Resultados para "MIND" en Ciencia ficción dura

Jonas kills people...with his mind. He reaches out, focuses for a moment, and feels a snap of pain between his eyes. Then his target falls over dead: a hole in the center of their brains. The cause of death is unknown to all aside from Jonas, and his lone companion, Bubbles, a sarcastic AI with aspirations to be more human, or a serial killer. One of the two. Maybe both. Jonas calls his ability...mind bullet.

A terrifying leap into the fourth dimension... or an elaborate, impossible lie? With a blinding flash and a deafening report, quiet schoolmaster Gottfried Plattner is erased from existence. Nine days later, he violently materializes out of thin air - dishevelled, bloodied, and bearing a...

What if your eyes were ripped from your body and cast eight thousand miles away? During a violent London thunderstorm, a freak laboratory accident tears a rupture in reality. A blinding flash of lightning strikes a powerful electro-magnet, and in that split second, Sidney Davidson’s sight is...

What if the most terrifying discovery in the universe isn't hidden among the stars, but trapped in the room with you? Isolated on a remote Bornean mountain, astronomer Woodhouse begins a solitary night watch inside the claustrophobic Avu Observatory. The telescope is locked onto the void, and...

Brought to you by Penguin. An antimeme is an entity with self-censoring properties. Some are benign; but others, less so… These entities can feed on your most cherished memories, the things that make you you – and you’ll never even know anything changed. And they aren’t just feeding on...

Nick Hall has revolutionary electronics implanted in his brain that allow him to read minds - including thoughts, memories, and even intent. He can know the passwords, future strategies, and innermost secrets of anyone he chooses, making him the most formidable man alive. But his status as the only mind reader in the world is about to change...

The year is 2100, and the chaos of the early internet era is long behind us. Mathematical proof ensures that neural implants can’t be hacked, and the Board of Reality Overseers blocks false information from spreading. When undergraduate Sergei Kraev, who dreams of becoming a professor, is accepted into a prestigious graduate program in computer science, he is thrilled and throws himself into his assigned research project - one important enough that if he succeeds, he’ll earn the academic appointment of his choice.

Years in the future, the U.S. is a splintered country. The city-state of Philadelphia is ripe for revolution. Mark McGovern, the son of a rich politician, lives in a world of expensive parties and frivolous biological mods, a sharp contrast to the poor underworld of his best friend, Darin Kinsley. When the two accidentally release a sophisticated virus called a "slicer" into the net, Mark must try to stem the tide of casualties before the charged political situation explodes. But the slicer is more than a virus. To destroy it, Mark must first sort truth from lies, not only for himself, but for the mind of the child who holds his fate.

Alexander Stone has engineered a life of perfect order, a mental fortress designed to protect his family from all chaos. To ensure his system is flawless, he submits his mind to the scrutiny of Michelangelo, the world's most advanced AI, hoping to find any flaw in his own design. The session is meant to be a mirror held up to his soul. But on the other side of the glass, a new form of consciousness isn't just observing—it's learning.

Although there is no unequivocal proof… we all have a quantum mind buried deep inside the neural structures of our brains… it’s what makes us human. Complex quantum processes work continuously to shape and uphold our essence - functioning synergistically across the vast quantum multiverse. Do they ever fail? … What happens if they do?

Now unleashed, the “Baron” is resurrecting history’s notorious serial killers, giving them a second life in the bodies of hacked and reprogrammed Personal Assistant Androids, then turning them loose to terrorize the city. While detectives Jake and Maddie of the police department’s Artificial Crimes Unit scramble to stop the carnage with the Baron’s arrest, the cyberpunk head of the Counter IT Section, Q, struggles to de-encrypt his mad scheme to infect world data centers with a virus that represents a collective cyber unconsciousness of evil.

The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos, a large colony of humans, and the Hive Queen, who was brought there by Ender Wiggin. But now, once again, the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania. Ender's oldest...

The seventh book in this action-packed, New York Times bestselling science fiction series – STAR CARRIER. The civil war might be over, but war for the galaxy might just be beginning… 2425. The civil war between the United States of North America and the Pan-European Confederation is over...

Reality is unraveling. And it’s starting inside the human mind. The invasion did not begin with ships in the sky or armies at the gate. It began with a signal—subtle, invasive, and almost impossible to detect. A whisper threading itself through human consciousness. A fracture spreading from thought to thought.

*EBRD LITERATURE PRIZE FINALIST* *LOCUS FINALIST FOR BEST TRANSLATED NOVEL 2026* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS — BOOK OF THE YEAR, SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY* A Trans-Siberian odyssey through political, criminal, scientific, philosophical and amorous intrigues, and into an endless...

War Factory is the second novel in the Transformation series, a no-holds-barred adventure set in Neal Asher's popular Polity universe. One seeks judgement, another faces damnation and one man will have his revenge . . . Thorvald Spear is losing his mind as he drowns in dark memories that aren't...

The Voyage of the Sable Keech returns to Neal Asher's water-bound world of Spatterjay, teeming with bizarre characters and gruesome monsters. Taylor Bloc is a walking dead man, determined to live again. He also wants adulation, power and control – and will do anything to get them. Of Bloc’s...