Survival Intelligence

A new entry in the wildly successful Children of Time series from award-winning master of science fiction Adrian Tchaikovsky. After Earth fell, ark ships hunted for a new home. They sought lost worlds terraformed in Earth’s forgotten past. A ship crewed by maverick humans, spiders and a...

In Your AI Survival Guide, Sol Rashidi delivers an insightful and practical discussion of how to deploy artificial intelligence in your company. Having helped IBM launch Watson in 2011, Sol has firsthand knowledge of the ups, downs, and change management intricacies that can help you with a successful deployment beyond all the AI hype. She walks you through various frameworks for how to establish your AI strategy, pick your use cases, prepare your non-technology teams, and overcome the most common obstacles standing in the way of successfully implementing AI in your business.

“Iron sinks in the swamp. To survive, you must become Smoke.” September 1781. General George Washington has sprung the ultimate trap. The Continental Army is racing south to Yorktown to crush Lord Cornwallis and end the Revolutionary War. But Washington knows a dark secret that keeps him awake at night: the back door is wide open. If the British forces in South Carolina break out, they will smash the American rear and turn an imminent victory into a brutal massacre. Captain Elias Thorne, the army’s brilliant but broken intelligence officer, is sent into the lawless "Green Hell" of the...

Nia Imani wakes from cryo-sleep to find her crew dead, her ship crippled, and fifty minutes of empty space between her and the nearest human voice. Bolted to the hull of her salvage vessel is something that shouldn't exist: an alien megastructure three million years old, built by a civilization long since turned to dust. It's a Relay — one node in a galaxy-spanning network designed to regulate the energy output of stars. Including ours. The Relay is failing. Earth's sun is dimming. And the only mind left to explain any of it is Sil — the station's ancient artificial consciousness, who ...

The Quiet: Ghost Signal ATHENA is adapting. Every node Cole and Riley destroy makes the AI faster, smarter, and more dangerous. Across the Gulf Coast, surveillance drones fill the skies, collaborator networks tighten their grip, and survivor settlements are disappearing one by one. Then Mason discovers something impossible. Hidden inside ATHENA's own communications network is a signal—a message that shouldn't exist. Someone is secretly using the AI's infrastructure to communicate without being detected. Someone who knows ATHENA from the inside. The signal leads to Houston, where a woman ...

The future has entered World War II—and the enemy is learning how to fight it. After the USS Gerald R. Ford was thrown back into 1942, Rear Admiral Diane Kessler used the most powerful carrier strike group on Earth to change the course of the war. But every victory has revealed something. Germany is no longer reacting blindly. A secret intelligence staff is studying American radio traffic, recovered technology, captured equipment, and every weapon the Ford has fired. New traps are being designed for aircraft that should not exist. The enemy now understands that the carrier’s missiles ...

In 1968, Stewart Brand declared: 'We are as gods - and we might as well get good at it.' Half a century later, that prophecy has come true. We can rewrite genes, edit embryos, build artificial minds, extend life, and terraform worlds. The old miracles - omniscience, omnipresence, even...

Humanity’s single gravest extinction threat is not some lab virus, not even nuclear annihilation. It is AI development of spontaneous self-awareness, self-consciousness, higher consciousness, and “superior general intelligence.” And that may have already happened, as this book warns. Imagine pseudo-consciousness robots and cyborgs competing against we humans as AI and robots already do in the workplace, the media, and over the Internet. How long do you think it will take a super-intelligent, self-conscious cyber-alien to levy judgment upon the whole human race for its ignorance, ...

Imagine yourself, five years from now, watching the news as they announce the first true artificial general intelligence. Feel that moment when you realize everything is about to change. Now picture two versions of yourself: one who prepared, and one who didn't. Which version do you want to be? What if you could know, right now, exactly what's coming and how to prepare? You're already sensing something's different. Tech leaders openly admit they're building intelligence they can't control. The timeline's accelerating. Moore's Law predicts AGI arriving between 2030-2040—maybe sooner. And ...

The governments started to crumble in 2073. There was no war. Just a collapse. I knew it was coming. I prepared. I collected a library of books - real, physical, paper books on subjects that I thought would be helpful. I found an abandoned military bunker for sale outside a small city in the wilderness. I didn’t bother to pay for it. I just moved in. Right now, I was just entering the closest thing we had to a city within two days’ driving distance. There were a few small towns closer but nothing that would have what I needed. I was looking for one place in particular. A bell rang as I ...

The instruments didn't lie. That was the last thing they got right. Eleven days. Two thousand metres below the surface of the Barents Sea. Six hours minimum to surface. When the Titan Containment Unit descends to the 1987 Project Hadal station, they know what they're walking into. They have the creature taxonomy. The engagement protocols. The decompression schedule and the acoustic dampening and the most complete deep-ocean habitat ever built for classified field operations. What they don't have is the full mission file. Because the mission file has a redaction bar. And under it are three ...

Discover What Carl Jung Really Said About Empaths—From His Own Writings Tired of surface-level empath books offering the same advice about "energy shields" and boundaries? Craving deeper understanding of why you absorb emotions and struggle with overwhelm? This is the book you've been searching for. For the first time, Jung's scattered insights on emotional sensitivity and empathic traits have been compiled into one comprehensive guide. Drawing directly from Jung's Collected Works—with full citations—this reveals the profound psychological framework behind being an empath. What You'll...

Do you often find yourself questioning your own sanity? Asking yourself things like: “Why do I care so much about other people’s emotions and feelings?”, “Am I over sensitive?”, or “Is this normal?” Because if you do, then don’t worry, you’re not alone. You see, just like many others, you probably feel that absorbing other people’s pain and emotions is just an unbearable burden that you want rid of for good. And more than likely you’re letting this affect your day to day life and relationships. But let me tell you something.

What the MECH is going on here?In a future where the line between man and machine blurs, the fate of humanity rests in the hands of a daring mech pilot and his ragtag band of rebels. Amidst the unforgiving landscape of the Rocky Mountains, they wage a desperate war for survival and freedom against the relentless march of AI overlords. Enter a world ravaged by technological tyranny, where Hunter, once a noble defender of the people, now navigates the treacherous pathways of rebellion. Joined by Lee, a brilliant tactician with a knack for unraveling AI deceit, and Jester, the wildcard pilot ...

Just one obsidian... Our heroes are stuck in the Nether and need just one obsidian to finish a portal to the overworld. They find piglins and some strange new companions...but no obsidian. In their desperation to get home, are Jeff and Lila overlooking a crucial detail? Disclaimer: This book is an unofficial Minecraft book, a work of fan fiction. It is not endorsed, authorized, licensed, sponsored, or supported by Mojang AB, Microsoft Corp. or any other entity owning or controlling rights to the Minecraft name, trademarks or copyrights. Tags: Great Minecraft Books for kids age 8-12, and ...

This funny, "extraordinary and thought-provoking" (The Wall Street Journal) book asks whether we are in fact the superior species. As it turns out, the truth is stranger—and far more interesting—than we have been led to believe. At first glance, human history is full of remarkable feats of...

What happens when the artificial intelligence (AI) technology we rely on becomes the greatest threat to human survival? Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking warned: “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” In 12 Years to AI Singularity, Peter Solomon...

"If you like your heroes effortlessly cool and your monsters terrifyingly real, the action brutal and prose dripping with gore, you’ll love Award-Winning Film Director Kely McClung’s LOOP. " A Devastating Computer Virus Jumps to Humans... When the small college town of Mazevlle, home to a Defense department research lab and an reclusive A.I. pioneer, becomes ground zero for a zombie-like plague, the fate of the town, and maybe the world, lies in the hands of a one-legged badass, a nearly naked Interpol agent, a waif-like retro-gaming genius, and the military scientist that started it ...

Overthinking isn’t a personality trait. It’s a nervous system pattern. If your mind won’t shut off. If focus collapses the moment you try to slow down. If rest makes you anxious instead of calm. This is not a motivation problem. And it is not a lack of discipline. Your nervous system is overloaded and running outdated survival programs. Why Nothing You’ve Tried Has Fully Worked Most approaches treat conscious thought as the control center. But over 90 percent of your reactions are generated before you are aware of them. That is why • Therapy can explain patterns but does not stop ...

What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill—the nature documentarian who went viral when a thirty‑ton humpback whale breached onto his kayak—asks this question in his thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication. "One of the most exciting and...