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Series
Water City trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Year 2160: It's been ten years since the cataclysmic events of Eventide, Water City, where 99.97 percent of the human population was possessed or obliterated by Akira Kimura, Water City's renowned scientist and Earth's former savior. Our nameless antihero, a synesthete and former detective, and his daughter, Ascalon, navigate through a post-apocalyptic landscape populated by barbaric Zeroes--the permanent residents of the continent's biggest landfill,...
82) The testaments
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Series
Handmaid's tale volume 2
Language
English
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Description
More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge, with potentially explosive results. Two have grown up as part of the first generation to come of age in the new order. The testimonies of these two young women are joined by...
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English
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"My name is Caitlin Feral, and I'm about to face my final Testing Day. My younger brother and mom hope I return: that I survive the tests (which is not a given) and that I am still a dreg. They want me to stay here with them to keep what's left of our family together. They want me to stay here, in the shadow of the Genetic Wars, with mutant animal attacks, protectors in faceless helms eager to catch us in the slightest infractions, and a menial work...
86) The gender end
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Series
Gender game volume 7
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The conclusion to Violet and Viggo's journey and to the Gender game series.
87) Frostlands
Author
Series
Splinterlands volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Arcadia's defense corps is mobilized to defend against what first appears to be a routine assault, one of the many that the community must repulse from para- military forces every year. But as sensors report a breach in the perimeter wall, even 80-year-old Rachel Leopold shoulders a weapon and reports for duty. The at- tack, it turns out, has been orchestrated by one of the world's largest corporations, CR ISPR International, and it is interested...
88) Anthropocene rag
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In the future United States, our own history has faded into myth and traveling across the country means navigating wastelands and ever-changing landscapes. The country teems with monsters and artificial intelligences try to unpack their own becoming by recreating myths and legends of their human creators. Prospector Ed, an emergent AI who wants to understand the people who made him, assembles a ragtag team to reach the mythical Monument City. In this...
89) We: a novel
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Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A dystopian novel, completed in 1921 as a response to the author's experience with the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917. It foreshadows the terrors of Stalinism.
Author
Pub. Date
1986.
Edition
First Harvest/HBJ edition.
Language
English
Description
The absurdly brilliant far-future satire from "the Borges of scientific culture" ( Time ). The year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blight -- papyralysis -- has obliterated much of the planet's written history. Fortunately, these rare memoirs, preserved for centuries in a volcanic rock, record the strange life of a man trapped in a hermetically sealed underground community ... From the Kafka Prize-winning author of Solaris , this is an entertaining...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In an alternative contemporary reality, Nick Wong is a product of the Children's Centres-- government-run residential schools designed to prevent all forms of patriarchy and help usher in an unprecedented age of world peace. While girls are groomed for leadership, boys are taught subservience. As is the case with most male graduates, Nick's emotions are stunted and he feels little connection to others. Nevertheless, his innate curiostiy and his desire...
92) Archive
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In the year 2038, a scientist tries to advance artificial intelligence a step further than human beings while bringing his wife back from the dead.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Gallery Books trade paperback edition February 2016.
Language
English
Description
In an ultraconservative America of the not-too-distant future when America has become a police state, the annual marathon is the ultimate sports competition. One hundred boys are selected each year to enter a grueling 450-mile marathon walk. The game is simple: maintain a steady walking pace of four miles per hour without stopping. Three warnings and you're out--permanently. The winner will be awarded whatever he wants for the rest of his life; but...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A new ice age has driven mankind to settlements at the equator. In Clemency--a metropolis sheltered inside a transparent dome surrounded by glaciers--planning luminary Dorner hears female voices in his sleep. As the voices become more insistent, he seeks help from neuroscientist Rin, who runs tests to identify the location and import of this interior woman, who calls herself 'Tongue.' Rin's increasingly invasive experiments help Dorner to visualize...
95) Pawn
Author
Series
Blackcoat rebellion volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Escaping a life of marginalization and misery, Kitty Doe joins the most powerful family in the country, a choice that requires her to assume the identity of the Prime Minister's niece and stop a rebellion that ended her predecessor's life.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Forty days after the world has died, billions of corpses walk on the Earth. A group of eleven men and women have survived and brutally attack the corpses everyday. Another group has also survived, but live through subtlety and tactics. Then a series of horrific events bring the two groups together, and they must decide which strategy to choose. The final battle against death is about to begin, but the group splits over differences. With all their...
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Series
PM Press outspoken authors volume No 10
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The Human Front follows the adventures of a young Scottish guerrilla, drawn into low-intensity sectarian war in a high-intensity future, when the arrival of an alien intruder (complete with saucer) calls for new tactics and strange alliances"--publisher's website.
98) Amatka
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
Description
"Vanja, a government worker, leaves her home city of Essre for the austere, wintry colony of Amatka on a research assignment. It takes some adjusting: people act differently in Amatka, and citizens are monitored for signs of subversion. Intending to stay just a short while, Vanja finds herself falling in love with her housemate, Nina, and decides to stick around. But when she stumbles on evidence of a growing threat to the colony and a cover-up by...
99) The dissent
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Series
The Union volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A thousand years into the future, a Black elite class reigns while the underclass toils at their feet. With her society’s future hanging in the balance, young Avi Jore enters into an arranged marriage. But the ceremony turns violent when the servants rebel and kill Avi’s father. In the aftermath of General Jore’s death, Avi and her sister Jade vie for power in a vicious contest. As the rightful heir, Avi has no choice but to defend...
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