Résultats Éditeur "Audible Studios" dans Techno-thrillers

Die kleinste Abweichung im Klang einer Stimme genügt dem berühmten forensischen Phonetiker Matthias Hegel, um Wahrheit von Lüge zu unterscheiden. Zahlreiche Kriminelle konnten mit seiner Hilfe bereits überführt werden. Hat der Berliner Forensiker nun selbst gelogen? Allzu freimütig scheint sein Geständnis, eine Obdachlose in einem heftigen Streit ermordet zu haben.

He invented a machine to take people to the future. Then he was accused of murder, but he can't remember killing anyone. Billionaire genius Byron Gaines is accused of murdering his wife and her lover, but he swears he didn't do it. This couldn't have come at a worse moment: He is so close to a breakthrough in his research. He's about to invent a device that will change the world forever. The irony is, if only he had a little more time, he'd be able to make his legal problems disappear - along with himself.

In 1972, Apollo 17 returned to Earth with 200 pounds of rock - as well as something far more dangerous than they could have imagined. For decades, the military concealed the crew’s mysterious discovery. But now a NASA contractor has leaked the intel to conspiring foreign powers, putting in their hands the most powerful weapon of mass destruction yet created.

画面の中に広がる森を走り回るリスを観察する一人の男。男は容赦なく自動化のすすむ社会に生まれ、様々なものを自動化し、自動化をすすめることで仕事を失い続けてきた。男はリスを観察しており、読者は男を観察している。男はリスの住む世界を想像する。まるで読者が小説の登場人物の暮らす世界を想像するようにして。

Attraverso fitte foreste, braccato da droni che dall'alto scandagliano i segni della sua presenza, Spark cerca di sfuggire alla sorte beffarda che il destino gli ha riservato. Prima del giorno infausto in cui suo padre morì, era uno dei cittadini privilegiati di Eden, il mondo perfetto della tecnologia, il luogo in cui le esistenze dipendono in tutto e per tutto da NOW, l'intelligenza artificiale avanzata sviluppata grazie ai cospicui finanziamenti elargiti dal Pentagono.

The perfect afterlife or a never-ending nightmare? Isobel has it all: a steady relationship, the immaculate home and her dream job. Life, and even death, is completely under her control. For Isobel's generation death no longer means oblivion, thanks to firms like her employer, Oakley Associates. Isobel is their top Heaven Architect, crafting perfect afterlives for her clients: artificial paradises of the mind built from the memories they treasure most. Then Isobel meets handsome client Jarek....

Fasciné par leurs tatouages, il les appâte avec son appareil photo, fige leurs désirs de starlettes sur du papier glacé, puis les tue et s'empare de ce qu'il convoite. Le lendemain, on retrouve le corps de ces jeunes femmes sur les berges du Saint-Laurent, le pubis orné d'éclats de miroir et un morceau de peau découpé. Pour piéger celui qu'à Montréal on appelle déjà "le tueur au miroir", il faut des flics borderline : Louise Beaulieu, qui se fiche des limites et des règles, et Carrie Callan, qui, sous son air bien sage, est un vrai pitbull.

In a world stripped bare of digital images and promotainment, unveiled with the audiovisual overlay of the ImmaNet, in an exposed world, a naked world, Amon Kenzaki awakens, lost and alone. He must now travel deep into the District of Dreams in search of Rashana Birla, the one person that might help him unravel the mystery of jubilee. But deprived of the apps and informational tools he's depended on his entire life, traversing the largest bankdeath camp on Earth is no easy task.

Ein packender Thriller, in dem nichts ist, wie es zunächst scheint. Auf spannendste Weise spielt Spiegel-Bestsellerautor Karl Olsberg in diesem Jugendbuch mit den Gefahren virtueller Welten und künstlicher Intelligenz und wirft fundamentale philosophische Fragen nach Realität und Identität auf. Spannung bis zum Schluss, mit einem Twist, der den Atem raubt! Eingesperrt, ohne Erinnerung, erwacht Manuel in einem weißen Raum. Er weiß weder, wer er ist, noch, wie er hierher kam.

Big bugs, cloned cats, and feral star-children play leading roles in the seven stories that make up Fast’s unconventional and thought-provoking collection. The Edge of Tomorrow is a significant foray into science fiction by one of the 20th century’s most prolific novelists. In looking beyond our universe, Fast reveals much about the America of his time - where the Cold War and a nascent civil rights movement stoked unconscious fears and desires.

Wie digitale Spiegelbilder wissen Mirrors stets, was ihre Besitzer wollen, fühlen, brauchen. Sie steuern subtil das Verhalten der Menschen und sorgen dafür, dass jeder sich wohlfühlt. Als die Journalistin Freya bemerkt, dass sich ihr Mirror merkwürdig verhält, beginnt sie sich zu fragen, welche Macht diese Geräte haben. Dann lernt sie den autistischen Andy kennen und entdeckt, dass sich die Mirrors immer mehr in das Leben ihrer Besitzer einmischen - auch gegen deren Willen. Als sie mit ihrem Wissen an die Öffentlichkeit geht, hat das unabsehbare Folgen...

In Mount Dragon, einem Forschungslabor in der Wüste von New Mexico, arbeiten Wissenschaftler an einem Präparat, das Tausenden von Menschen das Leben retten könnte. Doch etwas läuft gewaltig schief in diesem Labor...

Sometimes defending those you love means risking everything and attempting the most dangerous task in the universe: making a planetary assault against a heavily entrenched enemy. It's grim and always ugly. But as long as men refuse to bow their heads to conquerors, they will take the fight to the enemy or die trying. Three masters of military science fiction have come together here to tell harrowing tales of high-tech mayhem.

It begins as a statistical oddity: a spike in children born with acute speech delays. Physically normal in every way, these children never speak and do not respond to speech; they don't learn to read, don't learn to write. As the number of cases grows to an epidemic level, theories spread. Maybe it's related to a popular antidepressant; maybe it's environmental. Or maybe these children have special skills all their own.

Prudence "Roo" Jones never thought he'd have a family to look after - until suddenly he found himself taking care of his orphaned teenage nephew. Roo, a former Caribbean Intelligence operative, spends his downtime on his catamaran dodging the punishing hurricanes that are the new norm in the Caribbean. Roo enjoys the simple calm of his new life - until an unexpected package from a murdered fellow spy shows up. Suddenly Roo is thrown into the center of the biggest storm of all.

Without warning, something has gone terribly awry. In the remote and unnoticed places of the world, small pockets of death begin occurring. As the initially isolated extinctions spread, the world's eyes focus on this unimaginable horror and chaos. Out of the ecological imbalance, something new and extraordinary is evolving and surviving to fill the voids left by these extinctions. Evolution is operating in ways no one could have expected, and environmental damage may be the catalyst.

Through the screen of his computer a man watches a squirrel running about in a forest. For the better half of his life he has been drifting from job to job, diligently designing work-automating systems, and being rendered redundant by those systems. As he observes the squirrel, we observe him; and as he imagines the squirrel's world, we imagine his. The Squirrel Awakes is a quiet meditation on 21st century life and a compelling look at the direction society is heading.

A cruise ship loses power in the North Atlantic. A satellite launches in the South Pacific. Professor Malcolm Clare - celebrated aviator, entrepreneur, and aerospace engineer - disappears from Stanford University and wakes up aboard an unknown jet, minutes before the aircraft plunges into the high seas. An extortionist code-named "Viking" has seized control of a private warfare technology, pitting a U.S. defense corporation against terrorist conspirators in a bidding war.

Detective Doyle Carrick is awakened in the middle of the night by frantic banging on his front door, followed by gunfire. Ron Hartwell, a complete stranger, is dying on his doorstep. A halfhearted investigation labels the murder a domestic dispute, with Miriam, Ron's widow, the sole suspect. Doyle discovers the Hartwells both worked for a big biotech company and suspects something else is going on, but it's not his case. Then Miriam tracks him down and tells him her story.

During a trek to Loch Ness, Scotland, a young Charles Darwin encounters a mysterious and terrifying creature that provides a spark for his evolutionary theory. Almost 200 years later and across the Channel in Paris, the Eiffel Tower is under attack. Only through detective work, intuition, and a judicious application of high-tech weaponry does former Army combat engineer Tyler Locke prevent a massacre.