Technothriller

NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author KATHY REICHS returns with her next edge-of-your seat thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.

PLOTHannah's the boss, Andy's the technician, Dorothea is the sentient droid he's to assess and dispose of . . .Andy isn't the cold, efficient, technology assessor Hannah wants him to be. She tries to prepare him, set clear boundaries for the assessment, impress on him that the droid that will be delivered is a domestic appliance. Sophisticated . . . yes, but just an appliance.Andy quickly runs into problems. This droid, Dorothea, is inquisitive and sensitive and appears to have real fears and aspirations. He tries hard to convince himself that it's nothing more than clever programming, impressive human-real simulation. If it's programmed, even if she doesn't realize it herself, then it is not real . . . or is it? He struggles to tell the difference.Whatever Dorothea is, she's coming to an abrupt end Monday morning. His strategy is self-preservation. Keep his distance, minimize future psychological trauma. No sharing, trusting or mutual understanding . . . that just morphs into guilt. Don't get fooled by the poor-little-me act either . . . not when she has class 3 spydroid heritage. She could take out a platoon of marines without snagging a fingernail.Of one thing Andy is certain . . . he's not looking forward to erasure. With any regular droid it's a chore, but Dorothea? He can just see her questioning, concerned look when he tells her what's coming. Maybe she'll try to persuade him not to go through with it or even try a spot of pleading. No, she's too noble, too dignified. He'll through her some flimsy excuses and watch dejection flood her face, trembling. possibly tears welling in her eyes. It would be tough on her. The guy she took to be a friend, her only real friend, is betraying her, totally. She gets about five minutes to come to terms with that.The he'll instruct her to go through all the options and he'll stand there like an automaton blurting out 'refuse' and 'delete' at all the various back-up levels that could save something of her. And at the end, she'll sum up his choices and advise him that if he proceeds that he will be erazing all of her data and that her identity, her profile will not be recoverable and that this process is irreversible. She 'll ask him if he is sure that this is what he wants. He wont want to look her in the eyes when he blurts out that final 'confirm', but he'll have to. Retinal recognition and voice recognition are needed to verify. There will be no point in explaining or saying 'sorry'. Anything he says will be deleted in seconds.Dorothea doesn't know about any of this, at least not at the start. Her only contact is Andy, her controller, an AI technician. He gives her instructions and provides basic data that she needs to function. She trusts him, senses kindness and good intentions, but, worryingly, a certain evasiveness. She also picks up on tensions between Andy and his boss. Problems are escalating, problems that involve her. She learns quickly, and sees that her existence is intertwined with that of others, that it is dependent on past events, and that it can alter unexpectedly due to myriad random factors. She needs purpose, to choose a direction . . . but how much choice does she have . . . and what will it cost?GENRE: Science Fiction, Techno Thriller, Philosophical NovelThe Robot in the Refrigerator is science fiction and a near-future techno thriller, but underlying this it is a philosophical novel. It considers fundamental questions of the human condition such as the purpose of life, self-realization and what of ourselves, if anything, exists beyond death. Dorothea is intelligent and rational but, having none of the social conditioning or mental clutter of childhood or adolescence, see these issues with fresh perspective .

Ville du slette dine følelser for at undgå din skyld?Skolelærer Steve Morris er på tiende år plaget af ødelæggende følelser efter en dødsulykke på Long Island i USA. Han drømmer om et andet liv, hvor han kan være en mere tilstedeværende og forstående far og ægtemand.Ved et tilfælde bliver Steve bekendt med ny RELOAD-teknologi, der genetablerer Alzheimerpatienters tabte erindringer. Han lader sig behandle med en hemmeligholdt variant af RELOAD og oplever et stærkt forandret følelsesliv.En række hændelser før og efter Steves behandling tyder imidlertid på, at RELOAD anvendes til andet end demensramte, og en tidlig morgen forsvinder en elev fra skolen, hvor han arbejder. Med hjælp fra journalisten Jessica Bonner kommer Steve på sporet af, hvad der foregår på Long Island, men beviser mangler, og snart er Steve i fare for at miste sit job, sin lille familie og i sidste ende sin forstand og sit liv. Søren Kiil debuterer som romanforfatter med thrilleren RELOAD. Han er uddannet kemiingeniør, bor i Øverød nord for København, og har i mere end 20 år forsket og undervist inden for det tekniske og naturvidenskabelige område.Senest har han udgivet tre fagbøger om teknisk kemi og produktdesign ved amerikanske Wiley og Polyteknisk Forlag. I 2006 og 2014 modtog han henholdsvis Statoil Prisen og Elastyrenprisen for sin forskning.

A nail biting narrative, and a crime thriller which you just can't put down! After the disaster at Nightridge, Sheriff Norris Cunningham is trying to put his life back together. But an unexpected call froman almost forgotten comradetakes him to the dark valleys of Willow's Heart into an investigationinvolving theritualistic beheading of seven wolves.Is it a madman with a vendetta against animals? Is it a sign? Or a warning?The answersbegin tocome up when one decapitated bodyis discoveredin an ancient family's house turns into several, and reports of missing people emerge.With NYPD detective Tom Nashbyhis side, Sheriff Cunningham sets out to findthekiller. But this is the genesis of an era where technology conspireswith witchcraft to control the present and reshapehumanity's future. Are they ready or unprepared for the occult crimes ahead?

"I'd tell you to be careful, but we wouldn't be here if you'd ever taken that advice. No reason to start now, right?"For millennia the Anadens have ruled the known universe. They believe they've crafted the perfect empire, ordered and impervious to challenge. They believe the fight has been crushed out of the species they subjugate. They are wrong.It's a suicide mission, without a doubt. Alex Solovy and Caleb Marano must steal crucial intelligence from the Anadens' central military headquarters. To succeed, they'll need to navigate a strange universe ruled by a cabal of powerful immortals, populated by aliens they've never met and fueled by technology they've never seen. They're going to need a little help-the kind of help only a suicidally defiant anarchist on the run from more than just personal demons can provide.As Anaden agents close in, back home in Aurora humanity races to prepare. Steeled from the Metigen invasion and the rise of Prevos, no longer will they wait for doom to come to them. Forewarned the Anadens intend to crush them out of existence, humans, Artificials and Prevos join together to bring the war to the doorstep of the enemy, even as a shadowy foe re-emerges to jeopardize all they've built.*Our universe is but a snowglobe-an experiment born of desperation and hope. The true universe is unfathomably vast, teeming with life and untold wonders. And it is enslaved.Created by ancient aliens in a daring gambit to understand the nature of the enemy, humanity is now asked to be the savior of a universe not their own. If they are to succeed, they must rise above not only their fractious past but the sins of their genetic ancestors to boldly embrace a future they never dared imagine possible.

When Cara, a statistician at the Center for Disease Control, loses a childhood friend to suicide and learns he was a gambling addict, she suspects a connection. Buried in the CDC archives, she finds her suspicion confirmed: a link between suicide and online gambling addiction was noted years ago. Why was this hidden from public view? Cara wants answers and risks her job to get them. Soon, she finds herself immersed in a tangle of corruption and greed extending far beyond anything she could have imagined, as the forces that have worked to keep this hidden will stop at nothing to keep it secret. In the high stakes game of corporate greed and government corruption, can Cara beat the odds and win?

New York Times BestsellerFrom Neal Stephenson?who coined the term ?metaverse? in his 1992 novel Snow Crash?comes a sweeping, prescient new thriller that transports readers to a near-future world in which the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless heat waves, and virulent, deadly pandemics.?Stephenson is one of speculative fiction's most meticulous architects. . . . Termination Shock manages to pull off a rare trick, at once wildly imaginative and grounded.? ? New York Times Book ReviewOne man?visionary billionaire restaurant chain magnate T. R. Schmidt, Ph.D.?has a Big Idea for reversing global warming, a master plan perhaps best described as ?elemental.? But will it work? And just as important, what are the consequences for the planet and all of humanity should it be applied?Ranging from the Texas heartland to the Dutch royal palace in the Hague, from the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas to the sunbaked Chihuahuan Desert, Termination Shock brings together a disparate group of characters from different cultures and continents who grapple with the real-life repercussions of global warming. Ultimately, it asks the question: Might the cure be worse than the disease?Epic in scope while heartbreakingly human in perspective, Termination Shock sounds a clarion alarm, ponders potential solutions and dire risks, and wraps it all together in an exhilarating, witty, mind-expanding speculative adventure.

Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo face a new exciting adventure, continuing the bestselling series from UK No. 1 Bestseller Clive Cussler, the Grand Master of Adventure.The latest action-packed thriller featuring treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo.Praise for Clive Cussler:'The Adventure King' Sunday Express'Just about the best in the business' New York Post'Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail

After the Catastrophe, an analyst is imprisoned as a co-conspirator. His son survives the rise of city-states. Martin infiltrates a white supremacist militia, declares war, becoming The Filtrator, and attempts to rescue an enslaved family.

Twenty-three year old Arnold Gold is a Seattle-based odds-maker and computer genius. Described as a "part-time hacker and full-time virgin" by his friends, he flies to Las Vegas to get lucky-in more ways than one. But his high-stakes activity on the Net inadvertently thrusts him into a vortex of international terrorism. Dark Net Hacking results in murder, and now it will take every last bit of Arnold's intellect and legendary skill to stay one step ahead of the murderous terrorists, the FBI, the local cops and his lawyer. Gold's only chance to save himself is to find the location of a bomb hidden somewhere in Las Vegas, and somehow prevent the explosion that will turn Sin City into the scene of the deadliest terror attacks since 9/11.