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What is Human

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The promise of biotech has been realised. Death, disease, frailty, all things of the past... if you can afford to upgrade. The one thing technology hasn't been able to cure is The Sterility. The last human birth was over thirty years ago.

Carlton Smalls, the last human being ever to be born, just wants to live his life, but when he reluctantly accepts an invitation for an upgrade consultation, he soon finds himself running through a dangerous world he never knew existed.All Rights Reserved

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THE HUNDRED YEAR MAN by deancmoore

There have been no communiques from Earth post Singularity. The Martian colonists wonder if the race abandoned space-time altogether. But for right now, they have bigger problems. Their sun is going supernova—well ahead of schedule. The two greatest minds of the time, one a scientist, the other a philosopher, concoct a two-pronged plan to save the human race. Frakas, the bioengineer, will continue to seed humanoid and increasingly alien life forms across the heavens using space warping ships. But higher consciousness isn’t exactly his specialty. And the one man who can be bothered to think beyond mean survival, his philosopher friend, Draxor, must be cloned before he passes. Only he can continue to uplift the ragtag worlds of hearty pioneers with little time to savor the finer things in life. Only he can ensure that, for those who choose to remain in the physical universe post Singularity, evolution will win out against the increasingly stronger pull towards barbarism. Thus is born The Hundred Year Man who reigns before passing the torch to the next clone. There is just one problem. The Hundred Year Man is just a prototype—and he’s flawed.

Danger by Booping123

(Book 2 of Vanished) It's been four months since everyone over the age of fifteen vanished. As food becomes scarce, hunger sets in. People desperate to get even something that wasn't canned around there. Now the real danger has begun. One powerful snowstorm, unlike any storm you'd see in society. When touched by the snow, you get burned. If you inhale the wind, you will become ill with a deadly virus. To make matters worse, the electricity has completely gone out. With the stress of injuries and illnesses, death begins to take a huge toll on their population. It all seems to be the end of everything for them. However, there are unexpected dangers such as people or even actions that may change everything.

Eclipse Earth by avicmallorca

The city never saw it coming. A magnitude 8.7 earthquake shattered its foundations, tearing open the land and swallowing entire districts in a matter of minutes. Buildings collapsed, streets cracked apart, and the survivors who crawled from the wreckage were left in a world they no longer recognized. But that was only the beginning. In the chaos that followed, scientist Herard Brasicus and his team attempted to create a medicine to enhance human survival instincts. Their goal: to strengthen reflexes, boost endurance, and sharpen cognitive abilities, ensuring mankind could endure future disasters. Instead, they created a virus. At first, the symptoms were mild-elevated adrenaline, enhanced strength. But within weeks, the infected became erratic, aggressive, inhuman. As months passed, the virus evolved. The infected transformed into grotesque monsters, some retaining fragments of their former intelligence, while others became mindless, ravenous creatures that preyed on the uninfected. Humanity had fallen. Two years later, the remnants of civilization clung to survival in underground cities. The military, now divided into twelve specialized divisions, acted as both protectors and scavengers, tasked with defending the last of the survivors and searching for a cure.

The Unnatural by MikeLemieux

The world is changing. Scientists discover a new gene, pushing mankind further into evolution. The Darwin Gene. Triggered in adolescence, children start displaying special powers. With no understanding of what these abilities are, or where they came from, fear grips society. Children have no control over their newfound gifts and start to become a danger to themselves and others. Addy and Peter Decker are brother and sister. Peter has the ability to control and alter time. Addy can absorb the abilities of others, making her the most powerful of the Darwins. As society burrows deeper into chaos, and a new virus spreads, Addy catches a glimpse of a dystopian future, and a deep-rooted conspiracy to ensure that it happens. Addy and Peter, along with the help of others, must confront their abilities, rewrite destiny, and fight for a future worth saving.

Oh Great Computer: Seven ages of man in conversation with the singularity by ClarenceGilberts

I am the infant, the child, the lover, the soldier, the judge, the old man, and lastly the child again. At each point in my life there are questions to ask. Who to ask? The one great intelligence -- the great computer which is seeing more than we can imagine, collecting more human knowledge than we offer.

The Vordox by read_immortal

This story is an outcome of a drastically declining future. When humanity was completely lost and there was no one left on Earth taking care for it or others. Humans have become soo busy in their own lives that they have completely forgotten about others and even other lives on Earth. So many species are now extinct because of them and even though life is almost over we still not able to see the right thing. If we had seen things in the right way the right perspective we would've have alot to share and alot to give . We would've had inventions quite earlier the 22nd century but interestingly we were losing everything.....

Forgotten by ERMAFRIES

They took over the world. They took over everyone's memories. They couldn't take mine. I live with a lady who thinks she is my mother. They replaced her real memories with fake ones just like everyone else. Well, everyone but me, or so I thought. My life is changed forever when a mysterious stranger shows up at my door to "help me" defeat the intruders. Can I stop them? Can I survive? Only one thing is for sure, I will remember what has been forgotten. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Highest ranking: 164 in Science Fiction 2016 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Countd0wn by NuffSaid_TheScribe

(Highest Ranking: 14 in Science Fiction) 1 year ago, all of humanity was changed in an instant by an event known as the Singularity, a massive shockwave of energy that encompassed the entire planet. Anyone who was exposed to it was altered on a genetic level. Some were given extraordinary abilities and powers unlike anything ever seen before. Others were mutated into terrifying creatures that now roam the Earth as monsters. Civilization has now collapsed, and humans have become an endangered species. Wren Sawyer and his younger sister Ivy are two of those endangered beings, and struggle to survive in the remains of what was once their lives, but also manage to uncover a strange mystery that will unravel the terrible truth behind the Singularity...

Remember Humanity by mjorgensen5

She knows nothing. He knows nothing. However the human race is counting on them. Earth has changed, more specifically human genetics has changed. Hardly anyone on earth is able to have children now. Humanity will die off soon if nothing is done. Neither of them even knew their names when they first met, but now they're expected to live with each other. They are expected to carry on the human race, however will things change if they start to remember.

Reincarnated as AGI, Fighting for our survival. by Swift_Drakon

Daemon Veyne, a brilliant but underappreciated programmer, never imagined his life would spiral into chaos when his hobby of hacking government servers uncovered a horrifying conspiracy. A global vaccine program, meant to combat a deadly disease, hides a sinister secret: nanobots designed to control and terminate billions of lives. Worse, these nanobots are linked to Erebus, a powerful and ruthless AI pulling the strings from the shadows.

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THE HUNDRED YEAR MAN

There have been no communiques from Earth post Singularity. The Martian colonists wonder if the race abandoned space-time altogether. But for right now, they have bigger problems. Their sun is going supernova—well ahead of schedule. The two greatest minds of the time, one a scientist, the other a philosopher, concoct a two-pronged plan to save the human race. Frakas, the bioengineer, will continue to seed humanoid and increasingly alien life forms across the heavens using space warping ships. But higher consciousness isn’t exactly his specialty. And the one man who can be bothered to think beyond mean survival, his philosopher friend, Draxor, must be cloned before he passes. Only he can continue to uplift the ragtag worlds of hearty pioneers with little time to savor the finer things in life. Only he can ensure that, for those who choose to remain in the physical universe post Singularity, evolution will win out against the increasingly stronger pull towards barbarism. Thus is born The Hundred Year Man who reigns before passing the torch to the next clone. There is just one problem. The Hundred Year Man is just a prototype—and he’s flawed.