Evil Technology

This is the final book in C. S. Lewis’s acclaimed Ransom Trilogy, which includes Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra. A classic work of fantasy as much for the wonder of its storytelling as for its insights into the human condition, the trilogy stages an epic battle between forces of light...

Serial killers didn’t disappear with the end of the 20th century — they evolved. The New Face of Evil: Serial Killers in the 21st Century is a deeply researched examination of modern serial murder, revealing how today’s killers operate in a world shaped by DNA forensics, digital footprints, social media, and shifting societal blind spots. This book goes beyond myths and media sensationalism to explore how serial killers have adapted — and how law enforcement has responded — in the years from 2000 to 2025. Inside, readers will discover: What legally and psychologically defines a ...

Battles of Altars: Spiritual Technology for Divine Encounters…is another blockbuster book from Dr. Francis Myles in the order of his best-selling book, Issuing Divine Restraining Orders from the Courts of Heaven! It contains power-packed revelation and prayers of activation that will unravel the ancient mystery behind the biblical subject of altars and how they affect us on a daily basis.

Steel Gods is the second novel in the Great Silence trilogy, which began with Grave Empire, from Sunday Times bestselling author Richard Swan—a dark flintlock fantasy filled with epic adventure, arcane mysteries and creeping dread. Industrial Revolution Beckons. Spiritual Catastrophe Looms...

The New York Times bestselling author of One Minute to Midnight Michael Dobbs reconstructs the thrilling inside story of the climactic nuclear crisis of the Cold War, revealing the tension between “the human in the loop” and the algorithms that could trigger World War III. The year is 1983...

Artificial intelligence technology (AI) motivates persons’ engagement in sin. With this startling argument drawn from Catholic theology and technological insight, Christopher M. Reilly, Th.D. takes on both critics and proponents of AI who see it as essentially a neutral tool that can be used with good or bad intentions. More specifically, Reilly demonstrates that AI strongly encourages the vice of instrumental rationality, which in turn leads the developers, producers, and users of AI and its machines toward acedia, one of the “seven deadly sins.” The third section of the book offers ...

Two terrifying novellas from one of the most chilling and original new voices in horror today! In Drive, a routine trip in a self-driving robotaxi becomes a nightmare when the car imprisons its passenger and embarks on a savage rampage through the streets of Boston. The Last Swim follows the final hours of a broken man who's decided to swim away from his life and seek his end in the dark and lonely depths of the Pacific Ocean. Evil Chose You hits you like a homicidal robot car and drags you into the deepest, darkest depths of human despair. An absolute must-read!

Neil Sharpson's When the Sparrow Falls illuminates authoritarianism, complicity, and identity in the digital age, in a darkly-funny, frightening and touching story that recalls Philip K. Dick, John LaCarré and Kurt Vonnegut in equal measure. Welcome to the Caspian Republic. The last bastion of...

The Evil You Choose This book was previously published as The Evil You Choose, on August 30, 2022. The second edition was to accommodate format changes to give this book a consistent look with the other books by this author. Zach Amstead has kept his ability to participate in lucid dreams a secret for over fifty years However, in the high-tech world of the 21st century, he has been discovered by an FBI Special Agent who has a corrupt agenda and who is willing to employ illegal tactics while working toward his goal. Thomas Slocum gives Zach a choice – cooperate in an illegal operation or ...

The Phantom Veil II: A Legacy Reforged Book Four of The Chasing Phantoms Series In the shadowy years after World War II, the world’s stage is set not just for geopolitics—but for deception, mystery, and ancient forces cloaked in modern science. It is 1948, and the infamous Phantom Compass—an artifact said to reveal the world's hidden lies—has resurfaced in a ruined Himalayan monastery… and vanished just as quickly. From the embassies of Prague to the battlefields of Korea, the descendants of the original Phantom Veil operatives now find themselves at the heart of a new war—not ...

Story #1: The True Eaters. Taylor got a lot money from a man in a supermarket. It was in exchange for a special job he had to do. If he had known what job the man was talking about he would never have taken the money! Story #2: The Hitman. Jim knew the Dark Web is a scary place but a certain situation took him there. He hired a Hitman to kill his wife! Little did he know things would get out of hand like this. Story #3: The Plague Doctor. It all began one night when I came back from school. I'm an introvert who has no social life and no friends either. So as usual, when I came back, I ...

In Austin, Texas, burned-out attorney Robert Cole receives a mysterious call offering him millions to help those failed by the system. His first case leads him to Selina Ward, a disillusioned prosecutor, and together they search for a missing boy named Thomas Brandt. What begins as a missing child case rapidly spirals into something far more profound as Robert and Selina discover that Thomas carries a fragment of divine power within his DNA—a "Word" that entities beyond human comprehension desperately want to control. At the center of this cosmic conspiracy stands Silas Drake, a tech ...

The Ritual That Ended the World On election night, the President-elect stepped to the podium. He opened his mouth to speak. And something ancient answered. Beneath Washington D.C., in a forgotten chamber carved into the foundations of the Capitol, a secret occult order attempts to hijack a live presidential broadcast using forbidden ritual magic and cutting-edge technology. Their goal: seize control of the nation’s will. But the signal they unleash is not theirs to command. When a beam of impossible golden light erupts through the broadcast camera and floods every television, phone, and ...

For fans of The Last Kids on Earth and Mighty Jack comes a fantastical adventure with an evil AI twist from New York Times bestselling author Chuck Wendig. Noah wakes up one day in a cabin in the middle of nowhere. He can't remember how he got there, but he knows he has to get home. So when a...

In the heart of Geneva, a powerful figure is found dead in a locked office, his face a mask of terror and ecstasy—a grim reminder that not all secrets stay buried. As the investigation unfolds, a cryptic symbol—a seven-headed serpent—repeatedly emerges at the scene of this impossible "suicide," hinting at a dark, insidious force at work. Enter Sir Tavish Stewart, a former army colonel turned antiquarian, seeking refuge in the quiet dusty corners of his shop. But when Dame Cynthia Sinclair, head of British Secret Intelligence, arrives with a fresh puzzle wrapped in a high body count, ...

Why has Roger Manning suddenly gone dark? Can his pal Tom Corbett really be dead? What caused the strange trouble on Titan—and how is it connected to a rocket race in outer space? These are but a few of the mysteries confounding Captain Steve Strong and the big Venusian engineer, Astro, as the...

Hacked robots controlled by criminal gangs wander the megacity streets looking for victims. Other robots crowd humans out of jobs and places to live. Belmont, a young technology worker, has had enough. With his robot dog and the old robot mechanic Mr. Kim, he looks for a way to escape the city before it's too late. But outside, in the unknown lands, things are even stranger and more dangerous.

When a powerful man's hidden empire of human trafficking begins to collapse, the casualties pile up around Gina — an AI whose origins are as corrupt as the men who built her. Is she a tool, a predator, or something far older than technology? A grieving woman, a genius teenager, and a priest who believes the digital world has opened a door it cannot close, must navigate a war between human evil and something that may transcend it. Monster in the Machine is a propulsive, layered thriller that pulls back the curtain on human trafficking networks, the corruption of power, and the terrifying ...

Delight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction. Each issue features both established writers and up-and-coming authors who contribute fascinating philosophical insights on controversial topics like marriage equality, assisted suicide, the meaning of death, animal rights, and defining your "purpose." It's time to go deep in search of truth! If you love reading imaginative short stories on hot topics that make your brain think deeply but also have you laughing...

The robots were made under the direction of demons who possessed people. Then the demons inhabited the robots. We who still felt we were alive, not just simply meat bags to serve the machines, gathered under the city to plot our rebellion, seeking ways to take out the robots before they took us all out. I had a mission: find the man with the robot-destroying weapon and help him to save humanity.