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Human! A name that strikes terror in the hearts of the galaxy. Well, maybe not terror. More like caution, actually. Since you know how hot-headed Humans can be. After the galaxy was attacked by invaders, the Milky Way was left but a shadow of its former self. In its wake, a savage, almost Wild West existence emerged, ruled by gun and muscle. And for anyone needing help in either the gun or muscle category—or both—everyone knows you . . . Hire a Human.

* “A zany, wildly gripping, dark futuristic fantasy.” —Vogue, Most Anticipated Books of the Year * “Fascinating…a propulsive ride…through a well-built world.” —The Christian Science Monitor * From the brilliant, bestselling author of Child 44 and creator of the FX series Class of...

In 2055, Lina Grahame was diagnosed with cancer. An experimental brain scan was meant to give her family peace of mind—insurance against the unknown. But when the system misfiled her consciousness, Lina was left dormant, forgotten, and reclassified as “simulation-grade.” Four centuries later, she wakes, not as the woman she was, but as a synthetic echo: fleshless, mislabeled, unacknowledged. The cities she wanders are alive with drones and faceless machines, but empty of people. The humans she longs for are gone—not extinguished, but voluntarily replaced.

Mike Cohen has it all figured out. A successful venture capitalist, he’s got billions in the bank, a lifestyle any New Yorker would kill for, and - if he plays his cards right - a shot with his cute, punky coworker. But everything changes when the life-altering technology he's developing lands him in the middle of a global conspiracy, and the only way to save himself, his loved ones, and his tech is to embed the highly experimental Brainocytes in his own brain. Brainocytes transform the human experience, making you smarter, faster, and more powerful.

The Power of Fear is a fast-paced fiction that takes place in the second half of the 21st Century, a dystopian future of an ultra-right wing United States perpetrating as a democracy using advances in genetic and ectogenesis technologies to preserve a White America.

They once thought dark energy was the ultimate power in the universe. They were mistaken. And now a desperate race is underway to be the first to discover how The Formation helped create life in the universe. But with the power to create life also comes the power to destroy it. This was power even the wise and ancient Aris knew was too great for them to possess. Now imagine what it could do in the hands of a mere mortal...such as Adam Cain.

When the alien known as Zava finally finds a sentient world that is worthy of his time and study, many thoughts race through his head. Perhaps a simple survey of the planet would suffice, or maybe a detailed analysis of the sentient civilizations that reside there. He could even conduct an abduction of a few human subjects, all in the name of science and research.

The year is 2205. The great pandemic and climate crisis generated social divisions, creating a new human post-biological species when a mining incident was manipulated to create the conditions of a new evolutionary social brink. This book is the first in a series about one potential path humanity may take in the evolution of new human species. There are exciting times ahead in this book. There are also bumps in the road and challenging events to navigate through. Listening to this audiobook will take you on a journey of different experiences that no one else has ever had.

AD 2107: A generation ago, Earth and the cislunar colonies banned genetic and cybernetic modifications. But out in the Asteroid Belt, anything goes. Dozens of flourishing space habitats are spawning exotic new societies and strange new varieties of humans. It’s a volatile situation that threatens the peace and stability of the entire solar system.

Sometimes the difference between reality and insanity is only a matter of absurdity. There is nothing Milo Bishop fears more than the thought that he is going insane. Having grown up hearing his Uncle Jay’s stories about the strange mermaids Milo never had a reason to believe they were actually true. But when a near-death experience gives Milo a vision of a mermaid calling to him for help, Milo is forced to test his uncle’s claims.

Mit Milliarden auf meinem Konto und meiner eigenen Risikokapitalgesellschaft bin ich der lebende amerikanische Traum. Mein einziges Problem? Nach einem Autounfall leidet meine Mutter an Gedächtnisproblemen.

Into the Twilight takes place 200 years into the future, when Jacob Ladder and Emma Fine, strangers to one another, wake from two centuries of suspended life to a future that challenges many of their deep-rooted assumptions about what it means to be and remain human. As the story opens, the human race faces demise from within and without. Mulling over its options, the governing council decides that the human genome will require “major redesigning” or “scrapping” if what’s left of humanity is to survive. And that’s where Ike comes in.

Things changed one night. Crystal Garrison was heading home when she witness jump off a building and was confronted by a strange woman who told her one thing; everything is a lie. The same woman also confronted Doug Ruskin, Pam Turner, Ren Abernathy, Nikhil Sampath, Jackie Vargas, Ashton Blackwell, and Misty Zeng. Shortly after the first suicide, another man commits suicide in an arena yelling the same thing; everything is a lie. She told them all to come together and find out the truth behind their lives.

The Project 99 experiments continue to find answers about themselves as they dig deeper into their past. Who are they? What are they supposed to be? As they keep searching, they find their chimera. She was where they were all created from. Does she have the answers they are looking for? And what else does Project 99 have in store for them?