begins, the Second War for Pennsylvanian Independence has raged for a generation. Originally published as separate stories, Tales of B-Company: The Complete Collection captures the struggle, tragedy, and heroism of a company of TRACE commandos as they wage war for the freedom of New Pennsylvania. In this collection, fans of Bunker's novel will discover cameos by some of his most-beloved characters, as well as a new appreciation for the struggle of TRACE against Transport. "Gelassenheit" tells the origin story of a fan-favorite character in the B-Company tales, recalling the conflict established in The Pennsylvania Omnibus as an Amish family tries to maintain its cultural identity under a despotic Transport Authority. In "Gettysburg," the commandos of B-Company fight to secure much-needed okcillium-the miracle mineral and power source of Transport's dominion over its citizens-to even the odds in their rebellion against the Authority. "Susquehanna" finds our heroes desperate to secure TRACE's vital food supply from the Amish Zone, and circumstances force them to make an uncomfortable alliance with The Wild Ones, the salvager-homesteaders of New Pennsylvania. And in "Columbia," an unsanctioned raid to free the captured QB, B-Company's beloved captain, becomes a race against time when Transport sets a ticking time-bomb to destroy the City. In Tales of B-Company, heroes fight and heroes fall. Loyalties are tested and friendships forged. And TRACE wages bloody battle to win freedom for an entire planet. ________________________ "Chris has populated the now more tactile and detailed Pennsylvania world with unforgettable characters who live and breathe and leap from the page-characters for whom I began to care more deeply the more I read about them... what Chris has produced here ... is on par with or better than my original Pennsylvania story. And it should be read as an expression of Chris Pourteau's own original and fantastic art-a piece of literature in its own right. I think it's that good, and I bet you will too. -Michael Bunker, author of The Pennsylvania Omnibus and Brother, Frankenstein "Pourteau handles Military SciFi with a deft literary gift for both the regular and the heroic that reminds the reader of Bernard Cornwell. Brilliant in scope, nuanced in execution. Read this and enjoy." -Nick Cole, author of The Wasteland Saga, Soda Pop Soldier, and Apocalypse Weird: The Red King "Chris Pourteau just gets better and better writing in this world. Crisp and engaging, his words bring you into the action and tension of the Pennsylvania universe with immediacy and drama. The B -Company stories are great military tales, but are also stories of humanity and relationships torn in the midst of the ongoing conflict between the Transport Authority, TRACE and the rest of the population of New Pennsylvania." -AnneHope, Amazon reviewer (5-star review of Columbia: A Third Tale of Bestimmung Company)

***winner of the 2015 eLit Book Awards Gold Medal for Literary Fiction*** David Jackson leaves a successful law practice in the big city to return to the hometown he fled long ago. At its center stands Old Suzie's house, a grand home once the elegant jewel of a bygone era. Now abandoned, the house stands decaying, simmering in the town's tortured past. David thought he'd buried his childhood nightmares along with his father in the town cemetery under six feet of dirt and thirty years of grief, but they're not finished with him just yet. His wife and daughter find themselves in real danger from the unquiet phantoms of David's past. David Jackson's childhood might just hold the key to what haunts Old Suzie's house-and his family's salvation. What Other Writers Are Saying: Chris Pourteau's Shadows Burned In turned out to be much more than I was expecting....I read a lot of books from debut authors and frankly, a lot of times it can be a chore. With SBI, Chris had me from the very beginning. This is a debut book that you really should catch....Very literary in its aspirations, an abuse story that is so much more. - Michael Bunker, author of The Pennsylvania Omnibus A great start for a new literary voice...the storytelling and uniqueness of Mr. Pourteau's voice kept me reading on. A wonderful first attempt, and a sign of great things to come. - Roberto Calas, author of the Scourge series This is that novel of childhood's end and adult's beginning. Of saying farewell to the things you love and that scare you and hello to things you're too scared to ever stop loving...written extremely well and with incredible heart. Complex. Bittersweet. It doesn't let you go. I highly recommend this haunted tale. - Nick Cole, author of The Wasteland Saga ________________________________ "The author excels at painting scenery....[the] reader can really see and feel the locations and delves into them.... * [Pourteau] provides lovely gems of description reminiscent of Sarah Addison Allen: "spirit moaned on the wind" as an example; this is excellent writing....The reader goes back over these to enjoy them again. * A sign of a well-written narrative....The different plot paths converge well at the end. Excellent plotting....Good tension throughout; author moves the pace nicely."-Judge, Writer's Digest Self-Published e-Book Awards

Harmony. Security. Obedience. SynCorp saved Earth from climate catastrophe. Now its citizens work the Sol system, cradle to grave. Some call that slavery. Revolution threatens a longstanding peace... Thirty years after the Syndicate Corporation saved Earth from climate-change extinction, SynCorp's Five Factions rule the solar system with an iron fist wrapped in a velvet glove. Food, entertainment, safety, security-SynCorp provides it all. In return, the Company requires complete loyalty and obedience to corporate law. The Soldiers of the Solar Revolution claim life under SynCorp is slavery cloaked in comfort. They launch their rebellion, targeting the pillars of corporate production: sabotaging refineries on Mars, shattering Callisto's orbital ring. Meanwhile, brutal pirates siphon off Company resources in the Belt, and hackers tap into citizens' implants, addicting them to fantasies shaped from their own dreams. Besieged on all sides, SynCorp's Five Factions are in retreat. The rebels aim to destroy the Company to free mankind. But does mankind really want to be freed?

The final battle for SynCorp's survival comes home to where it all began: Earth. Masada Station is secured. Adriana Rabh, Regent of Callisto, has evaded capture. But Cassandra is about to put Tony Taulke, the CEO and living symbol of SynCorp itself, on trial for his life. Ruben Qinlao leaps into action to free Tony, while Stacks Fischer escorts Bekah Franklin to the Moon to complete Project Jericho-key to defeating Cassandra. Meanwhile, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 13-year-old Benjy Anderson faces the toughest moment of his young life as his mother falls victim to Dreamscape's addictive seduction. But then he catches a conqueror's golden eye... SynCorp and the SSR prepare for a final, bloody engagement above Earth-mankind's birthplace and the seat of the largest corporate empire in history. Who will live? Who will die? What fate awaits humanity when the dust of battle clears?

For years, the villains have gotten the raw end of the deal. They've been called everything from insane to sociopathic-and we believe they deserve their time to shine. Feast your eyes on this feast of horrors. Twelve all original and never before published stories that'll make you ask who the villains really are. Under the right lens, you might find your works to be dastardly, horrible-vile. What would the world's most hated villain tell the world? Find out in Chris Pourteau's "Supervillainy 101." The leader of the villains is dead, would you go to his funeral? Grey Wilkey explores this question in "Vying for Power." What if there was a secret fortress in the middle of the Afghanistan desert? Steve Beaulieu has seen it-now read about it in "Prisoners of War." Read these and so many more exciting stories today.