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In this thrilling one-hundred-page prequel companion novella, discover what happened in the aftermath of the Mogadorians’ attack on Paradise, Ohio, from Mark James—Number Four’s bully-turned-ally.

After Four leaves town to find the rest of the Garde, Mark is left behind to pick up the pieces. His school has been destroyed, his home burned down, and, worst yet, Mark now knows the horrifying truth: aliens live among us and some of them seek to destroy us. Even with the FBI tailing him and Sarah Hart, Mark tries to return to a normal life. But when Sarah goes missing, he knows he can no longer sit back and do nothing. His quest to find her will lead him to new allies and a startling revelation about the Mogadorians’ plan for invasion.

Sarah's Journal taking place during 'I Am Number Four'.
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You know we have been betrayed.

You must discover why.

You must learn the truth.

They have put a plan in motion.

They have infiltrated your government.

They have already turned some of you.

They will do whatever it takes to have your planet.

The battle lines have been drawn.

Whose side are you on?

Pittacuas Lore transmissions reveal secrets about Lorien's guardians

Malcolm's Journal is a Lost Files bonus containing journal entries of Malcolm's thoughts, between rescuing Sam from the Dulce Base and meeting up with the Garde.

The Scar is the title of a Pre-order exclusive chapter of The Fall of Five. It is narrated by Number Six shortly after she is punched in the head by Five's metal fist and then healed by Marina.

Number Six, Nine, Eight and Marina have travelled to the Everglades in order to find Five's chest, they come across a three headed alligator and battle it. Before being struck by Five, Six remembers striking the beast with lightning, Five blowing into his obsidian flute and Nine and Five bickering.
As she slowly awakens from unconsciousness, after her skull is fractured by Five's punch, she feels Marina healing her but she is immobilised by the pain. She remembers renting the fan propelled boat, travelling though the everglades and battling with the three headed alligator but is unable to recall how she was taken down.

While gathering her strength, Six attempts to work out what is happening around her, she hears fighting and shouting but she is unsure who is involved. She opens her eyes to see Eight pleading for calm and Nine badly injured.

Six finally manages to stand and sees a shape moving in the sky, hears more shouting and then is knocked back down as a scar sears itself into her ankle.

In this exhilarating one-hundred-page companion novella to the New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series, Mark James is on the run—and on the wrong side of the law—but he'll do whatever it takes to save Sarah Hart and help the Garde.

A sequel to I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: Return to Paradise, this novella picks up with Mark racing to Dulce, New Mexico, evading capture from both the Mogadorians and the FBI. On the road, his mysterious new ally—a fellow blogger from They Walk Among Us who Mark knows only by the screen name GUARD—sends him a care package to help in his quest to find Sarah. Inside is a stack of cash, high-tech equipment, and some seriously advanced weaponry, all begging Mark to once again ask the question: Just who exactly is this guy? As Mark gets closer to tracking down Sarah, he also gets closer to discovering the identity of this enigmatic figure who seems to know so much about the Loric. When the truth about GUARD is finally revealed, nothing will ever be the same.

The Shadowhunters of Los Angeles star in the first novel in Cassandra Clare’s newest series, The Dark Artifices, a sequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series. Lady Midnight is a Shadowhunters novel.

It’s been five years since the events of City of Heavenly Fire that brought the Shadowhunters to the brink of oblivion. Emma Carstairs is no longer a child in mourning, but a young woman bent on discovering what killed her parents and avenging her losses.

Together with her parabatai Julian Blackthorn, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches across Los Angeles, from the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica. If only her heart didn’t lead her in treacherous directions…

Making things even more complicated, Julian’s brother Mark—who was captured by the faeries five years ago—has been returned as a bargaining chip. The faeries are desperate to find out who is murdering their kind—and they need the Shadowhunters’ help to do it. But time works differently in faerie, so Mark has barely aged and doesn’t recognize his family. Can he ever truly return to them? Will the faeries really allow it?

Glitz, glamours, and Shadowhunters abound in this heartrending opening to Cassandra Clare’s Dark Artifices series.

The anthology Diaspora Ad Astra: An Anthology of Science Fiction from the Philippines represents science fiction made by Filipinos for Filipinos. This collection of stories looks at the future of Filipinos as we ask and wonder: will we be exporting human workers to Mars or will we be ruling a new Empire of Humanity? Or will we be running a guerrilla war against mad robots as the rest of homo sapiens flee into space in derelict battleships?

Because of this, we’ve collected these Filipino stories that look into a multitude of possible futures. Moreover, with these stories, we offer you hope that there will be a future where Filipinos will still—whether we attain greatness or not—play a role on the stage of humanity.

Welcome to the future of Filipinos shaped by Filipino dreams.

A Time for Dragons collects seventeen stories and an essay that breathe new life to these majestic creatures of the imagination. Between these covers you will find tales of action, adventure, horror, fantasy, humor and mystery, refreshingly written with voices that are unmistakably Filipino, and all of them invariably filled with a sense of wonder.

The “Philippine Speculative Fiction” annual anthology series was launched, essentially, to celebrate the Filipino’s intrinsic détente with the strange—whether comfortable or uncomfortable, handled with matter-of-fact acceptance, reluctant resignation, or unthinking obliviousness—in nurturing a “literature of the fantastic.” In these pages, you’ll find a few of the most exemplary stories we’ve had the privilege of publishing over our first seven—and counting, hopefully—volumes. Within them, you’ll recognize elements of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. So welcome to the “Philippine Speculative Fiction Sampler”; I trust you’ll enjoy this taste of what we keep cooking up. As they say in our tourism ads, “it’s more fun in the Philippines.” And as we tend to say, in response to statements of the blindingly obvious, “mismo.”

Contents List:
* L'Aquilone du Estrelllas (The Kite of Stars) by Dean Francis Alfar
* Ashland by Elyss G. Punsalan
* Rogelio Batle and the Curse of the Crimson Court by Alexander Osias
* The Nature of Apocalypse by Joseph Montecillo
* From the Book of Names My Mother Did Not Give Me by Christine V. Lao
* The Secret Origin of Spin-man by Andrew Drilon

Between these covers are the best short stories of fantasy, horror, science fiction, and genres in-between, selected from the first five years of the Philippine Speculative Fiction annuals. Step through the portal and explore worlds old and new and experience the power of the literature of the imagination as crafted by Filipino authors.

Darna encashes a check at the bank one morning; a god trapped in a statue is awakened by the intoxicating scent of the scholar studying his stone prison; human beings are homogenized for the sake of idealizing the species. The Philippine Speculative Fiction series showcases the rich variety of Philippine literature. Between these covers you will find magic realism next to science fiction, traditional fantasy beside slipstream, and imaginary worlds rubbing shoulders with alternate Philippine history—demonstrating that the literature of the fantastic is alive and well in the Philippines.

Stories from this series have been included in the Honorable Mentions list from The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror edited by Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin Grant.

Philippine Speculative Fiction has become one of the country's most consistent and highly-anticipated yearly anthology series, showcasing the continuing development of the exciting field of speculative fiction writing.

Philippine Speculative Fiction volume 6 proudly proffers a representative range of some of the country's best speculative fiction written in 2010 -- short stories that define, explore, and sometimes blur the boundaries of science fiction, fantasy, horror and all things in between. Contributors likewise span a wide spectrum from all across the nation and around the world, from leading literary lights to newly-discovered young stars.

Ian Rosales Casocot Dean Francis Alfar
Eliza Victoria Kenneth Yu
Andrew Drilon Elyss Punsalan
Arlynn Despi Christine V. Lao
John Philip Corpuz Joseph Anthony Montecillo
Vincent Michael Crystal Koo
Francis Gabriel Concepcion Maria Pia V. Benosa
Jay Steven Anyong Andrei Tupaz
Alexander M. Osias Victor Fernando R. Ocampo
Charles Tan Paolo Chikiamco
Maria Elena Paterno Asterio Enrico N. Gutierrez

Philippine Speculative Fiction has become one of the country's most consistent and highly-anticipated yearly anthologies, showcasing the continuing development of the field of speculative fiction writing. The series has repeatedly been a finalist in the Manila Critics' Circle National Book Awards, and has been praised by some of the most respected names in the field.

A heartbroken youth discovers the first woman, Maganda, in a garden. The youngest, most beautiful of ten siblings gets sold as a bride to a Tiq’Barang. A segment of the Filipino population suddenly transform to look like American celebrities. The Philippine Speculative Fiction series are anthologies that showcase the rich variety of Philippine literature: between these covers you will find magic realism next to science fiction, traditional fantasy beside slipstream, and imaginary worlds rubbing shoulders with alternate Philippine history—demonstrating that the literature of the fantastic is alive and well in the Philippines.

Stories from this series have been included in the Honorable Mentions list from The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror edited by Ellen Datlow and Kelly Link & Gavin Grant.

This volume includes:

All the Best of Dark and Bright by Victoria Isabel Yap

The Scrap Collectors by Arlynn Despi

East of the Sun by Dean Alfar

The Changes by Benito Vergara

Never Land by Mo Francisco

Chasers by Chris Mariano

The Call of the Chained God by Dariel Quiogue

Oblation by Paolo Chikiamco

The Love Spell by Edmond Julian dela Cerna

Sarsarita Time by Melissa Sipin

The Dragon's Orb by Vincent Simbulan

All That We May See by Kenneth Yu

Faith in Fiction by James Constantino Bautista

The Day Nostalgia Swept Over a Town by F. Jordan Carnice

What You See by Ian Casocot

Pet by Kristine Ong Muslim

The Little Things the Datu Did by Andrew Drilon

The Commute to Paradiso by Charles Tan

What the Body Remembers by Tin Lao

username: tanglaw by Eliza Victoria

The Likeness of God by Crystal Koo

The Nature of Apocalypse by Joseph Montecillo

Bastard Sword by Nikki Alfar

Mother of Monsters by Philip Corpuz

Philippine Speculative Fiction IV collects the best original fantasy, science fiction, horror and more from across the Philippines and around the world, presented by award-winning editors Dean Francis Alfar and Nikki Alfar.

This fourth annual volume features stories by: Ronald Cruz, Charles Tan, Jose Elvin Bueno, Kenneth Yu, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Maryanne Moll, Carljoe Javier, Joseph Nacino, Paolo Jose Cruz, Adam David,
Erica Gonzales, Anne Lagamayo, Vincent Simbulan, Eliza Victoria, Leo Magno, Noel Tio, Celestine Trinidad, Isabel Yap, Monique Francisco, Kathleen Aton-Osias, Sharmaine Galve, Crystal Gail Shangkuan Koo, Andrew Drilon, and Apol Lejano-Massebieau

Table of Contents

The Child Abandoned * Yvette Natalie U. Tan

Waiting for Victory * Michael A. R. Co
Snippets * Kate Aton-Osias
The Sign of the Cross * Russell Stanley Q. Geronimo

First Contact * Joseph F. Nacino
Clutter * Madeline Rae Ong
Hundreds Upon Hundreds of Forgotten Memories Will Suddenly Appear When She Finally Decides To Leave What Could Only Be Called Mistakes In Her Life, And At This Precise Moment She Will Have Realized That All The Time She Can Spare Is Long Lost And Will Never Be Returned * Allan B. Lopez

Six from Downtown * Dean Francis Alfar
How Saint Miko and I Ruined the Apocalypse * Andrew Drilon
Feasting * Joshua L. Lim So
Borealis * Rochita Loenen-Ruiz
Gunsaddled * Alexander Marcos Osias
Waiting for Agua de Mayos * Mia Tijam
Witch * Jessi Albano
What You See Is Not What You Get * Vincent Michael Simbulan

V.A., or The One True Agency for the Search of Disappeared Gods
and Mythical Heroes * Oscar Bryan Alvarez
Re-Genesis * Jonathan Jimena Siason
Just Another Ghost Story * Apol Lejano-Massebieau

Bearing Fruit * Nikki Alfar