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A comedy of loyalty, betrayal, sex, madness, and music-swapping Art is an up-and-coming interface designer, working on the management of data flow along the Massachusetts Turnpike. He's doing the best work of his career and can guarantee that the system will be, without a question, the most counterintuitive, user-hostile piece of software ever pushed forth onto the world. Why? Because Art is an industrial... (more)

The Chrysalids (Connections)

by David Harrower, John Wyndham

In the community of Waknut it is believed mutants are the products of the Devil and must be stamped out. When David befriends a girl with a slight abnormality, he begins to understand the nature of fear and oppression. When he develops his own deviation, he must learn to conceal his secret.

Original Sin (Doctor Who the New Adventures)

Original Sin (Doctor Who the New Adventures)

by Andy Lane

Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks

by Terrance Dicks

The world in 2030 A.D.,Frederick Edwin Smith Birkenhead

The world in 2030 A.D.,

by Frederick Edwin Smith Birkenhead

Legacy of the Daleks (Doctor Who Series)

Legacy of the Daleks (Doctor Who Series)

by John Peel

The Doctor is repairing the Tardis systems once again when it is swept up by a garbage ship roving space, the Quetzel. When another ship takes the Quetzel by force, the Doctor discovwers that he and Sam are not the only unwitting travellers aboard - Davros awakens.

Roofworld

by Christopher Fowler

High above London on the rooftops of the city lives a secret society of misfits governed by a bizarre code of honour. It is known to only a few people on the streets below, until a murderous battle for leadership breaks out. Robert and Rose, two innocent outsiders, are drawn into a twilight world.

Out of the Hive (Bugs)

by Paul Leonard

Convinced someone in the "Hive" is after SACROS, a box that can control or cripple satellites, Beckett almost loses his life. Beckett, and Ros, who runs a high-tech gadgets company, "Gizmos", and Ed, form the BUGS team and become drawn into the world of miniaturized weapons and customized viruses.

The New American Revolution: the Dawning of the Technetronic Era.John P. Rasmussen

The New American Revolution: the Dawning of the Technetronic Era.

by John P. Rasmussen

Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships

Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships

by David N. L. Levy

"Love, marriage, and sex with robots? Not in a million years? Maybe a whole lot sooner.From a leading expert in artificial intelligence comes an eye-opening, superbly argued book that explores a new level of human intimacy and relationships with robots. From Pygmalion falling for his chiseled Galatea to Dr. Frankenstein marveling at his "modern Prometheus" to the man-meets-machine fiction of Philip K. Dick ... (more)

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The Female ManJoanna Russ

The Female Man

by Joanna Russ

Doctor Who: Missing Adventures: Millennial RitesCraig Hinton

Doctor Who: Missing Adventures: Millennial Rites

by Craig Hinton

Doctor Who : Inferno

by Terrance Dicks

The Man Who Fell to Earth (Del Rey Impact)

The Man Who Fell to Earth (Del Rey Impact)

by Walter Tevis

T.J. Newton is an extraterrestrial who goes to Earth on a desperate mission of mercy. But instead of aid, Newton discovers loneliness and despair that ultimately ends in tragedy.

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 nanotech cocoon, Verity sets off on a quest to the Enlivened City of Cincinnati. It is a place of legend, where huge... (more)

The Immortals

by Tracy Hickman

The co-author of the best-selling Dragonlance series presents a cautionary tale set in America in 2010, when the government takes draconian measures to deal with the growing AIDS epidemic. Reprint. PW. LJ.

We - A Novel of the Future - In a New Translation By Mirra GinsburgYevgeny Zamyatin Mirra Ginsburg

We - A Novel of the Future - In a New Translation By Mirra Ginsburg

by Yevgeny Zamyatin Mirra Ginsburg

The long-suppressed Russian masterpiece that goes beyond "Brave New World" and "1984." "A bitter indictment against regimentation, conformity and the depersonalization of the individual.." - Thomas Lask, New York Times

The Asteroid Wars: Book 4

The Aftermath

by Ben Bova

In the wake of the Asteroid Wars that tore across the solar system, Victor Zacharius makes his living running the ore-carrier Syracuse . With his wife and two children he plies the Asteroid Belt, hauling whatever cargo can be found. When the Syracuse stumbles into the middle of a military attack on the habitat Chrysalis, Victor flees in a control pod to draw the attacker’s attention away from his family.... (more)

The Children of Men (Vintage)

by P. D. James

Told with P. D. James's trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future,... (more)

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by Cory Doctorow

by David Harrower, John Wyndham

by Andy Lane

by Terrance Dicks

by Frederick Edwin Smith Birkenhead

by John Peel

by Christopher Fowler

by Paul Leonard

by John P. Rasmussen

by David N. L. Levy

by Joanna Russ

by Craig Hinton

by Terrance Dicks

by Walter Tevis

by Kathleen Ann Goonan

by Tracy Hickman

by Yevgeny Zamyatin Mirra Ginsburg

by Ben Bova

by P. D. James