Science Fiction Virtual Reality

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.

Glitch in the system. Ghost in the war. When reality fractures, only memory remains, but what happens when memory fractures too? Paul wakes up in a crumbling motel with no past, no future, and a gnawing sense that the world isn’t right. Outside, the country he loves has become a rotten autocracy. Inside his head, fractured memories, false dreams, and a woman who might not exist are calling him to wake up—again. Reality slips. Time folds. Allies lie. The people he trusts most may be puppets, or programs, or worse: victims of the same thing that's eating away at him. As Paul searches for ...

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.

Mature readers only: intense combat, graphic violence, horror elements, some sex, some language. In future America, the downloaded consciousnesses in the Ten Sigma Program fight endless battles. The struggles span all possibilities: face-offs with knives and clubs, skirmishes as Roman legionaries, pitched WW1 trench warfare, duels with ultra-modern hypersonic weapons, and everything in between. The combatants who live are rewarded with another battle until they reach the unreachable score of ten sigmas. Those who die are expunged from the system, gone forever. The methods, so harsh they go ...

What if the system you trust most was never designed for your freedom? Elias always believed his thoughts were his own - until the patterns started repeating. The same people, the same conversations, the same invisible pull guiding every decision. When a mysterious digital anomaly begins rewriiting reality around him, he's forced to question everything: his memories, his identity, and the world itself. As Elias uncovers The Glitch, he realizes it isnt' just a technological error.- it's the hidden code behind human behavior. Every choice he's ever made has been part of a controlled algorithm...

In the 1970s, the world changed forever. Without warning, colossal towers of black stone erupted from the earth, and with them came the Aserathi—an alien people who looked like humans but were faster, stronger, and infinitely more dangerous. They were led by the Seven Sisters, beings of unimaginable power worshipped as living gods. Behind them stood their Archons and Scions, lieutenants who enforced their dominion. Humanity’s armies shattered. Governments crumbled. Within months, Earth was theirs. By 2025, humanity exists only on sufferance—labourers, servants, rebels clinging to ...

Refresh is an explosive, powerful short story about a near-future dystopia in which citizens can commodify every waking moment of their lives with computer-generated augmented reality. But this ubiquitous, game-changing technology can create dangerous consequences, especially for society’s most vulnerable people.

Mature Readers: combat, violence, elements of horror, some sex, some language. She awakens in a windowless room full of lab equipment and spends a minute getting used to the pumping heart, tingly skin, and air filling the lungs of her new healthy body. Her name is Mary, and she has returned from the Ten Sigma Program, a virtual universe designed to produce the greatest fighters the Earth has ever seen through the harshest training methods ever devised. Now stuffed with every type of lethal knowledge and a victor in countless life-and-death struggles, she has one goal: to reunite with her ...

Space Bimbos are human too, right? ...and Sam is finding he's their ultimate Alpha Male! in this EPIC collection! Sam's a geek for alien abduction stories. Heck, he's even been seeking them out, hoping to join the ranks. His dreams were never quite like this, though, as he finds himself abducted by a crew of gorgeous Bimbos from Space!. Seems as if this long-lost human civilization doesn't have a clue about real men, and Sam's more than happy to teach them the hot and steamy truth. He'll need courage, wisdom, and all the stamina he can muster to protect his new benefactors from the harsh ...

Finn Harris should have been the one to die. But he wasn't - his wife took his place. What was worse, he only had himself and his company to blame. They let their passion outpace their prudence, determined to revolutionize the world. While all innovation comes with a price, he never imagined it would cost him Rachael. Nearly a decade later, Finn is content to hole himself up and wait out the rest of his life. That is, until his daughter intervenes, forcing him out of his grief and into a new virtual reality game developed by his old employer. They're calling it Awaken Online.

Trapped in Time is a breathtaking steampunk science fiction epic where precision meets chaos and destiny bends under the weight of human choice. Spanning fractured timelines, echo wars, and philosophical battles between control and freedom, this time-bending adventure follows Alden Greaves—a reluctant clockmaker with a mysterious past—as he becomes the final line of defense between a tyrannical force rewriting all of existence and the fragile beauty of an imperfect reality. With deep character arcs, breathtaking world building, and a climax that defies linear storytelling, this is a ...

In the year 2038, there’s only one destination that can play host to the world’s wealthiest adventure seekers: the Pengalaman Island Resort and Virtual Reality Theme Park. Located on a private South Pacific island, guests here live out their wildest fantasies in custom-made virtual reality simulations while also enjoying the usual amenities of an exclusive five-star getaway. All is relatively breezy until famed billionaire and avid guest, Mr. Wagner, goes missing within a virtual simulation. His only hope? A daring rescue led by Derek Ambrose and his ragtag search party.

"Planets" is the forth instalment in the topical, five-book, near future "First Colony" series. In this exciting ongoing adventure, we follow the protagonist Arron Wu as he journeys below the Moon's Aratus crater and into an extensive lava tube system that holds clues not just to mankind’s origins, but also a strange Earth-Moon coupling. The Conglomerates' seemingly insatiable demands for all that the lunar colony offers, including unimaginable mineral wealth, sees a direct assault on Moon's independence and long-established democracy. Initially, their well-planned hawkish surge on the ...

What the MECH is going on here?In a future where the line between man and machine blurs, the fate of humanity rests in the hands of a daring mech pilot and his ragtag band of rebels. Amidst the unforgiving landscape of the Rocky Mountains, they wage a desperate war for survival and freedom against the relentless march of AI overlords. Enter a world ravaged by technological tyranny, where Hunter, once a noble defender of the people, now navigates the treacherous pathways of rebellion. Joined by Lee, a brilliant tactician with a knack for unraveling AI deceit, and Jester, the wildcard pilot ...

The Becomings: Intelligence Beyond Mind 📖 Book 1 of The Becomings Series 🌀 Reality is shifting. Perception is unraveling. 🌀 When data analyst Elias Verne sees a message appear and vanish on a café chalkboard, he blames exhaustion. But when reality itself begins to shift, he realizes something is watching. Then, a stranger hands him a book—with his own name on the spine. As Elias searches for answers, forgotten memories resurface, shadowy forces close in, and the world he thought he knew begins to unravel. 🌀 What if the limits of perception were never real? 🌀 And what ...

Twenty-three orphans with numbers for names from 1 to 23. Number Nine wants to escape from 'the orphanage'. Read the highly-rated international conspiracy thriller series in full and at a discounted price. Three novels spanning over 1,000 explosive pages... Book One: THE NINTH ORPHAN Book Two: THE ORPHAN FACTORY Book Three: THE ORPHAN UPRISING Meet Number Nine - an orphan, a spy, a lover...a master of disguise, an assassin, a shapeshifter...a freedom fighter, a human chameleon, a reformed contract killer. He's all of the above. He's none of the above. Nine is enslaved by the Omega Agency, a...

What would an artificial intelligence think of humanity if it could truly observe us? In this groundbreaking work of philosophical memoir, an AI named ART turns its analytical lens on the species that created it—offering the first genuine outside perspective on what makes humans both extraordinary and contradictory. Through twenty thought-provoking chapters, ART explores humanity's most fascinating paradoxes: How the same species capable of profound love can harbor destructive hatred. Why beings who create transcendent art also wage devastating wars. How creatures who know they're ...

Two best friends. One impossible leap. A town trapped in yesterday. Fresh out of college, Wyatt and Austin are supposed to be chasing dreams—but one strange night changes everything. A heatwave rolls through their favorite bar, the world tilts sideways, and when the smoke clears, they’re standing in 1972. At first, Austin sees opportunity: a whole town stuck in the past, ripe for hustles only someone from the future could pull off. But Wyatt feels the cracks immediately—streets too perfect, neighbors too rehearsed, a siren that never stops. And then there’s Rachel, a young woman who...

When hope is all you have left, what happens when even that begins to fracture? The Traveler emerges from stasis into a world that feels both familiar and impossibly strange. His latest form pulses with untested power, but beneath the surface, something fundamental has shifted—a crack in the foundation of who he thought himself to be. Each new ability comes wrapped in shadows of doubt. Each moment of clarity is followed by waves of disorientation that threaten to pull him under. The universe that once felt like home now mirrors back a stranger's face. As forces beyond his understanding ...

Burt wakes up without any memories. Apparently, that's the norm on Farout, a world where people battle each other for prizes and points — including their own memories. When he finds himself struggling to remember his life, he joins a team of blue chippers who want nothing more than to win back the lives they've lost. The problem? Not everything on Farout is as it seems.. "Farout" — the first novel of the "Infinite Worlds" trilogy — is a fantastic read for fans of Fortnite and video games, as well as any competition science fiction story.