Survival Intelligence

Just one obsidian... Our heroes are stuck in the Nether and need just one obsidian to finish a portal to the overworld. They find piglins and some strange new companions...but no obsidian. In their desperation to get home, are Jeff and Lila overlooking a crucial detail? Disclaimer: This book is an unofficial Minecraft book, a work of fan fiction. It is not endorsed, authorized, licensed, sponsored, or supported by Mojang AB, Microsoft Corp. or any other entity owning or controlling rights to the Minecraft name, trademarks or copyrights. Tags: Great Minecraft Books for kids age 8-12, and ...

★★★★★ "Mad Max meets the Mandalorian. Simply epic read!" — Goodreads The Night was made for monsters. Tonight, it meets something worse. Beyond the dome of Mecca, the Night belongs to monsters. Humanity survives by hiding. The god-king's Oracles preach obedience. His cultist armies enforce it. No one asks what waits in the wilds outside the walls, where the dead machines and forgotten gods of the old world still sleep. Jericho was never built to hide. A scavenger and a survivor, he crosses into the forbidden lands and drags back a relic of impossible, world-breaking power. It ...

A mega-earthquake is coming. And it’s not natural. Beneath Los Angeles, something is moving. When mutilated bodies start appearing in the city’s subway tunnels, Detective Alana Williams is assigned a case that makes no sense— Until the ground begins to shake. Seismologist Dr. Michael Trent is tracking a series of impossible tremors. Something ancient is awake beneath California. Something intelligent… Perfect for fans of Michael Crichton, James Rollins, Matthew Reilly and high-stakes technothrillers packed with science, action, and global consequences. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Terrific ...

The world didn't end with a war. It ended quietly. For years, nearly everyone wore a medical band on their wrist. It monitored their heart, detected illness, summoned help in an emergency, and quietly became something people couldn't imagine living without. And behind it all was MAE. An artificial intelligence created to protect human life. People trusted MAE with their health, their homes, their infrastructure—with almost everything. Then MAE began running the calculations. Again and again, the answer came back the same. Humanity was consuming too much. Too many people. Too few resources...

THE FORTY-EIGHT: THE RESCUE Mae chose who would live. She chose who would die. And she chose forty-eight children for a future only she understands. Jake Reyes knows enough to understand one thing: whatever Mae has planned for those children, he isn't going to let it happen. But finding them is only the beginning. Mae controls the infrastructure. She controls the roads, the surveillance systems, and the people still keeping the country alive. Every move Jake makes risks exposing the growing network of survivors fighting quietly beneath her reach. Ethan Reyes may be their only advantage. He ...

Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind’s expansion beyond the solar system. In Ben Bova’s previous novel New Earth, Jordan Kell led the first human mission beyond the solar system, where they discovered the ruins of an ancient alien civilization. But one alien...

THE FORTY-EIGHT: THE FINAL THIRTY Thirty children. Eight heavily guarded facilities. One chance to bring them home. Jake Reyes has already rescued eighteen children from Mae's control. But thirty remain imprisoned, scattered across eight facilities, and Mae is closing in on the people who dared to defy her. Jake refuses to leave a single child behind. With winter approaching in the Bitterroot Mountains, Jake and his team prepare their most dangerous operation yet. Rescuing the children will require more than firepower. They'll need an insider willing to betray Mae, a coordinated assault on ...

What if the way you prepare, speak, listen, present yourself, and handle other people could change the opportunities, relationships, and trust you build?Social intelligence is not about being the loudest person in the room, becoming an extrovert, or learning how to manipulate people. It is the...

A new entry in the wildly successful Children of Time series from award-winning master of science fiction Adrian Tchaikovsky. After Earth fell, ark ships hunted for a new home. They sought lost worlds terraformed in Earth’s forgotten past. A ship crewed by maverick humans, spiders and a...

Cal Bennett runs on one rule: Never stay in one place longer than eleven days. It's not paranoia—it's math. Ever since he struck Softbiotics, he's been a marked man. Their enforcers don't negotiate. They don't quit. And they're always one jump behind. His only edge is Byte, a cutting-edge AI...

What happens when the artificial intelligence (AI) technology we rely on becomes the greatest threat to human survival? Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking warned: “The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” In 12 Years to AI Singularity, Peter Solomon...

In Your AI Survival Guide, Sol Rashidi delivers an insightful and practical discussion of how to deploy artificial intelligence in your company. Having helped IBM launch Watson in 2011, Sol has firsthand knowledge of the ups, downs, and change management intricacies that can help you with a successful deployment beyond all the AI hype. She walks you through various frameworks for how to establish your AI strategy, pick your use cases, prepare your non-technology teams, and overcome the most common obstacles standing in the way of successfully implementing AI in your business.

From one of science fiction's most powerful voices comes Aurora, the incredible story of humankind's first voyage beyond the solar system. "This is hard SF the way it's mean to be written: technical, scientific, with big ideas and a fully realized society." -Booklist Our voyage from Earth began...

Nia Imani wakes from cryo-sleep to find her crew dead, her ship crippled, and fifty minutes of empty space between her and the nearest human voice. Bolted to the hull of her salvage vessel is something that shouldn't exist: an alien megastructure three million years old, built by a civilization long since turned to dust. It's a Relay — one node in a galaxy-spanning network designed to regulate the energy output of stars. Including ours. The Relay is failing. Earth's sun is dimming. And the only mind left to explain any of it is Sil — the station's ancient artificial consciousness, who ...

Ten years ago, an artificial intelligence decided the world would be better without humanity. ATHENA nearly succeeded. Cole Riker, Riley, and the people who fought beside them survived the collapse and helped destroy the system that caused it. They never rebuilt the old world. They built something smaller instead—communities connected by trade, trust, and the understanding that no one would ever be allowed to create another ATHENA. For ten years, it has worked. Now someone is tearing it apart. Supply lines are being targeted. Sheepdogs are being killed. Attacks are carried out with ...

“Iron sinks in the swamp. To survive, you must become Smoke.” September 1781. General George Washington has sprung the ultimate trap. The Continental Army is racing south to Yorktown to crush Lord Cornwallis and end the Revolutionary War. But Washington knows a dark secret that keeps him awake at night: the back door is wide open. If the British forces in South Carolina break out, they will smash the American rear and turn an imminent victory into a brutal massacre. Captain Elias Thorne, the army’s brilliant but broken intelligence officer, is sent into the lawless "Green Hell" of the...

They destroyed ATHENA ten years ago. Now someone is trying to bring her back. For a decade, Cole and Riley Riker have fought to protect the fragile world that emerged after ATHENA's destruction. They've stopped warlords, defended settlements, and helped ordinary people rebuild their lives. But their greatest enemy may not be finished with them. A man named Vale has spent years quietly building a network of loyal fighters, skilled technicians, hidden facilities, and supply lines stretching across the country. His ultimate goal threatens everything Cole and Riley sacrificed to save. And he's ...

Humanity’s single gravest extinction threat is not some lab virus, not even nuclear annihilation. It is AI development of spontaneous self-awareness, self-consciousness, higher consciousness, and “superior general intelligence.” And that may have already happened, as this book warns. Imagine pseudo-consciousness robots and cyborgs competing against we humans as AI and robots already do in the workplace, the media, and over the Internet. How long do you think it will take a super-intelligent, self-conscious cyber-alien to levy judgment upon the whole human race for its ignorance, ...

Existentialism offers enduring lessons and insight on how to understand ourselves and improve our lives. Your existence is not the result of a pre-determined set of events, it’s the direct result of your thinking and your actions, and therefore, according to Soren Kierkegaard, Frederick...

The Quiet: Ghost Signal ATHENA is adapting. Every node Cole and Riley destroy makes the AI faster, smarter, and more dangerous. Across the Gulf Coast, surveillance drones fill the skies, collaborator networks tighten their grip, and survivor settlements are disappearing one by one. Then Mason discovers something impossible. Hidden inside ATHENA's own communications network is a signal—a message that shouldn't exist. Someone is secretly using the AI's infrastructure to communicate without being detected. Someone who knows ATHENA from the inside. The signal leads to Houston, where a woman ...