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  1. Nanotech Cycle: Book 1

    Queen City Jazz

    by Kathleen Ann Goonan

    In Verity's world, nanotech plagues decimated the population after an initial renaissance of utopian nanotech cities. Growing up on an isolated farm, her happy life changes course when Blaze, the only young man in the community and Verity's best friend, is shot. With Blaze's body wrapped in a... (learn more about this book)

  2. Nanotech Cycle: Book 3

    Crescent City Rhapsody

    by Kathleen Ann Goonan

    This is how it begins... ... with the Silence, born of mysterious, space-originated phenomena that render Earth's dominant technologies useless -- inspiring paranoia and alien invasion fears within secret government agencies, which, in turn, inspire repressive actions against a perceived... (learn more about this book)

  3. In War Times

    by Kathleen Ann Goonan

    Sam Dance is a young enlisted soldier in 1941 when his older brother Keenan is killed at Pearl Harbor. Afterwards, Sam promises that he will do anything he can to stop the war.   During his training, Sam begins to show that he has a knack for science and engineering, and he is plucked from the... (learn more about this book)

  4. Nanotech Cycle: Book 4

    Light Music

    by Kathleen Ann Goonan

    Once the world worked differently -- before "the Silence" from space quieted the airwaves. Once there was a haven called Crescent City, built through the wonders of nanotechnology to transport its enlightened inhabitants into the cosmos. But humanity has failed the city. Dania Cooper, a... (learn more about this book)

  5. Nanotech Cycle: Book 2

    Mississippi Blues

    by Kathleen Ann Goonan

    The journey of Verity across the wonderfully altered landscape of mid-America began in Queen City Jazz: "A dizzying novel that takes full advantage of the creative potential of nanotech," said The New York Times . Now it continues down the river in Mississippi Blues. Verity takes the... (learn more about this book)

  6. The Bones of Time

    by Kathleen Ann Goonan

    A young Hawaiian mathematician discovers the secrets of time travel and alternative universes in the preserved bones of the great Hawaiian king, Kamehameha. By the author of Queen City Jazz. Reprint. LJ.

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