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Glasshouse [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
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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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Halting State [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Charlie 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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Saturn's Children: A Space Opera [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Charlie Stross
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Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct leaving only androids behind. Freya Nakamichi 47 is a femmebot, one of the last of her kind still functioning. With no humans left to pay for the pleasures she provides, she agrees to transport a mysterious package from Mercury to Mars. Unfortunately for Freya, she has just made herself a moving target for some very powerful, very determined humanoids who will stop at nothing to possess the contents of the package.
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The Jennifer Morgue [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Charlie Stross
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 Bob Howard, geekish demonology hacker extraordinaire for "The Laundry," must stop ruthless billionaire Ellis Billington from unleashing an eldritch horror, codenamed "Jennifer Morgue," from the ocean's depths for the purpose of ruling the world....
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Accelerando [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Charlie 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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Lobsters [MultiFormat]
by Charlie 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>> (Published: 2000) Nebula Award(R) Nominee, Hugo Award Nominee
Words: 10877 - Reading Time: 31-43 min.
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Singularity Sky [Singularity Sky Series Book 1] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Charlie 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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Iron Sunrise [Singularity Sky Series Book 2] [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Charlie 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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The Atrocity Archives [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Charlie 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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Wireless [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)]
by Charlie Stross
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 Science fiction guru Charles Stross "sizzles with ideas" (Denver Post) in his first major short story collection.The Hugo Award-winning author of such groundbreaking and innovative novels as Accelerando, Halting State, and Saturn's Children delivers a rich selection of speculative fiction--including a novella original to this volume--brought together for the first time in one collection, showcasing the limitless imagination of one of the twenty-first century's most daring visionaries.
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