Science fiction: cyberpunk, nær fremtid

In the city of Genesia a chance encounter with Olympia, one of the clockwork dancers from the cabaret, leads Detective Evergreen Fox into a taking the job of finding a killer. Drawn into a world of deception and danger Fox faces both the fascists of the Renewal Society and their enemies in the underground movement known as the Masquerade. All the while he must contend with his growing fascination with Olympia and with the cyber augmentation in his head that has developed a taste for atrocity. As both a coup and a revolution threaten to tear the city apart Fox begins to understand that in a place that delights in masks it is impossible to know which side anyone is on.

"Beneath the skin, flesh, and cyberware lies a beating heart--and only two things can stop a heart from beating: love and death"--

An engineered virus that attacks the brain leaks from a research lab and spreads quickly, causing infected people to go into psychotic rage. Before almost anyone knows what is happening, a well-armed America is terrorized by a pandemic of violence.Kanetha Wilson-friend of the first victim-is first to recognize that something is not as it seems. She inspires a small cadre of scientists and others into a breakneck, lonely, and lawless mission to identify and stop the murder plague. They must rebel against scientific and political establishments and public opinion hardened against taking pandemics seriously. More importantly, they must stay alive themselves, when crazed murderers might appear anywhere, and when madness might be only a breath away.Set in Orlando, Florida-where tourists from all over can quickly spread contagion-The Murder Plague is a dystopian thriller transpiring not long after the COVID crisis. Scott Michael Powers, author of the UFO-hunt thriller The Roswell Swatch, delivers a fast-paced tale full of suspense, riveting action, high stakes concerns for science and society, and heart.Read The Murder Plague and see what the next genetic engineering accident might cause, and what it might take to stop it.

When her ex-girlfriend Kay is murdered and everyone in her old commune is a suspect, Dora, while investigating, discovers Kay's death is one of several terrible incidents and is drawn into a twisted conspiracy while trying to stop a potential war between two nefarious companies.

Das Jahr 2058 - das Bevölkerungswachstum zwingt die Menschen in abgeriegelte Megastädte, in denen strenge Geburtenkontrolle und genetische Manipulation zur Kontrolle der Bevölkerungsentwicklung dienen. Ralf und Stefanie geraten in einen finanziellen Engpass und können sich die Pille nicht leisten, die ihren einjährigen Sohn Bobby vor der genetischen Degeneration bewahren soll.Ralf macht sich auf die Suche nach einer alternativen Heilmethode und begegnet Sarah, einer rätselhaften «Äusseren», die ihn zu einem Heiler bringen will. Eine abenteuerliche Reise durch eine verbotene Aussenwelt führt Ralf schliesslich zur schockierenden Wahrheit über die Medikamente und die Kontrollen der Regierung. In «Verlorene Wahrheiten - die Reise nach draussen» verschwimmen die Grenzen zwischen Freund und Feind, Wahrheit und Lüge. Eine ergreifende Geschichte über Liebe, Freiheit und den Mut, gegen die grausame Realität anzukämpfen.

Wird die Rattenpopulation vor Ort zunehmend aggressiver? Nach einem entsetzlichen Erlebnis befürchtet die Lehrerin Elora Keller Schlimmes. Getrieben von ihrer wachsenden Phobie beginnt sie auf eigene Faust Nachforschungen anzustellen, doch werden ihr von öffentlicher Seite immer wieder Steine in den Weg gelegt. Als sich die Recherche zunehmend auf ihr Privatleben und sogar ihre Ehe auswirkt, muss sie entscheiden, ob sie den Weg zur Wahrheit weitergehen will.

Other Minds is a collection of two bold new novellas from Chinese Singaporean speculative fiction author, Eliane Boey.

Earth gone...Five thousand years into the future. Chamorro space pirates formerly cybernetic soldiers travel the stars. Buy it now!

It is the beginning of the 22. century, and Western Civilization has long since gotten over the devastation of WW3.Peter, a University student, inherits great wealth by his father, despite him still being alive. He is in hiding, never expected to emerge again.The inheritance has been kept by his father's friends, and they invite him to have a party with them in Canada before they give it to him. He soon learns why his father is hiding.

SOMETIMES YOU JUST GOTTA GET YOUR HALO DIRTYFormer cyberspace hacker Boy Eastman lives off the grid in the Manhattan Outzone: he deals apps, has a kick-ass girlfriend and keeps his nose clean. But when Kreskin the Fixer blackmails him into one more job against his former employer, his online reappearance sparks a chain reaction - now everyone wants a piece of Boy, and he's going to need all the help he can get to survive. Meanwhile on a server farm in the mega-city of Thames-Midland, the artificial intelligence called Ghostdancer has hatched a plan to escape cyberspace for good, and she's not going alone...A cyberpunk crime story in the grand tradition of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, McIntyre's YEAR OF THE RAT throws you face first into a plausible near-future world of corporate-sponsored street gangs, cyborgs and messianic Artificial Intelligences populated by street-wise characters with plenty of attitude.

For a species shaped by tides, change is the only constant. On an alien moon, a charismatic college director enlists a masked outcast to help a young fugitive escape the city of Apidecca.

On the moon of Knyadrea, the sea yields intelligent life. For a species shaped by tides, change is the only constant.Little can be hidden in the glare of a spotlight. Charismatic and innovative, Oklas Sayve has risen to prominence in Apidecca, the moon's capital city. A politician and college director, he has the resources to effect the changes he envisions for the world. But the sovereigns he serves oppose him at every turn and his status cannot protect the low-strata students attending his college. After a young knyad is wrongly linked to insurgent activity, Oklas must find a way to smuggle her out of the city while hiding his involvement from the authorities. A spark in the dank depths. Below the grand Assembly Chambers, a knyad in a mask sculpts, grasping for scraps of beauty in her shrinking world. Years ago, Prismer made a costly mistake and now has only her job at the projection booth and a few special interests to fill her days. But it is not her sculptures that draw the attention of a powerful client, and she is soon met with a request to undertake a dangerous mission. Will she answer the call and risk losing the little she has left? Mysteries surface. A supernatural substance is used in corrupt ways. As identities shift and predicaments are reshuffled, what alliances might be forged?

Time travelling rock star Black Alice - Book 2 of the Sons of Steel Series. From award winning Australian science fiction heavy metal musical film Sons of Steel written & directed by G L. Keady author of book 2. Sons of Steel - Cyberwars

The children of Tigris have extraordinary telekinetic giftsbut are these special powers a blessing or a curse?On Tigris, children develop telekinesis beginning at the age of five. By the time they're pre-teens, though, their special abilities peak, then slip away as they reach maturity. Being able to ';teek' gives them powereven over most adultsuntil they gradually become regular teenagers, no longer special, no longer with authority and status. Some handle the Transition better than others. Lisa Duncan always thought she'd mature gracefully, but at age fourteen, and close to losing her abilities, she's confused and uncertain about what the future will bring. That is, until she gets drawn into the experimental plan of Dr. Matthew Jarvis, whose scientific discovery may alter Tigrin society forever. . . .

The dust bunnies are out in force on the mean streets of Neocastle but Sehseh is always ready and able to help those in need. Whether it be a mugging, an store raid or even a kidnapping! On her way to collect a plushi, Sehseh always ensure that the streets are as safe as can be. Though with the arrival of a schoolgirl assassin, questions about the past start to creep up. Armed with her razor broom though, it takes a lot to stop the Battle Maid in her tracks. Not even a truck.

En 3099, lorsque la NASA annonce une catastrophe humanitaire et climatique sans précédent, l'ensemble de la population doit trouver des solutions pour rester en vie. Tout comme pour Amos et le reste de sa famille, la survie n'est pas évidente et nécessite des sacrifices. Un nouvel ordre est alors instauré et bouleverse l'organisation que nous connaissons jusqu'à présent. Ce nouveau fonctionnement planétaire dissimule une vérité bien plus effroyable..

Who is this hero who will save humanity, a man or a woman?The Earth is dying. A new war divides people into factions: preaching space drifts in God's hands and trying to relocate to a long-forgotten colony. A small group visited the colony, but what they found there could never have been predicted, not even by Vist. Who is Vist? The last survivor of their race, the only one who makes survival possible.Two timelines, two worlds, two ways to go...

Einst bekannt als der blaue Planet ist die Erde nur noch ein Fleck ihrer eigentlichen Existenz. In Städten, in denen einst Tausende und Millionen Menschen lebten, erkämpft sich die Natur ihren Platz zurück. Von Macht und Gier getrieben, kam es zur völligen Katastrophe, dem schlimmsten, was der Menschheit passieren konnte. Atombomben. Ein nuklearer Krieg, der die Menschheit an den Rand ihrer Existenz führte.Doch noch gibt es Hoffnung. Die Menschen haben früh damit begonnen, unter der Erde hoch komplexe Anlagen zu errichten, einen Zufluchtsort für die wenigen Menschen auf dieser Welt. Unabhängige Geschichten, jede aus einer anderen Perspektive, einzelne Schicksale, ein Blick in eine mögliche Zukunft.Dies ist die Geschichte von Maik und seinem Schicksal. Ein einfacher Arbeiter, der sein Glück in der großen Lotterie versucht und so möglicherweise die Chance bekommt, auf einem der Ark Schiffe in eine neue Welt zu reisen und somit dem grausigen Schicksal zu entkommen. Doch egal, ob er gewinnt oder verliert, es wird sein Leben verändern.

"In the not-too-distant future, the world is ruled by a male scientific elite. Eugenics has triumphed in this fertility dystopia; from adolescence, women are either made into "vocational mothers," or, if they have no interest in motherhood, they are sterilized by the government and become "neuters." The story introduces a young woman who rebels against this system, and a young man who resists the "happy" norm - a resistance which culminates, like the Savage's in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, in suicide"--

When humans can create new species, what rights do they have over the beings they create?The Making War is the long-awaited final book in the award-winning series that began with The Silver Ship and the Sea.Six genetically engineered children fought to survive in a small town where everyone hated what they were, on a difficult planet full of out-sized predators with long teeth and sharp claws. Because they were stronger than the colonists, they found a way to live, and eventually a way to leave.Alicia wants nothing more than to fly.But if she survives the dangerous transformation that will give her wings, she will become a slave.In the meantime, her ex-lover Joseph plans to fight for her freedom in a battle between two opposing planets. Powerful fleets are about to meet in the empty dark of space, and he wants neither to win. For help, he has his family, including his pacifist sister and his border collie.

On the surface, the city of HelsInc appears to have recovered from the war waged between humans and Ethereals, but beneath the scars, the city seethes. The remains of magic festers, causing mutations in human DNA which could give humans Ethereal power-not that the HelsInc government would ever let that happen. The Legion resists, ripping out their neurochips and protesting the mandatory gene therapy for humans with cryptomine in their DNA. At only 19 years old, Omyn Talvinen isn't ready to play parent to her kid brother, but with her mom in prison on trumped up charges and her deadbeat dad AWOL, she's left with little choice. Forced to risk her freedom to pay the rent, Omyn finds herself at the mercy of a pair of cyborg soldiers when they catch her red-handed stealing nanites from a cyberware Salon. But the synths' powers don't work on Omyn, and they discover they all share a common memory that they must get to the root of.Wanted dead by the government, Omyn and the renegade soldiers turn to a rebel Legion group with dreams of resuscitating dead magic for help. With the clock-ticking for the synths, Zee-Five and Omyn are forced to confront the secrets of their past and a dark conspiracy that'll shake the blood-soaked foundations of the city.