Science Fiction Virtual Reality

Level up. Build your crew. Save the Galaxy. Byron Jones was just another lonely gamer until saving a mysterious old man earned him a once-in-a-lifetime invite to VENUS ONLINE, the most immersive sci-fi VRMMORPG ever created. Inside the game, Byron becomes commander of a starship with a crew of beautiful alien women, each with their own skills, secrets, and charms. But paradise becomes a nightmare when he realizes he can’t log out and the galaxy is ruled by Lady Necralia, a cruel warlord who thrives on the suffering of trapped players. To survive, Byron must grind levels, upgrade his ship,...

What happens when reality stops behaving like reality? Across radically different worlds, ordinary lives begin to fracture in the same unsettling ways. Memories are missing. Familiar objects refuse to behave as they should. Brief distortions reveal ruined versions of places that moments before seemed completely intact. At first, each event can be dismissed as error, coincidence, or faulty perception. But the pattern keeps returning. As the disturbances grow more precise, the question changes from what is happening? to something far more difficult: Who is experiencing it? Slices: An ...

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.

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.

Think you know how the world works? Think again. What if bananas are berries... but strawberries aren't? What if your body is constantly rebuilding itself? What if time actually slows down in space? And what if the atoms inside your body were forged in exploding stars billions of years ago? It may sound unbelievable—but it's all true. Mind-Bending Science Facts That Sound Fake but Aren't takes you on an unforgettable journey through the strangest, funniest, and most fascinating discoveries in science. Written in simple, engaging language, this book makes complex ideas easy to understand ...

A gravitational anomaly beyond Neptune. No radiation. No propulsion signature. No reason to exist. When deep-space instruments detect an object that defies every law of physics, Commander Elena Markovic and theoretical physicist Dr. Kaito Suresh are dispatched aboard the vessel Aegis to intercept it before it reaches Earth orbit. What they find is not an invasion force. It’s something far stranger. The object doesn’t travel through space. It rewrites space, altering the fundamental constants of physics around itself, converting vacuum energy as a mode of transportation. As the Aegis ...

There was always something strange about that corner of the garden, a spot that seemed to resist the passage of time and the changing seasons. The wildflowers there grew unchecked, defying even the harshest winters or the most scorching summer droughts. It was as if that small patch of land lay outside the natural cycle, protected by a force no one could understand. In the town of San Isidro, few paid attention to the rumors that circulated about the place. Over the years, all sorts of stories had emerged: some said the land was cursed, others claimed it had been used for ancient, forgotten...

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 ...

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...

The perfect baby is only an appointment away… It’s the year 2053, when wealthy couples visit designer-baby companies to create the perfect child. Ex-cop Finnegan Cooper is hired to investigate the unexplained failure of one couple’s embryos at Melgen, the world’s premier designer-baby consultancy. When his client dies the next day in a suspicious car accident, Finn fears the client’s widow will be the next target. Determined to save her, Finn plunges into the shadowy world of genetic engineering, digging into an activist group opposed to genetic modification, an aggressive rival ...

Fans of Back to the Future—and the music of Boston and Queen—will love The Elvis Paradox. What if the Day the Music Died took the wrong legend? Boston's Tom Scholz—engineer, musician, and obsessive inventor—is working late in his basement with Marianne, a young MIT physics student, when the impossible happens. A distortion in time sweeps across the world. Protected inside Tom's experimental sound booth, they emerge to discover that history has been rewritten around them. Elvis Presley is dead. Buddy Holly is alive. And Marianne has been erased from history. Her parents never met. ...

The constants were supposed to settle back to normal. Instead, they start drifting again. At laboratories across Earth, ultra-precise instruments detect the impossible: the laws of physics are no longer behaving like fixed laws. What began as a fading scar left behind near Neptune is now spreading into the inner solar system. New anomaly sites appear in the asteroid belt and beyond, and the numbers are moving in lockstep. Metrologist Idris Bello trusts measurements more than theories. Physicist Kaito Suresh built the framework that said the residual field should decay. Information theorist ...

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 ...

In 2065 Austin, reality is exhausting. But for the right price, you can transform into your deepest fantasy. Rising above the autonomous sky-lanes of the Silicon Hills, the Lumina Tower offers the ultimate escape. Inside the highly exclusive Shimmer House, revolutionary medical-grade nanites allow patrons to temporarily overwrite their DNA. For four hours, you can shed your mundane corporate life and physically transform into a towering monster, a delicate elf, or something in-between. There's no judgment, absolute anonymity, and infinite exploration. But once you start... Tricia Harlan is ...

HE WOKE TWO THOUSAND YEARS LATE, CURED, COLLARED, AND BURIED IN DEBT. THEN HE FOUND PARADISE. NOW PARADISE IS FALLING APART. Jonathan Lang entered stasis in the twentieth century with terminal brain cancer. He wakes two thousand years later cured, indebted beyond comprehension, and forced into cognitive labor by a civilization that measures the value of a human mind. Then the experimental vessel carrying him is attacked and sent through an impossible crossing. His body does not survive. His consciousness does. Jonathan awakens inside Worldserver One, a gas giant wrapped in quantum ...

A group of adventurers searching for a cure for comatose children find themselves trapped in a sequence of virtual worlds, the only opponents of a conspiracy of the rich to live forever in a dream. Now, they are forced to make an uneasy alliance with their only surviving former enemy against his...

Galactic Harem: The Complete Series (Empire • Dominion • Ascension • Reign) When ordinary Londoner Alex slips on a mysterious VeeAre Deck, he awakens as Ryker Hale — a towering, dominant warlord with nothing but a failing escape pod and a dying galaxy at his feet. To survive and rise, Ryker discovers that true power in this universe is forged through raw, explicit, and passionately consensual bonding rituals. Every willing surrender from the extraordinary women who join him doesn’t just create unbreakable loyalty — it literally powers his technology, upgrades his fleets, and ...

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...

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 ...