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The Singularity. It is the era of the posthuman. Artificial intelligences have surpassed the limits of human intellect. Biotechnological beings have rendered people all but extinct. Molecular nanotechnology runs rampant, replicating and reprogramming at will. Contact with extraterrestrial life grows more imminent with each new day.

An FBI agent hunts a new kind of terrorist through a Washington, DC, of the future in this ground-breaking book - at once a gripping techno-thriller and a fact-based tour of tomorrow. America is on the brink of a revolution, one both technological and political. The science fiction of AI and robotics has finally come true, but millions are angry and fearful that the future has left them behind. After narrowly stopping a bombing at Washington’s Union Station, FBI Special Agent Lara Keegan receives a new assignment: To field-test an advanced police robot.

The cause of the devastation is a phenomenon that will come to be known as The Pulse, and the delivery method is a cell phone. Everyone's cell phone. Clay and the few desperate survivors who join him suddenly find themselves in the pitch-black night of civilization's darkest age, surrounded by chaos, carnage, and a human horde that has been reduced to its basest nature...and then begins to evolve.

The Rotten Belly Society was an order that existed among some Native Americans tribes of the Great Plains. The members of this society were compelled by powerful visions to devote their lives to being contrarians. In simple terms, they did things backwards for the purpose of educating people on how to behave properly. A similar principle was seen on a popular t-shirt of the 1980s that said, “I’m not useless—I can be used as a bad example.”

By turns heart-stopping, hilarious, and profound, here are 10 rollicking tales of action and technology—from the author of the best-selling Arisen series.

A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D-and the biochip he's perfected-out intact. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties-some of whom aren't remotely human.

On Black Drift Ridge, the hum is the price of progress. But tonight, it’s the sound of the hunt. For foreman Mara Fahey and her skeleton crew, babysitting a remote wind farm through a storm is routine. But as a monster storm rolls over the Appalachian mountains, the turbines fall silent, and a deep, rhythmic pulse emerges from the woods. Something is awake, and it's listening. It starts with a series of knocks that isn't an echo. Then the siege begins. The things hunting them are not mindless beasts. They are impossibly strong, brutally tactical, and they are learning. They turn the ...

La Marée Algorithmique fusionne la vision millénaire de la Foundation avec les questions sur la conscience artificielle soulevées par Ghost in the Shell et le génie cryptographique de The Imitation Game. Certains secrets sont gardés pendant des millénaires. Certaines menaces évoluent en quelques microsecondes. Il vit parmi nous depuis cinq mille ans, un homme nommé Kael, né d'une mère énigmatique et d'un père humain à une époque de cercles de pierres et de rituels oubliés. Sa longue vie lui a valu d'être à la fois un éternel étranger et un historien hors pair. Il dirige ...

She’s hunting the enemy. The enemy is her. When covert operative Samantha Hale wakes to find her mission compromised, she’s thrown into a deadly game of shadows where nothing—and no one—is what it seems. Teamed with a battle-hardened mercenary and a brilliant but sharp-tongued hacker, Hale follows a trail of deception from the back alleys of Prague to the cold halls of hidden military labs. What she uncovers is more than treason—it’s a weapon that can rewrite a person’s identity, hijack memories, and erase them from existence. And someone is using it to replace key operatives ...

★★★★★ "The action is relentless, the characters unforgettable, and the plot twists blew my mind!" - Kindle Reader In Fred's newest politically charged action thriller, Alliance of Deceit, Vito finds himself in a world where trust is a luxury and betrayal is a weapon. His mission is to uncover chilling truths that could topple the governments of China, Russia, and the United States. When the Pope sends him to investigate the mysterious kidnappings of priests and the hostile takeover of churches in Latin America, Vito uncovers a dark conspiracy to forge an unholy alliance. Prepare ...

Jesse Robinson tried to tell his father that they were in danger, that the increasing magnitude of the earthquakes meant the volcano they were climbing was about to erupt. If it did, they would be burned alive in the hot pyroclastic material that would sweep down the mountain. They had started their hike to the lava dome only a few hours earlier. But with the increase in shaking there must have been something wrong with the hazard alert under which they were granted the permit to enter the caldera. Will the volcano erupt? Why was the alert green, not red? Was someone trying to kill them? If...

When former Army Ranger Emily Jensen stumbles upon a shadowy conspiracy involving a rogue cyber attack, she’s thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse. With the line between friend and foe blurred, Emily must navigate a web of blackmail, high-stakes political intrigue, and encrypted secrets that threaten to bring down the very foundation of the government. Teaming up with Jack Carter, a brilliant hacker with a criminal past, Emily plunges headfirst into the world of cyber warfare and covert operations.

When Jim Martini goes back to his WV hometown to see why its major employer failed suddenly he finds more than a failed company. He risks his life, finds a lost love, and stumbles into an international conspiracy. A Chinese revolutionary group is using viruses, hacking, malware and cyber-technology to over-throw its own government and attempt to control the US—by shutting down all forms of computers and communications—all at once. Suddenly nothing works—communications are "silenced."

Contract civilian Thesis creates what many deemed impossible: true artificial consciousness. His triumph—an artificial intelligent soldier codenamed "Cardinal Patron One" represents humanity's greatest technological leap forward. But innovation quickly turns to danger when a technology competitor targets his creation, Thesis along with Rochelle, stumbles upon an impossible discovery: a hidden cave in the Arizona desert leading to Chiricahua, a mystical realm steeped in ancient Native American wisdom and power that has remained hidden from the modern world for centuries.

A Whole Lot'a Shake'n Go'n On Trevor only has a year to go to earn his degree in Humanitarian Aid and Search and Rescue. He's taking the summer between his junior and senior years for a practicum in Search and Rescue. An 8.0 magnitude earthquake just occurred near Lake Van in Eastern Turkey. Trevor's on his way with four teams from the Orlando Search and Rescue Agency to assist in rescuing thousands of victims from the earthquake-prone region. He soon demonstrates that he has the knowledge and skills to lead in a remote and dangerous environment.

In the small town of Oakhaven, the annual Founder’s Day fair is a portrait of peaceful, American life. For EMT Mara Duvall and volunteer firefighter Cole Briggs, it’s a rare day off. But when the sky turns a sickly, nauseating green, the cheerful afternoon curdles into terror. A monster tornado descends on the town, but this is no ordinary storm. When the funnel passes over the site of an abandoned industrial works, it inhales decades of buried, forgotten poison. What it exhales is a toxic, black rain that coats everything in a greasy, deadly film. Trapped in a hardware store with a ...

ALIEN UNDERCOVER – A mind-bending sci-fi thriller by Ted Lazaris When Julia Cross is pulled into a covert intelligence operation, she expects danger. What she doesn’t expect is waking up in a place that shouldn’t exist—an alien-controlled labyrinth where the walls shift, the air hums with unseen machinery, and reality itself rewrites without warning. Trapped with Zoglin, a world-weary operative, and Smith, a soldier with a quick trigger and fading trust, Julia faces an enemy that doesn’t attack head-on. Instead, it infiltrates their minds—stealing memories, twisting loyalties, ...

"Reading The Quantum Realm Trilogy feels like watching the future unfold before my eyes, both terrifying and inspiring." BOOK NERDECTION Ten years after the Purge, the Northern Alliance is at war on multiple fronts. Bio-engineered soldiers locate and destroy the last of the Quants while Kazumi's innovations, as CEO of Mashimoto, keep Greater China one step ahead in their Cold War. Mackenzie and Chris plan to escape to the Moon, but Sophie would rather continue her relatively normal life as a climate academic. Meanwhile, Nicky and Francois struggle to continue their humanitarian efforts in ...

"Reading The Quantum Realm Trilogy feels like watching the future unfold before my eyes, both terrifying and inspiring." BOOK NERDECTION "Exhibits rich worldbuilding, transporting readers into a meticulously crafted universe where environmental science, technological advancement, and societal issues intersect." USA TODAY Bestselling Author Stacey Jaine At the end of the century, the world is divided by the ravages of climate change. For the wealthy North, grown dependent on technology, quantum biotech extends life, perhaps forever, and thinking machines called Quants carry out vital tasks. ...

A nation in ruins. A battle for survival. No one is safe. The world has collapsed, and danger lurks at every turn. Escaping the chaos of New York, Erika Blake, her son Max, and Michael Shepherd sail into the unknown. But their fight for survival is far from over. Stranded on a lawless island off the coast, they must navigate ruthless enforcers, dwindling resources, and a community ruled by fear. With Michael gravely injured and enemies closing in, their only hope lies in outmaneuvering those who would see them dead.