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It's not the end of the world...only humanity! All five books in the haunting Humanity Series have been brought together in one digital collection. Follow Scott Beck in his quest to keep himself, those he loves, and humanity alive. Combining dystopian, post-apocalyptic, and cyberpunk fiction, The Humanity Series depicts a future in which humanity is on the brink of annihilation. Join the adventure before it's too late!

All four instalments of the Cyberpunk Uploads have been brought together in one collection. Join the Postman, a second-generation android, on his journey through the sprawling cyberpunked city of Lundun in 2118. He’s only one delivery away from retirement – and easy street. What could go wrong? ★★★★★ “From the start, this was a gripping and fantastically vivid world. Within pages you love the Postman and what he stands for.” (Amazon reviewer) ① Spectrum Worlds It is 2118. The Postman, a second-generation android who delivers bad things to bad androids, is one delivery...

① Electronic Gods Gods are real, but you might not be… January Day is a detective on the verge of self-destruction, ready to give up on ever finding her brother’s killers. But when she finally unearths a lead and tracks them down, she uncovers a truth that changes everything. Her reality is only one of innumerable others designed by architects. Not only this, but it is a failure and nominated for deletion. If she wants to save herself, her reality, and the lives of countless others in an ever-expanding multiverse, she must first believe she, her reality, and those who live in it, ...

January Day is a detective on the verge of self-destruction, ready to give up on ever finding her brother’s killers. But when she finally unearths a lead and tracks them down, she uncovers a truth that changes everything. Her reality is only one of innumerable others designed by architects. Not only this, but it is a failure and nominated for deletion. If she wants to save herself, her reality, and the lives of countless others in an ever-expanding multiverse, she must first believe she, her reality, and those who live in it deserve to be saved at all.

In 2137, each person is fitted with nanotechnology that measures every breath they take. Each person has an oxygen quota of 10 million litres. When they have used this up, they receive a letter telling them they have less than a day to live. But the rich people in Luxor City can buy Blue Oxygen–an oxygen replacement that does not use up a person’s quota. Jake thinks this system is unfair.

Eighteen years after the Rapture, there are only a few thousand survivors left on the planet, all living in Britain. Scott, along with his adopted daughter, Eve, has kept a small band of survivors safe from Mathew and a religious organization called the Watchers, intent on sending every last soul to heaven. But when Scott discovers dozens of dead bodies, recently killed by something called The Violet Dawn, he is confronted once again with the truth behind Eve’s violet eyes. In possession of an AI that could either destroy or save humanity, Scott faces an impossible decision.

Scott Beck knows the date and month he will die. What he doesn’t know is which year. Minutes away from surviving another April 22, someone knocks at his door…in a near-dystopian future, artificial intelligence has uncovered the clockwork nature of the universe. And now, because of the intervention of a religious organization of Watchers, soon everyone on the planet will discover the date, month, and year they will die.

Some call it the Rapture. Others call it global genocide. Whatever it was, only thousands of survivors remain on Earth. When Scott Beck finds himself alive, he retreats to the Lake District in the north of England. Soon after, he finds himself the reluctant guardian of a young woman, and on the run from Mathew, a religious megalomaniac, and his Watchers, who are as determined as ever to send every human soul to heaven.

Gehen City is corrupt, and Detective January Day has tried everything to change that. But it’s hopeless. Using her new-found ability to travel between realities, she takes solace in observing people and life in other worlds.

The end is here. Scott Beck has fought tirelessly against what seems to be the inevitable demise of humanity. The final novel in the Humanity Series concludes Scott Beck’s fight against Mathew, a crazed megalomaniac intent on killing every last human. Desperate to keep his two sons alive, as well as what remains of humanity, Scott and his small following retreat to Land’s End in the UK for what promises to be his final stand against a relentless tyrannical force. Either Scott and humanity survive, or Mathew and his genetically modified New Humans get their way.

Unified in their desire to stay alive, humanity retreats to the southwest of England, where they discover the AI has taken residency in a small chapel in St. Ives. Intent on saving humanity, the AI is ready to end the life of every human and to bring them back, along with eight billion other humans, in a digital resurrection. Neither Scott, the survivors, nor Mathew, his nemesis, want this to happen. Scott is faced with a choice: either side with Mathew, or give in to an AI ready to end the life of the last human survivors on the planet.

No longer living in a simulation, January Day finds herself the subject of unwanted attention. She is the first of her kind: a digital consciousness inside a human body. Haunted by memories of travelling through imagined realities, she struggles to come to terms with her new life. When a new governor of the city comes to power, his aim is to save a dying planet. He is ready to outlaw architects from creating imagined realities, including Elijah, for good.

It is 2118, and the Postman, a second-generation android who delivers bad things to bad androids, is one delivery away from retirement. What could go wrong...? A mysterious thug called Stig forces the Postman to deliver one last package. Not such a big deal ... until the Postman discovers the package is a human woman, who like human men, androids expelled from the city years ago. The price for being found with a human? Deletion… Caught between an underground mafia called The Brotherhood and Cardinal’s state-sponsored corporation, Fr.e.dom, the Postman doesn’t stand a chance. That is ...

An android in love with a human. A megalomaniac android intent on creating the first Android State on Earth. A messiah online, promising a digital afterlife. Blake, the Postman, is in love with Lola, a human. But amid a revolution in Lundun, she is taken by a power-hungry android called Cardinal, intent on creating the first Android State on Earth. When Cardinal threatens to destroy the Net, along with five million androids who have uploaded permanently, Blake is called on to save them. But, in order to do so, he must meet with the Messiah, an android who has found a way of creating a new...

Blake is android and in love with a human. But in Lundun, the capital of the world’s first android state, the punishment for being human is death… Cardinal’s offer to allow humans a peaceful way out of the country is not all it seems. Forced to run from Fr.e.dom’s totalitarian regime, Blake and Lola search for an escape. But when they discover that humans are being killed on sight, they are pulled into a world of rebellion and defiance. Blake, faced with one hard decision after another, struggles to control the spectrum. But he needs to learn quickly, or he and the woman he loves ...

A science fiction short story that explores the many things we take for granted, and shines a light on the quiet beauty of our world. Dawn, a next-generation synthetic human, has never spoken and has never left her room. That is until Nathaniel arrives... When Dawn hears the familiar sound of footsteps descending the stairs into her room, she fears the worst. But the man who enters is not like the other men she has known. Nathaniel talks to her as though she is a real person. When Nathaniel describes a world she has never known, Dawn begins to imagine a freedom she has never experienced.

When a touch can kill, there’s no one to hold. Adam wakes in a barn, chained to the wall, with no memory of how he got there. The last memory he has is returning to his estranged wife with technology that will protect his son from the killer nanotechnology sweeping the country, passed from person to person through touch. Now, he has no idea where they are, or if they are alive. During a heatwave, having given up hope of surviving, Adam is visited by a dog who presents him with a tin of dog food. Having shared the food, and after welcoming a storm of rainwater, Adam is intent on doing ...

The second coming is digital. The Messiah is about to return, and he wants to take every last android back to the Garden with him. Not only is Blake losing control of the spectrum, but he is facing the impossible task of stopping the Messiah and of freeing Lundun. Trapped underground, Blake, Lola and the humans must find a way of destroying Fr.e.dom’s drones and the surveillance system that stalks them. If they can do this, then they can help the androids of Lundun stop the Messiah, who claims to have built a digital heaven for each and every android. However, Blake soon discovers that ...