Books like Zero by Marc Elsberg

Four‑year‑old physics professor Jason Dessen is abducted and drugged, waking in a dystopian world where his family and reality are altered, forcing him to confront a formidable foe and the darkest parts of himself.

Red Mars chronicles the early days of humanity’s colonization and political upheaval on Mars, blending environmental engineering, terraforming and nation‑building in a hard‑science vision.

When a legendary game designer dies, a dormant computer daemon awakens, threatening to dismantle society. An unlikely team must unravel its secrets before the world is lost to an unseen, autonomous threat.

A science‑fiction thriller in which a self‑replicating nanobot army, engineered through genetic algorithms, takes on a human and collective efforts to contain it.

A tech‑savvy employee’s journey into a powerful internet company spirals from ambition to obsession, revealing the dark side of data privacy, social media, and a future where surveillance and corporate control blur boundaries.

Naomi Klein’s 2007 best‑selling book argues that neoliberal free‑market reforms are frequently imposed during national crises, a strategy she calls "shock therapy."

Nick Bostrom explores the risks and possibilities of future machine superintelligence, examining how human dominance could shift if artificial minds surpass us, and considering strategies for a survivable transition.

Shoshana Zuboff explains how digital data is turned into a new market form—surveillance capitalism—where corporations predict and shape behavior for profit, reshaping power, privacy, and democracy in the digital age.

A cyber‑terror attack cripples aviation, shipping, and nuclear safety, forcing former analyst Jeff Aiken to race against time to prevent an international disaster.

A techno‑thriller in report form, The Andromeda Strain follows an expert team in New Mexico as they confront a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism that threatens humanity.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

American radiologist Peter Ross travels to southern Spain in 1967, where a chance meeting with a beach beauty drags him into a gang clash over a priceless relic.

When Europe’s power grids collapse, a former hacker and activist must race across the continent to uncover the culprit behind a continent‑wide blackout, chasing the trail with a determined American CNN reporter.

A digital activist forms a covert collective to challenge pervasive surveillance and protect online privacy.