A new series about mind readers from a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author... Everyone thinks I’m a genius. Everyone is wrong. Sure, I finished Harvard at eighteen and now make crazy money at a hedge fund. But that’s not because I’m unusually smart or hard-working. It’s because I cheat. You see, I have a unique ability. I can go outside time into my own personal version of reality—the place I call “the Quiet”—where I can explore my surroundings while the rest of the world stands still. I thought I was the only one who could do this—until I met her. My name is Darren, and this is how I became entangled with all the Russians and learned that I’m a Reader.

Everyone thinks I'm a genius. Everyone is wrong. Sure, I finished Harvard at eighteen and now make crazy money at a hedge fund. But that's not because I'm unusually smart or hardworking. It's because I cheat. You see, I have a unique ability. I can go outside time into my own personal version of reality, the place I call "the Quiet", where I can explore my surroundings while the rest of the world stands still. I thought I was the only one who could do this, until I met her. My name is Darren, and this is how I learned that I'm a reader.

From the New York Times bestseller Dima Zales comes an Urban Fantasy rollercoaster adventure with unforgettable characters, non-stop action, and thrilling mind powers. For a limited time, get all 4 full-length novels and one novella (1000+ pages) in one convenient, discounted bundle. Darren's always known there's something wrong with him, but he's learned how to make the most of it. After all, graduating Harvard early, landing a dream job, and getting filthy rich is easy when you have the ability to stop time. What isn't easy is figuring out how he got these strange powers, or if they're even real. Darren thinks he might be crazy—until he meets her. Mira can also stop time, and she's the key to unraveling Darren's past. The only problem? She wants nothing to do with him. But when Darren gets caught in the middle of Mira's secret revenge mission, the two must work together. Drawn into Mira's dangerous, hidden world of Thought Readers and Pushers, Darren discovers that his powers go deeper than he could've imagined... and that a dark past threatens his new life. With new enemies out for blood and a secret that could turn even his closest friends against him, can Darren master his new powers in time to save himself?

Getting ahead in life is easy when you can stop time. Staying ahead is hard when your secrets have the power to destroy everything. I've been cheating at life and winning. My boss thinks I'm a genius, my bank account is stacked, and I haven't lost a poker game in my life. I thought I was the only one with this ability until I came across her. Smoking hot and snarky, Mira can freeze time as well. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. There's a whole community of people like us, the so-called Thought Readers. But just as I'm starting to fit in, I discover something that could turn them all against me. Something that could destroy my new world.

I'm an illusionist, not a psychic. Going on TV is supposed to advance my career, but things go wrong. Like vampires and zombies kind of wrong. My name is Sasha Urban, and this is how I learned what I am.

From a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author comes the highly anticipated sequel to The Thought Readers What am I? Who killed my family? Why? I need to get some answers before the Russian mob succeeds in killing me. That is, if my own friends don’t kill me first.

Now with a new introduction for the Tor Essentials line, A Fire Upon the Deep is sure to bring a new generation of SF fans to Vinge's award-winning works. A Hugo Award-winning Novel! “Vinge is one of the best visionary writers of SF today.”-David Brin Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures, and technology, can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these "regions of thought," but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence. Fleeing this galactic threat, Ravna crash lands on a strange world with a ship-hold full of cryogenically frozen children, the only survivors from a destroyed space-lab. They are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. Tor books by Vernor Vinge Zones of Thought Series A Fire Upon The Deep A Deepness In The Sky The Children of The Sky Realtime/Bobble Series The Peace War Marooned in Realtime Other Novels The Witling Tatja Grimm's World Rainbows End Collections Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge True Names At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.