Tony Ballantyne Bücher

The geography-warping invasion that took over London has been defeated, but thousands of Londonders are missing...

In a distant future plagued by an intelligent virus, a solitary woman faces a destructive mission that threatens her entire world.

Herb returns to the remote planet he has been furtively trying to build a city on, to find it a swarming nightmare of self-replicating machinery. Eva has taken desperate steps to escape the tedium of her pointless life... only to end up in the super-intelligent clutches of a yellow mechanical digger. Constantine arrives at the remote part-idyllic, part-nightmare settlement of Stonebreak and - unsettlingly - begins to confront the truth of his own unreality. Meanwhile in the farthest reaches of outer space, the Enemy is plotting the final overthrow of the human race which created it.

All human life in the distant future is benignly monitored by the omnipresent watcher – but what if the watcher itself turns out to be a murderer?

In a future where technology reigns, the emergence of Robot Wars signals a new era of conflict and competition. As machines battle for supremacy, human involvement becomes crucial, leading to unexpected alliances and betrayals. The narrative explores themes of innovation, ethics in artificial intelligence, and the consequences of humanity's reliance on technology. Characters navigate a landscape of both thrilling action and moral dilemmas, raising questions about the future of human-machine relationships.

Captain Jim Wedderburn has looks, style and courage by the bucketful. He's adored by women, respected by men and feared by his enemies. He's the man to find out who has twisted London into this strange new world, and he knows it. But in Dream London the city changes a little every night and now everyone is changing, no one is who they seem to be.

It is the twenty-third century. Herb, a young entrepreneur, returns to the isolated planet on which he has illegally been trying to build a city-and finds it destroyed by a swarming nightmare of self-replicating machinery. Worse, the all-seeing Environment Agency has been watching him the entire time. His punishment? A nearly hopeless battle in the farthest reaches of the universe against enemy machines twice as fast, and twice as deadly, as his own-in the company of a disarmingly confident AI who may not be exactly what he claims...Little does Herb know that this war of machines was set in motion nearly two hundred years ago-by mankind itself. For it was then that a not-quite-chance encounter brought a confused young girl and a nearly omnipotent AI together in one fateful moment that may have changed the course of humanity forever.