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In a universe of aliens, demons, and omniscient computers, does free will exist?
Kevin Knight's been training his whole life to fulfill a galaxy-saving prophecy. But when a grisly tragedy lands him in jail and demonic forces flood his consciousness, the fate of time and space seems doomed. Until a trench coat-wearing alien renegade shatters his understanding of reality.
Discovering Earth is merely an alien illusion to manipulate humankind,...
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Albert Halstead provides a fascinating analysis and interpretation of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey--his most famous film and perhaps the most important science fiction film ever made. Intended for both the film scholar doing research and the lay reader who is simply interested in learning more about 2001 and Kubrick's work, the book includes thirteen full-color frame enlargements along with color photographs which not only help the reader...
3) The Genesis
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The ageless characters who evolved from humans in Sea Species continue their efforts to save the Earth and humanity after the devastating destruction of the ecosystem by the series of meteorite strikes. With ninety percent of the human population wiped out, civilization is on the brink of extinction. Only the genetic technology of the descendant species, Homakuwa, can bring the ecosystem back before starvation takes the last humans. The United World...
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Chaos Weaving is Collection One of The Freeborn Chaos Chronicles. These first fifty futuristic flash fiction fables tell complex original stories and weave interesting concepts about our Universe through the experiences of people performing jobs, saving the planet, exploring gravity wells in deep space, peering through lenses to the future, and jumping time portals into the past. Most of these stories began with an epic title that tells a big part...
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Faced with an overcrowded, resource-depleted Earth, trumans (true humans) created CAESAR, a godlike AI sentient to serve the greater good. CAESAR rewarded them with miraculous technologies that culminated in the Civilization, a society spanning Earth, Luna, Mars and the Saturn moon of Titan. All Citizens in the Civilization are promised prosperity so long as the Equilibrium is sustained. For three centuries the Equilibrium has been sustained under...
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Ubel George lacks an identity in the challenging and competitive high school atmosphere. With failing tests and quizzes, he tries to find a shortcut to achieving success and popularity. He needs to jump through many hoops to find not only what is his most important goal but also his perspective on reality.
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Lee is an up-and-coming designer of seductive love dolls, until the day his sexiest creation yet goes murderously wrong. Sent to the crime scene to defuse a delicate situation, Lee finds that the rogue doll has been infiltrated by a mysterious, self-aware entity called Lilith who can't seem to make her mind up whether she's a silky-smooth seductress or a state-of-the-art assassination system. Within hours, Lee's encounter with Lilith has escalated...
8) Infinity
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Two lives; intertwined in a way that neither of them could have ever imagined. One, a young man running for his life from a mysterious threat that wants him eliminated. The other, a determined young woman, who will go to great lengths to get answers to the secrets her family keeps. Both of them are destined for something far greater than themselves, they just don't know it yet. Set in a futuristic, technologically-dependent, world that is not so far...
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It was just another typical hot West Texas day when Dr. Robert Casa was asked by his university's president to go to the scene of an auto accident out in the nearby desert. This might not be considered too unusual if Casa had been a medical doctor or even a forensic pathologist, but his specialty was human embryos. What he found buried in a sand dune under a sagebrush would lead him and his graduate student, Rose, on a grand adventure. An adventure...
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This is the tail that has cost many people their lives and will continue to do so. That you are reading this shows that man's power though great, is not omnipotent. The power men have they covet dearly. The power these people have is the ability to see, hear, smell, taste, really sense and analyze anything anywhere. In addition they have the power to destroy and kill. I tell you these things not that you can do anything about it, but rather to maybe...
11) The Kepler Code
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After global bee and butterfly populations crash, famines and pandemics divide the world into three rival political and military blocs. Each seek to create deadly viral missiles. Confronted by the malevolent Bounty Inc., a Nobel Prize scientist and a beautiful Brazilian biologist join a radical green underground headed by the mysterious "Jaeger" to prevent this, and devise an antidote which can save both humanity and countless besieged species. The...
12) Solid State
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In the year 2036, humanity has achieved a nearly perfect digitally based society. Behind the scenes, a terrorist group known as The Liberators see it as their mission to free humanity from the shackles of social media. Aided by a rogue tech billionaire, they detonate a nuclear device over the heart of technology, the San Francisco Bay Area. Their act instantly turns back the clock two hundred years on the eight million people who live there, leading...
13) The Fall
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In the ashes of World War IV, planet earth is unrecognizable. Book 2 of the Time Altar Series, The Fall, finds Twenty-Fifth Century United America, a juggernaut, in the pockets of an iron fist fascist regime. The only counterweight, Mutare Science and Technology Global (MST), is much more than it appears.
Dr. Benjamin Murray escapes to MST with the time-traveler Lt. Col. Jake Gillean and a proxy war erupts between the two global heavyweights. As...
14) Utopia
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Not What It Seems - The Unusual Girl in an Unusual World Looking for Adventure and She Finally Finds It.
15) The Button
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When Pete and Gary Godfrey stumble upon a skeleton in an ancient burial chamber, their lives are forever altered. They activate a bizarre crystal cube clasped in the skeleton's hand, and once its terrifying power has been awakened, things quickly spiral out of their control. The brothers have put themselves and the entire city of New York in danger, and soon they fall into the crosshairs of an NSA agent driven by a shadowy agenda. The deadly implications...
16) Visible Unknown
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"Visible Unknown" is an ambitious work of science fiction that poses thoughtful questions about the past, the future, and our own human vulnerability. The story begins as a deadly virus has wreaked havoc for 15 generations – killing trillions and no cure is in sight. Now, a group of teenagers embarks on a dangerous journey to find a cure… and they discover that they face a far more treacherous threat than anyone had ever imagined.
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17) Ark
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An unstoppable extinction level event (ELE) approaches the Earth.This impending disaster emanates from within our own solar system, yet to be formally identified by astronomers, is the vast planet named Ark. The 3400 year orbital path of this colossal Earth-like celestial body maintains catastrophic potential which is capable of destroying human life as we know it. For a privileged few, preparations have been under way for many years to save their...
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Year is 2056 Vern Robar is now the new President of the UA, formerly the United States.
He won the election with very little opposition, he is programed to be the best President in history. Programed? Yes because Vern Robar is the most advanced AI ever created. He is Perfect.
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A deep sequencing of The Gene Solution
What would you do to make your future children perfect?
Technology has reached the point where anything is possible in terms of the human body. The real question is, should anything be possible? What are the trade-offs?
In New York City, an OB/GYN group, led by Dr. Tripp Galloway, conducts clinical trials to cure rare diseases. These clinical trials are expensive, time-consuming and daunting. If they...
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This book is about things in the bible and what they mean. This book contains some dreams people have and how I define what they mean. This book contains omens people get and what they mean. This book has more about future broadcasts from the devils uocoming rule on earth and his winning vote that I heard through time bubbles. This book contains an idea for an electronic holy spirit.
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