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Seventeen-year-old Caleb Shaw's eidetic memory makes him a valuable asset to a government that harvests children like him for their innate ability to create memory modules for the brain drive—an implantable device that stores information in the form of memories. Caleb discovers that his father has been sheltering him from the truth about the brain drive, and he begins to question everything about the world he grew up in. When he is ripped from his home and taken to a government facility, his eyes are opened to the atrocities committed against children for technological advancement.

Charming debutante by day, elite computer slicer by night, Charity Devalas is out to make amends by shutting down a global gun-running cartel. But just as she’s on the verge of succeeding and maybe ending her nightmares, disaster strikes. Forced to flee with the mysterious mercenary, Spectre, Charity must brave the darkness of the Barrington Free Zone, one of the world's worst megacities. Pursued by mercs, slicers, and bounty hunters of all stripes, it will take everything they have just to survive.

This short story is about how AI could save humans from themselves after coastal flooding sparks the destruction of civilization in 2050. Wars usually lead to the invention of new technology for weapons. This time, the hoped-for artificial general intelligence weapon does something unexpected as the world is destroyed. The author is a first-time writer offering his vision of the future.

Ranging on horseback across the desert-like Tarped land, and known by their green sombreros, Paladinos protect the Tarp, empowered to kill cutters at their own discretion. There is no due process for cutters—the Paladinos are judge, jury, and executioner. You cut the Tarp, you die. El Paladino—he's known by no other name—has a problem. El Gotico is not your usual cutter, but a ruthless bandito who deals in forbidden technology.

Als Holly Winseed in einem Krankenzimmer aufwacht, sind ihre ersten Gedanken bei ihrem Ehemann Jonathan. Aber ihre Erinnerungen sind verschwommen. Ein Team von Regierungsbeamten erklärt ihr umgehend, dass sie ein provisorischer Klon ist, der nach der Verurteilung ihres Originals wegen Mordes an ihrem Ehemann Jonathan erstellt wurde. Sie hat nun eine Woche Zeit, um ihr Original zu finden und zu töten. Wenn sie Erfolg hat, wird sie das Leben ihres Originals übernehmen. Wenn sie versagt, wird sie sterben.

2097. "Il suffit d'un murmure..." disait Maestri. Un seul murmure pour réveiller un peuple endormi depuis des années. Les températures polaires, l'ajout de restrictions, les rumeurs concernant la reine, la résurgence du virus XX, et une alliance en cours, ont fini par faire basculer le Royaume dans les prémices d'une révolution. Le chaos est proche, mais le peuple, à bout de souffle. Renversement du pouvoir ou massacre annoncé ? La frontière est minime. Et tout semble ne reposer que sur un seul individu.

The gods have been angered. Hell will rain down. After Wic and the Phantom’s successful operation on Karkin Four, the team learns of the enemy’s plans for a swift retaliation: an all-out assault on New York City. Together, Wic must rally the team’s resources to plan an emergency counter-assault that will push the Phantoms to their limits. With help from unexpected places, mission success seems all but assured. But when a new terrifying technology emerges, Wic must face the most challenging choice of all: sacrifice his teammates for the fate of Earth.

When a bomb goes off at InTech HQ, everything changes for Tanta's corporation. Order becomes disorder. Safety becomes danger. Calm becomes chaos. Tanta is tasked with getting to the bottom of the attack before violence and unrest overtake the city. But even though the evidence points towards rival corporation Thoughtfront, Tanta can't shake the feeling that she's missing something. There's a dark secret at the heart of the case, one that will reveal more about her own corporation than Tanta would like.

The world Cal and Frida have always known is gone, and they've left the crumbling city of Los Angeles far behind them. They now live in a shack in the wilderness, working side-by-side to make their days tolerable despite the isolation and hardships they face. Consumed by fear of the future and mourning for a past they can't reclaim, they seek comfort and solace in each other. But the tentative existence they've built for themselves is thrown into doubt when Frida finds out she's pregnant.

It's not the end of the world...only humanity! All five books in the haunting Humanity Series have been brought together in one digital collection. Follow Scott Beck in his quest to keep himself, those he loves, and humanity alive. Combining dystopian, post-apocalyptic, and cyberpunk fiction, The Humanity Series depicts a future in which humanity is on the brink of annihilation. Join the adventure before it's too late!

The end is here. Scott Beck has fought tirelessly against what seems to be the inevitable demise of humanity. The final novel in the Humanity Series concludes Scott Beck’s fight against Mathew, a crazed megalomaniac intent on killing every last human. Desperate to keep his two sons alive, as well as what remains of humanity, Scott and his small following retreat to Land’s End in the UK for what promises to be his final stand against a relentless tyrannical force. Either Scott and humanity survive, or Mathew and his genetically modified New Humans get their way.

Never-ending customer demands at Plan B Repairs left me little time to rest, but I had developed the will and skill to help them all. To my advantage, I carried a mystical energy inside of me, accessible via the markings on my palms. Whatever the problem, I always found a way to fix it. I had identity, purpose, friends. Yet a lonely emptiness crept into my rare moments of quiet when my thoughts invariably turned to the same woman, the one I could not reach. Then, a surreal sequence of events drew me into what felt like a foreign world, and suddenly, she was there!

When a biological weapon decimates the population, Julie feels...relieved. To her, the apocalypse doesn’t seem any more dangerous than navigating the world before when she spent all her energy trying to avoid the treachery of human beings. Julie gets by as she always has, through a combination of luck and grit. But when her solitude is shattered by the arrival of strangers, Julie is forced to decide if she wants to live rather than just survive, and whether it’s too late to unearth her humanity now that most of humanity is gone.

In Earth's decline, the drone keeper lives by his own rules...until someone notices and then he must depend on both beauty and death from the thing he loves most.

From the post-pandemic world of the Traveler series comes a new cast of characters, new obstacles, and the same devastating, world-altering virus that plunges society into the depth of a dystopian hell. Follow Mike Crenshaw and his friends as they try to survive this new landscape and find out how the world in which the Traveler series was set came into being. It's a thrill ride that will keep you up at night with the lights on and the doors locked.

Questa è la storia di Evan, dalla sua infanzia trascorsa tra esperimenti sui cuccioli, passando per un lavoro come spia per una multinazionale biotecnologica, fino alla fama intergalattica della vecchiaia.

Il tenente Costas viene mandato su un'isola greca per indagare sull'omicidio di un famoso critico d'arte. Tuttavia dovrà risolvere un'enigma etico molto più complesso del previsto per arrivare alla soluzione del caso.

Una figlia adolescente che pone domande alla madre può rappresentare un bel problema, soprattutto se le domande - a sorpresa - sono di natura finanziaria, in questo fantastico racconto di uno dei massimi autori romeni di fantascienza, Cristian Teodorescu.

Angosta es una ciudad estrecha, sobrepoblada y dividida. Sus tres castas están determinadas por el sektor y el clima que habitan: la Tierra Caliente para los tercerones, la Tierra Templada para los segundones y la Tierra Fría para los dones, que son los únicos con derecho a transitar libremente por todo el lugar. El resto de ciudadanos tiene vetado el ingreso a la parte más alta de la ciudad.

Quando la divinazione eseguita sul DNA dei cittadini è una pratica obbligatoria, le verità genetiche che si possono scoprire non sono facili da accettare, come quelle che attendono l'investigatore Toby Korsakov, in seguito all'omicidio di un famoso indovino genetico avvenuto su una stazione orbitale.