Technology Fiction

They Were Watching Me: True Encounters with the Digital Abyss is a chilling anthology of first-person horror stories from those who wandered too deep into the code, clicked the wrong link, or accepted the wrong friend request. Told with eerie realism and paranoid intimacy, these tales of online stalker cults, cursed livestreams, and identity-fracturing AI blur the line between digital safety and modern damnation. What begins as a DM, a strange forum invite, or an archived username quickly unravels into something far more sinister—something watching. Something remembering. Something ...

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 ...

Humanity welcomed the Olyix and their utopian technology. But mankind was tricked. Now these visitors are extracting a terrible price. For two years, the Olyix have laid siege to Earth, harvesting its people for their god. One by one, cities are falling to their devastating weaponry. And while millions have fled to seek refuge in space, others continue to fight an apparently unwinnable war.

Discovery & Destruction In the electrifying second installment of the Galactic Travelers series, Frank Bryant returns to his home planet, now a bustling urban center transformed by human expansion. As a key figure in the Wormhole Initiative, Frank is immediately thrust into turmoil when his team comes under attack on their research station. Frank’s homecoming is bittersweet. While he reconnects with family and revisits his childhood haunts, he cannot escape the looming crisis. Powerful corporations and government agencies vie for control of the Initiative’s groundbreaking discoveries, ...

Welcome to Apex City, formerly Bangalore, where everything is decided by the mathematically perfect Bell Curve. With the right image, values, and opinions, you can ascend to the glittering heights of the Twenty Percent—the Virtual elite—and have the world at your feet. Otherwise you risk falling to the precarious Ten Percent, and deportation to the ranks of the Analogs, with no access to electricity, running water, or even humanity. The system has no flaws. Until the elusive "Ten Percent Thief" steals a single jacaranda seed from the Virtual city.

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.

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.

At seventy-five years old, John Perry is after a fresh start - so, naturally, he joins the army. Earth's military machine can transform elderly recruits, restoring their lost youth. But in return, its Colonial Defence Force demands two years of hazardous service in space. This is how Perry finds himself in a new body, crafted from his original DNA. A genetically enhanced and upgraded new body, ready for battle. But upgrades alone won't keep Perry safe. He'll be fighting for his life on the front line as he defends humanity's colonies from hostile aliens.

The survivors of the SLS Excelsior are marooned on Halcyon, an abandoned planet limited by 19th century technology. In Epsilon University, the seed of Resistance is forming, and attracting unwanted attention. And on Lute, the Tetrarch sends in the Marshal's Service to try and recapture his daughter Jillian. Meanwhile, a secret gold shipment to Petra Roe attracts the attention of certain pirates. Don't miss another episode of this action-packed space opera, complete with a bonus short story!

The strongest warships ever devised take on Juventas, a League capital planet. But Tetrarch Thrall has some surprises in store for the Republican Navy, including one that can take out an entire fleet. Space Marines are tasked with serving as boots on the ground, but Sergeant Wilcox gets more than she bargained for in a freak accident. Meanwhile on Halcyon, Captain Benson fights in vain to restore League order on the abandoned frontier planet. Don't miss the continuing nonstop action in this exciting space opera saga. Download Book V today!

"The Others" is a side story of the gripping sci-fi series, "The Alien Artifact." Andrew's grandson, who was named after him, was tasked with finding out what happened to the eight members of his crew who decided to return to their timeline in the future. In his quest to uncover what had happened to his grandfather’s crew, Andrew encountered unimaginable obstacles. Yet, he held on to hope, driven by an unwavering belief that this search was something he had to complete. After reading his grandfather's diary, he realized that the mission was not only vital for honoring his grandfather’s ...

Nothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. One spring afternoon, the Devil, trailing fire and chaos in his wake, weaves himself out of the shadows and into Moscow. Mikhail Bulgakov's fantastical, funny, and devastating satire of Soviet life combines two distinct yet interwoven parts, one set in contemporary Moscow, the other in ancient Jerusalem, each brimming with historical, imaginary, frightful, and wonderful characters.

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!

From the start, his path was never predictable. Steve Jobs was given up for adoption at birth, dropped out of college after one semester, and at the age of 20, created Apple in his parents' garage with his friend Steve Wozniack. Then came the core and hallmark of his genius - his exacting insistence on perfection, his counterculture life approach, and his level of taste and style that pushed all boundaries.

Whispers from the Screen: Tales of Digital Hauntings In the age of technology, where screens illuminate our lives and our phones are always within reach, there’s a darker side to our digital world—one where reality blurs with the supernatural. Whispers from the Screen: Tales of Digital Hauntings is a chilling compilation of ghost stories that explore the terrifying possibilities lurking behind our most trusted devices. From an app that uploads not just your dreams but something more sinister, to a digital feed that traps its users in a virtual nightmare, these stories tap into the fears...

"La nostra lingua manca di parole per esprimere questa offesa, la demolizione di un uomo". Con ostinazione e pacatezza, Primo Levi non ha mai smesso di cercare le parole per raccontare l'atrocità della deportazione e del campo di sterminio di Auschwitz, in cui venne internato dal febbraio 1944 al 27 gennaio 1945. Parole di testimonianza sconvolgente e di grande potenza narrativa che vengono qui accolte e restituite ad alta voce da Roberto Saviano.

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...

Synthaslayer: The Echo and the End Book Two of The Memory War The Vault has opened. The relic has spoken. And Jace Verge is no longer the only one using his voice. After the events of The Relic & The Revolution, rebel survivor Jace Verge disappears into the shadows—trying to forget the weapon he helped unleash. But in his absence, a new version of him emerges. More certain. More composed. More believable. A voice echoing across the stars, building a following not through force… but through recognition. People don’t just hear Jace’s words. They feel them. Even when he never said them...

Hope Jahren is an award-winning scientist, a brilliant writer, a passionate teacher, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. In The Story of More, she illuminates the link between human habits and our imperiled planet. In concise, easy-to-understand chapters, she takes us through the science behind the key inventions—from electric power to large-scale farming to automobiles—that, even as they help us, release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere like never before.

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 ...