Send them to the edge of the solar system, praying you can trust such freaks and monsters with the fate of a world. Two months have past since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. You fear they may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find—but you'd give anything for that to be true, if you knew what was waiting for them.
Who should we send to meet the alien, when the alien doesn't want to meet? Send a linguist with multiple-personality disorder and a biologist so spliced with machinery that he can't feel his own flesh. Send a man with half his mind gone since childhood. Send a pacifist warrior and a vampire recalled from the grave by the voodoo of paleogenetics.
The heavens have been silent since—until a derelict space probe hears whispers from a distant comet.
Echopraxia Firefall Book 2
To his left is a grief-stricken soldier, obsessed by whispered messages from a dead son. Daniel bruks is a living fossil: a field biologist in a world where biology has turned computational, a cat's-paw used by terrorists to kill thousands. Taking refuge in the oregon desert, he's turned his back on a humanity that shatters into strange new subspecies with every heartbeat.
To his right is a pilot who hasn't yet found the man she's sworn to kill on sight. Now he's trapped on a ship bound for the center of the solar system. And dead ahead, a handful of rapture-stricken monks takes them all to a meeting with something they will only call "The Angels of the Asteroids. Their pilgrimage brings dan Bruks, the fossil man, face-to-face with the biggest evolutionary breakpoint since the origin of thought itself.
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The Colonel: A Tor.Com Original Firefall
From the author of blindsight comes Peter Watts's sci-fi adventure story "The Colonel, " an action-packed Tor. Com originalColonel Keaton is in trouble. He is presently tasked by his superiors with the threat assessment of hived human intelligences, one of which successfully attacks a compound under his watch.
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The Freeze-Frame Revolution
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Starfish Rifters Trilogy Book 1
They send a bio-engineered crew--people who have been altered to withstand the pressure and breathe the seawater--down to live and work in this weird, fertile undersea darkness. Unfortunately the only people suitable for long-term employment in these experimental power stations are crazy, some of them in unpleasant ways.
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Maelstrom Rifters Trilogy Book 2
She arrives carrying with her the potential death of the human race, and possessed by a desire for revenge. Lenie clarke, in a black wetsuit, walks out of the ocean onto a Pacific Northwest beach filled with the oppressed and drugged homeless of the Asian world who have gotten only this far in their attempt to reach America.
It survived only in the deep ocean rift where Clarke and her companions were stationed before the corporation that employed them tried to sterilize the threat with a secret underwater nuclear strike. An enormous tidal wave on the west coast of North America has just killed thousands. Maelstrom is a terrifying explosion of cyberpunk noir by a writer whose narrative, says Robert Sheckley, "drives like a futuristic locomotive.
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Beyond the Rift
Skillfully combining complex science with finely executed prose, these edgy, award-winning tales explore the always-shifting border between the known and the alien. The beauty and peril of technology and the passion and penalties of conviction merge in stories that are by turns dark, bold, satiric, and introspective.
A father tries to hold his broken family together in the wake of an ongoing assault by sentient rainstorms. Gorgeously saturnine and exceptionally powerful, these collected fictions are both intensely thought-provoking and impossible to forget. A court psychologist analyzes a psychotic graduate student who has learned to reprogram reality itself.
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The Water Knife
There, a hardened journalist with her own agenda, a young Texas migrant, he encounters Lucy Monroe, and Maria Villarosa, who dreams of escaping north. As bodies begin to pile up, the three find themselves pawns in a game far bigger and more corrupt than they could have imagined, alliances shift like sand, and when water is more valuable than gold, and the only truth in the desert is that someone will have to bleed if anyone hopes to drink.
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Pattern Recognition Blue Ant Book 1
Pattern recognition is William Gibson’s best book since he rewrote all the rules in Neuromancer. Neil gaiman, author of american Gods“One of the first authentic and vital novels of the 21st century. The washington post book WorldThe accolades and acclaim are endless for William Gibson's coast-to-coast bestseller.
From london to tokyo to moscow, she follows the implications of a secret as disturbing—and compelling—as the twenty-first century promises to be. While in london to evaluate the redesign of a famous corporate logo, she’s offered a different assignment: find the creator of the obscure, enigmatic video clips being uploaded to the internet—footage that is generating massive underground buzz worldwide.
Set in the post-9/11 present, Pattern Recognition is the story of one woman's never-ending search for the now. Cayce pollard is a new kind of prophet—a world-renowned “coolhunter” who predicts the hottest trends.
The Assassination Bureau, Ltd. Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin
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Ship of Fools
The new york times “a tale of high adventure and personal drama in the far future. Library journal “Relentlessly suspenseful. Full of mystery. Very exciting. Science Fiction Chronicle. Haunted by what they have seen, the crew has no choice but to follow when another signal beckons the Argonos into deep space—and into the dark heart of an alien mystery.
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