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During a routine drive to dinner with her parents, sixteen-year-old Annie Walker's car is struck by a pickup truck. The resulting accident kills her parents and leaves Annie unconscious. When she wakes up, she thinks she's in a hospital, but the truth is far stranger. Annie has been downloaded into a computer program called PATTIE.With the help of PATTIE's brilliant programmer, Eric, Annie struggles to come to terms with her new existence. She also...
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An ordinary man draws to the end of an extraordinary life.In this his final journey to the place of his birth, he has time to reflect on his past - a past of fears and promises, a past of forgotten wonders and hidden secrets, a past that holds the answers to questions as old as civilisation.It is also a time to contemplate his present and the mystery of his own being - of who he is, where he is, and why he is.And in his final hours he must decide...
3) Equimedian
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Jason Velez lives a mundane existence installing EmuX virtual reality machines-scraping together just enough money to pay for his increasingly unsustainable science fiction collection-when he begins having strange dreams. He knows he has to make some personal changes if he hopes to get his life in order.
Except change is exactly what's happening to those around him. His roommate's personality suddenly shifts. Jill, his closest single friend, retroactively...
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Susan didn't invite the space aliens to use her quilt shop as a staging ground for their invasion of Earth, but they came anyway. Now she needs to find a way to save the planet without making too much of a mess.The aliens' biggest mistake is disguising themselves as bolts of beige quilting fabric. Susan and her friends know cotton, and this isn't it. With a little luck and a lot of chutzpah, they discover the aliens' weaknesses: lavender attracts...
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In a post-war Earth, 3000 years in the future, 75% of the world population has been wiped out and most technology is lost. This first installment follows four characters as they struggle to survive the harsh environment, lead their people to a brighter future and help to establish an alliance to prevent future destruction of the world.
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The shiners think they've eliminated every conceivable threat. Then the Risk Management Commission banishes Letitia Wilson and Alexander Romanov from city society. Letitia and Alexander build new lives in the wilderness outside the env-domes. They also try to piece together the story behind the env-domes, and the history of the villagers who live in the wilderness.The villagers think the city-folk are dangerous monsters, who they call "shiners". City-folk...
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Gregory had no idea what was in store for him as he headed for work that morning. How was this even possible? It was something out of a bad horror movie but this was suddenly his life. Trying to survive everyday, fighting off the infected. Worse, other survivors make the infected look almost pleasant. All Gregory wants is to keep his family safe. Can he do it in a world gone mad?
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The Deleted Ones' is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi book by Martin Kolacek.The Earth is no longer ruled by humans but by Pleasurebots, androids created for pleasure. The main hero, a former human terrorist, is thrust into the remnants of a destroyed city, right into the middle of the Pleasurebots' love paradise. Here he finds out he has been condemned by both, humans and Pleasurebots, and has no right to live.
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Susan saved the world from aliens disguised as bolts of fabric, but that was last year. Now there's an assassin from space looking to even the score. Susan, her daughter Cecily and mother Edna must once again save humanity - and themselves - from creatures from another planet who have an inordinate fondness for quilt shops and lavender.
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A representative of space faring ETs recruits a 60-ish retired gentleman farmer to start up an agriculture enterprise. This group of ETs love food. Food has become their art and reason to be. They forage the stars of heaven to find delectable morsels.While entertaining his very tall ET visitor, the retired gentleman farmer (Jonus) prepares a simple snack which uses lots of garlic, sesame and chick pea paste. The ET (T'Lanette Traos) goes nuts over...
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increasingly wild weather, violent storms, and massive floods are symptoms of the world struggling to reach equilibrium with global warming.located in an un-named city, harold, an elderly man is convinced radical change is upon us and decides to build a boat in his front yard. the amusement of neighbours and opposition of his wife does not faze him or dint his determination to succeed. joe, a stringer for global tv news netweorks travels widely, reporting...
12) In Our Own Image
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When Dr. Marcus Tao created CAAN to reverse aging and store both a person's genetic code and unique neuronal pattern, he knew his invention would relegate death to a choice for every human being to make in his own time, and that he would one day have to make that choice for himself.In Our Own Image, a novella, is a glimpse into the lives of nine characters--the scholar, the father, the daughter, the lovers, the faithful, the sociopath, and the savior--as...
13) A Titanium Smile
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Planet XimoX, in the time of the novel, has recovered from an almost life extincting event -- the Cataclysm. A terrible accident brings two unlikely people together. They tear open the veil of illusion which has hidden the true cost of surviving the Cataclysm.The couple rebel at their dark destinies and attempt to escape the design. In the process the couple set in motion events which could lead to the extinction of all citizens of the 13 remaining...
14) The Fireman
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Fahrenheit 451 comes true in the life of "1337" (elite) hacker Mason Grant who works for a government agency called Department 451. His job is to seek out, crack, and destroy banned ebooks from websites that still host such digital contraband. He and his coworkers are called The Firemen, responsible for the cyber enforcement of literary censorship laws. While he begins to doubt the morality of what his department is doing, he becomes the victim of...
15) Leaning on Air
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They last spoke as teens, but on a country road twelve years later, a surprise encounter reunites ornithologist Celia Burke with veterinary surgeon Burnaby Hayes, and they plunge into the most unusual romance of her life. After a decade of marriage, Celia and Burnaby have found a unique and beautiful rhythm. Then tragedy strikes while Celia hunts for the nest of a research hawk near the Snake River. Reeling with grief, she's certain Burnaby won't...
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Pre-order the BRAND NEW, next book in the Beamer Street series set around Liverpool Docks, by bestselling author Sheila Riley.
Liverpool 1924
Trapped in an abusive marriage to Lord Caraway with her beloved daughter Melissa, 24-year-old Lady Elodie Caraway knows she has to escape before her deepest and darkest secrets are revealed giving her husband every reason to seek his revenge. But time is of the essence, if she is to save herself and Melissa.
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Detective Inspector Louisa Bennett's arrest of Portal CEO Benoit Walsh and the resulting scandal have done little to diminish the network's popularity. Its hand-held terminals have been replaced by implants, providing a deeper and more personal integration for millions of devotees.Yet not everyone is so enamoured with Portal's technological utopia. Terrorists strike against the company, demanding the dissolution of its network. When Louisa's foster...
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In a smart city that monitors your every move, finding the killer of a young girl should have been easy.Detective Sergeant Louisa Bennett is assigned to investigate the murder. Following an attack on London's network, private data on every city resident is leaked. In the ensuing chaos, when Louisa uncovers a connection between her own case and the data breach, she becomes a target herself.To save her own life Louisa must uncover the truth behind the...
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End Time: Notes on the Apocalypse is a prescient, near-future thriller. Written in a slashing, evocative style, End Time received rave reviews in underground and small press circles in 1994.Greg Kovinski, the novel's protagonist, lives in interesting times. War and civil war rage across the former Soviet Union and much of the globe. The United States is fighting a sophisticated high tech counterinsurgency war in southern Mexico, against a popular...