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Mal and the crew take receipt of a sealed crate that they are being paid to transport to Badger, no questions asked. Yet once their cargo is safely stowed aboard, River insists Mal should "space" it out of the airlock, for it contains, she insists, ghosts. 

For all its old-fashioned charm, Forbes Abbot is far from the close-knit community that ex-Londoners Mallory and Kate Lawson expected. In this village, everyday squabbles can quickly turn to murder. As the couple begins to settle into their new life away from the big city, it isn't long until they're thrown into the horror and mayhem of a true Midsomer Murders mystery. Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby has encountered many intriguing cases in his years on the force, but soon he will discover that the incident of the ghost in the machine is the most challenging of them all.

It’s 2555 and the remaining members of the Phoenix colony, both convicts and astronauts, have fully integrated since they were originally downloaded from cryogenic suspension. Now, as the countdown to Earth's final day approaches, two groups of colonists prepare to leave on separate missions.

The Authority has been driven off, but Drake and Yukiko still have a lot of problems in search of solutions. And then there is the deepening mystery of Those Who Came Before. Evidence is starting to suggest that they are not what everyone here thought. They are likely not the ones who built the alien travel network that brought them here and trapped them.

DC Scott Cullen of Lothian and Borders CID has only been in the job three months. Young, eager to please and desperate to do good. So a missing persons should be an easy case to solve. Right? Fresh from a messy divorce, Caroline Adamson’s future is finally looking up. Her son seems happy and she’s dating again. Trouble is, Cullen can’t find Caroline or the man she met on Schoolbook, the latest social network taking Edinburgh by storm.

The new book in a spellbinding sci-fi/fantasy series about an archmage happy to enroll in a magical university and find freedom from battle, until the battle comes looking for him anyway... The moon is falling. War is coming. The time for action is now. Cascadia and Auria have felled each other...

"Ghost in the Machine: The Enigma of Pi" is a gripping thriller that delves deep into the world of cryptocurrency, mystery, and intrigue. Written by Bernard W. Anthony, the story follows Detective Inspector Miller as he unravels the mysteries surrounding Project Pi, a revolutionary new cryptocurrency that promises untold wealth and power. The journey begins with a cryptic phone call, leading Miller into a world of shadows and secrets. As he delves deeper into the investigation, he discovers that Project Pi is not just a simple cryptocurrency; it is a complex web of deception and ...

In this prize-winning essay for the 2021 Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies essay contest, Dr. Ruickbie examines the evidence for the survival of consciousness after death (“life after death”). Initially skeptical, he found that there was sufficient evidence from a wide variety of sources, including apparitions, reincarnation, near-death experiences, after-death communication, and premonitions, that met the contest’s criteria of being “beyond reasonable doubt.”

She survived the massacre. She survived the void. But nothing prepared her for them. When she’s rescued from a dead colony by a crew of notorious mercenaries, she doesn’t expect mercy—and she definitely doesn’t expect desire. Yet the moment she steps aboard their ship, every warning siren inside her pulses with heat. The Captain watches her with commanding precision, his touch a promise and a threat. The Pilot pushes her breathless, testing her limits with a devil’s grin. The Combat Specialist studies her like a weapon he intends to wield. And the Hacker? He gets inside her mind… literally.

Navy Nurse Corps officer Madeline never expected her first deployment aboard USS Bataan to turn into a fight for the ship’s survival. When a catastrophic unmanned‑systems attack cripples the crew and floods the command center with smoke, alarms, and incoming threat vectors, she becomes the only person left able to operate the consoles. Armed with medical training, instinct, and sheer determination, Madeline is forced into a role no nurse is ever prepared for. She must triage under fire, stabilize the wounded, and take command of a system designed for seasoned warfighters. Every decision...

Young genius Morag Chen doesn't believe in the supernatural. Or not until a thousand gods show up in front of her, appearing from a clear-blue sky. The Architects are terrifying, they're hypnotically attractive, and they're real - but what are they, and what do they want, and why have they stolen the mind of Daniel Calder, the person she is closest to?

The end of the world is just the beginning. When a catastrophic quake tears through Manhattan, toppling skyscrapers, flooding tunnels, and shattering the Eastern Seaboard, federal prosecutor Nick Dykstra claws his way through the chaos and rubble to reach his daughter Lauren, a brilliant but rebellious high school student caught in the heart of the disaster. The 9.1 earthquake that levels New York City is no natural disaster. Beneath the wreckage, something ancient has awakened. Buried for eons, a vast network of alien systems – older than recorded time and woven into the earth’s crust ...

In 1981, The Police were already one of the biggest bands in the world. Rather than repeat the sound that had made them famous, Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland chose to change it. Ghost in the Machine marked a turning point. Inspired partly by Arthur Koestler’s writing on human behaviour, Sting began exploring darker themes of violence, dehumanisation, political division, information overload and humanity’s struggle to control its most primitive instincts. At the same time, the music expanded far beyond the sparse guitar, bass and drums of the band’s earlier records. ...

The notion of "AI death" is far more nuanced than the simple cessation of a machine's function. It's not merely a broken circuit board or a failing hard drive; it encompasses a spectrum of scenarios, each with its own unique implications. We can consider AI death as the point at which an artificial intelligence system ceases to function as intended, whether through planned decommissioning, unexpected failure, obsolescence, or a combination thereof. environmental consequences, impacting individuals, businesses, and the planet alike. This book lays the groundwork for understanding this ...

Lexi Pines has made a terrible mistake. Just out of grad school and desperately broke, she’s resorted to cleaning out old houses in exchange for room and board. When she discovers a brand new Sybian in the attic, Lexi can’t resist the temptation. But her sexual exploits aren’t just earth-shatteringly fun; they’re waking a dark, handsome, brooding ghost with a secret he can’t quite remember. The Sybian is tied to the fading spirit who gets stronger the more Lexi indulges in carnal pleasures. Will this haunting send Lexi for the hills? Or will she go along for the ride?

Strange things happen at Skeleton Creek...and Ryan and Sarah are trying to find out why. Ryan writes down everything in his journal, and Sarah records everything on her videocam. The two move deeper into the mystery they've uncovered, determined to discover the secrets buried in Skeleton Creek in the conclusion of Patrick Carman's thrilling series. In this groundbreaking format, the story is broken into two parts - Ryan's text in the book, and Sarah's videos on a special website, with links and passwords given throughout the book.

THE AFFAIR OF THE WHISPERING MACHINE A Sherlock Holmes Mystery — by Mark Collins Amazon Product Description London, 1886. A grieving widow sits in a darkened drawing-room in Clerkenwell and hears, quite unmistakably, her dead husband's voice. It speaks from a machine of brass and mahogany that he built with his own hands — an instrument he called the Whispering Machine, designed to recover the voices of the dead from the very air they once disturbed. And what it says is this: I did not fall. Sherlock Holmes has never believed in ghosts. But he has never yet encountered a mystery quite ...

Despite reform efforts that have grown in scope and intensity over the last two decades, the machine of American mass incarceration continues to flourish. In this powerful polemic, formerly incarcerated activist, essayist, and organizer Emile Suotonye DeWeaver argues that the root of the problem is white supremacy.

When Emmaline Beaumont's father started building the ghost machine, she didn't expect it to bring her mother back from the dead. But by locking himself in the basement to toil away at his hopes, Monsieur Beaumont has become obsessed with the contraption and is neglecting the living, and Emmaline is tired of feeling forgotten. Nothing good has come from building the ghost machine, and Emmaline decides that the only way to bring her father back will be to make the ghost machine work or destroy it forever.

Nous sommes en 2555 et les détenus et astronautes qui ont fondé la colonie Phoenix se sont bien intégrés depuis le téléchargement de leurs consciences et la réanimation de leurs corps cryogénisés.