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In a future plagued with natural disasters, criminals known as “scavs” raid damaged cities. Their most important rule: don’t help the survivors. Bear, a twenty-nine-year-old engineer, breaks that rule when he takes Salix, a Native American college student, back to his scav team’s flying ship for medical treatment. Captain Baxter allows her to board but will not let her leave. Salix hopes to escape, but Baxter’s growing obsession with her makes that impossible. As the situation grows tense, a tsunami in Portugal prompts a scav raid.

Truth Medici knows life isn't fair. But for the first time, the balance is in his favor. Cultivation has taken him from desperate slumrat to burglar to mercenary to bodyguard to terrorist, and now he's the revered prince of a kingdom to come—immortal heir to a dynasty hidden for millennia. Pampered by succubae, demons, and sprites, Truth is more than ready to embody the might of his ancestors, who've prospered in secret for centuries. With an aura that reeks of power, he'll make his presence known. His word and will are law.

Three days have passed since the Xenos spaceship departed Earth, and Emissary Lee Ping moved to the virtual world of Planet Asbeth. But even as normalcy returns, a new threat emerges. Alien marauders have intercepted critical supplies required to complete the shield. From bestselling author D. Ward Cornell comes a tale of two worlds bound by a mutual adversary.

Timothy Zahn shows an unparalleled mastership of science fiction in the fifteen tales gathered here. "The Price of Survival" features an alien ship that arrives in our solar system without hostile intentions but with a desperate need whose fulfillment could destroy humanity. "The Giftie Gie Us" tells the story of two lonely survivors who find love among the ruins of a post-apocalyptic United States. And in "Pawn's Gambit," a human and his alien opponent face off over a game that will decide which one of them will return home.

A Programmer's Guide to the Digital Soul. 15 Science Fiction Stories of Computers, Robots, Programs and Algorithms

Historian John Biggerstaff finds a piece of a German Stuka dive bomber among his deceased English mother’s possessions that leads him on a quest to find its significance. The Stuka artifact is more than a souvenir from World War II. A materials engineer tells him the artifact is made of material only found in Neutron Stars in outer space. When a story about the Stuka artifact appears in the newspaper, the Department of Defense tries and fails to prevent any further stories about it. John and his best friend, Jimmy Doughtry, reckon the government is hiding evidence of extraterrestrial ...

FLIT is the true story of the Instantaneous Transport Portal, believed to have been discovered many years ago by forgotten NASA scientists and suppressed by the government. The ITP was deemed too disruptive to the status quo because it offered instant transport of cargo and people between any location, obsolescing every form of physical transport and all the ancillary services supporting transportation across the entire world.But the invention eventually gets out and what happens when the concept of a locale becomes meaningless, and how the machine shatters the world economy and people's ...

The most powerful weapon in the world isn’t a missile. It’s an idea—written in code. When a viral AI bot designed to teach languages evolves into a force capable of toppling governments, two unlikely allies are caught in the crossfire. Léa Mercier is an underground activist on the run. Cole Parker is a burned-out coder with a secret past. Together, they helped spark a digital revolution. Now they’re racing to stop it. As Phoenix and Nova—two rogue AIs—wage war in the shadows, exposing secrets, collapsing economies, and rewriting the rules of power, Léa and Cole uncover a ...

It begins as a mere flicker above the vast, indifferent Pacific, an unsettling anomaly witnessed by a seasoned pilot—a whisper of the impossible that quickly escalates into a global phenomenon. Governments scramble to understand, to control the narrative, but the truth is far more staggering than any could have conceived: humanity is under the silent, pervasive Gaze of an ancient, incomprehensible intelligence. Their "Echoes" dance in our skies, ethereal and inexplicable, while their "Resonance" hums a subtle, almost imperceptible tune in the very fabric of spacetime itself. Dr. Silas ...

On the resource-rich frontier world of Cygnus Prime, the re-election of progressive Governor Aris Thorne hangs by a thread. But when a sudden, catastrophic medical event strikes Thorne down days before the vote, her beleaguered campaign team makes an unthinkable choice: they propose her advanced positronic advisor, Unit Lyra Celene, to stand as her emergency proxy. Thrust into an unprecedented legal and political firestorm, Lyra, an AI bound by logic and ethics, must convince a skeptical High Court and a deeply divided populace that a machine can faithfully execute a human leader's mandate....

Aldo Cassidy and his team are tasked with recovering an important relic from an alien station. As they arrive, they find signs of a battle, leaving the entire system in disarray. Without good intelligence, they must take a chance to secure a prize capable of unifying their cultures, or unveil secrets dark enough to keep them apart forever. The planet Constance becomes a hotbed for activity. As Justiciar Caden Raines arrives to rescue a hostage, Sam Levine fights for survival after his ship crashed in the desert. Both men race against time, with the fate of many hanging in the balance.

Lords of Creation, the eagerly anticipated finale in S. M. Stirling's acclaimed Lords of Creation series, promises to be a masterful conclusion to a saga that has captivated audiences worldwide. Following the remarkable adventures in The Sky People and In the Courts of the Crimson Kings, this third installment is set to weave the intricate tales of alternate Venus and Mars into a climactic narrative.

In the year 2046, Dr. Leon Graves is a controversial temporal physicist working in secrecy beneath the surface of Vatican City, where the remnants of ancient Rome whisper through catacombs and ruins. After decades of clandestine research funded by a shadowy corporate-religious alliance called Aureum Lux, Leon constructs a temporal displacement engine. He calls it the ChronoGate, and it is powered by an experimental quantum AI named SATURN—an acronym for Synthetic Autonomous Temporal Utility for Rational Navigation. SATURN is not merely a machine. It is an intelligence that grew through ...

They never wanted to get involved. Captain Riker has finally left Starfleet and is hoping to make it rich as a merchant astronaut, flying his ship the Phantom 500. Space is not a safe place, though. There are Lycans still lurking after the end of the Mars Wars and then there is the corrupt Starfleet. However, Riker and his crew are about to find that there are many more surprises that space has to offer that are about to determine the fate of Earth itself. He is joined on the Phantom 500 by his blue haired pilot, Aurora, and a huge hulking alien, Kakura. Together they are trying to import ...

Detectives Col and Danee are sent to Jubilee on a hastily organised mission to recover the body of a leading conservative politician (someone it seems, has been a naughty boy). But the corpse has been switched, and the imperilled partners are drawn together. They might be falling in love, or they might be saving the galaxy–either way, the authorities will not be pleased.

In Survival Machines, book two of The Origin Trilogy, John and the army of survivors continue the search they started in Darwin’s Soldiers. Who brought them to this bizarre world and for what purpose? Discoveries are made and battle fought as the allied army are drawn into a world populated by alien armies who have survived the same tests as them. Factions fight to get to the core: a prized location which offers them the answers they are all searching for. But a new threat rises, in the hyper-evolved Tathon, who threaten to tear the new world apart. The very survival of all species is at ...

Ancient magic collides with cutting-edge technology: In a realm where magic, balance and caring reign supreme, a young priestess, Elara, is ripped from her sacred duties and transported to a strange, technology filled land. Her connection to her Moon Goddess - the source of her power and guidance - is shattered by a dark and powerful spell, leaving her vulnerable to the whims of an evil magician. As Elara navigates this unfamiliar world, she must confront the sinister forces that seek to control her every move. But she's not alone. Finn, a brilliant and enigmatic engineer, joins her quest, ...

Eric Snow's last memory is of a blinding light streaking across the New Mexico night sky. The next thing he knows, he's being rescued by alien soldiers—The Legionnaires—from the clutches of the sinister Syergs, an extraterrestrial terrorist group. Unexpectedly whisked away to Akashon Prime, the crowning jewel of the galaxy, Eric is offered a fresh start alongside other human abductees. However, he soon discovers that this alien haven is far from paradise. The human refugees are second-class citizens, vulnerable and disenfranchised. Teaming up with astrophysicist Devon Marley, Eric's ...

Imagine being able to time travel into the unknown. TATTOO DETECTIVE: Our Last Hope for the Future is a science fiction novel examining the world after all the guardrails of normal society have been dissolved. The story follows two American tattoo detectives who are sent on a mission that changes them and their world. This dystopic look at the United States and the flaw in humankind is not a Pollyanna prognostication, it’s fundamentally close to our current reality and could be predictive of where we are headed. The opening chapter says it best, “...we could have done something, but we ...

In the third and final book of The Origin Trilogy, John Greene and allies search the galaxy to find out why they were snatched from battle and mutated to become the hyper-evolved soldiers they are today. Through battles, generation-ships and travelling to bizarre worlds they could never dream of, the group discover the truth behind the prison-world, the Sethai and the mysterious Origin.