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Für den Computerspiele-Entwickler Alex Stein geht ein Traum in Erfüllung. Sein gewagtes Projekt, mittels künstlicher Intelligenz und der Steuerung des Menschlichen Nervensystems die virtuelle Realität zu revolutionieren, scheint tatsächlich zu funktionieren. Sein Prototyp erzeugt Simulationen für alle Sinne, die vom realen Leben kaum zu unterscheiden sind. Alex Karriere in der Londoner Computerspiele Firma Realmind Systems entwickelt sich rasant. Doch während er in immer perfektere Simulationen eintaucht, beginnt sein reales Leben auseinanderzufallen.

The definitive novel of today’s Silicon Valley, After On flash-captures our cultural and technological moment with up-to-the-instant savvy. Matters of privacy and government intrusion, post-Tinder romance, nihilistic terrorism, artificial consciousness, synthetic biology, and much more are...

This audiobook contains the first four audiobooks of the Tide series, filled with post-apocalyptic action, suspense, and intrigue. A devastating bioweapon will change the face and fate of humanity as we know it.

Carolin Alberts erinnert sich kaum noch an die Person, die sie einmal war. Inzwischen ist sie durch und durch von Ehrgeiz getrieben, wirtschaftliche und politische Macht ist zu ihrem Lebenselixier geworden. Auch für Hauptkommissar Alexander Rieker gibt es nach der Einnahme des Medikaments Sleepless kein Zurück in sein früheres Leben. Es gelingt ihm, Verbündete in der neuen Elite zu finden, die sich von Carolin bedroht fühlt. Um Carolins Macht zu brechen, stellt Rieker sie zu einem letzten Duell.

The Life Engineered begins in the year 3594, when humanity is little more than a memory, a legend of the distant past - destined to reappear. Capeks, a race of artificial creatures originally created by humans, have inherited the galaxy and formed a Utopian civilization built on the shared goal of tirelessly working to prepare for their makers' return.

From Michael Crichton, the #1 bestselling author of Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain, comes an astounding, eye-opening look at the world of genetics: Next. Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and...

Ein führender IS-Terrorist, dessen Ziel die Etablierung eines globalen Gottesstaates ist, gelangt in den Besitz eines todbringenden Erregers. Damit infizierte IS-Kämpfer tragen das tödliche Virus, unerkannt in der Masse des Flüchtlingsstroms, nach Europa. Eine Pandemie ungeahnten Ausmaßes bedroht die Menschheit.

Ein NSA-Analyst findet in den Archiven seiner Behörde technische Aufzeichnungen des Wissenschaftlers Nikola Tesla. Schnell erkennen skrupellose Politiker die enormen Möglichkeiten dieser Entdeckung. Sie bereiten eine Mission vor, die das Potenzial hat, die Weltwirtschaft aus den Angeln zu heben. Als dann eines Tages ein Luftbeben, eine enorme Vibration, das Bankenviertel in New York City erschüttert, glaubt die Öffentlichkeit zuerst an einen neuen Terroranschlag. In Wahrheit werden ungeheure Goldmengen aus der Federal Reserve Bank geraubt.

Bruised, stoned, and still adjusting to her latest wear implants, apprentice enforcer Taya Mint plunges into the darkest depths of Megastructure Seven Zero Three, challenging everything she thought she knew about life within the walls she has never stepped beyond. With only one assignment left to earn her full license, Taya finally stands a chance to rebuild a life wounded by grief. But she quickly discovers that the kidnapping she's investigating is just one piece of a puzzle—one that leads to grisly death and the greedy heart of power within the structure.

It's been 20 years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global microdemocracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority is in tight contention, and everything's on the line.

Terrorists-for-hire have created a weapon that can induce earthquakes and cause dormant volcanoes to erupt. One terrifying side effect of the weapon is that prior to the devastation, the vibrations drive ordinary people to suicide and violence. A wave of madness begins sweeping the country beginning with a mass shooting in Congress. Joe Ledger and his team go on a wild hunt to stop the terrorists and uncover the global superpower secretly funding them. At every step the stakes increase as it becomes clear that the endgame of this campaign of terror is igniting the Yellowstone caldera.

Organizational psychologist Dr. Waters is a happily solitary guy with a few deep attachments, including to his boss Paresh Rajput, the owner of a thriving hi-tech aerospace company. Until something really bad happens to CEO Rajput, which throws Waters into a lunatic swirl of murderous stalkers, corporate intrigue, amorous female executives, and crafty cops who see the inscrutable psychologist as murder suspect number one.

In High Earth, digital entertainment is everything. Shows. Virtual worlds. Simulations - there’s something for everybody in a city where working for a living has been rendered obsolete by technological advancements. Even a short walk outside to visit with others is no longer necessary. Just load into the network and you can be with anyone, anywhere. For Asher Reinhart, nothing compares to Ignis; a live reality show that pushes human beings to their very extremes.

Das Eden-Virus verbreitet sich immer weiter. Ob Segen oder Fluch – eines ist sicher: Es kann nicht mehr aufgehalten werden. Für die Armen und Kranken ist die Seuche ein Geschenk Gottes, doch gleichzeitig bringt sie die Infizierten ins Fadenkreuz jener Menschen, die den Verlust ihrer Macht fürchten.

An IT whiz at the Babylon Casino is enlisted to upgrade security for the game of keno and its random-number generator. The new quantum computer system is foolproof. But someone on the inside is no fool. For once the odds may not favor the house - unless human ingenuity isn’t entirely a thing of the past.

On opening day of the new baseball season a small model-kit airplane flies down from the stands and buzzes the mound, where a decorated veteran pilot is about to throw out the first ball. The toy plane is the exact replica of the one flown by the war hero. Everyone laughs, thinking it's a prank or a publicity stunt. Until it explodes, killing dozens. Seconds later a swarm of killer drones descend upon the picnicked crowd, each one carrying a powerful bomb. All across the country artificial intelligence drive systems in cars, commuter trains and even fighter planes go out of control.

Aboard the SS Campari, all is not well. For Johnny Carter, the Chief Officer, the voyage has already begun badly; but it’s only when the Campari sails that evening, after a succession of delays that he realises something is seriously wrong. A member of the crew is suddenly missing and the stern-to-stern search only serves to increase tension. Then violence erupts and suddenly the whole ship is in danger. Is the Campari a victim of modern day piracy? And what of the strange cargo hidden below the decks?

Death-row inmate Russell Harris and nine other convicts are given the chance to save their lives by agreeing to travel as test subjects on the transporter. But when the first volunteer dies a gruesome death, it becomes clear to Russell and his comrades that the venture is little more than a merciless death mission on which they will all perish. The surviving Transporter project members find themselves on a new planet and establish a colony alongside a group of abandoned soldiers and scientists. But mortal peril approaches, and the battle for survival has only just begun.

After a mysterious global event known only as “The Change”, six strangers wake up in an underground research facility where they learn that they’re part of the Extinction Trials - a scientific experiment to restart the human race. But the Extinction Trials harbors a very big secret. And so does the world outside.

Im Jahr 2054 hat sich die Durchschnittstemperatur auf der Erde um drei Grad erhöht. Millionen Menschen flüchten in den kühleren Norden. Unter ihnen ist der junge Hacker Marc Turner, der sich mit seinem Bruder und dem Androiden Yousef in eine Enklave der Weltregierung rettet. Doch statt dort Sicherheit zu finden, sterben sein Bruder und hunderte weitere Klimaflüchtlinge an einer mysteriösen Viruserkrankung. Als er den Ursachen ihres Todes nachgeht, erhält Marc unerwartete Hilfe von Aimée Silver, einer Agentin der Weltregierung.