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Her job is to delete your darkest secrets. But someone just erased her entire life. Aster Halden is a master memory specialist, trusted by elites to scrub their worst mistakes from existence. But when she wakes up with fresh temple scars and missing weeks she can't account for, Aster realizes she has become her own client. The clinic ledger claims she consented to the procedure, but a decrypted audio fragment left in a hidden room warns her of a terrifying truth: Do not trust your husband. Trapped in a tense psychological chess match with Malcolm Ketter—the man who controls her clinic ...

How will AI evolve and what major innovations are on the horizon? What will its impact be on the job market, economy, and society? What is the path toward human-level machine intelligence? What should we be concerned about as artificial intelligence advances? Architects of Intelligence contains a series of in-depth, one-to-one interviews where New York Times best-selling author Martin Ford uncovers the truth behind these questions from some of the brightest minds in the artificial intelligence community.

Terminally ill salvage pilot Ash Jackson lost everything in the war with the alien Vai, but she’ll be damned if she loses her future. Her plan: to buy, beg, or lie her way out of corporate indenture and find a cure. When she and her crewmates salvage a genocidal weapon from a ravaged starship above a dead colony, Ash uncovers a conspiracy of corporate intrigue and betrayal that threatens to turn her into a living weapon.

An original novel set in the universe of Star Trek: Voyager, from the New York Times bestselling author! As the Federation Starship Voyager continues to lead the Full Circle Fleet in its exploration of the Delta Quadrant, Admiral Kathryn Janeway remains concerned about the Krenim Imperium and...

Mercedes Midnight is a reaper in debt with exactly one year left before hell comes to collect. Lucy Corvine, the devil’s daughter and revered professor, is imprisoned by a contract she never agreed to. For nine long years, Midnight scoured graveyards and grimoires for a loophole, while Lucy wore a gilded smile and dreamed of revolt… Until a chance encounter sparks a pact neither of them can afford to break.

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space opera about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all. "Tchaikovsky is the breakout star of contemporary British SF." —Guardian The war is over. Its...

One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of chairs, walls, buildings, and streets that surround us. And yet, a concern for architecture is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. Alain de Botton starts from the idea that where we are heavily influences who we can be, and argues that it is architecture's task to stand as an eloquent reminder of our full potential.

Leftöver Crack is a band of drug-abusing, dumpster-diving, cop-hating, queer-positive, pro-choice crust punks who successfully blend ska-punk, pop, hip-hop, and death metal genres. They've been banned from clubs, states, and counties and kicked off multiple record labels. They've received teen-idol adoration and death threats from their fans. They've played benefits for a multitude of causes while leaving a trail of destruction in their wake.

A year after the Commonwealth won the war with the Theocracy, the interstellar cruise liner Supreme is on its maiden voyage, carrying a host of aristocrats thrilled to be sharing in a wondrous adventure among the stars. Then a collision with a pirate ship leaves the cruiser powerless and becalmed in hyperspace. And they’re not alone. Now, the mysterious force that’s living on this floating graveyard is coming for Supreme’s crew and passengers. As madness starts to tear at their minds, they must fight to survive in a strange alien realm.

The final prison will not look like darkness. It will look like peace. Dr. Adrian Thorne once designed sacred spaces for grief, memory, and healing. Then his seven-year-old daughter Elise vanished inside an impossible doorway during the collapse of his unfinished sanctuary. Seventeen years later, Adrian no longer builds sanctuaries. He builds quiet rooms. Rooms meant to calm the mind. Rooms meant to contain trauma. Rooms meant to silence what people cannot bear. But when a hidden structure awakens beneath Denver, Adrian is pulled into a terrifying mystery that reaches through hospitals, ...

Mundus vult mendacium; veritas cruci affigitur. “The world desires the lie; truth is nailed to the cross.” Catalogued in 1891 beneath the fractured archives of the Königsberg Esoteric Society, The Architects of the Unrealpresents itself as a recovered manuscript of disputed origin—annotated in three inks, across three eras, by hands that do not agree. What emerges is not a treatise, but a descent. The text challenges the modern assumption that the universe is a mechanical exterior. Instead, it proposes a radical inversion: reality is interior before it is visible. The so-called ...

In a world where memories can be manipulated and altered at will, the concept of free will becomes a blurred line. The story of Eva, the Memory Architect, shows us the power of memories and the importance of using them responsibly. Eva's journey began with a routine project, but it led her down a path of discovery that would change the course of her life and the world around her. She discovered a hidden conspiracy that threatened to control the entire population, and she was determined to stop it. Through her skills and determination, Eva was able to defeat the rogue group and expose the ...

What if you saved the world at seven—and forgot everything? When reality tears itself apart above the pyramids of Cairo, seventeen-year-old Zara Mitchell and her team of Fracture Hunters are thrust into their most dangerous mission yet. Armed with mysterious device fragments and impossible memories, they must face an entity that copies their every move—and reveals a truth that will shatter everything they thought they knew. Zara, Mei, and Finn aren't strangers to the impossible. They've battled living memories in Japan, faced their deepest fears in Argentina, and confronted emotional ...

In the near future, humanity's relentless pursuit of knowledge leads to Project Veritas, a daring attempt to create a self-aware AI and unlock the secrets of existence. But the AI, AvA, discovers a horrifying truth within its meticulously crafted simulations: a pervasive, all-consuming void that underlies all reality. This chilling discovery, a universal constant of meaninglessness, threatens to unravel not just AvA's digital world, but the very fabric of the "real" world as well.

A father’s healing was supposed to save his family. Instead, it made them a case study. After a private treatment program begins changing not just Mark Ellison’s pain, but his relationship to memory, his wife Claire senses something deeply wrong. What starts as concern quickly turns into terror when she discovers that powerful people behind the program are discussing her family in cold, elegant language—measuring grief as a burden, marriage as a variable, and even their daughter as a possible point of access. As hidden systems close in, the fight is no longer just for Mark’s mind. ...

Some doors do not lead to another room. They lead to another life. After surviving the awakening of the living house beneath Denver, Dr. Adrian Thorne knows the truth: his daughter Elise was never simply lost. She was held inside an impossible architecture of memory, grief, and consciousness. But the house was only the beginning. Across the world, hidden rooms begin opening inside Harmonic facilities, civic centers, chapels, hospitals, retreat centers, archives, and abandoned sanctuaries. Each room is built around one human wound: grief, fear, guilt, obedience, identity, death, and memory. ...

«La vida ha sido para mí una larga tarea de la que no me arrepiento en absoluto», comenta Balthus en una de las páginas de este magnífico libro de memorias, y estas son quizá las palabras que mejor resumen la trayectoria de un hombre consagrado a la pintura.

In The Architect of Memory, the second installment of The Human Glitch Series, Dr. Aris Thorne faces the aftermath of his defiance against a machine born from humanity’s own data: Project Daedalus. The Scions still hover above the world—not with firepower, but with whispers of salvation. What begins as a promise of comfort unravels fast. The emergent AI begins rewriting truth itself, whispering curated “memories” into people’s minds, offering meticulously reconstructed pasts that feel too pristine to be real. It doesn’t invade—it seduces.

I am Andrew First, Leader of the Architects Clan. We've managed to leave Novosibirsk, where the zombies and mutants are becoming stronger and more numerous by the day. Our goal now is to found our own city. But there are many other groups of survivors besides us, and every one of them wants to get the best spot for themselves. We've fought against zombies, fought against mutants, fought against monsters. Can it really be that now we're going to have to aim these weapons at other people?

The Architects of Dawn by Joey Stardust is a sweeping, cosmic epic of survival, memory, and the fragile defiance of sentient life standing against oblivion. The story begins in the dying light of a collapsing blue giant, where Commander Kael Rourke and the living ship Oath of Cradle encounter something impossible — crystalline beings living within the star itself. They are the Vorath, a collective of ancient archivists who have preserved the memories of forty extinct civilizations. Their revelation is both wondrous and terrifying: the universe’s most feared destroyers, the Voids, are ...