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The Holy Machine [MultiFormat]
by Chris Beckett
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Illyria is a scientific utopia, an enclave of logic and reason founded off the Greek coast in the mid-twenty first century as a refuge from the Reaction, a wave of religious fundamentalism sweeping the planet. Yet to George Simling, first generation son of a former geneticist who was left emotionally and psychically crippled by the persecution she encountered in her native Chicago, science-dominated Illyria is becoming as closed-minded and stifling as the religion-dominated world outside.... The... more info>> 2003
Words: 70261 - Reading Time: 200-281 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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The Turing Test [MultiFormat]
by Chris Beckett
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In that moment Lemmy suddenly understood. The house had no physical roof. It had no physical ceilings, no physical upstairs floor, nothing to keep out the physical rain that fell from the physical sky. In the physical world there was no TV here, no fire, no lights, no fluffy rug, no comfy chairs, no Mouser or Dorothy or Lemmy or John, just an empty shell of brick, open to the sky, a ruin among many others, in the midst of an abandoned city. These fourteen stories, among other things, contain rob... more info>> 2008
Words: 86788 - Reading Time: 247-347 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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