Showing results for "Awakenings" in Hard Science Fiction

Earth is dying. As global war and runaway artificial intelligence tear civilization apart, humanity unknowingly places its final hope in Pioneer—a deep-space ark carrying five hundred sleepers toward Alpha Centauri. Commanded by General Marcus Roberson, the mission is simple in theory: survive long enough for humanity to begin again. The universe has other plans. When Pioneer is pulled significantly off course during its jump, Roberson and his executive officer, Danielle Hatch, choose to remain awake, working methodically to determine what went wrong and where they've arrived.

In Chile's Atacama Desert, a startling discovery threatens the very fabric of reality. Satellite imagery reveals an anomaly, thirty kilometers wide, radiating a power that appears to mutate everything in its path—and it's growing. Is this merely a Drax ploy designed to reassert their control over humanity, or is it a cosmic event beyond anyone's understanding? Soon, Dr. Shepard, Colonel Peters, and their elite team are dispatched to investigate the phenomenon. But nothing can prepare them for what awaits.

The journey began with an escape—one that was supposed to set us free. After breaking through the layers of illusion that bound us in “The Experiment”, I thought we were finally done with the beings, that my family and I could return to the safety of the real world. But safety, I’ve learned, is as fragile as the walls of the realities they create. In those first few moments of freedom, I dared to believe that the nightmare was over. The relentless chase, the manipulation of our minds, the distorted visions of people and places we once knew—it all seemed behind us.

The Awakening of Joel Singer presents the story of a young man who unleashes the latent abilities of body and mind due to a genetic experiment gone haywire. Joel joins the mysterious Dr. Harrington, CEO of Gnotech, and his thousands of “Community Volunteers”, enhanced humans loyal to Dr. Harrington, in creating incredible medical innovations, and on increasingly dangerous missions at home and abroad that push his abilities further. All the while, powerful forces conspire against them.

The survivors of a nuclear electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that has devastated the electrical grid are trying to cope in a darkened world as society collapses. It's the morning of day seven in this post-apocalyptic world and from the news on the radio it appears WWIII has already begun. How long until the batteries in the radios and flashlights fail? How long until a light in the night or the sound of a generator running signals not hope and coping but a target for the desperate and unprepared?

Unlike her half sister Hannah was raised in luxury as the daughter of a multi billionaire industrialist. Genetically designed to be flawless, she is rich, beautiful and spoiled rotten. The most popular girl in school she is also an unrepentant bully who stamps her authority on everyone around her. She has expensive luxury cars, chauffer driven limousines and the captain of the football team as a boyfriend. She has the life most of us can only dream of and stands to inherit her mother's corporate empire.

What's next for us? Ethics Engineer Jennifer Peterson already knows where humans are going. As robots gain more facility with thought and problem solving, a human future melded with machines seems inescapable. But the timing will be critical, for in 2030, America is torn between an analog past and a digital future. As fiction meets fact, listeners will come to realize they are previewing not what's next for us...but when and how. Is Jennifer's journey near its end? Or is it just beginning?

Earth has attained world peace at last. Overseen by the World Council, based in Jerusalem, the planet has truly become a global community, and humanity has reached an age of enlightenment. This is the time when the visitors arrive. Wielding near-miraculous technology, they arrive claiming to have seeded Earth with humans, and have returned to claim "their own." Their claims and their appearance seem prophesied by the Bible, and religion and politics clash as arguments break out about whether these visitors have the right to take people.

Esta es la historia de la vida de Zer0 ambientada en una situación ficticia creada para decir "¿Y si muriera?" Después de despertar de la realidad del coma, Zer0 se encontró atrapado dentro de esta es la historia de lo que le sucedió a Zer0 y los otros personajes de la realidad del coma. Ambientado en una situación de la vida real, Zer0 debe luchar contra Hexx y otros demonios que lo persiguen para encontrar el camino de regreso a Azrl y los elegidos de la luz.