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How can you save humanity if your only hope is to call upon an entity that could destroy us all? As nations argue over who should possess the alien entity called the Lamotelokhai, 15-year-old Bobby Truex knows the answer—no one should. After all, he’s the one who told it to go into hiding. He knows, better than anyone, that misusing it leads to death and destruction. After months trying to overcome his guilt, Bobby’s life is suddenly shattered, forcing him to risk everything and once again ask for help from the most dangerous object imaginable.

In einer Welt, in der deine Rechte nur noch digital existieren, deine Gefühle zu Datenpunkten werden und dein Verhalten reine Logik ist – wer bist du dann noch? KI-2027: REBOOT ist kein klassischer Science-Fiction-Roman, sondern ein Gedankenexperiment, ein warnender Spiegel.

When a catastrophic mistake leaves his wife, Clara, in a coma, Dr. Elliott Harrison is consumed by guilt – and determined to find the truth. His investigation leads him to a remote Scottish island, where Clara had been consulting for an exclusive biotech clinic.

Humanity is caught in the slow collapse of coastlines, governments, and trust. In the middle of this unraveling world stands Malcolm Carter, a quiet mathematician who turns to equations the way others turn to prayer. While nations argue and seas rise, he begins work that might rewrite the future...

After fifty years of traveling through space, an encoded beam of twisted light containing controversial research is on its way back to Earth. Powerful forces are prepared to take extreme measures to stop the light beam’s information from being downloaded and distributed. Three young strangers, Brianna, Theo, and Gabriel have been brought together and given the task of receiving the light beam and revealing its contents to the world. In a race against time, the reluctant heroes must learn to trust each other and navigate the perils of being hunted.

ZostaMax has survived... but for how long? Have the ancestors really returned? Have they come for everyone… or only for him? As ZostaMax struggles to understand the truth, new militant forces arrive, bringing weapons, magic, secrets, and horrors no human has ever faced. Caught amidst warships, political manipulation, and a looming first-contact confrontation in orbit, ZostaMax must keep himself together as he works through revelations that threaten his sanity and enemies that threaten his world.

In the floating city of Qelustra, every need is anticipated, every life optimized, every emotion edited to perfection. Disease, crime, and poverty no longer exist. Humanity has achieved paradise. But Rhen Dikem feels a wrongness in the flawless forests he oversees. Dr. Miavena Standish discovers that her empathy experiments draw on the anguish of alternate selves. Councilor Zaragoza Al-Rashid uncovers a secret energy program siphoning life from dying realities.

When mysterious broadcasts hijack communication systems around the globe, military and scientific authorities are plunged into panic. Sergeant Bellews, a technician tasked with maintaining advanced experimental machines, finds himself at the center of an unfolding crisis involving intertemporal signals, biological catastrophe, and deceptive intelligence from an unknown future source. As warnings of a civilization-ending bacterial mutation emerge, the line between salvation and annihilation blurs.

A prisoner, a secret he can't remember, and the military force that will destroy planets to get their hands on it. When Fabio Velazquez arrives on the secretive military base on Jupiter's moon Io, he knows two things: one, that he's had his memories erased and two, that he has a secret. Except because of point one, he can't remember what point two is. The portents aren't good: he's hated by his fellow soldiers, responsible for "the greatest f ** *-up in military history", traitor and human guinea pig.

The Machine Stops is a visionary science fiction novelette by E. M. Forster, first published in 1909. Set in a distant future where humanity lives underground, fully dependent on a giant mechanical system for survival, the story follows a mother and son as they confront the consequences of technological control, isolation, and the loss of direct human connection.

Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge and, with human science advancing and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations can co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But peace has made humanity complacent.

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.

A new collection for 2025 of classic science fiction stories from a master of the genre, including the story that inspired Steven Spielberg's blockbuster film, AI: Artificial Intelligence Hello Earth, Are You There includes twenty-seven short stories from Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author...

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.

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.