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The last human volume 2
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2024
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English
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In a post-war world where robots and humans coexist, XR_935 and Emma strive to maintain a fragile peace, but tensions rise as a group of humans resists reconciliation, raising the threat of potential upheaval and the end of their harmonious society.
2) The raft
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"An electrifying apocalyptic science fiction thriller, and the debut novel from a brand-new South African talent. "The day every person on earth lost his and her memory was not a day at all. In people's minds there was no actual event. . . and thus it could be followed by no period of shock or mourning. There could be no catharsis. Everyone was simply reset to zero." On Day Zero, the collapse of civilization was as instantaneous as it was inevitable....
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Starlight's shadow volume 3
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Intergalactic recovery specialist Lexi Bowen must join forces with a charming Valovian teleporter to find a former member of her crew who has gone missing.
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The Muungano empire strived and struggled to form a utopia when they split away from old earth. Freeing themselves from the endless wars and oppression of their home planet in order to shape their own futures and create a far-reaching coalition of city-states that stretched from Earth and Mars to Titan. With the wisdom of their ancestors, the leadership of their elders, the power and vision of their scientists and warriors they charted a course to...
5) Braking Day
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DAW book collectors volume no. 1914
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"On a generation ship bound for a distant star, one engineer-in-training must discover the secrets at the heart of the voyage in this new sci-fi novel. It's been over a century since three generation ships escaped an Earth dominated by artificial intelligence in pursuit of a life on a distant planet orbiting Tau Ceti. Now, it's nearly Braking Day, when the ships will begin their long-awaited descent to their new home. Born on the lower decks of the...
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"In the isolation of the Himalayas, the snows still fall, but they are tinged with the ash of a nuclear winter; the winds still blow, but they wail with the cries of ghosts. The seventh and final blast is near. As the world heaves its final breaths, the people of the Tibetan plateau -- civilization's final survivors -- are haunted by spirits and terrorized by warlords. Though the last of the seven prophesied cataclysms is at hand, young Karma searches...
7) Binti: home
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It's been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared a hero for uniting two warring planets. A year since she found friendship in the unlikeliest of places. And now she must return home to her people, with her friend Okwu by her side, to face her family and face her elders. But Okwu will be the first of his race to set foot on Earth in over a hundred years, and the first ever to come in peace. After generations...
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This is a five book, fantasy adventure and Sci-Fi series.
The dream vacation that might just turn deadly...
Seventeen-year-old Casey Smith can't wait to embark on her summer vacation, not least because she's finally shed her tomboy image, and now heartthrob Mike seems interested. What starts out great, with lots of flirting, taking her a step closer to winning her crush's heart, soon turns into her worst nightmare. Tossed out to sea during a freak...
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Children of Eden volume 2
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Elite party girl Yarrow, the daughter of one of the most powerful women in Eden, and Rowan, whose very existence is illegal, discover threads that bind them and could change Eden forever.
10) The Need for Air
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A mother. A son. A virtual world they both share where each could live forever and achieve their fullest potential. Until one of them decides that isn't enough for life.
11) Backscatter
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She was cold, hurt, and doomed, but otherwise reasonably cheery.
Life might emerge under the most unlikely conditions...or in the last extremity. From the author of the "Galactic Center" novel comes Gregory Benford's hard sci-fi tale, Backscatter.
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From the Hugo-winning, bestselling author of The Guns of the South, a tale of love, parasitism, and loss in this Tor.Com Original Something Going Around, by Harry Turtledove.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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When a giant meteor crashes into the earth and destroys all life, the small group of human survivors manage to leave the barren planet and establish a new home on the moon. From Tycho Base, men and woman are able to observe the devastated planet and wait for a time when return will become possible.
Generations pass. Cloned children have had children of their own, and their eyes are raised toward the giant planet in the sky, which long ago was the...
14) The Nostalgist
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With EyesTM and EarsTM, everything can look and sound just fine, just like it used to be; it's a shock when they break down, though.
The Nostalgist: A Tor.
Com Original from Daniel H. Wilson.
15) Siren
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Vo Arlo survived the destruction of Alexandria Station and RAN Auberon. In between assignments, at a small college on a back-water planet, he stumbles into a mystery when the prettiest girl on campus suddenly starts throwing herself at him. Vo, the former gutter punk from the streets. What will it cost him to understand why he attracts such attention?
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In a cyber-enhanced, futuristic Chicago, Sonata knows near-immortality is achievable through downloading her mind into a cyborg body after death. But, this young artist wants to prove that living forever isn't the same as living a beautiful life. The Three Lives of Sonata James, a Tor.com Original from science fiction author Lettie Prell.
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Stableford has mapped out for us in engaging stories the wonderful and sometimes disturbing world of the next thousand-years, on Earth, throughout the solar system, and to worlds beyond, with emphasis on huge sociological changes and extraordinary alterations in the biological life of humans. It is one of the most detailed and plausible and fascinating projections in all of science fiction. Now, in The Omega Expedition, it takes us into another millennium,...
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This is a science fiction novel of enormous scope, filled with wonders. Set earlier in the same "future history" as Inherit the Earth, Architects of Emortality, and The Fountains of Youth, The Cassandra Complex is the independent story of events crucial to the creation of the universe in which the others take place. It is the twenty-first century, a world of rapid change and biotech threats and promises. World War Three, the biotech war, is on the...
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Nina, one of the few descendants of human colony on Mars that was abandoned by Earth, is surprised to discover that she can breathe the toxic atmosphere of the Martian surface. The crew, thinking that their attempts at terraforming and breeding for Martian adaptability have finally payed off, rejoice at the prospect of a brighter future. But, Nina's about to unlock the mystery of the disaster that stranded them on Mars...and nothing will ever be the...
20) Oral Argument
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The award-winning author of the Mars Trilogy gives us a glimpse into a very green future through the lens of a Supreme Court transcript with Oral Argument.
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