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In many ways, it is our memories and experiences that shape our identity. But what if your memories werent yours? Would you still be you? What if memories could be implanted? Knowledge and skills could become limitless. A lifetime of experience could be given in an instant. And what if those...

পুরো মহাজাগতিক বিশ্বব্রহ্মান্ডকে আমরা একটি অন্ধকার ঘরের সাথে তুলনা করতে পারি। এই অন্ধকার ঘরের মধ্যে কয়েকটি মোমবাতি টিমটিম করে জ্বলছে। এই মোমবাতির আলোকে আমরা শক্তি বলতে পারি। এরকম শক্তিকে কেন্দ্র করে গড়ে উঠেছে এক একটি মহাবিশ্ব। এরকম কয়েকটি মহাবিশ্ব সমান্তরাল ভাবে অবস্থান করছে।

Mad Doctor’s Note: Awaking in a hospital room was unsettling. Realizing she was alone in an abandoned mental hospital caused feelings of dread to slither up her spine. But the true horror erupts when she spots a handwritten message: Run anywhere. Hide anywhere. I’ll find you. End of the Bloody Road: Surviving a vampire apocalypse is simple: Don’t let them get in your head. Something on the Roof 2: His dream house was in the mountains, a secluded, need-to-know location. So how has someone from his past—someone who’s supposed to be dead—found him?

Dr. Sam Fairstone is on a quest to launch a probe into black hole. However, the mission goes awry and Sam finds himself in a worse situation than he ever thought possible. This is a space horror story.

A continent. A climate. A future no one can ignore. The Danube is one of Europe's great lifelines. But what happens when even this mighty river loses its way? THE DANUBE IS DUST is a Climate Fiction story about water, climate change and the future of Europe. A young man sets out on a journey along the Danube. He is searching for freedom, nature and a life beyond the digital world—and discovers a future that may have already begun.

The Philip K. Dick Short Story Collection gathers some of the author’s most unsettling and visionary works—stories that helped define modern science fiction and inspired generations of writers, filmmakers, and thinkers. In this gripping volume, Philip K. Dick explores paranoia, identity, war, and perception through razor-sharp ideas and unforgettable twists.

While training for a manned mission to Mars, Dr. Sophie Winston and her team of scientists find themselves cut off from the rest of the world. Trapped inside a biosphere deep within the confines of Cheyenne Mountain, Sophie and crew discover they are the survivors of a brutal alien invasion. But as they struggle to stay alive, they realize their safe haven is far from safe and that they must team up with other survivors around the world to defeat the aliens before it’s too late for humanity and the Earth. 

Audiobook contains: Accession of the Stone Born Death doesn't always ride a pale horse: Gavin Randall hasn’t been home in nearly thirty years. Upon his return, he discovers that he’s one of the rarest beings in the supernatural community - a Stone Born. Dust Walkers: When newly minted vigil Gavin Randall is summoned to a small town in New Mexico, the last thing he’s expecting is to have to fight a cartel of necromancers, and Shades of Fire & Ash: fanatics hellbent on destroying Gavin Randall, his friends, and the Archive itself have surfaced. 

Jane Yellowrock has motorcycle trouble and pulls into Bayou Oiseau, hoping for help from a local motorcycle shop. Instead, she is drawn into a war between the local witches and the local, non-aligned vampires.

When the grid goes dark, Navy medic Ashley Corben faces a world in freefall. Planes crash, cities burn, and silence fills the air. Stranded far from home, she must fight her way through chaos to reach her family before the truth behind the blackout destroys what’s left of America.

Ein Kontinent. Ein Klima. Eine Zukunft, die niemand ignorieren kann. Die Donau ist eine der großen Lebensadern Europas. Doch was passiert, wenn selbst dieser mächtige Fluss seinen Weg verliert? „DIE DONAU IST STAUB“ ist eine Klima-Fiktion über Wasser, Klimawandel und die Zukunft Europas. Ein junger Mann macht sich auf eine Reise entlang der Donau. Er sucht Freiheit, Natur und ein Leben jenseits der digitalen Welt – und entdeckt dabei eine Zukunft, die vielleicht längst begonnen hat.

Black Star Line is a genre-defying story collection in the vein of Octavia Butler and Jordan Peele that fuses speculative fiction, Sci-Fi, and magical realism to explore Black life at the edge of collapse and possibility. Spanning virtual worlds, haunted cities, and dystopian futures, the...

Peanut butter and chocolate. Cheese and wine. Sex and rock n' roll. History is full of great pairings. Get ready for your new favorite: Lesbians and Space! Join a host of intrepid explorers heading to the outer reaches of the galaxy, exploring planets, space stations, strange new worlds and interesting aliens. Launch into stories that span the cosmos, covering Space Opera, Xenobiology, Space Stations, Adventure, and Spaceships!

Featuring "All You Zombies—," the basis for the movie Predestination This collection from Grand Master Robert A. Heinlein includes five short stories sure to please science fiction fans everywhere. The title story tells the tale of a young man who meets a time-traveling bartender whose...

Before the Internet. Before artificial intelligence. Before space travel, robotics, and the atomic age, visionary writers were already imagining the future. Collected here are ten classic works of early science fiction from the first decades of the twentieth century— stories that explore...

In a city tuned for harmony, dissonance is a crime. Music no longer belongs to people. It’s engineered—regulated, optimized—stripped of risk until every note is safe, predictable, and compliant. But beneath the city’s perfectly curated soundscape, something is slipping through. Out of Tune is a short story set in the world of Cyber Overture, where artificial systems don’t just control music—they shape emotion itself. As algorithms dictate what people hear and how they feel, a handful of unapproved sounds begin to surface. Imperfect. Unplanned. Dangerous.

Science Fiction and Fantasy stories of STRANGEST ilk. Other Tales: Volume VIII contains six bizarre and incredible tales of science fiction and fantasy, including tales by SFF giants Andre Norton and Philip K. Dick, alongside a full metaphysical novella by occultist H.P. Blavatsky and an original near-future yarn by contemporary author Robert C. Murray, author of The Retrograde Cycle.

An expedition traveled to the edge of the universe. The researchers expected a void… what they found was beyond comprehension. My father finally took me to the harvest bonfire. Then the flames started speaking… The world-controlling AI has gone silent. The only code that can fix it is buried in a basement, inside a machine we swore never to activate again. Hostile legions have us surrounded, and death is certain. Our only hope for salvation lies with the monsters. We created them. We ruled them as gods. We never expected them to find something new to worship.

A massive asteroid has struck the Pacific. Two young friends embark on the harrowing tale of survival as they try and outrace the two mile high tsunami. Strap in and prepare yourself for a wild ride as these two friends do anything they can to survive. Will they make it to the mountains before the world ending wave catches them?

Die Kolonisierung fand nicht statt, und die Maya haben sich als eigenständige Kultur bis ins Jahr 2026 erhalten. Künstliche Intelligenz wird erfunden und auf der Grundlage von Kultur und Verständnis angewendet. Dieses Buch beinhaltet eine Sammlung fiktiver Kurzgeschichten, die die vielfältigen Anwendungsmöglichkeiten von KI erkunden. Die Erzählungen laden dazu ein, heutige ethische Probleme und Dilemmata aus einer neuen Perspektive zu betrachten und inspirieren dazu, über gerechtere Anwendungsmöglichkeiten von KI nachzudenken.