Bøger af Lior Samson

From the Jewish ghetto of tiny Frauenkirchen in nineteenth-century Austria-Hungary to a tight-knit Catholic community in the American Midwest at the turn of the twentieth century, Distant Sons explores connections and separation, theme and variation in the lives of two generations. It is the dramatic story of Miriam and Magdalena, a mother and daughter from different worlds in different times, and the choices they face: questions of love, commitment, fulfillment, and survival. Their decisions about faith and family, love and loss, search and surrender will not only map out the courses of their own lives, but also shape their legacy in generations to come down to the present day.Distant Sons is a tale of love across boundaries and in defiance of culture and convention. Based on real events and inspired by real people, Distant Sons is a testimony to the strength of the human spirit and the resilience of ordinary people.

"Another airliner has disappeared shortly after takeoff in Southeast Asia!" The inaugural flight of Pacificano Transocean's over-the-pole non-stop service from Singapore to Chicago O'Hare is an occasion marked with cheers and champagne. When flight PT20 veers off the radar, it begins to look like a rerun of the 2014 disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. An elite team of brilliant young nerds is called on to help find the missing plane before mystery turns into tragedy. Their high-tech pursuit is quickly transformed into a life-or-death race to discover who is behind the incident, understand what is at stake, and find a solution against seemingly invincible forces.

A flash of blue-white light prompts Kat Gaudet, a safety engineer with Spanergy Holdings, to pull over and check out a section of thirty-inch natural gas transmission pipeline crossing Sadler Creek Canyon. At the same time, in Spanergy's Charleston, West Virginia, control center, control technician Len Bergen is reading a programming manual while keeping one eye on an array of monitor screens and waiting for his supervisor to return. Over the next few minutes, an unexpected threat of unknown origin will change the course of their lives and put the entire East Coast in danger. A work of fiction, GASLINE is about real threats and recognized vulnerabilities in our critical energy infrastructure. It is an explosive story of action, intrigue, and friendship that will take you from the hills of Appalachia into a clandestine world of confusing loyalties and global conflict. Kat and Len pursue coded clues and flee pursuers as they try to sort out the good guys from the bad-and survive.

a teacher with a past, a teenager with a project, a complicated collaboration, a dangerous distraction ... Mathematics teacher Bradley Williams is an easily distracted lover of puzzles who is about to fall off the map. A clouded and complicated past has propelled him into exile in Western Massachusetts. There he teaches classes under contract at nearby colleges, and the highlight of his monkish life in small-town purgatory is the weekly gathering of local intellectuals who shred semantics and philosophy over coffee and pastries. His shifting attention will be drawn to an online appeal for help from a young mathematical genius who is working on a new approach to an old problem. And life will become dangerous. The Four-Color Puzzle is a story of the pull of mystery and the power of relationship to reach across distance and time, to defy borders and drawn boundaries. It is about the magical meeting of young minds and old ideas, of the interplay of teaching and learning that transforms both student and teacher in unexpected ways.

What could be dangerous about the idyllic, picturesque island of Madeira? Madeira, a Portuguese island in the Atlantic, would seem to be a perfect destination for technology journalist Karl Lustig and his wife, Shira Markham. But, Karl, on his way to lecture at the University of Madeira, is carrying military microchips for his colleagues at the Madeira Intelligent Robotics Institute. Karl's talent for trouble leads him into uncovering a puzzle in the chipset he is delivering, one he designed with Israel Tactical Systems for advanced avionics applications. His digital detective work will put him in danger and demand decisive action from Shira. Chipset-a Homeland Connection thriller that also stands on its own-is a fast-paced chronicle of a vacation that becomes a history lesson about homeward journeys and personal discoveries. The adventure will challenge Karl and Shira's notions of commitment to country and principles and will change the direction of their lives

"Death is very likely the single best invention of Life." Steve Jobs, Stanford, 2005. Rosen David, a research biologist who does no research, is about to find out what the late Steve Jobs meant. Working in biotech and looking for novel patterns in the work of others, he makes a dramatic new discovery that turns out to be ancient history. The implications for medicine and society are profound, but he is unable to publish his findings. When his work starts disappearing and his life is threatened, his settled existence becomes complicated and dangerous. His actions entangle him in the invisible network of an elderly, jet-setting doctor with unusual patients, including a pair of sybaritic California billionaires and the brutal and long-lived African dictator, Edgar Jabari Mbutsu.Rosen ends up playing in a high stakes game with powerful players who leave him wondering how long he will live. The rules are unclear, the cards he holds are of uncertain value, and he may be called upon to bet everything.This provocative thriller from critically acclaimed novelist Lior Samson will have you turning the pages with anticipation and thinking about some of the hard choices that medical advances could soon force upon us all. Packed with energy, passion, and technical savvy, The Rosen Singularity is a thriller for our times. "This extraordinary author has the ability to anticipate events in ways that enhance his novels." Alan Caruba, veteran critic at BookViews.

Here in one volume of provocative science fiction is the collected short fiction of Lior Samson, including eight published short stories-all out-of-print, difficult to find, and mostly published under various pseudonyms-and sixteen previously unpublished works. The stories are linked by more than common authorship. They are investigations of the intersection of people and the technology people create and use. With humor and tragic perspective they examine human experience in a world of created conditions. Many are unabashedly romantic, even when they are cynical. They celebrate human beings and being human. They laud learning and the endless cycle of discovery. And they caution. Even as they elevate technology, they warn against naïve acceptance of what too easily and too often passes for progress.

"The First Law of Cyber-Terrorism: Anything that can be turned on under program control can be turned off; anything that can be controlled remotely can be thrown out of control remotely." Destiny Allen doesn't even like on-line games. A Web designer for computer security giant Scenaria Systems, she finds herself involved in a deadly puzzle that blurs the boundaries between the virtual and the real. At stake: the infrastructure of modern America. Her resources: Dina Gustafson, a college friend, and Karl Lustig, an Israeli technology journalist with friends in dark places. The challenge: sort the good guys from the bad before the lights go out. Intricately plotted at a breathless pace, this technology thriller from novelist Lior Samson (author of Bashert and The Dome) is about real risks and virtual worlds, about Internet threats as close as tomorrow's nightly news, and about the ever-escalating warfare between black-hat hackers and modern society. REVIEW BY VETERAN CRITIC ALAN CARUBA (BOOKVIEWS) This extraordinary author has the ability to anticipate events in ways that enhance his novels and Web Games, his latest, is no exception.... True to form, Samson is just ahead of the curve with yet another thriller and its theme is cyber-terrorism. ... Behind the pseudonym of Lior Samson is a university professor whose own background brings to his work a reality that only such technical knowledge could produce....The end result is the story of Destiny Allen, a Web designer for a computer security giant who finds herself in a deadly game that may bring down the electrical energy infrastructure of America. We have seen damage that the WikiLeak revelations have done.... Web Games dwarfs that as the main character must enlist her friends to deter a catastrophe. You will not put it down.

A NOVEL STRAIGHT OUT OF TOMORROW'S BIOTECH HEADLINES A dogged reporter with a leading European financial newspaper is determined to uncover the complicated truth about the estate of Arturo Dermott, a recluse and one of the world's richest, most prolific inventors. A handwritten note discovered in an archive in Rome turns a routine assignment into a convoluted quest. He and an Italian archivist are launched on a dangerous detour that leads to unlikely informants in Valencia, to secret labs in China and South Korea, and to a young man growing up in Boston who struggles to understand and come to terms with an invisible past that sets him apart. He is not who he thinks he is, but neither is he the person those around him think he is.

TWO COMPLETE NOVELS Rosen David is a biologist, a research scientist who does no research. Millicent Geller is a field biologist who teaches middle-school science. Their lives are thrown into dangerous disorder when Rosen discovers unpublished research with world-shaking implications. They quickly become entangled with an invisible international network that will stop at nothing to keep the research secret and to limit its benefits to a select inner circle that includes corporate executives, a pair of octogenarian sybarites, and the brutal and long-lived African dictator Dr. Edgar Jabari Mbutsu. Rosen and Millicent must, each in their own distinctive ways, face fundamental questions of faith and fairness, of life, longevity, and death as well as of their own survival and the collective good. Each will become an unlikely crusader, prepared to go all in to expose the secret society that calls itself The Club. Their efforts will draw friends and former students to the cause - with deadly consequences.

Millicent Geller is a field biologist who teaches middle-school science in Massachusetts. The wife of Dr. Rosen David, a research biologist who does no research, her life is thrown into dangerous disorder when he discovers unpublished research with world-shaking implications. They quickly become entangled with an invisible international network that will stop at nothing to keep the research secret and to limit its benefits to a select inner circle that includes corporate executives and sybaritic billionaires along with the brutal and long-lived African dictator Dr. Edgar Jabari Mbutsu. The diminutive Millicent Geller becomes an unlikely lone crusader, prepared to go all in and determined to expose the secret society that calls itself The Club. She is forced to face fundamental questions about her own survival and the collective good. Her efforts will draw former student and erstwhile journalist Clinton Rodrigues to the cause - with deadly consequences. From California's Central Valley to the coast of West Africa and the woods of Northern Maine, his pursuit of a story will teach him and his students unexpected lessons.