Technology Fiction

The future has amazing technology. Our alien allies have magic. Together, we are building a training system to teach the best of humanity to go to the stars. But the training is monumentally expensive. Stephanie Morgana is a genius, she just doesn't know it. The artificial intelligence that runs the virtual world is charged with testing Stephanie, a task it has never performed before. Will Stephanie pass the test and be moved to the advanced preparatory schools, or will the system miss her?

As a technology pioneer at MIT and as the leader of three successful start-ups, Kevin Ashton experienced firsthand the all-consuming challenge of creating something new. Now, in a tour-de-force narrative 20 years in the making, Ashton leads us on a journey through humanity's greatest creations to uncover the surprising truth behind who creates and how they do it.

Tiger slept On the jungle of stone Waking up next To tigress He don't know her He's overflowing Coming out of his cage Might have face like a puss But a puss can blaze

What Paige Campbell saw when she opened a door into 70 years from now scared the hell out of her. She and her Tangent colleagues brought their terrible discovery to the President and were met with a hail of automatic gunfire after leaving the White House. Only Paige survived.

This is the story of a unique American hero who came of age as an astronaut during the few dramatic years when man reached the moon. Cernan's career spanned the entire Apollo program, from the tragic fire that killed three of his comrades on Apollo 1, through the moment when he left man's last footprint on the moon as commander of Apollo 17.

Zeke was spawned as a baby zombie, and everyone made fun of him. He had no idea why he was so little when all of the other zombies he met were so big. It did not seem fair to him. But after meeting his zombie mentor, Zeb, he learns that he has special powers that will help him survive in the crazy, amazing world of Minecraft.

Dive into a universe of high-stakes action, startling technology, and desperate survival in this gripping sci-fi thriller. Perfect for fans of The Expanse, Firefly, and edge-of-your-seat space opera with book three of the Dead Letter City Trilogy! Escape was just the beginning. When a violent impact and sudden darkness plunge the freighter Dust Devil into silence, analyst Elias Strand and battle-hardened Petra Juno know their stolen data cache is attracting the wrong kind of attention. Hunted by the ruthless Mandate and its shadowy Division 14, they possess information the galaxy’s ...

Tyler's an Alpha Tester. Unfortunately... ...he's not nearly the typical ALPHA MALE! The subdermal implant that made him irresistible has some...UPDATES! Tyler wanted to pass the dangerous-looking gizmo on to his subordinate, but his hot, MILF of a boss wasn't having it.. Good thing, because when the new product turned him into an irresistible alpha-male living to serve his own carnal desires with all the lusty, unprotected babes his mind could dream up, the proverbial stuff hit the fan. Tyler's adventures just get hotter and hotter! Will he find true love or just find creative ways to use ...

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.

These are the adventures and discoveries of the scientists who revealed the secrets of the Komodo dragon. This strange creature inspired myth and legend, luring brave souls into the forests of Indonesia to see if the tales were true. In the end, it attracted scientists, who unraveled the mysteries of how such a remarkable creature could exist, how it uses the deadly germs in its saliva to its advantage, and how those microbes may lead to cures for stubborn diseases.

Lena, la futura suma sacerdotisa y la última bruja con la mirada de la estrella, vive atormentada a causa de sus poderes para contactar a los muertos y por la culpa de no haber podido salvar a su hermana, quien quedó atrapada en el infierno. Las cosas empeoran cuando todo parece indicar que el portal al reino del caos se cerrará en las siguientes tres lunas y la oportunidad de traerla de vuelta se perderá para siempre.

En un intento por enmendar las cosas, Lena busca la ayuda de Caleb, un demonio con sus propios planes y secretos...

His greatest disaster will reveal the truth about our universe. Michael Haber started his scientific career working for the top-secret project, MK-Ultra. After the program shut down, he started his own company and became the world's most renowned – and controversial – scientist. Michael never found obeying the rules a priority. Early in his career, he developed a dangerous mind-altering compound called Cerebelix. In one clinical trial, he experimented on children, including his own son, David. Soon after, David went missing. A decade passed before Michael stumbled on an incredible ...

When a lonely human woman is abducted to become a surrogate mother for the alien race she meets a doctor who will change her life as well as the shape of her body A chance encounter between an invisible alien doctor and an abducted beautiful human woman turns into a tantalizing promiscuous and scandalously uncensored and thrilling sleazy sexual affair that drives the lonely woman to try out new sexual experiences with the handsome husky alien doctor, after she finds out he is endowed with two rather large beautiful dicks that are slightly larger then her sugar daddy's. And she loves the ...

Respected physician Paul Offit tells a fascinating story of modern medicine and pays tribute to one of the greatest lifesaving breakthroughs—vaccinations—and the medical hero responsible for developing nine of the big fourteen vaccines which have saved billions of lives worldwide.

Una novela sobrecogedora sobre los peligros de la sobreexposición en redes, la explotación infantil y la falsa felicidad.

Mélanie Claux y Clara Roussel. Dos mujeres conectadas a través de una niña. Mélanie ha participado en un reality show televisivo y es seguidora de sus sucesivas ediciones. Cuando se convierte en madre de un niño y una niña, Sammy y Kimmy, empieza a grabar su día a día y cuelga los vídeos en YouTube. Crecen en visitas y seguidores, llegan los patrocinadores, Mélanie crea su propio canal y el dinero fluye...

In the not too distant future, a technological phenomenon known simply as “the screen” has taken its place at the forefront of society. Allowing much of life to be lived in a virtual environment, the screen has essentially sent much of daily life in the physical realm the way of the dodo. People are adapting quite well, actually, never mind the increasing prevalence of a mysterious neurological disease. Misha is one of the rare few who misses the old days when people actually interacted with each other in the real world. Forced to conform to a culture borne out of the modern technology,...

Clarissa is a fairly normal teenage girl. She loves her music, her fun and most of all, her phone. When her so called 'friends' betray her, she finds an app that can help heal her anxiety and pain. However, her gain must come at the cost of other's pain. In this smartphone thriller there are no heroes - just a terrible lurking hunger satisfied only when its hapless victims foolishly reply to its summons. Who says an App can't kill?

When Adéla discovers she has a terminal illness, she leaves behind her native Czech village for a chance at reuniting in America with Tereza, the daughter she gave up at birth, decades earlier. But the country Adéla experienced as a young woman, when she eloped with a filmmaker and starred in his cult sci-fi movie, has changed entirely. In 2030, America is ruled by an authoritarian government increasingly closed off to the rest of the world.

AIs are everywhere, and they're changing everything. AI Explained: Facts, Fiction, and Future from best-selling author Nigel Poulton is your fast-track easy-to-understand guide to the exciting new world of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

On the Fourth of July, Hallie Evers dies at a rooftop party in Las Vegas. Hours later, she wakes up in the hospital, disoriented but alive. Why can’t she find the doctor who revived her? Why does her head feel crowded and loud? Why do her memories feel both foreign and familiar? Her self-doubt spirals into crippling paranoia.