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This is a story of Moloch's cultural evolution from dystopia to utopia. Corruption, oppression, cronyism, wars, coups, revolutions, destabilization, regime changes, greed, economic pillaging, financial chicanery and exploitation were the norm. People were weary and afraid. In democratic countries people were easily persuaded to approve the creation of a Global agency dedicated to the eradication of terrible conspiracies.The Guild of Unrelenting Truth...
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Clutter and hoarding, creativity and the artist, and death and dying come together in this dystopian novel.Before you die, you must divest yourself of all your worldly goods. That is The Naked Law of a new world order. But if you keep telling stories, or if you keep making art, you may just delay the Final Reckoning."The Naked Law" opens with the launch of a blog that shares stories about life after The Final Catastrophe. You will hear from a chorus...
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In a drought-ravaged post-apocalyptic future, the voices in Shakti's head tell her how to survive. But when hegemony control officer Lucas Seraph murders her brother as he shuts off the water supply to another doomed city, Shakti is thrown into a desperate flight to understand and control the frightening powers growing within her. Pursued by death cultists, mutilated rebels, and the demons in her own mind, Shakti's only way back, her last chance to...
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A high-flying executive and single mother of an autistic son leaves her career behind to embark on a transformative journey. Seeking a simpler life, she moves to a quaint village in Crete, where she joins the Animal Welfare movement, a cause close to her heart. Yet she soon finds that attitudes toward animals in her new home are more complex than she expected. European vets make periodic visits, attempting to control the burgeoning population of ownerless...
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A War to End all Wars?The centaurs are at war, the sword of tragedy hangs over the heads of humanity, and only Jacob Walden can serve as a shield.Teacher Jacob's worst nightmare has come true. The war he tried to stop now rages and threatens centaurs and humans alike. He's been forced to choose sides and for all he knows his choice could curse his people with never-ending blame!Jacob must solve a mystery before all is lost. He must do the unthinkable...
6) The System
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Within the confines of society, the relentless grip of routine and the wright of mundane existence cast a shadow on each individual. Each day unfolds with monotonous predictability, as people navigate the labyrinthine bureaucracy trapped in a ceaseless cycle of paperwork, regulations, and mind-numbing tasks. Within this menial existence, the collective does not yearn for something more, they play their part in the stifling confines of the system they...
7) Doctor No
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El protagonista de la novela es un brillante profesor de matemáticas experto en nada que no hace nada. Eso lo convierte en el socio perfecto de un aspirante a villano Bond que quiere entrar en Fort Knox para robar, no los lingotes de oro, sino una caja de zapatos que no contiene nada.
A través de la voz de este profesor asperger, Percival Everett vuelve a utilizar el absurdo para hacer una brillante crítica a los valores de la sociedad actual.
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En bref, je suis arrivée à Penrose. Rien n'était normal ; ici les gens ne semblent pas avoir de soucis. Leur histoire n'est pas la nôtre. J'ai cherché sur des cartes, mais pas de chance. Toutefois, même si j'essaie de sortir, je recule toujours. Je crois que quelque chose me lie à ce village de fous.
Qui sont ces femmes ? On dirait qu'elles me connaissent, mais je sais que je ne suis jamais venue
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Under a purple moon, Christian Good looks on as two armed sentries walk the wall that separates the metropolis from the desert beyond, and he whispers to himself a single question, "Who is God?" Raised in a futuristic theocracy to believe unquestioningly the city is God-directed, Christian Good becomes an allegorical character for the individual's journey to define the nature of the Christian God.
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End Time: Notes on the Apocalypse is a prescient, near-future thriller. Written in a slashing, evocative style, End Time received rave reviews in underground and small press circles in 1994.Greg Kovinski, the novel's protagonist, lives in interesting times. War and civil war rage across the former Soviet Union and much of the globe. The United States is fighting a sophisticated high tech counterinsurgency war in southern Mexico, against a popular...
11) Identity
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Identity is a science fiction psychological thriller, set in a future where years of progress have come at a cost. Decades of wars and struggle forced the need for a unique solution. Desperate, a system of governance was formed based on genetic predisposition. Leaders centered their rule of law and obedience on a strict quasi-religious interpretation of scientific principles. The strife ends, technology advances at a staggering rate and the human...
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Reviews:"["Tucker Teaches the Clockies to Copulate"] is at one level nearly wacky, but it has deeper concerns, reflected in the examination of the treatment of such disadvantaged individuals as alcoholics, Confederate veterans, the Chinese, Jews, and of course clockwork ex-soldiers. It all comes together very effectively." -- Rich Horton, Locus, July 2008 (Recommended Story)"The story is poignant, sad and funny, bitter and hopeful, and altogether...
13) Wasteland
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On the battlefield of the immortals, as hope springs from the ashes of destruction and despair, one man and one woman unite to set the world free. Hunter is the Demon Slayer, a man without a past-and without mercy. Airie is the love child of two warring immortals. When Hunter is hired to bring a thief to justice, he's forced to question everything he's ever believed. And Airie, born on a world not her own and raised in a temple to be something she's...
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Four years ago, Dylan met her partner, her match: Levi Hark. The poetry spouting is endearing after all. ***Now, he's still in cryo, and the Canary is still heading toward the planet, and no one is doing anything about it. Four hundred people are heading towards their deaths; they have no idea where the base is located.Can Dylan go against everything she's ever known for a ship of people she's never met? Is there a 'right' thing to do? Or is she...
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Zetter Kohl will do anything to survive, or so he believes. But when a thwarted mugging leads him to a job too good to be true, he has nowhere to turn. Not to the citizens of the city or the techno-gangs of Lowquat. He can't even trust his own reality as it melts around him. No matter what, he'll never be a citizen, but he can never go back to the back alleys of his youth. Nor to the woman who haunts his dreams.
16) Loup Rebelle 6
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Tom est un esclave humain et Renat son maître loup-garou et amant, dans un univers alternatif mis au début du XXe siècle, en Angleterre, entre l'aristocratie des loups et leurs esclaves humains. Est-ce que Tom peut repousser les tentatives de Renat de l'attirer dans une affaire d'amour – et pas seulement des services sexuels – pendant le dîner de recherche en mariage que la mère du loup a arrangé? Tom jette un regard sur ses rivaux -- les...
17) The B.T. Empire
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A normal country is now an Empire that is ruled by two tyrants, Barlow Hector and Ted King. They have divided the empire into sections, separating each class of citizens. Section A is where the two Emperors live, Section B is where the upper class citizens live, Section C is where the middle class citizens live, and Section D is where the very low class citizens live. After a young man named Sam Lewis is forced to move from Section C to Section D,...
18) Psychic Magic
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She survived the apocalypse. Now can she have survive the man she loves?Theda wakes in the hospital, rescued from certain martyrdom by a bargain made by Ezekiel to save her life. Unfortunately, that bargain means she is slated to be re-educated in one of The Beast's sanatoriums.Behind its doors, some of the most heinous atrocities are committed on its residents in an attempt to dampen the divine spark within. Now, it's Theda who is in the crosshairs...
19) Angel Pride
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Leverage, a cunning tool in the name of battle, but only if you can keep hold of it.With the Perfect government leader on our side, how can the Avoidables not win the Perfects over? With his influence, and our decisions, surely the city can become a place of peace?Yet, it seems that some Avoidables aren't so quick to forgive the race that hurt us. One choice leads to the unfolding of secrets that not even the Perfect government can atone for. A cat...
20) Bang !
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"Bang !" relate les expériences d'Élise, Henri, Emma et Sofiane face à un virus originaire de Chine qui s'est vite répandu dans le monde entier. Un confinement généralisé fut instauré dans l'espoir de contenir la pandémie, impactant des millions de personnes à la fois physiquement et émotionnellement.
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