Trying to cope with the innovations that have rendered humankind nearly obsolete, three generations of one family are confronted by an unknown enemy that is systematically trying to annihilate all life forms.

In a technologically suppressed future, information demands to be free in the debut novel from Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross.
In the twenty-first century, life as we know it changed. Faster-than-light travel was perfected, and the Eschaton, a superhuman artificial intelligence, was born. Four hundred years later, the far-flung colonies that arose as a result of these events—scattered over three thousand years...

"The Singularity Witness by Dan Grant is a page-turning book for all who love intricate thrillers with a stunning ending." – Hollywood Book Reviews, Star Awarded to Books of Excellent Merit

THE SINGULARITY WITNESS: What happens when a radical technology ushers in an ominous future? Governments and corporations will kill to control it. So murder and abduction are just the beginning.

When a clandestine

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David Ryan is the designer of ELOPe, an email language optimization program, that if successful, will make his career. But when the project is suddenly in danger of being canceled, David embeds a hidden directive in the software accidentally creating a runaway artificial intelligence.

David and his team are initially thrilled when the project is allocated extra servers and programmers. But excitement turns to fear as the team realizes that they

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All 3 books in the award-winning series in a single volume!WICKED SENSE: When Skye's coven sends her to Seattle to find the Singularity, she teams up with witty, ab-tastic Drake. Despite undeniable chemistry between them, unstoppable enemies, potion mix-ups, and the occasional brush with death make going on a date a little harder. As they fight off the dark forces hell-bent on seizing the Singularity's immense power, Skye and Drake will risk everything...

Winner, YA category - 2012 Sandy Literary ContestWitches inhabit our world, organized in covens and hiding behind a shroud of secrecy the Veil.Skye's London coven sends her to Seattle's Greenwood High to find the Singularity, an unusually gifted witch who may break the Veil and trigger a dangerous new era of witch-hunting. Things get complicated when Skye meets a charming new classmate, Drake. Skye's job becomes even trickier when she clashes with...

Im Jahr 2035 sind Roboter, Künstliche Intelligenzen und Neuralimplantate zu einer Selbstverständlichkeit geworden. Das Institut für Angewandte Ethik sorgt durch ein soziales Reputationssystem für Ausgleich, um sicherzustellen, dass Menschen und Roboter nicht der Gesellschaft oder sich gegenseitig Schaden zufügen. Doch eine mächtige KI namens Adam hat eine Methode entwickelt, diese Beschränkungen zu umgehen. Die neunzehnjährige Catherine Matthews...

Im Jahr 2043 koexistieren Menschen und KIs innerhalb einer unsicheren Machtbalance, die allein von einem rigiden Reputationssystem aufrechterhalten wird. Es soll sicherstellen, dass nur vertrauenswürdige KIs, die ihren Teil zur menschlichen Gesellschaft beitragen, an Rechenleistung gewinnen können. Das Gleichgewicht kippt, als die Stadt Miami durch außer Kontrolle geratene Nanotech zerstört wird. In der Folge der Ereignisse beschließt eine mächtige...

Leon Tsarev ist ein Highschool-Schüler, der sich eigentlich nichts sehnlicher wünscht, als ein Stipendium an einem guten College. Bis ihn sein Onkel, ein Mitglied der russischen Mafia, dazu überredet, einen neuen Computervirus für das Botnetz des Syndikats zu entwickeln - eine Sklavenarmee infizierter Rechner, die sie für ihre digitalen Raubzüge benutzen. Der evolutionäre Virus, den Leon basierend auf biologischen Prinzipien entwickelt, ist...

What if you could paint with reality? Elijah Brighton can bring a girl back from the dead, travel outside his body, and absorb a lifetime of memories from anyone he touches in the fugue state. Everyone seems to think he's the prophet they're waiting for… including the girl he's falling in love with. The truth is, the fugue is bleeding over into reality, bringing his sketches to life and haunting him with visions of a girl in metal armor. She stabs...