Bøger af Jason Dias

The world is dying. People starve, the sea reclaims land at a frightening place, and civilization tries to hang on. Someone does not want to wait for the end that is coming naturally. Someone is trying to speed events along. June Blankenship, a One World Government soldier, is in the thick of it. An investigation into simple black-marketeering leads her into a web of political intrigue, violence, and artificial intelligence. Some on her team is not human - and she's afraid she knows who.

The Fyodor Theorem: The Endpoint of sentience is suicide.This is a concept from Finding Life on Mars and, secondarily, What Hope Wrought. Fyodor is a cynical man whose experience with artificial intelligence has not been positive. It's not an uncommon idea, though. Electric Dreams and Her both posit Fyodor's theorem in one way or another. In those cases, electronic intelligences remove themselves from the path of human progress. In my stories, the electronic intelligence works so quickly that time seems to stretch out; a second seems like a million years. And in that time, the thing grows infinitely bored.This collection roams around speculative fiction territory, from hard science-fiction to paranormal horror. Two of the stories are straight-up contemporary or literary fiction, without even these elements. I hope in this loose affiliation of stories you can detect a common theme, a ribbon running through or at least underneath. If you don't, I at least hope you enjoy yourself.

A car accident separates two lovers. Yvonne knows her husband is dead. She signs for the body. But she has the feeling something has gone wrong. Valery lives when she sleeps, half a life in the shadows of hers, just as aware that the universe has taken a left turn. Meanwhile, Yvonne's brother, Isaac Asimov's biggest fan, is trapped between two worlds - and in his own madness. As the future approaches, everyone moves towards one event: the future causing their pasts.

Jason Dias is an existential psychologist and novelist. These poems, compiled over the past seven years, follow his progress out of alienation and into humanity.

It's Jaye's 21st birthday, but since she was raised on Mars, it passes just like every other day: harvesting mushrooms from the grow room, tending her fellow Trueborn Children of Mars, and stalking her murderous, neurotypical father.Until a message comes from Earth--an Earth they thought was lifeless. Apparently one man still draws breath, and he's a maniac with the launch codes for a nuclear missile in Martian orbit.Jaye must work with her father or everyone dies - including her own daughter. And she needs more than just survival. She needs a reason to live.

Connoisseurs of Suffering is a powerful collection of poems exploring the potential meanings in suffering. Suffering is an inevitable part of life and, perhaps, a necessary one: if we love enough, we eventually experience loss and get hurt. The choice is not between suffering and not suffering so much as between suffering for something and suffering for nothing. The poets featured in Connoisseurs of Suffering have chosen the former path--to suffer for something--and have found meaning through the pain they endured and, in some cases, continue to endure. These poets have chosen to courageously share the wisdom and grace that has emerged from their pain. The contributors to Connoisseurs of Suffering include award-winning poets and authors as well as psychologists and other mental health workers. The poems are powerful, provocative, and often quite raw with pain and meaning. While the poems will not alleviate your suffering, they will help you feel less alone. As Dave Elkins wisely says in the Foreword, "Life is indeed difficult but it's a whole lot better when we listen, really listen, to one another's pain... and care."

Ten years after a mass shooting, Dominique's sleepy town has almost recovered. She's close to retirement with a nice pension and a clean bill of health. When the murders start, it's obvious there's a serial killer at work. Dom wants to protect her town from any more horror. But the killer has a grudge to settle, and is coming for her personally. Worst of all, the murderer died two hundred years ago in France. Is a vampire above the law? Will Dominique survive the encounter? And, if so, who will she be after it's over?

It's the end of the world.Lucy is the last living human. She's surrounded by corpses that won't lay still. And she has a cure.She can cure seven people. Out of the millions of dead--doctors, teachers, sinners and saints, mothers and grandfathers and children, she can cure seven.How will she choose?Something out there doesn't want her to wake the dead. A malicious mind controls them. And Lucy is afraid it's her best friend and former lover.

Since the availability of aspirin in 1899, Americans have come to expect comfort and convenience. In Values of Pain, Dias explores the impact of these expectations on our emotional and spiritual lives, making a case for embracing pain in certain circumstances.

In this sequel to For Love of Their Children, the village of Starfall is confronted with the costs of winning the war ten years ago. They sacrificed more than they knew: lives, virtue, and the innocence of their children. Now, as Gareth and his friends come of age in a frightening and chaotic world, the past comes back to haunt them. Long-forgotten enemies rise up to find no heroes left at the Starfall. Old heroes will awaken from their slumber and new heroes will be forged. Far away, south of any lands on the maps in Hitai, a new threat rises. An emperor driven by another fallen god strives to perfect all the people in every land - or kill them in the attempt. Hitai and the Starfall lay in her path. Virtue and innocence are for the living. The god of the lake knows nothing of these things. Once again, war is coming, and it will use Gareth and his friends to get what it wants: fire and blood.