Future Time

In the 36th century, humanity faces annihilation at the hands of the Formorians—a parasitic hive that corrupts and consumes all organic life in its path. As the war for survival rages on, Tristan MacArthur, an astronaut from the 24th century who returned from a deep-space voyage, continues his perilous quest to unlock the secrets of Excalibur—an ancient technology that may hold the key to defeating the unstoppable Formorian virus. After narrowly surviving the events from the first novel, Tristan journeys into the distant past with Merlin, where ancient prophecies speak of a mortal ...

In the future, working under time acceleration is the only way to get ahead. On Monday, Beth Jackson starts work at Relative Industries: a top-secret high-tech science institute with zones of relative time. By Friday, just five days later, she will have worked five years inside Zone 12. For Beth, working inside Zone 12 is an opportunity of a lifetime. But not everyone is as motivated as her to work under time acceleration. Soon after arriving, she meets Howard Henderson: a medical research scientist desperately trying to find a cure for his sick son. However something feels off about his ...

Esta biografia atual apresenta pela primeira vez uma visão completa dos anos de Cook na Apple—de sua contratação ainda jovem para o setor de operações até os desafios como CEO. Recheada de bastidores e entrevistas com nomes que ajudaram a moldar a empresa como é hoje, traz um vislumbre das mudanças e dos novos rumos traçados por Cook enquanto tenta alcançar seu ideal: fazer da Apple—e do mundo—um lugar melhor.

SFS1 is a collection of riveting science fiction short stories. What role does science play? From contacting celebrities from beyond the grave to teleportation to recording dreams, SFS1 tells the stories of the lucky and sometimes unlucky individuals who invent or come across these technologies. Filled with twists and turns, SFS1 is a collection you simply cannot pass up. SUMMARY Rejected Patent: a scientist develops a way to look into your past lives, but some groups decide use this beyond simple research. Will his legacy be one of scientific achievement, or only destruction? Robography: ...

Are we being observed and visited by alien beings from another world or perhaps another space-time dimension? Thousands upon thousands of accounts of UFOs and alien abductions suggest that something is happening that we do not yet understand. Recently, even mainstream media organ like The New York Times and The Washington Post have started to report on the bizarre sightings made by military pilots around the world. Are we moving toward a deeper level of Disclosure? And if so, what will be disclosed? How can we best understand this phenomenon?

This story is about an unexpected invention. If a country discovers a miracle invention, their first priority isn't to monetize it or to use it for the growth of their country. Their first priority is to protect that secret from falling into the hands of enemy spies. Every country has a network of spies spread across the globe to gather secret information. They work with informants who compromise target's and gather information from them. These spies can be anyone. They can be the barista at the coffee shop you go to every morning, the well dressed business man who seems late for his ...

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Can God be revived in a skeptical age? What would it take to give people a spiritual life more powerful than anything in the past? Deepak Chopra tackles these issues with eloquence and insight in this book. He proposes that God lies at the source of human awareness. Therefore, any person can find the God within that transforms everyday life.

When he believed there was little time left, there were only two people he wanted to talk to while he still could. One was the only woman he’d ever loved. And always would. Rendon was seriously wounded…in searing pain, and up until the last hour, exposed as he’d never been before. Getting himself to the little known and forgotten small town in the middle of nowhere had been a risky choice, and taken the last of his quickly dwindling strength. It was the last place anyone would think to look. He never expected to survive. After a brazen rescue, Rendon is determined to be part of the ...

When he believed there was little time left, there were only two people he wanted to talk to while he still could. One was the only woman he’d ever loved. And always would. Rendon was seriously wounded…in searing pain, and up until the last hour, exposed as he’d never been before. Getting himself to the little known and forgotten small town in the middle of nowhere had been a risky choice, and taken the last of his quickly dwindling strength. It was the last place anyone would think to look. He never expected to survive. After a brazen rescue, Rendon is determined to be part of the ...

Life on Earth would soon take on a much different path than the course it had been on. It all began in Willowdale. That city had been renamed the City of Maximus for several hundred years after its new ruler took over. A particular building was encased to protect it for as long as life existed, and deep inside its heart, it was referred to as Central Core. Something was happening that could end life on Earth: it was a battle for time itself. The citizens of the city’s only hope for any future was in a secret place in a very old library, and in that secret place rested the Living Book of ...

Torn between the shadows and the light, Ella must make an impossible choice. Her heart belongs to her mate. But her family needs her now more than ever. After barely surviving their return from the world of shadows, Ella pleads with her mother to save Ryatt—the mate she loves and the father of the child she carries. Her family answers the call, and for a moment, Ella dares to hope for peace. But Ryatt has a kingdom to return to. A kingdom at war. Now, Ella must choose between the family who made her whole again… And the man who owns her heart. Will she return to the shadows with her ...

The "Time Scope", is a Sci-Fi TV Set that can be tuned to any space and time coordinate and observe events, without sound, as they took place in the past. It has control buttons and dials for 'Power', 'Time', 'Space', 'Zoom', 'Speed', 'Scan' and 'Track'. It is used, among other things, by an American Senator to find out if his party's presidential nominee, a retired general is, in fact, a power-mad maniac with dictatorial ambitions. He wants to save his country from a rogue president who could cause immense harm to both the USA and the rest of the world. This is the smallest of their ...

In The 4 Day Week, entrepreneur and business innovator Andrew Barnes makes the case for the four-day week as the answer to many of the ills of the 21st-century global economy. Barnes conducted an experiment in his own business, the New Zealand trust company Perpetual Guardian, and asked his staff to design a four-day week that would permit them to meet their existing productivity requirements on the same salary but with a 20 percent cut in work hours. The outcomes of this trial, which no business leader had previously attempted on these terms, were stunning.

“I am always happy to help.” Housewife, a virtual assistant, is always keen to assist in each of the four stunning yet minimalistlstically austere, Times Apartments. Whether it's to dispense your favourite coffee, help with the cooking, or simply change television channels, Housewife makes herself indispensable. After eight long years, Trench returns to the Times Apartments - this time bringing Debsy with him. Trench notices that Housewife still seems curiously nosey and reveals perhaps more than she should about the other tenants. Trench can't help but wonder at the true motive behind ...

In A New America, Tommy Mottola explores the societal and cultural impact the Latino community and its music has had on America by sharing behind-the-scenes stories from his own life and his connection to the Latin sound throughout the decades - from his initial fascination with Latin music which started with Puente, to the mainstream success of Ritchie Valens, to the groove-laden guitar wizardry of Carlos Santana. >But A New America is more than a story about music and musicians. It is the story of a culture that continues to grow and influence America.

Pediatric nurse Emery misses her twin sister desperately and is thrilled when she is able to still stay in contact with her, even though she now lives in the future, with time travel guardian, Trace's help. As she gets to know Trace better, she discovers that her present is intertwined with his past, which includes a terrible mistake he wants her to help correct. But is it really wise to mess with events that already happened in Trace's past, in order to fix the future? And if she doesn't agree, will she lose him forever?

“A brilliant and believable dystopia, a 21st century version of 1984 or Gilead from The Handmaid's Tale.” What if life had a use-by date? 
 A New World Council runs the planet, a perfect world in their view, where everyone and everything has a time and place–even death. Blythe Harrell is a man very much on the inside of the system–but the more he sees, the more broken he understands things to be. Yet to challenge anything is to challenge it all. Even his own place at the very top. Through medical advances, most life-threatening diseases have been defeated. Yet underlying the whole...

Cassique is a time travelling Fixer in AD 2853. It's his job to nip back into the past and fix problems which threaten to wipe out the world of the twenty-ninth century. But the longer Cassique spends in those past times, the more he comes to wonder if the docile, VR-obsessed people of his present would actually benefit from a reset. It's a dangerous thought, because that would mean taking a stand against Father, the world-running super-computer, and Father takes a very dim view of any form of rebellion. When Cassique teams up with a couple of relatively famous figures from the past, they ...

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