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1421) Babylonian Lines
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Exploring the ancient asteroid Psyche, nuclear scientist Salaam Rahal finds himself in a dangerous situation while exploring for evidence of an advanced civilization. His commander and friend, Calager McGeen, and the base's engineer, Sara Lafeete, must risk their own lives to find Salaam. Can they reach him in time? Will they find what he is looking for?
1422) Gravity Is Heartless
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What will the world look like in thirty years' time? How will humanity survive the oncoming effects of climate change? Set in the near future and inspired by the world around us, Gravity Is Heartless is a romantic adventure that imagines a world on the cusp of climate catastrophe.
The year is 2050: automated cities, vehicles, and homes are now standard, artificial Intelligence, CRISPR gene editing, and quantum computing have become a reality, and...
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Off-grid hackers tasked with AI creation proceed from integrating increasingly complex layers of what it means to be conscious.
Dominant Life Form chronicles an alien instigated project whose mission's success or failure will determine the future of Earth's native intelligences. Set inside a single chance given to off-grid hackers to create true intelligent reproducing robots, AI creation proceeds from individual skills of the team in escaping...
1424) Cosmophobia
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Who is watching the stars, every second of every day, so we can better understand the universe?
Inspired by the James Webb Space Telescope which will be launched and deployed in 2020. It will hopefully be as invaluable as Hubble was, opening our eyes to the cosmos.
1425) The Forge of God
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On July 26, Arthur Gordon learns that Europa, the sixth moon of Jupiter, has disappeared. Not hiding, not turned black, but gone. On September 28th, Edward Shaw finds an error in the geological records of Death Valley. A cinder cone was left off the map. Could it be new? Or, stranger yet, could it be artificial? The answer may be lying beside it-a dying Guest who brings devastating news for Edward and for Planet Earth. As more unexplained phenomena...
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H2LiftShips, Vol 1-3 You all knew we would settle on Luna and start mining the Asteroid belt.Mars, dry, dusty with thin unbreathable air, is just a prison planet with the added hell of lawyers and accountants in charge.Asteroid groups are unified in their desire for independence to try different governance methods.Volume 1: Landing, Launching, RoadTrip, and a Carne Asada Party in the DesertVolume 2: Buying, selling in the Asteroids, Family dinner,...
1427) Murder Red Ink
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In Murder Red Ink, Mord McGhee imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of horror, human nature, and captures the brutal reality of the monster behind the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888. Allena Gould moves among the horror brought into the future of Chicago, where technological ghosts are a reality and historical interface programs can be rewritten and interacted with. Once a talented prodigy, she wrestles her way through Hellish nightmares;...
1428) Sputniki Yupitera
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Americans under the thumb of interplanetary Russians.Can they strike a blow for solar system freedom? Andrew wanted a new start, far from a fallen USA under foreign hegemony. The American colony on a moon of Jupiter needed nuclear power technicians like him. To get there, he must journey for months on board a Russian ship. Not alone. Locked in with fellow American colonists who proclaim the New Covenant, just like him. But soon he discovers they worship...
1429) The Dark Light Years
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What would intelligent life-forms on another planet look like? Would they walk upright? Would they wear clothes? Or would they be hulking creatures on six legs that wallow in their own excrement? Upon first contact with the Utod- intelligent, pacifist beings who feel no pain-mankind instantly views these aliens as animals because of their unhygienic customs. This leads to the slaughter, capture, and dissection of the Utod. But when one explorer recognizes...
1430) Going Dark
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Everyone knows the Sokolnikov Brothers, two geniuses who perfected driverless cars and transformed global transportation. Thanks to Mike and Sergei, highway travel around the world is cheap and safe.But the Departments of State and Homeland Security have a lot to say about how, where, and for whom these autonomous vehicles are allowed to operate. Eventually, even the billionaire brothers are unable to prevent their inventions from becoming oppressive...
1431) The Year 200
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Centuries have passed since the Communist Federation defeated the capitalist Empire, but humanity is still divided. A vast artificial-intelligence network, a psychiatric bureaucracy, and a tiny egalitarian council oversee civil affairs and quash "abnormal" attitudes such as romantic love. Disillusioned civilians renounce the new society and either forego technology to live as "primitives" or enhance their brains with cybernetic implants to become...
1432) The Salamandrion
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In the late 25th century, a systems analyst is called in to diagnose a strange instability in the computers of a base established on the most volcanically active planet ever encountered. What he finds shakes his understanding of reality, because this planet is not as dead as it seems, and it wants humans gone-for their own sake.
1433) The Phoenix Code
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The Nebula Award–winning author "continues to dazzle us with brilliance in combining science, romance and adventure." -Romantic Times
MIT professor Megan O'Flannery is one of the world's leading research scientists on artificial intelligence for androids. Most of her work consists of working with computer simulations, so when the company MindSim gives Megan an opportunity to work with an android, she jumps at the chance.
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Nikolai Tesser began his days as he always did, with a routine check of his data-miners. He was the proud owner of five machines, each processing at an Exabyte-per-second. Sure, they were a little outdated, but his custom hardware and clocking software made him more than comfortable with the information he was able to excise from the Exonet. He then went on to the less important checks of his little Star Jumper-life-support, food processors, and material...
1435) Cold
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Reg Driscoll is the richest man in history. He singlehandedly made humans a space faring people. His company has created marvelous technologies that has benefitted the entire human race. But he is also on facing death because of a decades long barbaric law that he has been exempt from. Until now. He has one change, however, to exact revenge on those that have brought to death's door. One chance to face the cold heart of man.
1436) Réalités: Tome 1
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Alors qu'ils effectuent une simple mission, Aeria et Bron font une découverte bien surprenante...
2012 : Les Limiers Aeria et Bron effectuent en Réalité Un une mission pour la société idéale de la Réalité Zéro. Leur but ? Traquer ceux qui pourraient perturber leur époque en développant leur faculté de déplacement à travers les mondes. Mais bien vite, le couple repère des anomalies dans les câbles quantiques. Selon l'Analyste Welmot,...
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Reviews for Ancient:"This would make an amazing movie", ★★★★★"Breathtaking and visual", ★★★★★"Reads like Isaac Asimov writing War Hammer 40k", ★★★★★"Thrilling military science fiction", ★★★★★Betrayal!For the arrogant Truth-Tellers, guardians Logan and Odessa are an inconvenience. A problem with a simple brutal solution.But not everything is as it seems; not every path leads to salvation.Navigating a web of lies...
1438) The Red Kimono
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Reality is merely Perception! Truth is simply ones and zeros!The RED KIMONO is the A.I.'s method of eliciting information, gathering intelligence . . . And this method is very effective!The Kimono can be any color, of course. The color depends upon your perception, your state of mind. The Kimono's natural color is red. That's what the A.I. prefers, and created.And She . . . well, She is something you'll just have to experience for yourself--And you...
1439) The Hormone Jungle
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From Hugo Award-winning author Robert Reed. Set 2,000 years in the future, THE HORMONE JUNGLE tells the story of hunters and the hunted, fighting on an overcrowded, terraformed Earth, inhabited by trillions of lifeforms-some human, some robotic, some cybernetic. Chiffon is an android Flower, a courtesan created to give pleasure. Trying to escape her crimelord master, Dirk, in the steamy equatorial city of Brulé, she enlists the help of Steward, a...
1440) The Oracle
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Fears of a weaponized blockchain become reality when a software developer races to deactivate the rogue smart contract targeting him for assassination.
Life is comfortable for a prominent, if schlubby, dev at a New York City blockchain company. That is, until FBI Special Agent Diane Duménil seeks his help against a chilling threat: The Delphians, worshippers of the god Apollo, have launched a rogue smart contract offering a crypto reward to...
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