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1) Rapture
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After years in exile, Nyxnissa so Dasheem is once more a bel dame, part of a sisterhood of elite government assassins trained to a cut a target's head off without remorse. But the end of a centuries-long war has thrown her native land of Nasheen into turmoil. A huge influx of unemployed–and unemployable–young soldiers have brought Nasheen to the brink of civil war, even as an alien spaceship stations itself in orbit above the capital.
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Have you ever wondered how different the world might be if things had unfolded differently? What if you could travel to a parallel world where Albert Einstein, the genius who revolutionized the course of science, never existed? In this book, we offer you a rare opportunity to embark on an intriguing intellectual adventure that stretches beyond the bounds of science fiction into a complex and intertwined reality.Behind the walls of laboratories and...
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Geoffrery Holder is an Airman serving with the Royal Air Force, by an accident of nature and alien technology he is beamed aboard the alien space ship the QvO. The ship is manned by the decendants of slaves who were captured from Earth by the RAP empire and then bred to produce more slaves . In time the slaves staged an insurrection and overthrew their RAP masters and subsumed their Empire. The QvO is currently lurking hull down, out of radar and...
4) Latency
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Sera is a LO-EC, a human who gained superpowers as an unintended side effect of a biotechnological breakthrough. Her unique abilities allowed her to survive while others like her, including her parents, were exterminated by a world government fearful of their potential.After decades of hiding, she meets Naren, another superpowered survivor who has infiltrated the ranks of the military. Together, they form a plan to unite with other surviving LO-ECs,...
6) Angel Face
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In 2021 a monster solar flare caused a gigantic geomagnetic storm that shut all satellites down. Internet and everything related to it goes down too for the following four days. Due to energy overload, power grids and phone lines stopped working in most areas. Companies kept their gates closed, banks put their shutters down and supermarkets were overrun by people. Airborne traffic was blocked and public transports suspended. Traffic lights shutting...
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Have you ever wondered what our world would be like if Isaac Newton had never existed?Discover the answer in our new e-book, "A World Without Newton: A Journey into an Alternate Future." Prepare to explore a fascinating and challenging world where the rules have changed and science has evolved in unimaginable ways. This book will take you to an unexpected future, where our questions about physics, mathematics, and science take on a new and exciting...
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This is a science fiction novel of enormous scope and ambition, filled with wonders that expands Brian Stableford's on-going future history series. Hundreds of years in the future, further ahead than the settings of Inherit the Earth and Architects of Emortality, Mortimer Gray is born into a world where he can potentially live forever.
But after a traumatic natural disaster that kills millions, Gray devotes the next five hundred years of his life...
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The machine was given three commands: Keep Amy alive, safe, and happy. The first two were easy enough, but the third meant understanding humans far better than they did themselves.When most of their crew is killed by an explosion on the ship, Mason fights to stay alive long enough to program an artificial intelligence to save his daughter. They are four and a half light years from Earth and rescue is not a possibility. As he begins to hallucinate...
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Continuing where Sophia, Age of Intelligence left off, The Human Continuum propels Simon Taylor's PurIntel Corporation into a future still dominated by his Halo application, an AI platform, which interacts with hundreds of millions of clients every day. Sophia represents many things to many people: Advanced Intelligence, the wisdom of the crowd, the combined intelligence of every human that came before her, but to Simon she embodies one thing - the...
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In "Nine Days Immersed in Chaos Theory (in Paris)," Sarah Mackay, a brilliant and determined graduate student from Scotland, embarks on a transformative journey to test her radical theory that reality is a chaotic web of logical possibilities. Drawn to Paris, a city known for its intellectual vibrancy, Sarah attends a series of nine lectures on chaos theory, where she delves into the unpredictable and complex systems that mirror her own research....
14) Vested Interest
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When NASA finally loses its funding and the media claims that the public has turned its back on space, only James Looven and Amy, his daughter's best friend seem to be outraged. Railing against the world's stupidity, they soon realize that support for the space program is more widespread than they have been led to believe. Lacking government funding, they rally the many thousands who don't want humanity to die at the bottom of a gravity well, and...
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Jeremy Parker est chercheur en nanotechnologies. Il a 27 ans, et vit à Londres en 2025. Le monde est saturé de déchets, il pleut du plastique à chaque orage. La nourriture commence à manquer. Lui, rêve de nettoyer la planète grâce à ses inventions. Mais la triste réalité économique de la société, profondément cynique, qui l'entoure, le contraint à travailler sur des projets moins idéalistes...Alors que la majorité des urbains des...
17) Moon 3D
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Lunar Series: Book 2: Moon 3DAfter more than fifty years man was back on the Moon. But this time he was determined to stay.And that meant building habitats with the AI-powered latest technology, such as 3D printers. But while those who were directly involved might show dedication and courage to the job, those remaining on Earth were still more interested in money and reputation. And that could lead to failure and even death for those on the Moon.In...
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"Artificial Intelligence Way of the Future-Your Ultimate Guide to the World of Artificial IntelligenceWelcome to the future! In a world where technology evolves at lightning speed, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is at the forefront of this incredible transformation. ""Artificial Intelligence Way of the Future"" is your gateway to understanding this fascinating and powerful technology that's reshaping our world in ways we never imagined.This book isn't...
19) Jack Four
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This high-octane adventure is set in the same world as Neal Asher's acclaimed Polity universe. It's a thrilling, fast-paced standalone novel, perfect for fans of Alastair Reynolds and Stephen Baxter.
Created to die–determined to live . . .
Jack Four–one of twenty human clones–has been created to be sold. His purchasers are the alien prador and they only want him for their experimentation program. But there is something different about...
20) The Skinner
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The Skinner is the first book in Neal Asher's Spatterjay series set in a lethal waterworld.
To the remote planet Spatterjay come three travellers with very different missions. Janer is directed there by the hornet Hive-mind; Erlin comes to find the sea captain who can teach her to live; and Keech - dead for seven hundred years - has unfinished business with a notorious criminal.
Spatterjay is a watery world where the human population...
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