AD 2204. An alien shipwreck is discovered on a planet at the very limits of human expansion - so Security Director Feriton Kayne selects a team to investigate. The ship’s sinister cargo not only raises bewildering questions but could also foreshadow humanity’s extinction. It will be up to the team to bring back answers, and the consequences of this voyage will change everything. Back on Earth, we can now make deserts bloom and extend lifespans indefinitely, so humanity seems invulnerable. We therefore welcomed the Olyix to Earth when they contacted us. But were the Olyix a blessing or a curse?

When Ivan Pritchard signs on as a newbie aboard the Mad Astra, it's his final, desperate stab at giving his wife and children the life they deserve. He can survive the hazing of his crewmates, and how many times, really, can near-zero g make you vomit? But there's another challenge looming out there, in the farthest reaches of human exploration, that will test every man, woman and AI on the ship - and will force Ivan to confront the very essence of what makes him human.

Eines Tages erscheint auf der Erde ein seltsames Kristall. Das Objekt stammt aus den Tiefen des Weltalls, und es enthält nur eine einzige Botschaft: "Achtung, der Weltenzerstörer naht!" Forscher und Militärs weltweit rätseln noch über den Sinn dieser Nachricht, als sich ein gewaltiges Raumschiff wie ein Ring um den gesamten Planeten legt, um die Ressourcen der Erde in kürzester Zeit aufzusaugen. Die Menschheit steht vor der größten Aufgabe seit dem Beginn ihrer Geschichte: Wie wehrt man sich gegen ein kosmisches Ereignis, das den ganzen Planeten für immer vernichten kann?

Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street. Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets.

China in der nahen Zukunft. Der junge, ehrgeizige Beamte Song Cheng stößt auf einen gewaltigen Korruptionsskandal. Doch plötzlich wird er selbst ins Gefängnis geworfen. Dort taucht ein geheimnisvoller Mann mit einem Supercomputer auf, der ebenfalls verfolgt wird - weil er alles weiß. Einfach alles. Wie kann das sein? Und welche Konsequenzen hat das?

Die Menschheit hat es geschafft! Mit Hilfe der Kantaki, insektoider Aliens, die über die Technik des überlichtschnellen Raumflugs verfügen, ist es ihr gelungen, ferne Welten zu besiedeln. Die Herrschaft darüber teilen sich zwei wirtschaftliche Großmächte: das Konsortium und die Allianz. Doch feindliche Wesen bahnen sich ihren Weg zurück an die Macht: Einst in ein Zeitgefängnis verbannt, wollen die gefährlichen Temporalen die Galaxis erneut mit Krieg überziehen. Dabei missbrauchen sie Rungard Avar Valdorian, ehemaliges Oberhaupt des Konsortiums, als ihren Helfer.

For 12,000 years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Sheldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future, to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last 30,000 years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire, both scientists and scholars, and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for a fututre generations.

It's a simple story. Boy finds proof that reality is a computer program. Boy uses program to manipulate time and space. Boy gets in trouble. Boy flees back in time to Medieval England to live as a wizard while he tries to think of a way to fix things. Boy gets in more trouble. Oh, and boy meets girl at some point.

Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.

Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this would be impossible. But all the players are "threeps", robot-like bodies controlled by people with Haden's Syndrome, so anything goes. No one gets hurt, but the brutality is real, and the crowds love it. Until a star athlete drops dead on the playing field.

Ende des 21. Jahrhunderts arbeitet der Londoner Galahad Singh als Quästor. Sein Job ist es, verschwundene Personen wiederzufinden. Davon gibt es viele, denn der Klimawandel hat eine Völkerwanderung ausgelöst, neuartige Techniken wie Holonet und Mind Uploading ermöglichen es, die eigene Identität zu wechseln wie ein paar Schuhe. Singh wird beauftragt, die Computerexpertin Juliette Perotte aufzuspüren, die Verschlüsselungen für sogenannte Cogits entwickelte - digitale Gehirne.

This is the way the world ends...for the last time. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.

How will artificial intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society, and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology - and there's nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who's helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.

Particle physicist Jon Grady is ecstatic when his team achieves what they've been working toward for years: A device that can reflect gravity. Their research will revolutionize the field of physics - the crowning achievement of a career. Grady expects widespread acclaim for his entire team. The Nobel Prize. Instead, his lab is locked down by a shadowy organization whose mission is to prevent at all costs the social upheaval sudden technological advances bring.

With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump’s White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files, and documents. The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One, and the White House residence.