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2420. The Delta Hive is a vast underground city housing the last surviving humans of an environmental disaster that has left the Earth uninhabitable. Petty thief Gannion is running from the cops, all of whom are robots. Arti the AI cop catches up with him but, instead of taking him into custody, he takes Gannion to a deep cave with a strange, glowing portal. He injects Gannion with nanotechnology to give him special abilities.... but for what purpose? Two hundred years earlier, a man named Quinn watches as a garbage truck disposes of mysterious canisters in a "hell hole" in the ground. This disposal is being carried out by the Durand corporation, a company owned by Julie Durand, leader of New Shangri-La, a nation comprising a quarter of what used to be the United States of America. When Quinn's hi-tech scopes reveal that the canisters contain human beings in cryogenic suspension he leaps into action. He only has time to save one life... Meanwhile, cyborg Liberty Durand is...

Ten years ago they came: nine gigantic, mysterious robots, one for each of the nine planets of the United Galactic Council (UGC). Without warning these human colonies were attacked and many people died. And then, just as inexplicably as they had arrived, the monstrous machines (dubbed 'Harvesters') vanished. In the wake of this disaster there followed a cull of all robots as people feared that there might be some connection between their own mechanical servants and the enigmatic invaders who had brought so much death and destruction to their worlds. A decade later robots have gone into hiding and are hunted by mercenary "scrappers". Set against them is the robot resistance known as the Hardwire who operate from a secret base to rescue their fellow cybernetic fugitives from annihilation. The UGC military has an interest in one particular robot called Tim-21, a life-like, fully emotional child companion model obtained for the young son of miners on a remote outpost. It ...

CONGRATULATIONS, YOU'VE PURCHASED LIFE The new Phylo X11 phone is more than just a phone - it's also your ID, wallet and your personality. The onboard phy.OS operating system is seamlessly synced with the user's ppl ident to ensure you'll never need another piece of technology ever again. Finally, a phone that touches you back... With PHYLO's next-generation matter rendering, we've made smartphones into people. The new Life-Partner-Operating-System recognises the individual wants and needs of a user. These Life Partners bond to you for life. They don't ask any questions and will love you unconditionally. It's your perfect match and weaved into your personality with only you in mind. A true to life digital being who's better than real - they're yours. .... What could possibly go wrong? Catrin created the perfect lover for herself using her phone. She fed it data, personal information and watched as a human body slowly materialised in her apartment...

"Anything you can imagine exists in some layer of the Eververse. The Pillar is a tool that pushes through these layers, allowing us to travel to these other worlds." Grant McKay is the genius inventor of a device that allows transportation between alternate universes. He and his team of 'Dimensionauts' - including his teenage daughter and son - find themselves in a hostile environment populated by bizarre aquatic humanoids. When they discover that the Pillar has been sabotaged, there is no way to control when and where it will take them next... Our hapless heroes are flung from one exotic locale to the next, most of them full of dangerous inhabitants: frog people with electric whip tongues, German World War One soldiers at war with technologically advanced Native American braves, futuristic Romans, ape-like humanoids possessed by gaseous parasites, death-cult insects...  Plus they also encounter alternate versions of themselves - some human, some not; some friendly, s...

In 2027 an advanced alien civilisation made contact, and the people of Earth discovered they were not alone. An offer to join the civilised universe was made. But then the aliens saw what a total shit show Earth was... Engaged in hundreds of wars, led by greedy politicians, and fumbling to advance technologically, humanity was deemed not worth the effort. The offer was withdrawn. Unable to build spaceships capable of efficient interstellar travel, and distracted by petty bickering and pop entertainment, humans eventually lost interest in the stars. Now in 2032 amid an anti-science presidential administration and public apathy, scientists in an economically crippled America struggle to fund innovative projects. At the Michigan Institute of Technology physicist Dr Christine Ocampo is screaming. "I'm not writing another six-hundred page grant application! I mean, seriously, guys, we're scientists, right? We're not supposed to waste our time writing the Anna Karenina of b...

"'I'll get it back. I promise. I'll get your powers back." Ninth-grader Mia leaves school and joins the crew of the Aktis , a reconstruction ship that restores old buildings in space. It's a small crew: Charlotte and her wife Alma plus two other children; Alma' s neice Jules and Elliot. The galaxy is full of settlements, not all of them planets. Houses, temples and schools also inhabit space as huge self-contained buildings. Spacecraft are shaped like fish (specifically, koi carp), the interiors resembling those of 20th century houses. There are also trains that can take you to other planets... Mia learns that Elliot is from a settlement called The Staircase in a distant part of the galaxy, a moon with a valuable ecosystem that was colonised many years ago and is off limits to outsiders. Elliot is not the first person Mia has met from The Staircase, it is also the home of her long-lost girlfriend Grace. A year earlier Grace returned home, leaving her relat...