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GET YOUR SHIP TOGETHER. "If you like Andy Weir's The Martian and Hugh Howey's Wool, you will love Kevin Tumlinson's Citadel. "AN ANCIENT ENEMYA THREAT OF WARAN UNEXPECTED HOPEALL ON THE WRONG FREAKING PLANET. It's been over a century since the terrorist attack that nearly ended any chance for humanity to travel to the stars. Then there was the fifty years of war with the plant-like Esool, the rise of a powerful, cult-like anti-colonization group,...
62) Madeira
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Value Engineer Rave Maps lost a vital business consulting opportunity working on the Portuguese island of Madeira.
Then she nearly lost her life.
Rave's VE skills are tested as she struggles to fulfill client obligations racing from Madeira to Toronto, Paris, Steamboat Springs, and St. Lucia fighting to remain a step ahead of BrainRanger AI, an artificial intelligence working to steal her clients and appropriate everything she knows.
To survive,...
63) Brainchip
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Ein Thriller der Extraklasse! Dieser Roman wirft einen realen Blick in die atemberaubende Zukunft der Gehirnchip-Welt und der künstlichen Intelligenz. "Die Zukunft ist in dir!", das ist die unmissverständliche Aussage der Neuroforscher. Und diese einzigartige Zukunft hat längst begonnen. Genau hier. In diesem Buch. Sie wird sich schon bald und überall in unseren Köpfen abspielen. Mensch und Mikrochip werden eins. Schöne neue Welt der Nanos und...
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A chilling Dark Web thriller An anonymous website, a few clicks, and Joe Henderson's life is changed forever. 'The Red Room' is the only place where the failings of a weak justice system are righted and where the line between good and evil becomes blurred. When the lights go up, viewers bid, criminals are punished, and the Brotherhood of the Righteous broadcasts a show like no other. The room has remained hidden until now, when a video arrives in...
66) Category 7
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A Category 4 hurricane, with winds of up to 155 miles per hour, tears roofs off buildings, smashes windows and doors, and can send floodwaters up to the second floor. Evacuation is suggested for up to six miles inland.
Hurricane Katrina was a Category 4 when she made landfall.
Hurricane Simone is a Category 7-the biggest, strongest storm in recorded history. When she hits New York City, skyscrapers will fall. Subways and tunnels will flood. Lower...
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SECRETS HAVE DEADLY CONSEQUENCES, ESPECIALLY IN A DIGITAL WORLD.
What if all things that happen in life-good and evil-are not random or coincidence, but really intentional cyber events? Kevin Albright is relocated to a foreign country, with a new identity. Trapped between the living and the dead, he's a lone wolf left to fight evil global cyber forces, and his past life demons, alone. His unrelenting search for the truth about what really happened...
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The future... is here. Gregory Simpson brings you "The Quantum Contingent", a globe-trotting, techno-spy thriller with pop-culture references and even its own Spotify playlist! This novel is set in richly detailed locations around the globe and features today's technologies extrapolated for tomorrow, including cryptocurrency, drones, and SpaceX rocket ships.
In 2028, a mysterious group known as The Quantum Contingent has achieved true quantum computing...
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Hunted by the top companies in America, Michael Patrick Ryan was offered the world: high starting salaries, stock options, and signing bonuses. Ryan set his sites on SoftCorp, Inc., a company with only one client-the Internal Revenue Service.
But, Mike Ryan has also fallen into the sights of the FBI. Millions of dollars have been smuggled out of the country, and Karen Frost suspects it's someone in the IRS. The deal: federal protection and immunity...
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Master novelist Drury probes the controversy and political machinations as America strives to land on Mars . . .
A mission that may be torn apart by the nation's turmoil . . .
The Throne of Saturn shows the struggle of dedicated and courageous astronauts to set foot on the red planet and maintain our quest for the stars
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There is a war going on. A war between the dominant power, the undisputed victor of the Cold War and the richest country in the world, versus the ascending power, the most populous nation on the earth that wishes to claim a place in the world order. This war is not fought by their armed forces on the battlefields, with missiles in the air, or navies on the open seas. No, instead it is fought by nerds and wonks in research labs, in patent offices and...
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Dead Reckoning continues the paranormal thriller Dead series. Lethal sniper Kiki Russell and medic Nick Sabino come out of hiding to battle a massive attack on the United States that has plunged it into chaos, beginning the descent into dystopia. With the United States isolated from the world, the government struggles to hold the Union together after the collapse of the economy, the destruction of the electrical grid and a smallpox epidemic that have...
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"Distinctive characterizations" in this sci-fi fantasy "contribute to an exciting coming-of-age story with a strong message about the evils of prejudice" (Booklist).
Prisoners of a war they barely remember, Fremont's Children must find a way to survive in a world that abhors their very nature. Or they must discover a way to leave it . . .
Brenda Cooper's Fremont's Children series launches with her award-winning novel The Silver Ship and...
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It's never quite dark on the Street of Eyes, but the shadows there grow large and deep. You go to find a job. There's no telling if you'll be coming back.
Street is a Science Fiction trilogy set on a future Earth not so different from the one we know. Even in a world bursting with technology, there's still violence, vice, and oppression. Freelance telepath Gina Hart lives this reality every day on the bottom rung of society. Only, for her, it's about...
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A stunning collection of stories based on true-life cyber vulnerabilities, presented in two parts
Here be Dragons. In the Age of Discovery, unexplored areas of a map were often marked with this warning. Today, such a warning could easily be applied to the internet. Hackers and cyber assassins present a constant threat to individuals, companies, and institutions.
Protecting these targets requires a new kind of warrior, a cyber-knight armed with the...
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Jay Wilson and Jenni Delacroix are on the run from the mob after narrowly dodging a car bomb, but Kaylee, the new boss, won't stop until they're dead. She has elite hacking skills and digital eyes everywhere, so going off the grid is the only way to survive.
Hiding in the secluded forests of northern Minnesota was retired detective Ted Stone's idea -- he saved them once before, and they're counting on his instincts again. It's a shock when their...
77) Access Denied
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Marcus Salisbury is the owner of Micro Ware, a company that distributes personal computers. He is wealthy beyond description but he wants more. He wants to introduce his own personal computer and he would do whatever it took to make that happen including stealing trade secrets and even committing murder. Tyler McRenoylds owns his own company specializing in mergers and acquisitions. When he works with Marcus on a deal, he meets Marcus' personal assistant,...
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In a derelict squat, the Smart Man watches as the new narcotic developed by his shadowy organisation wreaks havoc on it, unsuspecting victims. The drug is now ready for sale on their exclusive darknet marketplace. Elsewhere, DCI Robert Smith, the retired head of the Cyber Crimes Unit, seeks out crime boss Curtis Slater at his remote farm. He offers to provide Slater with information in exchange for money. But, what information is he offering? Meanwhile,...
79) Surveillance
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A ruthless online activist group called Kittehsaurus Rox has hacked into top-secret Cabinet information and gone public with it, creating widespread panic and embarrassing a government that will stop at nothing to hunt down "KSR." Journalist and cyber-expert Kat Sharpe is chosen by KSR to break news of their operations, and overnight she becomes the media sensation she has always longed to be. But as she gets closer to KSR and its circle of supporters,...
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It's Watergate. On servers. On the eve of the presidential election, a conspiracy threatens to alter the outcome of the vote-and the future of American politics. At the heart of the plot is a powerful computer program, aimed at rooting out hypocrisy among politicians to expose their truths... and ours. Left to unravel the conspiracy is a bitter, hotheaded former journalist, but he's just not sure he cares enough to get to the bottom of it.
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