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1) 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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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...
3) El artefacto
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El narrador, un profesor de ciencias en la universidad, es un ciborg, tiene un brazo inteligente. Desde esta experiencia, interpreta la realidad de la computación y en general, los límites de la inteligencia humana. Sus teorías se entremezclan con una investigación: la naturaleza de un artefacto que aparece en el pliegue de un cerebro registrado en un TAC.
Se trata de una novela de Ciencia Ficción, quizás en la categoría de Cyberpunk, escrita...
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"Electric Resurrection. Born again perfection. The six-zero correction."
For the last decade, Malon Edwards has been spinning out a world where humans have conquered death but still haven't bothered to take care of the living. Where resurrection is the ultimate commodity-if you're rich enough, powerful enough, and white enough to buy in.
If Wishes Were Obfuscation Codes and Other Stories collects 10 cyberpunk dispatches, including a brand-new, epic...
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In the fast-paced, tech-heavy future, the team has stolen their greatest prize yet. With the Agency closing in, Dolly calls in help from old friends, some closer than others, and the team gets Will to Bristol's hotel in Morocco. Once they arrive, Bristol switches to party mode, leaving Bits and Dolly to prepare their defenses without disturbing any of the guests. The hotel has a small security team, with little enough experience that it just makes...
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22nd Century Samurai is a book following the Cyber Trilogy concentrating on the children of the main character in the Cyber trilogy.
The book is written in three parts with each part dedicated to the accomplishments and chosen direction each takes in their lives. Each child was directed by their parents to follow what they loved instead of an income, if it led to wealth, it would only happen if they loved what path they chose to make as a career....
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THE COLDEST SHADOWS...
Arcano-archaeologist Elijah knows that digging into the past can be its own reward-or peril. When he's hired to find an ancient map purported to lead to a mysterious location at the bottom of the world, his professional curiosity is more than roused. But his quest to simply get his hands on the map is more dangerous than he expected-even for a shadow runner.
He and his own team of runners-including everything from a goblin...
9) Ghost Black
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Everything Risa Black believes is a lie.
Her angel is dead, the cause she's killed for is as false as her metal eyes, and the one man she thought she could trust has deceived her for sixteen years. Smothered by deepening layers of conspiracy, she decides to embark upon the most frightening mission of her life: leaving the Martian Liberation Front.
After eight years of trying to free Mars with high explosives, and a reputation as a less-than-sane...
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Imagine a world without humans, where smart clothes equipped with apparel intelligence fight for supremacy. When a brave pair of smart-briefs sets out on a quest to cure his people's madness, he ends up in the middle of an all-out wardrobe war instead. That's just one of the incredible science fiction stories featured in this collection by USA Today best-selling author Robert Jeschonek. Don't miss these thrilling tales of robot messiahs, love-starved...
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The world of Cyberpunk can be hard. It can be harder when civilization collapses.
All that is left is four kids and the entire population of Tokyo turned into zombies. Somehow these kids managed to not get infected by China's bio-warfare project gone bad. Luckily they each have their own unique skills that complement each other very well. Although they mesh well, it doesn't seem that way because they don't get along. They have completely different...
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In the fast-paced, tech-heavy future, diamonds are still a girl's best friend. Bristol is more than happy to get dressed up and crash a private diamond sale that her hacker associate, Bits, has caught wind of on the deep web. The job is unbelievably simple and the getaway is a breeze; Dolly barely even gets to fire a shot during the holdup. But in the days that follow, things start to go wrong. Bristol's dinner party is raided, their buyer backs out,...
13) Weary
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In the irradiated ruins of post-war Melbourne, children are going missing. The war in China changed Lance Corporal Diana Yossole. It broke her. It rebuilt her. Now she patrols the shantytowns along Melbourne's shoreline, keeping the peace with engineered, military precision. But when Yossole is tasked to assist the local bluecaps in an infant kidnapping investigation, she discovers that war has a way of following you home. There's a conspiracy at...
14) Return to Oz
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Falken survived the ordeal on Olympus, only to be stunned with a shocking revelation: his good friend Weaver is still incarcerated on Oz. The only way to get Weaver out is to volunteer to go back inside the prison himself. But the clock is ticking — Falken will only have a few days to find his friend and help him escape. While he's back on Oz, he'll have to follow the rules to the letter. One step out of line, and they'll both be stuck in jail ......
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An unhappy cyborg with a forbidden dream. A society that punishes change. A dangerous quest that could change Amy's future… or ruin it entirely.For centuries, men, women, and even children have filled narrow cubicles in skyscraping office buildings, rusty factory floors, and poorly lit illegal damp basements to slave for the survival of their families. Those jobs were low paid, grueling, and even deadly, but for some, it was the only way of life.By...
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The dust bunnies are out in force on the mean streets of Neocastle but Sehseh is always ready and able to help those in need. Whether it be a mugging, an store raid or even a kidnapping!
On her way to collect a plushi, Sehseh always ensure that the streets are as safe as can be. Though with the arrival of a schoolgirl assassin, questions about the past start to creep up. Armed with her razor broom though, it takes a lot to stop the Battle Maid in...
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Después del éxito de Fracasamos al soñar, el autor vuelve con una nueva entrega en la que la acción, el misterio, las aventuras y el amor, servirán de excusa para reflexionar sobre la ética, el transhumanismo, la nueva condición poshumana y las posibilidades que encierra. Un mundo para el olvido también nos habla de ecología y de las consecuencias futuras de nuestras decisiones presentes, porque si algo tienen en común ambas novelas, estas...
18) Escape from Oz
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In the distant future, Earth's worst criminals have all disappeared … and no one knows where they've been sent.
Sirio Falken has been a fighter his whole life. But when the government bans professional fighting, his life spirals out of control. All of the convicts he's ever known have disappeared from Earth, never to return. He's about to find out firsthand what happened to them. He'll have to stay alive amongst Earth's most ruthless felons if he...
19) Seeing Forever
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A life worth living?
Paul Cruz is no longer human. He's a Singular, his consciousness technological, no longer biological. He was there at the beginning and helped ensure the survival of all the Singulars. Free from the limits of flesh and blood, he wanted to live forever, but now that he's lost what he cares about the most, forever is too long, much too long.
After suspending himself for decades he is about to enter a virtual world called "Home"...
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In the fast-paced, tech heavy future, all work and no play makes a dull team. Bits scores an invite for the game: a real-world, multi-day puzzle and travel challenge with big prizes for the winners. Dolly and Bristol join the road trip, solve puzzles, take in the scenery, and bicker about snacks. But when Bits does what she does best and takes a look behind the code, all is not what it seems, and now the trio is playing against a different and deadlier...
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