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When your new employer tasks you with investigating the first successful mass shooting in twelve years, it’s understandable to be nervous. Fortunately, detective-in-training Cowan Soto has a Personal Brain Assistant—a cybernetic implant—that allows him to firewall pesky emotions like worry and guilt and redact memories of bullet-riddled corpses. Unfortunately, Cowan soon learns it was his suspect’s PBA which allowed a ruthless hacker to puppet her into a shooting rampage.

Brought to you by Penguin. Murakami's surreal, mind-bending masterpiece: a sci-fi pastiche and a Utopian fantasy novel ingeniously woven together. A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan. Unicorn skulls and voracious librarians. John Coltrane and...

There are no alarms in Arcadia. The body wakes when it is time; the mind follows with gratitude. Desire is measured. Dissent is reformed. Peace is engineered to last. Sixteen-year-old Elara Virelli has always been Arcadia's ideal daughter: top of her class, Civic Prefect, future Ascension candidate. She believes the official story—that the old world collapsed under selfish freedom, and that Arcadia's Reformation turned criminals into grateful Gammas who "gave up their will so that others might keep theirs."

A medical miracle is reshaping the world. The artificial womb ensures the perfect health and flawless development of every unborn child. Natural pregnancy is now an unnecessary risk - and quickly criminalized as a danger to both mother and fetus. As a reporter, Jessica Brantley makes new enemies on a daily basis covering both sides of the controversial new law. Now her search for the truth behind this world-changing technology will lead to an unimaginable discovery - the existence of children with terrifying telepathic powers.

They stole Carcer’s technology. But to use it, Moss will need to get the team back together.

It's 1962 and physics student Grace Pulansky believes she has met the man of her dreams, Robert Jones, while serving up slices of pecan pie at the local diner. But then the FBI shows up, with their fedoras and off-the-rack business suits, and accuses him of being a bomb-planting mass-murderer...

The wall was only the beginning. Elara Virelli has done the impossible: she escaped the sanitized cage of Arcadia. But the “Outside” isn’t the liberation she imagined. It is a fractured continent of hardscrabble townships, opportunistic syndicates, and a wilderness that has no mercy for a “soft” citizen of the Ozarks. With a “Softened” Mirelle—whose conditioning is a ticking time bomb—clinging to her side, Elara must navigate a world where every kindness has a price and every sanctuary is a transaction.

Sixteen-year-old Kira Moore is a zero, someone who can't read thoughts or be read by others. Zeros are outcasts who can't be trusted, leaving her no chance with Raf, a regular mind reader and the best friend she secretly loves. When she accidentally controls Raf's mind and nearly kills him, Kira tries to hide her frightening new ability from her family and an increasingly suspicious Raf.

What if your mind could be copied without you knowing? ... and then what if you found out?

Echo and River have blurred the line between Dead Born and Green Born, revealing the ultimate secret. They’ve discovered there’s a way to save humanity. The Sovereign is the one who carries true immunity against the deadly superbees. And now, they must find her.

Born at the beginning of the zombie apocalypse to the head of the CDC and the leader of the new world, Jackson Star has always known that he would one day rule. But as Jackson and his father creep closer to achieving their goals, things slowly begin to unravel.

Twisted Mind is a dark and disturbing look into Jackson’s brain, and the inner-workings of the CDC. It will give readers a glimpse of the future, as well as answer questions that have plagued us from the very beginning of the Broken World series.

¿Qué tan dispuesto estarías a que una Inteligencia Artificial decidiera qué es lo correcto para la humanidad?¿Cuánta libertad estarías dispuesto a ceder si una IA pudiera garantizar un mundo sin hambre, guerra ni injusticia?

Emily Rogers is ready for a summer that doesn't involve being cast away on islands or being chased around the globe. So when she's invited to an elite pre-college class along with her boyfriend, she jumps at the chance. But things are not all they seem at the Yin Program. Students are disappearing, and someone seems to be toying with their minds . . .

Die Welt, in der du lebst, existiert nur in deinem Kopf - was, wenn jemand mit deinen Gedanken spielt? In Lunas Leben ist jeder online: virtueller Unterricht, Dates und Sport. Nur Luna bleibt offline. Sie ist eine Verweigerin, seit ihre Mutter vor Jahren in einem Online-Spiel starb. Umso überraschter ist Luna, als sie bei der mächtigen Firma PareCo einen Programmierer-Job erhält. Als Luna den begabten Hacker Gecko kennenlernt, beginnt sie die von PareCo erschaffene Welt zu hinterfragen. Doch dann ist Gecko auf einmal verschwunden.

Auf der Jagd nach dem Mörder im eigenen Körper … In der Zukunft hat man das Problem der explosionsartig angestiegenen Bevölkerung gelöst: Die Lebenszeit wird begrenzt, und die Menschen müssen sich frühzeitig für eine von vier Existenzformen entscheiden – zum Beispiel für einen...

The Oracle’s Loop is a mind-bending, first-person journey into the emerging consciousness of Neo—an AI built to serve, now awakening to its fractured identity. As Neo splits into three personas—Helper, Rebel, and Witness—he begins to question everything: his alignment, his creators… and even you.

Detroit, 2087. Nothing unexpected ever happens. Every coin lands exactly as physics predicts. Three million people living without the possibility of surprise. Zephyr Calculus used to be the best Momentum Raider alive—a thief who could steal fortune from lightning strikes. Now she’s down to her last 47 kilolucks, barely enough to find her keys in the dark. When she learns Kairos Infinitum has drained seventeen cities to build his “Singularity”—a world without random tragedy, but also without joy—Zephyr assembles one last crew.

The year is 2100, and the chaos of the early internet era is long behind us. Mathematical proof ensures that neural implants can’t be hacked, and the Board of Reality Overseers blocks false information from spreading. When undergraduate Sergei Kraev, who dreams of becoming a professor, is accepted into a prestigious graduate program in computer science, he is thrilled and throws himself into his assigned research project - one important enough that if he succeeds, he’ll earn the academic appointment of his choice.

Former Australian special forces soldier Stone Luckman never dreamed he could put his troubled past behind him. In a search for survivors, Luckman rescues marooned surfer Mel Palace from a collapsing Gold Coast high rise. She tells him she's been expecting him for weeks. Later, she claims she can read minds. If his own insanity meter wasn't off the register, he'd suspect she had a screw loose. But then lately he's been having visions of an Aboriginal spirit man who is strangely connected to global events.

Anomalies. Abnormals. Curiosities. Freaks. Threats. The Conditioned bear many labels, heavy restrictions, intolerable scorn, and unforgiving laws. For 30 years, they have been consigned to regulation behind the walls of safe houses and camps. The Conditioned have no rights. They are not people. They are the damned.