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Internet domina el mundo, ¿Qué opinaría de la realidad de nuestro mundo, si le dijéramos que todo está controlado por una única empresa? Solo algunos, se cuestionan lo que es para millones de personas una realidad. Los últimos libres...
Este libro es un Tecno-thriller situado en un futuro cercano, narra la historia de una pareja de hackers en una sociedad donde Internet ya no es libre y las grandes corporaciones con la colaboración de las...
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A mysterious object threatens to destroy our solar system. The survival of humankind is at risk, but nobody takes the warning of young astrophysicist Maribel Pedreira seriously. At the same time, an exiled crew of outcasts mines for rare minerals on a lone asteroid.
When other scientists finally acknowledge Pedreira's alarming discovery, it becomes clear that these outcasts are the only ones who may be able to save our world, knowing that THE HOLE...
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WHEN YOU'RE A BRAIN WITHOUT A BODY, CAN YOU STILL BE CALLED HUMAN?
Marc Gregorio wakes up paralyzed. He can't feel his own body. Accident? Stroke? Did someone slip him an overdose of Botox? The answer, he discovers, is much, much worse. He's only a copy of Marc, a digital brain without a body, burdened with all Marc's human memories, but without access to human sensual pleasures. Now he has to find a reason to keep on, um, "living."...
64) Ventus
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Ventus is a large-scale Hard SF adventure novel in the tradition of Larry Niven, Vernor Vinge, and Arthur C. Clarke. Karl Schroeder, a physicist and writer.
Young Jordan Mason, on the terraformed planet Ventus, has visions. Kidnapped by Calandria May-a human from offworld sent to investigate the AIs (the Winds) of Ventus-Jordan is desperate to find the meaning of his visions, desperate enough to risk calling down the Winds that destroy technology...
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It is the year 2206.
All that remains of the world are the Americas. Empire city has banished all women for three generations now and men have absolute control, using female synthetics as companions/servants.
After graduating from the Academy of Justice, Jason Brown, a charismatic hover jet bike racer and the future leader of the city, has to complete his Crii, a mandatory trip of self-awareness in the wildlands beyond the walls of the city for...
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Jas Grimshaw works as a mining pilot for the ice harvesting operations at New Jakarta Space Station. In his free time, he's a mindbase traveller. His mind travels on a bullet probe to other parts of settled space to swap bodies while other people occupy his. Normally, it's a great way of seeing the galaxy, but one of his swaps is about to go very, very bad. The swap mind, a brilliant scientist, has no intention to return to his body, which he's left...
67) Mogworld
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In a world full to bursting with would-be heroes, Jim couldn't be less interested in saving the day. His fireballs fizzle. He's awfully grumpy. Plus, he's been dead for about sixty years. When a renegade necromancer wrenches him from eternal slumber and into a world gone terribly, bizarrely wrong, all Jim wants is to find a way to die properly, once and for all. On his side, he's got a few shambling corpses, an inept thief, and a powerful death wish....
68) Exodus
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When mankind faces extinction, how can anyone survive?
In 2072, Earth faces the ultimate extinction event. In an America turned authoritarian, a race against time begins. To send a starship to a distant planet, where the remains of humanity can survive. Only a small number will be chosen for this final endeavor to save mankind from extinction, and among the contenders only the most resourceful will have a chance.
But while the government wants to...
69) K.R.E.W
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This story is based on an idea sold. The most unique corporation obtains the ideas then makes the decision to move forward.
The story follows a group of highly skilled, unique individuals who come together under the leadership of Zack Mulholland to create a toxic waste disposal system to help save the future water supply of Planet Earth. Production time is crucial.
What will be the cost, the rewards and the setbacks be for K.R.E.W.
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Dr. Michael Sterling suffers from extreme social anxiety which he combats by using a Dot. A symbiotic robot that he controls from his Condo in Sacramento, California. Due to the unrest of the non-gifted side of humanity he is forced to step out from behind his beloved Dot and into the real world.
This change begins the destruction of his career, with him not being able to function in public without his anxiety showing. His last chance to save himself...
71) Mach's Legacy
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Mach's Legacy: A Novel The appearance of the shining globes at first was a nuisance. But then the disappearances began. At first small, a fusion ship or a space habitat. Then planets and entire planetary systems started "winking out". Could the famous physicist Elias Mach and his great-great granddaughter, Emmy Gibbs, find an answer before it was too late? Mach's Legacy is set in the future (2490s) and is the third novel in the Future Chron Universe:...
72) Extermination
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While space biologists Jonathan Bartell and Gaby Larsen attend a conference held at a base in the asteroid belt, a man approaches Jonathan in great distress.
He's been asked to take over command of a previously commercial research station, but strange things started happening: plants glowing in the dark, lights turning themselves on and off, computers misbehaving.
He discovered the cause, but Section Command issues a gag order on the issue. This...
73) Any You
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A creature from another dimension had gotten into her head, eviscerated her mind, and gouged out her soul. Now physicist Rhoda Mollo finds herself where she'd really rather not be, cast away on some far-flung shore of Any Now, trapped in a nightmare of the real and not real, slave to her own heresies. No matter how hard she tries she can no longer slip into that happy state that simply accepts reality as it appears to be. Her mind won't let her-it...
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Tired of running a factory why not extend your business to the whole Galaxy? Steve gets his new toy and sets up tours to the Galaxy, Having your own factory is a bonus but being the boss doesn't get you out of work. The aim is to be a grey nomad extraordinaire. Sequel to Parallel and Somewhere in the long forgotten future
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With visionary epics like The Stone Canal, The Cassini Division, and Cosmonaut Keep, award-winning Scottish author Ken MacLeod has led a revolution in contemporary science fiction, blending cutting-edge science and razor-sharp political insights with pure, over-the-top interstellar adventure. Now MacLeod takes this heady mix to a new level with a stunning new SF masterwork-Newton's Wake.
In the aftermath of the Hard Rapture-a cataclysmic war sparked...
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Chariot to the Stars features some of Steve Miller's favorite early work from Amazing Science Fiction and elsewhere. As well as a previously unpublished short story.
The stories in Chariot to the Stars ask:*Who builds a chariot to the stars?*What if the fate of the world were in the paws of a pet?*Where do you find zero-gravity buckets and Christmas twice a year?*When is the best time to count the lines on the highway?*How can a spaceman survive...
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In a post-cyberpunk future, where global economic activity is carried out in a virtual-gaming realm, a new blood-transmitted virus has become a black-market staple due to its temporary rejuvenating effects, forcing infected "Eternals" into tightly knit underground communities where they must hack the V-net for basic food and shelter. In the first book of a series that "revitalizes the cyber-fiction genre with its vivid prose and believable characters"...
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The year is 2084. After decades of warfare between Western nations and the Islamic cultures of the Middle East, the savage battle of civilizations abruptly concludes following a horrifying nuclear exchange. Exhausted and horrified, Earth's war-weary populations succumb to their increasingly totalitarian government's solution to ban religious practices of any kind. Now ruthlessly persecuted, men and women of faith have only one option to regain their...
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Three rookie space cadets crash on an unknown planet! Stone, son of war hero Jake Nanden, crash-lands on an unknown planet in an unknown star system with jackal-headed aliens hard on his tail after falling through a worm-hole. Meanwhile, two rebel Ischian scientists battle against an Imperial Empire, which is stretching out its grasp toward Earth. Will Jake and his companions escape in time to save Earth from inevitable doom? If you like Stephen Baxter,...
80) Pase de un Día
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A Writers of the Future honorable mention Chalo had a chance to work hard and build a better life for his family. As a lucky holder of a pase de un día, a day pass, every morning he could teleport from his impoverished town in Mexico to a job in the United States. A billion other people from the world's poor countries wanted his job. But they could only get it if he didn't teleport home before the final second of his 12 hour shift. Or if he lost...
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