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Internet apocalypse novels volume 2
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Gladstone, the so-called "Internet Messiah," has not only failed to bring back the Web, but his search has landed him in a New York City psychiatric ward. The rest of the world isn't doing so well either, filled with disconnected Internet users still jonesing for a fix, and an increasingly draconian Government, interrogating and detaining anyone deemed a "person of interest" under the NET Recovery Act.
For Gladstone, however, finding the Net is less...
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A DEAD STAR IS HEADED FOR EARTH...THE SHIFT IN EARTH'S ORBIT WILL UNLEASH A NEW ICE AGE...AND THIS SUMMER WILL BE OUR LAST.THE NEWS BREAKSLogan Willis's life is falling apart: he lost his job and found out that his wife is cheating on him all in the same day. Thinking that his world has ended, Logan checks into a hotel and turns on the TV to see that he's not far wrong-radio telescopes have detected mysterious signals coming from inside our solar...
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Finna's Revenge–Book #2 in the Seeker Series of High Concept Science Fiction, is the second novel in the Origin Story a seminal series that pre-date all of our published stories dealing with the emergence of the already named, next human species: Self-Evolving, Self-Healing, Immortal, Homo Evolutis,The Pitch presents the beginning of the story, a thousand-year quest 30+ years before she is born.While Finna crusades for Eleanor of Aquitaine, a time...
784) 7 Steps to Midnight
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Government mathematician Chris Barton lives a routine life_x2014_until, at the end of an ordinary workday, he finds his car missing from the employee parking lot. When he finally arrives home, there is a stranger living in his house_x2014_a man who claims to be him. Thrust suddenly into a surreal world where the evidence of his senses cannot be trusted and strangers are trying to kill him, Chris must avoid violent assassins while following a trail...
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Un conflit interracial et religieux avait déjà fait des ravages, réduisant d'un tiers la population mondiale. Rien ne semblait capable d'arrêter cette spirale destructrice. Les morts restaient souvent sans sépulture et l'humanité se trouvait à un point critique de son histoire, o l'autodestruction paraissait inévitable. Cependant, des scientifiques français vont faire une découverte cruciale. Ils proposent de « mixer » les gènes de toute...
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Anna left at dawn.
She entered the Martian desert, all alone.
Where is she going?
What secret is she hiding?
Thirty years after the Mars exploration mission Hera, whose crew died in mysterious circumstances, the ensuing political issues that slowed NASA's race to conquer space have finally ended. This time the five members of the new Isis mission will not travel the 400 million kilometres for a short visit. This time they are destined to become the...
787) Unknown 9
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To solve the enigma of her past, a brilliant but troubled young woman joins a deadly global treasure hunt. Strange hallucinations have plagued PhD student Andie Robertson throughout her life. After years of consulting doctors, she decided the visions were a glitch in her own mind-until her mentor, the famous physicist Dr. James Corwin, is murdered in Italy, and Andie finds a stack of ink drawings in his office that bear a remarkable resemblance to...
788) Coherence
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Reality is slipping away…
Coherence is the second novel in the REPLIKA trilogy and picks up from where Sky's Mission ended.
Discovering the secrets of his mother's research, Morgan sets out to defeat Henry and rescue Aviva from the Red Masks.
When Aviva suspects the Red Masks are not the only ones trying to control the Virt, she must make a tough decision that may spark a deadly conflict in the city streets.
Hugo Bernard crafts another page-turning...
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Rake Cunningham, a chip-enhanced detective, upgraded to sniff through paranoid-conspiracy theories to know which ones are worth following up, stumbles upon a case that is no typical example of corporate malfeasance. He signed on for the enhancement with the idea he'd be taking down white collar criminals and techies, or Machiavellian CEOs just too smart to be caught any other way. What he runs into instead is a plot to depopulate the world in order...
790) Android Assassins
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FBI agent, Max Chase, has been set up by his own agency. As ugly as that is, the whole truth is even uglier.You see, Chase works as a Futurist for the FBI, in a sub-department that few know about, and that's how they like it.So when a techno-terrorist materializes with the moxie to put the entire world in danger, Max agrees to take the heat. Of course, that means every agency on the planet is looking for him, including Interpol.But if they're chasing...
791) The Path
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AI threatens to destroy humanity, and only one computer expert can stop it in this cyberpunk thriller by the author of Murder on Safari.
Simon Bank lives in a future where just about everything in America is run by the System-the food supply, the weather, national security, and more. Everyone is free from want. Individuals can control where they live and where they go to school. They can have a relationship with whomever they like. They can set...
792) San Andreas
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Another magnificent tale of treachery at sea from a storytelling genius.
Suddenly, just before dawn, the lights went out aboard the San Andreas. For the British hospital ship sailing the deadly, U-boat patrolled Norwegian waters, a nightmare of violence and betrayal has begun. A terrifying game of sabotage in which an unknown traitor among the crew holds all the cards.
The red crosses on the vessel's sides spell anything but safety. For a dangerous...
793) The Killing Star
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A near-future thriller of a devastating alien invasion from the paleontologist who inspired Jurassic Park and the award-winning science fiction author.
There were always those who disagreed with broadcasting signals into the deepest reaches of outer space, because our mere existence could be taken as a threat. They were right to be concerned . . .
In the spring of 2076, just days short of America's tricentennial celebrations, every...
794) Unkillable
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As a futurist for the FBI, Adrian Maslow's job is to forestall any unpalatable future. The idea that someone wielding next-generation, world-ending tech will get past him has him losing sleep and possibly losing his mind.And the job just gets tougher every day.The future is coming at him faster and faster. Between the genetic enhancements and the nano-enhancements of his adversaries, his underfunded department is up against it. And now comes The Unkillable...
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A page-turning history about the invention of the motion picture and the mysterious man behind it-detailing his life, work, disappearance, and legacy. The year is 1888 and Louis Le Prince is finally testing his "taker" or "receiver" device for his family on their front lawn. The device is meant to capture ten to twelve images per second on film, creating a reproduction of reality that can be replayed as many times as desired. In an otherwise separate...
796) The last exit
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"Set in Washington D.C. in the near future, climate change has hit hard, fires are burning, unemployment is high, and controversial longevity treatments are only available to the very rich. Enter resourceful young police detective, Jen B. Lu, and her 'partner', Chandler, a SIM implant in her brain and her instant link to the Internet and police records, and constant voice inside her head. He's an inquisitive tough guy, with a helluva sense of humor...
797) Next: a novel
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IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
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In a near-future world where biotechnology and genetic research has become big business, the discovery of several transgenic animals leads to a legal and ethical battle over the rights to genes that can be used for commercial purposes.
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The United States, China, and Russia eye each other across a twenty-first century version of the Cold War, which suddenly heats up at sea, on land, in the air, in outer space, and in cyberspace. The fighting involves everything from stealthy robotic-drone strikes to old warships from the navy's "ghost fleet". Fighter pilots unleash a Pearl Harbor-style attack; American veterans become low-tech insurgents; teenage hackers battle in digital playgrounds;...
799) IRL
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Something is wrong in Bunker, Illinois …
Nora Grace Moon thought the toughest challenge this semester would be surviving crippling bouts of OCD, but when her deceased roommate turns up as a reanimated corpse, her world starts to collapse.
Nora has an uncanny, heated connection to fellow gamer Wesley. She finds out he's a US Marshal with real-life skills for tactical survival, not just in-game. They uncover a plot involving an ancient archeology...
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In every dream, a current of nightmare...Lincoln is gone and it's all her fault. NYPD Detective Sylvia Harbinger once thought the world and its WHISPs had become the place of her nightmares, but now that her baby boy has been kidnapped by bioterrorists and taken halfway around the world, she knows what true nightmare is.But Sylvia isn't about to abandon her son.She'll do whatever it takes to get him back, even if it costs more than she ever thought...
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