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1) Creations
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Earth in 2040 is on the brink of environmental disaster. International controls affect everything from, who can travel by air to who can start a family. Meanwhile the rift between science and religion is growing as some turn to technology for answers, while others blame it for the catastrophe. And, for biological engineer Max Lowrie, whose efforts to see evolution taught in schools have led to him receiving death threats, the fact his wife's staunchly...
2) Eladria
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A dire prophecy is fulfilled when Tahnadra s royal moon is attacked and overthrown by religious extremists. Now a fugitive, Princess Eladria finds herself embroiled in a sinister experiment that threatens to destroy her world and countless others. With the barriers between dimensions rapidly collapsing and her planet in the midst of a bitter war, Eladria must travel to the forbidden land of Drantak, where a dark and ravenous force seeks to unleash...
3) Zen City
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The world of ZEN CITY is a world of passionate desires: the desire for power, the desire for order, and the desire for self-transcendence. ZEN CITY is a story about the struggle and violence of people who see themselves as striving for the ultimate. Along the way, ZEN CITY presents a sly critique of the practice and perversions of imported spirituality in twentieth-century America.
4) I, Human
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The author's 1988 novel, Transformations, told the story of a young geneticist who wanted to root out and replace the human species' more unsavory character traits. But, he found himself part of an experiment by advance beings who revealed the real inner-workings of human evolution as self-transcendence. Twenty-five years later, after the themes of transhumanism, its peril and its hope, have been, bandied about by authors of every stripe, Nelson revisits...
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Can the digital networks that record our footprints hold us steady when dementia threatens to push us off the path? This question has real stakes for data analyst Charlie Sanders. His best hope for a father succumbing to Alzheimer's comes from assistive technology that Charlie helps design for a scrappy startup. Despite early successes, Charlie has growing doubts about the motives of each of his colleagues, the eccentric CEO in Seattle, the call center...
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Jake hears voices, always has. They've never been a problem as long as he kept them to himself. While on a writing assignment to cover an A.I. convention, Jake reads the paper of a Dr. Sewall. What he discovers is puzzling, incomprehensible, maybe even impossible. Jake visits Dr. S after the convention and finds his creation, Rex - which looks like a bowl of gray-green oatmeal - whose voice somehow mingles with voices Jake has heard all his life....
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It's 2051. Global warming has flooded eastern U.S. coastal cities. The West is a waterless desert. Refugees migrate northward. Food and water are, rationed, amid the war. When Jeff Claymarker's friend is wrongly, convicted of murder, the only clue comes from a stash of flash drives belonging to his late uncle, a Washington climatologist. As he unravels the truth, he stumbles across a state secret that threatens to topple the government.
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Omega has grown up surrounded by women, literally. Inside the palisade, women fall in love, marry and raise daughters, relying on an artificial insemination process known as the Procedure. But, something goes horribly wrong. One day, Omega comes face to face with a mythical monster, a man, within the society's walls. Men had been, eradicated long ago, to protect women from the threat of violence. But, this boy is not what Omega has been led to believe....
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Khalid, Lahcen and Qeriya are three siblings living in a secretive desert community who find that each possesses a special power they are, forbidden to use. As they find the courage to seek answers to questions about their community and themselves, their parents are suddenly, struck unconscious by a serious illness, cured only by a flower found far away from home. The siblings find themselves fugitives for a reason they don't understand and as, they...
10) May's Moon
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Beating thousands of others, the geeky boy they call 'Micky Moon' at home, is one of ten children from around the world accepted onto the 'Children's Moon Program' in Florida. If he can survive the g-force of a space-shuttle launch, overcome his secret fear of water and pass the other battery of tests, he could win a place on the next mission to the moon!
11) Aliens, Robots & Virtual Reality Idols in the Science Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, Isaac Asimov an
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H. P. Lovecraft's aliens are extra-terrestrial, terrestrial & trans-dimensional entities, totally unlike any other aliens in science fiction literature. In contrast, Isaac Asimov's and William Gibson's aliens are human created positronic robots and virtual reality constructs, or 'idols'. Lovecraft's great theme is alien indifferentism, tinged with a malevolence that escalates into an existential, apocalyptic threat against humankind, while for Asimov...
12) The Malaise
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2038: Rick Razor's mark is, seen all over the world, with his innovative Razor Technology owned by the majority of the population. Professor Mike Pilkington sees a disturbing video on his RazorVision glasses and the world turns violently upside down. As almost every human being is, wiped out through murder and suicide, Mike helps rebuild society, but his hunger for answers drives him on a collision course with the chilling force behind the apocalypse......
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Basil the demon king has come to a crossroads. He has grown tired of life underground and regretful of the atrocities he has committed to maintain his hold on power. Wanderlust leads him to the surface, to live freely among humans. Considering the state of the world, most humans seem unfazed by his arrival - but not all. A religious zealot with murderous intentions and a vengeful biker gang seek his end. Meanwhile, Basil must contend with two internal...
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As this second book opens, the wanderers from the fifth dimension are now incarnate on Earth in the third dimension as 21 year old humans living around the world, in Moscow, New York, London, Tehran, Mumbai, Dublin, Tokyo, and Jerusalem. Growing up they have each had many strange encounters with the dark side, and now suspect they are not from this time and place. When they wake up, they reunite with their twin flames, and remember who they are and...
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In this feat of imaginative writing, Matthew Frend imagines a world in which the year is 2265 and Earth and its populace is a utopia, free-willed and contented, unlimited in its resources, with a past found in virtually accessible simulations. One such simulation is built around General George S. Patton's car accident in 1945. The simulation accesses an alternate world, where General Patton had not been killed and the U.S.S.R. spreads its tyranny...
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When he finds a hidden map and a scripture washed up with an unusual body at the Galunda Bay, Daimeh's idyllic life changes forever. After an autopsy has been conducted, he decides to follow the map and go on a journey with his aunt to the impassable lands to the north, where it is rumoured a great civilisation lives. In their path are giant worms, mysterious technology and a gargantuan. When they reach their destination, at first the Amunisari appear...
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The Invisible Hand is about a boy, Sam, who has just started life at a boarding school and finds himself able to travel back in time to medieval Scotland. There he meets a girl, Leana, who can travel to the future, and the two of them become wrapped up in events in /Macbeth/, the Shakespeare play, and in the daily life of the school. The book is the first part of a series called Shakespeare's Moon. Each book is set in the same boarding school, but...
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After his village is, decimated and his tribe enslaved by the dictatorial Zygeth, Ugoki, of the Rhajok'dons is, left to find his own way in the desolate realm of Stygia, where the sun never rises. Traveling west, he joins the resistance group. There he, meets a young boy, Xanoth, with whom he, develops an unbreakable bond. They vow to put an end to the oppression of Kraag'Blitz, forever, in this compelling second instalment of The Alkoryn Chronicles....
19) Perception
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For years Dena Anderson had all but ignored her twin brother Dalton, but that was before the aliens arrived. The extra-terrestrial spacecraft neutralized satellite communications, power plants and even the military throughout the United States within hours, leaving Dena and the other residents of Hugo Drive helpless. Now, with her husband at her side, Dena Anderson must struggle to exist in a world without order while contending with local racism,...
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Fire Hides Everywhere is a speculative fiction novel exploring a question central to identity: do we exist beyond our subject positions? Following an apocalypse in which all except those just born or about to die disappeared, Julian Feeld's novel sets out to explore the eternal Buddhist question: "Who is born? Who dies?" As the young are left to define their 'selves' untethered, an old man begins to enlist them as placeholders for those no longer...
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