"The First Law of Cyber-Terrorism: Anything that can be turned on under program control can be turned off; anything that can be controlled remotely can be thrown out of control remotely." Destiny Allen doesn't even like on-line games. A Web designer for computer security giant Scenaria Systems, she finds herself involved in a deadly puzzle that blurs the boundaries between the virtual and the real. At stake: the infrastructure of modern America. Her resources: Dina Gustafson, a college friend, and Karl Lustig, an Israeli technology journalist with friends in dark places. The challenge: sort...

Here in one volume of provocative science fiction is the collected short fiction of Lior Samson, including eight published short stories-all out-of-print, difficult to find, and mostly published under various pseudonyms-and sixteen previously unpublished works. The stories are linked by more than common authorship. They are investigations of the intersection of people and the technology people create and use. With humor and tragic perspective they examine human experience in a world of created conditions. Many are unabashedly romantic, even when they are cynical. They celebrate human beings...

What could be dangerous about the idyllic, picturesque island of Madeira? Madeira, a Portuguese island in the Atlantic, would seem to be a perfect destination for technology journalist Karl Lustig and his wife, Shira Markham. But, Karl, on his way to lecture at the University of Madeira, is carrying military microchips for his colleagues at the Madeira Intelligent Robotics Institute. Karl's talent for trouble leads him into uncovering a puzzle in the chipset he is delivering, one he designed with Israel Tactical Systems for advanced avionics applications. His digital detective work will put...

"Another airliner has disappeared shortly after takeoff in Southeast Asia " The inaugural flight of Pacificano Transocean's over-the-pole non-stop service from Singapore to Chicago O'Hare is an occasion marked with cheers and champagne. When flight PT20 veers off the radar, it begins to look like a rerun of the 2014 disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. An elite team of brilliant young nerds is called on to help find the missing plane before mystery turns into tragedy. Their high-tech pursuit is quickly transformed into a life-or-death race to discover who is behind the incident,...

TWO COMPLETE NOVELS Rosen David is a biologist, a research scientist who does no research. Millicent Geller is a field biologist who teaches middle-school science. Their lives are thrown into dangerous disorder when Rosen discovers unpublished research with world-shaking implications. They quickly become entangled with an invisible international network that will stop at nothing to keep the research secret and to limit its benefits to a select inner circle that includes corporate executives, a pair of octogenarian sybarites, and the brutal and long-lived African dictator Dr. Edgar Jabari...