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Scribner
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English
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Arriving in New York to pursue a creative career in the raucous 1970s art scene, Reno joins a group of dreamers and raconteurs before falling in love with the estranged son of an Italian motorcycle scion and succumbing to a radical social movement in 1977 Italy.
3) Invasive
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Zer0s volume 2
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English
Description
Hannah Stander is a consultant for the FBI - a futurist who helps the Agency with cases that feature demonstrations of bleeding-edge technology. Hannah is in an airport waiting to board a flight when she receives a call from Agent Hollis Copper. I've got a cabin full of over a thousand dead bodies, he tells her. Whether those bodies are all human, he doesn't say. What Hannah finds is a horrifying murder that points to the impossible - someone weaponizing...
4) Aquariums
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English
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A marine biologist finds herself stranded in the Arctic while humanity is ending. In a near future, the young French Canadian biologist is making a name for herself by recreating marine ecosystems-- a process that will ultimately save them. In honour of her work, she is invited to participate in an Arctic expedition along with scientists from around the globe. While they are gone, humanity is almost entirely eliminated by a virus. Alone on the open...
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English
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"From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Kim Stanley Robinson once again turns his eye to themes of climate change, technology, politics, and the human behaviors that drive these forces. But his setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world -- rather, he imagines a more hopeful future, one where humanity has managed to overcome our challenges and thrive"--Publisher.
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