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Vicarious by Rhett C. Bruno
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe real world is only where you breathe…In High Earth, entertainment is everything. Virtual Worlds. Games. Steaming shows. Simulations—there’s something for everybody. You don't ever even have to leave your home.For Asher Reinhart, nothing compares to Ignis: Live, a reality show that pushes human beings to their very extremes... -
The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsLove is made of more than mere flesh and blood....Tanith Lee is one of the most thought-provoking and imaginative authors of our time. In this unforgettably poignant novel, Lee has created a classic tale--a beautiful, tragic, erotic, and ultimately triumphant love story of the future.For sixteen-year-old Jane, life is a mystery she despairs of ever mastering... -
He, She and It by Marge Piercy
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we know it has changed for all time. Shira Shipman's marriage has broken up, and her young son has been taken from her by the corporation that runs her zone, so she has returned to Tikva, the Jewish free town where she grew up... -
Steel Heart by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs Aneka speeds toward Negral to discover the fate of the artificial intelligences who lived there, Ella finds herself in a colder environment, and in trouble. However, a chance discovery on a bio-weapons research site leads her to the location of Old Earth, the place Aneka was kidnapped from over eleven centuries ago... -
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Overload Flux by Carol Van Natta
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen the cure for a deadly disease is stolen, two misfits are all that stands between greed and intergalactic tragedy.Luka Foxe can’t let anyone know about his secret mental abilities. Debilitated by their influence when faced with violence, the brilliant forensic investigator now only takes assignments involving theft... -
Turbulence by Lyn Gala
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsCorporal Jacqs Glebov is a simple soldier who wants a bunk, decent food and the company of other battle-hardened men and women who understand the realities of fighting. Instead he's stuck patrolling a remote corner of the border with cadets straight out of boot camp. They don't understand him, and he sure doesn't have an ounce of respect for them... -
Automatic Reload by Ferrett Steinmetz
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFerrett Steinmetz's quirky, genre-mashing cyberpunk romance Automatic Reload a high-octane adventure about a grizzled mercenary with machine gun arms who unexpectedly falls in love with a bio-engineered assassin In the near-future, automation is king, and Mat is the top mercenary working the black market. He's your solider's solider, with military-grade weapons instead of arms.. -
Machinations by Hayley Stone
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWaking up as a clone with a broken memory? Not great when you're leading the resistance.Rhona has battled the malevolent A.I. intent on wiping out humanity since the first Machinations began—until she’s killed during a rescue mission gone wrong. Now, Rhona awakens to find herself transported to a new body, complete with her DNA and her personality. She's a clone... of herself...Categorized as:
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Catch the Lightning by Catherine Asaro
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn the distant future, the Skolian empire rules one third of the human galaxy, and is the most powerful of all. For the ruling family has the power of telepathy, and through it, the ability to communicate faster than light across the interstellar space. but their most determined enemy, the traders, who thrive on human pain, need to interbreed with a Skolian to gain their powers...Categorized as:
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Resistant by Rachael Sparks
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the final battle with drug-resistant bacteria, one woman's blood holds a secret weapon.Rory and her father have survived the antibiotic crisis that has killed millions, including Rory’s mother—but ingenuity and perseverance aren’t their only advantages. When a stoic and scarred young military veteran enters their quiet life, Rory is drawn to him against her better judgment . .Categorized as:
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Steel Beneath the Skin by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThe idea was simple enough for the alien race who took Aneka Jansen from Earth in 2011. Take a human, make her into a perfect tool to observe humanity from the inside, and so determine how best to advance this young race into their future. Unfortunately for them, and her, their plans went awry, and Aneka became the only survivor on a dead ship marooned in deep space... -
The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn a semi-tropical London, surrounded by paddy-fields, the people feed off the sun, like plants, the young are raised in Child Gardens and educated by viruses, And the Consensus oversees the country, 'treating' non-conformism. Information, culture, law and politics are biological functions... -
Metallic Love by Tanith Lee
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn her now-classic tale The Silver Metal Lover, award-winning author Tanith Lee told the spellbinding story of Jane and her forbidden love for a robot named Silver. In this stunning follow-up, the legend of their tragic romance lives on. But nothing is as it was–or as it seems...Categorized as:
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Primary Inversion by Catherine Asaro
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Skolian Empire rules a third of the civilized galaxy through its mastery of faster-than-light communication. But war with the rival empire of the Traders seems imminent, a war that can only lead to slavery for the Skolians or the destruction of both sides. Destructive skirmishes have already occurred. A desperate attempt must be made to avert total disaster... -
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Living Next Door to the God of Love by Justina Robson
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhere do you run when a world is out to get you?AIs, Forged beings, superheroes, angels, and worlds that change in the blink of an eye–here is a richly imagined tale of ordinary redemption in an extraordinary world from one of the most provocative writers working today.…Francine is a young runaway looking to find a definition of love she can trust...Categorized as:
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As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsAnna Karenina left her husband for a dashing officer. Lady Chatterley left hers for the gamekeeper. Now Alice Coombs has her boyfriend for nothing … nothing at all. Just how that should have come to pass and what Philip Engstrand, Alice’s spurned boyfriend, can do about it is the premise for this vertiginous speculative romance by the acclaimed author of Gun, with Occasional Music...Categorized as:
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vN by Madeline Ashby
Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsAmy Peterson is a von Neumann machine, a self-replicating humanoid robot.For the past five years, she has been grown slowly as part of a mixed organic/synthetic family. She knows very little about her android mother’s past, so when her grandmother arrives and attacks her mother, little Amy wastes no time: she eats her alive... -
Jenna Starborn by Sharon Shinn
Rated: 3.32 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the award-winning author of the Samaria trilogy-a classic story of a woman with the will to rise above the darkest secrets... A baby harvested from the gen-tanks on the planet Baldus. A girl scorned by the only family she has ever known. A woman brave enough to follow her heart-wherever in the universe it may lead her...Categorized as:
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Romeo and Juliet: The War by Max Work, Terry Dougas
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's the story of two groups of superhuman soldiers who turn the Empire of Verona into the most powerful territory in the world: the Montagues, powerful cyborgs, and the Capulets, genetically enhanced humans. With no one left to fight, they have a new enemy--each other. A Montague boy and a Capulet girl fall in love and plan to secretly marry, hoping their union will bring peace to the territory...
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