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  • Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

    Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 57 ratings
    Murderbot wasn’t programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right?Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation, Murderbot is heading home to help Dr...
  • Neural Wraith 2 by K.D. Robertson

    Neural Wraith 2 by K.D. Robertson

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Finance isn't Nick Waite’s strong suit as a detective, but he’s learning fast as he investigates the cover-up of a murder inside Neo Babylon’s oldest bank. The winds of conspiracy whirl around him, and everyone from the police commissioner to gang lords warn him to step back.Taking the easy way out isn’t in his nature, however...
  • The Philip K. Dick Reader by Philip K. Dick

    The Philip K. Dick Reader by Philip K. Dick

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick's works has continued to mount, and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K...
  • Burning Down Boise by Franklin Horton

    Burning Down Boise by Franklin Horton

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sometimes the story of an apocalypse isn’t one of tragedy, but one of opportunity...Dan Slaughter has given up on appearances. With his wife dead and his kids grown, he’s slowly reverting back to the east Tennessee boy he used to be three decades earlier. He quit cutting his hair and started smoking pot. He drinks when he wants to and sings along with the classic songs of his lost youth...
  • Angel City Blues by Jeff Edwards

    Angel City Blues by Jeff Edwards

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Los Angeles: 2065 A wealthy young woman vanishes from her high-security apartment without leaving a single strand of DNA behind. No trace of the victim’s disappearance is recorded on any of the building’s many cameras or security sensors. Her apartment’s memory cores have been destroyed beyond any hope of recovery...
  • সায়েন্স ফিকশান সমগ্র ২ by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal

    সায়েন্স ফিকশান সমগ্র ২ by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    বাংলাদেশ ও বাংলা ভাষার কিংবদন্তী বৈজ্ঞানিক কল্পকাহিনী লেখক মুহম্মদ জাফর ইকবাল- এর পরবর্তী ৮ টি বৈজ্ঞানিক কল্পকাহিনী গ্রন্থের সমগ্র।*নিঃসঙ্গ গ্রহচারী*ক্রোমিয়াম অরণ্য*ত্রিনিত্রি রাশিমালা*অনুরন গোলক*নয় নয় শূন্য তিন*পৃ*রবোনগরী*টুকি এবং ঝায়ের (প্রায়) দুঃসাহসিক...
  • The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow

    The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s prisons are traded like stock shares.The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerrilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it...
  • The Stories of Ibis by Hiroshi Yamamoto

    The Stories of Ibis by Hiroshi Yamamoto

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In a world where humans are a minority and androids have created their own civilization, a wandering storyteller meets the beautiful android Ibis. She tells him seven stories of human/android interaction in order to reveal the secret behind humanity's fall. The story takes place centuries in the future, where the diminished populations of humans live uncultured lives in their own colonies...
  • The Ballad of Bad Jack by Anthony Ryan

    The Ballad of Bad Jack by Anthony Ryan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Asteroid Belt, home to mining corporations and those who prefer to live beyond the heavily policed habitats of Earth orbit - the perfect hunting ground for Bad Jack, captain of the Dead Reckoning and the most feared pirate in the solar system...
  • Blood Brother by Malcolm Rose

    Blood Brother by Malcolm Rose

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Teenage forensic investigator Luke Harding is back with a brand-newcase. In Blood Brother, Luke and his robotic sidekick, Malc, are assigned toa hospital with a mysteriously high rate of fatalities. As Luke investigates anumber of suspicious patient deaths, he meets his long-lost father, a doctorwho practices alternative medicine at the hospital...
  • Operation Sherlock by Bruce Coville

    Operation Sherlock by Bruce Coville

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When their scientist parents are assigned to a top secret project on a small, remote island, the five members of the A.I. Gang have to come along, and find themselves trying to stop a spy from destroying the project...
  • American Survivor by A.J. Newman

    American Survivor by A.J. Newman

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    American Apocalypse: American Survivor This is Book I in the American Apocalypse series. The North Koreans launch a surprise Nuclear EMP attack on the USA. Our hero, Joe doesn’t care about politics or what happened, he just knows his world went to Hell. Planes fell out of the sky, people went nuts looting and killing as he scrambled to hide from all of the craziness...
  • Shift by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs

    Shift by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Tory's great aunt, Temperance Brennan, visits just in time to investigate a robbery at the Loggerhead Island Research Institute. As a renowned forensic anthropologist, Tempe is obviously qualified to figure out whodunit, but Tory and her Virals pack want to crack the case on their own. Yet the crime is puzzling...
  • Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge

    Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Multiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge takes readers on a fifty-million-year trip to a future where humanity's fate will be decided in a dangerous game of high-tech survival.In this taut thriller, a Hugo finalist for Best Novel, nobody knows why there are only three hundred humans left alive on the Earth fifty million years from now...
  • A Fire in the Sun by George Alec Effinger

    A Fire in the Sun by George Alec Effinger

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Marid Audran has become everything he once despised. Not so long ago, he was a hustler in the Budayeen, an Arabian ghetto in a Balkanized future Earth. Back then, as often as not, he didn't have the money to buy himself a drink. But he had his independence.Now Marid works for Friedlander Bey, "godfather" of the Budayeen, a man whose power stretches across a shattered, crumbling world...
  • Counterfeit World by Daniel F. Galouye

    Counterfeit World by Daniel F. Galouye

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The world of the future built its policies on public-opinion samplings! But Rien Reactions, Inc. realized that old-fashioned public-opinion polls were too slow, inaccurate and unstable on which to base a conforming society...
  • Fractured Innocence by Julia Crane

    Fractured Innocence by Julia Crane

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    *Trigger Warning 17+ due to sexual gritty topic and language. Kaitlyn and Erik are sent on a mission to track down Vance Dasvoik, a ruthless monster. His latest thrill--abducting and selling young women. Vance's current victim: Aaliyah, a seventeen-year-old who never imagined walking her brother home from school one evening would change her life forever...
  • Lucky 7 by Rae D. Magdon

    Lucky 7 by Rae D. Magdon

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Elena Nevares is on the run. She’s a jacker, someone who connects to virtual reality with their brain, and everyone else on her crew was murdered during a mission gone wrong. Sasha Young is planning a rescue. She’s a handler, a team leader whose crew has been scattered by an evil corporation: Axys Generations...
  • Dome City Blues by Jeff Edwards

    Dome City Blues by Jeff Edwards

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For fans of William Gibson, Phillip K. Dick, and Jak Koke…Los Angeles: 2063David Stalin was one of the best detectives in the business, running head-to-head with data-jackers, organ thieves, and the tech-enhanced gangs who ruled the shadowy streets of Los Angeles...
  • Lost Bullet by Malcolm Rose

    Lost Bullet by Malcolm Rose

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the rotting slums of London, Luke and Malc are called to investigate the shocking murder of an attractive young doctor. The investigation eventually leads Luke to a bizarre cult called the World Church of Eternal Vision whose members believe that the entire medical profession is interfering with creation...
  • Tropical Punch by S.C. Jensen

    Tropical Punch by S.C. Jensen

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Strippers, Drugs, and Headless Corpses…All in a day’s work for Bubbles Marlowe, HoloCity’s only cyborg detective.What do an anti-tech cult, a deadly new street drug, and the corrupt Chief of Police have in common?It’s a question Bubbles can’t afford to ask. Last time she got curious it cost her job, a limb, and almost her life.She vows to stay out of police business...
  • Final Lap by Malcolm Rose

    Final Lap by Malcolm Rose

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Luke Harding will need all of his skill and resources to tackle his action-packed fifth case. Set in the highly competitive world of professional track and field, Luke and Malc are tested to their limits with a series of intriguing, mysterious events...
  • The Organ Scrubber by Jason Werbeloff

    The Organ Scrubber by Jason Werbeloff

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to the Bubble, where orphans are used for spare parts, and transplanting organs is like changing a pair of socks.They harvested Daniel’s body when he was a child, leaving him with cheap cybernetic replacements. Now that he's grown, his body is failing. The gears in his knee grind, his synthetic cornea weeps, and his 3D-printed lungs spasm in winter.Daniel needs the organs he was born with...
  • Genius: The Revolution by Leopoldo Gout

    Genius: The Revolution by Leopoldo Gout

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Three teen geniuses from diverse backgrounds must take down an online terrorist ring, rescue an imprisoned father, and prepare for their final showdown with a misguided mastermind in this third and final book in the Genius YA trilogy by Leopoldo Gout.How do we stop him? We beat him at his own game. Painted Wolf: Mysterious activist blogger and strategist from China...
  • Burnout by Sean Platt, Johnny B. Truant

    Burnout by Sean Platt, Johnny B. Truant

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cutter Dunn is a ghost. Unchipped and unregistered he exists as a nonperson, living off-the-grid, unrecognized by the facial recognition software built into every smart glass device that provides everyone with everything they want and need. According to the official system, he doesn't even exist...
  • Мова by Віктар Марціновіч

    Мова by Віктар Марціновіч

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    «Мова» – другі беларускамоўны раман Марціновіча пасля «Сцюдзёнага выраю». «У “Мове” я паспрабаваў сабраць у незвычайным сюжэце маё разуменне багажу праблем, звязаных з нашай ідэнтычнасцю, з культурай, мовай і гісторыяй. З тутэйшасцю, з правінцыйнасцю, з гатоўнасцю адмовіцца ад свайго», – кажа аўтар...
  • Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis

    Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This cozy debut science fiction novel tells a story of misfits, rebels, found family—and a mystery that spans the starsWelcome to the Grand Abeona home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and the very best views the galaxy has to offer. All year round it moves from planet to planet, system to system, pampering guests across the furthest reaches of the milky way...
    Categorized as:
    dystopia  crime  cyberpunk  sci-fi  mystery  lgbtq  fiction  cozy
  • The Curve of the Earth by Simon Morden

    The Curve of the Earth by Simon Morden

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Welcome to the Metrozone -- post-apocalyptic London of the Future, full of homeless refugees, street gangs, crooked cops and mad cults. Enter Samuil Petrovitch: a Russian émigré with a smart mouth, a dodgy heart and a dodgier past. He's brilliant, selfish, cocky and might just be most unlikely champion a city has ever had...
  • Dissolution by Nicholas Binge

    Dissolution by Nicholas Binge

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A woman dives into her husband's memories to uncover a decades-old feud threatening reality itself in this staggering technothriller from the bestselling author of Ascension.Maggie Webb has lived the last decade caring for elderly husband, Stanley, as memory loss gradually erases all the beautiful moments they created together. It's the loneliest she's ever felt in her life...
  • WWW: Wonder by Robert J. Sawyer

    WWW: Wonder by Robert J. Sawyer

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Webmind-the vast consciousness that spontaneously emerged from the infrastructure of the World Wide Web-has proven its worth to humanity by aiding in everything from curing cancer to easing international tensions. But the brass at the Pentagon see Webmind as a threat that needs to be eliminated...
  • Pollen by Jeff Noon

    Pollen by Jeff Noon

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The sweet death of Coyote, master taxi driver, was only the first. Soon people are sneezing and dying all over Manchester. Telekinetic cop Sybil Jones knows that, like Coyote, they died happy - but even a happy death can be a murder. As exotic blooms begin to flower all over the city, the pollen count is racing towards 2000 and Sybil is running out of time...
  • Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots by Project Itoh

    Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots by Project Itoh

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Solid Snake is a soldier and part of a worldwide nanotechnology network known as the Sons of the Patriots. Time is running out for Snake though, as he will soon succumb to the FOXDIE virus, but not before spreading the disease to nearly everyone he encounters, in essence becoming a walking biological weapon...
  • Beauty Sleep by Kathryn Evans

    Beauty Sleep by Kathryn Evans

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Who am I? What am I? When am I?Laura can't remember who she is. But the rest of the world knows. Because Laura is famous - a dying girl who was frozen until she could be cured. A real-life Sleeping Beauty...
  • Ex-KOP by Warren Hammond

    Ex-KOP by Warren Hammond

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In this hardboiled science fiction thriller, Juno, having been booted off the police force, is barely getting by as a low-level bagman and photographer for the scandal rags. But it gets worse: his wife is in critical condition at the hospital and Juno doesn’t have the money to pay her bills. Desperate for cash, Juno agrees to help his ex-partner, Maggie Orzo, solve a difficult case...
  • Irontown Blues by John Varley

    Irontown Blues by John Varley

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From a master of science fiction comes a brand-new noir novel set in the Eight Worlds universe, where a detective hunts for the biohackers who have created a dangerous new disease.Christopher Bach was a policeman in one of the largest Lunar cities when the A.I. Lunar Central Computer had a breakdown. Known as the Big Glitch, the problem turned out to be a larger war than anyone expected...
    Categorized as:
    crime  cyberpunk  action-adventure  adult  animals  book  dogs  fiction
  • Nymphomation by Jeff Noon

    Nymphomation by Jeff Noon

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Set both in a real and imaginary Manchester, Jeff Noon's story concerns a revolutionary lottery game that is engulfing the city in a tide of gambling fever. As a group of mathematics students look at the mind-numbing probabilities involved, they soon find more sinister realities...
  • House of the Sun by Nigel Findley

    House of the Sun by Nigel Findley

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The kingdom of Hawaii is a tropical playground with a sinister underside. Dirk Montgomery, former Lone Star cop turned shadowrunner, must stay one step ahead of the factions battling to control the islands--the megacorps, the government, the rebels and the yazuka, not to mention the dragons, elves, new friends and old enemies...
  • Android: Golem by Mel Odom

    Android: Golem by Mel Odom

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a talented New Angeles Detective wakes up in bed with a woman whose name he can't recall, this seemingly harmless mystery indicates a much larger problem. After all, as one of the few bioroids in the New Angeles Police Department, Drake 3GI2RC isn't accustomed to forgetting... or even sleeping...
  • Masque by F. Paul Wilson, Matthew Costello

    Masque by F. Paul Wilson, Matthew Costello

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tristan has no identity, no face, no family, no rights. He is a perfect spy: an artificially created human whose metamorphic DNA can be programmed with "masques"--genetic copies of anyone--over and over again. Until his body breaks down. But Tristan's masters offer him humanity, citizenship, and a permanent shape in exchange for one last mission...
  • KOP Killer by Warren Hammond

    KOP Killer by Warren Hammond

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    KOP Killer, a darkly dystopian science fiction thriller from Warren HammondJuno Mozambe once had a life. That was when he was a dirty cop, married to a woman who suffered such profound abuse that she murdered her vile, drug kingpin father. Juno loved his wife and did his best to help her survive her guilt, her drug habit, and her desire to end her life on the dead-end planet of Lagarto...
  • The Trouble with Time by Lexi Revellian

    The Trouble with Time by Lexi Revellian

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It's 2045. Jace Carnady works for the Time Police, dedicated to the prevention of timecrime. Life is good; he loves his girlfriend and enjoys his work. But when the team gets wind of a rogue time machine and fails to find it, Jace suspects one of his colleagues may be involved, and his life begins to unravel . .
  • Grim Repast by Marc Collins

    Grim Repast by Marc Collins

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Quillon Drask NovelTormented by his past, Probator Quillon Drask’s reputation as the go-to detective for strange crimes has led him to the Polaris district of Varangantua. Warring families, corrupt officials, and a monstrous hunger stalk these streets, and Drask must overcome his own inner agonies to bring justice to the tormented city...
  • The Rise of Io by Wesley Chu

    The Rise of Io by Wesley Chu

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Ella Patel – thief, con-artist and smuggler – is in the wrong place at the wrong time. One night, on the border of a demilitarized zone run by the body-swapping alien invaders, she happens upon a man and woman being chased by a group of assailants. The man freezes, leaving the woman to fight off five attackers at once, before succumbing...
  • Serious Crimes by Frank Tayell

    Serious Crimes by Frank Tayell

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Policing Post-Apocalyptic Britain. They called them Artificial Intelligences. Sentient viruses were closer to the truth. They spread throughout the world until every networked circuit was infected. Then they went to war. Millions died in the nuclear holocaust that brought an abrupt end to the AI’s brief reign of terror. Billions more succumbed to radiation, starvation, and disease...
  • Veil by Eliot Peper

    Veil by Eliot Peper

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When her mother dies in a heat wave that kills twenty million, Zia León abandons a promising diplomatic career to lead humanitarian aid missions to regions ravaged by drought, wildfires, and sea level rise.What Zia doesn't know is that clandestine forces are gathering around her in pursuit of a colossal secret: someone has hijacked the climate, and the future of human civilization is at stake...
  • Code Breakers: Delta by Colin F. Barnes

    Code Breakers: Delta by Colin F. Barnes

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The fourth and final novel in the Code Breakers series. Gabriel and Petal have tracked Gabe’s mother back to Hong Kong. But to find her Gabe has to face his old gang and the ghosts he thought he had laid to rest years before. While helping him, Petal stumbles on a way of getting Gerry’s mind out of her head, but like Gabe, she too has to return to a place full of ghosts: Libertas...
  • Division Zero by Matthew S. Cox

    Division Zero by Matthew S. Cox

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Most cops get to deal with living criminals, but Agent Kirsten Wren isn’t most cops. A gifted psionic with a troubled past, she possesses a rare combination of abilities that makes her a powerful weapon against paranormal threats. Adrift in a society that fears people like her, she feels alone in a city of millions...
  • Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present by Cory Doctorow

    Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present by Cory Doctorow

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Have you ever wondered what it's like to get bitten by a zombie? To live through a bioweapon attack? To have every aspect of your life governed by invisible ants? In Cory Doctorow's collection of novellas, he wields his formidable experience in technology and computing to give us mindbending sci-fi tales that explore the possibilities of information technology — and its various uses — run amok...
  • The Digital Plague by Jeff Somers

    The Digital Plague by Jeff Somers

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Avery Cates is a very rich man. He's probably the richest criminal in New York City. But right now, Avery Cates is pissed. Because everyone around him has just started to die - in a particularly gruesome way. With every moment bringing the human race closer to extinction, Cates finds himself in the role of both executioner and savior of the entire world...
  • The Rig by Roger Levy

    The Rig by Roger Levy

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    On a desert planet, two boys meet, sparking a friendship that will change human society forever. On the windswept world of Bleak, a string of murders lead a writer to a story with unbelievable ramifications. One man survives the vicious attacks, but is left with a morbid fascination with death; the perfect candidate for the perilous job of working on a rig.Welcome to the System...
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