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Pacchi Festival by Nikita Thorn
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe wait is over! Welcome to the Pacchi Festival!As Shinshioka launches into the much-awaited week-long event, Seiki and his friends race to solve the mystery of the recent treasures from the Shussebora Cave... -
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Degrees of Separation by Sharon Lee, Steve Miller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLife. Luck. Love. Lowport. Life, so the wags tell us, is what happens while we're making other plans. Luck. . .or, as some have it, chance. . .Luck is what makes Life interesting; introducing spicy bits of chaos – good, bad, and neutral. Without Luck, there is no savor – no adventure – in Life. Love. Ah, Love... -
![House of Gold by C.T. Rwizi]()
House of Gold by C.T. Rwizi
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom visionary author C. T. Rwizi comes the epic journey of four people on a distant planet who face the ultimate test of loyalty, friendship, and duty in the rising tide of war.A corporate aristocracy descended from Africa rules a colony on a distant planet.Life here is easy—for the rarified and privileged few... -
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Renegade by Alex Knight
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKaiden Moore is on the run.A fugitive both in real life and the game world of Nova Online, his only hope is to follow the trail of virtual breadcrumbs left behind by Bernstein, the man whose murder Kaiden was framed and jailed for. The data Bernstein gathered may be the only way to expose the corruption of the Party and finally clear his name... -
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![The John Varley Reader by John Varley]()
The John Varley Reader by John Varley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the moment John Varley burst onto the scene in 1974, his short fiction was like nothing anyone else was writing. His stories won every award the science fiction field had to offer, many times over. His first collection, The Persistence of Vision, published in 1978, was the most important collection of the decade, and changed what fans would come to expect from science fiction... -
![Król Bólu by Jacek Dukaj]()
Król Bólu by Jacek Dukaj
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKról Bólu i inne powieściPiętnaście lat twórczości Jacka Dukaja w ośmiu utworach przekraczających granice wyobraźni i człowieczeństwa.Wszyscy przecież czujemy koniec czasów człowieka. Czujemy, że usuwa się nam ziemia spod nóg; na czymś stać trzeba, więc budujemy rusztowania; ale im my wyżej, tym one chybotliwsze; im my potężniejsi, tym one wątlejsze. Wszystko się wali... -
![The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard by J.G. Ballard]()
The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard by J.G. Ballard
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFirst published in 1978, this collection of nineteen of Ballard's best short stories is as timely and informed as ever. His tales of the human psyche and its relationship to nature and technology, as viewed through a strong microscope, were eerily prescient and now provide greater perspective on our computer-dominated culture... -
![Hell Follows by Andrew Vaillencourt]()
Hell Follows by Andrew Vaillencourt
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsDockside is burning, and it’s up to everybody’s least favorite Army-surplus cyborg to fix it.It starts when somebody takes a hit out on The Chairman, and quickly spirals into a mystery that takes Roland and his hyper-kinetic partner Lucia far from New Boston and into the depths of unregulated star systems... -
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Star Songs of an Old Primate by James Tiptree Jr.
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA marvelous medley of Tiptree's best - YOUR HAPLOID HEART - When Ian Suitlov and Pax Patton landed on Esthaa to check for humans, the job wasn't as easy as it appeared. Though the natives seemed human enough, only cross breeding would be conclusive proof... -
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Expelled by Ell Leigh Clarke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJayne Austin wasn’t always the galaxy’s number one spy. She was expelled from spy school for uncovering a double-agent because apparently, that’s what happens to spies that accomplish great things.Given a choice between going back to her planet or selling her one-way ticket for starting capital she thought long and hard about her choices. All of fifteen seconds. Then, she created ‘the Plan... -
![Dawn of the Singularity (The Singularity Saga #1) by David Simpson]()
Dawn of the Singularity (The Singularity Saga #1) by David Simpson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Singularity. The point in human history when we begin to enhance our own intelligence with the intelligent technology we're creating. As humanity merges with its machines, will we forget what it means to be human? Meet Haalee, the artificial intelligence charged with taking humanity on the road to the singularity... -
![Junkers Season Two (Junkers #2) by Benjamin Wallace]()
Junkers Season Two (Junkers #2) by Benjamin Wallace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt was supposed to be the happiest place on the whole wide planet. It was supposed to be a place where every child’s favorite characters came to life. And, it was, until those characters went nuts and started killing everyone. Then it wasn’t so happy... -
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Brother, Frankenstein by Michael Bunker
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDr. Chris Alexander, a borderline sociopath and technological genius, has designed an advanced cybernetic life form from prototype decommissioned military drones and top-secret experimental DARPA technology... -
![Into Twilight by P.R. Adams]()
Into Twilight by P.R. Adams
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDouble-crossed and abandoned behind enemy lines. It’s an agent’s worst nightmare.In the 22nd Century, Stefan Mendoza is a loyal operator for the Agency, an organization that does the United States’ dirty work. Extraction, systems hacking, assassination—allies and enemies, he never questions the mission. And then the day comes when he’s considered expendable... -
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![True Names... and Other Dangers by Vernor Vinge]()
True Names... and Other Dangers by Vernor Vinge
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsContents:Bookworm, Run! (1966)True Names (1981)The Peddler's Apprentice (1975) with Joan D... -
![The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction by Gardner Dozois, William Gibson]()
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction by Gardner Dozois, William Gibson
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFor years, The Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after twenty-one annual collections, comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies, The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction, in which legendary editor Gardner Dozois selects the very best short stories for this landmark collection... -
![Borderless by Eliot Peper]()
Borderless by Eliot Peper
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsInformation is power, and whoever controls the feed rules the world in this all-too-plausible follow-up to the science fiction thriller Bandwidth.Exiled from Washington after a covert operation gone wrong, Diana is building a new life as a freelance spy, though her obsessive secrecy is driving away the few friends and allies she can count on... -
![Doctor Who: Neverland by Alan Barnes, Paul McGann]()
Doctor Who: Neverland by Alan Barnes, Paul McGann
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Web of Time is stretched to breaking. History is leaking like a sieve. In the Citadel of Gallifrey, the Time Lords fear the end of everything that is, everything that was... everything that will be... -
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Luminous by Greg Egan
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLUMINOUS collects together one original story plus nine previously unpublished in book form. Greg Egan's short fiction is at the cutting edge of the genre. His stories range from near future predictions to far future, far space improvisations. His grasp of the latest scientific breakthroughs is unparalleled in science fiction... -
![True Names: and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier by Vernor Vinge, James Frenkel]()
True Names: and the Opening of the Cyberspace Frontier by Vernor Vinge, James Frenkel
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOnce in a great while a science fiction story is so visionary, yet so close to impending scientific developments that it becomes not only an accurate predictor, but itself the locus for new discoveries and development. True Names by Vernor Vinge, first published in 1981, is such a work... -
![Czarne oceany by Jacek Dukaj]()
Czarne oceany by Jacek Dukaj
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDukaj od nowa skonfigurował klasyczną twardą fantastykę naukową.Mroczna, sugestywna, boleśnie realistyczna wizja społeczeństwa posthumanistycznego.Czarne oceany – przerażająca otchłań myśli ludzkiej.Nicolas Hunt kieruje tajnym projektem rządowym, badającym komercyjne zastosowania telepatii. Rezultaty tych badań zmienią nieodwracalnie nie tylko jego życie, ale także losy całego świata... -
![Bee Speaker: Dogs of War, Book 3 by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Gabrielle Nellis-Pain]()
Bee Speaker: Dogs of War, Book 3 by Adrian Tchaikovsky, Gabrielle Nellis-Pain
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBloomsbury presents Bee Speaker by Adrian Tchaikovsky, read by Rod Hallett, Gabrielle Nellis-Pain, and Adrian Tchaikovsky.From the Arthur C. Clarke award winner, Adrian Tchaikovsky, comes the third instalment of the DOGS OF WAR science fiction series, a future where genetically engineered “Bioforms” have inherited not the Earth, but the Solar System. The end of the world has been and gone... -
![State Tectonics by Malka Ann Older]()
State Tectonics by Malka Ann Older
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne of the best books of 2018, according to Kirkus Reviews, the Chicago Review of Books, and BookRiot.Campbell Award finalist Malka Older's State Tectonics concludes The Centenal Cycle, the cyberpunk poltical thriller series that began with Infomocracy and is a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Series.The future of democracy must evolve or die... -
![The Engineer ReConditioned by Neal Asher]()
The Engineer ReConditioned by Neal Asher
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBritish author Asher is rapidly becoming one of the major figures in 21st-century SF, as shown by the 10 powerful and entertaining stories in this collection. In "The Engineer," an interstellar research vessel picks up an escape pod that has been drifting for millions of years. The alien it contains turns out to be the last of a long-extinct race of genetic engineers with terrifying capabilities... -
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![Le Code Enigma by Neal Stephenson, Jean Bonnefoy]()
Le Code Enigma by Neal Stephenson, Jean Bonnefoy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse, mathematical genius and captain in the U.S. Navy, is assigned to Detachment 2702, whose mission is to keep Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code... -
![36 by Nieves Delgado]()
36 by Nieves Delgado
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEl nacimiento de una nueva Inteligencia Artificial en el CIDIA siempre es motivo de alegría. En el caso de la que ocupará el cuerpo número 36, la felicidad es doble, puesto que, nada más nacer, ha sorprendido a todos los técnicos con un insólito «Buenos días». 36 no es una IA como las demás, se hace preguntas y quiere respuestas... -
![The Culling by Ramona Finn]()
The Culling by Ramona Finn
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat happens to a girl trained as a executioner, who finds out her life is a lie?In a solar system where The Authority decides who lives and who dies, only one of their own executioners can stop them.Glade Io is a trained killer... -
![The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois, Stephen Baxter]()
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Second Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois, Stephen Baxter
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe twenty-eight stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and to the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: Daniel Abraham • Eleanor Arnason • Pauolo Bacigalupi • Kage Baker • Stephen Baxter • Terry Bisson • James L... -
![The A.I. Chronicles (The Future Chronicles by Samuel Peralta]()
The A.I. Chronicles (The Future Chronicles by Samuel Peralta
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA.I.: Artificial Intelligence. Even today, machines that mimic human thinking surround us... -
![Breach by Eliot Peper]()
Breach by Eliot Peper
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA hacker is drawn out of hiding and into an epic geopolitical showdown in the frighteningly plausible conclusion to Eliot Peper’s critically acclaimed Analog Series. When you’ve betrayed your revolutionary cadre, an off-grid fight club on a remote tropical island is a good place to hide—or die.For notorious ex-hacker Emily Kim, the outcome of each fight makes little difference... -
![Wool Gathering by W.J. Davies, Ann Christy]()
Wool Gathering by W.J. Davies, Ann Christy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLong after the dust has settled and the survivors of the Silo Saga have gone to seed, Hugh Howey's bestselling WOOL trilogy continues to captivate readers worldwide. The power of Hugh's story is underscored all the more by the number of authors who have embraced the invitation to tell their own stories in his ever-expanding world... -
![Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction by Larry McCaffery, Rob Hardin]()
Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk & Postmodern Science Fiction by Larry McCaffery, Rob Hardin
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe term “cyberpunk” entered the literary landscape in 1984 to describe William Gibson’s pathbreaking novel Neuromancer. Cyberpunks are now among the shock troops of postmodernism, Larry McCaffery argues in Storming the Reality Studio, marshalling the resources of a fragmentary culture to create a startling new form... -
![Let's Put the Future Behind Us by Jack Womack]()
Let's Put the Future Behind Us by Jack Womack
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFormer bureaucrat Max Borodin is one of Moscow's most successful businessmen. He strolls through the wreckage of today's Russia with ease - convincing people to do his bidding, providing its citizens (both friends and clients) with the luxury goods they covet, and generally leading a prosperous and satisfying existence... -
![Writings 1997–2003 by Ccru]()
Writings 1997–2003 by Ccru
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom before the beginning (which was also, according to them, already the end), the adepts of the Architectonic Order of the Eschaton have worked tirelessly to secure the past, present, and future against the incursions of Neolemurian time-sorcery, eliminating all polytemporal activity, stitching up the future, sealing every breach and covering every track... -
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![The Armageddon Blues by Daniel Keys Moran]()
The Armageddon Blues by Daniel Keys Moran
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJalian, a silver-eyed huntress from 700 years in the future, travels back to the 20th century in an attempt to save her world from the ravages of nuclear destruction. A stunning tour-de-force of love and adventure sweeping along a timeline of infinitely possible worlds... -
![The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois, James Patrick Kelly]()
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois, James Patrick Kelly
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAnnually assembling the best science fiction of the year, this series continues to live up to its name with the most original, innovative, and wonderful short fiction published in 1990. A thorough summary of the year in science fiction and a long list of recommended reading round out this volume, rendering it the one book for every reader... -
![SybirPunk vol.1 by Michał Gołkowski]()
SybirPunk vol.1 by Michał Gołkowski
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPrzyszłość - sterylnie czyste miasta, uporządkowane społeczeństwa i służąca ludzkości zaawansowana technologia...... No nie, sorry, ale nie.Przyszłość to NeoSybirsk: rozpadająca się, sklecona na sznurek i szmatę cywilizacja pokryta węglowym pyłem. Cuchnące zaułki, w których można stracić życie za butelkę wody... -
![Doctor Who: Davros by Lance Parkin, Colin Baker]()
Doctor Who: Davros by Lance Parkin, Colin Baker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is a full-cast original audio play produced by Big Finish Productions.AI stock has shot up by over fifteen percent on news that galaxy-famous scientist Davros, controversial creator of the Daleks, has been hired to work on unspecified technological projects.'Davros has been given the chance to redeem himself... -
![Deep Core by F.X. Holden]()
Deep Core by F.X. Holden
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAJ is a maintenance tech at Sol Vista care facility. He likes the quiet life. Visiting with his ma. A burger at Fatty's. Surfing the Shifting Sea. Staying in flow... -
![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... -
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11,4 sueños luz by Nicholas Avedon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEn el París del siglo XXIII donde todo está en venta, las emociones puras son de gran valor para aquellos que no pueden vivirlas. Ariel de Santos es un creador de sueños vívidos, uno de los pocos artistas capaces de modelar las emociones para seducir e inspirar a un mundo que se ha olvidado de soñar... -
![The Beam: The Complete First Season Collection by Sean Platt, Johnny B. Truant]()
The Beam: The Complete First Season Collection by Sean Platt, Johnny B. Truant
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThis collection contains the complete first season of the epic sci-fi saga, The Beam -- all SIX debut-season episodes. Save 45% versus buying the individual episodes! In a grim future, choice is all you have In 2097, the world is as perfect as you want it to be.Choose Enterprise and the government stays out of your way, leaving you free to sink or swim — no help for the drowning... -
![The Auction by Elci North]()
The Auction by Elci North
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn a society where babies have become a source of government income, laws designed to push up the birth rate are enacted that strip women of the most basic of human rights: The right to choose when to have a child, the right to choose who to marry, and the right to raise her biological child... -
![Melancholy Elephants by Spider Robinson]()
Melancholy Elephants by Spider Robinson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsContents:Melancholy Elephants (1982)Half an Oaf (1976)High Infidelity (1984)Antinomy (1978)In the Olden Days (1984)Chronic Offender (1981)No Renewal (1977)Common Sense (1985)Rubber Soul (1982)Concordiat to "Rubber Soul" (1985) essayFather Paradox (1985)True Minds (1984)Satan's Children (1979)Not Fade Away... -
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![Cyberpunk City Book One: The Machine Killer by D.L. Young]()
Cyberpunk City Book One: The Machine Killer by D.L. Young
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor fans of Altered Carbon, Neuromancer, and Snow Crash.Former data thief Maddox thinks his life of cybercrime is behind him. He couldn't be more wrong.Forced by a powerful executive to steal a priceless dataset, Maddox uncovers the shocking truth of a secret war between AIs, raging inside the digital universe known as virtual space... -
![Mindkiller by Spider Robinson]()
Mindkiller by Spider Robinson
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWireheads, addicted to an electric current fed into the pleasure centers of the brain, are the new junkies... -
![A Signal Shattered by Eric S. Nylund]()
A Signal Shattered by Eric S. Nylund
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this sequel to Signal to Noise, a handful of humans who survived the annihilation of humankind on Earth is hiding on the Moon. Among them is Jack Potter, a rogue cryptographer whose business dealings with an alien named Wheeler started the entire destruction. Now, Wheeler is out to finish what he started... -
![Crystal Express by Bruce Sterling]()
Crystal Express by Bruce Sterling
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShort stories which depict worlds full of scientific advancement, genetic and surgical modifications of people, colonization of the solar system and alien contact. But they also show concern for the future of real people... -
![The Stone Within by David Wingrove]()
The Stone Within by David Wingrove
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA dying old man's dreams warn the Seven T'Ang that a fierce storm is approaching...so dark, so deadly it can destroy a world. Not even the T'ang, rulers of the magnificent mile-high city-kingdoms of the planet, can predict from where the danger will come. As assassins spread outward to a fortified palace in space, treachery moves inway into men's and women's heart to bring down a dynasy.. -
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Doctor Who: Love and War by Paul Cornell
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOn a planet called Heaven, all hell is breaking loose.Heaven is a paradise for both humans and Draconians - a place of rest in more ways than one. The Doctor comes here on a trivial mission - to find a book, or so he says - and Ace, wandering alone in the city, becomes involved with a charismatic Traveller called Jan. But the Doctor is strenuously opposed to the romance...
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