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The mechanists volume 1
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English
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A rare, searing portrayal of the future of climate change in South Asia. A streetrat turned revolutionary and the disillusioned hacker son of a politician try to take down a ruthlessly technocratic government that sacrifices its poorest citizens to build its utopia.
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In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion icon, activist, and worldwide superstar Janelle Monáe brings to the written page the Afrofuturistic world of one of her critically acclaimed albums, exploring how different threads of liberation-queerness, race, gender plurality, and love-become tangled with future possibilities of memory and time in such a totalitarian landscape... and what the costs...
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Broken Eye Books
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[2020].
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English
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The world of tomorrow holds wonders unlike anything humanity has ever seen! But only for those lucky few. Alicia, a runaway New Woman, comes to small-town Wheeling, West Virginia, and gets entangled with Jess and Dale, throwing their lives of pointless work and drug-fueled virtual reality into chaos. Meanwhile, truths are uncovered of the nation's rewritten history--truths powerful corporations would rather leave hidden. Rural cyberpunk of frustrated...
4) Mortal Coils
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Mortal Coils Aldous Huxley - Mortal Coils is a collection of five short fictional pieces written by Aldous Huxley in 1921.
As a Hollywood screenwriter Huxley used much of his earnings to bring Jewish and left-wing writer and artist refugees from Hitler's Germany to the US. He worked for many of the major studios including MGM and Disney.
In 1953, Huxley and Maria applied for United States citizenship. When Huxley refused to bear arms for the U.S....
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Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2020.
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First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Paperback edition.
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English
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A dark and compelling mystery set in the near future when complex AIs almost indistinguishable from humans-are the ruling majority, and in a controversial move, have opened a series of preserves, designated areas where humans can choose to live without robot interference. Now the preserves face their first challenge: someone has been murdered.
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Under the Sunset Bram Stoker - Under the Sunset is a collection of short stories by Bram Stoker (the author of Dracula), first published in 1881.
Its significance in the development of fantasy literature was recognized by its republication by the Newcastle Publishing Company as the seventeenth volume of the celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library series in October, 1978
A collection of gothic stories from Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula...
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Here are the fourth installments for both ongoing LitRPG series by genre author, Adam Drake.
Shadow Blade (Shadow For Hire Book 4)
A hallowed weapon hidden in a jungle hell.
Forced to prove my worthiness to an elite group of players, I must earn the right to enter one of the most notorious locations in the game. The Emerald Caldera has a fearsome reputation for chewing up would-be adventurers and quickly sending them back to the newbie zone. Filled...
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PART FOUR OF THE ORIGINAL SHADOWRUN SIXTH WORLD EDITION NOVELLA SERIES!
FIVE RUNNERS. ONE JOB. AND A WHOLE LOT OF TROUBLE...
After being double-crossed by one of the largest megacorps in the Sixth World, the shadowrunner team sets their own plans in motion: clear their names and deliver payback with a vengeance.
Before they can put their plans into action, Frostburn needs to check on her family to make sure they haven't been targeted by the megacorp...
9) Bad Hand
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Jump into this fun, spooky short with your favorite queer cyberpunk cast!
Tweak gets a nickname.
Naomi gets to lend a hand.
The Wildcards get a little more than they signed up for.
Maybe they'll think before they pull pranks next time....or maybe not.
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Life on New Mars is tough for humans, but death is only a minor inconvenience. The machines know their place, the free market rules all, and only the Abolitionists object.
Then a stranger arrives on New Mars, a clone who remembers life on Earth as Jonathon Wilde, the anarchist with a nuclear capability who was accused of losing World War III. That stranger remembers David Reid, New Mars's leader...and the women they fought over ideals they once shared.
Moving...
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A New Shadowrun Short Story! Most Awakened folks in the Sixth World have Mentor Spirits to help them navigate the vast, often confusing world of magic. Many times, the mage chooses a spirit that compliments them, and can help them out in tough situations.
And then there's Jimmy Kincaid.
Kincaid's never been one for taking the easy road, and to say his life is complicated is like saying water's wet. And when a simple trace job leads to a nest of...
12) Earth Hour
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There are ever so many ways to conduct a war. Only a few of them look like war.
13) The Frame Job
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PART THREE OF THE ORIGINAL SHADOWRUN SIXTH WORLD EDITION NOVELLA SERIES!
FIVE RUNNERS. ONE JOB. AND A WHOLE LOT OF TROUBLE...
After being double-crossed by one of the largest megacorps in the Sixth World, the shadowrunner team sets their own plans in motion: clear their names and deliver payback with a vengeance.
Rude didn't have much planned after the Telestrian run...sleep in and wait for his share of the payday. But when Zipfile calls asking...
14) Shadow Dance
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THE SHADOWS OF A MAN'S PAST ARE LONG...Cole Danvers is a small-time shadowrunner scratching out a living in the dangerous, divided sprawl of Denver, Colorado. But when a lucrative heist to steal an AmerIndian amulet goes terribly wrong, costing him both his teammates and nearly his life, Cole hits the streets intent on only one thing-vengeance.
But as he tracks down the Johnson that sent him on this deadly mission, Cole quickly realizes he's stumbled...
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Sleep State Interrupt centers around Waylee Freid, an unemployed journalist and musician with ever-worsening bipolar disorder, and her countercultural friends in the decaying city of Baltimore. Frustrated by the injustice of a system that benefits only a few, and the apathy of a population content to lose themselves in a virtual reality called BetterWorld, the group busts a notorious teenage hacker out of jail and sneaks into a closed election fundraiser...
16) BestFriend
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Nyshell is a little slower, a little clumsier, just a bit different. But with tutors and other tools wired into her brain, Nyshell and those like her have a shot at being normal.Of course, sometimes parents don't see what their kids do. Things can happen that shouldn't. And when all a girl wants is to have one friend, even if that friend exists only inside her head, that desire may change the lives of millions...if it doesn't destroy her first.
17) The Dominion
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So now things had developed. It was an imposition on how to think. A sporadic resistance did exist but only under the covers and that had been controlled. Being realistic, nothing could challenge the might of the status quo.
For centuries, it was just normal to let powerful factions do what the hell they wanted. Now was the same. It could have been construed as business as usual, the political classes doing as they pleased with a vulnerable population....
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Jane Swift is a gritty starship captain aiming for opportunity and adventure. The crew of the Starstriker is in desperate need of work. While searching for clients at the Star Harbors, Jane is approached by Sir Jarris Hackwell, founder of Atlantis. The famous explorer is leading an expedition to find a lost planet and offers her a job to transport his team past the Fringe. Despite her reservations, Jane cannot resist the call to adventure. Little...
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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 …
20) 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....
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