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1) Mortal Coils
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Mortal Coils Aldous Huxley - Mortal Coils is a collection of five short fictional pieces written by Aldous Huxley in 1921.
As a Hollywood screenwriter Huxley used much of his earnings to bring Jewish and left-wing writer and artist refugees from Hitler's Germany to the US. He worked for many of the major studios including MGM and Disney.
In 1953, Huxley and Maria applied for United States citizenship. When Huxley refused to bear arms for the U.S....
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Under the Sunset Bram Stoker - Under the Sunset is a collection of short stories by Bram Stoker (the author of Dracula), first published in 1881.
Its significance in the development of fantasy literature was recognized by its republication by the Newcastle Publishing Company as the seventeenth volume of the celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library series in October, 1978
A collection of gothic stories from Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula...
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Here are the fourth installments for both ongoing LitRPG series by genre author, Adam Drake.
Shadow Blade (Shadow For Hire Book 4)
A hallowed weapon hidden in a jungle hell.
Forced to prove my worthiness to an elite group of players, I must earn the right to enter one of the most notorious locations in the game. The Emerald Caldera has a fearsome reputation for chewing up would-be adventurers and quickly sending them back to the newbie zone. Filled...
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Fall Revolution volume 3
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Ellen May Ngewthu is a soldier and leader of the Cassini Division, the elite defense force of the utopian Solar Union. Here in the twenty-fourth century, the forts of the Division, in orbit around Jupiter, are the front line in humanity's long standoff with the unknowable post-humans: godlike beings descended from the men and women who transformed themselves with high technology centuries ago.
The post-humans' capacities are unknown...but we know...
5) The Dominion
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So now things had developed. It was an imposition on how to think. A sporadic resistance did exist but only under the covers and that had been controlled. Being realistic, nothing could challenge the might of the status quo.
For centuries, it was just normal to let powerful factions do what the hell they wanted. Now was the same. It could have been construed as business as usual, the political classes doing as they pleased with a vulnerable population....
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In a near-future of dirty weather, orbital-elevator space travel, and post-smart city hyper gentrification, Anastasios "Stacy" Sigg is hired to follow a woman from an office building to the airport to see who she meets. Simple, right? But the building shouldn't even exist, and non-Euclidian travel, a mysterious government group, and the nature of cities in the world all clash to make this a complicated and messy case that may not only cost Stacy his...
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Anne Harris returns with an outstanding look at the near future. Never before has her technological insight been so acute, or her portrayal of sex and gender issues more startling or insightful.
A bio-technology corporation has created a new species, intelligent, four-armed, humanoid "tetras" who can live in the vats in which "the company" grows biopolymers. Both the tetras and the human vat-divers they were created to replace are at the mercy of...
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SOME SECRETS CAN KILL YOU...
Kazuma Tetsu is a technomancer-one of the rare people who can manipulate the Matrix without technology, using only the power of their mind. But he's on a more personal mission-he's searching for his missing sister, Hitori. Following her trail leads him into a tangled web of corp execs, mercenaries, and double-crossing rogues-usually just another day in the Sixth World.
But as Kazuma digs deeper, he uncovers a plot...
9) Hope/Less
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Ella is an excellent private investigator and she's got one heck of a case on her hands. PePrs are disappearing, falling completely off the grid with no way to recover them. The number of disappearances has grown so high that disturbing rumors are beginning to circulate. The worst one for humans is that the underground has finally reached the city. The very notion of escaping PePrs, left to their own devices, and quite possibly looking for payback...
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Dallas in the near future-a city full of high-tech companies, sprawling tent cities, miracles, and dangerous secrets. Eli's family thinks he just plays computer games with a group of harmless nerds called the Merry Men. But when he disappears, the CIA, an underworld ninja, and worse yet, World Tech corporate security start chasing him. Now the race is on as his family, a shady art dealer, a cloned superboy and a reborn Neanderthal try to find him...
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In the fast-paced, tech-heavy future, the rich are richer, and even more careless. Dolly is practically legit, recovering abandoned sports cars from parking lots around Dubai, and selling them off after a little tech magic from Bits. When Bristol catches wind of an auction for the most expensive dog in the world, it's an opportunity they don't want to miss. What could be more fun than a dog heist? But things really go south when it's about handoff...
12) Topeka
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America's heartland has become the center of the global hi-tech industry. Topeka Systems can download minds. Elites have been using this software illegally to remain forever young. Nora Osborne, CEO of Topeka Systems, becomes a whistle blower. When the powers that be find out she is out to betray them they are determined to kill her. Nora, with the aid of a combat surgeon named Bode, has no choice but to assume a new identity by downloading her mind...
13) Black Silicon
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Everything you've ever wanted is just a heist awayIn an interconnected future, hacker Chris Noonan thinks he's found the key to wealth and happiness for him and his mother. His hacks make him invisible for a short time, so he can rob a bank without them ever knowing he was there.When a heist goes wrong, however, Chris finds himself framed for murder. He needs to find out who set him up and why, before he ends up in prison for the rest of his life.If...
14) The Eyes Have It
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Jay's obsolete biotech Eyes are what's holding him back. He's not made of money, however, so when he gets the chance to upgrade on the cheap, he takes it.
The Eyes Have It is a humourous, slightly gruesome 14 000-word novelette, about 80 pages.
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"Instantly immersive…"– Ai Jiang, author of Linghun If you could live your life over again, what would you ask to change? Something big? Something small? A single moment? Have you decided on your question?Zoe has. Tired of feeling alone and lost, Zoe seeks out an experimental virtual therapy experience from Alternative Reality Tech, which offers patients the opportunity to explore life's biggest "what if?" questions. During her first assessment,...
16) Splinter
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Have Humans lost their humanity
and can an artificial intelligence save them?
The Tau Ceti colony is a Utopia, but tension lurks below the tranquil surface. The peace of the colony is shattered when the Unity spacecraft returns from Earth bearing shocking news.
Rome Permek, computer officer on the ship, returned with a stowaway: Emily Plair, an artificial intelligence from Earth's cyberworld. But the colony is not the quiet refuge they hoped for....
17) BestFriend
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Nyshell is a little slower, a little clumsier, just a bit different. But with tutors and other tools wired into her brain, Nyshell and those like her have a shot at being normal.Of course, sometimes parents don't see what their kids do. Things can happen that shouldn't. And when all a girl wants is to have one friend, even if that friend exists only inside her head, that desire may change the lives of millions...if it doesn't destroy her first.
18) The Frame Job
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PART THREE OF THE ORIGINAL SHADOWRUN SIXTH WORLD EDITION NOVELLA SERIES!
FIVE RUNNERS. ONE JOB. AND A WHOLE LOT OF TROUBLE...
After being double-crossed by one of the largest megacorps in the Sixth World, the shadowrunner team sets their own plans in motion: clear their names and deliver payback with a vengeance.
Rude didn't have much planned after the Telestrian run...sleep in and wait for his share of the payday. But when Zipfile calls asking...
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In a post-cyberpunk future, where global economic activity is carried out in a virtual-gaming realm, a new blood-transmitted virus has become a black-market staple due to its temporary rejuvenating effects, forcing infected "Eternals" into tightly knit underground communities where they must hack the V-net for basic food and shelter. In the first book of a series that "revitalizes the cyber-fiction genre with its vivid prose and believable characters"...
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Escape from Oz
Sirio Falken has been a fighter his whole life. But when the government bans professional fighting, his life spirals out of control. Convicted of murder, he's sentenced to life in prison. But all of the felons he's ever known have disappeared from Earth, never to return. He's about to find out firsthand what happened to them. He'll have to stay alive amongst Earth's most ruthless felons if he wants to survive ... and become the first...
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