The world runs on ARCs. Altered Reality Chips. Small implants behind the left ear that allow people to experience anything they could ever imagine. The network controls everything, from traffic, to food production, to law enforcement. Few realize that behind it all, living within every brain and able to control all aspects of society, there exists a being with an agenda all his own: the singularity called Adam, who believes he is God. Jimmy Mahoney's brain can't accept an ARC. Not since his football injury from the days when the league was still offline. Worse than being blind and deaf, he is a man struggling to cling to what's left of a society that he is no longer a part of. After being unwittingly recruited by a rogue singularity to play a role in a war that he doesn't understand, Jimmy learns the truth about Adam and is thrown into a life-and-death struggle against the most powerful mathematical mind the world has ever known. But what can one man do against a being that exists everywhere and holds limitless power?
Science fiction
- Author:Beann, EarikSummary:
- Author:McCaffrey, AnneSummary:
Killashandra Ree, a member of the Heptite Guild and a Crystal Singer, journeys to Optheria to replace and tune a famous organ's crystals but is kidnapped by rebel forces.
- Author:Bertholet, NadineSummary:
Hanté par les dernières paroles de l'homme qu'il a vu mourir sous ses yeux, Kiam n'a qu'une idée en tête : se rendre sur Oméros. Malgré les efforts de ses compagnons pour l'en dissuader, ils se retrouvent tous les quatre projetés sur le royaume de l'eau. C'est en cherchant à percer l'énigme de son passé que Kiam découvrira par l'oracle d'Éodès l'effroyable futur qui l'attend. Confronté à un choix douloureux, il partira pour la citadelle sous-marine d'Epsée dans l'espoir de mettre la main sur la pierre d'Elzyrion, l'arme la plus redoutable d'Oméros. Malgré les embûches qui parsèmeront son chemin, Kiam tentera de changer le cours de son destin, pour le meilleur ou peut-être bien pour le pire….
- Author:Norton, AndreSummary:
Aided by a Polynesian girl and two telepathic dolphins, Time Agents probe the past on the deserted planet Hawaika and are catapulted back ten thousand years among the battles of prehistoric races.
- Author:Miller, John JacksonSummary:
The Republic has fallen. Sith Lords rule the galaxy. Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi has lost everything ... Everything but hope. Tatooine--a harsh desert world where farmers toil in the heat of two suns while trying to protect themselves and their loved ones from the marauding Tusken Raiders. A backwater planet on the edge of civilized space ...
- Author:Malenfant, KarineSummary:
Clara a pour mission de retrouver six personnes, qui comme elle, font partie de la Fraternité de Sirius. Il y a très longtemps, ce peuple a conçu huit âmes qui ont par la suite été déposées sur Terre. Elles ont reçu chacune un pouvoir et sont destinées à apporter aux êtres humains la paix, l’amour et la compassion. L’une d’elle a disparu, et les membres de la fraternité croient que cette âme est prisonnière du passé. Si les huit âmes ne sont pas réunies d’incarnations en incarnations, elles ne peuvent survivre. Clara et les six autres personnes, devront retourner dans le passé afn de découvrir l’identité de la huitième âme et la sauver. Ce périple mènera chaque personne à découvrir sa force, les obligeant à puiser en elles la détermination nécessaire afn d’aller jusqu’au bout. Elles côtoieront des anges et des extraterrestres, prêts à leur venir en aide dans leur quête. Comme le mal réussit toujours à s’insinuer, ces âmes devront faire face à des êtres humains qui ne désirent qu’une chose ; récupérer leurs pouvoirs. Au fnal, chaque action entreprise aura des conséquences sur toute la mission.
- Author:Loveless, RyanSummary:
The first alien immigrants arrived on Earth long before Henry Mekes was born. Now they’re policed by the government, forbidden from attending school, and assigned menial jobs to prevent them from becoming drains on human society. Twenty-two-year-old Kaden, for example, was assigned the job of sex worker. When 18-year-old Henry and his friend Ellil meet Kaden in a grotty backroom to avail themselves of his services, alien rights are the furthest thing from their minds. It’s not until afterward, when Henry is trying to remind himself aliens can’t get enough of sex, that he questions his actions and the rules of the world he lives in. Something about Kaden compels Henry to return again and again—but only as a friend. Soon he and his classmates hatch a plan to free Kaden, but even if they succeed, the world is still full of prejudice against aliens—and those who love them.
- Author:McGovern, CammieSummary:
From the critically acclaimed author of Say What You Will and A Step Toward Falling comes a deeply emotional new novel, perfect for fans of Five Feet Apart and The Fault in Our Stars. David Scheinman is the popular president of his senior class, battling cystic fibrosis. Jamie Turner is a quiet sophomore, struggling with depression. The pair soon realizes that they're able to be more themselves with each other than they can be with anyone else, and their unlikely friendship starts to turn into something so much more. But neither Jamie nor David can bring themselves to reveal the secrets that weigh most heavily on their hearts—and their time for honesty may be running out.
- Author:CRICHTON, MichaelSummary:
Two paleontologists are invited for the weekend to `Jurassic Park', a theme park where scientists have managed to clone dinosaurs from prehistoric DNA. A power failure allows the monsters to escape and havoc ensues. The book that inspired the film.
- Author:Laycraft, AdriaSummary:
Hot-headed pilot Janlin Kavanagh volunteers for a desperate mission with an untested jumpship prototype.
- Author:Laycraft, AdriaSummary:
Janlin and the crew of the Jumpship Hope were supposed to have their problems solved when they returned to Earth. But they're discovering that jumps are more dangerous than they realized.
- Author:Pitterson, RyanSummary:
"6,000 years ago a war began. A war to rule Heaven and Earth that dates all the way back to the Garden of Eden. In the Garden, God told Satan that one day a woman would give birth to a male child – the Messiah, who would redeem humanity and destroy him. In order to prevent this child’s birth, Satan instigated a fallen angelic rebellion. A group of angels broke off their allegiance to the Lord and entered the earthly realm to corrupt the human gene pool and prevent the Savior’s birth. These fallen angels ('sons of God') took human wives ('daughters of men') and had children with them. Their offspring – hybrid half-human, half-angelic beings, were superhuman giants known as the Nephilim. With human DNA corrupted and humanity hanging in the balance, The Lord unleashed a punishment against the Nephilim so severe, only Noah and his family would survive. This is a comprehensive Biblical study of the Nephilim. Using a literal reading of Scripture, we are given a complete picture of the war between two bloodlines – the lineage of the Messiah and the seed of Satan. Exploring passages rarely connected to the giants, you will discover new revelations regarding the Nephilim including: Why did Pharaoh order all male children to be thrown in the river and Herod execute all male children in Bethlehem? The Biblical location of the heavenly portal used by angels to enter the earthly realm. How were angels able to reproduce with human women? Who was the first human woman to marry the fallen Sons of God and conceive a child? Who was the fallen angel who ruled the preflood world? The specific timing and description of God’s punishment of the rebel Sons of God and the Nephilim. How did the Nephilim return after the Flood and are there still Nephilim among us?"--Amazon.com.
- Author:Calmes, MarySummary:
Jeritt Troy is a Scourge, a guardian tasked with patrolling cracks in time and righting the unspoken wrongs in history. His next task is a killer—not just for him, but for his husband and partner, Frost Ramsey, because Jeritt’s not just tracking a bad guy; he’s tracking his previous partner—his best friend. Brekin Creed is as deadly as he’s ever been, and when Jeritt finds himself both abandoned and stranded in time, he has only a handful of years to figure out what went wrong with Brekin and, in doing so, save Frost’s life. Is there time enough for Jeritt to save Frost, or will he be locked in the judgment of his mistakes for eternity? A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2012 Daily Dose package "Time Is Eternity."
- Author:Worley, AlexSummary:
The untold story behind Mega-City One's most famous telepath and Judge Dredd partner, Judge Anderson, in her first year on the job! Mega-City One, 2100. Cassandra Anderson is destined to become Psi-Division's most famous Judge, foiling supernatural threats and policing Mega-City One's hearts and souls. For now, she's fresh out of Academy and Psi-Div themselves are still finding their feet. Heartbreaker: After a string of apparently random, deadly assaults by customers at a dating agency, Anderson is convinced a telepathic killer is to blame. Putting her career on the line, the newly-trained Psi-Judge goes undercover to bring the romance-hating murderer to justice, with the big Valentine's Day parade coming up... The Abyss: Sent to interrogate Moriah Blake, leader of the notorious terror group 'Bedlam,' Anderson gets just one snippet of information - Bedlam's planning on detonating a huge bomb - before Blake's followers take over the Block. It's a race against time, and Anderson's on her own amongst the inmates... A Dream of the Nevertime: Anderson - a rookie no more, with a year on the streets under her belt - contracts what appears to be a deadly psychic virus, and must explore the weirdest reaches of the Cursed Earth in search of a cure. She must face mutants, mystics and all the strangeness the land can throw at her as she wrestles weird forces... Author bio: Alec Worley was a projectionist and a film critic before writing short Future Shock strips for 2000 AD and creating two original series: werewolf apocalypse saga Age of the Wolf (with Jon Davis-Hunt) and 'spookpunk' adventure comedy Dandridge (with Warren Pleece). He writes the Teenage Muttant Ninja Turtles comics for Panini in the UK and has also written Judge Dredd, Robo-Hunter, Tharg's 3rillers and Tales From The Black Museum and Realm of the Damned. This is his debut prose novel.
- Author:Wells, H. G.Summary:
A Nebula Award winner presents tales that shaped modern science fiction and fantasy-five complete novels by Mark Twain, H. G. Wells, and more. In this handpicked collection, New York Times-bestselling author Greg Bear travels back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when novelists let their imaginations soar beyond conventional boundaries of time and space and contributed to the emergence of imaginative new literary genres. In 1889, Mark Twain introduced Americans to time travel in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, in which a hard-headed New Englander is sent back through history to the age of chivalry. Six years later, H. G. Wells propelled an intrepid inventor into the far future via The Time Machine; there, our fearless hero discovers a nightmarish evolutionary scenario in which technologically advanced but mutated Morlocks dwell underground, preying on the innocent aboveground Eloi. In 1912, long before Ray Bradbury or Star Wars, Edgar Rice Burroughs imagined the first wildly popular alternative fantasy/alien culture with A Princess of Mars, transporting readers from Arizona to the red planet, where Confederate soldier John Carter is swept up in another kind of civil war and seduced by a gorgeous red-hued princess. In 1920, Scottish novelist David Lindsay presented A Voyage to Arcturus, an interstellar quest for truth as well as an inquiry into the nature of good and evil that inspired generations of fantasy writers to come. And in 1922, E. R. Eddison turned the planet Mercury into a fantasy version of Earth where demons and witches wage war on a Homeric scale in The Worm Ouroboros. With an insightful introduction, Bear celebrates the writers who first swept readers away to other times and worlds-and blew their minds in ways that altered our literary landscape and collective imagination forever.
- Author:Verne, Jules, Riou, ÉdouardSummary:
When an eccentric professor acquires an ancient book, a riddle on a spare piece of parchment tucked neatly within its pages leads him and his nephew on an unparalleled adventure. The unlocked riddle brings them to a remote mountain on Iceland, where they enter an extinct volcano on a daring quest to reach the center of the earth. They soon find themselves at a giant underground ocean where the laws of science are constantly redefined and prehistoric creatures are in abundance. But in the bowels of the earth, a shocking discovery pits the travellers face to face with their own terrifying past. Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth has been read by millions of inquisitive minds and has influenced some of the worlds most famous explorers such as Admiral Byrd, who announced on his 1926 expedition to the North Pole that "it is Jules Verne who is bringing me." And renowned cave explorer Norbert Casteret said in 1938 that A Journey to the Center of the Earth was a "marvelous book which impressed and fascinated me more than any other. I have re-read it many times, and I confess I sometimes re-read it still, each time finding anew the joys and enthusiasm of my childhood." This 260 page collectors edition includes 53 illustrations, a biography, historical reviews, articles, and an introduction by Mark Rich.
- Author:Verne, JulesSummary:
The intrepid Professor Lindenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the Earth's very core. In his quest to penetrate the planet's primordial secrets, the geologist--together with his quaking nephew Axel and their devoted guide, Hans--discovers an astonishing subterranean menagerie of prehistoric proportions. Verne's imaginative tale is at once the ultimate science fiction adventure and a reflection on the perfectibility of human understanding and the psychology of the questor.
- Author:Messinger, JonathanSummary:
Explorers Troop 301 has checked out a lot of planets hoping to find a place to call home. But their latest mission feels like the biggest snoozefest ever, until they get chased by giant ANTibodies straight into the planet's open mouth. Turns out, the planet is actually a planet-size alien and the explorers are about to be lunch. Can Finn and his friends rescue the other aliens and make it out alive?
- Author:Toutonghi, SteveSummary:
In an alternate near-future, Join allows for the fusing of several minds into a single consciousness with multiple bodies. But best friends Lucky and Leap encounter a terrifying malfunction in the Join technology and discover that the light of this miracle technology may be blinding them to its horrors. As they move into the heart of the new North America, devastated by environmental ruin, they meet the architects of a new kind of human consciousness, and their trust in each other becomes their only guide through the moral hazards of a society in which individual identity has come undone, and a sadistic killer with dozens of identities follows them in relentless pursuit.
- Author:Wong, DavidSummary:
It's a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit--users can drift across time and dimensions. But some who come back are no longer human. Suddenly a silent, otherworldly invasion is underway, and mankind needs a hero. What it gets instead is John and David, a pair of college dropouts who can barely hold down jobs. Can these two stop the oncoming horror in time to save humanity? No. No, they can't. STOP. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands ...