Future Civilization

We're standing at a civilizational fork in the road. AI, robotics, and energy abundance are converging into a single force that will either deliver unprecedented prosperity or tear societies apart. There is no comfortable middle ground. After 14 years tracking the companies at the center of this transformation, Farzad Mesbahi lays out a clear-eyed framework for understanding what's coming — and how to position yourself before the window closes.

The epic history of world order, revealing how the decline of the West may be a good thing for its future. Since the dawn of the twenty-first century, the West has been in crisis. Social unrest, political polarization, and the rise of other great powers - especially China - threaten to unravel...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In his travels through Israel and Gaza, #1 International Bestselling author Douglas Murray has seen the best and the worst humanity has to offer, and he has no trouble choosing a side. Murray is not Jewish and before October 7, he had never lived in Israel...

Fans of Hugh Howey and Kim Stanley Robinson will find much to love in Silo 42: Arrival—a hopeful post-apocalyptic novel about building a better world after the old one has failed. After surviving the exodus from Silo 42 and the long march east to the Atlantic Ocean, the pioneers finally reach the coast—only to discover that freedom is far more complicated than escape. As the community begins building Sunrise Village from the ground up, new alliances, old conflicts, and unexpected realities reshape how they build a resilient life. Calen, one of the silo engineers, is invited into the ...

Brought to you by Penguin. A radical retelling of human history through collapse – from the dawn of our species to the urgent existential threats of the twenty-first century and beyond. ‘A brilliant, utterly convincing account of the evolution of human society and why we are probably...

Now featuring a new preface by Peter Thiel Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century...

“Fifty years later, the world we became—and what we left behind.” Fifty years after the sky opened and humanity learned the truth, the world is unrecognizable. Floating cities drift on antigravity anchors. Illnesses that once defined entire eras have vanished. The planet has healed. War has quietly retired from human vocabulary. And what we once called “paranormal” is now simply physics we were too young to understand. In this final installment of the Disclosure Day series, Dr. Lena Morales—now ninety years old but appearing forty-five thanks to post-contact regenerative ...

One ship. One disgraced captain. One empire that really, really wants them all dead. What could possibly go wrong? Five books. Over 2,000 pages of high-octane space opera, bad decisions under fire, emotional gut punches, and enough sarcasm to violate several interstellar treaties. Captain Xander Hawk once did the right thing. He saved a doomed transport—and paid for it with his career, his freedom, and any chance of ever seeing his wife and daughter again. His reward? Life imprisonment in the galaxy’s most miserable hellhole, where hope goes to die and the food probably qualifies as a ...

Books preserve ideas, yes, but they also provoke new ones— they are true tools for thinking. In The Idea Machine, Joel J. Miller shows that books are one of the most important but overlooked factors in the making of our contemporary world.

What happens when the species that invented intelligence… begins to redesign itself? For millions of years, evolution moved slowly. Then came language. Then tools. Then civilization. Then machines. Now comes artificial intelligence. And this time, the shift is not only technological. It is biological. Cognitive. Cultural. Civilizational. TecnoSapiens explores the next great leap in human evolution: the emergence of a hybrid humanity shaped by artificial intelligence, biotechnology, digital consciousness, and the growing fusion between mind, machine, and society. This is not a book about ...

Named a Best Book of 2025 by Bloomberg From legendary filmmaker and author Werner Herzog, a compact, effervescent, and deeply personal exploration of art, philosophy, and history that unravels one of our most elusive and contested questions: What is truth—and how to find it in our...

The 75th anniversary edition of The Martian Chronicles, a seminal work in Ray Bradbury’s career, whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by time’s passage. Now in a new edition from S&S Audio! In The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, America’s preeminent storyteller...

The creator of the wildly popular award-winning podcast Hardcore History looks at some of the apocalyptic moments from the past as a way to frame the challenges of the future. Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human...

What if everything you thought you knew about history was wrong, or worse, deliberately rewritten? The Lost Civilization of Tartaria explores the mysteries of a forgotten empire that once spanned the globe. From buried architecture and impossible feats of engineering to orphan trains and suspiciously timed “natural disasters,” this book uncovers the patterns pointing to a massive global reset, and the systematic erasure of an advanced civilization from our collective memory. Through compelling evidence and provocative questions, you'll journey into the world of Tartaria, where star ...

“In the modern tradition of Big Books of human history like Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens and David Graeber and David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything, Goliath’s Curse provides a novel theory of civilizational development. . . . [It] feels something like reading the French economist Thomas...

The Lost Continent: At the edge of the world, an impossible relic from the fables of antiquity has risen from the frozen wastelands of Antarctica. Professor Logan and his exploration team rush to investigate this historic find, but this unique discovery puts their lives in peril when they unearth the remnants of a long-forgotten civilization left buried beneath the ice. Within the twisting labyrinths below the melting glaciers, they uncover an ancient culture which had perished from a mysterious cataclysm. They soon realize it was a polar shift which had caused their destruction, and our ...

THE SASSANI: The Hidden Galactic History of Humanity is a visionary exploration of humanity’s hidden origin, its connection to extraterrestrial intelligence, and its possible future as a conscious galactic species. This book presents a radical alternative to the conventional story of Homo sapiens. It follows the possibility that humanity did not develop in isolation, but within a wider field of genetics, consciousness, contact and interstellar influence. At the center of this history are the Sassani: a hybrid civilization connected to humanity through biology, memory and consciousness. ...

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Short Stories/Collections A seminal work in Ray Bradbury’s career, The Illustrated Man is a mesmerizing collection of eighteen interconnected sci-fi short stories that explore the dichotomy of human nature and technology. Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. For...

Homo Universalis: The Ultimate Blueprint for Civilization The book that dares to answer the question: What kind of humanity deserves to endure? We are living in the most critical moment in human history. Civilization is destabilizing, trust is collapsing, meaning is eroding, and technology is advancing faster than our wisdom. Politics cannot save us. Ideology cannot guide us. Good intentions are no longer enough. Homo Universalis delivers the first truly universal framework for human survival, stability, dignity, and evolution. Drawing from Moral Physics, PantaSupra cosmology, Ontoelectric ...

Where is human evolution taking us? To answer this question, bestselling author Gregg Braden continues to break ground, merging the wisdom of lost prophecy and ancient prayer with the latest in scientific research on the destiny of humankind. The Gregg Braden Audio Collection brings together for...