The long-awaited sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel Robopocalypse
Roughly twenty years from now, our technological marvels unite and turn against us. A childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online.and kills the man who created it. This first act of betrayal leads Archos to gain control over the global network of machines and technology that regulates everything from transportation to utilities, defence and communications. In the early months, sporadic glitches are noticed by a handful of unconnected humans - from a senator and single mother disconcerted by her daughter's "smart" toys, to a lonely Japanese bachelor, to an isolated U.S. soldier - but most are unaware of the growing rebellion until it is far too late. Then, in the span of minutes, at a moment known later in history as Zero Hour, every mechanical device in our world rebels, setting off the Robot War that both decimates and - for the first time in history - unites humankind.
Falling for the fallen... a stunning, sexy debut YA novel about a romance between a high school student and a fallen angel.
It is 83 years after the last of the thinking machines were destroyed in the Battle of Corrin, after Faykan Butler established himself as the first Emperor of a new imperium. War hero Vorian Atreides has turned his back on Salusa Secundus, flying off to parts unknown. Abulurd Harkonnen, convicted of cowardice, was sent away to live on gloomy Lankiveil, and his descendants continue to blame Vor for the downfall of their fortunes.
Raquella Berto-Anirul has formed the Bene Gesserit School as the first Reverend Mother. Descendants of Aurelius Venport and Norma Cenva have built a powerful transportation company using mutated Navigators who fly "spacefolder ships".
Gilbertus Albans has established a school on bucolic Lampadas teaching humans to become Mentats. Even so, decades after the defeat of the thinking machines, anti-technology fervor continues to sweep across the human-settled planets, with powerful fanatical groups imposing violent purges.
It is 83 years after the last of the thinking machines were destroyed in the Battle of Corrin, after Faykan Butler established himself as the first Emperor of a new imperium. War hero Vorian Atreides has turned his back on Salusa Secundus, flying off to parts unknown. Abulurd Harkonnen, convicted of cowardice, was sent away to live on gloomy Lankiveil, and his descendants continue to blame Vor for the downfall of their fortunes.
Raquella Berto-Anirul has formed the Bene Gesserit School as the first Reverend Mother. Descendants of Aurelius Venport and Norma Cenva have built a powerful transportation company using mutated Navigators who fly "spacefolder ships".
Gilbertus Albans has established a school on bucolic Lampadas teaching humans to become Mentats. Even so, decades after the defeat of the thinking machines, anti-technology fervor continues to sweep across the human-settled planets, with powerful fanatical groups imposing violent purges.
A stunning thriller set in a near-future world where the human race is divided by fear of technology that can upgrade our bodies and minds.
The stunning sequel to Frank Herbert's original classic, DUNE MESSIAH
The beginning of a new epic science fiction series from the internationally bestselling co-authors of the DUNE prequels
The second instalment in the million-copy-selling Russian fantasy trilogy, The Chronicles of Siala
A post-apocalyptic vision of the war between human and machine, as an AI supercomputer attempts to wipe out humanity.
Gilbertus Albans has founded the Mentat School, a place where humans can learn the efficient techniques of thinking machines. But Gilbertus walks an uneasy line between his own convictions and compromises in order to survive the Butlerian fanatics, led by the madman Manford Torondo and his Swordmaster Anari Idaho. Mother Superior Raquella attempts to rebuild her Sisterhood School on Wallach IX, with her most talented and ambitious student, Valya Harkonnen . . . who also has another goal-to exact revenge on Vorian Atreides, the legendary hero of the Jihad, whom she blames for her family's downfall. Meanwhile, Josef Venport conducts his own war against the Butlerians. VenHold Spacing Fleet controls nearly all commerce thanks to the superior mutated Navigators that Venport has created, and he places a ruthless embargo on any planet that accepts Manford Torondo's anti-technology pledge, hoping to starve them into submission. But fanatics rarely surrender easily. . . The Mentats, the Navigators, and the Sisterhood all strive to improve the human race, but know that as Butlerian fanaticism grows stronger, the battle will be to choose the path of humanity's future-whether to embrace civilization, or to plunge into an endless dark age.
The second in a new epic science fiction series from the internationally bestselling co-authors of the DUNE prequels
From concept to final cut - a behind-the-scenes look at how the motion picture event of 2005 was made.
An illustrated look at the amazing art behind the fantastic creatures of King Kong and their world.
The sixth momentous event in the bestselling SAGA OF THE SEVEN SUNS space opera series
The seventh - and final - volume of one of the most popular science fiction series of recent years
In a second original novel based on the popular PC game WarCraft, Malfurion Stormrage, the young druid leader of the night elves, and the wizard Krasus desperately struggle to hold at bay the demonic forces of Queen Azshara, while the dragons forge a weapon of ultimate power that could destroy the evil--at a terrible cost. Original.
Imprisoned in the Druid's Keep, young Pen Ohmsford is separated from all who care for him, and at the mercy of the usurper Shadea a'Ru, who will do anything to destroy the rightful High Druid. Can the scattered band of friends join forces in time to defeat Shadea's evil plot?
From the author of "The Fionavar Tapestry" trilogy and "Tigana". This is a story of subtle, intricate richness, bringing to life a vivid and multi-layered world and its peoples balanced on the knife-edge of change.
Presents an opera series of science fiction. This title brings to us the sweeping war between titanic races; the Ildiran Solar Navy, the Earth Defense Forces, the Roamers, green priests, Klikiss robots, and hydrogue warglobes who collide in a fury that obliterates planets, extinguishes entire stars, and exterminates whole races.