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741) Alterum
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A corporate agent must decide which side he is on as he navigates the company-ruled online colony Alterum. A hard sci-fi thriller that probes the relationship between consciousness and Artificial Intelligence."Alterum. Better than the real thing."Alterum's AI-generated population is waking up, realizing their true origin and position, designed to be workers and objects of pleasure for human visitors. A new religion has emerged that seeks to make...
742) The Ruined Land
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Exiled from the Pale, humachine Hector has found a home with the tribes Outside.
Or has he? While the canini struggle to care for the human twins, Feather travels Broad Plain to reunite them with their father. But his own family is scattered as the Pale sends out its terrifying army and the land itself buckles beneath them. Can anyone survive the ruination of the land?
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WHAT DOES ASCENSION TO POWER REALLY COST? Six months after the triumphant collaborative conclusion of the AgInnovator Superhero game show, Ruby Barkley and her ex-husband Gabriel Martiniere still struggle with the professional and personal fallout from their victory. The Superhero money allowed Ruby to launch her line of agricultural biobots. But one of the RubyBot spinoffs, the Defender, leads to unsettling revelations about crop tampering using...
744) Organo-Topia
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Murderous nanobots are on the loose, and detective Maris Peterson is going to find out why. After a young woman plunges to her death from a penthouse and the vicious bots eat another victim from the soles up, surly city detective Maris gets on the case. Digging deep into the steamy world of reproduction, he discovers the dark secrets of mega-companies whose donors are less than willing, and factories that are growing something that they shouldn't....
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I doubt that you've heard the story of the White Boar...
Before the reign of the Meiziki, there was the Odoya Clan: regular samurai who'd subsisted off the trash of others. They stockpiled weapons left over from the Citadel's countless civil wars, which allowed them to play the game of mob warfare with almost total supremacy. It's said that one man destroyed them.
By the time that Tavon had matured, his world consisted of those superior to himself....
747) Learning in Space
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IN A TECH-DRIVEN FUTURE INVOLVING SPACE, LEARNING TO SURVIVE MATTERS Bess Fielding has a natural affinity for life in space. But that doesn't mean that she-and her beloved, Alex Jeffreys-don't have things to learn about survival in space. THREE STORIES. TRANQUILITY FREERIDERS-Bess and Alex promote the notion of skiing and snowboarding on the Moon, not just for tourism, but for emergency evacuations. Will dustskiing meet the challenge when put to the...
748) Split Image
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He's a fish out of water, but he still has a bite.
Stefan Mendoza was the world's deadliest assassin. When he's forced out of retirement by disaster, the only work he can find is with a rotten corporate executive. The job: Locate an invaluable secret prototype stolen by couriers.
But it's the grotesque murders preceding the theft that interest Mendoza. And as the hunt goes on, the bodies keep piling up.
Pick up Split Image, the first book in this...
749) The Bounty
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Book three of Mandala, the mind-bending series that melds the mundane and the magical, the real and the surreal, the brutal and the beautiful. The Spirit demands, the flesh be damnedA thief on the run with an otherworldly score, hunted by assassins from beyond the edge of reality.As the job goes from bad to worse and the city erupts in machine gun fire, Gradie tries to carve out a place on the team, and prove he has what it takes to be a Hardworlder....
750) Null Point
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A mysterious weapon. Synthetic humans. Corporate espionage.
Stefan Mendoza is running out of time, running out of money, and running out of luck. Wherever he turns, people try to kill him. Only his shrinking circle of friends can be trusted-or can they?
To save his reputation, means risking all he values. Does he have the determination to see this through, or will his humanity turn him away?
Pick up Null Point to experience the action-packed conclusion...
751) The Crashing Tide
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Stories about alien encounters, time travel, the surveillance state, life on distant planets, and love and drugs in the not-too-distant future. Told from the perspectives of wildly differing characters and in a variety of narrative styles, The Crashing Tide is a genre-spanning collection of weird, evocative, and thought provoking stories.
752) Inertia
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Gliese 581g is the last remaining colony of the human race, located twenty light years from Earth. The planet was once tidal locked to its sun, with one side draped in darkness and the other half always bright. This changed after a radical group called O.A.K. increased the planet's rotation to bring daylight cycles to all in the name of equality. All was not well, however, as decades passed, and new generations dealt with continual floods as the newfound...
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Award winning science fiction magazine - published in Scotland for the Universe New StoriesChris Barnham – Everywhere is Everywhere and Anywhere Else is NowhereBo Balder – Shrink the MountainMonica Louzon – Second-HandKen MacLeod – The Shadow MinistersLindz McLeod – The Peter PrincipleHeather Valentine – CockroachAndy McKell – RescueAdam Marx – The Park SF Poems fromRichard MagahizJuleigh Howard-HobsonSadie Maskery Q&A with Peter Buck...
754) Halcyon
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What can you do when a computer virus starts infecting people?
For years, a virus that targets cybernetics has plagued people with any sort of computerized implant in their bodies. It is untraceable, unpredictable, 100% fatal and infecting more people every day.
Politics tore apart Project Requiem, a highly-funded military endeavor meant to create an antivirus to save humanity. A ragtag group of programmers and visionaries is trying to pick...
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Sometimes the only way to rebuild is to destroy.Following the events of RUINS OF THE FALL, con man turned reluctant hero Luke Stokes returns to where his journey first began: New Manhattan.He must find a way to harness HIVE's power before the system spirals out of control. As he's hunted by familiar enemies, old allies might help keep the world from plunging into the darkness-but Luke knows that there's only one law in this harsh new world: nothing...
756) Crude Space
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Time after time humanity evolves to escape from the expanding reaches of extinction. The third planet from the yellow sun has long burned out as the human race claims strange new worlds in the galaxy. Seven Colonies of Man, known as The Nomical Order, reign supreme. Law is enforced by the Augustus Colony, home to the Capital Planet, Octavian.The wars that ended mankind's time on their virgin planet echo through generations. There is tension within...
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The safe world of the Pale is under threat.
Inside the policosmos, the new Regent Adaeze strives for dominance over the all-powerful Senior Forecaster, but the Pale's humachine citizens are unaware that their city is close to collapse.
Outside on Broad Plain, the exiled human Hector undertakes a dangerous trek to find a safe haven for the orphaned twins.
How can anyone survive as their world shifts underneath them?
758) A Haunt of Jackals
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His first case as a Seraph marshal may be his last. When Seraph's head marshal calls in Miles Kim to help investigate a triple murder, Miles finds three bodies with no simple answers. Why were a water baron, a militia leader, and an information broker meeting in a remote junkyard away from their bodyguards? With no witnesses and no survivors, the case will thrust Miles into the center of a power struggle between the militia and Seraph's underworld....
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A digital god has no need of worshippers; only slaves. It's been ten years since Chris Leuben's fall from grace began with no apparent end to it. When the mafia boss he has grudgingly been working for threatens his son's life unless he apprehends the terrorist responsible for the A-B Massacre, Leuben is forced to accept. When the team they paired him with gets exterminated after the job is done, Leuben begins to investigate. What he discovers shakes...
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Le récit réel d'un individu qui a migré du statut d'homme pour s'exiler en celui de robot, dans une écriture qui angoisse les trompeurs et qui détrompe les angoissés.
Ce livre relate l'histoire réelle d'un individu qui a migré du statut d'homme pour s'exiler en celui de robot. Ce livre n'est pas comme les autres. C'est une plainte contre X.
J'écris pour affaire. Je ne veux pas tromper l'angoisse par l'écriture. Je veux que mon écriture...
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