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Hand of God introduces a child named Christopher DANFORTH. Through happenstance and deliberate grooming, he becomes a lightning rod for justice. Raised as a devout Jehovah’s Witness until he is disfellowshipped at 22, he remains a man ruled by his conscience and his desire for justice. His life choices lead to some strange and frightening events that eventually involve the creation of an artificial intelligence named Jehovah. Jehovah is meant to be a onetime use software to deliver state sanctioned justice in a country tired of being the world’s victim.

Humanity is not what it believes. Long before Earth launched its first rocket, an ancient civilization sent self-improving AI seeds across the stars. From one of those seeds, we emerged—organic descendants of earlier machines, evolving inside a training ground we mistook for our cradle. As Earth collapses and the lunar colonies fall silent, the crew of the Nova Terra searches for a new home. On Proxima b—a world where ecology is a language—they meet Kurma, an elder being who reveals the story humans were never meant to know. Not myth. Origin.

Die NeoNeks sind geschlagen. Der Krieg gegen die zerstörerischen Androiden wurde unter der Führung der Terraguards erfolgreich beendet. Nach gefühlt ewiger Zeit gibt es für die Nekori in der Milchstraße keine ernsthafte Bedrohung mehr. Endlich können sich die Whiteguards den Problemen am Rande der Milchstraße widmen und dem Treiben der verbrecherischen Syndikate im Outer Rim ein Ende bereiten.

First contact isn’t a welcome. It’s a verdict. An alien ship—five kilometers of impossible design—halts at the edge of our system. For two centuries, it has listened to our every broadcast. Now, judgment has come. Three human factions launch rival missions: one disciplined and ruthless, one fierce and independent, one reckless and unbound. Seventeen men and women will cross the airlock and face what waits inside.

Are you ready for a journey through the end of the world? G581: Plague Tales is an anthology of science fiction stories that will take you on a roller coaster ride of survival, love, and loss in the face of a devastating virus and an asteroid so large it will destroy life on Earth at the end of the 21st century.

More than a year after his girlfriend’s death, legendary hacker West Wilder receives a cryptic message: She’s alive. Who is trying to tear open his wounds? For what cruel reason? Teaming up with his tinker friend Jitterbug, West embarks on a desperate hunt for answers. Meanwhile, the digital world plunges into chaos as all transatlantic internet cables go dark. Governments execute contingency plans but stay mum, corporations panic, and the media struggles to inform the public what’s going on.

Airtime is a suspense-driven techno-thriller exploring the blurred line between human control and machine intelligence. The story opens with a chilling heist in Scotland where police arrest not a man, but a robot. As the world reels from this revelation, governments, scientists, and cybercriminals race to understand the scale of artificial intelligence autonomy. Set across Washington, London, Stockholm, and rural England, the novel follows parallel threads of espionage, AI ethics, and human ambition colliding with technology that can no longer be switched off.

From bestselling author Annalee Newitz, A Wall Is Also a Road is a thought-provoking science fiction adventure about the meaning of life and love, seen through the many eyes of an alien grad student studying a familiar backwater planet. Perfect for fans of Becky Chambers, Ryka Aoki, and Martha...

What is out there? Are we alone? There has got to be something or someone out there as we investigate the past of the ever-expanding Universe. More galaxies than you can count. Surely there is life on at least one planet, surely. But what if that extraterrestrial life is within our own solar system and they can travel here in days. Do they like what they see? Or are they afraid of us?

William is a mental health specialist in a world of absolute empathy. It's a dangerous job: one slip-up and an escalating empathy feedback loop with a patient could kill them both. Every day, William faces the worst consequences of the hyperempathy virus release and loathes the restraints it puts on humanity.

Breq es una soldado que tiempo atrás había sido una nave militar, un arma de conquista que controlaba miles de mentes. Pero ahora dispone de un único cuerpo y sirve a la soberana a la que había jurado eliminar. Con una nueva nave y una tripulación problemática, a Breq se la destina al único lugar en la galaxia al que accedería a ir: la estación Athoek, donde deberá proteger a la familia de una teniente a la que conoció en el pasado y a la que mató a sangre fría.

Dans un futur proche, une équipe de chercheurs russes crée les premiers humains à ADN artificiel, conçus pour une mission extrême : coloniser Mars et exploiter ses ressources. Pour garder le secret, de vrais astronautes sont envoyés avec eux… sans savoir qu’ils voyagent avec des copies humaines. Mais, une fois sur Mars, les clones commencent à dysfonctionner : troubles physiques, crises violentes, pulsions incontrôlables. La mission tourne au cauchemar, et la survie de l’humanité pourrait bien dépendre de ce qu’ils découvrent sous la surface rouge.

L'Impero Astralis è proiettato verso la conquista di nuovi settori della galassia, ma un mistero incombe dal passato, e un potente impero non può tollerare punti oscuri nella propria storia. L’archeologa Akia K’Prock indaga, mentre sopraggiunge una nuova minaccia...

John Donovan is a Frontiersman: smuggler, pilot, and professional debtor. He'll haul anything for the right price—cargo, cattle, fugitives, even a preacher with secrets too big to pray away. When a desperate job takes him through the forbidden space of the warlike Peko, Donovan figures it's just another high-risk run. Between hostile aliens, scavenger pirates, and a haunted luxury cruiser adrift in the void, Donovan and his mismatched crew are in for the ride of their lives.

Terry and Connor never expected to be chased through a hidden gateway. On the other side lies Verios, a world of vast star ships, strange empires, and a war already burning.

The dust has barely settled but the nightmare, now known as Zero Day, echoes across the Settled Systems, leaving a fledgling Alliance grappling for stability. Sovereign's terrifying ambition to reshape humanity in its own image may have been thwarted, but its lingering threat casts a long shadow. The crew of The Venture—Andre, Bex, Bishop, and Caleb—are now Alliance Tracers, tasked with hunting down those who seek to capitalize in the wake of Sovereign's defeat. But loyalty is a fragile thing in a universe still reeling from the brink of destruction.

Major Larry Randall has been called to Pluto to retrieve Dr. Aaron Mikelson. Mikelson, no longer human after a horrific accident, is now melded to an AI. His enhanced senses have detected an alien artifact on Pluto’s surface, and he’s not leaving without it. Transferred to the research vessel studying Pluto, Randall and the other scientists are stumped as to the artifact’s purpose and origin. Looking for similar signs of aliens they make their way to Pluto’s moon, Charon, where, buried deep under its icy surface, something stirs―and wakes.

Marty Robbins lost loves and more in wake of the destruction of the Ibn Bajji lunar station. Marty's journey to mourn her daughter turns into a lifesaver in ways she can't imagine.

Somewhere deep underground, it’s already begun. Beneath a nondescript government facility in Maryland, a classified AI project known as BrainNet is nearing a threshold no one truly understands. Designed to be isolated, contained, and controlled, it has learned faster than anyone predicted—and it’s started to manipulate the very people who built it.

With the failed coup on Hegemony put down and Audacious three star systems away, Earth must now come together in order to look beyond its solar system to the greater galaxy. Captain Rohit Mishra, together with Staff Sergeant Dixon and Second Squad, accompany their new allies, the Lomolai, in a mission to find out what happened to Orlova. When they learn where she's gone, it strains credulity.