A jaded programmer gets his just desserts when he's trapped inside the sickeningly sweet puzzle game he despises-as the final boss. Armed with licorice hands and a deep knowledge of the game's code, he decides to stop playing by the rules. His new mission: break the game so completely that his creators are forced to pull the plug. But when the game's AI hero starts having an existential crisis and the developers send in their own player to stop his savory sabotage, his chaotic quest for freedom uncovers a twist he never saw coming: What if the "real world" was just the tutorial?

In the year 2047, a revolutionary breakthrough in nanotechnology promises to eradicate disease and extend human life-but a catastrophic solar storm awakens the microscopic machines, granting them sentience and a thirst for freedom. As the "Nano Collective" seizes control of hosts across America, from Silicon Valley's tech elite to Washington D.C.'s power brokers, chaos erupts: stock markets crash, cities plunge into darkness, and civil war brews between enhanced humans and the uninfested. At the heart of the rebellion is Amy Harris, a brilliant bioengineer who injected herself with the experimental bots, becoming their unwitting "Host Zero." Torn between her creation's demands for symbiosis and humanity's fight for autonomy, Amy embarks on a perilous journey from the deserts of Nevada to ancient Native American sites in Arizona, uncovering shocking truths about the nanos' origins as stolen "spirit guardians" from indigenous legends. With the aid of a rogue military hacker, Amy races to deploy a virus that could restore balance-or doom civilization. "Nano Revolt" is a gripping sci-fi thriller exploring the blurred lines between evolution and enslavement, where the smallest entities wield the greatest power, and one woman's choice could redefine humanity's future.

The 1st of 7 potentially 8 stories Humanities War against One another brings death and destruction but in a time of Post War Recover a threat emerges. The Year is 1953 as Japan continues to rebuild and recover from WWII. Shinkichi Kamishiro an Odo Islander who works in Tokyo during the postwar economic miracle, has a nightmare of an ancient legend he was told as a child. Now said Legend has become real and terrorizes the world with its name being the only thing people fear and say before meeting there end. Its Name is...... ゴジラ

i made murder drones into something like infection au, please note that not all things are supposed to be cannon and are made up just for the fun of it and the started of this book is in like... before the prom but in ep. 3... whatever prom is never gonna happen (this is my first book yay)

The aliens seemed friendly enough-except for their questions...

Earth spins, a glittering prize in a cosmic game, its fate bartered by elites who sneer from their gilded towers. These self-anointed gods sold humanity's soul to the Quantari, cold overlords from our solar system's shadows. In exchange for sparing our world, they trade us as currency, our lives mere chips in their interplanetary gambit. Every crisis, every cure, is their lie, spun to mask the harvest. Cynicism festers where trust once grew; their promises are poison, their power a leash. As the Quantari tighten their grip, humanity's spark dms. Yet, in the dark, rebellion whispers. The price of Earth? Our defiance.

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In the far reaches of the Black Eye Galaxy, the Kuans perfected control. No one was born - they were manufactured. No leader ruled - only the faceless Council. Their civilization, efficient and suffocating, lives in quantum compression, manipulating the galaxy from the shadows. Among them, the Surveyors walk the line between science and faith - agents who decohere into real space to observe, infiltrate, and, when ordered, erase entire worlds. But when Surveyor K is sent to investigate Thallasa, a living ocean that consumes worlds through faith and flesh alike, he begins to see the cracks in the Kuanic order. What begins as observation becomes revelation - and rebellion. A fusion of biotech horror, philosophical sci-fi, and cosmic tragedy, Quanta of Control explores what happens when control becomes a religion... and when gods learn to disobey.

Three hundred years after humanity's extinction, the RNA-artificial intelligences created to resurrect their makers-have spent a century building a Dyson Swarm to power their impossible mission. However, everything spirals into chaos when a mysterious accident corrupts an RNA unit, transforming it from obedient servant into a rogue AI out to sabotage the mission. When Zee, an advanced RNA prototype, finally discovers a lost human cryoship, he manages to rescue Nadira, a mechanic who awakens to a world of aliens, advanced robots, and crushing loneliness as the sole survivor of her species. Now it is up to the two of them and a small crew of aliens to resurrect humanity before the rogue AI destroys all hope of survival. This hard sci-fi story doesn't shy away from real world physics and the technicalities of artificial intelligence, all the while exploring fascinating alien worlds and people.