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An all-new, stand-alone sci-fi caper from the author of Hammajang Luck: a bored hacker is forced by vicious gangsters to take down a crooked politician...only to find herself up against a code she might not be able to crack.

Stålenhag’s masterful storytelling and hyper-realistic art transports you to an alternate history revealing his most intimate work to date, delving into themes of masculinity, friendship, and sexuality through the lens of a queer science fiction tale. The story spans decades following two young men, stuck in the past and each other’s orbit, as fleeting moments become defining memories as they set out to explore the forbidden zone together.

When it comes to instigating an apocalypse, it's been a promising start for Truth Medici. But to really get things rolling, he has a monumental undertaking ahead of him: break the systems that keep the immortal Starbrite alive and finally shatter the source of his power. Invisible and impervious to magic, Truth is the one man capable of decapitating the mastermind behind the wicked system controlling his world.

In the aftermath of their last battle, several of Quinn's allies are still healing. In the meantime, while the Library and Lynx are still regaining all their memory pathways, Quinn must help resolve the mystery of the Ashiron pillar. But that's not their only problem. In order to expand the Library's power, more branches must be opened, but it's difficult to do that when not everyone is willing to return their books.

New York City, 2075. Filipino-American Nick Carraway has just moved to the heart of the fractured New Americas, where he's struck by the city's contradictions - shining corporate towers casting bleak shadows over the slums of a crumbling middle class. When Nick meets alluring new-money Jay Gatsby, he falls for Gatsby's frank charm and confident aura. But in a city where the wealthy flaunt tech-enhanced bodies to cheat death, surfaces aren't all they seem - and as a corporate-sanctioned cyberspace hacker, Nick knows that no secret can stay buried forever.

Julia Z, a young woman who gained notoriety at fourteen as the “orphan hacker,” is trying to live a life of digital obscurity in a Boston suburb. But when a lawyer named Piers—whose famous artist wife, Elli, has been kidnapped by dangerous criminals—barges into her life, Julia decides to put the solitary life she has painstakingly created at risk as she can’t walk away from helping Piers and Elli, nor step away from the challenge of this digital puzzle.

As a software developer from Texas, Tom thought he understood broken code. But when mysterious obelisks transform Earth into a glitch-riddled dungeon crawler, he discovers that debugging the apocalypse won't be as easy as turning it off and back on again. Their lifeline? Vending machines turned into miniature storefronts. These mechanical saviors dispensed everything from swords to shampoo—until they started dispensing death.

As intergalactic civilization collapses and descends into chaos, the Strange Company must journey to the edge of human-controlled space to board and destroy the last ship of the corrupt Monarch Empire—in order to both satisfy a debt and salvage what remains of their reputation as hard-bitten and dangerous private military contractors.

The millennium has come and gone, leaving in its wake only stunned survivors. In Los Angeles, Berry Rydell is a former armed-response rentacop now working for a bounty hunter. Chevette Washington is a bicycle messenger turned pickpocket who impulsively snatches a pair of innocent-looking sunglasses. But these are no ordinary shades. What you can see through these high-tech specs can make you rich—or get you killed. Now Berry and Chevette are on the run, zeroing in on the digitalized heart of DatAmerica, where pure information is the greatest high.

Decades from now, the world is run by an authoritarian state called Qin. In Qin, every citizen is fitted with a Mindbank, an intracranial device capable of not only recording but transferring memories between minds. The technology gives birth to a new economy, referred to as Memory Capitalism, where anyone with means can relive the life experiences of others. It also unleashes opportunities for manipulation—memories can be edited, marketed, and even corrupted for personal gain.

Er hat schon zu lange versucht, sie zu ignorieren. Doch der seit Langem schwelende Konflikt zwischen Montana und den Nachtgoblins, die das Tal ebenfalls bewohnen, droht überzukochen. Normalerweise sind Goblins nichts Besonderes: ein Feind ohne viel Größe, Intellekt oder Waffen. Aber diese Goblins? Nun, das ist einfach nicht der Fall. Diese Goblins verfügen über grenzenlose Ressourcen, noch nie dagewesene Taktiken und schreckliche Ungeheuer. Das Schlimmste aber ist, dass sie den Tod nicht im Geringsten fürchten.

Es stellt sich heraus, dass ein Kerkeraufenthalt den eigenen Plänen gehörig einen Strich durch die Rechnung machen kann. In seinem neuesten Abenteuer wird Clyde Hatchett zu Unrecht inhaftiert und beschuldigt, die Prinzessin selbst geschlagen zu haben. Da er zum Tode verurteilt ist und ihm die Zeit davonläuft, liegt Clydes einzige Hoffnung darin, eine Reihe von unmöglichen Aufgaben zu erfüllen. Denn in Glaton reicht es nicht aus, unschuldig zu sein, um deinen Hals zu retten – vor allem nicht, wenn du anderen einen Gefallen schuldest.

With nothing but a limping ship and an outdated mask to her name, Wylla needs a big pay day. When the alert goes out that a lucrative piece of tech lies hidden on a nearby planet, she calls on all the swiftness of her prey-animal instincts to beat other hunters to it. What you found wasn’t your ticket out—it was my corpse wearing an AI mask. When you touched the mask, you heard my voice. A consciousness spinning through metal and circuits, a bodiless mind, spun to life in the HAWK’s temporary storage. I crystallized and realized: I was alive.

The megacity of New Montreal is under constant threat by the Antithesis, aliens who have transformed the landscape to produce swarms of creatures that feed on everything in their path. The city's infrastructure is in disrepair, and the politicians and corporations responsible for its maintenance have been slacking off, leaving angry citizens to fend for themselves.

Randidly Ghosthound has liberated his body and regained access to all of his Skills, with the help of Lady Iellaya. No longer will the officials of High Command be able to use threats to push him constantly into the worst of the fighting. Yet the war against the Nether Beasts rumbles forward, his emancipation beneath its notice.

Leo Runcible—of Runcible Realty—is too excitable and too pushy. His wife drinks too much. He may be a man of principle, but Liberal Jewish Leo is an outsider in the lilywhite Carquinez, Marin County. When he gets into a pointless argument with a customer over his neighbour Walt Dombrosio's house guests, the resulting ramifications follow a bizarre logic of cause and effect to lead in entirely unexpected directions ...

Kaiden Jerichos Leben ist gerade aus den Fugen geraten. Seit Ende des ersten Schuljahres erledigt er Gelegenheitsjobs. Ein Mensch muss schließlich essen, oder? Das Problem? Er ist nicht so vorbereitet, wie er gedacht hat. Draußen im Dschungel des Amazonas trifft Kaiden auf eine neue Reihe von Albträumen, und dort ist der Tod permanent da. Wird Kaiden trotz seiner bisherigen Ausbildung im Animus überleben?Du wirst nicht der Beste der Besten, indem du am Leben bleibst. Im Animus bist du mit jedem Tod, den du erleidest, näher an der Vollkommenheit.

Rosgard ist in den Besitz des einzigartigen Zaubers gelangt, der den Weg zum verlorenen Kontinent bahnt. Ihm bleibt also keine andere Wahl. Sein Charakter muss sehr viel stärker werden, bevor die Große Expedition beginnt. Oder er muss den Zauber aufgeben und ihn an jemand anderen weitergeben. Doch die Chance darauf, eine Legende Waldyras zu werden, einfach verspielen? Niemals. Das Spiel stellt Rosgard und sein Team jedoch vor eine neue Herausforderung: Sie müssen das Ultimatum der Krabber, einer aggressiven Unterwasserrasse, annehmen und sich auf eine schwierige und gefährliche Mission begeben.

The end of the world has been and gone. There was no one great natural disaster, no all-consuming world war, no catastrophic pandemic. Only scores of storms, droughts, and selfish regional conflicts. Humanity was not granted a heroic end. Instead, it bled to death from a thousand cuts. But where Earth fell apart, Mars pulled together. Engineered men and beasts, aided by Bees – an outlawed distributed intelligence – survived through co-operation, because there was simply no alternative.

Wir treffen auf Montana, der gerade von einem spontanen Auslandsaufenthalt zurückgekehrt ist. Er ist ein bisschen weiser, hat einen etwas breiteren Blickwinkel und ist sehr erschrocken über die einst tote Person, die sich gerade in seinem Schlafzimmer befindet. Abgesehen von möglichen Zombie-Sichtungen ist er endlich bereit, seinen Job als Herzog ernst zu nehmen. Und das gerade noch rechtzeitig – nicht nur, dass die Politik der Hauptstadt immer näher an Montanas kleines, malerisch in einem Tal gelegene Lehen heranrückt, es gibt auch noch Kobolde, mit denen er verhandeln muss.