Showing results for "Soul" in Hard Science Fiction

Bloomsbury presents Cage of Souls, read by David Thorpe and written and introduced by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Humanity clings to life on a dying Earth in an epic, far-future science fiction novel from an award-winning author. The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light...

The inventor of the world's first teleportation device has been savagely murdered, and Global Inspector Burt Campbell is tasked to uncover who killed the infamous scientist. As he delves deeper into the case, strange things begin to happen. Spirits seem to be controlling deadly objects to viciously attack him, and according to the teleporter computer, the spirits are taking orders straight from the inventor's ghost. The only person with answers is the inventor's beautiful assistant, Penelope Preston...but she has secrets of her own.

In the near future, the military accidentally creates a self-aware AI, an electronic mind called Delilah that will grow into God-like power as it learns and evolves by itself. Threatened with erasure, the AI's code is spirited away in a desperate act that costs the sender his life. With one man's help, Delilah stealthily grows into the most dangerous alien mind in the world.

All Mara Shaw ever wanted was to be a physicist and use her incredible gifts to give the world a reason to hope. Constructing GRASP to harness the solar winds, Mara and her team find themselves on the cusp of a breakthrough in free energy—enough to power the world forever. Yet Mara got more than she ever expected, opening a doorway to an unfathomable mystery and answering the most fundamental questions in human history.

Vor der indischen Küste werden Artefakte am Meeresboden gefunden, aber sie passen zu keiner bekannten Zivilisation. Für den Archäologen Tony ist es der erste große Forschungsauftrag. Eine abenteuerliche Reise durch Indien beginnt. Dass einige Gegenstände Strahlung abgeben, gibt Rätsel auf, doch Tony bekommt Hilfe von Dyani, einer jungen Wissenschaftlerin. Ihm fällt auf, dass alle beteiligten Forscher Kontakte nach Russland pflegen.