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From Arthur C. Clarke, the brilliant mind that brought us 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Stephen Baxter, one of the most cogent SF writers of his generation, comes a novel of a day, not so far in the future, when the barriers of time and distance have suddenly turned to glass.
When a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses cutting-edge physics to enable people everywhere, at trivial cost, to see one another at all times-around every corner, through...
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The World Court or the most powerful government of the universe initiates an unprecedented and controversial trial against Pontius Pilate, for authorizing and ordering the execution of Jesus.Using the technology to travel throughout time, the rulers of the universe bring Pontius Pilate to their world, before he dies. However, this trial is a political weapon of the conspirators to delegitimize the Universal Justice System. In this regard, the prefect...
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Second part of The Trial of Pontius Pilate:The authoritarian magistrates are politically cornered. They face protests and threats due to the arbitrary detention of rulers and the absence of information in other serious cases. The World Court executes several extraordinary measures, crossing definitively the red line between democracy and dictatorship. Without recognizing the existence of the Global Alliance, the magistrates declare the war to Hagmog's...
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Segunda parte de El Juicio a Poncio Pilato:Acorralados políticamente, los magistrados autoritarios enfrentan protestas y amenazas por la detención arbitraria de los gobernantes y la ausencia de información en otros casos delicados. El Tribunal Mundial ejecuta varias medidas extraordinarias, cruzando definitivamente la línea roja entre democracia y dictadura. Sin reconocer la existencia de la Alianza Global, le declara la guerra al gobierno de...
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Leopold Einstein-former janitor, accidental pan-dimensional being and occasional corpse-is brought back to life on a doomed spaceship where four parallel realities exist. Merrily mangling the mysteries of the cosmos, Leopold embarks on a mission across bizarre parallel worlds to "reassemble" Pen, the woman he secretly loves-and perhaps save the ship. A deranged professor, an Amazon warrior, hordes of zombie crew and a sex-starved big beautiful Princess...
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El Tribunal Mundial o el gobierno más poderoso del universo inicia un juicio inédito y controversial contra Poncio Pilato, por haber autorizado y ordenado la ejecución de Jesús.Utilizando la tecnología para viajar a través del tiempo, lo traen a su mundo, antes que él fallezca. Sin embargo, este juicio es un arma política de los conspiradores para deslegitimar al Sistema de Justicia Universal. En un ambiente en el cual prevalecen los conflictos...
7) Afterparty
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A science fiction thriller, award-winning author Daryl Gregory's Afterparty features a scientist on a mind-bending and violent chase across Canada and the U.S. to undue the harm her creation has done and save civilization.
It begins in Toronto, in the years after the smart drug revolution. Any high school student with a chemjet and internet connection can download recipes and print drugs, or invent them. A seventeen-year-old street girl finds God...
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Chef Lukas Larsgaard is feeling very nervous today. Seventy-eight guests and a twelve-course tasting menu await him today - a serious professional challenge for him personally and his entire restaurant team. Every dish has been carefully thought out and honed down to the finest detail, every wine has been selected with exceptional care to create an unforgettable range of gourmet sensations. The dinner as a whole should be a masterpiece and mark the...
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WHAT IF THE ONLY WAY TO CHEAT IS TO WIN? With a hard deadline to leave the island now in play, Jessie and the remaining survivors of this deadly twist on The Game must find a way to escape, even if it means playing dirty. And with so much at stake and outside forces doing everything they can to prevent them from leaving, they may not have a choice.Episode 08 in this relaunch of Saul Tanpepper's popular cyberpunk zombie apocalypse series GAMELAND is...
10) The Ark
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Jake removed the mysterious silver cloth from the chest. Unfolding it carefully and placing it on the table. Without thinking, he removed the crystal skull from the chest and placed it on top of the silver cloth, a simple gesture that would change his and Bill's lives forever. What amazing secret have they uncovered? Have they found the answer to unlocking the mystery of The Ark?
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In Ben Bova's novel JUPITER, physicist Grant Archer led an expedition into Jupiter's hostile planetwide ocean, attempting to study the unusual and massive creatures that call the planet their home. Unprepared for the hostile environment and crushing pressures, Grant's team faced certain death as their ship malfunctioned and slowly sank to the planet's depths. However one of Jupiter's native creatures--a city-sized leviathan--saved the doomed ship....
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On a quiet space station far from the events and concerns near Earth, Kristy announced her intent to have the child of Pyossel. He handled it with the maturity of his years, in a manner befitting his position as the oldest on Whelan's asteroid mining crew. He choked on his drink and sent the droplets scattering in low gravity to the far corners of the cabin. It was fortunate that Orbital-2 was well set up for similar accidents at mealtimes.' Humans...
13) Aries 181
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A crime spree to steal aerospace technology. An intern with the brains to stop it.When Jess uncovers evidence that her boss is stealing technology to build his company, her coveted internship at Aries turns from dream job to catastrophe. Worse, her boss cons another young woman into becoming his accomplice, and the duo's chemically enhanced skills and weapons help them become the most infamous supercriminals to sweep the tech world. Before they pilfer...
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Martin had a good life, a happy family, a steady job where he was rarely noticed - and he liked that. It was boring. It was safe. Until the day he fell below the clouds.He found the world below strange beyond anything he would ever have wanted to imagine, so strange the whole world refused to believe him when he returned home.With half of humankind set to take to the stars, and the other half set to die unknown beneath the ice, two stories from different...
15) Murphy's Lawless
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Major Rodger Y. Murphy should have died when his helicopter crashed off the coast of Mogadishu in November, 1993. Instead, he woke up in August, 2125, in a binary star system 152 light years from home. Without any memory of the otherworldly abductors who spirited them away in cold sleep, Murphy and 100 other "Lost Soldiers" have been retrieved and awakened by officers of the Consolidated Terran Republic. Promising to return to the 55 Tauri B system...
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Today's software can only imitate art, but what about tomorrow?Will true artificial intelligences be able to appreciate or even create art? Explore dystopian societies, where AI generates most of the content and human artists must eke out an existence, and utopias, where artificial minds help unlock and enhance human creativity.Delve into the minds of robot painters, AI poets, drone forgers, and electronic theater curators. These and other possible...
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Winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
When a giant meteor crashes into the earth and destroys all life, the small group of human survivors manage to leave the barren planet and establish a new home on the moon. From Tycho Base, men and woman are able to observe the devastated planet and wait for a time when return will become possible.
Generations pass. Cloned children have had children of their own, and ...
18) Quantum Worlds
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Will AI herald the death of human creativity, or its startling rebirth?"Quantum Worlds" is a science fiction story about Robert, the editor-in-chief of a struggling science fiction magazine. In a last ditch effort to save the magazine, he and his wife come up with the idea of using AI to help with the submissions. The idea proves to be a game changer. As the magazine becomes successful again, Robert and his wife face challenges from the science fiction...
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Ferrett Steinmetz's high-octane cyberpunk romance Automatic Reload about a tortured mercenary and the genetically enginnered assassin he loves.
Meet Mat, a tortured mercenary who has become the perfect shot, and Silvia, an idealistic woman genetically engineered to murder you to death.
Together they run for the shadiest corporation in the world...and realize their messed-up brain chemistry cannot overpower their very real chemistry.
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Power is in the mind. The mind is in the network. As the NAU's "Shift" approaches, the Directorate and Enterprise parties are doing whatever they can both on-Beam and off- to win the citizen's minds. The Beam itself, however, seems to be evolving. As more and more people become addicted to connectivity, a question arises: Does the Beam serve our minds ... or do our minds serve the Beam?Meanwhile, using politics as cover, an organization is pushing...
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