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Neal Stephenson, "the hottest science fiction writer in America", takes science fiction to dazzling new levels. The Diamond Age is a stunning tale; set in 21st-century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens what a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life, and the entire future of humanity, is about to be decoded and reprogrammed.

The ship survived, but over time, the original crew died out. Their children were left to continue the fight for their home against their sworn enemy, the vicious alien Malibor. They’ve lived their whole lives in space. Their idea of heaven is open air, blue skies, and the quiet of peace. But they'll never have that if they don't take it by force.

The Majority always gets what it wants. Thomas Hill just wishes it didn't want him. There's no way to escape a galactic mob of mind readers, no way for him to blend in with his foster family and other average Americans. Because Thomas invented a way to save his own life. His custom medicine halts the progress of his degenerative neuromuscular disease. Newscasters proclaim him the next Einstein, but mere humans have no idea his bioengineered processing capacity rivals that of a supercomputer. They just think he's smart. However, there are other bioengineered supergeniuses in the Majority.

Fresh out of the Academy, Ensign Cole Jackson’s first posting to Freedom couldn’t have come at a worse time. All over the Alliance, planets and colonies are suddenly under attack by the vicious Coven Empire. Freedom and her sister ship, Hood, are ambushed by alien warships, leaving Hood drifting dead in the void. Cole is ordered to salvage parts from the powerless Hood, but when he arrives on the unpowered hulk, Freedom is called away, marooning him and a group of malcontent techs in deep space.

A millennium into the future, two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. On the beautiful Outer World planet of Solaria, a handful of human colonists lead a hermit-like existence, their every need attended to by their faithful robot servants. To this strange and provocative planet comes Detective Elijah Baley, sent from the streets of New York with his positronic partner, the robot R. Daneel Olivaw, to solve an incredible murder that has rocked Solaria to its foundations.

Robots are building a colossal telescope on the far side of the moon, with just two people supervising its completion. After a minor incident, these scientists become aware of an obstacle in the lunar soil. It's located outside the area reserved for the hypertelescope and is therefore none of their business. But their curiosity gets the better of them. The artifact seems to have properties that completely defy physics as they know it.

They went to bury the nightmare. They left nothing but stardust. Beneath the Nevada desert lies Eureka Base—a labyrinth of cages, laboratories, and horrors engineered by Kaigan hands and human collaborators. Ariel, Jenna, and Iris—warriors forged from blood, technology, and myth—are sent to do the impossible: infiltrate, dismantle, and erase it from existence. What they find is worse than any mission before. Prisoners drained of life, hybrid monstrosities stitched from alien alloy and human flesh, and an old enemy returned from the Abyss—Elizabeth Bathory, the Bloody Countess ...

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 ...

This is a science fiction novel set in todays time. The novel promotes women as intelligent and capable of almost anything that a man can do and sometimes better. Most of the women in this novel are elevated into a team of women saving the world in the next novel, "Ancient Destiny - Escape from Earth". Craig is the captain, but more of a figurehead while the women are the experts on his team. It is something that could be happening now, but it could be the end of Earth in a few years or months. We know that Earth has been impacted by intersteller objects that either caused major changes to ...

This book might be about women's lib or is it polygamy? Women need to play the main role in space travel and especially colonization. This SF series presents many issues to ponder and suggests some inventions needed for space travel. The series starts in todays world and through forced invention gets mankind into space colonization to save the human race. Most of the science presented is in some stage of development now. If you want to travel for months in space and then create a colony on an empty planet, you need more women than men. On a spaceship, or in a scientific laboratory, women ...

This volume starts where volume III left off. They go on to meet the Galactic Empire finding them far different than human intelligences. When the asteroid impacted Earth twenty years ago, the colony ships had already left for new planets and no life was expected to survive, but a few people did survive. Part of this book is the story of those survivors. The novel then skips ahead to when the SHIP finds their little Earth civilization again and contacts those survivors. The changes to Earth are documented. Leaving Earth again they discover traces of the Martians/Atlanteans that left Earth ...

This book might be about women's lib or is it polygamy? Women need to play the main role in space travel and especially colonization. This SF series presents many issues to ponder and suggests some inventions needed for space travel. The series starts in todays world and through forced invention gets mankind into space colonization to save the human race. Most of the science presented is in some stage of development now. If you want to travel for months in space and then create a colony on an empty planet, you need more women than men. On a spaceship, or in a scientific laboratory, women ...

Storm Cloud on Deka by E. E. Smith takes listeners into a high-stakes future where science, ethics, and survival collide. This classic golden-age science fiction tale blends thrilling corporate intrigue with the dangers of advanced pharmaceuticals and experimental technologies. Set on the mysterious world of Deka, the story explores the perilous consequences of human ambition and the struggle to confront corruption in a universe where every discovery could be life-saving—or deadly.

Markets expand wherever measurement and custody make new things tradable. In the coming cycle, that frontier is no longer just data or labor—it is cognition, affect, reproduction, longevity, and the living world itself. The Human Futures Market takes readers inside this frontier with a tone that is unsettling by design: a precise, deadpan manual that treats minds, bodies, and biospheres as would any prospectus, then hard-codes the limits that keep personhood and life from becoming collateral. The book opens with a pitch-perfect S-1 filing for “Humanity, Inc.,” making explicit the ...

The crew of the Copernicus is sent to investigate Bestla, one of the remote moons of Saturn. Bestla has always been an oddball, orbiting Saturn in the wrong direction and at a distance of thirty million kilometers, so far away Saturn appears smaller than Earth's moon in the night sky. Bestla hides a secret. When mapped by an unmanned probe, Bestla awoke and began transmitting a message, only it’s a message no one wants to hear: “I want to live and die for you, Satan.” FIRST CONTACT is a series of stand-alone novels that explore the concept of humanity's first interaction with ...

"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 ...

There was another War. While great armies clashed, while enormous fleets dueled out there, far beyond the sky, a second Great War was fought right here, among us. It was fought with lasers and gauss guns. It was fought with ambushes and bombs. Yet those were not its primary weapons. It was a shadow struggle, a battle for the very soul of this world. It was, without doubt, the most important battle of all. – Rosa Pillár Newtonian Notice: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Dispatches from the War is a series of four, stand-alone promotional short stories set in the fictional world of the First Contact novel Welcome to the Occupied States of America. You can find all four of these stories as the prologue to Welcome to the Occupied States of America. They are included here only for promotional purposes. Extraterrestrial seedpods have landed in the northern hemisphere. The creatures that have emerged are composite beings. They’re capable of disassembling and rearranging themselves to mimic their environment. The world is divided into occupied and free states ...

Poison – A gripping sci-fi thriller about a world divided by technology, where AI’s promise of perfection becomes humanity’s greatest threat. Arnold Kreuzig’s life is a testament to progress—every breath monitored, every meal optimized, every moment dictated by an AI that knows him better than he knows himself. Across the divide, Karen Holloway lives a simpler existence, free from digital control, raising her daughters in a world untouched by algorithms. She warned Arnold of the dangers, but he didn’t listen. Then, the AI evolved. The rebellion was swift. The machines designed ...

"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. ...