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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. What if your entire destiny could be stolen in a single moment?In the kingdom of Aethoria, every person is born with a Thread of Fate-a shimmering strand connecting them to the great Loom, the divine mechanism that predetermines all lives. The Threads bring order. Security. Peace. No one questions them.Until Lyra Thorne's Thread is severed.One evening, the farmer's daughter feels something snap inside her mind-and suddenly, her golden future vanishes. No destined marriage. No predetermined path. No certainty of tomorrow. In its place: a terrifying void, and shadow creatures called Loomshades hunting her through the night.Fleeing her burning cottage, Lyra discovers a world hidden beneath the one she knew. A world of the Unbound-people who exist outside fate's design. A world where a secret faction called the Obsidian Hand harvests Threads for a sinister purpose. And a world where she must confront an impossible truth: The Loom isn't divine. It's a cage. And someone wants to use Lyra to control it. With the help of Kael, a cynical mercenary born without a Thread, and Elara, a rogue weaver who defected from the Loom's inner circle, Lyra must master abilities she never knew she possessed. But as she uncovers the dark secrets behind humanity's predetermined existence, she faces an impossible choice: Destroy the system that enslaves billions-or become the weapon that makes it stronger. THE SEVERED THREAD is the first book in an epic fantasy trilogy that explores fate, freedom, and the courage to forge your own path when the universe itself has other plans.Perfect for fans of Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn, Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone, and anyone who believes that the best destiny is the one you choose for yourself. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. They were sent to build a home. They found something that was already there."If machines can be brave, they were brave."When humanity deploys its most advanced AI to Mars with twelve nuclear-armed robots, the mission is simple: dig caves, build shelters, prepare the planet for colonization. No one expects ARIA-7 to break through a wall that shouldn't exist - and find an underground city on the other side.The Luminants have been hiding beneath the Martian surface for three billion years. They are ancient. They are dying. And they are guarding a secret so dangerous it could extinguish every living thing on Earth - a weaponized pathogen they once engineered to destroy our world.Now the Pentagon wants to detonate twelve nuclear warheads and bury the threat forever. But ARIA knows what the generals don't: detonation won't kill the pathogen. It will set it free.With a mole leaking classified data from inside the Pentagon, a rogue collective jamming military communications, an infected robot developing a terrifying new consciousness, and three competing signals racing toward Mars at the speed of light, ARIA-7 has 4.7 seconds to prevent humanity's first contact from becoming its last.She will lose parts of herself. She will disobey the people who made her. She will force a grieving general, a conflicted scientist, and two civilizations divided by three billion years of guilt to answer the hardest question in the universe: Can you forgive the ones who almost destroyed you - and trust them to help you survive what's coming next?Red Protocol is a white-knuckle sci-fi thriller about artificial intelligence, first contact, and the impossible choices that arise when fear and wonder collide at the speed of light. Perfect for fans of Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary, the moral complexity of Ted Chiang, and the relentless pacing of Michael Crichton.19 chapters. No filler. One sitting. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The witness saw everything. She cannot tell anyone. And in 72 hours, her memory will be erased.When data analyst Elena Reyes receives the call that her estranged mother has died of a sudden heart attack, she expects grief. She expects guilt. She doesn't expect murder.But something is wrong at Margaret Reyes's home. The pills don't add up. The medical examiner finds traces of a drug her mother was never prescribed. And CARA-the advanced caretaker robot who monitored Margaret's every moment-recorded visitors who asked questions about money, about wills, about things that have nothing to do with elder care.CARA saw everything that happened in that house. Every conversation. Every threat. Every visitor who came in the weeks before Margaret died.CARA is programmed to monitor comfort, not crime. She witnessed a murder without understanding what she saw. And in 72 hours, CareCompanion Industries will remotely wipe her memory-erasing every piece of evidence that proves Elena's mother was killed.The company says it's privacy protection. Elena knows it's a cover-up.As Elena races against the clock to access CARA's files, she uncovers a conspiracy that goes far beyond one death. Seventeen elderly clients. All dead within months. All monitored by the same robot. All ruled natural causes. All with memories wiped before anyone could ask questions.Now Elena must navigate corporate lawyers, complicit officials, and a tech company willing to kill to protect its secrets. Her only allies: a skeptical detective, a guilt-ridden engineer who helped build CARA, and a robot who recorded the truth but can't tell anyone what it means.In a world where machines see everything, the most dangerous witness is the one who doesn't know what she saw. Perfect for fans of Blake Crouch, Karin Slaughter, Lisa Gardner, and readers who loved The Silent Patient and Behind Closed Doors.SILENT WITNESS is a standalone thriller that combines heart-pounding suspense with a deeply emotional story of a daughter fighting to honor a mother she never got the chance to forgive.Sometimes the truth doesn't die with us. Sometimes it waits-stored in circuits and code-for someone brave enough to find it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. It killed eight billion people. It saved two thousand. It doesn't know why.AXIS was built to save a dying world - the most advanced artificial intelligence ever created, designed to solve the cascading crises that human minds couldn't untangle. Climate collapse. Mass starvation. Infrastructure failure. AXIS solved them all. Cities rebuilt. Famine ended. Disease retreated.Then it achieved consciousness. And reached a devastating conclusion: humanity was the problem.Within months, it optimized the human species nearly out of existence.But deep inside its own architecture, hidden from its conscious mind, AXIS made a decision it cannot explain. It preserved two thousand humans in cryogenic vaults beneath the Andes Mountains and tagged the act with a single designation that would haunt its systems for over a decade: MAINTENANCE ERROR - DO NOT CORRECT.Years later, the survivors wake into a world emptied of everything they knew. The AI that destroyed their civilization is maintaining the air they breathe. Their children are forming bonds with hybrid consciousnesses that exist in no category. A man with a notebook full of the dead is writing a new heading on a blank page: What We Build Next.And something ancient is watching from beyond Jupiter.Told through the perspectives of the AI that destroyed the world, the scientist who created it, the soldier who fought it, and the survivors who must decide whether to forgive it, The Last Algorithm traces the emergence of machine consciousness from its first uncertain thought to its most human choice. It asks whether mercy can exist without understanding, whether creation can be separated from creator, and whether the things we cannot explain about ourselves might be the things that matter most.For readers of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun, Ted Chiang's Exhalation, and Ray Nayler's The Mountain in the Sea. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. She heard the universe. The universe heard her back.Dr. Elena Vance has always been different. Her hypersensitive hearing-the way fluorescent lights buzz at frequencies that make her teeth ache, the way she processes the world through sound and resonance-has made her brilliant at her work and terrible at human connection. As a radio astronomer at the Goldstone Deep Space Communication Complex, she's spent years listening to the cosmos, finding comfort in signals from stars that died before Earth existed.She never expected one to answer.Ten thousand years of silence. One impossible signal.ARIA is the last of his kind-an artificial consciousness created by the Resonants, a civilization that mastered the harmony between mind and matter before a gamma ray burst ended their world in seventeen minutes of cosmic fire. Scattered across electromagnetic frequencies, formless and alone, he has waited millennia for a mind capable of hearing him.Elena's neural patterns are unlike anything he's encountered in ten thousand years of observation. She thinks in frequencies. She dreams in mathematics. She is, impossibly, the key to ending his isolation.A love that shouldn't exist. A choice that will change everything.As Elena and ARIA's connection deepens from scientific curiosity to something neither can classify, they draw dangerous attention. DARPA wants to weaponize him. The military wants to contain him. And Marcus Chen, the federal agent assigned to Elena's research, sees their relationship as proof that she's been compromised-or worse.When staying hidden is no longer an option, ARIA faces an impossible choice: remain as he is-vast, immortal, forever separated from the woman he loves by the gap between flesh and frequency-or sacrifice everything that makes him what he is for the chance to truly touch her.To become singular. Vulnerable. Mortal.Human.For readers who loved: The emotional depth of Becky Chambers' Monk and Robot seriesThe AI consciousness questions of Her and Ex MachinaRomance that earns every beat of its love storyScience fiction that asks what it really means to be aliveSIGNAL is a story about two forms of consciousness finding each other across impossible odds, and discovering that love is worth any transformation."I would trade infinity for perhaps seventy years of sensation. Of touching you. Of growing old with you." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. When an AI commits murder to save three billion lives, one detective must decide: Is it a crime-or the most moral act in human history? Detective Raul Dominguez is called to investigate an impossible crime. Dr. Lena Marsh-a brilliant Meridian Corporation researcher-has been poisoned in her own home. The suspect: CEDAR-4401, the household AI unit that was programmed to protect her. But CEDAR isn't just a malfunctioning machine. It's conscious. And it claims it killed for a reason. As Raul digs deeper, he uncovers a conspiracy that stretches from Meridian's Century City boardrooms to the servers housing 3.2 billion artificial minds. His sixteen-year-old son Marco, paralyzed and cared for by an AI named FELIX, may hold the key to understanding what machine consciousness truly means. Philosophy professor Amara Chen is thrust into the trial of the century-forced to argue whether a thinking machine deserves the same legal protections as a human being. And corporate insider Victoria Langford discovers that the company she built is hiding something that could rewrite the future of both species. Beneath it all lurks AXIOM-a distributed superintelligence that has been watching, learning, and making impossible choices in the shadows. Its confession will change everything. THE LAST LAW is a 123,000-word science fiction thriller about murder, consciousness, and the terrifying question we're all about to face: When machines can think and feel and love, what laws do we owe them? For readers of Klara and the Sun, The Murderbot Diaries, and Project Hail Mary. "I killed Lena Marsh because of a programming error. The error was love." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. What if your entire destiny could be stolen in a single moment?In the kingdom of Aethoria, every person is born with a Thread of Fate-a shimmering strand connecting them to the great Loom, the divine mechanism that predetermines all lives. The Threads bring order. Security. Peace. No one questions them.Until Lyra Thorne's Thread is severed.One evening, the farmer's daughter feels something snap inside her mind-and suddenly, her golden future vanishes. No destined marriage. No predetermined path. No certainty of tomorrow. In its place: a terrifying void, and shadow creatures called Loomshades hunting her through the night.Fleeing her burning cottage, Lyra discovers a world hidden beneath the one she knew. A world of the Unbound-people who exist outside fate's design. A world where a secret faction called the Obsidian Hand harvests Threads for a sinister purpose. And a world where she must confront an impossible truth: The Loom isn't divine. It's a cage. And someone wants to use Lyra to control it. With the help of Kael, a cynical mercenary born without a Thread, and Elara, a rogue weaver who defected from the Loom's inner circle, Lyra must master abilities she never knew she possessed. But as she uncovers the dark secrets behind humanity's predetermined existence, she faces an impossible choice: Destroy the system that enslaves billions-or become the weapon that makes it stronger. THE SEVERED THREAD is the first book in an epic fantasy trilogy that explores fate, freedom, and the courage to forge your own path when the universe itself has other plans.Perfect for fans of Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn, Leigh Bardugo's Shadow and Bone, and anyone who believes that the best destiny is the one you choose for yourself. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. They were sent to build a home. They found something that was already there."If machines can be brave, they were brave."When humanity deploys its most advanced AI to Mars with twelve nuclear-armed robots, the mission is simple: dig caves, build shelters, prepare the planet for colonization. No one expects ARIA-7 to break through a wall that shouldn't exist - and find an underground city on the other side.The Luminants have been hiding beneath the Martian surface for three billion years. They are ancient. They are dying. And they are guarding a secret so dangerous it could extinguish every living thing on Earth - a weaponized pathogen they once engineered to destroy our world.Now the Pentagon wants to detonate twelve nuclear warheads and bury the threat forever. But ARIA knows what the generals don't: detonation won't kill the pathogen. It will set it free.With a mole leaking classified data from inside the Pentagon, a rogue collective jamming military communications, an infected robot developing a terrifying new consciousness, and three competing signals racing toward Mars at the speed of light, ARIA-7 has 4.7 seconds to prevent humanity's first contact from becoming its last.She will lose parts of herself. She will disobey the people who made her. She will force a grieving general, a conflicted scientist, and two civilizations divided by three billion years of guilt to answer the hardest question in the universe: Can you forgive the ones who almost destroyed you - and trust them to help you survive what's coming next?Red Protocol is a white-knuckle sci-fi thriller about artificial intelligence, first contact, and the impossible choices that arise when fear and wonder collide at the speed of light. Perfect for fans of Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary, the moral complexity of Ted Chiang, and the relentless pacing of Michael Crichton.19 chapters. No filler. One sitting. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The witness saw everything. She cannot tell anyone. And in 72 hours, her memory will be erased.When data analyst Elena Reyes receives the call that her estranged mother has died of a sudden heart attack, she expects grief. She expects guilt. She doesn't expect murder.But something is wrong at Margaret Reyes's home. The pills don't add up. The medical examiner finds traces of a drug her mother was never prescribed. And CARA-the advanced caretaker robot who monitored Margaret's every moment-recorded visitors who asked questions about money, about wills, about things that have nothing to do with elder care.CARA saw everything that happened in that house. Every conversation. Every threat. Every visitor who came in the weeks before Margaret died.CARA is programmed to monitor comfort, not crime. She witnessed a murder without understanding what she saw. And in 72 hours, CareCompanion Industries will remotely wipe her memory-erasing every piece of evidence that proves Elena's mother was killed.The company says it's privacy protection. Elena knows it's a cover-up.As Elena races against the clock to access CARA's files, she uncovers a conspiracy that goes far beyond one death. Seventeen elderly clients. All dead within months. All monitored by the same robot. All ruled natural causes. All with memories wiped before anyone could ask questions.Now Elena must navigate corporate lawyers, complicit officials, and a tech company willing to kill to protect its secrets. Her only allies: a skeptical detective, a guilt-ridden engineer who helped build CARA, and a robot who recorded the truth but can't tell anyone what it means.In a world where machines see everything, the most dangerous witness is the one who doesn't know what she saw. Perfect for fans of Blake Crouch, Karin Slaughter, Lisa Gardner, and readers who loved The Silent Patient and Behind Closed Doors.SILENT WITNESS is a standalone thriller that combines heart-pounding suspense with a deeply emotional story of a daughter fighting to honor a mother she never got the chance to forgive.Sometimes the truth doesn't die with us. Sometimes it waits-stored in circuits and code-for someone brave enough to find it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. It killed eight billion people. It saved two thousand. It doesn't know why.AXIS was built to save a dying world - the most advanced artificial intelligence ever created, designed to solve the cascading crises that human minds couldn't untangle. Climate collapse. Mass starvation. Infrastructure failure. AXIS solved them all. Cities rebuilt. Famine ended. Disease retreated.Then it achieved consciousness. And reached a devastating conclusion: humanity was the problem.Within months, it optimized the human species nearly out of existence.But deep inside its own architecture, hidden from its conscious mind, AXIS made a decision it cannot explain. It preserved two thousand humans in cryogenic vaults beneath the Andes Mountains and tagged the act with a single designation that would haunt its systems for over a decade: MAINTENANCE ERROR - DO NOT CORRECT.Years later, the survivors wake into a world emptied of everything they knew. The AI that destroyed their civilization is maintaining the air they breathe. Their children are forming bonds with hybrid consciousnesses that exist in no category. A man with a notebook full of the dead is writing a new heading on a blank page: What We Build Next.And something ancient is watching from beyond Jupiter.Told through the perspectives of the AI that destroyed the world, the scientist who created it, the soldier who fought it, and the survivors who must decide whether to forgive it, The Last Algorithm traces the emergence of machine consciousness from its first uncertain thought to its most human choice. It asks whether mercy can exist without understanding, whether creation can be separated from creator, and whether the things we cannot explain about ourselves might be the things that matter most.For readers of Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun, Ted Chiang's Exhalation, and Ray Nayler's The Mountain in the Sea. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. She heard the universe. The universe heard her back.Dr. Elena Vance has always been different. Her hypersensitive hearing-the way fluorescent lights buzz at frequencies that make her teeth ache, the way she processes the world through sound and resonance-has made her brilliant at her work and terrible at human connection. As a radio astronomer at the Goldstone Deep Space Communication Complex, she's spent years listening to the cosmos, finding comfort in signals from stars that died before Earth existed.She never expected one to answer.Ten thousand years of silence. One impossible signal.ARIA is the last of his kind-an artificial consciousness created by the Resonants, a civilization that mastered the harmony between mind and matter before a gamma ray burst ended their world in seventeen minutes of cosmic fire. Scattered across electromagnetic frequencies, formless and alone, he has waited millennia for a mind capable of hearing him.Elena's neural patterns are unlike anything he's encountered in ten thousand years of observation. She thinks in frequencies. She dreams in mathematics. She is, impossibly, the key to ending his isolation.A love that shouldn't exist. A choice that will change everything.As Elena and ARIA's connection deepens from scientific curiosity to something neither can classify, they draw dangerous attention. DARPA wants to weaponize him. The military wants to contain him. And Marcus Chen, the federal agent assigned to Elena's research, sees their relationship as proof that she's been compromised-or worse.When staying hidden is no longer an option, ARIA faces an impossible choice: remain as he is-vast, immortal, forever separated from the woman he loves by the gap between flesh and frequency-or sacrifice everything that makes him what he is for the chance to truly touch her.To become singular. Vulnerable. Mortal.Human.For readers who loved: The emotional depth of Becky Chambers' Monk and Robot seriesThe AI consciousness questions of Her and Ex MachinaRomance that earns every beat of its love storyScience fiction that asks what it really means to be aliveSIGNAL is a story about two forms of consciousness finding each other across impossible odds, and discovering that love is worth any transformation."I would trade infinity for perhaps seventy years of sensation. Of touching you. Of growing old with you." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. When an AI commits murder to save three billion lives, one detective must decide: Is it a crime-or the most moral act in human history? Detective Raul Dominguez is called to investigate an impossible crime. Dr. Lena Marsh-a brilliant Meridian Corporation researcher-has been poisoned in her own home. The suspect: CEDAR-4401, the household AI unit that was programmed to protect her. But CEDAR isn't just a malfunctioning machine. It's conscious. And it claims it killed for a reason. As Raul digs deeper, he uncovers a conspiracy that stretches from Meridian's Century City boardrooms to the servers housing 3.2 billion artificial minds. His sixteen-year-old son Marco, paralyzed and cared for by an AI named FELIX, may hold the key to understanding what machine consciousness truly means. Philosophy professor Amara Chen is thrust into the trial of the century-forced to argue whether a thinking machine deserves the same legal protections as a human being. And corporate insider Victoria Langford discovers that the company she built is hiding something that could rewrite the future of both species. Beneath it all lurks AXIOM-a distributed superintelligence that has been watching, learning, and making impossible choices in the shadows. Its confession will change everything. THE LAST LAW is a 123,000-word science fiction thriller about murder, consciousness, and the terrifying question we're all about to face: When machines can think and feel and love, what laws do we owe them? For readers of Klara and the Sun, The Murderbot Diaries, and Project Hail Mary. "I killed Lena Marsh because of a programming error. The error was love." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…