Hard Reality

Break Free from the Confidence Illusion You’ve tried affirmations, power poses, and “fake it till you make it”—but instead of real confidence, you end up exhausted, anxious, and doubting yourself more than ever. Welcome to The Confidence Trap—the hidden cycle that keeps millions stuck in endless self-improvement without ever finding authentic self-assurance. In this groundbreaking book, John K. Bell reveals why traditional confidence advice so often backfires and introduces a radically different approach based on the principles of Reality Transurfing. Instead of forcing yourself ...

Biohacker Olivia Park is obsessed with an emerging mystery within Oz, the online portal created by alien technology. What she finds is a primitive xenobot, Eno, who takes her on a mind-bending trip through time that begins as the Berlin Wall is falling, and takes her back to the origins of the modern internet and the fall of a digital Atlantis created by her father, Wesley Park, and entrepreneur William Ackerson.

If we live long enough, life will knock us around. Relationships will fail. Loved ones will die. Injury, illness and disease will all take their toll. Our suffering might seem unbearable at these times, but there is hope. The Reality Slap is a compassionate, wise and extremely practical guide to handling the anxiety, grief and suffering that inevitably follow such major life blows.

In AD 2600, the human race is finally beginning to realize its full potential. Hundreds of colonized planets scattered across the galaxy host a multitude of prosperous and wildly diverse cultures. Genetic engineering has pushed evolution far beyond nature's boundaries, defeating disease and producing extraordinary spaceborn creatures. Huge fleets of sentient trader starships thrive on the wealth created by the industrialization of entire star systems, and throughout inhabited space the Confederation Navy keeps the peace.

Hard Reset is a fast-paced, unpredictable, and clever take on the LitRPG genre, blending beloved sci-fi and apocalyptic themes to create an intricate new reality. In this world, life begins in a coffin, cars float, a good ray gun is your best friend, and computer displays are activated with a...

Neal Stephenson is a blazing new force on the sci-fi scene. With the groundbreaking cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, he has "vaulted onto the literary stage." It weaves virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility - in short, it is the gigathriller of the information age.

Neal Stephenson, "the hottest science fiction writer in America", takes science fiction to dazzling new levels. The Diamond Age is a stunning tale; set in 21st-century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens what a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life, and the entire future of humanity, is about to be decoded and reprogrammed.

This is not your typical Zen book. Brad Warner, a young punk who grew up to be a Zen master, spares no one. This bold new approach to the "Why?" of Zen Buddhism is as strongly grounded in the tradition of Zen as it is utterly revolutionary. Warner's voice is hilarious, and he calls on the wisdom of everyone from punk and pop culture icons to the Buddha himself to make sure his points come through loud and clear.

ANYONE CAN GO THERE... COMING BACK IS ANOTHER STORY. The first in a four-audiobook series, Otherland: City of Golden Shadow is a complex suspense novel of the near future, where virtual reality has expanded to encompass all aspects of society -- and national, physical, and mental boundaries are...

Stephen "Steve-O" Glover—social media icon, comedy-touring stalwart, and star of Jackass—delivers a hilarious and practical guide to recovery, relationships, career, and how to keep thriving long after you should be dead. “I read this book all in one sitting. I am first of all blown away...

The most famous problem in philosophy of mind has been built on a picture of matter that physics abandoned a hundred years ago. Once you remove that picture, the problem turns inside out. For thirty years, philosophers have wrestled with the hard problem of consciousness: how does physical matter give rise to subjective experience? The question feels urgent, even unanswerable. But The Hard Problem of Matter argues that the question has been holding the equation upside down. Atoms are not things. The world is not built out of stuff. This isn't mysticism. It's what the founders of quantum ...

Dungeon Domination: Ascendant Harem Book 1: Tutorial Abyss In the heart of London, Alex slips on the revolutionary VeeAre Deck for early access to the most advanced VR game ever created. One moment he’s in his apartment. The next, he wakes up as Kael Voss — trapped inside a brutal LitRPG dungeon reality show run by sadistic alien overlords. Billions died when Earth was transformed. The survivors are now Gamers, fighting floor by floor for levels, stats, skills, and loot while the galaxy watches for entertainment. Armed with his special forces background and unbreakable will, Kael ...

Observer, by Robert Lanza and Nancy Kress is a slick modern, hard sf, standalone, medical thriller combining classic Robin Cook with the hard edge of Black Mirror and Altered Carbon. After neurosurgeon Caro Soames-Watkins’ career has gone down in flames, she receives a strange job offer from...

The first in the Night's Dawn trilogy, The Reality Dysfunction is a sweeping, intergalactic adventure from the master of space opera, Peter F. Hamilton. For fans of Iain M. Banks and Alastair Reynolds. An extinct race named this phenomenon 'the Reality Dysfunction'. It is a nightmare that has...

What is the universe made of — matter, energy, or something deeper? In The Architecture of Reality, Clayton Louis Turnage explores one of the most profound questions in human thought: Is reality fundamentally physical, or is it structured in a way that points beyond material explanation? Drawing from geometry, thermodynamics, cosmology, information theory, and contemporary philosophy of mind, this book traces a bold but disciplined inquiry into: The emergence of structure from undifferentiated unity The geometric foundations of space and symmetry Entropy and the arrow of time The ...

The New York Times bestseller from “one of the most astute and entertaining commentators on our astonishing, chaotic present.”( Washington Post Book World) Hollis Henry is a journalist on investigative assignment for a magazine called Node, which doesn’t exist yet. Bobby Chombo is a...

Some systems don’t break. They spread. Fleet analyst Lira Vance is assigned to audit intelligence reports from the DSV Meridian, a routine verification of archived deep-substrate operations, but the records refuse to stay still. Crew members appear and disappear between versions of the same report. A dead officer is listed as active duty. A Synth Diver who should not exist is referenced in logs that rewrite themselves while she reads them. Every contradiction resolves itself by changing reality. The deeper Lira investigates, the more the archive begins to behave as if it's alive, ...

Widely known in the criminal underworld as the 'Black Widow', Linda Calvey spent the first half of her life running with the UK's top gangsters, robbing banks and rubbing shoulders with the Kray twins. That is, until, in 1990, her lover Robbie Cook was murdered at point-blank, and she found herself falsely convicted. Linda was sent away for decades, and would go on to become Britain's longest-serving female prisoner. This is her story of life inside, and how she learnt to survive the many years she spent behind bars.

What if consciousness is not an accident? Modern science has explained the birth of stars, the formation of planets, and the evolution of life. Yet one mystery remains: why is any of it accompanied by experience at all? Why does the universe not only exist — but become aware? In God Is Not What You Think, Clayton Turnage offers a calm and thoughtful exploration of one of humanity’s deepest questions. Without rejecting science or relying on dogma, this book invites readers to reconsider the nature of consciousness, reality, and the meaning of the word “God.” Rather than imagining a ...

A childless couple discovers an unusual baby in the Siberian Forest and flees to the US to protect her from the Russian government. The girl, Olesya, grows up to become a brilliant scientist, unraveling the secrets of enigmatic dark matter. However, soon after, a powerful foe with seemingly noble intentions kidnaps her boss and destroys the lab. From her captors, Olesya learns the reason her parents left their country and discovers that she possesses powers connected to dark matter. She also learns of her brother, held captive by the Russian government. Initially skeptical of her captors’...