Science Fiction Technology

He dreamed of reaching the stars, but everythig has a price… Ethan develops the first warp bubble technology to break the light speed barrier. Excited by his achievement, he builds the first spaceship size warp bubble drive. But blood drains from his face when he discovers the project sabotaged. It must be someone on the project team. Who can he trust? As they begin the ship’s maiden voyage, his worst fears are realised when someone murders his best friend and they detect another spaceship headed to their destination. Despairing, he sees his life-long dream slipping from his grip. Can ...

The Billionaire Inventor's Transgender Machine Doll, if such an anime existed, retold in book form.

Yo wants to know why the road is being dug up—he sees a lot of machines and empty pipes! With the help of the construction workers, he learns how workers build and repair the water pipeline under the streets and roads where Yo travels—to carry water to all the homes and buildings that need it!

Revive The Dead A New Future New York Science Fiction ThrillerRevive The Dead is a gripping dystopian science fiction thriller set in the bustling metropolis of New York during the year 2033. Raymond Rickman, a former governor of New York turned private lawyer, is pulled from his mundane routine into the world of groundbreaking scientific discovery. When Dr. Benedict Wilson from Beller Research Laboratories approaches him with a proposition to represent their controversial project, Rickman's life takes an unexpected turn. The lab has perfected a technique to revive the newly dead, a process...

Is mind reading a real skill? What about being able to move things with just your mind? Listeners will be captivated by claims of psychic powers while also learning the facts about each story. Which tales could be true, and which myths are busted?

A lively exploration into the life of Charles Darwin, One Beetle Too Many recounts both Darwin’s childhood and his time on the Beagle as a naturalist. This adventurous tale explores Darwin’s discoveries in geology, paleontology, and animal anatomy that led to his famous theory of evolution.

Few activities grip our attention more than animal watching. Dolphins and seals bring us much joy, and sharks and alligators hold us in awe. But animals can also prompt a variety of fascinating questions. Why do dolphins sometimes surf? How well can birds of prey actually see? Why do giant pandas eat bamboo fast food? Why are cavities essential to one reptile's survival? What effect can a slight temperature change have on alligator hatchlings? How can some seals stay underwater so long and dive so deeply without harm?

In ChatGPT for Fiction Writing, experienced author Sonny Saad lets you in on a game-changing secret: AI. Specifically, leveraging ChatGPT to become your tireless fiction writing partner.

Two guys break into an empty house. They find a machine that talks and responds to their questions. Can you summon a demon they ask it? A joke, right? Little do they know. It can. This is what happens when your voice assistant comes to life. Bonus Story: Webs A pyramid in the deep dry desert. What secrets lie within its walls? One explorer is about to find his greatest desire and his worst nightmare inside this ancient artifact. Bonus Story: Fear of the Scarecrow An angry man is hungry for revenge. Sometimes revenge comes with a price.

Seth and his talking cat Nightshade arrive in the magical town of Gramichee to gain an apprenticeship: he's finally read to qualify as a magician. But he soon discovers that the existing apprentices are under attack at the town's Scrumdiddlyumptious Cafe, which is far more deadly than it is delightful. Seth's got his hands full, as usual. Can he pass his exams, discover who's murdering the apprentices and stop them before they strike again?

What would the United States look like—what would it represent—if leadership suddenly put country before party, possibility before dogma, and created a vision of a better future and then executed against that vision? In this thought-provoking book, a new president takes the country to task—and reinvents government, healthcare, job creation, foreign relations, transportation infrastructure, and education, and with the help of her unlikely cabinet, shows the nation—and the world—what could be, rather than what is.

Scholastic's best-selling Old Lady returns in this adventure series with a nonfiction twist that will make you laugh and learn! In this spin-off, the Old Lady turns into an Old Astronaut who travels through space, swallowing a moon...along with a star, a planet, a comet, a meteor, a rocket, and a satellite.... Why? Well, it went down just right, that bright satellite!

Emilio Fors es un chico casi como cualquier otro. Está en sexto de primaria y siempre le ha gustado pasar desapercibido. Pero el día en que es víctima de la puntería de Aarón, la estrella del equipo de fut, su mundo cambia por completo y por las noches comienza a tener una pesadilla recurrente.

Todo empeora cuando lo que sufre en sueños lo acompaña al despertar. Si sueña que lo arañan, cuando amanece le arde la piel; si lo golpean, le aparecen moretones...

In the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut takes a job in the PR department at General Electric in Schenectady, where his older brother, Bernard, is a leading scientist in its research lab - or "House of Magic". Kurt has ambitions as a novelist, and Bernard is working on a series of cutting-edge weather-control experiments meant to make deserts bloom and farmers flourish.

Corn. Chocolate. Fishing hooks. Boats that float. Insulated double-walled construction. Recorded history and folklore. Life-saving disinfectant. Forest fire management. Our lives would be unrecognizable without these, and countless other, scientific discoveries and technological inventions from Indigenous North Americans. Spanning topics from transportation to civil engineering, hunting technologies, astronomy, brain surgery, architecture, and agriculture, Indigenous Ingenuity is a wide-ranging STEM offering that answers the call for Indigenous nonfiction by reappropriating hidden history.

Memory Signal By Caleb James In the frozen ruins of the last lighthouse on Earth, one man discovers a signal that doesn’t speak in words—it speaks in memories. Silas Ward is the final keeper of Nordhavn Light, a forgotten outpost on the edge of the world. Isolated for over a thousand days after the Collapse, he endures storms, silence, and the haunting lullaby of a daughter lost. But when a mysterious aurora begins pulsing in harmony with an old reel-to-reel recorder, Silas realizes he’s not alone. The signal is alive—and it remembers. Joined by Rhea Ainsley, a crash-landed stranger...

This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Each book tells the story of an icon in a lively, conversational way that works well for the youngest nonfiction listeners and that always includes the hero's childhood influences. This book features I. M. Pei, the award-winning Chinese American architect whose projects include the John F. Kennedy Library and the pyramid at the Louvre.

Adrift in a world they no longer recognize..Hud, Jack, and new friend Porpi return to Earth only to find themselves 27 years in their future. Ela, Hud’s baby sister is now nearing 30; Evangelina, Hud’s accidental girlfriend is nearing 40! The boys can’t get over their much older parent’s age, or the world Hud’s mother has invented. And their family can’t get over Porpi, the rescued alien! Now fabulously wealthy from world-changing technology, Hud’s genius mother is thinking ten steps ahead. Leaving Kentucky for their wilderness lodge on a Native American reservation in Montana...

In the heart of America, nestled in the serene town of Oakridge, Mark Henderson, a visionary inventor and loving father, discovers more than just a revolutionary material: he uncovers the key to survival. When global tensions spiral towards the unthinkable, Mark's breakthrough, a formidable alloy that is impervious to nuclear devastation, becomes Oakridge's beacon of hope. "The Silver Fortress" is a gripping tale of courage, family, and the human spirit's unyielding will to protect what is most precious. As an inventor's ultimate test unfolds beneath the shadow of apocalyptic dread, his ...

With three degrees and the highest measured IQ in the Motherlands, Shelly Summers knows that she's socially awkward. It doesn't bother her since as the head engineer for Advances Technologies she has little time for social interactions anyway. When she learns that one of the testers for the sex-bots her company manufactures is her old crush, Marco, she's curious to see if he'll recognize her now that she's 10 years older and no longer has bushy eyebrows and a bad case of acne. A normal person would have said something when Marco doesn't recognize her from his past.