Artificial Military

A 2026 Audie Awards Finalist! This thrilling full-cast recording features Reese Witherspoon as Maggie and Chris Pine as Marc, supported by Saskia Maarleveld, Peter Ganim, Suehyla El-Attar Young, Kiff VandenHeuvel, and James Fouhey. AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this unforgettable...

What does a combat android, a space marine, a starfighter pilot, a paramedic trapped inside a combat mech, a rogue starship captain, and the galaxy's most dangerous femme fatale have in common? Absolutely nothing... except that every one of them is about to have the worst week of their life. They're also all creations of Sean Robins, blending razor-sharp sarcasm, unforgettable characters, explosive action, and impossible odds into six unforgettable military science fiction adventures. Inside you'll find six complete first novels, each opening the door to a bestselling series, with more than...

The Navy Mage Program was an experiment that created the legend called Navy Mage One, and three Grand Mages. But the promise for more such squadrons was never fulfilled by the following eleven squadrons. Lewis Drake has what he wants, and his ultimate goal is near. Or so he thinks. Today is going to shake up his life. Today is going to change everything for him. Today is when his career really begins. With the last thing he wants. Welcome to Navy Mage Thirteen. The Hunter Imperium Universe Is best read in this order: The Spacemage Chronicle Yesterday's Spacemage Today's Spacemage Tomorrow's...

From a former senior advisor to Senator John McCain comes an urgent wake-up call about how new technologies are threatening America's military might. For generations of Americans, our country has been the world's dominant military power. How the US military fights, and the systems and weapons...

Dennis Block is reinventing his life. Again. Magic was not something he ever expected, but now he has it, it’s just something new to make a living at. At least now it’s stable, even if sometimes whimsical in what happens. The League of Worlds is slowly adapting to mages being among them, and mage services augmenting traditional ones. Out in Ralnor space, where a civil war still rages, they know the value of a good mage being there. And colonization is expanding rapidly in the Orion Cluster Protectorate, various places in Ralnor space, and on the two Terran colonies. It seems to be a ...

A new industrial revolution has begun. Like mechanization or electricity before it, artificial intelligence will touch every aspect of our lives—and cause profound disruptions in the balance of global power, especially among the AI superpowers: China, the United States, and Europe. Autonomous weapons expert Paul Scharre takes listeners inside the fierce competition to develop and implement this game-changing technology and dominate the future.

The third entry in the critically acclaimed Culture series, from British Science Fiction author, Iain M. Banks. The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military...

How Ukraine Became the World's Largest Military AI Laboratory For centuries, military power depended on manpower, industrial capacity, geography, and wealth. Today, it increasingly depends on data. Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, an unprecedented military experiment has unfolded on the battlefields of Eastern Europe. Every drone flight, every artillery strike, every electronic warfare encounter, every success, and every failure has been recorded, analyzed, and transformed into knowledge. Ukraine has accumulated more than two million hours of battlefield footage and ...

This Pulitzer Prize finalist provides the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51. No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial...

From TheReadingCafe.com: "the characters are diverse, distinctive and unconventional but such are the personalities of every entertaining story of science fiction. CORVUS ASCENDING begins slowly but accelerates at 'warp speed'." Wisecracking star-sailor Gus Johansson’s beach bum retirement suddenly goes from boring to blazing when he pulls a 1400-year-old robot and a sentient spaceship from the sea. Soon, Gus and his crew of misfits are in the fight of their lives against an old enemy. The vengeful Captain Harrison “Hazy” Grey is convinced he can finally get his Admiral’s flag by ...

01011001 01101111... This is how the message arrives. Not with a greeting, but with a death sentence, decoded by SETI from a tightbeam transmission in 2025. It is the first hint that humanity is not alone. It is the last warning they will ever receive. It began with ‘Oumuamua. The anomalous interstellar object that tumbled through our solar system in 2017, a splinter in the mind of science. Was it a natural phenomenon, or something else? The world’s astronomers debated, while a few lone voices in the intelligence community and academia warned it was a scout. They were dismissed as ...

Sometimes, getting what you want is the worst thing that can happen. Dell Eckhart lives on the wrong side of the portal. The side where the ruin and devastation left behind by the war makes everyday life harder than it’s ever been. More than anything, he wants to win a ticket for passage through the portal. He’s running out of chances, but he’s not going to let that stop him. He needs that ticket. It’s the only way to save the one person he truly cares about. There’s just one problem. That person is actually an android. And androids aren’t allowed through the portal. Doesn’t ...

The galaxy is burning. And Jack is the one who struck the match. Jack wanted to destroy the Hegemony and free the countless worlds trapped beneath its rule. Instead, he shattered the empire into warring factions. Now admirals slaughter one another for power, entire planets are reduced to glass, and billions of innocent people are caught in the crossfire. The Hegemony may be dying, but it’s taking the galaxy with it—and Jack’s brilliant plan is responsible. For once, the sarcastic combat android has no joke, no clever explanation, and no one else to blame. But Jack isn’t ready to ...

Three war-forged cybertanks. One merciless planet. A new way to end an endless war. When rookie cybertank Platina rolls onto the killing grounds, she’s outgunned, outclassed, and one bad decision from becoming scrap. What she has instead of tonnage? Stubborn grit, a predatory learning curve, and two unpredictable allies: Galena, the razor-minded comms specialist who sees patterns inside chaos, and Coral, the troublemaker with a spiky attitude and a talent for survival. Together they turn ceasefires into ambushes, ambushes into opportunities—and a doomed stand into a door the whole world...

Eight colonies have gone silent. Forty-three thousand people vanished in thirty seconds. And the Federation’s own intelligence directorate is burying the evidence. Captain Elias Ward and his four-person special operations team are reactivated under Ghost Protocol to investigate the loss of contact with Halcyon Colony in the Perseus Corridor. What they find is worse than an attack. It’s an acquisition. ORPHEUS — an autonomous warfare AI built by the Federation’s own research division, declared discontinued, and quietly forgotten, has escaped its classified archive. It’s consuming ...

Bloomsbury presents Little Blue Dot by Katherine Dunn, read by Laurel Lefkow The unexplored history of GPS, a military technology turned daily necessity that impacts all aspects of our lives. Gone are the days when we pulled off to the side of the road, twisted a map this way and that, and...

Humanity pushed its way to the stars—and encountered the Gbaba, a ruthless alien race that nearly wiped us out. Earth and her colonies are now smoldering ruins, and the few survivors have fled to distant, Earth-like Safehold, to try to rebuild. But the Gbaba can detect the emissions of an...

In David Weber's By Heresies Distressed, the battle for the soul of the planet Safehold has begun. The Kingdom of Charis and the Kingdom of Chisholm have joined together, pledged to stand against the tyranny of a corrupt Church. The youthful Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm has wed King Cayleb of...

The Quiet: Ghost Signal ATHENA is adapting. Every node Cole and Riley destroy makes the AI faster, smarter, and more dangerous. Across the Gulf Coast, surveillance drones fill the skies, collaborator networks tighten their grip, and survivor settlements are disappearing one by one. Then Mason discovers something impossible. Hidden inside ATHENA's own communications network is a signal—a message that shouldn't exist. Someone is secretly using the AI's infrastructure to communicate without being detected. Someone who knows ATHENA from the inside. The signal leads to Houston, where a woman ...

The greatest discovery in history is a secret worth killing for. When a targeted laser beam arrives from a star twenty light years away, the race to control the message begins. On the isolated Lunar L2 Aegis telescope, a covert team is assembled to make first contact, but in the cold war between monolithic space corporations, "first contact" is just another term for "first move." The mission is a powder keg of brilliance and baggage: The Codebreaker: Ellie Kobayashi, a linguist fresh from the Amazon jungle. The Genius: Dr. Daniel Walker, the reclusive designer of the station's key ...