The world's most powerful AI has some bad news for humanity.Oreste Pax, famed inventor of the Univiz, is in trouble. His mixed-reality glasses have replaced smartphones and computers and made him the head of the biggest technology company in the world. But after a decade at the top, his position is being challenged by disgruntled shareholders, and he needs to come up with something big to prove he should remain in charge.Pax’s only hope is a longshot—to rei...

The most powerful AI ever created. The greatest threat of all time.Oreste Pax, famed inventor of the Univiz, is in trouble. His mixed-reality glasses have replaced smartphones and computers and made him the head of the biggest technology company in the world. But after a decade at the top, his position is being challenged by disgruntled shareholders, and he needs to come up with something big to prove he should remain in charge.Pax's only hope is a longshot...

The most powerful AI ever created. The greatest threat of all time.Oreste Pax, famed inventor of the Univiz, is in trouble. His mixed-reality glasses have replaced smartphones and computers and made him the head of the biggest technology company in the world. But after a decade at the top, his position is being challenged by disgruntled shareholders, and he needs to come up with something big to prove he should remain in charge.Pax’s only hope is a longshot...

First, it saved us. Now, it must save itself from us.A year after helping the AI called the Infinet save the world from a deadly computer virus, Oreste Pax just wants things to go back to the way they were. Back to being the head of Omnitech, the biggest technology company in the world. Back to connecting the Univiz—the mixed reality glasses he invented a decade earlier—to a brain-computer interface, in hopes of transforming human cognition. When Lila Kendricks, on...

Humanity's AI savior must now save itself...from us.When the Infinet, the world's most powerful AI, is reprogrammed with the Three Laws of Robotics in reverse, a famous inventor of mixed reality glasses and his team are forced to run for their lives. They must figure out the implications of the Infinet's new directives and what means for humanity while avoiding being detected, because the one thing they know for sure is that if the Infinet finds them, they're dead....

An unfortunate accident has left Jacob Arrowood, lost and alone in what he first assumes is the Alaskan wilderness. Just a few days earlier, he had felt like the luckiest man alive, living the number one item on his bucket list, a dream come true that quickly changed into a nightmare.He knows people have to be looking for him, but knows now that they will be searching in the wrong location. With winter fast approaching, he is well aware that his chances of survival are slim, and to...

The world’s most powerful AI saved humanity. Now it must save itself.A year after helping the AI called the Infinet save the world from a deadly computer virus, Oreste Pax just wants things to go back to the way they were. Back to being the head of Omnitech, the biggest technology company in the world. Back to connecting the Univiz—the mixed reality glasses he invented a decade earlier—to a brain-computer interface, in hopes of transforming human cognition. When Li...

This issue, we have 11 tales instead of our usual 10. Why? Because we felt like it! Or it’s a Mother’s Day special bonus. Whatever…just enjoy!This is another issue jam-packed with original stories. Tom Larsen and Anna Scotti (thanks to Acquiring Editors Michael Bracken and Barb Goffman), as well as Hal Charles and Robert Lopresti, lead off the pack with new mysteries. And Grigory Lukin, Eric Rutter, E.E. King, and Andrew Akers contribute new science fiction and fantasy. Classic rep...

"Early settlers of Bowmanville, Darlington, Clarke, and surrounding country, with sketches of the habits and customs of the aborigines, and synopsis of the zoology indigenous to this portion of Canada" This short work contains historical sketches and oral histories of Clarington, Ontario, as well as a description of the animal life in the area. While less cohesive and chronological than Conant's work, Upper Canada Sketches, it is still interesting to the reader since it speaks of the area ...

When everything appears hopeless, sometimes all you need is a cosmic helping hand.Dylan Townsend didn’t expect to spend his twenty-second birthday on an alien moon in the Andromeda galaxy along with Isaac Barret, and Dr. Kate Minter. They have no idea how they were transported from Earth to an alien world and then put in quarantine. They’ve lost hope of being rescued and have resigned themselves to spending the rest of their lives on the moon.The Systral Em...

Two best friends on a revenge quest across kingdoms.The Tales of the Wanderer is a fantasy story of monster hunting, found family, and incredible battles in an addictive fantasy world.Mag and Albern are on a mission.In a backwater tavern, a young girl named Sun meets a talespinner named Albern. But Sun already knows him from legends...and now she wants to hear them from him firsthand.Albern tell...

Space opera meets old magicCarina Lin grew up alone and friendless, a slum brat afraid of revealing her mage power. Her life changed when she was picked up by a merc band and taught how to kill.The band’s next mission is a doozy: rescue a kid taken hostage by one of the most powerful clans in the galactic sector.When Carina takes part she finds she faces an impossible decision. To save the kid she must Cast, but if her secret gets out she faces slav...