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41) THE CHAOS GRID
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Cross the grid. Survive the storms. Let your destiny burn. When mankind's attempts to control nature backfire, Texas descends into a wasteland. Storms rage and ravenous beasts roam the Outer Grid. The only safe havens rest inside the tech-obsessed domed cities. But when her parents are murdered inside the Plex City dome, seventeen-year-old Juniper Conway wants revenge. Ties to her extended family threaten to pull her back as she runs from city to...
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year volume 2
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"For decades, science fiction has compelled us to imagine futures both inspiring and cautionary, delivering a lens through which we can view ourselves and the world around us. With 'The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Two', award-winning editor Neil Clarke provides a year-in-review and twenty-seven of the best stories published by both new and established authors in 2016." - From back cover.
43) Mal goes to war
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"The humans are fighting again. Go figure. As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and augmented Federals and the puritanical Humanists about as interesting as a battle between rival anthills. He's not above scouting the battlefield for salvage, though, and when the Humanists abruptly cut off access to infospace, he finds himself trapped in the body of a cyborg mercenary, and responsible for the safety of the modded girl she died protecting....
44) Acadie
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The first humans still hunt their children across the stars. Dave Hutchinson brings far future science fiction on a grand scale in Acadie.
The Colony left Earth to find their utopia--a home on a new planet where their leader could fully explore the colonists' genetic potential, unfettered by their homeworld's restrictions. They settled a new paradise, and have been evolving and adapting for centuries.
Earth has other plans.
The original humans...
45) We the People
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In the late 21st century, a neurotechnology called Bridge has changed the world. Bridging allows a person to program their own body and mind to achieve untold enhancement. There was one problem: It only works in children. Within a single generation, a new world order developed. Bridged Children grew smarter, faster, and stronger than the Adults and demanded equal rights. The Adults fought back. During the ensuing war, Adams, a prodigy among...
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On Earth, the cities of humanity crumbled into dust, becoming fossils. Forests burned and life went extinct. But, billions of years later, it rained one last time. The siblings were born from that rain, strange creatures of human appearance and mind. Their life on the desert of Earth has no purpose, until they discover the wick, a molecule burning around their genetic material, condemning them to death one hundred years and three months after birth.In...
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A stunning discovery by a team of scientists on Venus endangers Earth itself At eighty-three, Dr. Helen Failia is nearing middle age but has lost none of her fighting spirit. The founder of Earth's first fully functioning colony on Venus, she will do anything to ensure that the home she's built and nurtured not only survives, but thrives. Despite her constant work, funding for the colony is running out, and she's dreading telling the ten thousand...
48) Hyperthought
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Hyperthought recounts the adventures of a young man who trusts an unscrupulous doctor to enhance his brain function, and of a young woman who tries to save him. The year is 2125, and the Earth has undergone drastic climate change due to global warming. People crowd in sealed underground habitats to avoid the stormy, toxic surface. Feisty little Jolie Sauvage leads extreme surface adventure tours for rich executives. Jolie's friend, Dr. Judith Merida,...
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Nancy Kress returns with If Tomorrow Comes, the sequel of Tomorrow's Kin, part of an all-new hard science fiction trilogy based on a Nebula Award-winning novella
2019 Locus Finalist for Best Science Fiction Novel
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"Unity in the Cosmos: The Saga of Survival" is an epic tale of unity, resilience, and survival against cosmic threats. The book takes you on a journey through a universe facing its end, where the legacy of an AI Nano serves as a symbol of endurance and hope. From quantum physicists exploring parallel universes to spiritual leaders providing solace, every chapter is a testament to humanity's indomitable spirit. As the world faces the unknown, it does...
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When Cormier Oil and Gas sends geologist Warren to the planet FH-358, they assume it's lifeless. But instead, Warren discovers something unexpected: a teenage girl named Mina who knows where the oil comes from. The company desperately wants Mina's knowledge, but she doesn't know how to communicate with them. Out of time and frustrated, they decide to risk Mina's life for the location of the oil. In this thrilling sci-fi adventure, Warren will have...
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Serafina Glutt ist Pilotin und unterwegs zu einer großen Werft nahe des Saturn, als ihr Schiff in Schwierigkeiten gerät. Sie kann sich gerade noch auf dem kleinen Jupitermond Eukelade retten. Dort wird sie einigermaßen unfreundlich von Tadius Uriel empfangen, der diesen Mond bewohnt. Schnell bekommt sie heraus, dass Tadius ein Geheimnis verbirgt. Schließlich erfährt sie, dass Tadius Kybertium abbaut, den begehrtesten Stoff im Sonnensystem - und...
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En el siglo XXII, la digitalización y la inteligencia artificial gobiernan todos los órdenes de la vida humana, en un contexto social y ecológico jaqueado por las consecuencias del calentamiento global. Eso incluye la producción artística, en todos sus géneros, desarrollada a demanda y para la necesidad de cada individuo, por un módulo creativo denominado la arteficialidad.
Un grupo de artistas mantiene una resistencia en un mundo no digitalizado,...
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Viktor Haas served with distinction during the Andevan Wars as Captain of the Sydney. The Sydney was a Deep-Space Class, Heavy Cruiser in the fleet of the Terran Space Exploration Administration, or TSEA.Captain Haas takes command of a very different ship – the Admiral Byrd. The Admiral Byrd, affectionately known as the 'Byrd,' is a Scout-Class science vessel. The Byrd has been tasked with a mission that is very different to those Captain Haas usually...
55) Ultimate Witness
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The Plato Colony is the first permanently manned moonbase, but it could be the last. Budgetary restrictions mean the base is to be abandoned in seven days, but while the colonists prepare to evacuate, chief administrator Malcolm Wade faces other, more troubling problems. A mysterious anomaly has appeared outside the base and an unknown assailant is attacking the colonists. As only seven people live on the moon, Malcolm reckons he should be able to...
56) Eden 2.1
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Eden 2.1 is a modern-day story inspired by Mary Shelly's famous book, "Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus". It raises the questions of human efforts to understand the source of life and whether humans can have the technological ability to create life apart from the natural process by human-developed means. Can human wisdom anticipate and account for unintended consequences of using such potential technology?
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Prince of nothing volume 2
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As a vast Holy War begins, a powerful new force emerges in the second book of this "violent, passionate, darkly poetic" fantasy series (SFSite.com).
The first battle against the heathen has been won, but while the Great Names squabble over the spoils, Kellhus draws more followers to his banner. The sorcerer Achamian and his lover, Esmenet, submit entirely-only to face an unimaginable test of faith. The warrior Cnaiur falls ever deeper into madness....
58) Sondela
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Cuando la inspectora Patricia Campos acude a investigar la escena de un crimen descubre que la víctima es un fauno: cuernos en la frente, barbita lujuriosa de chivo, pezuñas en lugar de pies… Nada demasiado fuera de lo normal en la isla de Madeira, donde hay una amplia colonia atlante. Criaturas como faunos, centauros o dríadas circulan tranquilamente por las calles de Funchal, comen en sus restaurantes y viven en sus apartamentos.
Y es que,...
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Stefan is a dedicated young doctor working for the private emergency services company BioSynth Health Systems. During a perilous mission, he manages to rescue his grievously wounded mother, but at the cost of losing another life. Though his mother survives, Stefan struggles with lingering trauma and survivor's guilt. He finds some solace in working with his capable teammate Cass, a former hacker with her own troubled history. But when Cass encounters...
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When an asteroid strike causes a major disaster in Boston, it forces physicist Ben Shore to rethink his life and purpose. Together with his step-sister and mathematics whiz, Nicky, and orphaned early-teen hacker, Jessie, he embarks on a quest to find a way to avert similar or worse disasters from happening. Ben's attempts to create a new physics change their world forever and turn their basic assumptions about reality on their head.But they only realize...
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