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This book is volume two in the Doorways series. Rigil Kent follows the events of Origins and the evolutionary reset. Survivors, clinging to life, try to rebuild under the seemingly omniscient gaze of an alien enemy. A single outpost prepares to launch a counterattack armed only with their intellect and a data pack with the accumulated knowledge of a post-singularity society. But before they can take the fight to the enemy they must deal with their...
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It has been 60 years since the technological singularity. Massive AI's control and manage the population of the Solar System. From asteroid mining, simulation centers on Mars, and observation stations deep in the Ort Cloud, modified humans have spread throughout the system. The shipbuilding centers in orbit around Jupiter are building vessels that will travel to the stars.
One unique individual has taken personal modifications to a whole new level....
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Newspaper reporter Bill Razer arrives very early at the state Capitol on a below-zero winter morning. A few minutes later, he is shot dead while preparing to write a scathing column aimed at hapless Governor Phillip Newman and legislative leaders. When no helpful clues surface, Sheriff Frank Himberger enlists former ace detective Jack Rogers, who has been on a self-imposed sabbatical due to the tragic loss of his wife eight months earlier. The reunited...
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The definitive biography of a trailblazing actress who entertained-and shocked-the nation and the world.
Marilyn Monroe might never have become the legend she did without America's original tragic starlet: actress and poet Adah Isaacs Menken (1835—68). In a century remembered for Victorian restraint, Menken's modern flair for action, scandal, and unpopular causes, especially that of the Jewish people, revolutionized show business. On stage, she...
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Monsters, ghosts, fantastic beings, and supernatural phenomena of all sorts haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan. Broadly labeled yokai, these creatures come in infinite shapes and sizes, from tengu mountain goblins and kappa water spirits to shape-shifting foxes and long-tongued ceiling-lickers. Currently popular in anime, manga, film, and computer games, many yokai originated in local legends, folktales, and regional ghost stories. Drawing...
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In the past 24 hours, stoner Charlie Hong has been promoted from fugitive pot-grower to captain of the Starseed. Whether he likes it or not, the massive, living, interstellar spaceship–and its five hundred billion inhabitants–are now his responsibility.
As his suspicious crew gives him a tour of the ship, a quiet invasion unfolds. When the rest of his team is disabled by the buggy invaders, Charlie is left with a decision: to try to save the...
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Charlie Hong is on the run from both sides of the law.
He's spent the last year in hiding, cultivating one last hair-brained scheme to escape his troubles: a clandestine marijuana operation. Just as he's about to cash in, his cash crop is stolen by a bright light appearing in the night sky. After catching a ride with one of his plants, he finds himself thrown into a world far stranger than anything he could have possibly imagined.
Does the stoned...
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Holy Rollers follows the rise of the Church Team, arguably the largest and most well funded blackjack team in America. No one expected a group of Christians to be in the business of card-counting. While they succeed at winning millions, how will they find a place for faith in card counting?