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      • Spindown
        Classic science fiction
        April 2013

        Spindown

        by George Wright Padgett (author)

        For over a hundred and fifty years, the rarest and most valuable substance in the solar system has been mined from the only location where it exists in significant quantity: Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede. For all of this time, the remote mining outpost has been serviced by clone slaves who are drugged into mindlessness, and all of it has been monitored, controlled, and administered by the artificial intelligence known as Prinox. But what happens when a failed rescue mission causes a small band of escaped clones to begin questioning their lives, their society, and their very existence? Hunted by deadly killing machines, confused and scared, these renegade slaves are about to find out—for better or worse—just what it means to be human.

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      • The Great Martian War
        Adventure
        October 2020

        The Great Martian War

        Invasion

        by Scott Washburn

        A follow-up to the "War of the Worlds" and the entry to the on-going series about the Great Martian War.  After their initial defeat in Great Britain, a second Martain force lands in the US and around the world. President Theodore Roosevelt musters the great minds of the age to combat this new force

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      • Across the Great Rift
        Fiction
        October 2020

        Across the Great Rift

        by Scott Washburn

        The new empires, which have arisen from the rubble of a devastating war, are looking with greedy eyes across the Great Rift to the untouched stars which lie there. Great riches and power will come to those who can control them. But a rival power is determined to hijack the attempt and has secreted an agent in the expedition to disrupt it with sabotage and murder. With the political and military personnel dead, the task of carrying on falls to the engineers and technicians. Their operation is further complicated by the fact that the far side of the Rift is not as uninhabited as it was supposed to be. Refugees from the earlier, destroyed civilization have already made a home here and they look upon the newcomers with decidedly mixed emotions. The crew must try to win the trust of the natives if they are to have any hope against the coming enemy attack.

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      • The Three-Body Problem
        Fiction
        January 2008

        The Three-Body Problem

        by Liu Cixin

        Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.

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      • THE PUPPET’S TEARS AND OTHER STORIES
        Fiction
        February 2020

        THE PUPPET’S TEARS AND OTHER STORIES

        by Isaac Hsu

        Though technically “short” stories, the eight sci-fi tales in this collection are never short on world building. Drawing on diverse influences from martial arts to high adventure, software engineering to piracy, they are nonetheless bound by a common concern with how technological advances are mediated by the limitations of our humanity.   The titular first story presents itself as classic martial arts fiction, but behind the duels and high-minded feats lies a sympathetic exploration of human beings transformed into bio-chemical robot slaves. The interstellar setting of “The Death of Chaos” echoes the terrestrial Age of Discovery, drawing out reflections on colonization, and an investigation into the truth behind a series of momentous prophecies.   An AI protagonist named Hamlet features in three stories, “An Affair”, “Hamlet’s Commensurate Crises”, and “Roba’s Farewell”, dialectics on AI morality that pay tribute to Asimov’s three laws of robotics.   Addressing the theme of reincarnation against a setting of high seas piracy, “Vengeance” portrays a man grappling with the contradictions between two selves: that of his current life, and that of his previous life. In “Yaliena” the curator of a computer museum discovers a very human mystery embedded in the code of defunct software programs. In the final story, “Inverse Function”, a simple mathematical principal becomes the deciding factor in a criminal case involving a storytelling machine.   With a firm grounding in both hard science and classic science fiction, author Isaac Hsu has a gift for posing challenging theoretical and technical questions within a narrative framework. Readers of this diverse collection will know the thrill of keeping pace with his light-speed mind as it pushes into the outer reaches of human thought.

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      • The Membranes
        Fiction

        The Membranes

        by Chi Ta-Wei

        It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes at the bottom of the sea to escape devastating climate change. The world is dominated by powerful media conglomerates and runs on exploited cyborg labor. Momo prefers to keep to herself, and anyway she’s too busy for other relationships: her clients include some of the city’s best-known media personalities. But after meeting her estranged mother, she begins to explore her true identity, a journey that leads to questioning the bounds of gender, memory, self, and reality.   First published in Taiwan in 1995, The Membranes is a classic of queer speculative fiction in Chinese. Chi Ta-wei weaves dystopian tropes―heirloom animals, radiation-proof combat drones, sinister surveillance technologies―into a sensitive portrait of one young woman’s quest for self-understanding. Predicting everything from fitness tracking to social media saturation, this visionary and sublime novel stands out for its queer and trans themes. The Membranes reveals the diversity and originality of contemporary speculative fiction in Chinese, exploring gender and sexuality, technological domination, and regimes of capital, all while applying an unflinching self-reflexivity to the reader’s own role.

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      • REVENGE OF THE GENERALISSIMO
        Fiction
        May 2019

        REVENGE OF THE GENERALISSIMO

        by Tang Chen-Wei

        * The Weeping Angels of Dr. Who get a Taiwanese facelift, with zombies thrown in for good measure * Adapted into comic book Does the Generalissimo Dine on Human Flesh? President and generalissimo of Taiwan for decades, Chiang Kai-Shek is honored with bronze statues that occupy nearly every school, park, and public square on the island. But when the statues are toppled as a form of protest, the horrifying paranormal creatures that inhabit them are awakened!   Recently unemployed, Liu Shih-Yen is convinced by an old colleague to join a metaphysical workshop. Guided by the workshop leader, Liu Shih-Yen has a near-death experience involving a vision of a bronze statue rushing towards him. Watching the news at home after class, he sees an old veteran protesting the removal of a Chiang Kai-shek statue from a park — not on the grounds that the Generalissimo was a great man who should be honored, but due to his belief that something malevolent resides inside the statues.   After series of paranormal incidents, Liu Shih-Yen decides he must visit the park from the news story. There, he finally catches a glimpse of the horrific creatures that animate the bronze statues. Fainting in terror, he enters another visionary trance. Now convinced that knowledge of the creatures’ existence is being publicly suppressed, Liu Shih-Yen joins a secret organization that is working to understand and eliminate the paranormal threat. While they succeed in halting the first wave of attacks, a second wave takes them by surprise, unleashing an entire army of Bronze Generalissimos on Taiwan’s unsuspecting population!   The author’s inspiration for these unique monsters came from a common legend in Taiwan — that if you watch closely, you can catch the statues of Chiang Kai-shek blinking! Operating on multiple levels, Revenge of the Generalissimo provides thrills and entertainment, while also serving as a vehicle for the complex emotions surrounding one of Taiwan’s most divisive historical figures.

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      • Polar Quantum
        Fiction

        Polar Quantum

        by Almudena Otero

        Polar Quantum is a scifi novel set in the 22nd century. Global warming finally caused polar caps to melt and the air to become poisonous. To save humankind, two giant domes were built: one in Greenland, where rich people live; and one in Antarctica, for scientists and intellectuals. Antarctica is the sole remaining part of the Earth where some permanent ice survives, allowing for the development of a type of quantum technology to create a system of AI humanoid systems, that interact with humans being to save what remains of the planet. In this context, historian Gabriel Beristain moves to Quanta, in Antarctica, with his family, where he has been tasked with translating classic works of literature into Kunstig, a language developed to allow the interaction of humanoids and humans. What seems to be a fascinating project opens the door to a world of intrigue, betrayal, and violence that puts the fragile balance of Antarctica, and the survival of the world, into question. The purpose of Polar Quantum is depticing a world where the very essence of humankind is put to the test, and where the coexistence of synthetic humanoids and flesh and blood humans is possible…only if they work together.

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      • First Contact
        Fiction
        January 2016

        First Contact

        by Marc Everitt

        There must be someone else out there. In the cold, in the dark, in the vastness of space there can't be just one lonely species peering out into the void; but if there's others, where are they? Now an alien probe has been found and it's point of origin calculated, so a state of the art ship has been sent to take the first step, to make first contact.

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      • The Heaviness
        Children's & young adult fiction & true stories
        April 2014

        The Heaviness

        by Sam Hawksmoor

        The Heaviness is the final volume in The Repossession Trilogy and the Genie Magee story. It’s been a year since Rian, Renée and Genie survived ‘The Hunting’ burned down Whistler, fled Cobble Hill and the evil Reverend Schneider. Now they’re back with Marshall and the safety of the Apple Farm. However rest assured Schneider hasn’t forgotten Genie Magee.  Rian has been forced to live at home.  He can only see Genie on weekends, but Genie is fine with that, at least she knows he still loves her, as she does him.  She's happy being back on the farm with Moucher, learning new skills and taking care of Marshall - who is tinkering in the new barn - trying to replicate Cary's anti-gravity experiment. So far without any success.  Ri has made Genie study and together they took their SAT’s, Rian getting offers for College places.  But the more they talk about college, the more Genie worries whether their teen romance can survive?  Once Rian gets to where he wants to study he’ll be distracted by other girls. As her Grandma once said: ‘Love is like smoke, the scent of it lingers long after the fire is out.’   All this is about to change – radically. Did you think Genie and Ri could be left alone forever? 

Cary died experimenting with anti-gravity.  
Someone somewhere wants that data urgently and is prepared to do something very desperate to get it.  
Somewhere in the city, a meaner, vengeful Reverend Schneider is thinking of revenge.  
Genie is about to wake up to a whole lot of trouble and discover that some people will do anything to get what they want.  It won’t be nice or pretty. What do you do when you break the law of gravity? Genie and Renée have just 36 hours to save Rian or he dies.

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      • The Repercussions of Tomas D
        Fiction
        July 2013

        The Repercussions of Tomas D

        One Small Lie - Can Change History Forever

        by Sam Hawksmoor

        The Repercussions of Tomas D: Tomas is a boy haunted by a nightmare. Night after night in his dreams he runs to the bomb shelter as the sirens scream. Every morning he wakes gasping for breath surprised to be alive. Now it is suddenly very real. He has no idea how he got to 1941, or how he will get back. Worse, the only person who believes he's from the future might be a German spy! The day after Tomas disappears. Gabriella discovers everything has changed. She is the only one who remembers that Germany didn't win WW2!

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      • Spindown
        Classic science fiction
        April 2013

        Spindown

        by George Wright Padgett

        For over a hundred and fifty years, the rarest and most valuable substance in the solar system has been mined from the only location where it exists in significant quantity: Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede. For all of this time, the remote mining outpost has been serviced by clone slaves who are drugged into mindlessness, and all of it has been monitored, controlled, and administered by the artificial intelligence known as Prinox.But what happens when a failed rescue mission causes a small band of escaped clones to begin questioning their lives, their society, and their very existence? Hunted by deadly killing machines, confused and scared, these renegade slaves are about to find out—for better or worse—just what it means to be human.

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      • Osvaldo, The algoryhtm of God
        Fiction

        Osvaldo, The algoryhtm of God

        by Renato de Rosa

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      • Cyberworld 1.0: Mind Ripper
        Classic science fiction
        May 2016

        Cyberworld 1.0: Mind Ripper

        by Nadine Erdmann

        When three teenagers agree to help a new friend with checking out the mysterious happenings inside a previously unreleased CyberGame, little do they know that they are being lured into a dangerous trap. The younger brother of their new friend is terminally ill with leukaemia and his father and his older brother are willing to risk everything to save his life. With the help of a brand-new CyberGame they want to transfer the mind of their beloved son and brother into an unprecedented artificial body before his own human body dies. To test the transfer from one body into the next they lure teenagers into the CyberGame to use them as unsuspecting test subjects. Suporting Informations are available in english language.

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      • Orphans of the Red Planet
        Fiction

        Orphans of the Red Planet

        by Liu Yang

        Jinteng, a mysterious high school with unusual ways of teaching, has been able to send unbelievable numbers of students to great universities. But behind its brilliantachievements, the seeds of revolt are sprouting. While Jinteng is experiencing internal chaos, a number of strange events take place around the world -- a big truck flies to the air without any reason, countless mysterious stone tablets rise up from the earth. Humanity has to survive with a declining civilization. And now, a group of high school students become the last candle light for humanity...

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      • Centrex Core Theory
        Fiction
        February 2016

        Centrex Core Theory

        by Francis Rink Donnelly

        From the woes of scientific inquiry becomes a journey into the great depths that postulate a required design unto that which is Centrex Core Theory.  Filled with expression, the labeling of cultures that are both supra and lateral to an original origin manipulation are explored.  Journeys’ captivate an in-depth approach to how the macroscopic and microscopic world can be seemingly intertwined.  Relevant data has procured results that are mystifying as well as conglomerate.  The rhetoric of both syntax and diction describe the outcome of a juxtaposed end, middle, and beginning; highlighting not only techniques utilized, but endearments that could quite possibly defer the onlookers’ sense of stability as they approach the questioning world around themselves.

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      • Appurtenant Solidarity Theory
        Fiction
        January 2016

        Appurtenant Solidarity Theory

        by Francis Rink Donnelly

        The Red-Visible Spectrum; harnessed by the means of a diligent truth is unparalleled when the concept of solidarity meets the discovery of a solarphore. Truely, this extrapolation of what can become of when placed amongst the mix of cultured reactionary mechanism deems the ratification of how light can not only intercept, but can be laid and placed amongst a desperate background of twenty six growth types.  In the middle is the far-fetched sequence that not only displays that a proofed light intensity can procure the most enlightened of sequences.  This sense of belonging is not new to recycled science.  The captivation of what becomes is ever apparent, yet, even more appurtenant.  A concept of the Kilosis Desire Value (KDV) is introduced and pertains to the energetics of how light scattering can create phenomena that are driven to create lumeniferous intensity.  As the manuscript unfolds, relativistic natures are undoubtedly explored with conviction, callow presumptions, and simplistic ineptitudedes.  To become a whole, unified state the progression must occur with that of the next-in-series.

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      • Relational Excitations and Proactive Silhouette Theory
        Fiction

        Relational Excitations and Proactive Silhouette Theory

        by Francis Rink Donnelly

        Definitive Arrangements as they Pertain to the Development of Error; Upper Limits and Lower Limits contained and considered synergistic to procure a viable structural bend are inherently defined. This sweeping value of one lowered limit to that of a higher-end limit is bound by (E—->100;E—>Infinity).  It can not be said that this process is dimensionless, but as all is perceived in preliminary replications with the Thirteen growth types that they are loosely bound to radical extremes.  This middle-in-series is a exploration of the M+ value.  M+ value is one of seven variable factors that are great estimates of how bending occurs in a majority of species containing specified bending capacity.  Highlighted by, an in depth analysis of growth parameters, each extenuating and providing visual conception and proof that energetics plays a large role in the undeniable relocation of a temporal and spatial arrangement.  To begin with an excitation and end with the production of a proactive silhouette is discussed with magnitude and volition.  Strength of the proof is verified as the document unfolds; ever ebbing its’ dynamic nature to that which is surrounded by the investigators role in production of such states.

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