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By Katy Stauber. 2011
Set in a near-future, post-ecological and post-economic collapse, Revolution World chronicles the romance between rogue genetic engineer Clio Somata, and…
martial-artist computer-programmer Seth Boucher. Sadly, the road of love is never easy... in this case, an overreaching US military establishment and an evil multi-national bioengineering firm has decided that they want what Clio and her family has -- cutting edge bio-technology. The conflict between the Somata clan and the US government ends up being the catalyst that drives a bunch of libertarian Texan gamers to declare a revolt against the oppressive US government, kicking off a new Texas Revolution!By George R. R. Martin. 1993
By Michael Pryor. 1996
Australia, many years in the future. A place of darkness, overpopulation and environmental degradation. A rigidly stratified society controlled by…
Artificial Intelligences.Caliban, a street person and petty thief is given the chance to create a new life for himself. Drawn into a complex game by the Artificial Intelligences, Caliban suddenly discovers that he is not only fighting for his identity, but for his life? A finalist for the 1997 Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel, The Mask of Caliban was Australian speculative fiction master MICHAEL PRYOR?s breakthrough novel.By Tom Pollock. 2014
Ever since Beth Bradley found her way into a hidden London, the presence of its ruthless goddess, Mater Viae, has…
lurked in the background. Now Mater Viae has returned with deadly consequences. Streets are wrecked by convulsions as muscles of wire and pipe go into spasm, bunching the city into a crippled new geography; pavements flare to thousand-degree fevers, incinerating pedestrians; and towers fall, their foundations decayed. As the city sickens, so does Beth--her essence now part of this secret London. But when it is revealed that Mater Viae's plans for dominion stretch far beyond the borders of the city, Beth must make a choice: flee, or sacrifice her city in order to save it.By Susan Laine. 2016
Twenty winters have passed since the Cataclysm brought down society and robbed people of their memories. Humanity, vastly reduced in…
numbers since the initial chaos, has started anew in Canal City with the aid of library books and steam technology. The Scout and Ranger Corps was established to search for possible survivors and to replenish dwindling resources. Dev is the captain of the scout airship Smoke Sparrow, and Shay is the scholar of their newest expedition. Their destination is Innsmouth, Massachusetts, a small fishing town that is mentioned in obscure books but shows up on no maps. Might its secrets offer answers? But within the fog-covered, ruined hillside town by the bay lurk unspeakable dangers and horrors beyond imagining. The expedition team soon learns that Innsmouth is one town that should have been left forgotten.By Pip Ballantine, Tee Morris. 2014
Working for the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences, one sees innumerable technological wonders. But even veteran agents Braun and Books are…
unprepared for what the electrifying future holds... After being ignominiously shipped out of England following their participation in the Janus affair, Braun and Books are ready to prove their worth as agents. But what starts as a simple mission in the States--intended to keep them out of trouble--suddenly turns into a scandalous and convoluted case that has connections reaching as far as Her Majesty the Queen. Even with the help of two American agents from the Office of the Supernatural and the Metaphysical, Braun and Books have their work cut out for them as their chief suspect in a rash of nautical and aerial disasters is none other than Thomas Edison. Between the fantastic electric machines of Edison, the eccentricities of MoPO consultant Nikola Tesla, and the mysterious machinations of a new threat known only as the Maestro, they may find themselves in far worse danger than they ever have been in before...From the Paperback edition.By Lenore Appelhans. 2013
In this gripping exploration of a futuristic afterlife, a teen discovers that death is just the beginning.Since her untimely death…
the day before her eighteenth birthday, Felicia Ward has been trapped in Level 2, a stark white afterlife located between our world and the next. Along with her fellow drones, Felicia passes the endless hours reliving memories of her time on Earth and mourning what she's lost--family, friends, and Neil, the boy she loved. Then a girl in a neighboring chamber is found dead, and nobody but Felicia recalls that she existed in the first place. When Julian--a dangerously charming guy Felicia knew in life--comes to offer Felicia a way out, Felicia learns the truth: If she joins the rebellion to overthrow the Morati, the angel guardians of Level 2, she can be with Neil again. Suspended between Heaven and Earth, Felicia finds herself at the center of an age-old struggle between good and evil. As memories from her life come back to haunt her, and as the Morati hunt her down, Felicia will discover it's not just her own redemption at stake... but the salvation of all mankind.By David Drake, S. M. Stirling. 2003
By James Lincoln Collier, Charlie Thurston. 2013
Char, Weddy, and Nuell are excited over their discovery on the strange planet Pleisto but also terrified, for the leader…
of their expedition, Professor Joher, has disappeared. Nuell and Weddy, Joher’ children, are concerned for his safety, while Char, his research assistant, feels not only worried but responsible for all of them. He realizes that these prehistoric people may have carried off the professor—and may even have killed him. The three set out to find the professor, and their search leads them through a frightening world, where they must fight for their lives every day, against mastodons and jaguars as well as Pleisto’s prehistoric inhabitants. They befriend a wounded hunter, a man who is like their own ancestors from millions of years earlier, and hope that he will lead them to the professor. As their journey progresses, Char is thrilled to have the chance to study prehistoric humans so closely, but he is disturbed by the violence of everyday life on Pleisto, by its uncomfortable similarity to life on Earth, and by his own feelings of competition and aggression. In an exciting climax, he learns about human courage, love, generosity, and cooperation.By Jordana Frankel. 2013
Set in a futuristic New York City after a catastrophic flood called the Wash Out, The Ward is the story…
of sixteen-year-old Renata Dane, a daredevil champion racer who will risk everything she has to take care of her sick foster sister, Aven. Rens sister is suffering from the Blight, an incurable, deadly illness thought to be caused by years of pollution. The disease is ripping through the Ward--formerly known as downtown Manhattan--and since the region is home to the poor and the vagrant, little is being done to help the sick. But when the Blight somehow spreads to the affluent Upper Islets, the government recruits Ren for a secret mission: to search for a freshwater source in the Ward, with the hope of it leading to a cure. She is the only girl in the Ward to master helming a mobile--a car that can defy gravity and drive up the walls of a skyscraper, or transform into a high-speed boat at the push of a few buttons. However, when Ren accepts this job--and the big paycheck that comes with it--she never expects that it will lead her to dangerous encounters with a passionate young scientist, a web of deceit and lies, and a confounding mystery thats lurking deep beneath the waters rippling surface. Cinematic and thrilling, The Ward is Jordana Frankels debut novel.By Alejandra Aliz-Ayala, Lee Strauss. 2016
Contrición (Tercer libro de la Serie Percepción) Por Lee Strauss Copyright © 2013 Lee Strauss Cubierta por walkingstickbooks.com ISBN 978-1-927547-20-5…
Esta es una obra de ficción y los puntos de vista que en ella se expresan son de exclusiva responsabilidad del autor. De igual modo, los personajes, lugares e incidentes son producto de la imaginación del autor o se representan de manera ficticia y cualquier semejanza con personas reales, vivas, muertas, eventos o lugares reales, es mera coincidencia. Todos los derechos reservados. Se prohíbe la reproducción de este libro o cualquiera de sus partes, sin la autorización del autor.By Madeline Ashby, Martin Bland. 2013
THE SECOND MACHINE DYNASTY Javier is a self-replicating humanoid on a journey of redemption. Javier's quest takes him from Amy's…
island, where his actions have devastating consequences for his friend, toward Mecha where he will find either salvation... or death. File Under: Science Fiction [ vN2 | Island in the Streams | Failsafe No More | The Stepford Solution ]By Aliz Ayala, Lee Strauss. 2016
La emocionante continuación de la Trilogía Percepción: Zoe Vanderveen está huyendo con su captor quien se convirtió en su salvador,…
Noah Brody. Ellos están enamorados. O al menos eso es lo que él le cuenta. Sus recuerdos han vuelto pero sus sentimientos son como un sueño, tenue y fugaz. No puede confiar en su corazón. Solo mira lo que pasó con Taylor Blake. El nuevo equipo de agentes ciborg del Senador Vanderveen está tras ellos y en todo el país se transmite una recompensa por su captura. El frío y la nieve sin precedentes dificultan su escape. Alguien muere al ayudarles. Y su lucha por la supervivencia apenas comienza.By Style Guide, Steve Korte. 2016
Team up with Batman, The Flash, and more of your favorite heroes as they defeat the Penguin and his cohorts…
in this action-packed novelization that includes an eight-page full-color insert featuring stills from the Animal Instincts Batman animated film!There's a wild new crime spree flooding the streets of Gotham City! Under the Penguin's orders, Killer Croc, Cheetah, Silverback, and Man-Bat have been causing chaos with the help of robotic cyber animals, and Batman is determined to stop them. But what's one hero against an entire zoo full of villains? In order to defeat the criminals, Batman teams up with The Flash, Red Robin, Nightwing, and Green Arrow. Can Batman and his fellow heroes stop the Penguin's diabolical plans before they destroy Gotham City for good? Find out in this action-packed story that comes with full-color stills from the movie! BATMAN and all related characters and elements © & TM DC Comics.By Jenna Burtenshaw. 2012
In Wintercraft, fifteen-year-old Kate Winters learned she was one of the Skilled, a rare person who can bring the dead…
to life. Even among that rare group, Kate is special. She alone can understand the secrets of an ancient book of knowledge. In the sequel, Blackwatch, Kate is on the run from the Skilled, who have accused her of murder. And she is being hunted by an elite unit of assassins fighting in the war against Albion, Kate’s home. When a potent magic threatens the veil between life and death, fate reunites Kate with enigmatic villain Silas Dane, a man who cannot be killed. Only they can save Albion.By Cindy Spencer Pape. 2012
Magnus, Baron Findlay, longs to bring the wonders of the steam age to his remote island home, but his hands…
are full fighting the vicious kraken ravaging the coast. When he's swept to sea during battle and washes up on the shore of an isle in the Hebrides, he is near death.Struggling to establish herself as one of the first female physicians in Edinburgh, Dr. Geneva MacKay is annoyed when The Order of the Round Table sends her north to care for an injured highlander. To heal him, Geneva escorts the handsome warrior home, just in time to defend the villagers from another onslaught.As the attacks escalate and they work together to fight off the threat, neither Geneva nor Magnus can resist the overwhelming attraction between them. But as their relationship deepens, a new threat arises-from within the village itself...37,000 wordsBy David Towsey. 2013
This imaginative and unconventional debut novel is set centuries in the future. An unnamed event has wiped out most of…
humanity, scattering its remnants across vast and now barren lands reminiscent of the 19th century western frontier of America. Small clusters of humans still cling to existence in a post-apocalyptic world that is increasingly overrun by those who have risen from the dead--or, as the living call them, the Walkin'.Thomas, a thirty-two year old conscripted soldier, homeward bound to the small frontier town of Barkley after fighting in a devastating civil war, is filled with hope at the thought of being reunited with his wife, Sarah, and daughter, Mary, both named after characters in the Good Book. As it turns out, he also happens to be among the Walkin'. Devoid of a pulse or sense of pain, but with his memories and hopes intact, Thomas soon realizes that the living, who are increasingly drawn to the followers of the Good Book, are not kindly disposed to the likes of him. And when he learns what the good people of Barkley intend to do to him, and to his family, he realizes he may just have to kidnap his daughter to save her from a fate worse than becoming a member of the undead.When the people of Barkley send out a posse in pursuit of father and daughter, the race for survival truly begins...By Simon R. Green. 1996
By W. J. May, Julia Braga. 2018
Todo mundo precisa ser herói em algum ponto de sua vida. A pequena cidade de Elliot Lake nunca mais será…
a mesma depois que Zoe, uma aluna do último ano de Elliot Lake, e cinco de seus amigos se abrigam em uma mina de urânio abandonada durante uma violenta tempestade. Ao longo dos próximos dias, a audição de Zoe se aguça drasticamente... em um nível sobrenatural. Ela conta aos seus amigos e acaba descobrindo que outros quatro deles também tiveram sentidos aumentados. Zoe está determinada a usar seu novo poder para o bem, enquanto tenta manter sob controle seus crescentes sentimentos por Kieran, o novo garoto escocês do grupo. Se transformando em super-heróis, o grupo tenta parar estranhos acontecimentos que estão ocorrendo em sua cidadezinha. Assaltos, invasões, desaparecimentos e assassinatos começam a tomar tons cada vez mais pessoais. Isso leva o time a pensar que alguém sabe sobre o segredo deles — alguém quer que todos eles morram. Um grupo improvável de heróis. Um traidor entre eles. Alguns sonhos são escritos em sangue.By Vincenzo Lantino, Pp Corcoran. 2017
In un futuro non molto distante, l'umanità ha imparato a viaggare più velocemente della luce. La nave Marco Poco, nel…
suo primo viaggio oltre il Sistema Solare della Terra, rivela un segnale artificiale. Si tratta dei resti di una civiltà aliena estinta da tempo, i Saiph. Questi hanno una connessione inesplicabile con l'umanità, troppe innegabili similitudini nel DNA tra l'umanità ed i Saiph. Nei loro sforzi per sopravvivere, i Saiph hanno lasciato una libreria con lo scopo di narrare la loro storia e dare una speranza di sopravvivere a ciò che li ha annientati a chiunque la trovasse... una guerra con ‘Gli Altri.’