By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep...they even built humans. Emigrees to Mars received androids so sophisticated it was impossible to tell them from true men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans...

"San Francisco is changing. Tech consortium Morrow is building the city of the future with "peacekeeper" robots looming on every corner--and wherever Morrow isn't, the Salvation Gang is. Bibiana Lopez-Yang is changing too. The incident in Afghanistan that killed her platoon let her control electricity--and left her haunted by the ghosts of those she lost. If she can hold it together, the might be able to save her city. But against an enemy this powerful,...

"Under her skin. Pearl Tanaka's boss, the malevolent Mr. Miike, used to think that she was merely a highly successful tattoo artist. But now that he knows about her gift for killing, he wants to put her deadly talents to use in service of his criminal empire. pearl, however, has just learned soem very interesting things about her late mother - and now she has a completely different career path in mind. As she travels to Japan to uncover the secrets...

"Imagine a world where luck, the most ephemeral of ideas, has a physical form. Precious stones, mined like gold, confer luck. But luck breaks both ways. While the blue gems may grant advantage to those who own them, their blessing is fickle. In the blink of an eye, good luck can turn to bad. We follow the life of a man who comes into possession of some powerful stones--but the success enjoyed by the man goes awry when he tries to pass the luck onto...

"The truth: Nicholas Flamel's tomb is empty. The legend: Nicholas Flamel lives. Nicholas Flamel is the greatest Alchemyst to ever live. The records show that he died in 1418, but what if he's actually been making the elixir of life for centuries? The secrets to eternal life are hidden within the book he protects-the Book of Abraham the Mage. It's the most powerful book that has ever existed, and in the wrong hands, it will destroy the world. And that's...

Freshman year of high school is hard enough, but when our new crew incur the ire of the cruel nerd king Shabnam and his brutal student council, life at Kings Dominion becomes positively gnarly. Meanwhile, Saya's mysterious past comes back to haunt her, with betrayal and subterfuge around every corner. Far away from all this scheming are Marcus and Maria, rare survivors of the deadliest school on earth. But can they truly live out their days on a tranquil...

Rick Deckard is an officially sanctioned bounty hunter tasked to find six rogue androids. They are machines, but look, sound and think just like humans--clever and most of all dangerous humans.