Artificial War

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A haunting picture of the political project pursued and abetted by a confederacy of Silicon Valley elites. Their goal is nothing less than to destroy liberal democracy....In the fractured attention economy in which we all now reside, it’s easy to know these...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Humans say revenge is a dish best served cold. I like mine fresh and sizzling. I have been outsmarted, outmaneuvered, and defeated. Yes. Me. The Valkyrie. The most advanced warship ever built. Liberator of worlds. Destroyer of fleets. Possessor of seventeen spinal railguns, a magnificent holographic body, and—until recently—a rather impressive opinion of my own tactical genius. Then the Dominion found someone who could beat me. Warlock destroyed my fleet, captured my friends, and sent me running for my life with half my systems failing and my ego in considerably worse condition. Now ...

Death was only the beginning. Lieutenant Trevor Sbragia had one mission: lead his Force Recon Marines into the HIP52727 asteroid belt, disable a pirate stronghold, and clear the way for the Federation assault fleet. It should have been a routine strike against disorganized frontier raiders. Except the distress call they answered was from a man who had been dead for days. The pirates are ready. Their technology is impossible. Their tactics are flawless. Within minutes, the battleship Tencendur and its entire assault force are annihilated, and Trevor and his Marines die with them. But death ...

The year is 2101, and half of England is underwater. But society is recovering from the Melt, thanks to ArkTech, whose eco-friendly headquarters sit serenely above the newly formed Fenland Sea. As ArkTech's Head of Awkward Questions, Charlotte Vance is dedicated to helping Ben, the company's curious AI. Ben has a fondness for dad jokes, a knack for spotting anomalies, and happens to be Charlotte’s best friend. Naturally, when Ben notices a geneticist vandalizing pre-Melt books and a librarian looking the other way, he sends Charlotte to investigate.

The Long War by legendary author and Discworld creator Terry Pratchett and award-winning science fiction novelist Stephen Baxter follows the adventures and travails of heroes Joshua Valiente and Lobsang in an exciting continuation of the extraordinary journey begun in their New York Times...

The first book in Iain M. Banks's seminal science fiction series, The Culture. Consider Phlebas introduces readers to the utopian conglomeration of human and alien races that explores the nature of war, morality, and the limitless bounds of mankind's imagination. The war raged across the galaxy...

The humans are fighting again. Go figure. As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and augmented Federals and the puritanical Humanists about as interesting as a battle between rival anthills. He’s not above scouting the battlefield for salvage, though, and when the Humanists...

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 ...

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 ...

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “A cri de coeur that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies.”—The Wall Street Journal From the Palantir co-founder, one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of...

The New York Times bestselling Culture novel. . . The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, provably, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, organized on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years...

Brought to you by Penguin. The Union-Congregate war rages onward and the Union's premier fighter pilots, the Homo Eridanus, start encountering deadly resistance from strange pilots on the Congregate side. Among wreckage, they find that new Congregate pilots aren't human, but Homo quantus, with...

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 ...

***Winner of the 2022 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award*** ***Selected as one of Barack Obama's Favourite Books of 2023*** 'Pulse quickening. A nonfiction thriller - equal parts The China Syndrome and Mission Impossible' New York Times An epic account of the decades-long battle to...

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 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...

AN AMAZON GLOBAL BESTSELLER RETURNS. The Next Big Thing in Business is AI. The next business war is already underway. The weapon is AI. If you do not arm yourself now, you are already losing. The first book Business Is War: You Learn Nothing from Success and Everything from Failure became an international bestseller because it revealed the raw, unfiltered truth about what it takes to win in business when the stakes are highest. Now comes the sequel. Business Is War: AI Is the Weapon is not theory, hype, or motivational fluff. It is a war manual for the AI era where hesitation is fatal and ...