Civilization doesn't end with a bang or a whimper. It ends with a call on your cell phone. What happens on the afternoon of October 1 came to be known as the Pulse, a signal sent though every operating cell phone that turns its user into something...well, something less than human. Savage, murderous, unthinking-and on a wanton rampage. Terrorist act? Cyber prank gone haywire? It really doesn't matter, not to the people who avoided the technological...

In the near future, wireless bandwidth for data transmission is at a premium, with demand outstripping supply. Then a brand-new channel is discovered that allows almost infinite volumes of data to be transmitted instantaneously. But strange things are happening to the users of this bandwidth, and the most likely explanation is scariest of all: this new channel may well be the pathway the dead use to get from this life to the next. If true, and the...

A little boy tries to call and invite his grandmother to his house for her birthday party, but dials the numbers for duck, cow, and sheep instead.

Twelve-year-old Emmy is struggling to understand boys when she discovers a magic "app" that can read their thoughts, which soon drives a wedge between her and best friend Harper.

It's bad enough when high-school senior Keeley grabs the wrong phone while leaving her small town's end-of-summer fair. It's even worse when she discovers that the phone she now has belongs to the obnoxious, self-centered Talon and that he's just left for football camp...with her phone. Reluctantly, the two agree to forward messages for a week. And as Keeley gets to know Talon, she starts to like him. Keeley learns there's more to Talon than the egocentric...

Mya Parsons runs her school's social justice club with her best friend, Cleo. Her lifelong desire is to work for the United Nations and change the world, and then bask in all the ensuing adulation. Her more immediate desire is to get a phone, preferably one like Cleo's, with a leopard-print case to match. When her distracted dad and her long-distance mom (temporarily in Myanmar taking care of Mya's grandmother) both say no, no way, and possibly never,...

When cellular telephones arrive on the scene, a once-popular Manhattan phonebooth becomes shabby and lonely until a power outage reminds everyone of how useful it can be.

Rex Jones and his friends Carl and Dave are transported by Rex's mysterious cell phone to a place where horrible Dazers roam the night, seeking human souls to eat.

In the crowded Kennedy Airport in New York a man and a woman collide. A trivial dispute ensues and in gathering their dropped belonging, Madeline and Jonathan take away the wrong mobile phones. When they discover their mistake, they are separated by continents: she is a florist in Paris, he runs a restaurant in San Francisco. Yielding to curiosity, they explore the contents of each other's phone. A double indiscretion and a revelation: their lives...

In the crowded Kennedy Airport in New York a man and a woman collide. A trivial dispute ensues and in gathering their dropped belonging, Madeline and Jonathan take away the wrong mobile phones. When they discover their mistake, they are separated by continents: she is a florist in Paris, he runs a restaurant in San Francisco. Yielding to curiosity, they explore the contents of each other's phone. A double indiscretion and a revelation: their lives...