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In Snow Crash , Neal Stephenson took science fiction to dazzling new levels. Now, in The Diamond Age , he delivers another stunning tale. Set in twenty-first century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life-and the entire future of humanity-is about to be decoded and reprogrammed....

Blood Music

by Greg Bear

In the tradition of the greatest cyberpunk novels, Blood Music explores the imminent destruction of mankind and the fear of mass destruction by technological advancements. Blood Music follows present-day events in which the fears concerning the nuclear annihilation of the world subsided after the Cold War and the fear of chemical warfare spilled over into the empty void of nuclear fear. An amazing breakthrough... (more)

Aristoi

by Walter Jon Williams

Gabriel is a member of the Aristoi, an elite group of humans who reign over technology, and he discovers that another Aristos has gone mad and threatens the entire human race. Reprint. NYT. PW. K.

Eschaton: Book 2

Iron Sunrise (Ace Science Fiction)

by Charles Stross

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.

Eschaton: Book 1

Singularity Sky

by Charles Stross

Four hundred years in the future, time travel has been perfected and groundbreaking developments in Artificial Intelligence have been made. But is this a great step forward for humanity--or its ultimate downfall?

Bohr Maker, The

by Linda Nagata

It is the most powerful technology known to humanity, microscopically small, allowing its user to control and change other's moods and emotions, and even to reprogram his or her own genetic structure. Its potential as the ultimate weapon or an instrument of peace has led to its ban by the Commonwealth. Someone has stolen this outlaw technology, the Bohr Maker, from the secret files of the Commonwealth Police, at... (more)

by David Louis Edelman

Natch is a master of biologics, the programming of the human body. He's clawed and scraped his way to the top of the biologics market using little more than his wits. Now his sudden notoriety has brought him to the attention of Margaret Surina, the owner of a mysterious new technology called MultiReal. Only by enlisting Natch's devious mind can Margaret keep MultiReal out of the hands of High Executive Len Borda... (more)

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)

DIASPORA

by Greg Egan

The boldest and most wildly speculative writer of our time, Greg Egan has envisioned a quantum Brave New World -- a masterful saga of a time when not only human life, but fleshly reality itself, will be nothing but a memory... It is the thirtieth century.The "world" has evolved into a vast network of probes, satellites, and servers knitting the solar system into one scape from the outer planets to the sun. ... (more)

The Quantum Connection (Warp Speed)

by Travis S. Taylor

Steven Montana, computer whiz and hacker extraordinaire, was attending college in Ohio when his world fell apart. A swarm of huge meteors fell all over the world, on Europe, on the United States, and in particular on Steven¿s home town in California. In an instant, his family and all his friends were gone. Eventually, he learned that the ¿meteor¿ onslaught that had orphaned him had actually been a brief and still... (more)

Counting Heads

by David Marusek

Counting Heads is David Maruseks extraordinary launch as an SF novelist: The year is 2134, and the Information Age has given rise to the Boutique Economy, in which mass production and mass consumption are rendered obsolete. Life extension therapies have increased the human lifespan by centuries. Loyal mentars (artificial intelligence) and robots do most of societys work. The Boutique Economy has made redundant... (more)

Infoquake (The Jump 225 Trilogy)

by David Louis Edelman

How far should you go to make a profit? Infoquake, the debut novel by David Louis Edelman, takes speculative fiction into alien territory: the corporate boardroom of the far future. It’s a stunning trip through the trenches of a technological war fought with product demos, press releases, and sales pitches. Natch is a master of bio/logics, the programming of the human body. He’s clawed and scraped his way to... (more)

Line War

by Neal Asher

The Polity is under attack from a 'melded' AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology, yet the attack seems to have no coherence. When one of Erebus's wormships, kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricultural world of no real tactical significance, agent Ian Cormac is sent to investigate, though he is secretly struggling to control a new ability no human being should possess ...and... (more)

Wireless

by Charles Stross

Science fiction guru Charles Stross Â“sizzles with ideasÂ” ( 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 SaturnÂ’s Children delivers a rich selection of speculative fictionÂ— including a novella original to this volumeÂ— brought together for the first time in one collection, showcasing... (more)

Rogue Hunter (Chronicles of the Rogue Hunter)Kevis Hendrickson

Rogue Hunter (Chronicles of the Rogue Hunter)

by Kevis Hendrickson

Zyra Zanr, intergalactic bounty hunter, has hunted fugitive criminals for many years. Her true goal, however, is to destroy the Zaragos Crime Syndicate whose agents ruthlessly murdered her father. But Zyra's vendetta with Zaragos leads her on a forlorn crusade that puts her at odds with not only the law, but also her religious principles. While hunting a notorious fugitive on the distant side of the galaxy, Zyra... (more)

The Gecko's Foot: Bio-inspiration: Engineering New Materials from Nature

The Gecko's Foot: Bio-inspiration: Engineering New Materials from Nature

by Peter Forbes

A riveting account of the unexpected relationship between nature and scientific design. "Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you." When Frank Lloyd Wright said this, he probably wasn't envisioning self-cleaning surfaces, the photonic crystal, or Velcro. But nature has indeed yielded such inventions for those scientists and engineers who heeded the architect's words. The... (more)

Neal Stephenson Metaverse: Book 1

Snow Crash

by Neal Stephenson

Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison--a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility to bring us the gigathriller of the information age. In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza... (more)

Olympos

by Dan Simmons

Beneath the gaze of the gods, the mighty armies of Greece and Troy met in fierce and glorious combat, scrupulously following the text set forth in Homer's timeless narrative. But that was before twenty-first-century scholar Thomas Hockenberry stirred the bloody brew, causing an enraged Achilles to join forces with his archenemy Hector and turn his murderous wrath on Zeus and the entire pantheon of divine... (more)

Neuromancer

by William Gibson

Case was the best interface cowboy who ever ran in earth's computer matrix. Then he doublecrossed the wrong people... Winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Philip K. Dick Awards.

Fallen Dragon

by Peter F. Hamilton

Born in a colony world in 2310, Lawrence Newton hankered after the golden era of starships exploring the galaxy. But the age of human starflight was drawing to a close, so this hot-heated teenager ran away from home in search of adventure. Twenty years later, he's the sergeant of a washed-out platoon taking part in the bungled invasion of another world. The giant corporations call such campaigns 'asset... (more)

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