an unnamed, cynical college student narrator who gets unwillingly pulled into bizarre, complex mysteries, starting with a locked-room murder on an island of geniuses, exploring themes of genius, meaninglessness, truth, and the struggle to find one's place through philosophical dialogue and intricate plots. Despite trying to remain a detached bystander, he's always at the center, only to find his actions ultimately meaningless, a core theme of nihilism and the search for value in a world of lies and exceptional individuals.
Lady Tabares declares herself innocent before she enters the trial that will define her future. From the police car, she regards the street vendors through the window. One of them is a girl selling roses, just like she did ten years ago.
Investigator Jack Kassewitz applies breakthrough research on interspecies communication to paranormal phenomena. If there is a spirit world connected to ours, Kassewitz believes that bridge can be documented, measured, and explained.
What if the breakthroughs that could have ended disease, erased energy shortages, and rewritten human history… were deliberately taken from us? Forbidden Technologies: Humanity’s Stolen Future rips open the hidden record of inventions too disruptive to survive — frequency-based healing, zero-point propulsion, vaporized-fuel engines, and more.
Superstar Neptune takes a chance to escape scandal and get a taste of freedom abroad, only to find the owner of the room he's taken a shared rental from is his fussy, nagging, bossy—flirty—former high school senior Kyo.