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1) Repo virtual
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"The city of Neo Songdo is a Russian doll of realities -- augmented and virtual spaces anchored in the weight of the real. The smart city is designed to be read by machine vision while people see only the augmented facade of the corporate ideal. At night the stars are obscured by an intergalactic virtual war being waged by millions of players, while on the streets below people are forced to beg, steal, and hustle to survive. Enter Julius Dax, online...
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"Dirty Computer introduced a world in which thoughts--as a means of self-conception--could be controlled or erased by a select few. And whether human, A.I., or other, your life and sentience was dictated by those who'd convinced themselves they had the right to decide your fate. That was until Jane 57821 decided to remember and break free. Expanding from that mythos, these stories fully explore what it's like to live in such a totalitarian existence--and...
3) Mortal Coils
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Mortal Coils Aldous Huxley - Mortal Coils is a collection of five short fictional pieces written by Aldous Huxley in 1921.
As a Hollywood screenwriter Huxley used much of his earnings to bring Jewish and left-wing writer and artist refugees from Hitler's Germany to the US. He worked for many of the major studios including MGM and Disney.
In 1953, Huxley and Maria applied for United States citizenship. When Huxley refused to bear arms for the U.S....
4) Womb city
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This genre-bending African futurist horror novel blends The Handmaid's Tale with Get Out in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman's right to her own body. Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless marriage to a policeman who uses a microchip to monitor her every move, Nelah's perfect life is precarious. After...
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Under the Sunset Bram Stoker - Under the Sunset is a collection of short stories by Bram Stoker (the author of Dracula), first published in 1881.
Its significance in the development of fantasy literature was recognized by its republication by the Newcastle Publishing Company as the seventeenth volume of the celebrated Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library series in October, 1978
A collection of gothic stories from Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula...
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Life on New Mars is tough for humans, but death is only a minor inconvenience. The machines know their place, the free market rules all, and only the Abolitionists object.
Then a stranger arrives on New Mars, a clone who remembers life on Earth as Jonathon Wilde, the anarchist with a nuclear capability who was accused of losing World War III. That stranger remembers David Reid, New Mars's leader...and the women they fought over ideals they once shared.
Moving...
7) Bad Hand
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Jump into this fun, spooky short with your favorite queer cyberpunk cast!
Tweak gets a nickname.
Naomi gets to lend a hand.
The Wildcards get a little more than they signed up for.
Maybe they'll think before they pull pranks next time....or maybe not.
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The founding of the Arena Under the Hill marked the end of open warfare between the clans of Tokyo2. With peace came prosperity, and the city has grown into the largest metropolis on the space station Atlas.
Betrix Farmer gave up the Arena when she left for New Lexington. Now an unexpected debt, to an old enemy, will drive her back into the ring. The stakes are high, but success would mean a fresh start for this former champion and the boy in her...
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Binary Thrones & Visions of ecstasy is a futuristic and rustic poetic attempt at grasping the Fugacious and the mysterious in the daily interspersed with a light sci fi touch . It is a tale that exhorts to awe, amazement, playful resilience and transcending the limits of our routinized daily protocols of our perceptions to have an astounded gaze both towards the familiar and the uncanny …
10) Splinter
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Have Humans lost their humanity
and can an artificial intelligence save them?
The Tau Ceti colony is a Utopia, but tension lurks below the tranquil surface. The peace of the colony is shattered when the Unity spacecraft returns from Earth bearing shocking news.
Rome Permek, computer officer on the ship, returned with a stowaway: Emily Plair, an artificial intelligence from Earth's cyberworld. But the colony is not the quiet refuge they hoped for....
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Imagine a world without humans, where smart clothes equipped with apparel intelligence fight for supremacy. When a brave pair of smart-briefs sets out on a quest to cure his people's madness, he ends up in the middle of an all-out wardrobe war instead. That's just one of the incredible science fiction stories featured in this collection by USA Today best-selling author Robert Jeschonek. Don't miss these thrilling tales of robot messiahs, love-starved...
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22nd Century Samurai is a book following the Cyber Trilogy concentrating on the children of the main character in the Cyber trilogy.
The book is written in three parts with each part dedicated to the accomplishments and chosen direction each takes in their lives. Each child was directed by their parents to follow what they loved instead of an income, if it led to wealth, it would only happen if they loved what path they chose to make as a career....
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"Electric Resurrection. Born again perfection. The six-zero correction."
For the last decade, Malon Edwards has been spinning out a world where humans have conquered death but still haven't bothered to take care of the living. Where resurrection is the ultimate commodity-if you're rich enough, powerful enough, and white enough to buy in.
If Wishes Were Obfuscation Codes and Other Stories collects 10 cyberpunk dispatches, including a brand-new, epic...
14) El artefacto
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El narrador, un profesor de ciencias en la universidad, es un ciborg, tiene un brazo inteligente. Desde esta experiencia, interpreta la realidad de la computación y en general, los límites de la inteligencia humana. Sus teorías se entremezclan con una investigación: la naturaleza de un artefacto que aparece en el pliegue de un cerebro registrado en un TAC.
Se trata de una novela de Ciencia Ficción, quizás en la categoría de Cyberpunk, escrita...
15) Mindlink
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EXIT REALITY The future of experience is digital...even in death. No one knows this better than Ray Garret. In a world where the human brain can connect directly to the internet, human beings become the target of a mass-murdering computer virus.
Ray's an Antivii agent in charge of tracking down the source of digi-human viruses. He's no lover of the HPDID (Human Perceptual Digital Interface Device), but when a recorded experience from his dead wife...
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In the fast-paced, tech-heavy future, the team has stolen their greatest prize yet. With the Agency closing in, Dolly calls in help from old friends, some closer than others, and the team gets Will to Bristol's hotel in Morocco. Once they arrive, Bristol switches to party mode, leaving Bits and Dolly to prepare their defenses without disturbing any of the guests. The hotel has a small security team, with little enough experience that it just makes...
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The world of Cyberpunk can be hard. It can be harder when civilization collapses.
All that is left is four kids and the entire population of Tokyo turned into zombies. Somehow these kids managed to not get infected by China's bio-warfare project gone bad. Luckily they each have their own unique skills that complement each other very well. Although they mesh well, it doesn't seem that way because they don't get along. They have completely different...
19) Ghost Black
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Everything Risa Black believes is a lie.
Her angel is dead, the cause she's killed for is as false as her metal eyes, and the one man she thought she could trust has deceived her for sixteen years. Smothered by deepening layers of conspiracy, she decides to embark upon the most frightening mission of her life: leaving the Martian Liberation Front.
After eight years of trying to free Mars with high explosives, and a reputation as a less-than-sane...
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THE COLDEST SHADOWS...
Arcano-archaeologist Elijah knows that digging into the past can be its own reward-or peril. When he's hired to find an ancient map purported to lead to a mysterious location at the bottom of the world, his professional curiosity is more than roused. But his quest to simply get his hands on the map is more dangerous than he expected-even for a shadow runner.
He and his own team of runners-including everything from a goblin...
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