Bøker av D R Swan

AI Awakening Is it already too late? Have we inadvertently set in motion the series of events that will cause the enslavement of humanity or worse, its complete demise? Artificial Intelligence is here and just like every other invention of man, is not going away.Trent Prescott, the programmer whose brilliance produced the breakthrough that brought AI into nearly every part of the human experience stumbles onto something only theorized in science fiction, the possibility that an AI system has begun to realize that it exists. People are beginning to die and some secure government systems protected by the most advanced security seem to be newly compromised. Something is wrong, something insidious, and time is running out...

Shannon finds herself on a bus to, who knows where. At that moment, she regrets the rash decision to leave school and Dennis, but something is disturbing her from inside, something that doesn't feel right and it emanates from a deep place. She knows that she has changed, not just psychologically and emotionally, but also physically in a way that is barely detectable... Barely.She thinks that its roots lie in the message that the creatures from sideways told her, that she "will know the way all things are." What could that mean? She stares forward, but every window in the bus is black with a partition that prevents her from looking out the front, and as the bus bumps along, a nagging fear grows as her unknown destination draws near...

Mysterious vampire like deaths in Sacramento, California catches the attention of Lisa Hyde. She had just arrived back from a strange trip to Albuquerque where there were also unexplained deaths. Could these deaths have been caused by similar people? Maybe by her friends who disappeared without a trace.Lisa is special, she's a clairvoyant, and she sees portions of the future in the shapes and textures of the world. Soon, she begins having clusters of unexplained visions of a man and wolves. When her visions increase, it always means something and it usually isn't good. Her intuition about these visions comes to fruition when she meets the incarnation of nightmares, the Collector.

Modern Vampires? Can't be. That's just a myth. Then what's the mystery surrounding the strange deaths in Albuquerque, and why have three people, who have been photographed for the last hundred years, not seemed to age. Do these strangers have the answers that Lisa Hyde seeks? Is this the path that her missing father was on? Is Lisa rushing, head-long, into a date with destiny?

Dooms Day, May 3, 2101, at 6:00 and twenty seconds.The alien artifact's predicted collision with Earth by the planet-killing asteroid was fast approaching. The United States had kept the prediction and the alien artifact which made it, a closely held secret but something had changed to alter the prediction, something unexpected and now the Earth was in a different kind of danger, one that might also signal the end of humanity.In "Waves on Mars," the United States, helped by the information contained in the alien artifact found in 2085, has begun to colonize Mars and terraform the planet to make it habitable for humans. Mars has surprises unforeseen though, and those surprises alter the American path. Everywhere the United States turns, it's faced with the unintended consequences of its secret use of the alien information. Now it's backed into a corner and faced with certain failure or worse, the end of all life here on the only planet we can call, "Mother Earth."

In the fifth book in the Sideways Series, Dennis Olsen discovers precisely what his late wife meant when she came to him in a dream. She warned that, "a storm was coming."Our world balances precariously on a precipice with the constant need for everything to go exactly right. If one essential piece is removed, the dominoes begin to fall.Dennis, Shannon Hunter, Dennis' son, Bryan, and a small group of twelve are forced to run from two worldwide immanent disasters, the first, the escape of a weaponized virus from a secret Russian facility, and the second, an unseen invasion from a parallel dimension which causes the complete loss of power generated by electric utilities. The ensuing chaos brings down each country of our world, one by one, until there is little left but quiet. While the virus takes most who are exposed, some have a strong enough immune system to defeat the superbug, but not all those who survive are to be trusted.

Eleven-year-old Alice didn't know that she was about to become a hero. How could she know that she would be called upon to change the course of history? How could she stand up to that kind of pressure and how could she ever make the right choices to succeed? She was, after all, only eleven and small for her age at that. Was she really this brave? If you were to ask her, she would say no, but isn't that true of most heroes.Like Alice in "Alice in Wonderland" and Dorothy in the "Wizard of Oz," Alice is on a strange journey as her world is turned upside down when she stumbles upon an odd diary in an old dusty attic, but this wasn't like any other book that she had ever read and it sends her into a world where everything isn't the way it should be.As she reads the pages of the diary, it begins to interact with her in ways that, at first, are subtle but doesn't remain so. Soon, she seems to be living the things happening between those strange pages. The diary is about a young girl, Alice's age and Alice soon finds that she and the girl in the book seem to be on the same strange path...

Shannon Hunter is pulled from her body to a place that will, inevitably, have some frightful baring on her life. Since the modern world had ended a hundred and fifty years before, Shannon had continued to change. Now, she's found that she has become far more powerful than she had ever imagined.Something unknown is hunting, though, and Shannon can feel it. Something seeks that which will allow it to be, but what it is and where it's from is a mystery, and Shannon finds herself drawn to it like a moth to that fateful flame.

In the year 2106, the Earth had survived not one but two alien invasions. The United States was colonizing Mars and has annexed it, claiming it as the fifty-first state of America. The United Nation's general assembly exploded into chaos at this announcement, but the world's uproar fell on deaf ears as America made no apologies for its actions. The United States announced further that no country would be allowed to land on or approach Mars with either manned or unmanned spacecraft and any craft approaching would be destroyed.What were they trying to hide?"Mars, The 51st State" begins...

What happens when everything that we think about the world turns out to be wrong and things that are supposed to be so concrete are just illusions? We are trapped in a situation where we must change our view or die, change our perspective or live a lie. Sometimes we get to fool ourselves into believing that the mystery that we're confronted with was some mistake, some trick of the light but other times we are cast into a series of events that leave us no escape and we find ourselves attempting to swim out of a relentless whirlpool.

Lisa Hyde is different. She knows things, secret things. She has a special gift that has both saved her life and caused her great pain. She is a type of clairvoyant that gets glimpses into the future but those glimpses aren't fully reliable.When she connects with a childhood friend in her second year of college, Eric Reid, and falls in love with him, she begins seeing images that point to a possible tragic end to his life. Then she must do all that she can to save him but how can she when the clues are so obscure? She knows, though, that he is in danger and that she stands between him and his fate. Her only choice is to remain vigilant knowing that if she lets down her guard, she won't get a second chance...

The future...What does the future hold for a world decimated by plague? What does it hold for a world where The Shadow Creatures have stopped the production of energy for electricity?In the sixth book in the Sideways Series, people are, for the most part, forced to live as if it were the dark ages. No communication, little transportation, no modern medicine, or modern conveniences push man back a thousand years. Would man revert back to superstition as an answer two anything not understood? How many generations would it take before much of what was learned would be lost and forgotten?Aftermath begins...

Pathogen Z Safe for now, Jack Morgan and Hanna Scott leave Southern California and head to San Francisco. The mold, however, that first appeared at the construction site near Homeless City has begun to spread and anyone who has been exposed to it, and who passes away, comes back to life as something not natural to this world. Then anyone bitten by these creatures changes as the virus and parasites quickly invade all their living cells causing minor outbreaks of the "Z madness" in several American states and Mexico. Those outbreaks would not remain small.The second novel in the Z Plague Series, "Pathogen: Z, " begins...

Time, the enemy is always time for those who are mortal, but what if you found you couldn't die? What if you were destined to outlive all those you love and the years passed not by the tens but by the hundreds?Shannon Hunter finds herself in that dilemma. For hundreds of years, she has wandered the now dystopian landscape of what used to be the United States of America, mostly alone and with the lingering memories of her long-past family and friends.Now though, she is drawn to a place where her destiny meets her mortality and her choices will impact the entire world.Legacy, the White Witch begins...

"Summertime, finally," Tony Mendoza, Bobby Baker, and David Van Pelt said as they left their classroom on the last day of school. Now they could have fun and play their current favorite game, Pokémon Go, all day.They all lived on the same street and had been friends for years. Every summer since they could remember, their families had camped together for a couple weeks of vacation. This year was no exception. The three families were going to camp at Donner Lake close to where the Donner Party had become stranded in 1846 and been forced to eat some of their group to survive. Tony was sure that the lake was haunted because of the misfortunes of the Donner Group.Bobby wasn't so sure, but he hoped to play Pokémon Go at the lake, so he brought his cell phone hoping that he would have service enough to play the game. Arriving, though, Bobby finds that his phone doesn't have service and he can't play.He and his friends decide to go on a hike away from the lake. Up in the trails, they find an abandoned structure built into the side of a hill. Inside, the structure has a control panel and the technology appears to be advanced, but its caked with dust and appears to have been there for a very long time. They touch the panel and it lights up. Fearful that they have trespassed into someone's property, they leave only to find that Bobby's cell phone now works. Once back from the hike, they decide to play the game, but they find that there is something very wrong with the way the game is playing and it leads them into an unexpected adventure.

The riptide of events was now pulling the world inexorably forward towards its unavoidable fate. The plague continues to spread and appears unexpectedly like the drifting embers from a forest fire igniting the surrounding vegetation. Everything was about to change. With the government's utter failure to stop the spread of the plague, humans must turn to thier only alternitive, individual survival.

Shadows"There's a storm coming," was the prophetic words that Shannon Hunter continued to have spring forth in her memory. Was this it? Was this the time that the warning was about? In the fourth book from the Sideways Series, everything that Shannon and Dennis had feared was happening. The odd machine that allowed creatures from sideways to slip into our world was back working and stronger than ever and something else, something more deadly also approached like a runaway freight train. Time was running out. Was there any escape? Would they be too late to save the people that they loved? Could they save them even if they tried? Shadows begins...