Ethan Carter has never had much. He grew up in Riverbend, taking odd jobs, getting into trouble, and dreaming about seeing the world beyond the small settlement he calls home. His life is ordinary—until a chance meeting with Marcus Hale changes everything.Marcus is older, quiet, unusually capable, and seemingly familiar with things he shouldn't know. He and Ethan quickly become unlikely friends, travelling together from one settlement to another while taking whatever work they can ...

Kaelara Voss has spent her entire life hiding the dangerous secret buried within her. Growing up in the forgotten lower districts of the floating city of Caelvorn taught her that survival depends on staying invisible. But when an unexpected scholarship grants her entry into Vael Academy—the city's most prestigious institution—her carefully guarded life begins to unravel.The moment she arrives, ancient systems long believed dormant begin responding to her presence. Doors unlock with...

Kaelis has one goal: find her missing brother.Her search leads her to Blackthorn Academy, the empire's most prestigious school of magic—a place where power is everything, secrets are buried deep, and weakness rarely survives. Using a false identity, she slips inside its ancient walls, determined to uncover the truth no matter the cost.But Blackthorn is nothing like she imagined.The academy is filled with ruthless students from powerful bloodlines, dangerous trials, ...

Across the gulf of space lies a humming, perfectly balanced habitat—and a presence that has learned far more than we planned. Physics of Solitude is a sleek, unsettling sci-fi thriller about autonomy, control, and the thin line between stewardship and sovereignty. Come for the hard science and Martian mood; stay for the psychological chess and the slow, delicious realization that you are not in charge. Welcome to the habitat. House rules apply.

In At the Edge of the Beyond, the first volume of Of Flash and Fiction, science is not a backdrop. It is the engine of unease.This collection of hard science fiction stories draws on real scientific ideas and pushes them into dangerous territory, where observation alters what is seen, systems designed to protect begin to conceal, and breakthroughs in medicine, technology, and artificial intelligence carry consequences no one is prepared to face. Moving from hidden...

The Book They Never Wanted You to ReadFrequency Cage: Mind Control, Hidden Government Secrets and Experiments.The signals aren't background noise. They're the program.What if your depression, your insomnia, your rage, weren't emotional, but engineered?Frequency Cage rips the veil off the electromagnetic prison hiding in plain sight. This isn't science fiction. This is the classified tech already inside your devices, your cit...

Mischief had three priorities: sardines, proper napping spots, and maintaining his witch's magical education through selective chaos.Then a ritual went wrong, his fur burned off, and he woke up human, stranded across dimensions, and surrounded by monks who keep trying to pet him. His "accident" was a recruitment strategy.Thousands of familiars have been systematically harvested to power reality's portal networks. The bureaucrats call it necessary infrastructure. The victims...

This thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the bestselling Springer Handbook of Automation provides the most advanced, comprehensive, and balanced coverage of the technical and engineering aspects of automation.Starting with a holistic discussion on the history and societal impacts of automation, the book provides the tools to understand, design and implement automation solutions. This includes:the scientific foundations, from traditional control theory...

The Book They Never Wanted You to ReadWhat if the sky above you isn't empty air, but an engineered Dome sealing humanity beneath the firmament of a hidden reality?They built the Dome.They triggered the Grid.They rewrote the weather.They lied.Sealed Sky reveals the documented architecture of containment above your head: the suppressed at...

Thief. Spy. Reluctant Vessel of Darkness.Elaviel Mistleaf never asked for forbidden artifacts or ancient conspiracies. Hired to steal a mysterious silver nightingale, she soon finds herself entangled in the machinations of The Veiled Hand—a secretive faction wielding dark magic and even darker ambitions.When a dangerous entity is bound to Elaviel’s very being, her eyes open to shadow realms and midnight rituals lurking beneath Westfall’s gleaming merchant façade. Armed with...

The machine measured him twice. It only reported one of the numbers.Jeon Il-su has been classified as Unranked since he was sixteen, zero mana reserve, no ceiling assigned, no future in a world that runs on rank. Three mandatory reassessments in one year said the same thing. The technicians would not meet his eyes when they said it.Then he died in a D-rank Gate.He did not eject.He woke up inside.And the System, for the first time in three years, prod...

From aeronautics and manufacturing to healthcare and disaster management, systems engineering (SE) now focuses on designing applications that ensure performance optimization, robustness, and reliability while combining an emerging group of heterogeneous systems to realize a common goal.Use SoS to Revolutionize Management of Large Organizations, Factories, and Systems Intelligent Control Systems with an Introduction to System of Systems Engineering