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"From the bestselling author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Devil and the Dark Water comes an inventive, high-concept murder mystery: an ingenious puzzle, an extraordinary backdrop, and an audacious solution. Solve the murder to save what's left of the world. Outside the island there is nothing: the world was destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island: it is idyllic. One hundred and twenty-two...
2) Lunar Logic
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On the vacuum surface of the moon, life for Ai-dan and a cohort of moon-dwelling androids is anything but a lunar wasteland of boredom. They spend their days maintaining lunar data centers with a quaint blue-green, and sometimes whitish, orb hanging in the sky. Between playing games and spirited debates on the meaning of the shimmering orb, the robots' existence is near idyllic.But when a malfunctioning system leads Ai-dan to stumble upon a mysterious...
3) Sky's end
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Above the black volume 1
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"Exiled to live as a Low, sixteen-year-old Conrad refuses to become heir to his murderous uncle. But Meritocracy is a harsh and unforgiving rule on the floating island of Holmstead, and when his ailing mother is killed by monstrous gorgantauns, Conrad cuts a deal to save the only family he has left. To rescue his sister from his uncle's clutches, Conrad must enter the Selection of the Twelve Trades"--
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2023.
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"About a Chinese American chef who, lured to a decadent, enigmatic colony of the superrich in a near future in which food is disappearing, discovers the meaning of pleasure and the ethics of who gets to enjoy it, altering her life and, indirectly, the world"--
A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world?s troubles....
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Mississippi, 1730Kokumbo has only ever known slavery, and he's decided he's had enough. When he revolts and flees through the British American South and eventually back across the ocean to Africa, seeking both freedom and revenge, he encounters a group of former slaves with such power that they could potentially end slavery forever.Madagascar, 1923Rivotra finds himself on a chain gang, convicted of treason against the French government, yet hated...
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The first two books in the Singularity's Children series.
Book one - Denial
Tense, intelligent science fiction packed with ideas.
Debt, wars, and inequality are pushing society toward collapse. It's a world desiccated by soulless algorithms, pacified beneath the battle suit's boot, and numbed by the bewitching voices of computational propaganda.
Singularity's Children is vivid world-building. The desperate lives of its characters draw the listener...
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When Erasmus Crane, the famous occult detective is called to investigate the murder and mutilation of a young woman he is instantly both repulsed and terrified. Not only by the gruesome nature of the killing and the strange squid like formations the murderer has made of the entrails but also by what those strange symbols mean. Erasmus, has seen them before.
The Cthulhu Murders drag Erasmus and his faithful companion into a dark and secretive world...
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The God of death is allowed to take a holiday, conditional on completing a task.
Eamon the Handsome Ghoul deputises but grows to like the job.
Mason, a violent misogynist detective agrees to let the God of Death assume his identity.
As Mason he must deal with his feelings for Pauline, Mason's submissive wife. And as a detective he is sucked into the machinations of a Chicago gangster who is looking to expand into New Orleans and Las Vegas.
He...
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A MODERN PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
A man dreams that a giant roller moves over the city, crushing everything in its path in the name of Progress. Behind it unfolds a wide road. The man knows he must follow this road into the future to try to find his missing children.
About The Author: After studying Modern History at Oxford University, Geoffrey trained as an actor at LAMDA, and has worked at the RSC, the National Theatre, Shakespeare's Globe, in the West...
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Eine Chinesin, die es wagt, ihren brasilianischen Freund nicht mehr länger nur in einer virussicheren, virtuellen Realität zu treffen. Ein junger Mann in Sri Lanka, der mittels autonomer Fahrzeuge Leben rettet. Ein Münchner Quantencomputerprofi, der die Welt mit KI-gesteuerten Waffen ins Chaos stürzen will ... In KI 2041 haben sich der international bekannteste KI-Experte und ein führender Science-Fiction-Autor zusammengetan, um eine zwingende...
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Was auch immer Du über Vampire und Werwölfe zu wissen glaubtes,. ist komplett falsch – sooo dermaßen falsch! Der tausend Jahre lang um die Unbekannte Welt gehüllte Mantel des Schweigens beginnt zu zerfleddern und der Patriarch ist müde. Er muss einen Nachfolger finden. Er findet Bethany Anne. Unbekannt, unerfahren und unerprobt macht sie sich auf, das Unmögliche zu schaffen und eine neue Zukunft zu schmieden. Eine Zukunft, von der niemand...
14) Leap Second
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The camp is destroyed, thousands of acres burned to the ground, and all but one person is accounted for.
When Tommen wakes up in a forest of ash, he makes a startling discovery-well, more startling than being cold, alone, injured, infected, and concussed. He's invisible and incorporeal. Somehow, in the chaos of the fire, he was thrown into the Land In Between, from which no one has ever returned. Worse, Time does not work in the Land In Between, meaning...
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"One Hundred Proofs That the Earth Is Not a Globe" is a controversial book written by William Carpenter in the late 19th century. In this book, Carpenter presents a series of arguments and observations to challenge the prevailing belief that the Earth is a sphere. While the scientific consensus overwhelmingly supports the spherical shape of our planet, Carpenter's work reflects the ideas and theories of a small group of flat Earth proponents.
Carpenter's...
16) Relics of Dawn
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BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER • "Mind-blowing is an understatement!"-I♥Sci-Fi Online
"Fans of Interstellar, Stargate, and Arthur C. Clarke will love this thought-provoking science fiction saga written for our changing world."-NJ BOOK REVIEW
From Amazon Top 100 author A.W. Davidson comes the time-twisting tale of two scientists on a mission to reverse climate change - and unravel a mystery spanning eons.
In 2296, an unstoppable mass extinction is underway....
17) Plains of Utopia
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Xenon Hybrid, the Red Planet's ceremonial head-of-state, has not been seen for many years after withdrawing to an isolated enclave in the far north where he steadily built up a following of citizens seeking out an alternative lifestyle. They bother no one, and no one bothers them.
But when an Earth-bound ship explodes on the launchpad in Jezero City, and the DNA from two bodies recovered at the site are found to be an exact match, Dr. Jann Malbec...
18) Introdus
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The year is 2074. For a decade, the technology for mind upload has existed. Anyone who wants to – and has the means to do so – can now stave off death by having their brain scanned and uploaded to the grid; a virtual, digital world. Society is divided over the new technology, but Anders Helmemyr, one of the proponents of the transhumanist movement, is hopeful. He dreams of a day when this technology will be available to everyone.
When a devastating...
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Get ready for a spine-tingling space adventure like no other! Introducing "Captain Commander and the Space Spiders... FROM SPACE!" - a side-splitting, heart-racing, and fear-inducing novella that will have you laughing, trembling, and questioning the sanity of the cosmos! Brace yourself for a hilarious yet terrifying tale of intergalactic arachnids, cosmic chaos, and a hero who might be in way over his head.Join Captain Commander, the intrepid (and...
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Named one of the Horror Writers Association's Top 40 Horror Books of All Time, Theodore Sturgeon's gripping psychological thriller both fascinates and terrifies with the story of a troubled soldier and his bizarre, violent obsession with vampirism. At the height of an unnamed war, a soldier is confined for striking an officer. Referred to as George Smith in official papers and records, the prisoner comes under the observation of Army psychiatrist...
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