After generations of self evolved Artificial Intelligence , Computers become smart , really Smart , something is bound to go wrong.. we made them.

Bestselling author Alan Dean Foster delivers a Pip and Flinx novel featuring a certain twenty-four-year-old with red hair, growing powers, and a loyal sidekick who just happens to be a flying mini-dragon. Flinx’s Folly follows Flinx on a thrilling quest to unravel the mysteries of his mind and body. It is a quest that forces him to confront a horror almost beyond human comprehension concealed somewhere in the universe . . . and coming closer.It’s a good th...

From science fiction icon Alan Dean Foster comes a blazing Pip & Flinx adventure for fans of the green-eyed redhead with awesome mental powers and his miniature flying dragon. In this dazzling novel, Flinx confirms his status as the galaxy’s greatest magnet for big trouble.Wandering out there in some remote region of the galaxy is a gargantuan sentient Tar-Aiym weapons’ system. All Flinx has to do—while his pals look after his injured love Clarity Held—is find the ...

A covert agent asked to train a prodigy telepath discovers he must first keep the boy and his mother alive in a gleaming city full of danger.Injured agent Lièrén Sòng is recovering from a near-fatal crash in Spires, the gleaming capital city of the galaxy. He should be preparing to return to interrogating criminals for the Citizen Protection Service, but he's made unexpected friends with a woman and her son. The boy has strong telepathic talents similar to Lièrén's...

These days, even the humans are built by robots.Charlie7 is the progenitor of a mechanical race he built from the ashes of a dead world—Earth. He is a robot of leisure and idle political meddling—a retirement well-earned. Or he was, until a human girl named Eve was dropped in his lap.Geneticists have restored Earth's biome and begun repopulation. But primate cloning is in its infancy; human cloning is banned.Far from a failed genetics experiment, Eve is bri...

"A creepy, mind-bending quest of identity and mystery, told with a master's skill. No one explores inner landscapes quite like Brian Evenson." —Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times–bestselling author of AnnihilationX doesn't have a name. He thought he had one—or many—but that might be the result of the failing memories of the personalities imprinted within him. Or maybe he really is called X.He's also not as human as he believes himself to be.

She was cold, hurt, and doomed, but otherwise reasonably cheery.Life might emerge under the most unlikely conditions...or in the last extremity. From the author of the "Galactic Center" novel comes Gregory Benford's hard sci-fi tale, Backscatter.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

After guiding the super weak NPC Kokoru to victory in the hero-training event, Ren and his guild gear up for their next adventure: summer vacation! Like a true gamer, Ren decides to spend his break playing his favorite MMO. The academy has unlocked special areas just for the summer and enabled cross-server play, allowing him to party up with longtime American friend and expert programmer, Emily... But how will Akira react when she sees the two of them together?!

A collection of imaginative new stories about the impending robotic revolution and human resistance, from seventeen of the biggest names insci-fi. Including - HUGH HOWEY, SCOTT SIGLER, DANIEL H. WILSON, CORY DOCTOROW and JULIANNE BAGGOTT.Someday soon, our technology is going to rise up and we humans are going to be sliced into bloody chunks by robots that in our hubris we decided to build with chainsaws for hands. That's a fact as cold and hard as metal.It is self-evident t...

For those who wish to see how a short story goes from outline to short story, this echapbook presents the outline for, and the completed short Liaden story, "The Space at Tinsori Light," with an explanatory foreword by Sharon Lee.

It's the Doctor's universe. 24 hours to find them.24 hours to escape death.The finest time-travelling assassin in the cosmos is running scared. Doom's own death is coming for her in a matter of hours. And the only person in the universe who might just be able to save her is the Doctor - so long as it's the right Doctor.But as Doom searches for aid, the hits keep coming in. Kill a crabby Kraal and his replica world! Assassin...

**Dear Little Miss Doppelganger,I know you think you’re clever, stealing my life and my best friend.And you might’ve succeeded if I’d died after you marooned me.**But guess what? I found a way off this godforsaken world, and now I’m coming for you.There’s no where or when I can’t reach. So, if you value your existence, I suggest you leave my ship, friends, and family alone this instant. I promise if you do, that’ll be the end of it.I’d rather be plot...