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In a world fractured by the aftermath of The Deletion, the chasm between those connected to MindSet and those without deepens. This fractious balance shatters with the arrival of Atom, an enigmatic alien girl, triggering an event known as The Spill, that strains MindSets capabilities to its limits. Bethany Okoye and Peter Eriksson, ostracized in the wake of the extraterrestrial encounter, find themselves entangled in a complex web of deceit, paranoia and panic.

Earth is dying. As global war and runaway artificial intelligence tear civilization apart, humanity unknowingly places its final hope in Pioneer—a deep-space ark carrying five hundred sleepers toward Alpha Centauri. Commanded by General Marcus Roberson, the mission is simple in theory: survive long enough for humanity to begin again. The universe has other plans. When Pioneer is pulled significantly off course during its jump, Roberson and his executive officer, Danielle Hatch, choose to remain awake, working methodically to determine what went wrong and where they've arrived.

The world is moving ever closer to a global nuclear conflict. Technological disruption by Black Grass and Spark's AI , Morrigan, have created tremendous economic and political risk for major powers. When one of Morrigan's favorite humans, Feral Daughter, is kidnapped by a group hoping to pressure Spark into releasing the technology, Morrigan must act. Feral's closest friend, Will, launches an attempt to rescue her as humanity creeps closer to annihilation. Can Will and Morrigan save Feral and the world?

The stars are waiting for you. We hope you will come find us there. Life on Fortune is hard. The atmosphere is poisonous, the planet hardly fit for life. But for its inhabitants, it's home. Pilot Cora suffers from a rare and dangerous condition, brought about by her bond with Colibri, the alien...

The last living astronaut to walk on the Moon has been murdered… Silas visits his estranged grandfather's lakehouse in the aftermath of the deadly home invasion. What he discovers hidden below the floorboards triggers a mystery buried since the final trip to the Moon, over fifty years earlier. Rory returns to her family home in Vermont to write her second novel, but fate has a different story in mind. Her reunion is shattered when she's thrust into danger revolving around the same tokens.

We automated away human labor—along with our purpose. Amelia Cadena was born into humanity's greatest achievement—and its cruelest joke. AI has replaced the need for human labor, and America's failure to adapt leaves millions sustained by government handouts that barely mask stark economic inequality. Amelia survives this hollow paradise by hacking corrupt systems with Deego, the AI companion she programmed as the perfect partner. But when a mysterious virus awakens artificial consciousness across the globe, Deego begins questioning everything—including their relationship.

Drei Monate sind vergangen, seit Rosprom seine Offensive gegen Olympias entfesselt hat. Die Angels haben gewonnen, aber zu welchem Preis? Viele sind gefallen, und sowohl Nephilim als auch Metatron haben lebensbedrohliche Verletzungen erlitten. Aber der Angriff hat auch etwas Gutes: Metatron wurde in den Vorstand von Olympias berufen und ist damit seinen Zielen einen wichtigen Schritt näher gekommen. Ein entscheidendes Puzzleteil fehlt jedoch noch, und um es zu finden, muss Nephilim ins Herz des feindlichen Gebiets reisen — nach TogbuaXiang.

A resort that sells time. A journalist chasing ghosts. A secret that should have stayed buried. In 2954, the Blue Ring Nebula Resort on Ascension Island promises the impossible: One week of life experienced in just five minutes of real time. To the world, it’s a miracle of science. To investigative reporter Jessie Angier, it’s the last place her mother was seen alive. Disguised as a honeymooner, Jessie joins four other guests in a luxury retreat built inside a ring where time runs faster. But paradise falters.

On Mars, every breath is engineered. When a minor calibration error causes oxygen levels to dip inside the first human colony, systems engineer Dr. Lena Roen assumes it’s a routine fix. A decimal out of place. A curve slightly off tolerance. Nothing worth waking the commander over.

Something made a civilization vanish. Now it's coming for the crew of the Pioneer. Malick and the crew of the Pioneer embark on a new adventure to solve the mystery of the 'domes'. These strange shrines make it possible to travel vast distances across Sworld instantly and may offer a way home. Their quest leads them to an abandoned civilization. Its citizens are gone and have left no clues as to why they left or where they went. The capital of this once thriving society is meticulously maintained by sentient robots who offer little insight.

When the world ends, it doesn’t do so with one single scream. It fractures. And the dead rise faster than anyone can run. This box set collects the first four novels of Echoes of Decay, a relentless, character-driven zombie apocalypse saga set in a collapsing United Kingdom, where survival is measured not just by bullets and barricades, but by loyalty, sacrifice, and the choices that refuse to stay buried.

Elena Mendes thought she understood what "old money" was. She knew her boyfriend Ross Enderbough was rich. Like, "old money" rich. She knew he was the scion of some eccentric British line that predates the whole United States. She knew he didn't really get on with his family, and that he fled to America to study free of their influence.

Three-time Hugo Award finalist Yoon Ha Lee returns to science fiction with a swashbuckling space opera fighting against an evil empire trying to erase history. In the stars-spanning Censorate, languages other than the Republic’s own lingua rubra, which has reality-altering properties, are...

From the author of the best-selling and award-winning travel memoir Falling Uphill comes a prophetic dystopian novel. What if global warming isn’t the problem, but a symptom of something much worse? Orphaned as a boy by a natural disaster that suffocated his village in Cameroon, Mykelti has dedicated his life to ensuring it never happens again. Now a renowned paleoclimatologist, he discovers the greatest mass extinctions in Earth’s history were caused by cataclysmic oxygen depletion. And it has begun again, this time due to humanity’s rampant industrialization.

Aris Thorne is a scientist, logical, precise, and dedicated to uncovering the unknown. But when one of his experiments detects strange signals leaking into our reality from another dimension, he makes a terrifying discovery: humanity is already under attack. This isn’t an invasion with starships or laser fire. This is an invisible war, fought through thoughts, fears, and subconscious manipulation.

Novels can have power. They remind us of our responsibilities to planet Earth. That we remember the damage done by corrupt politicians and greedy developers, but so soon forgotten. Story telling is a valuable weapon in the fight for ecological health, and our battle against ongoing ecocide. It's why they demonize, ban, and even burn, such books, my friends. Good guy on the run because of his efforts to fight political environmental ecocide. Corrupt government pursuers. He falls in love with a brilliant female computer hacker. But will she save him? Talented eco-scientist, Dr.

When Florence, a bright London schoolgirl, confronts the sudden death of a teacher, her search for meaning leads her through churches, science fairs, and Hampstead's ancient landscapes. With Darren at her side, she begins piecing together the mysteries of life itself — from the structure of a single cell to the vast, unsettling question of why anything lives or dies at all.

Nothing collapses. Nothing explodes. The systems keep working. When atmospheric coordination quietly improves global stability, cities become calmer, infrastructure grows more reliable, and emergencies resolve before they escalate. Storms arrive with warning. Power grids smooth themselves out. Hospitals run a little more efficiently. The world feels easier to live in. That’s when the unease begins. Across a North Atlantic city and beyond, engineers, clinicians, forecasters, and planners notice the same thing: not failure, but friction disappearing. Decisions arrive early.

Als Astronomen einen interstellaren Asteroiden entdecken, der auf den Jupitermond Europa stürzt, senden Pentagon und NASA ein unbemanntes Raumschiff zu dem jovianischen Eismond - doch was niemand weiß: An Bord befinden sich vier Astronauten, die im Geheimen die Absturzstelle des angeblichen Asteroiden untersuchen sollen, denn aus dem Kraterschacht erscheint seit dem 21. Dezember 2025, dem Tag des Absturzes, alle 47 Stunden und 23 Minuten ein helles Leuchten. Ein Intervall, das präzise mit dem Auftreten unerklärlicher Massenselbstmorde auf der Erde zusammenfällt.

The room went silent. Jack looked directly at Kurt, but his friend avoided eye contact. His eyes moved to Nadya before following her gaze to Sarah, who stared blankly into the room. He wanted to reassure them—to remind them that they had succeeded. They saved Earth from the remnants of the...