You can't control something that is smarter than you are, but that is exactly what a band of renegade scientists is trying to do after the United States has been conquered in a devastating Chinese invasion. They are building a supercomputer in their own image, modeled on the human brain, but capable of growing in power at an exponential rate. Will it do what they want it to do? Ignore them? Kill the entire human race? There is no way of knowing until...

Rocket Summer: A Short Story Summertime is a special time for young boys. Especially if they have a passion for rockets and space. Jack's summer began with a disappointing failure: the first mission to Mars failed, the rocket exploded. Next, another disappointment, the bottle rocket Jack was testing exploded and he was grounded. Would he miss the upcoming bottle rocket challenge? Was this the end of his summer? Rocket Summer is the first short story...

Segunda parte de El Juicio a Poncio Pilato:Acorralados políticamente, los magistrados autoritarios enfrentan protestas y amenazas por la detención arbitraria de los gobernantes y la ausencia de información en otros casos delicados. El Tribunal Mundial ejecuta varias medidas extraordinarias, cruzando definitivamente la línea roja entre democracia y dictadura. Sin reconocer la existencia de la Alianza Global, le declara la guerra al gobierno de...

Second part of The Trial of Pontius Pilate:The authoritarian magistrates are politically cornered. They face protests and threats due to the arbitrary detention of rulers and the absence of information in other serious cases. The World Court executes several extraordinary measures, crossing definitively the red line between democracy and dictatorship. Without recognizing the existence of the Global Alliance, the magistrates declare the war to Hagmog's...

Leopold Einstein-former janitor, accidental pan-dimensional being and occasional corpse-is brought back to life on a doomed spaceship where four parallel realities exist. Merrily mangling the mysteries of the cosmos, Leopold embarks on a mission across bizarre parallel worlds to "reassemble" Pen, the woman he secretly loves-and perhaps save the ship. A deranged professor, an Amazon warrior, hordes of zombie crew and a sex-starved big beautiful Princess...

Fearing earthlings are nearing a point of no return with safeguarding their planet, extraterrestrials have provided a representative, who goes by the name of Elliot, to deliver an invaluable caveat. Elliot's message is clear, direct and replete with dire prognostications. Initially seeking to gain knowledge for furthering their own technological advancement, General Macon, Dr. Conrad, and a host of high-ranking U.S. officials must forgo their initial...

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In a Post-Apocalyptic future, a single city remains. An Angel powers a city to keep humanity alive. One day, the angel disappeared and humanity felt abandoned. Years, later God comes to a man, letting him know the angel never left; she was captured.

An alien among us reveals a conspiracy going back centuries -- a conspiracy in which the course of human history has been warped by exiled members of a galactic migration. Living among us, passing as us through an arduous course of corrective surgery, and controlling us through a gift called "The Bonding," the exiles have been forcing us to develop a means to return them to the fleet from which they were cast to the earth. Along the course of development,...

Military pilot Mac Brennan wanted a quiet, peaceful retirement, so he joined a deep space colony, forgotten for 20 years. They promised him lavender grass, clear blue skies, and untold miles of wild, untouched nature. What he found were the destroyed ruins of the original colony, an outdated AI full of riddles, and a young man with no memory of what happened, and an unspeakable fear of night.