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An unhappy cyborg with a forbidden dream. A society that punishes change. A dangerous quest that could change Amy's future… or ruin it entirely.For centuries, men, women, and even children have filled narrow cubicles in skyscraping office buildings, rusty factory floors, and poorly lit illegal damp basements to slave for the survival of their families. Those jobs were low paid, grueling, and even deadly, but for some, it was the only way of life.By...
42) Ghost Black
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Everything Risa Black believes is a lie.
Her angel is dead, the cause she's killed for is as false as her metal eyes, and the one man she thought she could trust has deceived her for sixteen years. Smothered by deepening layers of conspiracy, she decides to embark upon the most frightening mission of her life: leaving the Martian Liberation Front.
After eight years of trying to free Mars with high explosives, and a reputation as a less-than-sane...
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Risa Black will decide the fate of an entire planet. After all, an angel told her so.
Orphaned young, she grows up among the resistance, fighting to give the people of Mars command of their own destiny. Two governments from Earth vie for control of the Red Planet. She wants them gone, regardless of how many explosives it takes.
To the outside world, she's an emotionless, broken marionette. Inside, her father's fiery end haunts her every waking moment....
44) Rath's Reckoning
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Rath and Paisen completed all fifty kills in their contracts with the Janus Group. But when they uncovered the criminal organization's darkest secret, the Janus Group unleashed an army of assassins to silence the rogue pair. With help from a former Interstellar Police detective, Rath and Paisen survive - barely. Their plan to attack the Janus Group head-on may be suicide, but in the end, they'll tear the organization to the ground ... or die trying....
45) Viral
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"In my first battle, I made fourteen thousand dollars in five minutes."
On a remote planet, human explorers make first contact with extraterrestrial life. Without warning, the aliens attack, ripping the exploratory team to shreds. Humanity is at war.
Back on Earth, Sam is just another jobless graduate, drifting aimlessly while she lives off of the government's monthly stipend. When war breaks out with the aliens, she sees a way out of her life of...
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Lehane is a Series 1 Artificial looking for his next challenge within XoCo Corporation, and maybe more so, relief from the boredom that accompanies a commissioning as long as his. An opportunity to beta test an innovative technology that could altruistically alter the lives of the Decommissioned would be just the challenge he was seeking. What he didn't expect is that by accepting the job, his fundamental coding would be corrupted, and his mission...
47) Ctrl Alt Delete
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In the fast-paced, tech-heavy future, even hackers need to take a break. Bits isn't working right now, and instead spends her days in VR, making necessary additions to the immersion's neglected night sky. When Dolly shows up with a problem that needs solving, Bits can't just boot her. Especially not when she finds out Bristol's been arrested and they have a narrow window of opportunity to bust her out. There's something wrong, more than jail, more...
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Binary Thrones & Visions of ecstasy is a futuristic and rustic poetic attempt at grasping the Fugacious and the mysterious in the daily interspersed with a light sci fi touch . It is a tale that exhorts to awe, amazement, playful resilience and transcending the limits of our routinized daily protocols of our perceptions to have an astounded gaze both towards the familiar and the uncanny …
49) Splinter
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Have Humans lost their humanity
and can an artificial intelligence save them?
The Tau Ceti colony is a Utopia, but tension lurks below the tranquil surface. The peace of the colony is shattered when the Unity spacecraft returns from Earth bearing shocking news.
Rome Permek, computer officer on the ship, returned with a stowaway: Emily Plair, an artificial intelligence from Earth's cyberworld. But the colony is not the quiet refuge they hoped for....
50) Mitzvot
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"To be built to love is to be built to dissolve. It is to be built to unbecome. It is to have the sole purpose of falling apart all in the name of someone else."
Even the grandest of stories can feel small and immediate when it's just one person's life.
One of the most well-known names from one of the most well-known clades on the System, the avatar of political machinations and cool confidence, has been brought low. With help coming only from Ioan...
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Imagine a world without humans, where smart clothes equipped with apparel intelligence fight for supremacy. When a brave pair of smart-briefs sets out on a quest to cure his people's madness, he ends up in the middle of an all-out wardrobe war instead. That's just one of the incredible science fiction stories featured in this collection by USA Today best-selling author Robert Jeschonek. Don't miss these thrilling tales of robot messiahs, love-starved...
52) Rath's Gambit
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Rath just assassinated a senator, and completed his final mission for the Janus Group. Now every Interstellar Police officer on Alberon is searching for him. If they don't find him, one of his fellow contractors certainly will ... and the most feared criminal organization in the galaxy has severe punishments for employees who break the rules. Rath's only hope is to find the rogue contractor who helped him escape a company deathtrap after his final...
53) Mindlink
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EXIT REALITY The future of experience is digital...even in death. No one knows this better than Ray Garret. In a world where the human brain can connect directly to the internet, human beings become the target of a mass-murdering computer virus.
Ray's an Antivii agent in charge of tracking down the source of digi-human viruses. He's no lover of the HPDID (Human Perceptual Digital Interface Device), but when a recorded experience from his dead wife...
54) El artefacto
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El narrador, un profesor de ciencias en la universidad, es un ciborg, tiene un brazo inteligente. Desde esta experiencia, interpreta la realidad de la computación y en general, los límites de la inteligencia humana. Sus teorías se entremezclan con una investigación: la naturaleza de un artefacto que aparece en el pliegue de un cerebro registrado en un TAC.
Se trata de una novela de Ciencia Ficción, quizás en la categoría de Cyberpunk, escrita...
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Don't miss Katharine Duckett's Tor.com Original cyberpunk short story "The Ones Who Look"
Ethical Empire built the gate to heaven, and their employees hold the keys. By offering custom-built afterlives through full-brain uploads, they answered the needs of a society pushed to the brink by climate change and cascading antibiotic failure. But, for Zoe, who works daily to assess the sins of users and decide who's worthy of salvation, heaven is not so...
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"Instantly immersive…"– Ai Jiang, author of Linghun If you could live your life over again, what would you ask to change? Something big? Something small? A single moment? Have you decided on your question?Zoe has. Tired of feeling alone and lost, Zoe seeks out an experimental virtual therapy experience from Alternative Reality Tech, which offers patients the opportunity to explore life's biggest "what if?" questions. During her first assessment,...
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In a post-cyberpunk future, where global economic activity is carried out in a virtual-gaming realm, a new blood-transmitted virus has become a black-market staple due to its temporary rejuvenating effects, forcing infected "Eternals" into tightly knit underground communities where they must hack the V-net for basic food and shelter. In the first book of a series that "revitalizes the cyber-fiction genre with its vivid prose and believable characters"...
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Escape from Oz
Sirio Falken has been a fighter his whole life. But when the government bans professional fighting, his life spirals out of control. Convicted of murder, he's sentenced to life in prison. But all of the felons he's ever known have disappeared from Earth, never to return. He's about to find out firsthand what happened to them. He'll have to stay alive amongst Earth's most ruthless felons if he wants to survive ... and become the first...
59) Black Silicon
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Everything you've ever wanted is just a heist awayIn an interconnected future, hacker Chris Noonan thinks he's found the key to wealth and happiness for him and his mother. His hacks make him invisible for a short time, so he can rob a bank without them ever knowing he was there.When a heist goes wrong, however, Chris finds himself framed for murder. He needs to find out who set him up and why, before he ends up in prison for the rest of his life.If...
60) The Eyes Have It
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Jay's obsolete biotech Eyes are what's holding him back. He's not made of money, however, so when he gets the chance to upgrade on the cheap, he takes it.
The Eyes Have It is a humourous, slightly gruesome 14 000-word novelette, about 80 pages.
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