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Tears in Rain

Rosa Montero Β· 417 pages

In the United States of Earth, Madrid, 2109, the number of techno-human deaths is rapidly growing. Detective Bruna Husky is hired to discover what's behind this wave of insanity. She must trust no one, because those who call themselves allies are ready to betray her.

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Altered Carbon

Richard K. Morgan Β· 480 pages

Mankind is strung out across interstellar space, and human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies, but some things never change, so when Takeshi is downloaded into the body of a ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer he shouldn't be surprised.

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When Gravity Fails

George Alec Effinger Β· 284 pages

In a decadent world of cheap pleasures and easy death, Marid Audran has kept his independence and his identity the hard way. Still, like everything else in the Budayeen, he is available ...for a price. For a new kind of killer roams the streets of the decadent Arabic ghetto, a madman whose bootlegged personality cartridges range from a sinister James Bond to a sadistic disemboweler named Khan.

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Dome City Blues

Jeff Edwards Β· 317 pages

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Delirium

Susan Kaye Quinn Β· 48 pages

Lirium plays the part of the grim reaper well, with his dark trenchcoat, jackboots, and the black marks on his soul that every debt collector carries. He's just in it for his cut, the ten percent of the life energy he collects before he transfers it on to the high potentials, the people who will make the world a better place with their brains, their work, and their lives. That hit of life energy,

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Spin State

Chris Moriarty Β· 640 pages

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Ghosts of Manhattan

George Mann Β· 336 pages

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An Oblique Approach

David Drake, Eric Flint Β· 480 pages

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Leviathan

Scott Westerfeld Β· 444 pages

**Choose Your Weapon: Beastie or Clanker** Alek is a prince without a throne. On the run from his own people, he has only a fighting machine and a small band of men. Deryn is a girl disguised as a guy in the British Air Service. She must fight for her cause--and protect her secret--at all costs. Alek and Deryn are thrown together aboard the mighty airship *Levithan*. Though fighting side

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TekWar

William Shatner Β· 216 pages

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Leviathan Wakes

James S.A. Corey Β· 592 pages

When Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war. Attacked by a stealth ship belonging to the Mars fleet, Holden must find a way to uncover the motives behind the attack, stop a war and find the truth behind a vast conspiracy that threatens the entire human race.

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The Eternal Prison

Jeff Somers Β· 406 pages

Avery Cates is a wanted man. After surviving the worst bioengineered disaster in history, Cates finds himself incarcerated - in Chengara Penitentiary. As Chengara has a survival rate of exactly zero, the system's most famous gunner must do some serious plotting. And a betrayal or so later, he achieves his goal. At a price.All he has to do now is defeat some new personal demons, forge some unlikel

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The Prefect

Alastair Reynolds Β· 416 pages

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The Edge of Human

K.W. Jeter Β· 320 pages

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Made to Kill

Adam Christopher Β· 240 pages

Private investigator, hit man, and the world's last robot Raymond Electromatic is hired by a familiar-looking woman to search for a missing movie star in a glittering world of fame, fortune, and secrecy with ties to a sinister plot.

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Wolfhound Century

Peter Higgins Β· 303 pages

Investigator Vissarion Lom has been summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist -- and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret police. A totalitarian state, worn down by an endless war, must be seen to crush home-grown insurgents with an iron fist. But Lom discovers Mirgorod to be more corrupted than he imagined: a murky world of secret police and revolutionaries, cabaret cl

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The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Michael Chabon Β· 414 pages

The Yiddish Policemen's Union is a 2007 novel by American author Michael Chabon. The novel is a detective story set in an alternative history version of the present day, based on the premise that during World War II, a temporary settlement for Jewish refugees was established in Sitka, Alaska, in 1941, and that the fledgling State of Israel was destroyed in 1948. The novel is set in Sitka, which it

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The Bone Season

Samantha Shannon Β· 528 pages

In the mid-21st century, major world cities are controlled by a formidable security force, and clairvoyant underworld cell member Paige commits acts of psychic treason before being captured by an otherworldly race that would make her a part of their supernatural army.

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Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Tom Sweterlitsch Β· 342 pages

A genre-mixing sci-fi, dystopian noir mystery, a disturbing tale of deceit, with tangled griefs of murder and conspiracy that haunt a virtual world...trippy and hard-boiled.

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The Lazarus Machine

Paul Crilley

In an alternate 1899 London, seventeen-year-old Sebastian Tweed searches for his kidnapped father, uncovering both a horrific technological secret and a political conspiracy that could destroy the British Empire.

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East of West, Vol. 1: The Promise

Jonathan Hickman Β· 152 pages

This is the world. It is not the one we wanted, but it is the one we deserved. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse roam the Earth, signaling the End Times for humanity, and our best hope for life, lies in Death.

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Heavy Liquid

Paul Pope

In the late 21st century, "S," a former narcotics agent turned private investigator and petty criminal, is addicted to heavy liquid, a hallucinatory drug that is being pursued for its various other properties by an unscrupulous art collector, a gang of ruthless gunmen, and the government.

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The Eyre Affair

Jasper Fforde Β· 374 pages

The Eyre Affair Great Britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. Baconians are trying to convince the world that Francis Bacon really wrote Shakespeare, there are riots between the Surrealists and Impressionists, and thousands of men are named John Milton, an homage to the real Milton

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Neuromancer

William Gibson Β· 288 pages

The first of William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, *Neuromancer* is the classic cyberpunk novel. The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, *Neuromancer* was the first fully-realized glimpse of humankind’s digital future β€” a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about our technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of

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