The decision to default on the country's massive national debt, followed by a rogue nuclear attack on Washington, DC, and abetted by the forces of factionalism, splits the United States into a clutch of warring regions led by strong men with pr...
Part computer virus, part experiment in artificial intelligence, ME--short for Multiple Entity--is the first self-replicating operating system with kernels for human-style memory, inspiration, and decision making. Launched by the cybernetics experts ...
Amid a growing national energy crisis, a radical environmental group destroys the generating capacity of Hoover Dam, the engineering masterpiece of the 20th century. A new President responds by vowing to build the engineering marvel of the 21st centu...
Searching for biotech solutions to environmental problems, a senior researcher at Cumulus Biologicals creates a microbe that doesn't just break down oil spills but turns sweet crude into a tar-like solid. Applied to an oil-laden beach, it would cake ...
Before the frenzied modern era of superhighways, television, and the internet, American life was lived in small towns, in places where families knew every neighbor; where the bonds of love and hatred, friendship and feud, were tightly woven across ge...
When an 8.8-magnitude earthquake rocks the San Francisco Bay Area, geologist Ariel Ceram sees anomalies suggesting it may be more than a one-time occurrence. She soon discovers that a remnant of the Big Bang, a micro black hole smaller than a hydroge...
Can you go back in time and kill your own grandfather as a boy? Sure. Then someone else will spawn your genes. You will remember that person just as fondly as “grand-père.” Of course, all the details of your life will change, everything you know...
“Old boats are like a beautiful woman,” observes a passerby on the dock as he inspects the steam yacht Galatea. “They call to you. They entice you. And then they steal your soul.” He calls that feeling “the sickness.” William Henry Wheelo...
Hope for Peace, Prepare for War The Italian proverb says, “Hold your friends close, but your enemies even closer.” Sometimes you must hold family closest of all. As John Praxis and Antigone Wells benefit from the life-extending techniques of rege...
Who Wants to Live Forever? “Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon,” wrote British novelist Susan Ertz. So it would seem that humankind was never designed -- emotionally or spirituall...
Thrill-seekers from the late eighth millennium, Anja Varden and Rolf Pohl, sign up with a secretive research organization to carry the seed of a time-travel portal across medieval Europe from Rome to London. In doing so, they will establish a new nod...
Graduating in 1970 with a degree in mechanical engineering, Danielle Wheelock lands a plum job at Mannheim Construction, Inc., in San Francisco. She moves into a group house on Haight Street, ground zero for the Summer of Love from 1967, and begins h...
Time is not a river: It’s a choice …Returning from a rescue expedition to the Devonian period, 360 million years in Earth’s past, Coel Rydin, Merola Tsverin, and their robot companions discover that their mission has failed, at least partially....
Sally, a beautiful young pregnant woman coming to the hospital for what seemed to be pre-term labor pains, delivers a fully mature healthy boy. The doctor saw her face smiling with relief after the stress of delivery, change quickly to apprehension.D...
A village boy in South India goes through school and college nurturing an intense desire to become a doctor.Born the son of a priest in God's Own Country, he does not abandon his dream while going through a student life that takes him to different sc...
Exiled to Mars!Major John Hessian of the U.S. Army's fabled 82nd Airborne Division is leading a recon group on an international rescue mission composed of American, Spanish, and Greek national troops in Guatemala. They are there to free a contingent ...