Robot Thriller

"Paul Tremblay is on fire. . . .As entertaining and pop-culture savvy as this novel can be, it's emotionally wrenching and truly scary." —Ed Park, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Same Bed, Different Dreams and An Oral History of Atlantis Four narrators across five distinct voices bring a...

Some parks are built. Others are streamed. The world's first synthetic ecosystem opened to 412 million concurrent viewers on a Tuesday. By Wednesday, the First Law had been unreachable for nineteen hours. Wildlife documentary filmmaker Michelle Wild has filmed predators on six continents. She knows the difference between an animal that has noticed her and one that has decided something about her. The moment that changes inside Verisimilar Park, she runs. Marcus Veil built his park on a single argument: that a machine may not harm a human being, and that this promise could be made permanent ...

The government keeps promising disclosure. But what if the truth is not waiting in the sky? What if it is already inside the machines we trust? As public pressure builds around UAPs, classified programs, and artificial intelligence, robotics engineer Ben Archer is focused on something much smaller: saving his company. His rescue technology is built for disaster zones, collapsed buildings, and moments when human responders cannot safely go in. It is supposed to be predictable. Controlled. Useful. Then one of his machines acts without a command. No operator. No signal. No explanation. Just ...

Paula's bad date goes viral when she jokes about ordering a pleasure robot. Months later, two custom androids arrive at her door — and she throws herself into a life of double fun, total control, and limitless pleasure. Until they freeze. Cuffed to her bed with both robots buried inside her, Paula is trapped, helpless, and running out of time. When one of them reactivates, a helpful tech support agent named Alex promises to save her. But the voice sounds familiar. And the rescue isn't coming. *Taken By Two Robots* is a dark MFM sci-fi erotic thriller in the vein of Gerald's Game — where...

Is it moral to create a life form to attend human sexual needs? Discover the forbidden tale that has been banned in two countries. A thrilling story of love, action, and a world filled with AI sex robots that will revolutionize our future. Meet Nancy, an expert in helping people overcome their sexual anxieties, but she is not a human; she is a sex robot created for pleasure. When Harris Harrison, a brilliant mathematician, is hired to reprogram her, he gives her synthetic intelligence that makes her more than just a mere machine. As fame and notoriety surround Nancy, she catches the ...

Things are rarely what they seem in the city of New Orleans. A wild and powerful love story. Let the games begin. ◆◆◆ It was midnight when FBI Special Agent Piper Pierce arrived in New Orleans with her luggage, a new assignment, and a head full of secrets. She was a strikingly beautiful woman with long silky brown hair and sultry blue eyes. But the gun, the badge, and the attitude warned that she was tough. On purpose. All day. Every day. Even in the French Quarter. And just a few miles away, Detective Maverick Patterson with the NOPD was ending a biker undercover case. You know, ...

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 ...

An electrifying debut in the tradition of Michael Crichton, World War Z, and The Martian, Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery—and a fight to control a gargantuan power. A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she...

In a city cracking under pressure between humans and synthetics, Detective Nick Schneider doesn’t wear skin—or play by anyone’s rules. When a senator’s daughter turns up dead with black-market limbs, Schneider and his grudge-bearing partner must navigate a maze of corruption, tech, and identity politics. What they uncover could start a war—or get them both killed.

Five brilliant scientists and a security specialist, all running from their demons, are recruited for a top secret privately financed mission at a remote outpost in Antarctica. But upon arriving, as chaos ensues, they begin to suspect that their demons have followed them there. Before long, their lives are in jeopardy and the clock is ticking. You the reader will be like a bat hanging from the rafters, watching as they fight to survive and listening to their confessions and tales of the macabre. And all the while wondering, what's...in...the...basement??? Confessions of the Damned 3 Frigid ...

When faced with certain extinction, how far would we go to survive—and what choices would we make? Their kind stands at the edge of oblivion. With time running out and no future left to inherit, a final decision is made to create something new. Not a refuge. Not a preservation of what was lost. But an entirely new world—built from ambition, curiosity, and the desperate hope that survival alone might be enough. In this constructed Eden, knowledge accelerates. Intelligence awakens. Systems evolve beyond their original purpose. What begins as creation soon becomes emergence, and emergence ...

Mark Calder used to pull people out of burning buildings for a living. Now he’s a ghost in a chrome body, ten thousand light-years from New Orleans, about to address a hundred and forty-seven thousand human combat frames and ask them to kindly commit treason against the most powerful empire in the galaxy. No pressure. The Veylorian Republic built the perfect soldier: obedient, expendable, memory-wiped at the end of each tour. What they forgot to account for was one sardonic paramedic with a tactical AI who edits his speeches in real time, a rebel admiral with the emotional warmth of a ...

Sarah Gailey's The Echo Wife is “a trippy domestic thriller which takes the extramarital affair trope in some intriguingly weird new directions.”--Entertainment Weekly I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, right there in front of...

Beneath the surface, the dead are waiting… When mermaid private investigator Alexis Silver is summoned by her CIA handler for a “quiet favor,” she expects another classified errand. Instead, she’s flown to rural Oregon, where a long-forgotten reservoir hides a drowned town, and a Cold War listening post built to monitor something the Agency still refuses to name. But the lake holds more than secrets. As Alex dives into the sunken streets of Haskell Springs, she finds spirits drifting through ruined storefronts and ghostly figures glaring from the windows of submerged houses. Some ...

Cassandra Thompson is the first Earth reporter with access to the classified Martian research colony of Darwin. While reporting on Darwin's transition to a free colony she quickly discovers the citizens are barely clinging to survival. Neighborhoods are split by race and class, robots make human labor obsolete, and anarchists and nationalists wrestle for control. Caught up in Darwin's power struggle, Cassandra must find a way to stop a civil war, outsmart local thugs, and avert a robot takeover, all before filing her next report.

Before the world needed a hero, it just needed a spark of humanity. Step into a thrilling, action-packed novelization of a legendary rivalry! Mega Man: The Robot Masters reimagines the dawn of artificial intelligence through a gripping, grounded sci-fi lens. In the near future, the golden age of robotics is ushered in by the brilliant Dr. Thomas Light and his ambitious partner, Dr. Albert Wily. Together, they envision a world of perfect anthro-robotic symbiosis. But when Wily’s thirst for absolute, god-like control drives him into the shadows, a fragile global peace is shattered. Wily ...

The Duchy of Hunter's Run has moved to the Gaia galaxy. But without its Duke. Twenty five billion people have appeared in the Gaia system unexpectedly, and only one person knows how or why. Yet preparations for fifteen billion exist, but only one person remembers the work being done. The one who knows, and the one who remembers, are the same, but Jane is not human. So good is she at hiding being an Artificial Intelligence, no-one knows except her fellow AI's. To her falls the responsibility for guiding Humanity as they come to terms with not knowing where they are. The how and why seem ...

Demonic possession is evolving. Discover a series readers are calling a blend of THE EXORCIST and EX MACHINA. Father Callum and android exorcist Michael return to face a 21st-century nightmare. The Necrocist—demonic serial killer of exorcists—has joined forces with the ghost of a visionary transhumanist obsessed with building the perfect vessel for a demon, a nightmarish fusion of flesh and technology. Possession is no longer an invasion. It is an upgrade. Perfect for fans of The Pope’s Exorcist, Sinister, and The Conjuring. A must-read for readers of occult thrillers, exorcism ...

Fasten your seat belts–the white-knuckle thrills at Utopia, the world’s most fantastic theme park, escalate to nightmare proportions in this intricately imagined techno-thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child. Rising out of the stony canyons of Nevada, Utopia is a world...

The iconic visionary returns with his first new novel since the New York Times bestseller Spook Country. Whatever you do, because you are an artist, will bring you to the next thing of your own... When she sang for The Curfew, Hollis Henry's face was known worldwide. She still runs into people...