What if fiction reveals the truths modern society refuses to face?Truth Engines is a bold collection of science fiction shorts that acknowledges the hidden realities currently affecting humanity. Blending imagination with clever storytelling, these writings explore a wide range of important subjects currently impacting all human beings.Science fiction has traditionally been a way for writers to discuss difficult ideas safely. It has allowed authors to examine dangerous poss...

About the StoryNathan Wells is an architect from Boston, Massachusetts, who prefers schedules and carefully thought-out decisions. So, when transportation delays cause him to miss his flight home from Rome, he sees it as little more than an inconvenient nuisance.Stephanie Bentley couldn't be more different. A high school English teacher from Seattle, Washington, she misses a different flight back to the States because she simply lost track of time within a ...

Dave Morrison is a bike courier in a futuristic city where every citizen is under continuous surveillance, personal privacy is nonexistent, and disappearing is damn near impossible.Dave's simple life is drastically altered only minutes after accepting a routine delivery assignment; he's suddenly the most wanted man in the city.Hunted by an all-seeing surveillance network and powerful forces desperate to recover three mysterious data chips he is carrying, Dave, the bike cour...

Have the controlling powers intentionally modified the timeline of modern civilization? Did a massive cataclysm and population reset occur several hundred years ago that destroyed the Old World and launched a new one — an event never discussed in our historical records? Have the architectural constructs and technology of the Old World been repurposed and sold to society as the architectural and technological creations of the New World?We encourage you to join us in investigating wh...

THE ONE-HOUR DINERA man and a woman, complete strangers to one another, receive the same cryptic text message: Be at the Crossroads Diner at the intersection of highways 9 and 11. Come alone at 2:17 a.m. and don't be late!Drawn there by grief and curiosity, they arrive at a lonely roadside establishment where the coffee is hot, the lights are inviting, and the clock above the counter is frozen at 2:17.It never, ever moves!

In a world surrounded and grounded by the laws of physics, something impossible is unfolding. A strange anomaly has appeared in the morning sky. A moment in time freezes. People start vanishing into thin air, leaving no trace whatsoever.Holographic lifeforms materialize across the globe, able to walk through walls, distort time, and unravel the very rules that hold reality together. As cities crumble under forces that defy logic, one scientist sees what no one else can: these being...

THE PULSEThirteen years ago, the world first heard the devil's heartbeat. A strange static, a haunting thump — it spread like wildfire, freezing people in place, locking them in a trance of terror. It stopped, but the damage was done. Now, the pulse is back, louder, stronger, and more deadly than ever.Alex Harper and Maya Sanchez, once part of a special forces unit called Alpha Team, were sent to track the mysterious phenomenon's origins and know the pulse's...

The MissingWhere death is just the beginning.In the heart of a quiet town lies Evergreen Cemetery—an eerie resting place where no bodies are buried, only empty caskets, each holding a dark secret.Beneath the surface of this unassuming plot of land is a twisted conspiracy engineered by Trucient Industries, a powerful biomedical corporation with a terrifying agenda.Trucient's public mission statement is simple enough: freeze the dead ...

The Stargate program was never meant to be public.What humanity explored through the Gate was sanitized, classified, and edited for morale. Entire missions were erased-not because they failed, but because they succeeded too well.Redacted Stargates: Stories the SGC Buried is a collection of forbidden reports, corrupted logs, survivor testimonies, and recovered footage transcripts from missions deemed too destabilizing for disclosure. These are the encounters...

The Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of The Forever War explores a world where time is money—and for some, both are running out . . .The Stileman Process is a medical miracle: Every ten years or so, you can restore youth and health to your aging, ailing body—as long as you can pay the enormous fee. The scientific advancement has altered the twenty-first-century world even more than space travel.Dallas Barr is...

NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL and USA TODAY Bestselling bookThe sensual romance that started with the bestseller Surrender Your Love continues...Meeting Jett was like bad luck. Dangerous. Unpredictable. And better avoided. In his game, the stakes are high. But are they worth the risk?Brooke Stewart, a realtor in New York, finds forgetting is hard, but forgiving is harder. When the man she trusted, betrayed her, the on...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology—and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who’s helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.How can we grow our prosperity through automation without leaving ...