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Ring, ring. You're dead. We were all there in that city that draws
its paycheck from the manufacture of ghosts, itself made of ghosts:
Los Angeles. We were there when one man started handing out free
talk. And we are there now, sad little dolls made of dust... Peter
Russell lost a daughter to a serial killer. His marriage was the
next casualty. Now he gets by as Mr Fixit for a film millionaire
with a young wife on a big Hollywood estate infamous for its
association with a historical scandal. The millionaire invests in a
new kind of phone, the Trans. The problem with the Trans is that
not only can you talk to your friends on it, you can also talk to
the dead - though that wasn't part of the design spec. The Trans
accesses forbidden channels. It has disrupted the exit routines of
the recently dead to wherever they should have gone. At first,
Russell is only haunted by his dead daughter. Now there are
phantoms everywhere. Many are ghosts of the living, people with
nothing inside them, called wraiths. A cascade of transgression and
murder is unleashed as sales of the Trans take off. Harried near to
death himself by his murdered child, Russell must find out who
killed her and find a way to put an end to it all, if it kills him.
Evolution is no longer just a theory - and nature is more of a
bitch goddess than a kindly mother - in this tense science thriller
from the author of the Nebula Award-winning Darwin's Radio Stella
Nova is one of the 'virus children', a generation of genetically
enhanced babies born a dozen years before to mothers infected with
the SHEVA virus. In fact, the children represent the next great
evolutionary leap and a new species of human, Homo sapiens novus,
but this is officially denied. They're gentle, charming and
persuasive, possessed of remarkable traits. Nevertheless, they are
locked up in special schools, quarantined from society, feared and
reviled. 'Survival of the fittest' takes on a new dimension as the
children reach puberty. Stella is one of the first to find herself
attracted to another 'virus child', but the authorities are
watching and waiting for the opportunity to strike the next blow in
their escalating war to preserve 'humankind' at any cost.
Scientist Hal Cousins is close to discovering the key to
immortality but someone has already found it and will kill him to
keep it secret. Vitals is a tense technothriller in the best
Michael Crichton tradition. A mile and a half below the surface of
the Pacific Ocean, scientist Hal Cousins, frightened of the dark
and no friend of God, is looking for the fountain of youth. The
Nobel Prize doesn't interest him. Hal is in longevity research for
the long haul, the really long haul. 'Angels' (rich businessmen
keen to live a thousand years) fund him. Hal finds what he is
searching for: xenos, the single-celled tramps of the sea floor,
each one as big as a clenched fist. But then the pilot of his sub
goes berserk. Hal barely survives; the xenos don't. The pilot kills
himself. Five other scientists in related fields die violently in
the space of a week. Hal discovers a trail of death stretching back
over decades, from Stalin's Russia to present-day Manhattan.
Another epidemic of murder by superbly trained killers has been
triggered by what Hal nearly discovered... From the bottom of
Russia's Lake Baikal to a billionaire's bionic house built into the
cliffs of the Californian seashore, from the darkest days of the
reign of Joseph Stalin in Russia to the capitalist free-for-all of
modern America, the edge of immortality is the most dangerous place
to be.
MASTER AND APPRENTICE
The Force is strong in twelve-year-old Anakin Skywalker . . . so strong that the Jedi Council, despite misgivings, entrusted young Obi-Wan Kenobi with the mission of training him to become a Jedi Knight. Obi-Wan? like his slain Master Qui-Gon?believes Anakin may be the chosen one, the Jedi destined to bring balance to the Force. But first Obi-Wan must help his undisciplined apprentice, who still bears the scars of slavery, find his own balance.
Dispatched to the mysterious planet of Zonama Sekot, source of the fastest ships in the galaxy, Obi-Wan and Anakin are swept up in a swirl of deadly intrigue and betrayal. They sense a disturbance in the Force unlike any they have encountered before. It seems there are more secrets on Zonama Sekot than meet the eye. But the search for those secrets will threaten the bond between Obi-Wan and Anakin . . . and bring the troubled young apprentice face-to-face with his deepest fears?and his darkest destiny.
A stunning novel of alien invasion from a master of the genre The
disappearance of one of Jupiter's moons, the appearance of "little
green men" in Australia and the American Southwest, and the sudden
presence of unidentifiable objects on a collision course inside the
Earth's core add up to the inescapable conclusion that the Earth
has been invaded by an enemy it cannot fight. Powerfully and
gracefully written, the latest novel by the author of EON and BLOOD
MUSIC stands far above most examples of "doomsday" science fiction.
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From the depths of the abyss to the farthest reaches of space, Greg
Bear has gained a well-deserved reputation as a masterful writer of
hard science fiction. But there are other worlds and characters
Bear has explored that readers might not be aware of: A woman
longing for companionship, who ultimately turns to the most
unexpected of sources for help in creating a lover; an
innocent-looking child who holds the darkest of secrets; and a
prostitute who offers far more than a night of passion to the one
person she considers her last hope in exorcising a terrible curse.
This is a different sort of haunted house story, set on an
infinitely long space station called the Way, where portals to
alternate realities await the traveller.
On September 28th, a geologist working in Death valley finds a mysterious new cinder cone in very well-mapped area.
On October 1st, the government of Australia announces the discovery of an enormous granite mountain. Like the cinder cone, it wasn't there six months ago....
Something is happening to Planet Earth, and the truth is too terrifying to consider....
In the tradition of the greatest cyberpunk novels, Blood Music
explores the imminent destruction of mankind and the fear of mass
destruction by technological advancements. Blood Music follows
present-day events in which the fears concerning the nuclear
annihilation of the world subsided after the Cold War and the fear
of chemical warfare spilled over into the empty void of nuclear
fear. An amazing breakthrough in genetic engineering made by Vergil
Ulam is considered too dangerous for further research, but rather
than destroy his work, he injects himself with his creation and
walks out of his lab, unaware of just quite how his actions will
change the world. Author Greg Bear's treatment of the traditional
tale of scientific hubris is both suspenseful and a compelling
portrait of a new intelligence emerging amongst us, irrevocably
changing our world.
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The Mongoliad: Book Two (Paperback)
Neal Stephenson, Erik Bear, Greg Bear, Joseph Brassey, Nicole Galland, …
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This riveting second installment in Stephenson and company's epic
tale focuses on the aftermath of the world-shattering Mongolian
invasion of 1241 and the difficult paths undertaken by its most
resilient survivors. The Shield Brethren, an order of warrior
monks, search for a way to overthrow the horde, even as the
invaders take its members hostage. Forced to fight in the Mongols'
Circus of Swords, Haakon must prove his mettle or lose his life in
the ring. His bravery may impress the enemy, but freedom remains a
distant dream. Father Rodrigo receives a prophecy from God and
believes it's his mission to deliver the message to Rome. Though a
peaceful man, he resigns himself to take up arms in the name of his
Lord. Joining his fight to save Christendom are the hunter Ferenc,
orphan Ocyrhoe, healer Raphael, and alchemist Yasper, each
searching for his place in history. Deftly blending fact and
fantasy, The Mongoliad: Book Two captures the indomitable will to
survive against immense odds.
Isaac Asimov's renowned Foundation Trilogy pioneered many of the familiar themes of modern science fiction and shaped many of its best writers. With the permission and blessing of the Asimov estate, the epic saga left unfinished by the Grand Master himself now continues with this second masterful volume. With Hari Seldon on trial for treason, the Galactic Empire's long-anticipated migration to Star's End is about to begin. But the mission's brilliant robot leader, R. Daneel Olivaw, has discovered a potential enemy far deadlier--and closer--than he ever imagined. One of his own kind. A freak accident erases the basic commandments in humaniform robot Lodovik Trema's positronic brain. Now Lodovic's service to humankind is no longer bound by destiny, but by will. To ensure his loyalty, Daneel has Lodovic secretly reprogrammed. But can he be trusted? Now, other robots are beginning to question their mission--and Daneel's strategy. And stirrings of rebellion, too, are infecting their human counterparts. Among them is a young woman with awesome psychic abilities, a reluctant leader with the power to join man and robot in a quest for common freedom.or mutual destruction. The Foundation Saga Continues Read Gregory Benford's Foundation's Fear, the first novel in this bold new series and Secret Foundation, the concluding volume from David Brin.
Three FBI agents. One armageddon. It's the near future - sooner
than you might hope - and the war against terrorism is almost lost.
Nuclear and biological weapons are in the hands of Islamic
radicals, and new weapons are being spawned in remote labs that can
be used against entire populations. These are some of the problems
facing three young agents as they finish their training at the FBI
Academy in Quantico, Virginia. And still the threat is escalating
to ever crazier heights. The Dome of the Rock has been blown to
pieces by terrorists, and in retaliation thousands have died in
another major attack on the United States, the equal of 9/11.
Rumours fly through international capitals of a plague targeted to
ethnic groups-Jews or Muslims or both. No one feels safe. Like the
Anthrax terror that followed 9/11, the new plague results from
domestic terror, the province of the FBI. The FBI seeks one man who
appears to be on a bitter mission to wipe history's slate clean and
close the curtain on the last act of the modern world. But the FBI
itself is under threat of political extinction. There is a good
chance the new agents will be part of the last class at Quantico,
'Cop Valhalla'. As investigations reveal horror upon horror in the
US and the rest of the world, the agents join forces with a veteran
bioterror expert to foil attacks on the world's greatest religious
cities-Jerusalem, Rome, and Mecca. In the second decade of the War
on Terror, victory may be hard to define.
In the tradition of the greatest cyberpunk novels, Blood
Musicexplores the imminent destruction of mankind and the fear of
mass destruction by technological advancements. The novel follows
present day events in which the fears concerning the nuclear
annihilation of the world subsided after the Cold War and the fear
of chemical warfare spilled over into the empty void it left
behind. An amazing breakthrough in genetic engineering made by
Vergil Ulam is considered too dangerous for further research, but
rather than destroy his work, he injects himself with his creation
and walks out of his lab, unaware of just how his actions will
change the world. Author Greg Bear's treatment of the traditional
tale of scientific hubris is both suspenseful and a compelling
portrait of a new intelligence emerging amongst us, irrevocably
changing our world.Greg Bear, author of more than twenty-five books
that have been translated into seventeen languages, has won science
fiction's highest honors and is considered the natural heir to
Arthur C. Clarke. The recipient of two Hugos and four Nebulas for
his fiction, he has been called "the best working writer of hard
science fiction" byThe Science Fiction Encyclopedia. Many of his
novels, such asDarwin's Radio, are considered to be this
generations' classics. Bear is married to Astrid Anderson, daughter
of science fiction great Poul Anderson, and they are the parents of
two children, Erik and Alexandria. His recent thriller novel,
Quantico, was published in 2007 and the sequel, Mariposa, followed
in 2009. He has since published a new, epic science fiction novel,
City at the End of Timeand a generation starship novel, Hull Zero
Three."
Trapped on a mysterious spaceship, the only way to escape is to
survive. A thrilling novel from the Hugo and Nebula award-winning
Greg Bear. A starship hurtles through the emptiness of space. Its
destination - unknown. Its purpose? A mystery. Its history? Lost.
Now, one man wakes up. Ripped from a dream of a new home, a new
planet and the woman he was meant to love in his arms, he finds
himself wet, naked, and freezing to death. The dark halls are full
of monsters but trusting other survivors he meets might be the
greater danger. All he has are questions: Who is he? Where are they
going? What happened to the dream of a new life? What happened to
the woman he loved? What happened to Hull 03? All will be answered,
if he can survive. Uncover the mystery. Fix the ship. Find a way
home. HULL ZERO THREE is an edge of your seat thrill-ride through
the darkest reaches of space, from one of the genre's biggest
names. Perfect for fans of Arthur C. Clarke's RAMA or the film
EVENT HORIZON.
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In the last years of the Forerunner empire, chaos rules. The Flood
- a horrifying shape-changing parasite - has arrived in force,
aided by unexpected allies. Internal strife within the ecumene has
desperately weakened Forerunner defences. Too little, too late, the
legal rate of Juridicals is only now investigating possible crimes
by the Master Builder and others. Evidence-gathering agents, known
collectively as Catalog, have been dispatched to collect testimony
from the Librarian and both Didacts: the Ur-Didact, treacherously
abandoned in a Flood-infested system, and the Bornstellar Didact,
who accompanies the Librarian as she preserves specimens against
the dire possibility of Halo extermination. Facing the imminent
collapse of their civilization, the Librarian and Ur-Didact reveal
what they know about the relationship between the long-vanished
Precursors and the Flood. The Precursors created many technological
species, including humanity and the Forerunners. But the roots of
the Flood may be found in an act of enormous barbarity, carried out
beyond our galaxy ten million years before. Because of that
barbarism, a greater evil looms. Only the Ur-Didact and the
Librarian - husband and wife pushed into desperate conflict - hold
the keys to a solution. Facing the consequences of a mythic
tragedy, one of them must now commit the greatest atrocity of all
time - to prevent an insane evil from dominating the entire
universe.
William F. Nolan knew the late great Ray Bradbury for more than
sixty years, and during that entire span he has written
perspicaciously about his mentor and friend, beginning with "The
Ray Bradbury Review" (1952) and continuing to the present day. This
volume, published on the occasion of Nolan's 85th birthday, is a
celebration of his lifelong devotion to the master of fantasy and
science fiction. Included are twenty pioneering articles on
Bradbury, along with a sheaf of stories influenced by such works as
"The Illustrated Man" and "The Martian Chronicles," including the
delightful parodies "Mr. B. Goes to Hollywood" and "The Dandelion
Chronicles." With a foreword by Ray Bradbury, an introduction by
Jason V Brock, an afterword by Greg Bear, and tributes to Bradbury
by Brock, S. T. Joshi, and John Tibbetts.
William F. Nolan (b. 1928) is the co-author of "Logan's Run" (1967)
and the author of many other works of fantasy, horror, and science
fiction.
A starship hurtles through the emptiness of space. Its
destination-unknown. Its purpose-a mystery. Now, one man wakes up.
Ripped from a dream of a new home-a new planet and the woman he was
meant to love in his arms-he finds himself wet, naked, and freezing
to death. The dark halls are full of monsters but trusting other
survivors he meets might be the greater danger. All he has are
questions -- Who is he? Where are they going? What happened to the
dream of a new life? What happened to Hull 03? All will be
answered, if he can survive the ship. Hull Zero Three is an
edge-of-your-seat thrill ride through the darkest reaches of space.
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Engineering Infinity (Paperback)
Jonathan Strahan; Charles Stross, Stephen Baxter, Gwyneth Jones, Greg Bear, …
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The universe shifts and changes: suddenly you understand, you get
it, and are filled with wonder. That moment of understanding drives
the greatest science-fiction stories and lies at the heart of
Engineering Infinity. Whether it's coming up hard against the speed
of light - and, with it, the enormity of the universe - realising
that terraforming a distant world is harder and more dangerous than
you'd ever thought, or simply realizing that a hitchhiker on a
starship consumes fuel and oxygen with tragic results, it's hard
science-fiction where a sense of discovery is most often found and
where science-fiction's true heart lies. This exciting and
innovative science-fiction anthology collects together stories by
some of the biggest names in the field, including Gwyneth Jones,
Stephen Baxter and Charles Stross.
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In the sixth decade of the 21st century, the world has been
transformed by two things. Nanotechnology has been perfected,
giving humans the ability to change their environment and
themselves down to the cellular level. And the study of the mind
has brought a revolution in both human psychotherapy and artificial
intelligence. It's a sane and perfect world. Almost. A man called
Jack Giffey is planning to break into the Omphalos, the most secure
building in all of separatist Green Idaho. Rumor says that the
Omphalos houses the not-quite-dead - the very wealthy deceased who
are still alive, their brains connected directly into Thinkers.
Data is the great treasure of the new millennium, and Giffey plans
to tap into the Omphalos dataflow, to steal the knowledge gathered
by the inhabitants of the Omphalos. Public Defender Mary Choy, now
living in Seattle, has been called in on the bizarre suicide (or
murder) of a very wealthy, secretive man. His last recordings hint
at some terrible guilty secret. Choy would very much like to know
what such a man - rich and politically powerful - might have done
that he could no longer live with. And in the offices of Mind
Design, Inc., Jill, the most advanced artificial intelligence in
the world, has had a unique experience. She has received a request
for contact from a new AI, one she does not know and did not help
to design. Jill has never met a stranger of her own kind before; is
it an alien Thinker or the offspring of some vast conspiracy?
Multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winning author, Greg Bear is one of
science fiction's most accomplished writers. Bold scientific
speculation, riveting plots, and a fierce humanism reflected in
characters who dare to dream of better worlds distinguish his work.
Now Bear has written a mind-bendingly epic novel that may well be
his masterpiece.
Do you dream of a city at the end of time?
In a time like the present, in a world that may or may not be our
own, three young people-Ginny, Jack, and Daniel-dream of a doomed,
decadent city of the distant future: the Kalpa. Ginny's and Jack's
dreams overtake them without warning, leaving their bodies behind
while carrying their consciousnesses forward, into the minds of two
inhabitants of the Kalpa-a would-be warrior, Jebrassy, and an
inquisitive explorer, Tiadba-who have been genetically
retro-engineered to possess qualities of ancient humanity. As for
Daniel: He dreams of an empty darkness-all that his future holds.
But more than dreams link Ginny, Jack, and Daniel. They are
fate-shifters, born with the ability to skip like stones across the
surface of the fifth dimension, inhabiting alternate versions of
themselves. And each guards an object whose origin and purpose are
unknown: gnarled, stony artifacts called sum-runners that persist
unchanged through all versions of time.
Hunted by others with similar powers who seek the sum-runners on
behalf of a terrifying, goddess-like entity known as the Chalk
Princess, Ginny, Jack, and Daniel are drawn, despite themselves,
into an all but hopeless mission to rescue the future-and complete
the greatest achievement in human history.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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