Science Fiction Virtual Reality

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 ...

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,...

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.

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 ...

The mud planet was supposed to be the network's comeback special. Instead, it nearly ended it. Desperate after their last big swing — melting an entire planet into clay to sculpt the universe's largest coffee cup — a struggling alien television network stumbles onto something better than anything they could have produced: Earth. A quiet planet, tucked in an unremarkable corner of the galaxy, currently building artificial intelligence smart enough to make itself obsolete. They don't invade. They don't need to. They just start watching — tapping into humanity's own phones, satellites, ...

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.

What if everything we believe about the past is only one version among millions of possibilities? History teaches us that the greatest events were shaped by human decisions: a war started by a single leader, a scientific breakthrough, a revolution, an accident that changed the fate of a nation. But what if every one of those decisions could have unfolded differently? What if there were an intelligence capable of calculating, simulating, and even rewriting any moment in history? For centuries, humanity has tried to predict the future. We have studied the stars, built mathematical models, and...

By day, he teaches semiotics, philosophy, and media theory. By night, he is Agent X—an intelligence operative whose deadliest weapon isn't a gun, but the ability to make powerful institutions reveal their own secrets. When evidence emerges of an experimental quantum weapon unlike anything ever conceived—operating on the holographic boundary of spacetime— Agent X is pulled into an investigation that spirals far beyond espionage. Hidden Pentagon programs. Psychic technologies. Alien artifacts. Rogue intelligence networks. Silicon Valley billionaires. Secret alliances operating beyond ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Dark Matter meets Inception in this techno and psychological thriller about dreams—and nightmares. Madeline wants more time—for her career as a tech startup CEO, for herself, and for her family. Lucky for her, a new and controversial procedure offers to give her just that by reducing how much she needs to sleep. The data is promising, and she’s used to taking calculated risks. It seems like the right decision at the time, even if she hides it from her husband. While Madeline scaled the corporate ladder and spent half her nights on the road, Darwin traded in dreams of winning the Nobel...

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 ...

Harry Potter meets The Matrix in this viral new fantasy series for the digital generation. Rez is a "Blank." In a world where everyone controls magic through the Global Network, Rez has zero signal. He lives in the junkyard, scavenging for scrap and dodging the high-tech elite. Until the day he gets angry and accidentally hacks reality. He doesn't cast a spell; he creates a Glitch. A tear in the fabric of the world that deletes everything in its path. Hunted by the authorities, Rez is whisked away to The Mainframe Academy, a floating citadel disguised as a cloud. Here, students don't use ...

“Time is not a river but an ocean. Remember.” These words, engraved on a mysterious watch, are the only guidance a young boy has in a world that is quietly coming apart. At five years old, under a shifting night sky, he received a burden no child should carry: the complete memories of a life he hasn’t lived yet. For years, he exists as a prisoner of his own foreknowledge, a silent observer of a script he cannot change. He knows the tragedies before they strike. He knows the secrets before they are told. But when the timeline begins to crumble, creating anomalies that defy logic, he ...

A LitRPG Sci-Fi Harem Adventure When Alex slips on the cutting-edge VeeAre Deck, he expects a thrilling escape. Instead, he wakes up as Hahn Raynor — a battle-hardened, six-foot-three elite space commando in the middle of a savage interstellar war. Armed with nothing but a pulse rifle, a smart mouth, and a rapidly leveling LitRPG system, Hahn is dropped straight into zero-G combat, orbital invasions, and boarding actions against the ruthless Xar’vok Empire. As he climbs from Level 1 rookie to Level 30 Precursor Warden, he’ll uncover ancient forbidden technology, survive betrayal at ...

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 ...

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...