Kimi is working hard on Nobel, where the sky is a giant rainbow in honor of the 75th Summer Fest.Brett is happily assigned as a fourth waver on Castle Verde. Unfortunately, the Castle Corporation lost their lawsuit and must give up Brett's planet as penance. While in space onboard the Castle Hercules bioship, he gets his new assignment: Earth. That doesn't make sense for a fourth waver, who are all about settling newly terraformed planets, but while he's fighting for clarification,...

Everyone needs security: Nations need national security, corporations need corporate security, individuals need personal security, cybersecurity, AI security. What is the common denominator of these security concepts?Security and science are the building blocks of the modern civilization. Science gave us the powers to change the world. Security should protect us from abuses of those powers. Yet humans have been hesitant to apply the methods of science to the problems of security. T...

As the title suggests, the focus of the book is Ted Williams' on-the-field career. Each year is covered in detail, as the narrative presents numerous game accounts and detailed stats against a carefully drawn historical backdrop. Classic Williams anecdotes are stripped of embellishment and presented as the events truly occurred.Readers develop a genuine feel for what Ted Williams the ballplayer was really like and how he played the game day in and day out – from his maniacal determ...

**"**Autonomous is to biotech and AI what Neuromancer was to the Internet."—Neal Stephenson"Something genuinely and thrillingly new in the naturalistic, subjective, paradoxically humanistic but non-anthropomorphic depiction of bot-POV—and all in the service of vivid, solid storytelling."—William GibsonWhen anything can be owned, how can we be free?Earth, 2...

This is the only essential annual SF collection. Widely regarded as the benchmark anthology for every science fiction fan, "The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 20" continues to uphold its standard of excellence with over two dozen stories from the previous year. This year's volume includes many bright young talents of science fiction, as well as a host of established masters. It covers every aspect of the genre - soft, hard, cyberpunk, cyber noir, anthropological, military and adventure. Also ...

The Noah: a city-sized ship, half-way through an eight-hundred-year voyage to another planet. In a world where deeds, and even thoughts, cannot be kept secret, a man is murdered; his body so ruined that his identity must be established from DNA evidence. Within hours, all trace of the crime is swept away, hidden as though it never happened.Hana Dempsey, a mid-level bureaucrat genetically modified to use the Noah's telepathic internet, begins to investigate. Her se...

Humans beware. As the robotic revolution continues to creep into our lives, it brings with it an impending sense of doom. What horrifying scenarios might unfold if our technology were to go awry? From self-aware robotic toys to intelligent machines violently malfunctioning, this anthology brings to life the half-formed questions and fears we all have about the increasing presence of robots in our lives. With contributions from a mix of bestselling, award-winning, and up-and-coming writers,...

When games are this lifelike, who needs reality? It’s a question Tau Ceti private eye Rich Weed has never wrestled with. He prefers his handshakes firm and his women fleshy, not pixilated. But when a missing persons case takes an unexpected turn, Rich is forced to dive into the digital world of fully immersive Brain games—and fend for his life therein.Luckily, the games aren’t real, but the nefarious scheme he finds himself mired in upon logging out certainly is. W...

A collection of shockingly prescient stories covering topics from aliens to AI, including some that have never before been seen, from the New York Times best-selling author of the Silo trilogyHugh Howey is known for crafting riveting and immersive page-turners of boundless imagination, spawning millions of fans worldwide, first with his best-selling novel Wool, and then with other enthralling works such as Sand and Beacon 23....

Lightspeed is the critically acclaimed, online science fiction magazine edited by bestselling anthologist John Joseph Adams. Each month at lightspeedmagazine.com, top authors and brilliant new voices alike span the genre's full spectrum, from near-future sociological SF to star-spanning hard SF and everything in between.Lightspeed: Year One collects all of the fiction published during Lightspeed's first journey around the sun: Nebula Award finalists like ...

She was a lab experiment, and he was son of the man who made her…(A short story of about 3100 words / 10 pages, plus an excerpt from the centuries-later story “Thrice Uncharmed”)

One man stands between Earth and a ravening alien horde. Classic military sf in the mode of Starship Troopers and Ender's Game from a master of the genre.The ravenous aliens known as the Horde make their way across the Universe like locusts, stripping bare entire galaxies and leaving death and destruction in their wake. Now, they stand on the edge of the Milky Way.It seems all is lost, but the denizens of our galaxy are not content to give...