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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short stories-all out-of-print, difficult to find, and mostly published under various pseudonyms-and sixteen previously unpublished works.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 and being human. They laud learning and the endless cycle of discovery. And they caution. Even as they elevate technology, they warn against na ve acceptance of what too easily and too often passes for progress.

"Death is very likely the single best invention of Life." Steve Jobs, Stanford, 2005. Rosen David, a research biologist who does no research, is about to find out what the late Steve Jobs meant. Working in biotech and looking for novel patterns in the work of others, he makes a dramatic new discovery that turns out to be ancient history. The implications for medicine and society are profound, but he is unable to publish his findings. When his work starts disappearing and his life is threatened, his settled existence becomes complicated and dangerous. His actions entangle him in the invisible network of an elderly, jet-setting doctor with unusual patients, including a pair of sybaritic California billionaires and the brutal and long-lived African dictator, Edgar Jabari Mbutsu.Rosen ends up playing in a high stakes game with powerful players who leave him wondering how long he will live. The rules are unclear, the cards he holds are of uncertain value, and he may be called upon to bet everything.This provocative thriller from critically acclaimed novelist Lior Samson will have you turning the pages with anticipation and thinking about some of the hard choices that medical advances could soon force upon us all. Packed with energy, passion, and technical savvy, The Rosen Singularity is a thriller for our times. "This extraordinary author has the ability to anticipate events in ways that enhance his novels." Alan Caruba, veteran critic at BookViews.

A NOVEL STRAIGHT OUT OF TOMORROW'S BIOTECH HEADLINES A dogged reporter with a leading European financial newspaper is determined to uncover the complicated truth about the estate of Arturo Dermott, a recluse and one of the world's richest, most prolific inventors. A handwritten note discovered in an archive in Rome turns a routine assignment into a convoluted quest. He and an Italian archivist are launched on a dangerous detour that leads to unlikely informants in Valencia, to secret labs in China and South Korea, and to a young man growing up in Boston who struggles to understand and come to terms with an invisible past that sets him apart. He is not who he thinks he is, but neither is he the person those around him think he is.

Coleman Todd Drucker is a self-centered, self-made billionaire who lives on the edge: a life of leveraged buyouts and bold business bets, of customized sports cars, sybaritic weekends, and sex on the side. As any smart player would, Drucker hedges his bets, in his case with a very special insurance policy. Drucker's drive is more than matched by the intelligence and ambition of the women in his life, including his beautiful second wife, Barbra Ann Wilson, and the quirky journalist, Dana Carmody, who starts out to learn more about his insurance policy but soon finds herself in deep and dangerous waters. THE DRUCKER PROXY is a fast-paced and intelligent thriller, enriched by complex characters and spot-on social insights raising incisive questions about our times and the near future.

A geopolitical thriller ripped from real-world headlines The lifeblood of the modern world is at stake as a wave of suspicious blackouts and a Twitter-fed face-off between the presidents of the United States and the Russian Federation edges toward full-scale cyberwarfare, with the electric power grids of both countries the targets. The Middle East and South America have become proxy battlegrounds in a vicious cycle of escalating threats and counter-threats. An unlikely collection of free agents and insiders is press-ganged into solving a geopolitical riddle to work out exit plans, searching for a way out, for scenarios that will de-escalate the threat and allow both sides to save face. They are themselves caught in internal struggles and a race against the clock to find a way forward that will leave the lights on and the world connected.

An imaginative, inspiring, and daring cross-border collection of poems and song lyrics by fictional poets and songwriters in the novels and short stories of Lior Samson. Best known as the author of contemporary thrillers, Samson argues that poems and poetry-whether spoken, written, or sung-are part of ordinary, everyday life, and honest fiction recognizes this reality. Here are poems of love and longing, or hope and despair, and songs of sadness and protest, including "Parallel Lines," a rap-metal anthem for our divided and divisive times.

TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION The Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount, a site sacred to three of the world's great religions and claimed by Israel and Palestine, has suddenly become a hotter-than-ever topic on the Internet. After decades of tracking terrorist threats, Lev Novikov, a second generation agent with Mossad, Israel's top intelligence agency, finds himself facing a fresh challenge that threatens to rewrite history and turn the conflict in the Middle East inside out. With the help of technology journalist Karl Lustig and his family, Lev and his team must figure out the nature of the threat and neutralize it before catastrophe on an unprecedented scale strikes Jerusalem.

Shanna Newsom, a young professor of history at a small Southern university, is a survivor with a past. Skilled and talented, she is too good for the supporting role she has assumed, but staying on script has become essential for her survival. With the arrival of Rand McMurphy, an ex-cop with a hobby solving cold cases, the past begins to catch up with the present, and the threads of her quiet life begin to unravel. Names from the dark past echo in life-changing losses: in a woman's disappearance from campus and in the tragic events at Manhattan's Twin Towers. ALWAYS ME is a tense rollercoaster of romance and mystery, an intricately plotted many-tiered story by a masterful storyteller.