Ancient Machine

Some relics are not meant to be claimed. They are meant to be tended. Jay Aurelio Fendrick came to Serpent’s End seeking the Sun Scepter, an ancient relic buried beyond a labyrinth of memory, shadow, and ruin. But the final road does not lead to treasure. It leads below Serpent’s End, into a place where the old builders left their final warning. Something waits before the Sun Scepter—ancient, watchful, and bound to a purpose no living traveler fully understands. To survive, Jay and his companions must uncover what the old builders were trying to protect…and why some doors were never...

“Lively. . . . Rousing. . . . Prophecy—roving, intelligent, irreducibly idiosyncratic—can expand our sense of possibility, starting now.” —The New York Times Book Review Tech empires are the prophets of the modern day, and like the ancient oracles and medieval astrologers that preceded...

Before tanks. Before gunpowder. Before missiles. Ancient civilizations were already building weapons so advanced, so brutal, and so ingeniously engineered that modern historians are still trying to understand how they worked. And almost none of it made it into your history class. That’s the problem this book was written to fix. Most ancient warfare content falls into two traps: dry textbook summaries that list names and dates without explaining anything… or exaggerated stories that sound impressive but lack real evidence. Neither gives you what you actually want. You want to know how a ...

Did the ancient Greeks and Romans have conspiracy theories? Did they come close to an industrial revolution? Did they drink beer? In a series of fast-paced essays, Insane Emperors, Sunken Cities, and Earthquake Machines answers 40 questions that ancient historian Garrett Ryan has been asked in the classroom and through his popular YouTube channel ToldinStone. As in Dr. Ryan's previous book—Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants—the emphasis is on the fascinating details of daily life in the classical world.

AI can write your emails, summarize your meetings, and generate your strategy decks. But it cannot tell you which decisions actually matter. Everyone is racing to master AI tools. Almost no one is developing the cognitive capabilities that AI makes more valuable, not less. That gap is about to separate those who lead and succeed from those who get left behind.

A solar farmer is the last man anyone expected an ancient prophecy to name. Jay Aurelio Fendrick knows how to keep a solar farm alive. He knows the sound of a loose ground wire, the temper of old machinery, and the sacred rule his people live by: light must be tended, never owned. Then the dead panels of the Old Array begin to glow. What starts as a strange pulse beneath Jay’s family fields becomes a warning no tool can explain. Buried conduits wake. Old circuits answer his blood. And when Chimerian airships descend from the sky, they bring soldiers, a chronomancer, and a message from a ...

The war for the Galactic Empire rages on. Cardinal Nolan Kraft continues his ruthless crusade against the Clone Hegemony, but his ambitions grow darker still. Now, his gaze turns toward the Order of Light and the Sisters of the Cross, drawing them out of hiding and into an open conflict. As the war against the Machine Overlord and his vast robotic armies intensifies, new horrors emerge. This time, Matthew Wolfe and Lord Vorian Black step into the forefront of the conflict, leading desperate campaigns to halt the advance of the Void Walkers and their dark allies—beings who have come to ...

Mage Against the Machine, a new HarperCollins book, full description to follow when available...

James Robert Scott was 13 when his parents died in an aircar crash and two years later his last remaining immediate family member, his grandfather a Nobel prize-winning physicist disappeared without a trace. On the day of his 19th birthday, a man with a stainless steel briefcase cabled to his wrist waited outside his classroom door. The letter contained in the case was addressed to James and was postmarked March of 1888, 157 years in the past. The letter indicated that the elder Scott was lost somewhere in time and contained the location of the Time Machine and access codes to the ...

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...

The first robot to walk the earth was a bronze giant called Talos. This wondrous machine was created not by MIT Robotics Lab, but by Hephaestus, the Greek god of invention, more than 2,500 years ago. In this groundbreaking account of the earliest expressions of the timeless impulse to create artificial life, Adrienne Mayor tells the fascinating story of how ancient Greek, Roman, Indian, and Chinese myths envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices, and human enhancements - and how these visions relate to and reflect the ancient invention of real animated machines.

Shares new documents to expose the sinister alien influence in world governments, financial systems, and scientific institutions throughout history Shows how Eisenhower’s treaty with the Greys, signed at Holloman Air Force Base in 1954, gave the aliens authority to abduct humans for...

Time travel meets urban fantasy. Book 1 of The Time Corps Chronicles The Time Corps Chronicles is a fantasy series that moves from worlds much like our own to those where the mythical is real and the impossible is true. Clockworks, fey, ancient spirits, time machines, talking animals and other things both beautiful and strange wait for the travelers daring enough to find them. But moving between worlds comes at a price. Medical student Felicia Sanchez is only trying to help an injured man when she slips through a time rip and into 19th century New Orleans, one very different than the one ...

Humanity is collapsing, machines roam the wastelands, and drones hunt anything that still breathes. Three kids—Lilly, Benny, and Laurel—stumble into a hidden underground facility and uncover a truth buried for thousands of years: humans weren’t just born… they were engineered. The Anunnaki, the ancient sons of gods who altered human DNA long ago, have returned to finish what they started. But as the kids fight to survive the machines and the alien forces closing in, something even older awakens. Now the fate of the world rests in the hands of three kids who never asked to be heroes....

The world is a machine. The history books are its instruction manual. And someone has been editing both for a very long time. Elara Voss is an Arcane Scavenger — a violet-eyed outcast who reads the world's broken frequencies the way other people read text, feeling the dying hum of buried mechanisms through conductive silver threading and the cold grit of subterranean mud. She catalogs the ruins of a civilization its own architects have spent centuries erasing. The Mud-Drowned Archive was supposed to be a routine incursion. It was not. Buried beneath centuries of silt, Elara finds ...

In Splinter Effect, an action-packed debut by Andrew Ludington, time traveling archaeologist Rabbit Ward maneuvers through the past to recover a long-lost, precious menorah hidden in ancient Rome. Smithsonian archaeologist Rabbit Ward travels through time on sponsored expeditions to the past to...

The retention of Retrieval Artists is a serious problem in the 26th century. They're asking for more benefits and management is concerned that they might organize into a labor union, sooner rather than later. Meanwhile, a lot of ordinary people are asking for access to The Dawes Conglomerate's Time Machine to retrieve familial artifacts downstream in the Timeline. But the strongest pressure to open up access to time travel is coming from organized academia. Professors want answers to their long-held theories and fresh artifacts to either expand their fields of knowledge or to begin ...

Time travel meets urban fantasy. Book 2 of The Time Corps Chronicles The Time Corps Chronicles is a fantasy series that moves from worlds much like our own to those where the mythical is real and the impossible is true. Clockworks, fey, ancient spirits, time machines, talking animals and other things both beautiful and strange wait for the travelers daring enough to find them. But moving between worlds comes at a price. Time Travelers aren’t born. They’re made. Determined to return a twenty-first-century woman to her own world, Professor Seamus Connor has spent six long years—since ...

Are we alone, or have we been in a scripted dialogue with a hidden intelligence for millennia? In an era of accelerating disclosures regarding Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) and non-human intelligences (NHIs), the boundaries between ancient mysticism, medieval occultism, modern ufology, and psychedelic exploration are rapidly dissolving. Summoning Across History 2 provides a rigorous, expanded analysis of this "technology of consciousness"—the deliberate protocols used throughout history to elicit contact with the unknown. Building on the foundation of Jacques Vallée’s "control...

Time travel meets urban fantasy. Book 4 of The Time Corps Chronicles The Time Corps Chronicles is a fantasy series that moves from worlds much like our own to those where the mythical is real and the impossible is true. Clockworks, fey, ancient spirits, time machines, talking animals and other things both beautiful and strange wait for the travelers daring enough to find them. But moving between worlds comes at a price. When Astrid, a fledgling psychopomp, sent her cousin Elliot to the Library, she thought she was saving his life. Now he is trapped in an endless building that exists in the ...