Survival Intelligence

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 ...

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...

In 1968, Stewart Brand declared: 'We are as gods - and we might as well get good at it.' Half a century later, that prophecy has come true. We can rewrite genes, edit embryos, build artificial minds, extend life, and terraform worlds. The old miracles - omniscience, omnipresence, even...

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, ...

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...

★★★★★ "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 ...

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.

Malcolm Dyson wasn't supposed to be awake for this. Seven years into a forty-five-year voyage, a catastrophic failure rips him out of hibernation alone, with a dying ship and ninety-one sleeping colonists depending on a man who was never in charge of anything. One of them is his daughter. With no rescue coming, Malcolm has to keep the ship alive with nothing but stubbornness and a ship AI named Marlowe who's spent thirty-eight years alone and has opinions about it. But the deeper he digs, the more he realizes the mission he signed up for was never the real one — and the same flaw that's ...

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 ...

📖 Procedural Intelligence™: A Science-Based Framework for High Stress, Performance, and Recovery When life hits hard—fear, chaos, collapse—your ability to think won't save you. Only what you’ve trained in your nervous system will. Procedural Intelligence™ is not a philosophy or a motivational slogan. It’s a neurologically embedded survival system—forged from real-world necessity and grounded in cutting-edge neuroscience. Drawing upon the breakthroughs of Dr. Bessel van der Kolk (The Body Keeps the Score), Dr. Stephen Porges (Polyvagal Theory), and Dr. Norman Doidge (The ...

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 ...

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 ...

A masterful synthesis of neuroscience, philosophy and evolutionary biology, this book transforms how we understand what it means to be conscious, alive and human, and how that differs from artifical intelligence. The age-old mystery of consciousness - our capacity to experience our own existence...

Dying planets, dangerous conspiracies, and secret romance abound in the second book of the Devoured Worlds trilogy, by rising space opera star Megan E. O'Keefe. Naira and Tarquin have escaped vicious counterrevolutionaries, misprinted monsters, and the pull of a dying planet. Now, bound together...

“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...

What Really Goes On Inside the Mind of an Operative? Espionage is about far more than secret meetings, hidden cameras, and shaken-not-stirred martinis. Behind every successful intelligence operation is something far more fascinating: human psychology. The Mind of the Operative takes a fast-moving, entertaining dive into the lesser-known world of espionage, behavioral intelligence, and survival psychology. Drawing on concepts associated with the CIA, FBI, military units, and other intelligence organizations, psychotherapist David Dye explores the mental side of the spy world—the part ...

It took civilization millennia to progress to a technologically advanced society and create AI. It took AI just days to destroy it all. A teenage cellist arrives in Las Vegas for a recital, unaware that his visit coincides with the beginning of society’s collapse. Amidst the turmoil, he meets a captivating girl, but their connection is abruptly severed when she is arrested. He bands together with newfound friends, navigating the treacherous streets of a city at war, risking everything to find her. However, as AI's shadow looms larger over Sin city, the hope of a heroic rescue fades.

Imagine yourself, five years from now, watching the news as they announce the first true artificial general intelligence. Feel that moment when you realize everything is about to change. Now picture two versions of yourself: one who prepared, and one who didn't. Which version do you want to be? What if you could know, right now, exactly what's coming and how to prepare? You're already sensing something's different. Tech leaders openly admit they're building intelligence they can't control. The timeline's accelerating. Moore's Law predicts AGI arriving between 2030-2040—maybe sooner. And ...

Do you feel restless when life finally slows down? Does calm feel unfamiliar, even uncomfortable? Unlearning Survival Mode is a powerful guide for women who’ve lived in constant hypervigilance—navigating trauma, burnout, people-pleasing, or emotional chaos—and are finally ready to feel safe in a life that’s peaceful. If your nervous system is stuck in fight-or-flight mode… If you struggle to rest, trust, or fully exhale… If you’ve spent years surviving instead of living… This book is for you. Inside, you’ll learn: How trauma hardwires the body to expect danger, even in ...