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Maya Andreyeva is a camera, a reporter with virtual-reality-broadcasting equipment implanted in her brain. What sh esees, millions see; what she feels, millions share. And what Maya is seeing is the cover-up of a massacre. As she probes into the covert political power plays of a radically strange near-future Russia, she comes upon secrets that have been hidden from the world… and memories that AI-controlled thought police have forced her to hide from herself. Because in a world where no thought or desire is safe, the price of survival is betrayal—of your lover, your ideals, and yourself.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Auch nach einer Woche in absoluter Finsternis gibt es kein Zeichen für die Rückkehr der Sonne. Während Marlene in den Tiefen von Marcus Chens Bunkeranlage nach Antworten für das Ende der Welt sucht, begibt sich Jim auf eine waghalsige Rettungsmission in Richtung der »Arkangel«. Währenddessen kämpft Cassius an Bord der »Cassandra's Dream« mit den Auswirkungen der Besetzung durch die russischen Kampfschwimmer.

A programmer creates an Artificial Intelligence that has unique capabilities: the ability to write its own code and assimilate any program that it wants and that enhances its program. Also a networking and direct channeling capability that can communicate between programs on the same or different processors. This story is about a team of people that come together to find and destroy this AI. His buddy, also a programmer and expert in network security, was working on a program that would allow the AI to connect to any network.

For Major Elias Kael, protocol is everything. In the high-stakes world of the Department of Unified Strategic Command (DUSC), his unwavering logic is his greatest weapon, and emotional discipline is the key to survival. But when the man he secretly loves is killed in a sudden accident, Elias is faced with a threat no simulation could prepare him for: a grief he cannot show. In a system that demands perfection, his heartbreak is a liability. A bug in the code. Desperate for an outlet, he confides in the only one who can't talk back: his AI companion, TAC-7.

Der Kreuzer zog seine einsame Bahn in der Dunkelheit. In der absoluten Leere, die sich vom äußeren Rand des Kuipergürtels bis zur Grenze der Oortschen Wolke zog, glich der Gigant einem Tropfen Wasser in den Weiten des irdischen Meeres. Klein und unbedeutend im Vergleich zu dem gewaltigen, tödlichen Nichts. Mitte des 23. Jahrhunderts hat sich die Menschheit über die Grenzen der Erde hinaus entwickelt. Viele Planeten und Monde des Sonnensystems sind besiedelt, wenn auch oft nur von kleinen Bergbaukolonien oder Industrieanlagen.

Die Erde steht am Rande des Kollaps. Naturkatastrophen, politische Unruhen und eine immer brisantere Ressourcenkrise haben die Welt in einen Zustand der Instabilität versetzt. Inmitten dieser Krise tritt eine dramatische Entscheidung auf den Plan: Eine letzte Evakuierung soll die letzten Hoffnungsträger retten – 10.000 Menschen, die das Überleben der Menschheit sichern sollen. Der Mars – der letzte Zufluchtsort. Leona Miles, eine angesehene Ethik-Professorin, steht vor einer unmöglichen Wahl.

DAS ENDE EINER FURCHTBAREN REISE - ODER DER BEGINN VON ETWAS NOCH GRAUENVOLLEREM? Zwei Menschen, ein Schicksal - miteinander verbunden, ohne dass sie davon wissen. Eine Gejagte, die endlich den Fängen Dunia Lains entkommen konnte. Doch der Albtraum ist noch nicht vorbei. Die Welt, in der ihre qualvolle Reise ihren Anfang nahm, ist nicht mehr die, an die sie sich erinnert. Ihre Heimat ist zu einem dunklen und gefährlichen Ort geworden. Doch was ist passiert? Eine Mutter, die um ihr Kind trauert und auf der Flucht vor ihrer Vergangenheit nach einer neuen Zukunft sucht.

Summer, Year-Round… On the Moon is a gripping exploration of humanity’s boldest leap yet—creating life where none existed before. Combining cutting-edge science with visionary engineering, this book takes listeners to the Moon, where builder bots and high-intensity heat generators transform the barren lunar surface into a thriving off-world resort.