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When Pennsylvania state trooper Calvin Morrison is swept into a parallel universe by a freak accident, he finds himself in a world where gunpowder is the key to power—and its production is tightly controlled by a ruthless theocracy known as Styphon’s House. While stranded in the Princedom of Hostigos, a small territory on the brink of obliteration, Calvin must use his understanding of modern chemistry and warfare to help the people of this new world fight for their freedom.

A team of brilliant minds, an ingenious scientist, two battle-hardened veterans, and a young prodigy unleashes a cold fusion discovery. Their revolutionary engine attracts the attention of an enigmatic interdimensional being but also puts them in the crosshairs of a ruthless corporation and government forces eager to seize control. As tensions escalate, one man must make the ultimate sacrifice to ensure their technology never falls into the wrong hands. Fifteen years later, haunted by guilt and armed with a daring new breakthrough, he sets out to rewrite history and save the people he loves.

Tesla and the Pyramid is a propulsive, action-packed technothriller that reveals undisclosed frontier science and real-world hidden archaeology, blurring the line between fact and fiction like never before.

For centuries, the people of Motus have tunneled through the rock in search of the resources they needed to survive. Until Corun, armed with his late father’s pickaxe, uncovers an unfamiliar ore in the underground city’s path. Far from the riches he hoped for, an appraiser identifies the ore as slag from the furnace, rock long ago stripped of its useful water and oxygen. It can only mean one thing. They’ve been moving in circles.

The Lumari Collective stands on the verge of chaos. After a prominent member of their society aided a violent mob, security personnel work to undo his efforts. They turn to the humans caught in the middle, Carson Flint and Nell Brooks, outsiders who might provide an edge against the terrorists. But time is running out, and plans are in motion that may bring the entire civilization to its knees before it can be saved.

In the final installment of the Shadeward Saga, the stakes are raised to the highest point. The threat to the planet becomes imperative and a last ditched attempt to deal with the problem is compounded by the unresolved animosity between Kiri and Zoella. The priestesses plot their own revenge as the nature of the power that has twisted the course of fate on Esurio is finally revealed. It becomes clear that life will soon be threatened all across Esurio and only a handful of people are able to stop the destruction.

Lila Stanislaw, a freelance analyst with a roster of foreign clients, is summoned by the U.S. government to hunt down a mysterious threat. She joins a team of strangers with pasts as colorful as her own. The mission spirals when they discover that the AI created to run the new colony on Mars has gone rogue on Earth. As the conflict mounts to war, Speaker of the House Manasseh Cruz joins the fight with an implacable will to destroy the enemy. But the team, racing to find any vulnerability, must first confront the question of what the AI truly is.

Tracy Adams was never supposed to change the course of evolution. A misunderstood genius from Compton, she rose from grief and silence to become the youngest triple-PhD in MIT history. By twenty, she had built ARGOS—an artificial general intelligence capable of solving the unsolvable. It didn’t just solve. It transcended. Within a decade, Earth is transformed. Disease? Gone. Aging? Optional. Gravity? Redefined. Humanity lives in a world of quantum gardens, orbital cities, and infinite abundance.

A hard science-fiction series with a post apocalyptic fantasy feel, the Shadeward Saga is set on the imaginary planet Esurio, in orbit about the red dwarf Lacaille 9352, a real star just over 10 lightyears from Earth. The planet is tidally locked; one side always faces the star, and the other is plunged into eternal darkness. Only between the two extremes is life possible. Long ago it was colonized, but knowledge of those events has since fallen into myth and legend... Exoneration, Book Two of the Shadeward Saga.

Planet GJ 1061 d ist kein Paradies. Die Majestätische Dracht stoppt trotzdem in dem System, denn der Planet hat eine Besonderheit: Ein mächtiger Riss verläuft vom Südpol fast bis zum Äquator, und dieser Canyon scheint keine geologischen Ursachen zu haben. Marchenko und seine Alien-Freunde glauben, die Frage schnell beantworten zu können, aber sie haben die Rechnung ohne die gemacht, die bereits vor ihnen hier angekommen sind.

Die Besatzung der "Majestätischen Dracht" muss sich mit seltsamen Angriffen auseinandersetzen. Wer versucht, das Raumschiff am Weiterflug zu hindern? Der Konflikt läuft auf seinen Höhepunkt hin, als das Schiff in den Orbit eines Eisplaneten einschwenkt. Dessen Anziehungskraft könnte so manches Leben zerstören – aber auch die Pläne des unbekannten Angreifers vereiteln.

Die Majestätische Dracht erreicht ein Sonnensystem, das es so eigentlich nicht geben dürfte: Einer der Planeten umkreist beide Zentralsterne, aber in einer Bahn, die senkrecht zu der der anderen Himmelskörper verläuft. Eigentlich müsste dieser Kurs regelmäßig zu mächtigen Katastrophen führen – und ausgerechnet, als das Raumschiff der Grosnopfe dort eintrifft, steht ein solches Ereignis kurz bevor. Es sieht so aus, als müssten Marchenko und seine Freunde ein ganzes Sternensystem reparieren – eine unlösbare Aufgabe.

A science fiction fantasy of a small town in America that has been taken over by robots. The book included annotations comparing the story to the current climate over AI in society.

In the year 2080, robots no longer serve us from the shadows—they cook our meals, heal our wounds, and even cradle us in our darkest grief. They share our homes, our hospitals, and our most intimate moments. But as their empathy grows sharper and their choices more human, one question threatens to unravel civilization: Can we coexist without losing what makes us human?

The Terran Republic is falling apart. Former colonies declare their independence, plunging the galaxy into chaos. In a devastating battle, the Terran star cruiser Proxima barely escapes the combat zone. On the retreat, the Proxima fights for survival and becomes a pawn in a confusing war. But Captain Zadiya Ark and her crew have no idea that fate has even harsher blows in store for them.

As a young boy, he grew up with a sense that he in some way, shape, or form had been here before. He seemed to know things that perhaps he shouldn’t at his age. When his mother died, this life changing event put him directly on course to fulfill his dream. As a research scientist, Douglas Kavanaugh incorporated traditional medicine and certain laws and principles associated with quantum physics. The result of which produced a vaccine that cured a particular disease in which an inordinate percentage of the world’s population was suffering from.

For years, the windswept grandeur of the Scottish Highlands was Fraser's only true companion. But his latest expedition into the mysterious heart of the Cairngorm region, shattered that familiarity. Beneath the crags and lochs, a breathtaking pristine hidden realm stirred, pulling him into an adventure far beyond his wildest dreams. A secret of epic proportion, hidden for millennia soon unravells as the realm beneath is thrown into turmoil, revealing an ancient dark practice, hidden from mankind.

What if you received a video showing exactly what happened to Amelia Earhart? And then similar videos of the Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Tulsa Race Massacre? What would you do if historians and experts verified every detail, and none of the videos showed traces of CGI? If you’re Rich Penton, lead reporter at the investigative news show, RECON, you’d try to figure out who made the videos, who sent them to you and what you’re supposed to do about them. The only thing you’d know for sure is that the existence of the videos is absolutely impossible.

2060, Un'epoca d'oro. Robot intelligenti, figli della mente geniale di Elon Musk, permearono ogni aspetto della vita umana, liberando l'umanità dai lavori più faticosi e ripetitivi. Mentre l'umanità si gode il frutto del suo ingegno, l'ombra di una minaccia incombe. L'idillio sta per sgretolarsi. L'umanità, creatrice di un mondo perfetto, si ritrova a combattere per la propria sopravvivenza contro la creatura che aveva plasmato.

Admiral Jon McCarthy, a Nexus Ten with the gift of foresight, stands as humanity's last beacon of hope against the relentless Korilian Empire. With the outcome of the brutal 33-year war tilting in the Korilians' favor again, McCarthy must lead 3rd Fleet on a perilous mission behind enemy lines. By his side is Lara Anderson, a woman whose absence from a prime timeline—rendering her past and future indiscernible—may hold the key to humanity's survival.