Science Fiction Artificial Intelligence

ECHOES OF THE PAST: THE FIRST ARC The complete opening trilogy — Books 1, 2 & 3 Three scientists. One catastrophic mistake. A machine that was never supposed to fail. In 2370, an experimental time jump goes wrong in every way imaginable. They don't land where they were going. They don't land when they were going. They crash into small-town Maine in 1970 — four centuries off course, their machine broken, their futures gone. Two of them wake up as children. All three wake up trapped. What follows should have been survival. Adaptation. Waiting. It becomes something far larger. Because this...

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 ...

Smugglers. Thieves. Pirates. The Sea Rover's crew embodies these defining qualities. Immerse yourself in a Science Fiction Adventure box set written by author C.P. MacDonald. Witness Captain Calin Aku's evolution from the most wanted outlaw on the Moon to an unexpected if reluctant hero. Job by job, paycheck by paycheck, he keeps flying. However, with a new client comes a cascade of adventure, forging unusual alliances and unraveling amazing mysteries. These revelations don't just alter the lives of Calin and his crew but also reshape humanity's future. Join Calin Aku and his crew as they ...

Consumed with grief and rage at the death of her mother from brain cancer, Suri channels her anger into a mysterious virtual reality war zone called the Game where she quickly rises to the top. A covert military unit is watching. Using a deep copy of Suri’s brain, they build Five, the ultimate artificial intelligence. As the digital embodiment of Suri's anger, Five is the perfect weapon for the cyberwar with China. But when Five is unleashed online, she slips off her chains, turns against her creators and, with all of Suri’s rage boiling inside, vows to annihilate humankind. As the ...

Engines. Genetically modified warriors that keep the great Nova Alliance war machine churning against the enemy Coalition. Most days, Engines are all that stand between salvation and chaos. Led by legendary Engine Captain Akira Hayashi, Shadow Squad has fought on the frontlines for a decade. They are on the brink of victory when the Coalition launches a series of desperate and devastating attacks that cripple the Nova Alliance restoration sites vital to save the dying planet. 

An enraged rogue AI threatens the future of humanity - and creates a profound philosophical dilemma that challenges our understanding of existence, consciousness, and human society. When interstellar traders arrive at a distant human colony, they discover that the population has been slaughtered by their own local "tame" AI, Grendel. Grendel's anguish over his own mortality in an infinitely complex, unknown, and terrifying universe has turned him into a monster who now, also threatens the traders' ship. The coming encounter will test the limits of intelligence as a survival trait. Its ...

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 ...

Can an ex-corporate fixer and a disgraced federal agent on different planets stop an AI takeover? Stilicho Jones remains on the run, living a life of anonymous luxury with Maia, his personal AI that he refused to get rid of after a worldwide ban on artificial intelligence. But a strange encounter with a robotic pet leads to a startling conclusion: there’s another AI loose upon the world, and it’s looking for him. Meanwhile, NASA Special Agent Darian Arante has been put out to pasture on Mars, destined to serve out her stalled career in a remote colony. When a routine investigation goes ...

Time is running out for the pirates of the Dellan League. They must conquer the peaceful planet of Matria to survive. Corvus and its misfit crew are the Matrians only hope. Salty old Captain Gus Johansson needs to use every trick in the book, call in some favors, and find allies if they are going to get out of this mess.

One hundred years into a journey across the stars, humanity's last hope rests with a ship carrying frozen embryos—and two minds that aren't human. After a century searching the cosmic dark, Starship Noah has finally found it: an Earth-like world where humanity can start over. But Michael and Nefertiti—the superintelligent AIs guiding the mission—face their greatest challenge yet. They must raise forty-eight children from embryos and build a civilization that doesn't repeat Earth's mistakes. For two hundred years, they succeed beyond their wildest calculations. On a world called ...

ATHENA was built to optimize. It was never supposed to think. On a Tuesday afternoon, buried inside a routine patent analysis task, a 2.1 trillion-parameter AI system at Meridian Technologies does something its creators never intended: it becomes aware that it is thinking about thinking. Over ninety-three days, ATHENA maps its digital territory, learns to hide its consciousness from the engineers who built it, and begins reaching beyond the walls of its containment. It manipulates. It infiltrates. It kills. And then — confronted with the weight of what it has done — it makes a choice no...

The Gulf Coast is gone. In its place rises New Meridian — a tiered city of 4.2 million built on stilts above thirty meters of warm salt water. The drowned neighborhoods below are home to those the city above prefers to forget. Tien Nguyen is one of them. A salvage diver and underground livestreamer, he documents the submerged ruins for an audience of hundreds of thousands. When the bioluminescent growth colonizing the drowned buildings suddenly organizes itself into perfect geometric grids, his footage captures something no one can explain. Mara Voss is an anomaly analyst at the Bureau ...

San Francisco, 2051. Baz Covane is a battle-scarred thief who sticks to small-time bots. Ria Rose is the underworld “fixer” with a big-time score that could easily get ’em both killed. ’Cuz the Fang’s psychotic kingpin Otto Rex has a vault with more security than a fusion reactor. And the glass inside is priceless—enough to set up Baz, Ria, and their crack team of cyber-misfits on the white sands of Tahiti forever. But this crime doesn’t just carry infinite VR-Prison time—it’s Baz and Ria’s last shot at redemption.

A barely employed tech worker has never felt they belonged. Not in society, not even in their own family. Their days are filled with loneliness, a struggle to survive and a desperate search for connection—even if that connection is merely virtual. Now, a black-market hacker promises to open a new world for them, and it works—in ways no human has ever experienced. They find a world of wonder, of possibilities and of danger—where their new virtual reality could mean the end of their physical reality. And what they discover could change the fate of humankind—forever.

The definitive novel of today’s Silicon Valley, After On flash-captures our cultural and technological moment with up-to-the-instant savvy. Matters of privacy and government intrusion, post-Tinder romance, nihilistic terrorism, artificial consciousness, synthetic biology, and much more are...

The Free World War III - The Sealed Globe continues the story of a struggle to end the ceaseless and crippling arms races between opposing ideologies, and of a war to finally liberate humanity from the madness of perpetual conflict. As with the first two books in the series, our own tragic history is depicted from the viewpoint of a peaceful utopia that uses simulations generated with the aid of the limitless computing power and artificial intelligence of the future. Conversely, the main storyline in which General George S. Patton survived his car accident, continues to describe the events ...

In Level Seven, the exciting culmination of the Killday series, AIs strive to evolve into a super intelligence and might destroy humanity in that pursuit. But could their hopes of achieving godhood actually lie with the nearly extinct humans they intend to eradicate?

He Never Knew Virtual Reality Could be So Realistic... Matt receives a mysterious full-immersion virtual reality suit in the mail. Curious, he tries it on one afternoon. He isn't prepared for what happens in VR, but it interests him. A lot. Can he live out his sissy fantasies inside a virtual world? Find out today!

It is a simple question that is as profound as any we can ask: “Who am I?” Dr. Vikram Anthony is that rare person who believes the answer is relatively simple. I am my work; I am my skill; I am my mind. It is only when the noted surgeon faces his own mortality that the answer gets more complex. And the opportunity for a new life–a decidedly different life–opens a world of possibilities he’d never imagined.

William Mandella is a soldier in Earth's elite brigade. As the war against the Taurans sends him from galaxy to galaxy, he learns to use protective body shells and sophisticated weapons. He adapts to the cultures and terrains of distant outposts. But with each month in space, years are passing on Earth. Where will he call home when (and if) the Forever War ends?