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Candle [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by John Barnes
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Currie Curran is about fifty-five years old, in good health, living in comfortable retirement in the Rockies with his wife. In the wake of the Meme Wars that swept the planet two generations before, Currie, his wife, and almost everyone on Earth have in their minds a copy of Resuna, software that grants its hosts limited telepathy and instills a kind of general cooperation. In his younger days, Currie hunted "cowboys"--people who had unplugged from the global net in order to evade Resuna, and wh... more info>> (Published: 2000)
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In the Hall of the Martian King [Jak Jinnaka Series Book 3] [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by John Barnes
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A Martian monarch has taken possession of a priceless relic: the lifelog diary of the mysterious messiah who founded the Wager, the religion that forms the basis of all interstellar society. The Hive Intel conglomerate wants the lifelog and hires Jak to get it. It's a simple job, until other spies-including Ambassador Dujuv, Uncle Sib, and Jak's evil ex-girlfriend-arrive on Mars and turn the assignment into a wild ride of mind control, murder, and looming interplanetary war. For the lifelog cont... more info>>
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A Princess of the Aerie [Jak Jinnaka Series Book 2] [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by John Barnes
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When Jak gets word that his ex-girlfriend, Princess Shyf of Greenworld, is in danger, Jak and his panth buddy Dujuv join the Royal Palace Guard and race across the solar system to save her. But they quickly discover that they're the ones who need to be rescued--from Shyf, who has decided that she likes absolute power.
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Mother of Storms [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by John Barnes
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In the middle of the Pacific, a gigantic hurricane accidentally triggered by nuclear explosions spawns dozens more in its wake. A world linked by a virtual-reality network experiences the devastation first hand, witnessing the death of civilization as we know it and the violent birth of an emerging global consciousness. (Published: 1998)
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Tales of the Madman Underground [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/eReader (recommended)/Adobe PDF/Adobe EPUB]
by John Barnes
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Wednesday, September 5, 1973: The first day of Karl Shoemaker's senior year in stifling Lightsburg, Ohio. For years, Karl's been part of what he calls "the Madman Underground"--a group of kids forced (for no apparent reason) to attend group therapy during school hours. Karl has decided that senior year is going to be different. He is going to get out of the Madman Underground for good. He is going to act--and be--Normal. But Normal, of course, is relative. Karl has five after-school jobs, one de... more info>>
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The Duke of Uranium [Jak Jinnaka Series Book 1] [Secure Mobipocket/eReader (recommended)/Adobe EPUB]
by John Barnes
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Fifteen hundred years in the future: after seven wars with the alien Rubahy, after settlement upon settlement and resettlement of every piece of dirt available, after every imaginable religious and political upheaval. Mars has been terraformed for a thousand years, glaciers cover Europe, central Africa is Earth's breadbasket, some space freighters have twentieth-generation crews. More people live in space than on Earth. And no one has found a way around the light-speed limit; the human race is s... more info>>
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The Merchants of Souls [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by John Barnes
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Giraut Leones, former special agent for the instrumentality responsible
for reintegrating humanity, had sworn he'd never work for the Office of
Special Projects again! That was before interstellar human civilization
faced collapse. Now Giraut's brain is host to a second consciousness--
the revived consciousness of his long-dead friend, Raimbaut. (Published: 2001)
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The Sky So Big and Black [Secure eReader (recommended)]
by John Barnes
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Terpsichore Melpomene Murray, growing up on Mars, wants to quit school. Her father wants her to help him conduct a group of younger kids from the highlands at Mars's equator back to school in Wells City. When disaster strikes, it's up to Teri to get the survivors to safety and change the course of human history... if Mars doesn't kill her first. (Published: 2002)
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