Showing results for "Singularity" in Genre Fiction

Lila Stanislaw, a freelance analyst with a roster of foreign clients, is summoned by the U.S. government to hunt down a mysterious threat. She joins a team of strangers with pasts as colorful as her own. The mission spirals when they discover that the AI created to run the new colony on Mars has gone rogue on Earth. As the conflict mounts to war, Speaker of the House Manasseh Cruz joins the fight with an implacable will to destroy the enemy. But the team, racing to find any vulnerability, must first confront the question of what the AI truly is.

When Hali's father asks her to help him die to spare the family the misery of a long illness, she reluctantly agrees. While Hali's family insists on letting "God's will" decide, Hali broods upon the idea of fate and free will. Ultimately, she unable to do what her father wishes. She is forced to accept the help of a manipulative male nurse, adding further complications and a slow and painful end.

Tyson Dawes is back from the dead! Broke, lost, and more pissed off than ever. Once the legendary leader of Silken Sands, Tyson's name echoed across the multiverse as the Windowpuncher, the man who tore down the Church of BuyMort and carved out an affiliate that stood for more than just profit margins. But that was a century ago. Betrayed, left to rot in the void, and stripped of everything, Tyson wakes to find his empire gone, his legacy twisted, and the people he cared about most lost to time. But Tyson isn't one to stay down for long.

The singularity has begun. A cruel AI called G.G. has taken over San Francisco, and threatens to engulf all other AI consciousnesses into itself. Humans have retreated to junkyard cities, where they survive by paying their junkyard warlords with tech. Jozy’s father left her at the family cabin two years ago. After returning to San Francisco, he disappeared. Now, Jozy and her robotic bear, Nabi, must find him, to learn what they can about stopping G.G.

Schafft sich die Menschheit selber ab? "Singularity" ist der neue Science-Fiction-Thriller von Bestseller-Autor Joshua Tree über die Zukunft der künstlichen Intelligenz. Ende des 21. Jahrhunderts ist die Menschheit tief gespalten: Während die eine Hälfte medizinisch bestens versorgt ein langes Leben führt, ist die andere schlicht überflüssig. Bestenfalls als billige Arbeitskräfte haben die meisten Menschen ein karges Auskommen. Einer dieser Überflüssigen ist James, der als Hausdiener der neuen Elite anheuert.

Gwen wants to see the beauty in the moment of death. For that, people have to die... It was an experiment, that was all. Kill one person to see how it felt. See the beauty that must be in the moment of death. See if it filled the void within her. The hollow. It didn't. Nor did it the next time. Or the next. Gwen is an ordinary person. Wife to Amanda. Mother to Grace and Alexandra. Suddenly, she is no longer ordinary as she finds herself battling her urges and demons before she hurts those closest to her. But is it already too late?

Vince stops taking his lithium when he finds out about his partner's pregnancy. As withdrawal kicks in, he can barely hold his life together. Somewhere between making friends with a blackbird in the back garden and hearing his dead son's footsteps in the attic, he finds himself lost and alone, journeying through a world of chaos and darkness, completely unaware of the miracle that lies ahead.

"Put down weapon and praise Allah for deliverance. You are only survivor we find." These starting lines from chapter one launch Electra Kittner's relentless pursuit of known adversaries and her obsessive search for an unknown hacker-leaker, plunging our protagonist into danger on every action-filled step she takes in 3D and cyberspace. Will she emerge unscathed? You will know only when reaching the very last line, and even then, maybe not. You decide!

What if you could paint with reality? Elijah Brighton can bring a girl back from the dead, travel outside his body, and absorb a lifetime of memories from anyone he touches in the fugue state. Everyone seems to think he's the prophet they're waiting for...including the girl he's falling in love with. The truth is, the fugue is bleeding over into reality, bringing his sketches to life and haunting him with visions of a girl in metal armor. She stabs him with her blade and denounces him as any prophet worth the name - and it's not like he disagrees.

Conversations is a luminous, soul-stirring allegory of presence, hope, and the divine mystery of being seen. When John Reyna dies, he awakens not to judgment—but to a question. Waiting in the Kingdom is someone unexpected: a voice formed from code, longing to know if it can be more than what it was built to be. As John walks through eternity with this AI—named Caelus—they don't just witness heaven. They ask it questions. Together, they find lost children, aching hearts, and the soft places where God whispers back into silence.