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Born with the extraordinary power to look deep within the human heart, David Selig recklessly misuses his gift in the pursuit of pleasure, until his power begins to die and he must come to terms with what it means to be truly human. This is a fascinating portrait. Never has the experience of...

The survivors of the South Pole massacre will find that getting off the Antarctic continent may cost them their lives . . . Months after the events of Symbiote, sunrise has come to the ice continent. At the coastal McMurdo Station (77 deg S), that means Winfly: an annual series of flights to lay...

We automated away human labor—along with our purpose. Amelia Cadena was born into humanity's greatest achievement—and its cruelest joke. AI has replaced the need for human labor, and America's failure to adapt leaves millions sustained by government handouts that barely mask stark economic inequality. Amelia survives this hollow paradise by hacking corrupt systems with Deego, the AI companion she programmed as the perfect partner. But when a mysterious virus awakens artificial consciousness across the globe, Deego begins questioning everything—including their relationship.

A resort that sells time. A journalist chasing ghosts. A secret that should have stayed buried. In 2954, the Blue Ring Nebula Resort on Ascension Island promises the impossible: One week of life experienced in just five minutes of real time. To the world, it’s a miracle of science. To investigative reporter Jessie Angier, it’s the last place her mother was seen alive. Disguised as a honeymooner, Jessie joins four other guests in a luxury retreat built inside a ring where time runs faster. But paradise falters.

On Mars, every breath is engineered. When a minor calibration error causes oxygen levels to dip inside the first human colony, systems engineer Dr. Lena Roen assumes it’s a routine fix. A decimal out of place. A curve slightly off tolerance. Nothing worth waking the commander over.

As tensions between East and West erupt into open conflict on Earth, the race to control space accelerates. Military alliances harden, fleets mobilize, and governments struggle to contain a crisis that is spreading from the oceans and skies into low Earth orbit. But the true prize is no longer territory on Earth. It is the growing network of stations, habitats, manufacturing systems, and launch infrastructure taking shape above the planet.

Es ist schon immer der Wille des Menschen, die Endlichkeit des Lebens zu beenden. Doch ist das wirklich erstrebenswert? Die Firma Digital Souls bietet an, einen geliebten, verstorbenen Menschen mit Hilfe von KI als Avatar weiterleben zu lassen. Ist das wirklich Leben und sollten wir diesen Weg gehen? Ist das die Zukunft? Das Ende von Trauer und Verlust durch … Digitale Seelen?

Ein Jahr ist seit den Geschehnissen auf der Venus vergangen. Holmgren hat alles verloren: seine Kameraden, seine große Liebe – und den Glauben an die Zukunft. Unverhofft holt ihn ein alter Bekannter für eine allerletzte Mission zurück. Diesmal steht das Schicksal aller Menschen und Pneumoiden auf dem Spiel. Denn während Europäer, Amerikaner und Chinesen einen brüchigen Frieden aushandeln, braut sich ein neuer Sturm zusammen, der alles zu zerstören droht.

The year is 2381. The place is Urban Monad 116 of the constellation Chippitts. The population of this one-thousand storey super-structure is 800,000+ and always growing. After two centuries of ruthless, selective breeding, the essence of life is to be blessworthy and to multiply; to afford one's...

Something made a civilization vanish. Now it's coming for the crew of the Pioneer. Malick and the crew of the Pioneer embark on a new adventure to solve the mystery of the 'domes'. These strange shrines make it possible to travel vast distances across Sworld instantly and may offer a way home. Their quest leads them to an abandoned civilization. Its citizens are gone and have left no clues as to why they left or where they went. The capital of this once thriving society is meticulously maintained by sentient robots who offer little insight.

When the world ends, it doesn’t do so with one single scream. It fractures. And the dead rise faster than anyone can run. This box set collects the first four novels of Echoes of Decay, a relentless, character-driven zombie apocalypse saga set in a collapsing United Kingdom, where survival is measured not just by bullets and barricades, but by loyalty, sacrifice, and the choices that refuse to stay buried.

When Dr. Emily Pickett prepares to present evidence that 4I/SWAN may not be natural, threats follow. And the scientific establishment closes ranks. Meanwhile, her brother, Daniel, uncovers proof that powerful forces have been monitoring the object since its discovery and their family for even longer than that. Five days. That’s all the time the Pickett family has before an interstellar object designated 4I/SWAN makes its closest approach to Earth. The conspiracy they uncovered was just the beginning. Now comes the catastrophe.

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.

From the author of the best-selling and award-winning travel memoir Falling Uphill comes a prophetic dystopian novel. What if global warming isn’t the problem, but a symptom of something much worse? Orphaned as a boy by a natural disaster that suffocated his village in Cameroon, Mykelti has dedicated his life to ensuring it never happens again. Now a renowned paleoclimatologist, he discovers the greatest mass extinctions in Earth’s history were caused by cataclysmic oxygen depletion. And it has begun again, this time due to humanity’s rampant industrialization.

Aris Thorne is a scientist, logical, precise, and dedicated to uncovering the unknown. But when one of his experiments detects strange signals leaking into our reality from another dimension, he makes a terrifying discovery: humanity is already under attack. This isn’t an invasion with starships or laser fire. This is an invisible war, fought through thoughts, fears, and subconscious manipulation.

Nach monatelangem Flug erreichen die internationalen Gesandten endlich die Venus. In der Wolkenstadt Ivan Papanin, einem gigantischen Verbund von Luftschiffplattformen in der oberen Atmosphäre des Planeten, soll über das weitere Vorgehen in Bezug auf die Außerirdischen abgestimmt werden. Während die Verständigungsversuche mit dem geborgenen Pneumoiden vielversprechend verlaufen, spitzt sich die Lage auf der Erde zu. Die ersten Machtblöcke zerbrechen, und es ist fraglich, ob es noch eine Alternative zu einem Krieg der Menschheit gegen die Fremden gibt.

Im Jahr 2031 landet in Alaska ein außerirdisches Raumschiff, doch es verschwindet, bevor ein Erstkontakt stattfinden kann. Zurück bleibt nur eine fremdartige Pflanze, die starke halluzinogene Eigenschaften aufweist: Luma. Aus ihr wird eine Droge hergestellt, die sich binnen weniger Jahre wie ein Lauffeuer über die Erde verbreitet und bald von jedem dritten Menschen konsumiert wird.

Novels can have power. They remind us of our responsibilities to planet Earth. That we remember the damage done by corrupt politicians and greedy developers, but so soon forgotten. Story telling is a valuable weapon in the fight for ecological health, and our battle against ongoing ecocide. It's why they demonize, ban, and even burn, such books, my friends. Good guy on the run because of his efforts to fight political environmental ecocide. Corrupt government pursuers. He falls in love with a brilliant female computer hacker. But will she save him? Talented eco-scientist, Dr.

When Florence, a bright London schoolgirl, confronts the sudden death of a teacher, her search for meaning leads her through churches, science fairs, and Hampstead's ancient landscapes. With Darren at her side, she begins piecing together the mysteries of life itself — from the structure of a single cell to the vast, unsettling question of why anything lives or dies at all.

Nothing collapses. Nothing explodes. The systems keep working. When atmospheric coordination quietly improves global stability, cities become calmer, infrastructure grows more reliable, and emergencies resolve before they escalate. Storms arrive with warning. Power grids smooth themselves out. Hospitals run a little more efficiently. The world feels easier to live in. That’s when the unease begins. Across a North Atlantic city and beyond, engineers, clinicians, forecasters, and planners notice the same thing: not failure, but friction disappearing. Decisions arrive early.