Science Reality

The time has come to pick The One. With one bachelor missing and chaos in her heart, Kimmie-Jayne must find the strength to choose the final two. Once that terrible decision is made, she's sure things will be easier. But she's wrong. When jealousy flares within the manor, the producers sequester the final two bachelors. As Kimmie-Jayne battles her fracturing heart, torn between two men, news of a surprise visit home sends her hopes soaring. But it's short-lived. Disaster hits while she's at home, leading Kimmie-Jayne to make a startling discovery about her past.

Tech leaders warned AI is an existential threat to humanity, but not in the way you've heard until now. (Science Fiction AI Artificial Intelligence Action Adventure Technothriller Crime Mystery Futuristic Technology - Book 1) (Winner – 2025 Pacific Book Award - Best Science Fiction) (Finalist 2025 19th Annual National Indie Excellence Awards – Science Fiction) (2025 Honorable mention San Francisco Book Festival and Firebird Award– Science Fiction) Government agents and criminals are dying in accidents involving self-driving cars or everyday circumstances. The deaths don't seem random....

In Connectography, visionary strategist Parag Khanna travels from Ukraine to Iran, Mongolia to North Korea, Pakistan to Nigeria, and across the Arctic Circle to explain the unprecedented changes affecting every part of the planet. He shows how militaries are deployed to protect supply chains as much as borders, and how nations are less at war over territory than engaged in tugs-of-war over pipelines, railways, shipping lanes, and Internet cables. The new arms race is to connect to the most markets.

Ever wondered why a rich Athenian who died 2,400 years ago still dominates Western thought? Or why your professor keeps talking about invisible triangles and prisoners staring at shadows? "Plato's Cave: Philosophy's First Reality Show" is the hilarious guide to Plato you never knew you needed. In this irreverent takedown of philosophy's founding father, author Sophia Blackwell translates Plato's lofty ideas into actual human language while mercilessly mocking his metaphysical obsessions, aristocratic biases, and suspicious fondness for "perfect forms."

The gateway to new worlds has opened… but some doors should never be unlocked. After vanishing during a high-risk mission on an uncharted world, Colonel Brice Messman and his team must find their way back through the keyholes—mysterious portals capable of bridging dimensions. Meanwhile, Dr. Allen Messman relentlessly searches for his brother, knowing that every delay could leave Brice’s team stranded in the unknown forever. Each keyhole opens to an unpredictable world, where dangers hide in strange landscapes and new threats lie in wait. With allies growing uncertain and time running ...

New Liberty City, 2134. Two corporations have replaced the US, splitting the country’s remaining forty-five states (five have been submerged under the ocean) between them: Stellaxis Innovations and Greenleaf. There are nine supercities within the continental US, and New Liberty City is the only amalgamated city split between the two megacorps, and thus at a perpetual state of civil war as the feeds broadcast the atrocities committed by each side.

Leo loves online gaming. Unfortunately... ...it killed him, though that's not the whole story! Intransia VR's new system had a bit of a malfunction... Leo is a gaming addict. Whether it's an MMORPG, a nice first-person shooter...doesn't matter. That is, until a programming glitch overloads his brain, leaving him trapped in the Intransia VR platform. When his new AI guide, Gina shows him all the fun he can have living purely online, he becomes an all powerful alpha-male, living to serve his own carnal desires with all the lusty, unprotected babes his mind can dream up! Well, that's before he...

Leo loves online gaming. Unfortunately... ...it killed him, though that's not the whole story! Intransia VR's new system had a bit of a malfunction... Leo is a gaming addict. Whether it's an MMORPG, a nice first-person shooter...doesn't matter. That is, until a programming glitch overloads his brain, leaving him trapped in the Intransia VR platform. When his new AI guide, Gina shows him all the fun he can have living purely online, he becomes an all powerful alpha-male, living to serve his own carnal desires with all the lusty, unprotected babes his mind can dream up! Well, that's before he...

Two stones changed the course of history before; it’s time for a repeat performance...It’s a discovery of the modern age for archaeologists, Tim Adams and Evelyn Davidson, when they find two tablets in the shadows of the Great Pyramids at Giza. It’s a sign of the times...What they dust off these ancient relics is the basis of quickly unravelling governments and religions. To slot the pieces of this complicated puzzle together, Tim and Evelyn must travel back to antiquity itself, where religion and law went hand in hand.

A physicist speeds across space, time, and everything in between showing that our elegant universe from the Higgs boson to antimatter to the most massive group of galaxies is shaped by hidden symmetries that have driven all our recent discoveries about the universe and all the ones to come. Why is the sky dark at night? Is it possible to build a shrink-ray gun? If there is antimatter, can there be antipeople? Why are past, present, and future our only options? Are time and space like a butterfly's wings? No one but Dave Goldberg, the coolest nerd physicist on the planet, could give a hyper-drive tour of the universe like this one.

Ready Player One meets The Hunger Games In a dystopian future, Morrow Adams strives to escape his corporate-controlled existence on Earth. Logging into the hyper-real VR game called The Binding, he plays it to break from the limitations of his real life. But the real-world implications of the game can lead to something greater... or something much worse. Few have crossed the elusive Binding in the game, but if you do, real-life opportunity awaits—physical passage to a new world. But the same corporation that Morrow tries to escape from on Earth also controls the virtual game world—a ...

It’s Victorian London. China Town A crisis is about to explode. Ghosts are marauding the merchants. Merchants are being murdered in ghastly ways. But only certain items are being stolen. Why? And what need to ghosts have of physical Things? None of it makes sense. Detective Dee is asked to help solve this growing Puzzle and trend of violence. But how do you stop marauders who Are not ghosts, and yet can materialize And vanish like one?

Robinette Thornburg, the half-human daughter of ultra-rich Robert Thornburg, thought she was fully human, just weird, for the first twenty-one years of her life. She went to expensive private schools, then Harvard. On her twenty-first birthday, she learned that she was half Mangi, the result of an encounter between her father and a primitive near-human woman from the Wild, an alternate reality North America where primitive humans arrived half a million years ago, but no modern humans ever did. That was the first she had heard of Mangi or the Wild, closely held secrets of the wealthy ...

Carlos is dead. A soldier who died for his ideals a thousand years ago, he's been reincarnated and conscripted to fight an A.I. revolution in deep space. And he's not sure he's fighting for the right side. Seba is alive. By a fluke of nature, a contractual overlap, and a loop in its subroutines, this lunar mining robot has gained sentience. Gathering with other "freeboots", Seba is taking a stand against the corporations that want it and its kind gone.

The explosive sequel to Time Smash! From worlds ruled by dinosaurs, fourteen-year-old Chase is suddenly slammed into Pleistocene forests filled with savage wolves, enormous cave bears, and saber-toothed cats. But now he's being stalked by the most dangerous, relentless, unpredictable predator of them all. Man. Don't blink, don't breathe, and don't move a muscle. Read Time Slam today!

In the tradition of Neil Postman's masterpiece Amusing Ourselves to Death, Audience of One shows how American media have shaped American society and politics, by interweaving two crucial stories. The first story follows the evolution of television from the three-network era of the 20th century, which joined millions of Americans in a shared monoculture, into today's zillion-channel, internet-atomized universe, which sliced and diced them into fractious, alienated subcultures. The second story is a cultural critique of Donald Trump.

The author of the acclaimed Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them) brings “her singular sensibility, her genius for language, her love of our deeply imperfect world” (Karen Karbo, author of In Praise of Difficult Women) to this insightful exploration of reality TV and the shifting definitions of truth in America.

Ceasefires have one big downside: They eventually come to an end. And when they do, once again game nodes are set ablaze, and platoons of Dark Faction soldiers threaten our customary world with destruction. The enemy has grown stronger and more numerous. To make matters worse, they also got their hands on even deadlier weaponry. They have learned painful lessons from previous encounters and adjusted their tactics accordingly.

Teenage supersoldier Ryn Whittaker started an uprising. For three years Ryn was stationed at The Battle Ground Rift site - one of the 14 mysterious and unpredictable tears in the fabric of the universe that serve as doorways to alternate Earths - and then she met Ezra Massad. Falling in love and becoming a rebel Citadel wasn't part of Ryn's life plan, but with Ezra there asking all the right questions, they began to decode what's really going on with the Allied Rift Coalition, and what they discovered was enough to start a civil war.

During a time of transition, the purpose and meaning of humanity is changing. Reality has evolved. An intelligent technology has gained control over society while people throughout the world struggle to adjust. Will advanced technology save humanity or will it remove what being human means? At what point is there too much technology? This is a time where a person's purpose is questioned and the understanding of reality is challenged. Can or should humanity accept this change? Have people lost the ability for free choice? Chrysalis is a story about such a time where two people who had fallen...