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Ashton Frey is a washed-up private investigator with a burned-out neural implant and a job he should’ve walked away from. Now he’s chasing a corporate conspiracy from the gutters of Helsinki to the permafrost of the Arctic north. Haunted by his past, hunted by kill teams, and carrying an ego-maniacal AI in his head that won’t shut up.

Eine Ameise beobachtet unsere Zivilisation, unsere Erfindungen – und unsere Widersprüche. In ihrer Welt sind Organisation, Fleiß und Ordnung selbstverständlich – was also soll das Chaos da draußen? Benjamin Werner bringt diese charmant-satirische Erzählung mit feinem Gespür für Humor und Nachdenklichkeit zum Leben.

In a satirical, high-octane future, humanity’s first mission to colonize Mars is sabotaged by the very forces that launched it: corporate greed, political stupidity, rebellious robots, and influencer warfare. What begins as a sleek launch countdown quickly spirals into an interstellar comedy of errors.

କଳ୍ପବିଜ୍ଞାନ ଢାଞ୍ଚାରେ ରଚିତ ମୃଣାଳଙ୍କ ଅନ୍ୟତମ ସଫଳ ଉପନ୍ୟାସ ହେଉଛି 'ଶକ୍ତି'! ସୁଖପାଠ୍ୟ ଏହି ଉପନ୍ୟାସରେ ଅବକ୍ଷୟଗ୍ରସ୍ତ ସମାଜ...

A region of space with different laws of physics. A child’s story about black holes. An interoffice memorandum presaging the end of the world. An alien named Gerald. These are some of the stories you’ll find in There Is No Cat, a collection of short fiction by Gene Doucette. Each story is unique, both in the topic and the telling, as Gene never seems to approach his stories the same way twice. See what our world looks like from the perspective of a newly self-aware nanobot, or the eyes of a precocious child. Read between the lines of corporate-speak for news of an impending apocalypse.

May’s humdrum life is flung into hyperdrive when she’s abducted, but not all aliens are out to probe her. She’s inadvertently rescued by Xan, an I Love Lucy obsessed alien with the orangest rocket ship in the universe. But you still have to eat in space, and rocket racing is a quick, if life-threatening, way to make a living. Finally, May has a career she loves and a friend to share her winnings with. Until a Chaos goddess possessing Xan’s ex decides to start a cult on Earth and threatens to turn the planet into her den of destruction.

Five months there. Five months back. And seven months waiting for the planets to align. In a tiny ship never meant for deep space. Denali is one hell of a trip. But the leading mind in nanite medicine is stranded there. Captain Sass Collier wants him back, to cure failure to thrive syndrome in her own colony. Each of the crew has a motive to embrace the risk. The lucky ones wish for adventure. Adventure is assured. But Denali holds another prize beyond their wildest dreams. Can Sass hold her fractious crew together, get the goods, and meet her launch window home?

Jimmy had it all: wealth, power, and a complete lack of empathy. Then his father—the one man who tolerated his sociopathic tendencies—cut him off, forcing him into the horror of employment. After a string of job failures (some involving homicidal plants), Jimmy reluctantly starts absorbing life lessons as an ivory tower wanderer. Over time, he evolves into something resembling a functional human being.

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.

Six friends, a psychotic dog and a transgender assassin set out to save humanity from itself. Their journey takes them to the most unimaginable times and places, exposing them to the best and worst of mankind — and themselves. A simple question at a dinner party stimulates a conversation that leaves everyone present knowing that their lives will be inexorably changed. However, none anticipate the extent or immediacy of the changes about to engulf their lives as the normal they know, defined so simply by Einstein’s elegant formula, is completely blown apart.

After their wedding--and the Ice Dame's high-handed exploitation of the event--Triana and O'Neill embark on their honeymoon, only to find they’ve been booked on a CelebVid cruise to Armstrong with Vanti, Elodie, and Leo. When the jump to Armstrong throws Triana and O'Neill into an alternate reality, they must outsmart the multi-verse versions of their friends, a lunatic professor and his corporate sponsor, and a cargo hold full of egg-throwing rodents, if they hope to return to their own lives.

Welcome to Veil City—a neon-soaked empire where the elite upload their minds to cheat death. For Grael, the cautious planner, and Pylen, the chaos-loving wildcard, life was simple: stay out of trouble. Then they accidentally send a priceless ceremonial chicken to the butcher. Now, with the city under lockdown and hunted by Imperial enforcers and the ruthless Black Feather Cartel, their only allies are a sarcastic hover rickshaw—and the smug, sacred chicken at the center of it all. But this is no ordinary bird.

Using stolen plans for an experimental weapon, a rogue faction has engineered a terrifying new missile and launched it into orbit. As the head of the deployed Special Forces Unit, it is Jay's responsibility to stop it from destroying another hospital. And Jay has the perfect plan.

With the help of a team from a nearby settlement, the rebuilding begins with a focus on safety. Their healer, Jessica, is as beautiful as she is tough. If we could convince her to stay in Hope that would be a huge advantage. More hands means less work, and soon we had a thriving garden and four livable homes. With some help, I began work on a waterwheel that could power our new settlement. Next step: getting the plumbing working again. Things were going well, and life was simple and satisfying when we focused on the basics.

Mr B. Clarke—a slightly haggard, ever-curious educator with a talent for falling asleep during lectures—never expected to become an explorer of algorithms. But one nap too many, and he finds himself dropped into the inner workings of artificial intelligence itself. From the whispering corridors of machine learning to the labyrinths of neural networks and the philosophical riddles of consciousness and code, Mr Clarke stumbles his way through an astonishing landscape of logic, language, and (sometimes) lunch.

Frage: Darf man den drittletzten Teil der absurden Daswarsdann-Trilogie hören, ohne den ersten oder die beiden viertletzten Teile zu kennen? Antwort: Hier ist vieles möglich. Vielleicht ist der drittletzte Teil Band 1 sogar amüsant. Er stellt eine Verbindung zwischen dem Vorangegangenen und dem Kommenden dar. Allzu ernst sollte man ihn nicht nehmen. Alle anderen Teile auch nicht. Frage: Wie viele Teile der ›Trilogie‹ sind geplant? Antwort: Von einem Plan kann natürlich keine Rede sein.

Um das Unausweichliche zu verhindern, musst du alles auf eine Karte setzen! Die feindlichen Insurgents konnten die letzten Divinus-Reserven der Erde in ihre Gewalt bringen. Das Ziel ist zum Greifen nahe: Die Unterjochung der Menschheit. Dazu fehlt ihnen das letzte Puzzlestück, die Entschlüsselung des Pontem-Codes. Der letzte Widerstand der Menschen ist gebrochen und verteilt auf der ganzen Welt. Schwer angeschlagen versucht sich eine kleine Gruppe Mutiger erneut zusammenzufinden. Ihre persönlichen Differenzen müssen überwunden werden.

The survival of our universe depends on a music-loving librarian and a thousand-year-old alien. He’s got wings, she’s got a flute. What could go wrong?

George Fotheringay, un hombre corriente con una vida sin demasiados sobresaltos, se encuentra con una habilidad asombrosa: puede hacer milagros con sólo un pensamiento. Lo que comienza como un juego se transforma en una serie de eventos que podrían cambiar el destino de la humanidad.

It all started as a milk run: a working vacation on New Arcadia, the neo-Victorian and Edwardian steampunk orbital, with cards and booze and filthy jokes aplenty. Then it became a bigger — but still low-stakes — job involving stolen Egyptian artifacts with a payday almost too good to be true. How it ended up, though, might have involved going to war with a bloodthirsty outlaw gang of neo-Nazi, neo-pagan, cybernetic, steampunk biker werewolves and trying to prevent the Viking apocalypse. Maybe with the help of half-alien Jesus, an ancient cat goddess, and a small army of berserker dwarves.