Welcome to a world controlled by the great Spirit and Science Margas, a world that has crawled out of years of devastating viral plagues only to find that the immuno-nanotech sentinels meant to protect and enhance a whole generation of children are rising from within to become an even greater threat. Warped at the genetic level to mimic characters of a sophisticated life-support game, the Children of the Reckoning must struggle against the artificial intelligence reaching for their minds through their own bodies and face the stigma of "otherness" in a world of deadly political intrigue and...

The Children of the Great Reckoning Series continues in Firewall: Book 2: Samu'el Samue'l Stelle remembers very little of his life as a human child. Injured in a horrific accident, his mind has been at play in a nanotech-driven game for nearly two decades. His only living companion in this alternate world is Nuress, an artificial intelligence originally designed to create Sam's game experiences from the stuff of his own mind. But in a world where everything is simply Sam mirrored back to himself, sanity is becoming a precious commodity. Nuress, seeking to protect his fragile heart, bonds Sam...

The Children of the Great Reckoning series continues with Book 3: Architect. Sam Stelle is a being shackled on many levels-to a physical form that is not quite human;to the politically powerful Science Marga;to a lover who stands as a living firewall between the reality of humanity and the lands of a virtual reality game;to simple data file that is fast becoming yet another world, building itself upon Sam's imagination and dreams yet deeply inimical to him. And he is tied to an artificial intelligence that threatens to bring it all under her sway, sweeping away individuality and free will in...

Ianto Tobali's son, Jerian, is coming of age in a time of upheaval: Humans are infertile. Elf-Kind has begun to fill the spaces of the Spirit and Science Margas, and its intent is not peaceful coexistence. The artificial intelligence of the orbiting space ship called the Operator has awakened and stirs restlessly in her berth. A tortured man seeks revenge for a long-ago hurt, and his actions prod a greater darkness into motion. Architect Sam Stelle can only grimly face the results of his own unconscious mind as it re-weaves the fabric of reality. Beneath it all breathes an existence more vast...

For generations, the Company has produced made-to-order men and women for the jobs humankind itself no longer wishes to fill-soldiers, scientists, and administrators. It depends on the very predictability of what it creates, as does Earth and the far-flung galactic agricultural colonies. But not everyone finds such homogeneity comforting. Joshua 1011 is the living masterpiece of a genius with a singular mission and vision-bring back the ancient genotypes that once were the backbone of creative life. Raised in the tight-knit social structure of the Company's military line, silently protected...

They have lived among us for over a hundred years, intimately bound to us and we to them. But they cannot acknowledge or interact with each other. In the press of the towering cities, they see only us. It was the price they unknowingly paid for our civilization, a way to re-imagine some of the fictional Robotic Laws and ensure they would never coordinate, never create a society of their own, and never become a threat. But evolution holds true even for the children of humankind's precocious creativity. Synapjock Ciaran Dolan is about to learn that his stories are the stuff of a Biblical...

To what extremes would you go to return humankind to its full creative potential after generations of game-leveling genetic tampering? For the followers of a martyred genetic engineer named James Illion, the answer is obvious-all the way to the very edge of the death of civilization itself. Joshua 1011, the artificially created son of Illion, finds he is the carrier of a deadly and life-altering viral weapon. As his lover, Matthew Dennon, and his sometimes-enemy Adam struggle to find a way to save Earth and themselves, an old intelligence stirs in the depths of a vast interstellar computer...