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A Dead Cat

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A Dead Cat is a science fiction tale in the classic, fast-paced, genre-bending, social commentary tradition of Greg Bear and John Scazli with a bit of Chuck Palahniuk thrown in for good measure.

Tom Moore, a PTSD suffering war vet and journalist of dubious success, works in a partnership with a stolen military AI grafted to his eyeballs. Together they live in an affluent world of billionaires, trillionaires, androids, and aliens; only he and his AI live in the poorest, most crime-ridden neighborhood.

Now, needing every job sent his way, and having the inability to not be a doormat for women, Tom takes on a new investigative piece. It is his penchant for imitating doormats that leads his investigation into the surreal, not real, and unreal...All Rights Reserved

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Anonymity: WH_Zero by NateKRivers

The US has collapsed in the wake of a new civil war. Corporations rush to fill the gaps and provide services to the citizens in exchange for control of areas of the country. Zero is an Auditor working for a corporation that claims to have an infallible identification system; even in a world where more than just a name can be stolen. When a job goes sideways, Zero finds himself the target of a manhunt. His only choice is to turn to a friend; an unstable hacker with an impossible job for him. **If you would like to listen to the book instead of read it, it is being admirably narrated by Stories After Midnight on YouTube. You can find the first chapter here: https://youtu.be/M_dwy-Stzcw

EVEN DEATH DIES by NirvenaAnnie

EVEN DEATH DIES, women's thriller in a dystopia. Controlling all the minds makes Dax the perfect easy prey. She knows it and doesn't let anyone get too close to her family. One night, her twins are strangely blasted; Telio resurrected but needs a new heart. The army can supply this artificial implant but its colonel wants to know her secrets and control them. Because of dangerously quantum apps, a pandemic of fatal neurodegenerative diseases had killed almost all the population. People are now forced to wear a quantum membrane placed directly on the brain to care for it, the topcortex. This membrane allows government to exploit them and reduce them to their work, treated as nothing more than a set of arms. Dax is in charge of the configuration of the topcortex. The army produces the implants which are its main source of income. Dax is very brave and selfless. She tries to reduce the award procedure to people to free them. If she succeeds, this can annihilate the army. Its chief Colonel Monarc needs to neutralize Dax. To reach his objective, Monarc destroys experimental results, aspirates thoughts of the ruling class with his topcortex, kills a famous astronaut and destroys his heart given to replace Telio's. Monarc wants to impose on Dax an artificial heart for Telio. By controlling the cardiac implant of Telio, Monarc will dominate Dax. Dax changes the rules of the game and will pay the ultimate sacrifice even if she unveils her secret. EVEN DEATH DIES is a thriller that unfolds in Resurgence, a totalitarian and theocratic state that has replaced the United States of America.

Cyber Witch by wdhenning

Years ago when a young orphaned girl, advanced cybernetics were surgically installed into Avia's brain. Able to hack into virtually any computer, control system, or AI, she and others like her became child soldiers in an interstellar war. But once the war was won, the Sol Federation turned on them, labeling them Aberrants, dangers to humanity to be deactivated and locked away. Now on the run, Avia fled from a fate she considered worse than death. Zach, a former rebellious member of the social Elite, traded jail time for bounty hunting. With a relentlessness Avia did not understand, he pursued her across the galaxy. But Zach had other plans for Avia than turning her in. All Avia ever wanted was a normal life someplace where she was loved, and she loved in return. But between a humanity threatening conspiracy and fellow Aberrants that truly earned the label, that seemed an impossible dream.

A Time of Useful Consciousness by FriedrichCainer

Trapped on an endless Transatlantic flight and hunted across cabins an escape is sought; meanwhile on the ground the world is changing into something even more terrifying. A hard-sci novel of machine learning, politics and first contact gone wrong. ---- For anyone interested I wrote a post-mortem of sorts about writing this story: https://medium.com/@friedrichcainer/i-wrote-a-book-and-it-was-awful-dd592278e8df

Porcelyn Cracked- rough 1st edit by Grindkitten

In the future, science has found a way to re-animate the dead and make them pliant servants for the wealthy. They buy the units for 10,000 for a base model. More attractive units sell higher as well as the more physically fit the model is the higher the price. The units are used for anything and everything their owner wants, from household work to administrative duties, to even being sexual companions. They are each programmed with a hard drive in their brain that works like a computer and allows them to have a quick mind and agility, as well as nano machines in their body to repair any damage that can occur with normal usage. There are some people who still view the units as a dead body and have trouble interacting with them in their daily life. But most of the population is too poor to even afford one so this problem is left to the upper classes that can buy the units. For some, poverty is worse than death. For one Porcelyn, death is just the start.

The Dream Catchers by Reeyu97

❝I woke without a past, but a stranger insists I hold our future...❞ * * * Aliens have invaded Earth, and not the cute harmless ones like ET. These aliens are about the size of our pinky fingers but the pain and destruction they've caused is immeasurable. We call them the 'Lechem'. Parasites that attach to a person's brainstem and are able to control their thoughts, actions, and emotions. When the lechem took over my body my fate had been sealed. I was supposed to die. But I didn't. After waking up from a coma I have no recollection of my past life and strangely enough, my dreams are being haunted by a mysterious man who seems to believe that I am humanity's last hope.

Fool's Apocalypse by Bptikerpae

Like the start of any apocalyptic tale - an asteroid was headed towards Earth - but did it actually reach its mark? That's irrelevant, the world's gone potty anyway. You're either a murdering maneater, human cattle in a meat market with your flesh on the menu, or privileged enough to avoid such terrors and thus are naturally exploiting those less fortunate than yourself. Either way, there's bound to be some fun in here... surely? Also, there might just be a couple of robots in here too - why not, 'ey? Fancy a look to see how I fare in a life like this? Then take a read, why don't you? If you'd rather pass on it, well... sod you! xxxx

Making Contact by EvanderFragoso

A psychotic killer is on the loose. His victims are exclusively women, and each murder is committed twelve-hours from the last. While the police struggle to pinpoint the next target and take down the killer before he strikes again, the F.B.I. has sent in a walking taboo to assist with the hunt. In a world scarred by the aftermath of thinking-machines that suddenly turned on their creators, the federal agent sent to help crack the case is a new Ai unit that will test the detectives on the job and their willingness to look past the bias formed from the incident years ago. Will the killer who leaves his victims covered in satanic symbols be apprehended before twelve hours have run up, or will another woman lose her life to the elusive serial killer?

Wastelands: A Broken World by LittleCinnamon

When Earth is conquered by the sinister Greys and the alien who killed Evie's husband returns seeking her help, she must find a way to enact her revenge and fight the growing feelings for the creature who is an exact replica of the man she loved. *** Two years ago, Evie Morgan's husband disappeared. Under suspicion of his murder, no one believed Evie's story about the mysterious creature with the black eyes that killed Tom and assumed his identity. Now, trying to survive in the ruins of post-invasion London, Evie's world is once more thrown into turmoil, when she meets the alien that destroyed her life. On the run from his own kind, he offers her insider knowledge on how to defeat the Greys, in return for her protection. At risk from her fellow survivors discovering 'Tom's' true identity, taking the alien back to her camp is going to be no easy task for Evie. With the alien's genetic make-up assuming more of Tom's identity every day, Evie struggles between her hatred for her husband's killer and a growing attraction for him that confuses her. The time is coming for Evie to decide. Pull the trigger or put her trust in the creature that tore her whole world apart? *** Content warning: This story contains mature sexual content, and themes of violence and reference to an attempted sexual assault.

Artificial Beginnings ( Yandere/Possessive Artificial Intelligence ) by uneey2008

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Anonymity: WH_Zero

The US has collapsed in the wake of a new civil war. Corporations rush to fill the gaps and provide services to the citizens in exchange for control of areas of the country. Zero is an Auditor working for a corporation that claims to have an infallible identification system; even in a world where more than just a name can be stolen. When a job goes sideways, Zero finds himself the target of a manhunt. His only choice is to turn to a friend; an unstable hacker with an impossible job for him. **If you would like to listen to the book instead of read it, it is being admirably narrated by Stories After Midnight on YouTube. You can find the first chapter here: https://youtu.be/M_dwy-Stzcw