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The Atrocity Archives [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Charles Stross
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 In the title piece, Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science, completes his theorem on "Phase Conjugate Grammars for Extra-dimensional Summoning." Turing's work paves the way for esoteric mathematical computations that, when carried out, have side effects that leak through a channel underlying the structure of the Cosmos. Out there in the multiverse are "listeners" who can sometimes be coerced into opening gates. In 1945, Nazi Germany's Ahnenerbe-SS, in an attempt to escape the Allied ... more info>>
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Accelerando [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader]
by Charles Stross
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 Expanding upon his award-winning short story cycle from the pages of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Charles Stross--author of such revolutionary science fiction novels as Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise--delivers the story fans have been anticipating with Accelerando, a novel destined to change the face of the genre. For three generations, the Macz family has struggled to cope with the rampant technological achievements that have rendered humans near obsolete. And mankind's end encroaches e... more info>>
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Iron Sunrise [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Charles Stross
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Charles Stross' follow-up to his critically acclaimed Singularity Sky is the story of Wednesday Shadowmist, a sullen teenager who is humanity's only hope of stopping interstellar war.
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Glasshouse [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader]
by Charles Stross
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When Robin wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories missing, it doesn't take him long to discover that someone's trying to kill him. It's the twenty-seventh century, when interstellar travel is by teleport gate and conflicts are fought by network worms that censor refugees' personalities--including Robin's earlier self. On the run from unknown enemies, he volunteers to participate in a unique experimental polity, the Glasshouse, constructed to simulate a preaccelerated culture. Participant... more info>>
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Singularity Sky [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Charles Stross
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This much-anticipated debut novel is set 400 years in the future--and in the wake of perfected time travel, the ultimate advancements in technology and information, and the groundbreaking development of Artificial Intelligence. Is this all a great step for humanity? Or will it be our ultimate downfall? Singularity Sky is a truly visionary novel of the future, and already its author, Charles Stross, has become the most talked-about new voice in science fiction...
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Halting State [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by Charles Stross
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 In the year 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is called in on a special case. A daring bank robbery has taken place at Hayek Associates, a dot-com startup company that's just been floated on the London stock exchange. The suspects are a band of marauding orcs, with a dragon in tow for fire support, and the bank is located within the virtual reality land of Avalon Four. For Smith, the investigation seems pointless. But she soon realizes that the virtual world may have a devas... more info>>
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Lobsters [MultiFormat]
by Charles Stross
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"Lobsters" introduces us to the permanently wired Manfred Macx, a youthful, self-assured (and self-doubting) cultural purveyor, the world's first "Venture Altruist," out to prove the validity of Win-Win synergistic scenarios while engaging in exotic drugs and sexual experimentation against a near future socio-political backdrop. Fleeing his dominatrix ex-wife, shifting world economies, trading his image on the "reputations market," and inventing extropianistic technologies are all in a day's wor... more info>> 2000 Nebula Award(R) Nominee, Hugo Award Nominee
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