Pamela Stewart is a self-described "literary proctologist", and her writing often looks into places that people generally don't want to look. The stories in Elysium are about the difficulties of life we all encounter as human beings, the fragility of life--the physical, mental, and spiritual challenges we must try to overcome. They are about ordinary people, characters searching for meaning. People are rescued, but not always in the way they hoped...

Dr. Peter Chesterfield is one of the Royal London Hospital's top neurosurgeons. He is also a workaholic, ordered by his boss to take a week off to attend a medical symposium at the luxurious Elysium Grand on the island of Maui. While there, Peter pulls a woman with a skull fracture from the water. Though he is able to revive her in the ambulance, she eventually dies in his arms, leaving him with only one clue to what happened to her: the word "honu." Increasingly...

Republic history shows that the science vessel Ulysses was claimed by a black hole whilst on a routine research mission. The truth is harder to swallow. Already reeling from the loss of a security team under her command, first officer Sara May wants nothing more than an uneventful conclusion to their simple fact-finding duties. But when the Emperor sends his chief science advisor to rendezvous with the vessel, their expedition comes to a stand-still....

Alex is safe in Elysium, but his parents and friends are still outside trying to make their way to the second Earth entrance. As time runs out, Alex must deal with his ever-evolving powers, a grumpy Guardian, and a spy who is relaying information to Abaddon. Will Alex manage to unseal the second Earth entrance in time to save his parents?

Elysium: A Visual History of Angelology is a gloriously illustrated overview of angels across art, religion, and literature from scholar Ed Simon, writer for The Millions. Ineffable, invisible, inscrutable-angels are enduring creatures across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and human experiences of the divine as mediated by spiritual emissaries are an aspect of almost every religious tradition. In popular culture, angels are often reduced to...

Penny Lane has lived in her new world, Elysium Sphere for over a year now. She has left her death far behind her and now rules alongside her handsome soulmate, Avery.The residents, made up of aliens, ancients and angels, are all slowly settling in to their new roles as assistants to Earth's replacement, Virtus.Peace seems to fill the air until one day Penny wakes with a feeling of dread, and her intuition is always right. That very day she bumps into...

Mars is good place to reinvent yourself, isn't it? Jules Morales's life has always been a state of contact change. When the opportunity comes up, why not take a trip to Mars to work on the platinum mining operation-and make a load of money? But what if there is more to Mars than just a payday and an adventure? The woman now calling herself Lisa Marie has spent her whole life trapped by the struggle to make ends meet, and sometimes held hostage...

A chance meeting in the online game Destruction of Elysium changes the lives of a healer and a tank forever.The digital worlds of MMORPGs are Alex' only safe space. Online, she's the great AlexTheDestroyer, leader of one of the biggest raiding guilds in Destruction of Elysium, a max level tank who kicks monster ass and she knows her way around every dungeon. In real life, she's just Alex, a clumsy girl who's hyper and too impulsive.Until she meets...

Election night in a united European Union, live from the European Broadcasting Corporation.

It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel... fine? Have you ever asked yourself what your imagination is lacking? Well, we do have the solution for you! Welcome to the end of the world, the one stop shop for all your post-apocalyptic America cravings and needs. Do you wish you had cyborgs in your life? Are you longing for the vampire of your dreams to come bursting through the pages? Is the knowledge of other realities and the afterlife...