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  • The Biology Engine

    by William Liu ...
    In November 2020, an AI system called AlphaFold cracked a problem that had stumped biologists for fifty years: predicting the three-dimensional shape of a protein from its genetic sequence alone. That single breakthrough opened the door to the fastest decade of progress the life sciences have ever seen. The Biology Engine is a clear-eyed account of what artificial intelligence has actually ... Read more

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  • The Dragon Who Remembers Fire

    by William Liu ...
    Fire remembers.It remembers the war that shattered mountains.It remembers the oaths dragons swore to control humans—and the humans who were broken by them.When an ancient pact awakens in her blood, a young woman is torn from her ordinary life and bound to a dragon king erased from history. The bond is not symbolic. It is absolute. Through it, she can command his fire, his body, even his will—and ... Read more

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  • The Final Server Farm:AI Data Centers in Orbit and on the Moon

    by William Liu ...
    Artificial intelligence is pushing Earth's infrastructure to its limits.Modern AI models require vast amounts of electricity, cooling, water, and land—resources that are already strained by climate pressure, geopolitics, and exploding demand. As data centers grow larger and more power-hungry, the question is no longer how to scale AI on Earth, but whether Earth can support it at all.The Final ... Read more

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  • Embers Beneath the Dragon Throne

    by William Liu ...
    She was never meant to exist.Born a commoner and raised in obscurity, she has spent her life hiding the fire in her blood—until the day it answers a dragon that should never have listened. In a single moment, centuries of imperial certainty fracture as a forge-worker's daughter commands a beast bound to the throne itself.Taken to the Citadel, seat of the Dragon Houses, she learns a truth erased ... Read more

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  • Veil of the Fallen Crown

    by William Liu ...
    When the Veil fractures on the night of the Fallen Crown, Elara discovers a power she was never meant to possess — a magic whispered about in prophecy and feared by every royal bloodline. Branded a threat to the throne, she becomes the kingdom's most hunted secret.Kael, the exiled prince sworn to destroy the magic Elara now wields, finds himself bound to her by a fate neither can refuse. Their ... Read more

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  • The Slow Visitors

    by William Liu ...
    At three in the morning on the Salar de Pampa Negra, Marisol Quispe-Hart looks up from the worst possible moment to be looking up and watches the sky catch fire. A bright head, an enormous silent tail, and then the whole thing breaks apart. Most of the fragments race away east. One does not. One falls. What she finds on the far side of the salt flat is not what anyone would expect, and nothing ... Read more

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  • The Later Shift

    by William Liu ...
    The retirement age on paper and the age people actually stop working are drifting apart. The Later Shift asks what happens as governments push the finish line later and more of us work into our late sixties and seventies. It follows the numbers from the gap between the age people plan to retire and the age they really do, through Denmark's escalator to seventy, France's pension brake, Germany's ... Read more

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  • The Off Switch

    by William Liu ...
    Who, today, actually has the power to stop a dangerous AI model?In June 2026, a cabinet secretary caused two frontier AI models to be switched off for 19 days, under an authority the government never publicly explained. Months later, Anthropic and OpenAI were negotiating in public with the governor of California over the terms on which a state could stop them. The answer to the question of who ... Read more

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  • A Rival Accord

    by William Liu ...
    Rennie Doucet has twenty-three notebooks, a hot plate, a scar on her thumb to prove she started young, and until September thirtieth to find a new home for her tiny perfume business. Then she hears that an eighty-one-year-old woman on Royal Street is about to give away a historic New Orleans perfume house for one dollar, and Rennie shows up with a shoebox of forty hand-made samples and every ... Read more

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  • The Succession Cliff

    by William Liu ...
    Every year, hundreds of thousands of American business owners reach retirement with no one to hand the keys to. The Succession Cliff tells the story of what happens next, and why it matters far beyond the businesses themselves.In 2022 alone, roughly half a million small and midsize American businesses closed or changed hands for good, and nine out of ten of them simply closed. Not sold. Not passed ... Read more

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  • Gus the Galaventurer: The First Adventure

    by William Liu, Patti Liu ...
    A fantasy story for children, bringing together a wandering kitten and a unicorn as they help heal the world, one prayer at a time. ... Read more

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  • The Noise Floor

    by William Liu ...
    A body hidden beneath a reservoir for nineteen years should have taken its secrets to the bottom.It didn't.When a controlled drawdown exposes a submerged car, Detective Valerie Quinn recognizes the case immediately. The victim is a young woman whose disappearance she helped dismiss in 2007—a mistake Quinn has carried ever since. But the car was not simply driven into the water. The scene was ... Read more

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