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"Wirklichkeit ist nur eine Möglichkeit" steht auf einem Bierdeckel, den Sala auf dem Schreibtisch seiner verschwundenen Schwester Ksen findet. In diesem Augenblick verändert sich sein scheinbar normales Berliner Studentenleben in eine unheimliche Suche. Seine Schwester, eine hochintelligente Informatikstudentin, hat nur eine verwirrende Spur zurückgelassen: das alte Porträtfoto einer jungen Frau. Sala rekonstruiert das Leben dieser Frau und erfährt dabei, dass Ksen über KIs und selbstlernende Algorithmen geforscht hat, bevor sie verschwand.

There were ten humanoid robots somewhere in the United States, each one carrying a fragment of a TC bomb. TC! The race for sheer horror in bomb-ery had ended there. TC! Total Conversion! The sun was no longer a synonym one could use. Total conversion made the sun a penny candle.

The creation of a human hybrid with our closest living relative, the chimpanzee, has not been ruled out as an impossibility, but would any laboratory want to be involved? Why invite global condemnation and raise social, moral, and legal storms? It was certainly not the intention of the Strickland family, who are innocently involved with research and a veterinary practice in rural England.

Wenn das Schicksal der Menschheit in den Händen einer Betrügerin liegt. In einem kleinen Observatorium im Südwesten der USA entdeckt die Astronomin Celia bei einer Routineuntersuchung in der Dunkelwolke LDN 63 merkwürdige Vorgänge. Alles scheint hier weitaus schneller abzulaufen, als es die Wissenschaft vorsieht. Doch niemand glaubt ihr, denn sie hat schon einmal eine angeblich bahnbrechende Entdeckung gemacht - mithilfe gefälschter Daten. Celia weiß: Die Dunkelwolke ist ihre beste Chance, ihre Karriere und ihr Leben zurückzugewinnen.

The year is 2048, and Anders Helmemyr has just started studying computer science in Uppsala, Sweden. Amidst political activism, a complicated love life, and the thrills of student nightlife, he meets Niklas, a computer genius who began his PhD in artificial intelligence at the age of 18.

Vera Elpis is a quiet young woman with a desk job, two friends, and a cozy apartment. On the surface, her life is easy. Children adore her, her inheritance sustains her, and she is safe. The only blight is her unexplained infertility, a condition that shames and enrages her.

If you could live forever, would you want to? This is the story of Anita and Kimmo's struggle against cancer, of Aender and Kiyoshi and the first interstellar war, and of An and Ki and Earth’s last days.

What Life Can Bring is three connected science fiction stories that revolve around my fascination with time. The first story, “The Journey Home”, opens with a handsome, tattooed young man who goes by the nickname “Poly” being released from jail on a beautiful August day in 1994. Poly has high hopes for a fresh start, but he’s not able to find a job. Struggling to make ends meet and keep a roof over his head, Poly can find only one option: Join up with his old crew in a bank heist. Things don’t go entirely to plan....

The United States has come to the conclusion that the Federation must be stopped! Tempers flare and war looms on the horizon while both sides jockey for position in the court of world opinion.

From the moment Sam Newman and fourteen others awaken inside metal coffins next to the burning wreckage of a spacecraft, they face a constant struggle to stay alive on a seemingly uninhabited planet light-years from home. Worse, the last any of them remember, they were back home on Earth—at a time when interstellar travel was little more than a distant pipe dream. Survival means finding out who-or what-brought them to this place. Yet what few answers they find amidst the steaming jungles and the ruins of that distant world defy all logic or sanity.

2025. Une intelligence artificielle est chargée de trouver une réponse à un risque d'épidémie d'Ébola en plein cœur de Paris. Toutes les hypothèses circulent sur l'origine de la contamination, y compris celle du terrorisme biologique. La Machine administrative, politique et médiatique est prête à s'emballer.

Little was known about the Great Southern Ocean during World War Two, or the large icebound continent located at the very bottom of the Blue Planet, known as Earth. Using nautical charts, put together by Old World explorers, and relying on the sharp eyes of the submarine's lookouts, the USS Javelin plowed through the remarkably still, icy waters, towards the Antarctic continent.

When the miners on Mars form a trade union and call a planet wide strike, the president of the Council of Economic Unions orders the federal forces on Mars to take a firm hand.

In un futuro non troppo lontano, un killer silenzioso e freddo come l’inverno, si muove tra le opprimenti pareti di metallo delle colonie orbitali in cui gli esseri umani hanno dovuto esiliarsi. Non sa nulla del suo passato, gli scienziati del Progetto Newman gli hanno tolto tutto, anche il suo nome, per trasformarlo nella macchina da morte chiamata Winter. Cresciuto lontano da ogni contatto umano, immerso in un mondo di sangue e violenza, si ritrova a vivere in una realtà fatta di deboli ipocrisie e un classismo non meritocratico.

At 19, Dylan’s brilliant mind is an asset as he struggles with severe ADHD and deteriorating living conditions. He’s one semester away from completing his college degree in ecology, but he’s out of cash, out of soap, and about to be evicted. A post-pandemic opportunity to survey a rural property sounds like a lifeline. The owner of a creepy faux-chateau is ready to pay a handsome wage for a list of species found on the property. Dylan can’t believe his good luck. He’s about to be paid to wander in the woods.

In the summer of 2069, five high school friends receive exciting news from the International Space Agency that their team, "ExtraTerra V", won first place in an international science expo with a presentation called, “How to Explore the Moon’s Anomalies.” The grand prize is a flight to the Moon, and participation in the international lunar expedition timed to coincide with the centenary of the first manned landing on the Moon.

Dream Phaze is about the inception of engineered dreams and the evolution of indulgence. Set at the crossroads of alternative realities in the near future, it plunges into a world where every human desire, no matter how heroic or evil, can be fulfilled. Dr. Saxon Zynn and his wife, Margo, have worked for years on Dream Immersion, a worldwide entertainment technology where engineered dreams can take users to lifelike worlds to experience their wildest dreams.

The year is 2074. For a decade, the technology for mind upload has existed. Anyone who wants to–and has the means to do so–can now stave off death by having their brain scanned and uploaded to the grid: a virtual, digital world. Society is divided over the new technology, but Anders Helmemyr, one of the proponents of the transhumanist movement, is hopeful. He dreams of a day when this technology will be available to everyone.

The Invisible Man was the fourth sci-fi novel written by Wells in the 1890s. The main character, Griffin, is one of the intimidating villains in all popular literature. The archetypal "mad scientist," Griffin devotes himself to an obsessive study of optics and realizes his ambition to render livings things permanently invisible. After making a cat invisible, he successfully applies the procedure to himself. After causing chaos in London, he travels to the village of Iping in Sussex and takes up residence in a local hotel.

A universe governed only by an entity called Fate. Time an unknown, unrecognised quantity. An itinerant artificial intelligence visitor from a sister universe, on an unsanctioned mission of discovery, disrupts the established flow of life, causing Fate to instigate a catastrophic sequence of resets.