GRAVID

GRAVID

By Zyz, Zak

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In a nowhere town in northern Maine, sixteen-year-old Freya Jokela has been sinking since her freshman year. Shattered by her father’s death, Freya is foundering in her classes and all her friends are drifting away. When bullies beat her up, Freya can't find the will to drag herself out of the rain. That night she decides to drown herself in the Sillas River. But at the bottom, everything changes. An extraordinary new way of seeing opens Freya to new chances, new friends, and new love. When the traumas of the past threaten to capsize the promise of the future, her greatest friend becomes her worst enemy. Can she find the strength to rise?

SPACE T.A.R.D.S.

SPACE T.A.R.D.S.

By Zyz, Zak

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Join the very special forces of the 37th Platoon as they venture into deadly alien hulks in search of priceless technological treasures. Crawling with hostile lifeforms and rife with killing radiation, the derelict ships burn out advanced circuits and ordinary men in seconds. Send in the T.A.R.D.S.! With simple tools, dumb luck, and brute force, these tardigrade-augmented Marines can hack their way out of the most dangerous missions in the galaxy!

THREEWOLF

Threewolf

By Zyz, Zak

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After a year-long losing streak, only one thing can hold Flinzer's hapless band of bounty hunters together: a big, beautiful bounty. Far in the north, a fortune in gold awaits anyone brave enough to bring back Threewolf's head. Do they have what it takes to slay the legendary outlaw?

Threewolf is a short, sweet fantasy novella about a desperate quest in a boreal wilderness. A troop of bounty hunters (who should really know better) commit one of the classic D+D blunders, hunting a druid on his home turf.

At a svelte 80 pages, Threewolf is the perfect companion for a snowy night with a roaring fire and a big snifter of brandy. Happy hunting!

XEROS IS OUT!

READ IT HERE! A DARK, DYSTOPIAN, SPACE ACE DEATH RACE!

Yes, hello. I'm Zak Zyz, a writer based in New York City. Here are some books:

XEROS - A high stakes, space ace death race!
SURVIVAL MODE - Fast-paced hard SF about a marooned spaceman
Xan & Ink - Dark, creepy fantasy set in a jungle teeming with monstrous insects
The Right To Bear Arms - The cold reflections of a broken soldier
The Master Arcanist - The serene and sublime ruminations of an ancient archmage sallying forth on his final quest
The Bishop's Daughter - The story of a girl forbidden to talk
Hawks at the Diner - A tense showdown of presidents and pastrami

If you enjoy my writing and would like to see more, a review on Goodreads or Amazon would be greatly appreciated. You can also sign up to my Patreon. All pledges go to funding editing of new books. Thanks! 

Xeros

By Zyz, Zak

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Hawks at the Diner

By Zyz, Zak

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The Right to Bear Arms

By Zyz, Zak

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The Master Arcanist

By Zyz, Zak

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Xan and Ink

By Zyz, Zak

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Survival Mode

By Zyz, Zak

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The Master Arcanist

An evil empire has conquered the North! Villages are burned, innocents are enslaved and darkness is spreading across the land. 
 
Who cares? 
 
Not Charlot the Archmage! Secluded in his Crimson Citadel, the cantankerous old Arcanist has spurned the world for a hermit’s life of tinkering with magical artifacts and reading dusty old tomes. Yet the world has not forgotten him. When a brazen young thief comes begging to learn magic, Charlot cannot resist the call to sally forth for one final adventure!

The Master Arcanist is my new book for 2018! It's got a very relaxed, almost leisurely pace. If you've always wanted to see the world through the failing eyes of a cranky old wizard, this may be the journey for you. It's chock full of magical artifacts, wild beasts, and foggy recollections. 

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Hawks at the Diner

Mr President! You are going to Jail! 
A lunch meeting becomes a vicious showdown when the President-Elect threatens to jail her predecessor. But President Rupert Cohen has a secret that will change everything! Sate your hunger for intrigue with this ambitious tale of power, politics, and pastrami.

Hawks at the Diner is near-future political science fiction that packs a big story into just 40 pages! Coming soon on Amazon \ Goodreads.

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The Right to Bear Arms

A cold and desolate New York story of a double-amputee veteran whose government-issued high tech prosthetic arms are malfunctioning. With winter approaching and homelessness looming, his only hope is an independent clinic in Manhattan. But can he pay their price? 

The right to bear arms is a short story which will be appearing in the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers podcast, The Kaleidocast. It's available as an audiobook!  . 

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Xan & INK

Banished from their homeland, two disgraced brothers, a fanatical priest and an escaped slave who venture into the foreboding Kalparcimex, an uncharted jungle teeming with an incredible variety of wondrous and murderous insects. When the legendary ranger Xan refuses to help the adventurers on their quest for redemption, they enter into an ill-advised pact with Ink, a cursed sorceress who stains everything she touches. Caught in the conflict between the two powerful figures, the four banished heroes must confront their darkest desires to escape the Kalparcimex!

This was the book where I really started getting into typesetting and layout. It's a pretty dark and sinister fantasy, not at all what a lot of readers expect. 

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SURVIVAL MODE

Fleeing justice in a one-man ship bound for uncharted space, fugitive K crash-lands on a bizarre and deadly alien world. With his ship wrecked and no hope of rescue, K must use every ounce of his ingenuity to engineer a way to survive on DEATH MOON YOWL.

SURVIVAL MODE is my first published novella. It's a high-speed, high-stakes struggle to survive touching on themes of nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and isolation. At the time of this writing it's sitting on a cool 4.55/5 on Goodreads! 

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