Books like 'Judge Dredd – Mechanismo: Machine Law'
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Orlando People by Alexander C. Kane
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGretch Wolgast is a bit of a dud. Just ask her. She's a 21-year-old college dropout who has a loser job at the mall. Sure, she can lift a tennis ball with her telekinetic powers. But only three feet in the air. And she has to be sitting. Gretch is an OP, one of thousands born in Orlando, Florida, in the early 1980s who mysteriously developed the ability to move things with their minds... -
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Spark by Rachael Craw
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEvie doesn’t have a choice.One day she’s an ordinary seventeen year old, grieving for her mother. The next, she’s a Shield, the result of a decades-old experiment gone wrong, bound by DNA to defend her best friend from an unknown killer.The threat could come at home, at school, anywhere. All Evie knows is that it will be a fight to the death.And then there’s Jamie. irresistible. off-limits... -
![The Exploding Detective by John Swartzwelder]()
The Exploding Detective by John Swartzwelder
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOne of a series of comedy science fiction novels featuring slow-witted detective Frank Burly. By John Swartzwelder, the author of "The Time Machine Did It", "Double Wonderful", "How I Conquered Your Planet", and 59 episodes of The Simpsons... -
![Simon Grave and the Curious Incident of the Cat in the Daytime by Len Boswell]()
Simon Grave and the Curious Incident of the Cat in the Daytime by Len Boswell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Boswell continues his genre-defying series in this ambitious adventure…” –PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY Murder rocks the seaside town of Crab Cove, but to solve the crime, Detective Simon Grave must first deal with the curious incident of the cat in the daytime... -
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![I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin]()
I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsA standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin.Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC.But there are rules:He cannot look inside the box.He cannot ask questions... -
![The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley]()
The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWill Barrent had no memory of his crime . . . but he found himself shipped across space to a brutal prison-planet. On Omega, his only chance to advance himself -- and stay alive -- is to commit an endless series of violent crimes. The average inmate's life expectancy from time of arrival is three years... -
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Dog Logic by Tom Strelich
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIf "Dr. Strangelove" and "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" got together and had a litter of puppies you'd get "Dog Logic", a duck-and-cover fable and love story. Funny, inflammatory, and weirdly propheticHertell Daggett is the divorced and damaged caretaker of a failing pet cemetery on the outskirts of Bakersfield, and he's just discovered a lost civilization... -
![Crab Town by Carlton Mellick III]()
Crab Town by Carlton Mellick III
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this town, everyone's a bottom feeder ... Five desperate criminals are robbing one of the last remaining banks in Freedom City, a town devastated by the previous nuclear war. But these are no ordinary criminals. They are members of the House of Cards, an organization designed to help the less fortunate citizens of the city... -
![Tik-Tok by John Sladek]()
Tik-Tok by John Sladek
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"A Robot shall not injure a human being, or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm".That's Asimov's celebrated First Law of Robotics. And in the 21st century, all domestic robots are programmed according to that Law... -
![The Time Bubble by Jason Ayres]()
The Time Bubble by Jason Ayres
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDiscover a whole new world of time travel adventures!The first Time Bubble novel sets the scene for an epic series of stories, exploring time travel from every possible angle.The adventure begins in 2018, when Charlie and Josh stumble across a mysterious time portal in a railway tunnel.At first it seems like harmless fun, jumping a few seconds at a time into the future... -
![Slaughtermatic by Steve Aylett]()
Slaughtermatic by Steve Aylett
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet in the blood-drenched chaos of Beerlight, "a blown circuit, where to kill a man was less a murder than a mannerism," Dante Cubit and his pill-popping sidekick, the Entropy Kid, waltz into First National Bank with some serious attitude and a couple of snub guns... -
![The Fictional Man by Al Ewing]()
The Fictional Man by Al Ewing
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHollywood: Niles Golan is writing a remake of a camp-classic spy movie. The studio has plans for a franchise, so rather than hiring an actor, the protagonist will be 'translated' into a cloned human body.It's common practice - Niles' therapist is a Fictional. So is his best friend. So, maybe, is the woman in the bar he can't stop staring at... -
![Space Police: Attack of the Mammary Clans by David Blake]()
Space Police: Attack of the Mammary Clans by David Blake
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's the 25th Century, and the President of American has taken over the world.Meanwhile... after a cleaner unplugged his cryogenic freezing machine by accident, Detective Inspector Capstan wakes up to find that he's been in a state of suspended animation for over four hundred years... -
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Incompetence by Rob Grant
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBad is the new good. In the not too distant future the European Union enacts its most far reaching human rights legislation ever. The incompetent have been persecuted for too long. After all it's not their fault they can't do it right, is it? So it is made illegal to sack or otherwise discriminate against anyone for being incompetent... -
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![خاموشی by Jesse Ball, Mahtab Safdari]()
خاموشی by Jesse Ball, Mahtab Safdari
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWilliam and Molly lead a life of small pleasures, riddles at the kitchen table, and games of string and orange peels. All around them a city rages with war. When the uprising began, William’s wife was taken, leaving him alone with their young daughter. They keep their heads down and try to remain unnoticed as police patrol the streets, enforcing a curfew and arresting citizens... -
![Cabaret Biarritz by José C. Vales]()
Cabaret Biarritz by José C. Vales
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsGeorges Miet escribe por encargo historias populares para la editorial francesa La Fortune, hasta que un día su editor le pide una novela “seria” acerca de los trágicos hechos que habían conmocionado quince años antes la vibrante Biarritz de 1925, durante la temporada estival. Tras una terrible galerna el cadáver de una joven de la localidad aparece sujeto a una argolla en el muelle... -
![Halfhead by Stuart B. MacBride, Stuart MacBride]()
Halfhead by Stuart B. MacBride, Stuart MacBride
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGlasgow, not too far in the future. A new punishment has been devised for the perpetrators of serious crimes. The process is known as halfheading: the offender's lower jaw is removed & they are lobotomized. They are then put to work as cleaners in municipal areas like hospitals, where they serve as a warning to all that crime doesn't pay... -
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Past Crimes by Jason Pinter
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWelcome to Earth+. The year is 2037, and nearly all human interactions have migrated to the virtual world. Now, true crime fans don't just listen to podcasts or watch documentaries - they participate in hyper-realistic simulations and hunt for clues to solve the most famous and gruesome crimes in history... -
![Schrodinger's Gat by Robert Kroese]()
Schrodinger's Gat by Robert Kroese
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSchrodinger's Gat is a quantum physics noir thriller.Paul Bayes has begun to feel like all of his actions are dictated by forces beyond his control. But when his suicide attempt is foiled by a mysterious young woman named Tali, Paul begins to wonder if the future is really as bleak as it seems. Tali possesses a strange power: the ability to predict tragedies and prevent them from happening... -
![Out of the Black by Lee Doty]()
Out of the Black by Lee Doty
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt is the end of a nearly perfect society. Beautiful people still drive electric cars to fulfilling jobs, but no one noticed that the Apocalypse began a few weeks ago. Now the perfect society's misfits are its only hope for salvation, but they're barely keeping it together on a normal day. Now it up to 5 damaged strangers to piece together the mystery and fight against impossible odds... -
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Nowhere by Jon Robinson
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings'No one's coming for us.Not our families, not the police.No one.'Alyn, Jes, Ryan and Elsa are Nowhere. A concrete cube in the middle of a dense forest. Imprisoned inside are one hundred teenagers from all over the country. They're all criminals. But none of them remember committing any crimes. Who has put them there. What do their captors want? And how will they ever break free . . -
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Empty Hearts by Juli Zeh
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA prescient political and psychological thriller ripped from tomorrow's headlines, by one of Germany's most celebrated contemporary novelistsA few short years from now, the world is an even more uncertain place than it is today, and politics everywhere is marching rightward: Trump is gone, but Brexit is complete, as is Frexit; there's a global financial crisis, armed conflict, mass migration,... -
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Long Chills and Case Dough by Brandon Sanderson
Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLong Chills and Case Dough is a previously unpublished short story, written just before Brandon published his first book. It was released to celebrate the finale of the 2023 "Year of Sanderson," and is published exclusively by Dragonsteel as a "Sanderson Curiosity... -
![The Repeat Room by Jesse Ball]()
The Repeat Room by Jesse Ball
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFranz Kafka meets Yorgos Lanthimos in this provocative new novel from one of America’s most brilliant and distinctive writersIn a speculative future, Abel, a menial worker, is called to serve in a secretive and fabled jury system... -
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![The Investigation by Philippe Claudel]()
The Investigation by Philippe Claudel
Rated: 3.14 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsA wild, Kafka-esque romp through a dystopian landscape, probing the darkly comic nature of the human condition. The Investigator is a man quite like any other. He is balding, of medium build, dresses conservatively—in short, he is unremarkable in every way... -
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Daredevil, Vol. 2 by Brian Michael Bendis, Alex Maleev
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA mystery man called Mr. Silke has inspired Wilson Fisk's lieutenants to rise up and take down the Kingpin of Crime, but when the FBI steps in to sort out the remains of the Kingpin's criminal empire, their investigation may change Daredevil's life forever. A Graphic Novel... -
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Watchmen #12 by Alan Moore
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe epic maxiseries by legendary comic creator Alan Moore and acclaimed artist Dave Gibbons comes to its stunning conclusion! What is the final fate of Rorschach, Nite Owl, Dr... -
![Hawkeye, Volume 2 by Matt Fraction, David Aja]()
Hawkeye, Volume 2 by Matt Fraction, David Aja
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMatt Fraction and David Aja’s Eisner Award-winning reinvention of the arrowed Avenger concludes!Kate Bishop heads to Los Angeles to get away from New York and Clint Barton — but she can’t escape trouble, because Madame Masque is hanging out poolside! As Kate helps a reclusive artist find his lost masterpiece, Madame Masque finds Kate. By which we mean tries to kill her again... -
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Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 05 by John Wagner, Alan Grant
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe law at war! Judge Dredd rides into action in this fifth volume collecting together some of his most exciting cases. Arch-nemesis Judge Death rises from the grave once again in 'Judge Death Lives', citizen is pitted against citizen in 'Block Mania' and the apocalypse comes to Mega-City One in the all-time classic Dredd epic, 'The Apocalypse War'... -
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Top 10 by Alan Moore
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe massive, multilayered city of Neopolis, built shortly after World War II, was designed as a home for the expanding population of science-heroes, heroines and villains that had ballooned into existance in the previous decade. Bringing these powered beings together solved some problems but created others - turning Neopolis into a pressure cooker that normal policing methods could never contain...
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