Download or read book Power Struggle A Sci Fi Superhero Novella written by Kate Sheeran Swed and published by Spells & Spaceships Press. This book was released on 2024-03-02 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary O'Sullivan would rather throw punches than parties. But though her vigilante-league family can fly and support collapsing bridges on one shoulder, Mary’s stuck with her wits, muscles, and a desperate need to prove herself. When the league uses her celebrity secret identity to infiltrate a gala, she takes the opportunity to flaunt her skills as an operative. Mary's decision to bend protocol results in the loss of a dangerous artifact — one that could grant her the power she lacks. Sidelined by the league for going rogue, she pursues the power-granting stone without backup. But she's not the only one looking for the artifact. If she can't secure it, superpowers will be available to the highest bidder — and the league's anonymity could become a thing of the past. Power Struggle is a stand-alone prequel to the League of Independent Operatives series.
Download or read book The League of Independent Operatives Books 1 2 written by Kate Sheeran Swed and published by Spells & Spaceships Press. This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HEIRESS The world knows Mary O'Sullivan as a Page Six regular; she's an heiress, a playgirl, a philanthropist—and an orphan, after she survived the plane crash that killed her celebrity parents. The world knows her vigilante alter ego, too—they just don't know it's Mary behind the mask. OFFICER Nathan Pearce just wants to be a hero. So when a world-famous vigilante blows through his local Boston bar, he's determined to chase her down. If superheroes do internships, he wants one. But the woman might as well be a phantom. And Nathan's quest to prove himself will endanger more lives than just his own. LEADER Eloise Reyna wasn't meant to inherit a super-secret league of vigilantes, or the heirloom that grants her powers, for at least another decade. Between her motley band of cranky heroes and abilities she barely understands, she just might lose control. With a mad scientist on the loose and powerful enemies lurking in the wings, that's simply not an option. TEAM Together with their questionable crew, these would-be heroes must untangle the past to secure the future—or allow a dangerous new world order to rise. The League of Independent Operatives is a twisty superhero saga, perfect for fans of the Avengers, Umbrella Academy, and Arrow.
Download or read book Powerless Killing Gods A Superhero Novel Double Edition written by Tony Cooper and published by Tony Cooper. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a special edition collecting the first two books in the 'Powerless' superhero novel series from Tony Cooper. **** POWERLESS When the friend of a retired superhero is killed by another power, he drags himself out of his self-imposed isolation to find out who is responsible. He soon finds himself digging up a past he would rather forget, risking exposing the secret of why his team split up and destroying all their lives. **** KILLING GODS When a physically mutated villain's son goes missing from protective care, he goes on a rampage to try and find his child. In his way stand a Child Protection Officer following her heart above her duty, a violent anti-hero group desperate for media attention, a seemingly benevolent hero-worshipping cult and Martin and Hayley struggling to work out who they can trust.
Download or read book The BackUp Superhero written by Kayla Hicks and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming a superhero isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Let's be realistic, people don't have super-powers. But if you have enough determination to make it through training, you have a chance to be the modern-day superhero, stopping one criminal at a time...or doing everyone else's job and getting none of the credit. After Tanser girl comes to terms with her non-celebrity level status in the superhero world, someone else from Level D decides it's their moment to shine, shaking up the entire system, while leaving her to pick up the pieces.
Download or read book The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction written by Mark Bould and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction provides an overview of the study of science fiction across multiple academic fields. It offers a new conceptualisation of the field today, marking the significant changes that have taken place in sf studies over the past 15 years. Building on the pioneering research in the first edition, the collection reorganises historical coverage of the genre to emphasise new geographical areas of cultural production and the growing importance of media beyond print. It also updates and expands the range of frameworks that are relevant to the study of science fiction. The periodisation has been reframed to include new chapters focusing on science fiction produced outside the Anglophone context, including South Asian, Latin American, Chinese and African diasporic science fiction. The contributors use both well- established critical and theoretical approaches and embrace a range of new ones, including biopolitics, climate crisis, critical ethnic studies, disability studies, energy humanities, game studies, medical humanities, new materialisms and sonic studies. This book is an invaluable resource for students and established scholars seeking to understand the vast range of engagements with science fiction in scholarship today.
Download or read book Don t Be a Hero written by Chris Strange and published by Chris Strange. This book was released on 2012-11-23 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a bad time to be a superhero. When the world turned its back on metahumans, the golden age of superheroes came crashing down. But now a mysterious supercriminal is making one final bid for power, and with no one else left to protect the world, ex-hero Spook must risk everything to take him down. There will be no reprieve, no negotiation. War is coming. Put on the mask. There's work to be done. Chris Strange presents a stunning, no-holds-barred superhero adventure that will lure you in and knock you out. This is the novel superhero fans have been waiting for.
Download or read book Powers written by Lucas Flint and published by Secret Identity Books. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blizzard just wants to kick back and relax with her friends while visiting her family. She doesn't want to deal with supervillains, secret government conspiracies, or any of the various other things that superheroes deal with on a daily basis. Unfortunately, Blizzard finds herself working alongside a government agent who seeks to recover an object stolen from the government long ago. And if Blizzard and the agent fail to retrieve the object, Blizzard's hometown and family will be destroyed. Shell just wants to be strong. Having lived most of his young life bullied or ignored by others for his weak powers, Shell believes he will always remain weak in comparison to his friends until a stranger offers to enhance his powers. But nothing comes free and Shell must pay a high price if he truly desires to become strong. Together and separately, Blizzard and Shell must overcome the challenges and dangers before them if they are going to save their city from destruction.
Download or read book Powerless written by Tera Lynn Childs and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of superheroes, the line between good and evil is always clear. Right? Kenna is constantly surrounded by superheroes. Her best friend, her ex-boyfriend, practically everyone she knows has some talent or power. Kenna doesn't have a power. Sure, she's smart and independent, but surrounded by all the extraordinary, it's hard not feel very ordinary. And she's tired of it. So when three villains break into the lab where she interns, Kenna refuses to be a victim. She stands her ground. She's not about to let criminals steal the research that will make her extraordinary too. But in the heat of battle, secrets are spilled and one of the villains saves her life. Twice. Suddenly, everything Kenna thought she knew about good and evil, heroes and villains is upended. And to protect her life and those she loves, she must team up with her sworn enemies on a mission that will redefine what it means to be powerful and powerless... The Hero Agenda Series: Powerless (Book 1) Relentless (Book 2)
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Download or read book Die Famous written by Tony Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ruth doesn't want to be famous, she just wants to be seen and accepted for who she is. And she is prepared to defy her father to take part in a Hero talent contest to create a new team for Element City. However, she doesn't count on a team of villains from the 1970s waking themselves up, in order to bring Havoc to the present day. Neither do Martin and Hayley, who inadvertently stumble upon the villain's plot, and find themselves risking their lives to save their ultimate target: the TV show's contestants."
Download or read book Power Surge written by E. J. Whitmer and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Jennings is no superhero. In fact, had you asked her about superheroes a week ago, she would have called you crazy. She believes in routine, working hard and playing harder. But that all changed one night when she and her wayward sidekick Carl discovered several of her co-workers engaged in some decidedly non-run-of-the-mill human activities. Now her life is in a whirlwind as she finds herself caught up in the superhero world of her super-sexy boss and her long time crush as they battle the evil Captain Zinger (yes, really). Will Anna find a way to save her superheroes (even with the disastrous help of the spandex-loving Carl), her sanity, her new found love, and - oh yeah - the world? Find out in Power Surge - Book 1 in the Anna Jennings Super Novel Series!
Download or read book To the Fifth Power written by Shirin Dubbin and published by Entangled: Select Otherworld. This book was released on 2013-07-29 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three years ago, Zola Noite's nemesis killed her sidekick and forced her to watch. The guilt drove her to hang up her cape. Zola knows one thing for certain. She will never be a superhero again. Psychologist Dr. Arturo "Fort" Forte specializes in super-powered mental health. He's the only reason Zola can once again call herself sane-although, truth be told, the heat between them is slowly driving her back to mad. When three mega-villains escape the prison Fort oversees, all Zola's best laid plans go up in flames. Fort asks her for help, and she can't turn down the man she's secretly come to love. As battles ensue and clues add up, the one thing Zola trusts is called into question: Fort's true agenda and which side he's on. Previously released on Entangled's Ever After imprint - July 2013
Download or read book Superpower Devourer written by CM Friesen and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2024-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All I wanted were my goddamned superpowers, not the power to devour the world! Doctors say there's magic in my blood. They insist I'm not a dud. But I'm graduating from Epicenter City's Private Academy Of Superheroics, about to receive my license to fight crime in the streets and suburbs of 'The Epicenter Of Disaster', and I've still never squeezed out a single drop of magic. How'd I get to my graduation ceremony without it? Am I a brilliant student with a passionate grasp of hero culture? A smooth-talker with a flare for stealing hearts and swaying minds? Perhaps a talented athlete who competes with my classmates by body building? Hah! I'm something far better: a dumb, annoying, overweight sack of potatoes. Yeah, no, I rode Library Girl's and Swordplay's coattails to the finish line. Yes, my parents are pro heroes Library Girl and Swordplay: the brutal dynamic duo who beat and torture their villain adversaries, ignore orders, and ditch missions. Nobody dared tell these monsters wearing human faces that their stupid son couldn't graduate. Including me. They love me unconditionally, and I'm tired of letting them down. I need my powers now. When villains raid our school, my talented and powerful classmates struggle to fend them off. Why am I the target?! Oh, to take me hostage and control my parents, that's why. When my frantic flailing to stay out of everyone's way goes horribly wrong, it finally happens. I finally manifest my magic: the power to steal everyone else's superpowers. Hold up. Doesn't that make me the devil from the God-Hero's prophecy? How's my incompetent ass supposed to defeat swordswoman girl-Jesus and devour the world?
Download or read book Playing for Keeps written by Mur Lafferty and published by Swarm Press. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where the superheroes have the best gifts, but are real jerks, Keepsie Branson has the power to prevent anything in her possession from being stolen ... not enough to make a difference, or so she thinks.
Download or read book Dreadnought written by April Daniels and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2016-01-24 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trans teen is transformed into a superhero in this action-packed series-starter perfect for fans of The Heroine Complex and Not Your Sidekick. Danny Tozer has a problem: she just inherited the powers of Dreadnought, the world’s greatest superhero. Until Dreadnought fell out of the sky and died right in front of her, Danny was trying to keep people from finding out she’s transgender. But before he expired, Dreadnought passed his mantle to her, and those secondhand superpowers transformed Danny’s body into what she’s always thought it should be. Now there’s no hiding that she’s a girl. It should be the happiest time of her life, but Danny’s first weeks finally living in a body that fits her are more difficult and complicated than she could have imagined. Between her father’s dangerous obsession with “curing” her girlhood, her best friend suddenly acting like he’s entitled to date her, and her fellow superheroes arguing over her place in their ranks, Danny feels like she’s in over her head. She doesn’t have time to adjust. Dreadnought’s murderer—a cyborg named Utopia—still haunts the streets of New Port City, threatening destruction. If Danny can’t sort through the confusion of coming out, master her powers, and stop Utopia in time, humanity faces extinction. “I didn’t know how much I needed this brave, thrilling book until it rocked my world. Dreadnought is the superhero adventure we all need right now.”—Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky “A thoroughly enjoyable, emotionally rich, action-packed story with the most exciting new superheroes in decades. Unmissable.”—Kirkus Reviews
Download or read book Soon I Will Be Invincible written by Austin Grossman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-06-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctor Impossible—evil genius, would-be world conqueror—languishes in prison. Shuffling through the cafeteria line with ordinary criminals, he wonders if the smartest man in the world has done the smartest thing he could with his life. After all, he's lost every battle he's ever fought. But this prison won't hold him forever. Fatale—half woman, half high-tech warrior—used to be an unemployed cyborg. Now, she's a rookie member of the world's most famous super-team, the Champions. But being a superhero is not all flying cars and planets in peril—she learns that in the locker rooms and dive bars of superherodom, the men and women (even mutants) behind the masks are as human as anyone. Soon I Will Be Invincible is a wildly entertaining first novel, brimming with attitude and humor—an emotionally resonant look at good and evil, love and loss, power and glory.
Download or read book How to Save the World written by Lexie Dunne and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Packed to the brim with charming characters, zippy action, and a refreshing can-do spirit, the Superheroes Anonymous series never fails to delight.” —Sarah Kuhn, author of Heroine Complex Gail Godwin—once so famous for being kidnapped by supervillains, the media still calls her Hostage Girl—is done with superheroes and their shadowy schemes. She’s got a cute boyfriend, a great roommate, and she’s even returned to her old job. For the first time in years, life is exactly what she wants it to be. But when a figure from her past resurfaces, he brings with him a plague that changes the game for every superhero and villain out there. Now Gail must team up with both friend and foe to help save the world she thought she had left behind. It won’t be easy, but for Gail Godwin, nothing ever is.
