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Detective Inspector Louisa Bennett's arrest of Portal CEO Benoit Walsh and the resulting scandal have done little to diminish the network's popularity. Its hand-held terminals have been replaced by implants, providing a deeper and more personal integration for millions of devotees.Yet not everyone is so enamoured with Portal's technological utopia. Terrorists strike against the company, demanding the dissolution of its network. When Louisa's foster...
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An ordinary man draws to the end of an extraordinary life.In this his final journey to the place of his birth, he has time to reflect on his past - a past of fears and promises, a past of forgotten wonders and hidden secrets, a past that holds the answers to questions as old as civilisation.It is also a time to contemplate his present and the mystery of his own being - of who he is, where he is, and why he is.And in his final hours he must decide...
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During a routine drive to dinner with her parents, sixteen-year-old Annie Walker's car is struck by a pickup truck. The resulting accident kills her parents and leaves Annie unconscious. When she wakes up, she thinks she's in a hospital, but the truth is far stranger. Annie has been downloaded into a computer program called PATTIE.With the help of PATTIE's brilliant programmer, Eric, Annie struggles to come to terms with her new existence. She also...
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End Time: Notes on the Apocalypse is a prescient, near-future thriller. Written in a slashing, evocative style, End Time received rave reviews in underground and small press circles in 1994.Greg Kovinski, the novel's protagonist, lives in interesting times. War and civil war rage across the former Soviet Union and much of the globe. The United States is fighting a sophisticated high tech counterinsurgency war in southern Mexico, against a popular...
5) EMP Caravan
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Stranded 1,500 miles from home by an EMP, Wayne forms a trading caravan to travel east from New Mexico to Indiana and try to get home to his family who he has had no word from since the EMP.To survive he must fight off the mysterious Stinks and discover who, or what, is behind them. If he fails, the entire caravan, and his family, will die. Complicating matters, Wayne must also choose between love and duty.Wayne's major ally is Yeti, a fifteen-year-old...
6) Identity
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Identity is a science fiction psychological thriller, set in a future where years of progress have come at a cost. Decades of wars and struggle forced the need for a unique solution. Desperate, a system of governance was formed based on genetic predisposition. Leaders centered their rule of law and obedience on a strict quasi-religious interpretation of scientific principles. The strife ends, technology advances at a staggering rate and the human...
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A shy, lonely computer genius tries to find love in the digital age.This tale is a testimony to the brutal impersonality of modern-day technology. Pygmalion for the 21st century. "Computer genius Dr. Carl Wingate has spent his life programming software and shaping the digital world. A widower in his 50s, Carl tries to find love again but no one sparks his interest. When his daughter suggests online dating, Carl decides to join Southern Singles and...
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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.-Albert EinsteinWe know our world, our land and our oceans, will survive an apocalyptic event…We can only hope the same can be said for our humanity.What will we do when suddenly our power, our phones, and our cars don't work? What will we do when we realize our government is missing and we have no protection; no police, no national...
10) Aestival Tide
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Elizabeth Hand's Winterlong trilogy continues: Welcome to Araboth In Aestival Tide,Elizabeth Hand returns to the extraordinary Winterlong universe. In Araboththe majestic, domed, multi-tiered city of the Ascendantsobsession with beauty and power vents in haunting, horrific ways. The resurrected Margalis Tast'annin has become the Aviator Imperator of the Ascendants, enslaved by his former lover and exiled to the debauched city of Araboth. And the city...
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Welcome to the Metrozone - post-apocalyptic London of the future. While the rest of Britain has devolved to anarchy, the M25 cordon protects a decaying city filled with homeless refugees, street gangs, exiled yakuza, crooked cops and mad cults. And something else; something new and dangerous.
Enter Samuil Petrovitch: a Russian émigré with a smart mouth, a dodgy heart and a dodgier past. He's brilliant, friendless, cocky and - armed only with a...
12) Gods of Risk
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A novella set in the hard-scrabble world of James S. A. Corey's NYT-bestselling Expanse series, Gods of Risk tells the story of Bobbie Draper following the events of Caliban's War. Now a Prime Original series.
As tension between Mars and Earth mounts, and terrorism plagues the Martian city of Londres Nova, sixteen-year-old David Draper is fighting his own lonely war. A gifted chemist vying for a place at the university, David leads a secret life as...
13) La niña perdida
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Una extraordinaria saga de ciencia ficción en español con una protagonista muy especialA sus diez años, Tanit es un genio. Es la astrobióloga más joven de la historia, y es por ello que se le ha autorizado a viajar a la recién fundada colonia de Thuis, a cincuenta años-luz de la Tierra. Tanit al fin volverá a ver a su madre, que se fue a la colonia dos años atrás. Lo que ni ella ni su padre saben es que algo horrible va a suceder, algo que...
14) Colonization
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Continue the journey with the third book in the blockbuster Alien Invasion series, the breakout sci-fi series with over 1000 5-star reviews. HUMANITY ISN'T ALL THEY LEFT BEHIND… Two years later, the world lives in fragile peace. But a clandestine search has begun … and a clock has started ticking. Two years after first contact, Astral forces have established their fragile kingdom around the globe. Motherships occupy the cities. Shuttles patrol...
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This omnibus includes both novellettes from F.I.S.T.S.: Sarge, F.I.S.T.S. #1 Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time… with the right person. Sarge is the short story of a burgeoning D/s relationship between two Space Marines stationed on an alien planet where an endless war drags on. Sergeant Wilkes is a hard man with a long, celebrated military career. Brawny, tattooed, and utterly submissive, Murphy is just an interesting...
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Born into a life of sexual servitude and trained to please men, Sempia believes her fate is sealed. She never dreamed her childhood sweetheart would resurface in her hour of need…or that he would be the winning bidder. Now a seasoned warrior, Eterin is nothing like the boy she remembers-he's all man and wants to possess her at all costs. But much has changed in the years they've been apart. Eterin has a new man in his life-one who wants to share...
17) Her Cyborg
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CAN'T FIND MR. RIGHT? WHY NOT CREATE HIM?MedAct is the company that can make all your dreams come true! Just give them a call and let them create the perfect man for you. But remember, you can never give him up. It will kill him, literally.Loneliness and failed relationships make Phoebe want a cyborg of her own. With him, she won't ever be heartbroken again, but getting a cyborg isn't easy. So when she turns to the medical and scientific company MedAct,...
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Nous sommes en 1990. Jake Stevenson a enfin terminé la machine à remonter le temps sur laquelle il travaillait depuis des années. Son but étant de partir rencontrer les plus grands inventeurs de ce monde, il a programmé la machine afin que celle-ci stoppe à des dates et des endroits importants de l'histoire de l'humanité. Mais c'est sa fiancée, Diane Reddams, qui entre dans la machine temporelle par accident.En dépit de son scepticisme, Diane...
19) Conquered Match
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When soldier Ryan Lopez learns his beloved wife, Thea, has betrayed his team by going to the media and spilling Program secrets, he takes matters into his own hands and punishes her the only way he knows how-by seducing her until she's begging for release. The more Ryan takes control of her body, the more he realizes he's never fully understood Thea's dark desires. And now that he's had a taste, he doesn't want to stop. Testing both their limits in...
20) Gravity
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The unpredictable gravity of the mysterious space anomaly knocks me off course. But it's the irresistible pull of its Captain I'm afraid I can't escape.Sucked into the Dark Anomaly's gravitational field, I crash into the solid mass in its center. It's made of thousands upon thousands of vanished spaceships.Inside the wrecked bowels of the Anomaly, existence is dark, vile, and deadly. The man in charge holds my life and freedom in his hands.I hate...
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