In a secret war waged in worlds both virtual and real, the fates of nations depend on the definitive weapon. And that weapon is knowledge—knowledge to die for. . . . The race is heating up between the U.S. and China to develop a quantum computer with infinite capabilities to crack any enemy’s codes, yet keep secure its own secrets. The government that achieves this goal will win a crucial prize. No other computer system will be safe from the reach of this master machine. Dr. Jaron Kwok was working for the U.S. government to build such a computer. But in a posh hotel in Hong Kong, a Chinese policewoman sifts through the bizarre, ashlike remains of what’s left of the doctor. With the clock ticking, alliances will be forged—and there are those who will stop at nothing to discover what the doctor knew. As the search for answers intensifies, it becomes chillingly clear that the quantum computer both sides so desperately want will be more powerful, more dangerous than anyone could have ever imagined. For in the twenty-first century, machines become gods, gods become machines, and the once-impossible now lies within reach. The key to unlimited knowledge will create the ultimate weapon of mass destruction—or humanity’s last chance to save itself. . . .

The Labyrinth Key

Literature & Fiction

Hendrix, Howard V.

United States

Del Rey

In a secret war waged in worlds both virtual and real, the fates of nations depend on the definitive weapon. And that weapon is knowledge—knowledge to die for. . . . The race is heating up between the U.S. and China to develop a quantum computer with infinite capabilities to crack any enemy’s codes, yet keep secure its own secrets. The government that achieves this goal will win a crucial prize. No other computer system will be safe from the reach of this master machine. Dr. Jaron Kwok was working for the U.S. government to build such a computer. But in a posh hotel in Hong Kong, a Chinese policewoman sifts through the bizarre, ashlike remains of what’s left of the doctor. With the clock ticking, alliances will be forged—and there are those who will stop at nothing to discover what the doctor knew. As the search for answers intensifies, it becomes chillingly clear that the quantum computer both sides so desperately want will be more powerful, more dangerous than anyone could have ever imagined. For in the twenty-first century, machines become gods, gods become machines, and the once-impossible now lies within reach. The key to unlimited knowledge will create the ultimate weapon of mass destruction—or humanity’s last chance to save itself. . . . From the Trade Paperback edition.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

In a self-contained city high above the Earth, four thousand permanent residents come to the startling conclusion that their orbiting complex is far from the utopia they had believed it to be. Original.

Lightpaths

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

The author returns to the universe of Lightpaths, his critically acclaimed, best-selling debut, where the human inhabitants of an orbiting space station confront a vast new intelligence so strange it defies the term, "alien." Original.

Standing Wave

The discovery of an ancient alien object that resembles the shoulder blade of an angel propels five twenty-first-century characters on a journey of discovery that will change their lives forever.

Better Angels

Ace Hardcover

With his astonishing future vision, Howard V. Hendrix has emerged as one of the new masters of science fiction, drawing extraordinary praise from his debut novel Lightpaths and the follow-up, Standing Wave. Now he meshes virtual reality, deep-space exploration, and human nature in a novel starkly breathtaking in its portrayal of the quest for meaning, against a backdrop of scientific and spiritual chaos. During the first, turbulent decades of the twenty-first century, an artifact that resembles an angel’s shoulder blade is unearthed from California’s La Brea tar pit, a startling discovery that will forever alter the lives of five people—and send them reeling toward one blinding moment of transcendental light.

Humor & Satire

Ace Books

When the latest technology of the world revives a plague of apparent global madness that annihilates urban civilization, a new world is spawned under the sway of the moon and the human race is forever altered.

Empty Cities of the Full Moon

Venturing into a universe different from where his previous novels—Lightpaths, Standing Wave, and Better Angels—were set, Howard V. Hendrix tackles one of life's most enduring questions: What does it mean to be human?
In a dramatically altered near-future, the world's newest technology resurrects a plague of apparent global madness that not only destroys ten thousand years of urban civilization, but also creates a world under the sway of the full moon—and a human race transformed in astonishing ways.

Ace Trade

Living Fossils are the Happiest Kind

Poetry

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The Vertical Fruit of the Horizontal Tree

Talisman Books

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The Labyrinth Key

The Labyrinth Key

Lightpaths

Standing Wave

Better Angels

Better Angels

Empty Cities of the Full Moon

Empty Cities of the Full Moon

Living Fossils are the Happiest Kind

The Vertical Fruit of the Horizontal Tree