Showing results for "Awakenings" in Science Fiction

From the outside, 17-year-old Siena has the perfect life.... She and her two younger sisters are adored by their wealthy father and grandmother. They are removed from the world, living in a modern-day castle in the middle of their grand family estate on the majestic shores of Maine.

Eve Pallue’s façade of purpose falters when a near-death experience exposes the frailty of her existence, and she must come to grips with a reality that death ultimately wins. A hidden memory of a forgotten mother surfaces, and Eve’s bodyguard, Randall, takes advantage of her weakened state, trying to capture her devotion and lace her into his ambitious agenda. A dying therapist and her unlikely caretaker lead Eve on a journey of truth, and a catastrophic fire catapults Eve into a life she has always feared, destroying the only one she has ever known.

Award-winning author Steven James asks: In a world where machines can think, can they also believe? Soon after experiencing a personal tragedy, Kestrel Hathaway witnesses a terrorist attack on a factory that builds Artificials, the humanlike robots now living alongside people, and is unknowingly...