A collection of five short stories about various characters from AI Buster and.

A collection of five short stories about various characters from AI Buster and.

Haseo's Avatar, Skeith, awakens to combat Endrance's Macha in fierce battle. As more information surfaces concerning the AIDA (Artifically Intelligent Data Anomoly) menace and the power of the Epitaphs, Haseo finds himself in a battle against time to stop the rogue player killer Tri-Edge before any more of the people he knows become Lost Ones. Finally, as the web of treachery and secrets begins to unravel, The World faces crisis in the form of the largest-scale AIDA attack ever!

Akira enters the online game "The World" in order to save her brother who is in a coma; and teams up with Kite to solve the mysteries of the Epitaph of Twilight and the cursed Wave.

Kite, having learned that his friend has fallen in a dangerous online game, logs into the game to try and save him.

Damien Broderick has been a leading Australian SF writer since the ‘70s. His novel The Dreaming Dragons was listed in SF: the 100 best novels. His recent nonfiction book, The Spike, is a mind-stretching look at the wonders of the high-tech future. Now in Transcension he brings to life one of the futures he imagined in The Spike, a world pervaded by nanotechnology and governed by artificial intelligence. Transcension may be Broderick’s best book yet. Amanda is a brilliant violinist, a mathematical genius, and a rebel. Impatient for the adult status her society only grants at age thirty, but determined to have a real adventure first, she has repeatedly gotten into trouble and found herself in the courtroom of Magistrate Mohammed Abdel-Malik, the sole resurrectee from among those who were frozen in the early twenty-first century, the man whose mind was the seed for Aleph, the AI that rules this utopia. Mathewmark is a real adolescent, living in the last place where they still exist, the reservation known as the Valley of the God of One's Choice, where those who have chosen faith over technology are allowed to live out their simpler lives. When Amanda determines that access to the valley is the key to the daring stunt she plans, it is Mathewmark she will have to lead into temptation. But just as Amanda, Mathewmark, and Abdel-Malik are struggling to find themselves and achieve their potentials, so is Aleph, and the AI's success will be a challenge to them and all of humanity. At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.

Dana sits in a courtroom with her legs shackled as a long list of charges is read out, many of them dangerous. But the panic that grips her is not because she has been caught. She knows there has been a terrible mistake - she didn't commit any of these crimes. As Dana and her lover Bridger set out to clear her name and find the person who is living a blameless life of criminal excess at her expense, they begin to test the life they have built together to its limits.

Thirty-two and single, Presley wants to start over. She's only going through the motions--just breathing, not living. It isn't the life she's always imagined. She should be married, with a little house and a few children, maybe even a labrador to greet her after a long day of teaching third graders.Treasurer for the Savage Beast MC, Silver lived life hard. At forty-five he's seen and done it all--twice. A single father in need of someone who could love him, and his boy. He's given up on ever finding a woman who fit him--fit them. Two people breathing. Two people wanting to be loved. One an outlaw. One an innocent. Two people who could not be more opposite, yet when their worlds collide, so does their chemistry.

In this fun, heated and imaginative fantasy set in an online gaming world ("School Library Journal"), Alcor focuses on a Twin Blade named Nanase who falls in love with Silabus.