Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.

Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!

The voice was gentle, like a scalpel petting the short hairs of your throat.

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.