In the near future, AI-powered ads study you, know you, and then destroy you.
Tide of Tears, a sophisticated machine learning algorithm, creates perfect user profiles, and generates advertisements that always lead to purchase behavior. It saves a dwindling economy, but once happy and healthy people begin to die from the extreme sadness that ToT digs out from the deep of their minds. The only one standing between domination of the algorithm and the devastated Mankind, is a depressed woman.
Dreams replace your life, and Khazars' Key replace dreams.
Everyone has a Khazars' Key now. You don't? Go to a dispenser near you. Now it's yours, free of charge. I am 55, jobless, have nothing but a friend who is just as down-trodden. We do our best to restrain ourselves from using the Key and are the last resisting the inevitable. It satisfies your every desire but kills you from within. I lost the only girl I loved to it. My memory of her is my greatest weapon and weakness.
Will you still be if your body is rented out, and your soul in mine?
The police has a strange kidnap case at hand. Two men sharing a body conspired to kidnap a female scientist by snatching the box storing her mind, but one of them turned themselves in. It turns out that the scientist is sitting in the interrogation room next to them. So why the men wanted to kidnap her and why one had cold feet? More importantly, who is in that box?
A planet borns from a glimpse, a life defined by a moment.
Incidentally, a planet of "void" matter is observed and becomes a part of the reality, replacing the moon in the sky. People colonize the planet in troves, leaving the Earth forgotten and desolated. The last residents of the Earth are the key to the void planet's continued existence. What they don't know is that the void matter will absorb the Earth eventually, and disappear altogether due to lack of observers. It is up to one couple to decide the fate of the two planets.
The boundary is an illusion. What is real is neverness.
Two members of the Jung family were killed in grotesque ways. The third Jung, Fernand, is a respected buddhist and the last hope of the family. He was found and rescued after stabbed by a knife. Who is attacking the Jungs? A neuroscientist and buddhist tries to find out. He doesn't know that he would encounter the only existence that can identify itself as the Buddha. And what Buddha does is much more than providing salvation.
The chance to save the world in one day is infinitely slim.
Three bachelors find out that they are trapped in one day, 14th of September. After the initial denial, they attempt to find ways to live past the day. After years of failure they find out the reason why. No one on Earth can live past 14th of September, as an alien civilization wiped out the Earth when that day ended.
Only a few have taught me what true love is. The last is too special.
In Kai's life, he had experienced the essence of love for only 3 times. In an accident, he inhaled some of an alien life form in gas state, and he fell into love with the alien, Vannierar. The only obstacle in his way to experiencing the purest and sincerest love, is that he is not like Vannierar. He has not entered the gas phase, yet.
Who is the Prince and who is the Rabbi?
Professor Graham put an idea into Paul the boy's mind: that he is an android and should abide by the Three Laws of Robotics. Ms. Foster, a war correspondent who adopted Paul, finds Ms. Chen Mo, another AI researcher, in the hope of curing Paul. As Mo proceeds with the treatment, memories of Graham begin to surface. She is not any more sure who is the Prince and who is the Rabbi. Can we really 'teach' AI and children about moral and ethics, when ourselves don't understand them?
You know all my secrets, but are you ready to accept them?
In the near future, Memory Auditors begin to help people with the identification of native and implanted memories. Feynor Stevens is one of the best. Audrey Reynolds, a movie star, employs him to investigate a case involving her father, Andrew Reynolds, once a Hollywood legend. Feynor has twelve days to determine whether Andrew raped Jackie Lawrence, or was it a set up.
You don't enter the ring knowing you can win.
Wang Wen, a product manager who finds no recognition in her day job, incidentally picks up an Augmented Reality game named Beast Boxing. She finds pain, joy and friends through playing the game, and can't believe it when she becomes one in a million, good enough to challenge Rocky Balboa, Muhammud Ali, and finally Mike Tyson. There is a catch though. If she loses, she loses all the in-game prestiges and all the attention she's receiving.
Because evolution is slow, we tend to forget how horrible and cruel it can be.
Liang worked as a volunteer in the rural area of southwest China, teaching kids in a primary school. Life seems to be still in this remote village. Gradually, unsettling events begin to hint an ecological catastrophe. In the face of the Nature's onslaught to make way for new species, Liang and the villagers must act with the utmost will to save the humanity from annihilation.
Note: all the translated names of works, authors and characters here are preliminary, and subject to changes in the future, when the authors and translators finalize the translation.