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Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 43 ratingsRobust, peaceful, and confident, the Commonwealth dispatched a ship to investigate the mystery of a disappearing star, only to inadvertently unleash a predatory alien species that turned on its liberators, striking hard, fast, and utterly without mercy. The Prime are the Commonwealth's worst nightmare... -
![Neural Wraith 2 by K.D. Robertson]()
Neural Wraith 2 by K.D. Robertson
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFinance 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... -
![Burning Down Boise by Franklin Horton]()
Burning Down Boise by Franklin Horton
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSometimes 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 ratingsLos 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... -
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![Dominance by Niall Teasdale]()
Dominance by Niall Teasdale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith the new private policing contracts coming in at the start of the 2062, Fox Meridian can finally relax and devote all her time to her new position as the terrorism liaison for Palladium Security Solutions. She may have no boyfriend and no life, but at least she’s back doing what she wants to do: investigate crimes... -
![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 ratingsবাংলাদেশ 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 ratingsNew 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... -
![Orlando People by Alexander C. Kane]()
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... -
![Liege-Killer by Christopher Hinz]()
Liege-Killer by Christopher Hinz
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsTwo hundred years after Earth is devastated by nuclear war and genetically engineered Paratwa assassins, the humans of orbiting Earth colonies are at peace, until a series of murders reveal the reemergence of the Paratwa... -
![The Stories of Ibis by Hiroshi Yamamoto]()
The Stories of Ibis by Hiroshi Yamamoto
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn 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... -
![Double Check by Malcolm Rose]()
Double Check by Malcolm Rose
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEverton Kohter is a young man on death row -- in nineteen days the Authorities will have him executed by lethal injection. But Luke Harding and his airborne robotic sidekick, Malc, have been tipped off that Everton didn't commit the murder, despite the overwhelming evidence... -
![Blood Brother by Malcolm Rose]()
Blood Brother by Malcolm Rose
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTeenage 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... -
![Becoming Elektra by Christian Handel]()
Becoming Elektra by Christian Handel
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSie bestimmen, wer du bistWenn dein Leben eine Lüge ist ... Als die junge und schöne Elektra Hamilton bei einem Reitunfall ums Leben kommt, erhält Isabel ein unerwartetes Angebot. Sie, die Elektra wie aus dem Gesicht geschnitten ist, soll deren Platz einnehmen. Sie muss lediglich für immer verschweigen, wer sie wirklich ist... -
![Childless: A Novel by James C. Dobson, Kurt Bruner]()
Childless: A Novel by James C. Dobson, Kurt Bruner
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe second installment in the riveting new trilogy from Dr. James Dobson and Kurt Bruner transports readers to a not-too-distant future when the young and healthy strain under the burden of a rapidly aging population. Everyone is nervous about how Judge Victor Santiago will rule. The case involved the tragic demise of a loving mother and her disabled son... -
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![American Survivor by A.J. Newman]()
American Survivor by A.J. Newman
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAmerican 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... -
![Bloodlines by Chris Wraight]()
Bloodlines by Chris Wraight
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe first title in the new "Warhammer Crime" imprint. Try to unravel the secrets lurking in the sprawling city of Varangantua.In the immense city of Varangantua, life is cheap but mistakes are expensive. When Probator Agusto Zidarov of the city’s enforcers is charged with locating the missing scion of a wealthy family, he knows full well that the chances of finding him alive are slight... -
![The Nether: A Play by Jennifer Haley]()
The Nether: A Play by Jennifer Haley
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Nether, a daring examination of moral responsibility in virtual worlds, opens with a familiar interrogation scene given a technological twist. As Detective Morris, an online investigator, questions Mr. Sims about his activities in a role-playing realm so realistic it could be life, she finds herself on slippery ethical ground... -
![Amen Maxine by Faith Gardner]()
Amen Maxine by Faith Gardner
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA new marriage.A perfect home.A machine that says it’s all a lie.Welcome to Silicon Valley, where the weather is perfect, the income is high … and Rowena Snyder is miserable. A transplant from New York, Rowena moved into her husband Jacob’s idyllic childhood home with their new baby. But suburbia isn’t Rowena’s cup of Starbucks. And she’s got serious anxiety and depression to boot... -
![Kill Process by William Hertling]()
Kill Process by William Hertling
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBy day, Angie, a twenty-year veteran of the tech industry, is a data analyst at Tomo, the world's largest social networking company; by night, she exploits her database access to profile domestic abusers and kill the worst of them. She can't change her own traumatic past, but she can save other women... -
![Shift by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs]()
Shift by Kathy Reichs, Brendan Reichs
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTory'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... -
![Drone State by Tom Hillenbrand]()
Drone State by Tom Hillenbrand
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsGlauser Award 2015 - Best German Crime NovelLasswitz Award 2015 - Best German SF NovelWhy interview witnesses when all their movements and conversations have already been archived on a hard disk? Why investigate crime scenes when police drones have already photographed them from all possible angles?A Brussels MP is found murdered near the EU capital... -
![Dome City Blues by Jeff Edwards]()
Dome City Blues by Jeff Edwards
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor 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 ratingsIn 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... -
![Baby X by Kira Peikoff]()
Baby X by Kira Peikoff
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen any biological matter can be used to create life, stolen celebrity DNA sells to the highest bidder–or the craziest stalker–in this propulsive thriller.With a vivid imagining of the future, Gattaca meets Black Mirror in Kira Peikoff’s Baby X... -
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![Final Lap by Malcolm Rose]()
Final Lap by Malcolm Rose
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLuke 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... -
![Husk by J. Kent Messum]()
Husk by J. Kent Messum
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom award-winning author J. Kent Messum, a serial killer thriller for fans of The Straw Men and The Shining Girls.LIFE GOES ONFor a lucky few, death is merely an inconvenience. With the help of technology the mind can survive long after a body has been laid to rest. This afterlife, however, is far from paradise...MAKING A LIVINGRhodes is a 'Husk'... -
![Burnout by Sean Platt, Johnny B. Truant]()
Burnout by Sean Platt, Johnny B. Truant
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCutter 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... -
![The Last Beekeeper by Jared Gulian]()
The Last Beekeeper by Jared Gulian
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSometimes your safe place... is not.When murder strikes a remote community, a reclusive beekeeper uncovers a horrifying secret that could destroy humanity.Jim Parker, a honeybee expert, has retreated to a quaint island in Lake Michigan with his teenage daughter after a terrible family tragedy. He longs to hide from an increasingly dangerous world... -
![Mushroom Blues by Adrian M. Gibson]()
Mushroom Blues by Adrian M. Gibson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsENTER THE FUNGALVERSE. Blade Runner, True Detective and District 9 meld with the weird worlds of Jeff VanderMeer, Philip K. Dick and China Miéville in Adrian M. Gibson’s award-winning fungalpunk noir debut. Two years after a devastating defeat in the decade-long Spore War, the island nation of Hōppon and its capital city of Neo Kinoko are occupied by invading Coprinian forces... -
![Dissolution by Nicholas Binge]()
Dissolution by Nicholas Binge
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA 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 ratingsWebmind-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... -
![Proximity by Jem Tugwell]()
Proximity by Jem Tugwell
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsiMe NOTICE - TO ALL NEW ADULTSYour compulsory iMe implant will be performed by your fourteenth birthday when you become an adult.Your iMe will track and save your location to keep you safe and remove crime.It's integrated health monitoring diagnoses issues early to provide you with the best possible care.Combined with iMe's tailored diet and fitness programs - you are always at your best... -
![Beauty Sleep by Kathryn Evans]()
Beauty Sleep by Kathryn Evans
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWho 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... -
![Roll Call by Malcolm Rose]()
Roll Call by Malcolm Rose
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsLuke Harding's third thrilling case involves a series of mysterious murders in which the victims seem to have only one thing in common: they are all named Emily Wonder. In the bitter cold of winter, Luke and Malc struggle to investigate three crime scenes lacking in physical evidence... -
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![Uncanny by Sarah Fine]()
Uncanny by Sarah Fine
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTwo sisters. One death. No memories.Cora should remember every detail about the night her stepsister, Hannah, fell down a flight of stairs to her death, especially since her Cerepin—a sophisticated brain-computer interface—may have recorded each horrifying moment. But when she awakens after that night, her memories gone, Cora is left with only questions—and dread of what the answers might mean... -
![Fatherless by James C. Dobson, Kurt Bruner]()
Fatherless by James C. Dobson, Kurt Bruner
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe year is 2042, and the long-predicted tipping point has arrived. For the first time in human history, the economic pyramid has flipped: The feeble old now outnumber the vigorous young, and this untenable situation is intensifying a battle between competing cultural agendas... -
![Delete All Suspects by Donna Andrews]()
Delete All Suspects by Donna Andrews
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter a hit-and-run leaves Eddie, a young techie, in the hospital, his grandmother hires Artificial Intelligence Personality Turing’s friend Tim to look closely at Eddie’s business, which he runs out of their computer-filled basement... -
![2113 : Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush by Kevin J. Anderson, John McFetridge]()
2113 : Stories Inspired by the Music of Rush by Kevin J. Anderson, John McFetridge
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratings18 exhilarating journeys into Rush-inspired worlds The music of Rush, one of the most successful bands in history, is filled with fantastic stories, evocative images, and thought-provoking futures and pasts... -
![Android: Golem by Mel Odom]()
Android: Golem by Mel Odom
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen 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... -
![By the Pricking of Her Thumb by Adam Roberts]()
By the Pricking of Her Thumb by Adam Roberts
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPrivate Investigator Alma is caught up in another impossible murder. One of the world's four richest people may be dead - but nobody is sure which one. Hired to discover the truth behind the increasingly bizarre behaviour of the ultra-rich, Alma must juggle treating her terminally ill lover with a case which may not have a victim... -
![The Third Claw of God by Adam-Troy Castro]()
The Third Claw of God by Adam-Troy Castro
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAndrea Cort became a "war criminal" at the age of eight when an unexplained darkness invaded her soul.Now, decades later, the Devil is calling her.Employed by the Diplomatic Corps but secretly aiding the AI masters of the universe, Counselor Andrea Cort despises the powerful Bettelhines—unrepentant death merchants who have prospered from the annihilation of civilizations... -
![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... -
![The Trouble with Time by Lexi Revellian]()
The Trouble with Time by Lexi Revellian
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt'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 . . -
![The Registration by Madison Lawson]()
The Registration by Madison Lawson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYou can’t outrun the RegistrationImagine it’s legal to commit one murder in your lifetime–if you Register the victim and accomplish the kill within fourteen days. So when Lynell Mize stands in line to Register the man who abused her as a child, she’s shocked to hear a stranger Register her to be killed... -
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![Bang Bang Bodhisattva by Aubrey Wood]()
Bang Bang Bodhisattva by Aubrey Wood
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSomeone wants trans girl hacker-for-hire Kiera Umehara in prison or dead—but for what? Failing to fix their smart toilet?It’s 2032 and we live in the worst cyberpunk future. Kiera is gigging her ass off to keep the lights on, but her polycule’s social score is so dismal they’re about to lose their crib. That’s why she's out here chasing cheaters with Angel Herrera, a luddite P.I... -
![Burn Cycle by Joel Dane]()
Burn Cycle by Joel Dane
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn unbeatable enemy. A planet on the brink. And a squad with a taste for revenge. In this incendiary new military science fiction novel, an infantry squad crisscrosses the globe on a search-and-destroy mission against a relentless foe.After cry pilot Maseo Kaytu's white-knuckled victory over the mysterious lampreys at Ayko Base, military command develops new weapons and a new strategy... -
![Serious Crimes by Frank Tayell]()
Serious Crimes by Frank Tayell
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsPolicing 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... -
![Thrill Switch by Tim Hawken]()
Thrill Switch by Tim Hawken
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDetective Ada Byron is pumped to finally be assigned her first murder case... until she sees the crime scene. Someone has been killed exactly the same way as her father was seven years earlier.To see if this is a copycat, or something more sinister, Ada must work with her personal nightmare Jazlin Switch - the programmer who murdered her dad... -
![The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton]()
The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsSolve the murder to save what's left of the world.Outside the island there is the world destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island it is idyllic. 122 villagers and 3 scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm and feast, to obey their nightly curfew, to do what they're told by the scientists... -
![Heavy Time by C.J. Cherryh]()
Heavy Time by C.J. Cherryh
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAsteroid miners Bird and Ben encounter an adrift ship in an asteroid belt that's inhabited by a half-crazy spacer named Dekker. When they tow the ship, they find their livelihoods--and their lives--in deadly danger. Proves that high-tech science fiction need not sacrifice literary values.--Publishers Weekly...
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