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1) Repo virtual
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The city of Neo Songdo is a Russian doll of realities -- augmented and virtual spaces anchored in the weight of the real. The smart city is designed to be read by machine vision while people see only the augmented facade of the corporate ideal. At night the stars are obscured by an intergalactic virtual war being waged by millions of players, while on the streets below people are forced to beg, steal, and hustle to survive. Enter Julius Dax, online...
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"There's a price on her head, and it has everything to do with the brand on her arm. Tertian Space Coalition has blessed every planet in the quadrants with high technology, save one: Drosero. But in spite of their tenuous treaty with the ruling clans, TSC has plans for the backward planet. And they're not alone. After a catastrophic explosion, Kersei Dragoumis awakens in a derelict shuttle, alone, injured, and ignorant of the forbidden technology...
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"Former drone operator Mat, now more machine than man, is obsessed with preventing casualties on his oft-violent missions. Despite his reluctance to work for the shadowy International Access Corporation, Mat accepts a lucrative job protecting one of its packages in transit. But when he discovers the package is Silvia, a woman experimented on against her will and transformed into a monstrous killer, Mat turns on his employers to rescue her. As the...
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From Arthur C. Clarke, the brilliant mind that brought us 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Stephen Baxter, one of the most cogent SF writers of his generation, comes a novel of a day, not so far in the future, when the barriers of time and distance have suddenly turned to glass.
When a brilliant, driven industrialist harnesses cutting-edge physics to enable people everywhere, at trivial cost, to see one another at all times-around every corner, through...
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The World Court or the most powerful government of the universe initiates an unprecedented and controversial trial against Pontius Pilate, for authorizing and ordering the execution of Jesus.Using the technology to travel throughout time, the rulers of the universe bring Pontius Pilate to their world, before he dies. However, this trial is a political weapon of the conspirators to delegitimize the Universal Justice System. In this regard, the prefect...
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Second part of The Trial of Pontius Pilate:The authoritarian magistrates are politically cornered. They face protests and threats due to the arbitrary detention of rulers and the absence of information in other serious cases. The World Court executes several extraordinary measures, crossing definitively the red line between democracy and dictatorship. Without recognizing the existence of the Global Alliance, the magistrates declare the war to Hagmog's...
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Segunda parte de El Juicio a Poncio Pilato:Acorralados políticamente, los magistrados autoritarios enfrentan protestas y amenazas por la detención arbitraria de los gobernantes y la ausencia de información en otros casos delicados. El Tribunal Mundial ejecuta varias medidas extraordinarias, cruzando definitivamente la línea roja entre democracia y dictadura. Sin reconocer la existencia de la Alianza Global, le declara la guerra al gobierno de...
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Leopold Einstein-former janitor, accidental pan-dimensional being and occasional corpse-is brought back to life on a doomed spaceship where four parallel realities exist. Merrily mangling the mysteries of the cosmos, Leopold embarks on a mission across bizarre parallel worlds to "reassemble" Pen, the woman he secretly loves-and perhaps save the ship. A deranged professor, an Amazon warrior, hordes of zombie crew and a sex-starved big beautiful Princess...
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El Tribunal Mundial o el gobierno más poderoso del universo inicia un juicio inédito y controversial contra Poncio Pilato, por haber autorizado y ordenado la ejecución de Jesús.Utilizando la tecnología para viajar a través del tiempo, lo traen a su mundo, antes que él fallezca. Sin embargo, este juicio es un arma política de los conspiradores para deslegitimar al Sistema de Justicia Universal. En un ambiente en el cual prevalecen los conflictos...
11) Afterparty
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A science fiction thriller, award-winning author Daryl Gregory's Afterparty features a scientist on a mind-bending and violent chase across Canada and the U.S. to undue the harm her creation has done and save civilization.
It begins in Toronto, in the years after the smart drug revolution. Any high school student with a chemjet and internet connection can download recipes and print drugs, or invent them. A seventeen-year-old street girl finds God...
14) Vanish
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Fearing earthlings are nearing a point of no return with safeguarding their planet, extraterrestrials have provided a representative, who goes by the name of Elliot, to deliver an invaluable caveat. Elliot's message is clear, direct and replete with dire prognostications. Initially seeking to gain knowledge for furthering their own technological advancement, General Macon, Dr. Conrad, and a host of high-ranking U.S. officials must forgo their initial...
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The universe can give and take away the thing that tantalizes your soul. This ebook tells the story of a man that finds himself marooned on a planet half way across the galaxy. A series of poems and male light painting photography create the plot of this science fiction narrative. Indentured Male Hero: Light Painting Nudes asserts that the greatest struggle is to hold on to what matters most.
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Spaceports & Spidersilk features some of the best science fiction and fantasy fiction and poetry for kids of all ages. The April 2016 issue will take you to places you might never have imagined. It will appeal to your inner child, and hopefully take you back to the places you loved as a child…and if you're still a child, it will open your imagination to all kinds of new worlds.
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Two university pre-med students learned the importance of faculty researchers working with government agencies to develop strategies to defeat an unseen enemy. Looming on the horizon of statistical probability was a pandemic that would devastate mankind. To address the global threat, advisory committees of the most knowledgeable scientists and healthcare providers were recruited to combat viruses, bacteria, and fungi that were evolving to prey on...
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We follow Wally and his girlfriend Rangi in New Zealand as they try to stay alive in the post apocolyptic world brought on by the earth being hit by a large meteorite.Then we fast forward to the year 400, 1000 years into the future and find a very different world.This novel is based in part on some of the authors adventures on his travels back in the late 1950's up through to the present day.
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Spaceports & Spidersilk features some of the best science fiction and fantasy fiction and poetry for kids of all ages. The July 2017 issue will take you to places you might never have imagined. It will appeal to your inner child, and hopefully take you back to the places you loved as a child…and if you're still a child, it will open your imagination to all kinds of new worlds.
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The March issue of The Fifth Di… takes a walk on the dark side with Lachlan Walter, Robert N Stephenson, Rik Hunik, and Gustavo Bondoni bringing you stories of the darker side of humanity.You'll be taken to a bleak future where the poor are taken advantage of, a future where a branch of humanity comes back to Earth, but the encounter doesn't go anything like people might have expected, a future where immortality brings a terrible consequence, and...
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