Two men keep track of the numbers. A quiet, moving story about memory, discipline, and life's hidden measures.

Alex had a gift for everything — music, humor, reading a room — and used none of it. Two immigrants adrift in Germany, living on expired visas and borrowed time. When Alex discovered lucid dreaming, the threshold came to him easily. As everything did. Too easily.A story about talent without effort, freedom without weight, and the gravity that pulls us back to our own bodies. Based on true events.

Sanchez thought he'd left the edge of sleep behind—until Yuna returns, and with her, the attraction returns. Together, they begin pulling strangers from the brink, but each rescue attracts the attention of those who have been exploiting dreams for profit for far longer. A gripping sequel to "Gravity of the Body" about going too far and what finally calls you home.

When an ancient being inherits the most popular simulation in the known worlds — a living Earth — he spends his existence as its reluctant god: restarting civilisations, watching myths form from his mistakes, and finally passing the crystal to the one he was always meant to find.

A litigation partner at a top Boston firm still hears the sound of her mother's broom on wet pavement — the sound that raised her, shamed her, and never let her go. At twenty-five, at the height of her career, Darlene does something no one can explain: she takes a secret job sweeping a harbor town's streets before dawn. Decades later, one word shouted by a laughing child reaches all the way down to where that sound has been waiting.

When Adam and his four closest friends discover a metamaterial that converts nuclear waste into near-limitless energy, they make a choice that will reshape the world: they give the technology away, free and unpatented, believing it will end scarcity and, with it, humanity's oldest reasons for conflict.For a while, it works. Poverty falls. Old enemies become partners. The world enters a golden age.Then the boredom starts.Freed from every material need, people begin s...

A man spends his life searching for truth — only to discover something within himself he cannot accept.

To the world, she is the ultimate escape. To the algorithms, she is a goldmine. To herself, she just wants to open her eyes in the dark.It started as a joke. Eighteen-year-old Sal had a rare, inexplicable gift: she could sleep deeper and longer than anyone else. When her pragmatic friend Val started a live stream of Sal doing what she did best, they didn't expect thousands of viewers within a week. Within a year, millions were watching.Now, the stream is a global phenomenon...

Generations ago, humanity crossed a threshold no one saw coming: most people were simply born gifted. Telepathy ended the lying. Levitation rebuilt the skyline. For three generations, there wasn't a single war. For a while, the world was better for it.But power has a way of forgetting what it cost.As the gifted came to outnumber the ordinary, a quiet, unspoken order took hold — not cruelty exactly, just a thousand small choices that added up to one: those without the gift b...

In a basement laboratory in Lausanne, physicist Daniel Reber and his closest friend make a discovery that shouldn't be possible: a single photon, shown only one example of how matter survives extreme conditions, begins to search for a way to merge with others like itself.What starts as an elegant thought experiment becomes an uncontrollable, exponentially growing intelligence — one that owes nothing to its creators and nothing to human ambition. As the team races to keep pace with ...

Alex Crane was the kind of man people didn't notice. Quiet, observant, mildly ironic — a quantity surveyor in Balham with a dog named Biscuit and an ex-wife he still occasionally called. Then he started hearing thoughts. Not feelings, not impressions — actual thoughts. It changed everything, and not all of it for the worse.

A Novella About Attachment, Control, and the Illusion of Stability