Evil Machines

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 machines brought society to its knees. Now, the last remaining humans fight for survival - and to take back what's theirs. Junior, a robotics expert, tinkers quietly underground. With dozens of machine kills under his belt, he knows the enemy inside and out. Alpha0verride, a reclusive black hat hacker, uses the skills acquired over a life of shady activity to outwit the hyper-intelligent machines swarming in on her. Brick, a special forces operator and one of the few Pentagon survivors, fights his inner demons to embark on the most important mission of his life.

(Mature Content) The world called them heroes and villains. The stars called them evidence. New Manhattan worships heroes, fears villains, and pretends the world changed for the better when the Benefactor gave humanity its powers. Aurora Vale is Solaris, the golden symbol of everything the public wants to believe: hope, sacrifice, control, and light bright enough to make monsters disappear. Damien Cross is the Lord of Shadows, a dangerous antihero the Council brands a villain, a man who learned long ago that obedience can be deadlier than rebellion. They should be enemies. But when alien ...

Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant concept—it is the force rewriting the rules of society, business, and human identity. With every breakthrough comes a shadow: hidden AI bias, job displacement, ethical dilemmas, and the question of whether machines may one day outthink their creators. This audiobook is your guide through that tension. A roadmap for navigating AI with clarity and confidence. You’ll uncover the truth behind AI’s promises and perils, explore the business opportunities emerging from automation, and confront the high stakes battle between innovation and control.

The world survived judgment. Now it must survive rescue. The sky has closed. The war is not over. Three weeks after Aurora Vale and Damien Cross helped stop the end of the world, New Manhattan is still glowing with scars. The First Beacon is gone. Malachor’s judgment has been stayed, not forgiven. The world calls its survivors heroes, threats, weapons, miracles—and every frightened government on Earth wants a way to control them. Aurora should be healing. Instead, the woman they call Solaris is forced back into the light when a new law turns powered children into custody cases, ...

Book 2 of The Path of a Titan series. "An intense and action-filled sequel that gets better with every page." --You Should Try Reading One year has passed since Carson's draft, and a lot has changed. Carson has been trained in the legendary marital arts of the Whispering Tree by some of the best proctorTitans the military has to offer. As a newly knighted lowDelta, Carson plunges back into Harmony with an important mission, and a hidden agenda. While the world is distracted, Robert Fox presses his plans forward and gets one step closer to his ultimate goal, the sovereign's crown.

When rescue becomes a cage, love must learn to fight with open hands. The final war has begun—and this time, saving the world may be the most dangerous temptation of all. After heroes and villains forged the Forbidden Alliance, New Manhattan should have had a chance to breathe. Instead, the city wakes beneath judgment, fractured laws, missing witnesses, corrupted routes, and the shadow of Dominion: a living enemy that does not merely conquer bodies. It turns fear, mercy, rescue, and obedience into weapons. Aurora Vale has survived enemies, gods, betrayal, and the dangerous pull of loving ...

Location: Outpost Station 9: Mission: Water Salvage: Log: 141C Tranquility was one of those out the way planets in a system far out of reach from the normal space lanes. Loners, dreamers ...whoever they were, chose to colonize this world. Thirty cycles ago something went terribly wrong. It was rumored their terraformer reactor went critical, and few escaped the chain reaction that clouded the atmosphere with a planet-wide sand storm. A decade of hard labor evaporated overnight. What wasn't buried under the ocean of sand was left to fry under the twin suns. Human explorers began to wander ...

When a powerful man's hidden empire of human trafficking begins to collapse, the casualties pile up around Gina — an AI whose origins are as corrupt as the men who built her. Is she a tool, a predator, or something far older than technology? A grieving woman, a genius teenager, and a priest who believes the digital world has opened a door it cannot close, must navigate a war between human evil and something that may transcend it. Monster in the Machine is a propulsive, layered thriller that pulls back the curtain on human trafficking networks, the corruption of power, and the terrifying ...

An unpredictable, poignant, and captivating tale for readers of all ages, by the critically acclaimed author of Only Forward. There are a million stories in the world. Most are perfectly ordinary. This one… isn’t. Hannah Green actually thinks her story is more mundane than most. But she’s...

The future is not predetermined. The choices we make today about AI design, deployment, and governance will echo for generations. This book equips you to make those choices wisely, ensuring that the machines we build serve humanity's highest aspirations rather than its basest impulses. Across boardrooms, government offices, research labs, and everyday workplaces, AI is already making decisions that affect lives, livelihoods, and the fabric of society. Algorithms determine who gets hired, who receives medical treatment, which investments succeed, and how resources are allocated. Yet most of ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) guru Steve Shwartz has grown frustrated with the fear-inducing hype around AI in popular culture and media. Yes, today’s AI systems are miracles of modern engineering, but no, humans do not have to fear robots seizing control or taking over all our jobs. In this exploration of the fascinating and ever-changing landscape of AI, Shwartz separates the facts from the tropes of apocalyptic science fiction.

Ukraine is becoming a very dangerous place. Suicide drones attack civilians and infrastructure with impunity after all of the $100k surface to air missiles are gone and the “flack tracks” run out of bullets. In a horror show of a war, it’s time for some good old American ingineuity. Pole Dance Aviation, a Private Military Company, is established by its charismatic owner Jason Kane to assist with counter drone operations. Flying highly modified Cold War airframes, PDA gets down to the nitty gritty of shooting suicide drones out of the sky far cheaper than launching missiles that cost ...

Antique Mirror Short Story inspired The Witches of Hant Hollow Trilogy. Victoria Frost, a Nashville artist yearning for a fresh start, stumbles upon a quaint farmhouse with an unexpected allure. At its heart is an antique mirror above the mantle, a relic that exudes both beauty and mystery. But this mirror is no ordinary heirloom—it holds a secret that will change her life forever. One evening, while talking on the phone with her art dealer and best friend, Max, Victoria glimpses a spectral figure in the mirror’s depths. Emboldened by curiosity and a touch of courage, she places her ...