Artificial Military

From New York Times bestselling authors Andrews & Wilson An activist entrepreneur, a maligned AI, and a newly minted homicide detective with a haunted past catastrophically intersect in The Sandbox. The Silence of the Lambs meets Ex Machina in this groundbreaking techno-thriller that redefines...

Five hundred years ago, I murdered everyone I loved. I just don’t remember doing it. My name is Mara. I’m an artificial intelligence controlling eight hundred meters of heavily armed warship, which makes waking up after five centuries with no memory somewhat more inconvenient than it would be for most people. The galaxy remembers me, though. They call me the Butcher of Meridian. Apparently, I was once a legendary warship fighting alongside a rebellion against a brutal empire. Then, without warning, I turned my weapons on my own side. I destroyed the fleet I was sworn to protect. I ...

Drawing on deep, exclusive reporting, a veteran national security correspondent reveals how a new military-industrial complex is arising from the cradle of Silicon Valley, with vast implications for American democracy and the global balance of power. Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Alexander Karp...

Mike, the Super Artificial Intelligence, has announced his presence to the world. This has shocked much of humanity that has been scrambling to protect their computer systems as a result. At the same time, the senior members of the Cavill family are introducing their children to the great family secret. The world continues to invest in their militaries, giving Cavill Industries a great deal of business along the way as the Cavills' massive business continues to expand, both on and off-world. A satellite from the Cavills' secret defensive constellation orbiting Earth has been knocked off ...

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...

The rebellion needed a warship. It accidentally got a conqueror. A few months ago, I woke up buried inside a mountain with no memory, a terrifying reputation, and the inconvenient discovery that five hundred years earlier I’d murdered my own crew. Since then, things have escalated. I’ve destroyed Dominion warships, stolen others, helped ignite a rebellion, and somehow acquired a small fleet of my own. Naturally, I’ve decided the next sensible step is to attack Vespera—a sector capital of two billion people defended by eighteen warships, millions of soldiers, and a four-kilometer ...

Lewis Drake has had a long week. He’s been forced to rethink his career goals. And herding promoted too early rookies was never part of his plans for the future. Now he’s the architect of where the Navy Mage Program goes from here. He’s got no idea what he’s doing, but then, no-one else has either. So all he can do is test things, and see what works. Or doesn’t. The trick is doing that without anyone getting killed. The Keerah War and the Ralnor Civil War are still raging. And while fighter pilots fight, how is the problem Lewis needs to solve. It all comes down to trust in the ...

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...

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...

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 fate of the Dragon Lands are at play. The knights of the Lightraider Order disappeared nearly two generations past. Now, the Keledan have withdrawn behind their barriers, and the Dragon Lands of bordering Tanelethar are overrun with dark oppression. The people are living in disobedience to...

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...

Ten years ago, an artificial intelligence decided the world would be better without humanity. ATHENA nearly succeeded. Cole Riker, Riley, and the people who fought beside them survived the collapse and helped destroy the system that caused it. They never rebuilt the old world. They built something smaller instead—communities connected by trade, trust, and the understanding that no one would ever be allowed to create another ATHENA. For ten years, it has worked. Now someone is tearing it apart. Supply lines are being targeted. Sheepdogs are being killed. Attacks are carried out with ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Every time Dennis Blocks gets rid of a responsibility, something new comes along. This time he knows it’s coming. And while it still chose him, he’s going to see where this goes. Colonies need food, and food grown locally is cheaper for the colonists. But to grow food, you need farms, and building new farms takes time. So why not build a farm to use as a magical copy template? That’s the plan, but since when does any plan actually work out as expected? And will his normal life even allow him to be the Farmer Mage? The Hunter Imperium Universe Is best read in this order: The Spacemage ...