Best High Tech Books
Best Free High Tech Books of 2024
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MARiiMO Book Reviews
Tyrel PinnegarThis is the journal of Tammy Maheswaran, a reclusive roboticist living with undiagnosed autism. It documents the creation of Mariimo, a developmental robotics platform through whic...
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After the Battle on Starship Hill Book Reviews
Vernor Vinge"After the Battle on Starship Hill" is more than 12000 words of prologue from Vernor Vinge's forthcoming novel, The Children of the Sky . Taking place on Tines World...
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Losing Human Book Reviews
Aaron DennisA man has a dream, a vision to see the world through eternal eyes. Dr. Heisler, roboticist, funds Project Human to advance the human race. After funding is diminished, he takes dra...
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Daedalus Book Reviews
Robert G. WilliscroftUsing a new Gryphon7 hardshell wingsuit, Tiger Baily, irreverent member of the Navy SEALS Winged Insertion Command, makes a harrowing first experimental base jump from the...
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The Cosmic Computer Book Reviews
H. Beam PiperPoictesme is a planet that served as a home base of the Third FleetArmy Force during the System States War. It was the general HQ and supply depot for the final attack of the enemy...
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The Last Man Book Reviews
James BaileyThe universe is dying, slowly each star is petering out until everything goes dark. The last civilisation has entrusted it's future to one ship searching for a planet that can...
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Any You Book Reviews
William BowdenA creature from another dimension had gotten into her head, eviscerated her mind, and gouged out her soul. Now physicist Rhoda Mollo finds herself where she'd really rather no...
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Mining Games Book Reviews
Steve S. GrantSpace mining is big business and corporations compete fiercely to exploit our solar system’s rich minerals. Spacial Alloy, a dominant firm on world markets, ruthlessly leads the pa...
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How to make Friends Book Reviews
Jim HarmonAmerican writer Jim Harmon tells a story about a lonely man stationed on Mars in this sciencefiction novella, originally published in the October 1962 issue of Galaxy magazine, wit...
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Surveillance Book Reviews
Aaron PogueJaneane Linson is dead, and the impossible has happened: Every detail of her murder has been erased. It's Special Agent Katie Pratt's first day with Ghost Targets, the di...
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Proceedings of The Sector 7 Institute of Low-Energy Physics Book Reviews
Michael SummersIn writing this story I was trying to imagine a totally different perspective on the universe, that of a lifeform based on nucleonic chemistry. The idea is not entirely new. Robert...
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The Contact Episode One Book Reviews
Albert SartisonThe ascendancy of mankind is being decided on Jupiter watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/gWYCcvlBD80 In the 22nd century, mankind assimilated the Solar System within the orbits of...
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Passages in the Void Book Reviews
Roger WilliamsThe first story in the universespanning Mortal Passage trilogy... Challenged to write a hard SF story set in a real universe where humanity faces every challenge the speed of light...
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Mother Book Reviews
Michael McDonaldSince the Great Calamity of February 14th, 2016, population rates have been dwindling. The cause: Mother Nature. A brilliant scientist juggles her relationships with her grouchy me...
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End Boss Book Reviews
Bryan NyaudeBarely 50 years passed after the 2940 Planetary War, leaving humanity on the brink of extinction. In a desperate attempt to stop another savage war from occurring, the nation gover...
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Memory Stick Book Reviews
Paul ComstockImagine a world where IQ means nothing. Where another measure, something called PQ, Potential Quotient, has replaced it, and where a person's worth is determined by this measu...
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Sexbot Book Reviews
Patrick QuinlanWhat if you could be immortal? And what if the price was to give up everything first, including your very life? Dr. Susan Jones is about to find out. A robotics scientist out of MI...
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We the People Book Reviews
ZEROIn the late 21st century, a neurotechnology called Bridge has changed the world. Bridging allows a person to program their own body and mind to achieve untold enhancement. There wa...
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Space Viking Book Reviews
H. Beam PiperLucas Trask is about to get married to the love of his life, Elaine. On his wedding day, Andray Dunnan, a demented suitor, who was under the delusion that Elaine loves him and that...
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A Great Discovery Book Reviews
Nicholas TonA journey to another world for a small reason, could mean the difference between life and death. These four men will face more then they would've ever wished to bargain for. W...
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Exodus Book Reviews
Andreas ChristensenA high tech space opera set in a dystopian future society where humanity faces its greatest challenge ever. Exodus is the first installment of the Exodus Trilogy. When mankind face...
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Resonance Book Reviews
A.J. ScudiereWhen the Earth’s magnetic poles begin trading places, four scientists will have to race against time to save humanity. Suspense and Scifi readers will love this page turner from a ...
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The Veil Book Reviews
William BowdenIs humanity friend or foe? War, industrialization, technological advancement. It is a common transitional period, one that provides ample opportunity for a species to destroy itsel...
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Sneakers Book Reviews
Angus BrownfieldKermit O’Doyle, a paraplegic, works as an analyst on the China desk of the CIA’s Economic Analysis Unit. He’s tasked with discovering why the Chinese are flooding the US with desig...
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Quantum Incident Book Reviews
Douglas PhillipsPrologue to the Quantum Series (1 Quantum Space, 2 Quantum Void and 3 Quantum Time) 2012. The long sought Higgs boson has been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. ...
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Ascent of the Aliomenti Book Reviews
Alex AlbrinckThe Aliomenti village is in ruins, destroyed by one of their own, its population nearly eliminated in the calamity. From the ruins, the Aliomenti rise to international prominence, ...
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Mind Machines Book Reviews
Dima ZalesFrom New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Dima Zales, an intense new technothriller that pushes the limits of what it means to be human.  With billions in...
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Stone of Eternity Book Reviews
Hylton SmithOn a rocky coastline in Norway, a strange discovery in the small village causes a cauldron of public protest. Subsequent analysis of the find brings into question the accepted hist...
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The Cassidy Chronicles Book Reviews
Adam GaffenStep into a thrilling world of survival, love, and selfdiscovery with "The Cassidy Chronicles." Aiyana Cassidy and Kendra FosterBriggs' wedding day takes a shocking ...
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The Tesla Secret, Book 1 Book Reviews
Mike WellsWhen a Stanford University physicist is kidnapped and whisked away to a topsecret research facility near Moscow, he finds that a Russian oligarch has developed a “free energy” mach...
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A Child Of Our Time Book Reviews
William BowdenA mind born out of innocence can be a terrifying weapon. And just such a mind has been found in the laboratories of the failed corporation Cantor Satori. A machinemind coveted by a...
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The Implant Book Reviews
Troy DennisonThe Implant was a piece of technological genius; a tiny microprocessor loaded with information that could be subdermally inserted against the skull. Overnigt it became the latest c...
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In Constant Contact Book Reviews
Tom LichtenbergThe good folks at World Weary Avengers are at it again. Now they've come up with a device that keeps you in continual contact with a "professional friend", someone g...
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A Prize for Edie Book Reviews
Jesse Franklin BoneThe Committee had, unquestionably, made a mistake. There was no doubt that Edie had achieved the longsought cancer cure ... but awarding the Nobel Prize was, nonetheless, a mistake...
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Bouncing High Above the World Book Reviews
Jim ClineOn a rainy day which had canceled out a glider training flight, the time was spent investigating an odd rectangle in the desert vegetation off the edge of an old runway. What they ...
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The Movie Maker Book Reviews
Chris TurnerA gifted university student develops an innovation to revolutionize the holographic film industry . . . Putting the power of filmproduction into the hands of the creators is good f...
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Any Now Book Reviews
William BowdenIf you go looking for something impossible , there is always the risk that you might actually find it. And for physicist Rhoda Mollo, finding such a something saw her banished to t...
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The Autumn Engagement Book Reviews
Stephen CoteWar is extinct. Baseball games are the preferred method to resolve disputes, and Janus Franko is a genetically engineered pitcher for the United States of North America national te...
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Horizons Book Reviews
Alex NolascoHorizons is a collection of scifi illustrations each containing memorable quotes from individuals found throughout history. Each illustration should remind us that the Earth is jus...
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The Waker Dreams Book Reviews
Richard MathesonThis sciencefiction novella by American writer Richard Matheson was first published in the December 1950 issue of Galaxy magazine, with illustrations by Paul Piérre.
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The Nexus Odyssey Book Reviews
Hylton SmithThe Nexus Odyssey is an epic journey of human exploration. Overpopulation and its attendant problems force colonisation of another planet. Having achieved this salvation, the relat...
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Terminal Connection Book Reviews
Dan NeedlesIn a setting reminiscent of THE MATRIX and in the manversesscience spirit of JURASSIC PARK, the players in this techno thriller novel move between reality and virtuality, finding d...
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A Question of Will Book Reviews
Alex AlbrinckThey murdered his wife and son. They burned down his house. They beat him within an inch of his life. And then they realized they had the wrong man. They should have killed him whe...
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Afk Book Reviews
Huckleberry HaxA Second Life® detective reflects on cases and confessions, on love, on anger, on understanding Second Life as perhaps the greatest liberator there has ever been, and on falling fo...
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The Extinction Switch Book Reviews
Andrew BroderickYoung Kassandra Nishimura is an heiress to trillions of dollars. While she is relaxing with friends, six billion people are instantly exterminated on the other side of the planet. ...
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THE COSMIC COMPUTER Book Reviews
H. Beam PiperThis is one of the best works  that Beam Piper ever wrote. He has a strong beliefs on both government and self defense. Get it book now.
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The Other Side of the Earth-The Alliance Book Reviews
Goran PrendjovIf you want real advanced technology translated into a novel where, in the same time, many of the historic events of humanity are explained, than this is the right book for you. Re...
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The God In The Clear Rock Book Reviews
Lucian RandolphIn 50 hours, the world as we know it will end! Like a celestial alarm clock, the sun is about to enter a cycle of giant storms that will decimate life on Earth and destroy our mode...
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Preserving Hope Book Reviews
Alex AlbrinckIt was his mission to save her life. But first... he'd need to convince her that hers was a life worth saving. Will Stark finds himself on a mission. He must use his new Energ...
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The Colors of Space Book Reviews
Marion Zimmer BradleyBart Steel is a graduate of the Space Academy and prepares to take over his father’s business, a fleet of spaceships for interstellar travel. In this future, humans and Lhari, an a...
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Wormhole Theater Book Reviews
Ed ThrushA personal journal of attending the wormhole theater reveals unforseen events. The theater allows views into the random past, but something happens...
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The Color of Silence Book Reviews
Mandy BroughtonAIMii is a stateoftheart robot caregiver, ready for any medical emergency. So when Lucee, her charge, succumbs to a terminal illness, AIMii is sent to find a cure. But as the AI st...
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Infiltration Book Reviews
James BaileyJohn is a prospector on the moon of Callisto. While on a surveying trip he finds a derelict ship at the bottom of a valley. Checking out the wreck he realises that this vessel has ...
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Unnatural Book Reviews
Anthony DiGiovanniIn the developed world, year 2062, the human body is obsolete. Those too poor to be rid of this handicap, such as wouldbe pathologist Dennis Uriah, are called Organics. Fed up with...
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The Divine Dissimulation Book Reviews
Martin LundqvistWhen God dies, A villain takes his place! In the distant future, the wealthy villain Abraham Goldstein funds a topsecret project to travel to heaven and meet God. Upon reaching hea...
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E-i-pi Book Reviews
David ThomasLast summer 14 year old Andy Green found an electronic game on a visit to a dinosaur dig. What he couldn’t know is that the game was lost 65 million years ago by a child from an al...
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The Trilisk Ruins Book Reviews
Michael McCloskeyTelisa Relachik studied to be a xenoarchaeologist in a future where humans study alien artifacts but haven't ever encountered live aliens. Of all the aliens whose extinct civi...
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The Searching Soul Book Reviews
Ronald ZastreGravity is the last force of nature yet to be discovered. We know it’s there, we know what it does. We know it’s necessary to the very existence of the Universe. We, however, have ...
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Deathforger Book Reviews
K.Z. FreemanSaul Gramatix knew it would come to this. He had foreseen it. The reason he knew wasn’t rooted in divination or prescience on his part. The reason was actually quite simple. He had...
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Arcadia Mars Book Reviews
Doug CookAfter thirteen months in space, the Aquila Mission’s crew has returned safely to find Earth in peril. Rising sea levels have already claimed hundreds of the world’s coastal communi...
Best Paid High Tech Books of 2024
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MARiiMO Book Reviews
Tyrel PinnegarThis is the journal of Tammy Maheswaran, a reclusive roboticist living with undiagnosed autism. It documents the creation of Mariimo, a developmental robotics platform through whic...
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After the Battle on Starship Hill Book Reviews
Vernor Vinge"After the Battle on Starship Hill" is more than 12000 words of prologue from Vernor Vinge's forthcoming novel, The Children of the Sky . Taking place on Tines World...
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Losing Human Book Reviews
Aaron DennisA man has a dream, a vision to see the world through eternal eyes. Dr. Heisler, roboticist, funds Project Human to advance the human race. After funding is diminished, he takes dra...
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Daedalus Book Reviews
Robert G. WilliscroftUsing a new Gryphon7 hardshell wingsuit, Tiger Baily, irreverent member of the Navy SEALS Winged Insertion Command, makes a harrowing first experimental base jump from the...
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The Cosmic Computer Book Reviews
H. Beam PiperPoictesme is a planet that served as a home base of the Third FleetArmy Force during the System States War. It was the general HQ and supply depot for the final attack of the enemy...
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The Last Man Book Reviews
James BaileyThe universe is dying, slowly each star is petering out until everything goes dark. The last civilisation has entrusted it's future to one ship searching for a planet that can...
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Any You Book Reviews
William BowdenA creature from another dimension had gotten into her head, eviscerated her mind, and gouged out her soul. Now physicist Rhoda Mollo finds herself where she'd really rather no...
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Mining Games Book Reviews
Steve S. GrantSpace mining is big business and corporations compete fiercely to exploit our solar system’s rich minerals. Spacial Alloy, a dominant firm on world markets, ruthlessly leads the pa...
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How to make Friends Book Reviews
Jim HarmonAmerican writer Jim Harmon tells a story about a lonely man stationed on Mars in this sciencefiction novella, originally published in the October 1962 issue of Galaxy magazine, wit...
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Surveillance Book Reviews
Aaron PogueJaneane Linson is dead, and the impossible has happened: Every detail of her murder has been erased. It's Special Agent Katie Pratt's first day with Ghost Targets, the di...
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Proceedings of The Sector 7 Institute of Low-Energy Physics Book Reviews
Michael SummersIn writing this story I was trying to imagine a totally different perspective on the universe, that of a lifeform based on nucleonic chemistry. The idea is not entirely new. Robert...
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The Contact Episode One Book Reviews
Albert SartisonThe ascendancy of mankind is being decided on Jupiter watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/gWYCcvlBD80 In the 22nd century, mankind assimilated the Solar System within the orbits of...
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Passages in the Void Book Reviews
Roger WilliamsThe first story in the universespanning Mortal Passage trilogy... Challenged to write a hard SF story set in a real universe where humanity faces every challenge the speed of light...
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Mother Book Reviews
Michael McDonaldSince the Great Calamity of February 14th, 2016, population rates have been dwindling. The cause: Mother Nature. A brilliant scientist juggles her relationships with her grouchy me...
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End Boss Book Reviews
Bryan NyaudeBarely 50 years passed after the 2940 Planetary War, leaving humanity on the brink of extinction. In a desperate attempt to stop another savage war from occurring, the nation gover...
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Memory Stick Book Reviews
Paul ComstockImagine a world where IQ means nothing. Where another measure, something called PQ, Potential Quotient, has replaced it, and where a person's worth is determined by this measu...
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Sexbot Book Reviews
Patrick QuinlanWhat if you could be immortal? And what if the price was to give up everything first, including your very life? Dr. Susan Jones is about to find out. A robotics scientist out of MI...
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We the People Book Reviews
ZEROIn the late 21st century, a neurotechnology called Bridge has changed the world. Bridging allows a person to program their own body and mind to achieve untold enhancement. There wa...
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Space Viking Book Reviews
H. Beam PiperLucas Trask is about to get married to the love of his life, Elaine. On his wedding day, Andray Dunnan, a demented suitor, who was under the delusion that Elaine loves him and that...
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A Great Discovery Book Reviews
Nicholas TonA journey to another world for a small reason, could mean the difference between life and death. These four men will face more then they would've ever wished to bargain for. W...
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Exodus Book Reviews
Andreas ChristensenA high tech space opera set in a dystopian future society where humanity faces its greatest challenge ever. Exodus is the first installment of the Exodus Trilogy. When mankind face...
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Resonance Book Reviews
A.J. ScudiereWhen the Earth’s magnetic poles begin trading places, four scientists will have to race against time to save humanity. Suspense and Scifi readers will love this page turner from a ...
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The Veil Book Reviews
William BowdenIs humanity friend or foe? War, industrialization, technological advancement. It is a common transitional period, one that provides ample opportunity for a species to destroy itsel...
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Sneakers Book Reviews
Angus BrownfieldKermit O’Doyle, a paraplegic, works as an analyst on the China desk of the CIA’s Economic Analysis Unit. He’s tasked with discovering why the Chinese are flooding the US with desig...
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Quantum Incident Book Reviews
Douglas PhillipsPrologue to the Quantum Series (1 Quantum Space, 2 Quantum Void and 3 Quantum Time) 2012. The long sought Higgs boson has been discovered at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. ...
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Ascent of the Aliomenti Book Reviews
Alex AlbrinckThe Aliomenti village is in ruins, destroyed by one of their own, its population nearly eliminated in the calamity. From the ruins, the Aliomenti rise to international prominence, ...
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Mind Machines Book Reviews
Dima ZalesFrom New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Dima Zales, an intense new technothriller that pushes the limits of what it means to be human.  With billions in...
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Stone of Eternity Book Reviews
Hylton SmithOn a rocky coastline in Norway, a strange discovery in the small village causes a cauldron of public protest. Subsequent analysis of the find brings into question the accepted hist...
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The Cassidy Chronicles Book Reviews
Adam GaffenStep into a thrilling world of survival, love, and selfdiscovery with "The Cassidy Chronicles." Aiyana Cassidy and Kendra FosterBriggs' wedding day takes a shocking ...
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The Tesla Secret, Book 1 Book Reviews
Mike WellsWhen a Stanford University physicist is kidnapped and whisked away to a topsecret research facility near Moscow, he finds that a Russian oligarch has developed a “free energy” mach...
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A Child Of Our Time Book Reviews
William BowdenA mind born out of innocence can be a terrifying weapon. And just such a mind has been found in the laboratories of the failed corporation Cantor Satori. A machinemind coveted by a...
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The Implant Book Reviews
Troy DennisonThe Implant was a piece of technological genius; a tiny microprocessor loaded with information that could be subdermally inserted against the skull. Overnigt it became the latest c...
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In Constant Contact Book Reviews
Tom LichtenbergThe good folks at World Weary Avengers are at it again. Now they've come up with a device that keeps you in continual contact with a "professional friend", someone g...
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A Prize for Edie Book Reviews
Jesse Franklin BoneThe Committee had, unquestionably, made a mistake. There was no doubt that Edie had achieved the longsought cancer cure ... but awarding the Nobel Prize was, nonetheless, a mistake...
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Bouncing High Above the World Book Reviews
Jim ClineOn a rainy day which had canceled out a glider training flight, the time was spent investigating an odd rectangle in the desert vegetation off the edge of an old runway. What they ...
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The Movie Maker Book Reviews
Chris TurnerA gifted university student develops an innovation to revolutionize the holographic film industry . . . Putting the power of filmproduction into the hands of the creators is good f...
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Any Now Book Reviews
William BowdenIf you go looking for something impossible , there is always the risk that you might actually find it. And for physicist Rhoda Mollo, finding such a something saw her banished to t...
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The Autumn Engagement Book Reviews
Stephen CoteWar is extinct. Baseball games are the preferred method to resolve disputes, and Janus Franko is a genetically engineered pitcher for the United States of North America national te...
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Horizons Book Reviews
Alex NolascoHorizons is a collection of scifi illustrations each containing memorable quotes from individuals found throughout history. Each illustration should remind us that the Earth is jus...
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The Waker Dreams Book Reviews
Richard MathesonThis sciencefiction novella by American writer Richard Matheson was first published in the December 1950 issue of Galaxy magazine, with illustrations by Paul Piérre.
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The Nexus Odyssey Book Reviews
Hylton SmithThe Nexus Odyssey is an epic journey of human exploration. Overpopulation and its attendant problems force colonisation of another planet. Having achieved this salvation, the relat...
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Terminal Connection Book Reviews
Dan NeedlesIn a setting reminiscent of THE MATRIX and in the manversesscience spirit of JURASSIC PARK, the players in this techno thriller novel move between reality and virtuality, finding d...
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A Question of Will Book Reviews
Alex AlbrinckThey murdered his wife and son. They burned down his house. They beat him within an inch of his life. And then they realized they had the wrong man. They should have killed him whe...
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Afk Book Reviews
Huckleberry HaxA Second Life® detective reflects on cases and confessions, on love, on anger, on understanding Second Life as perhaps the greatest liberator there has ever been, and on falling fo...
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The Extinction Switch Book Reviews
Andrew BroderickYoung Kassandra Nishimura is an heiress to trillions of dollars. While she is relaxing with friends, six billion people are instantly exterminated on the other side of the planet. ...
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THE COSMIC COMPUTER Book Reviews
H. Beam PiperThis is one of the best works  that Beam Piper ever wrote. He has a strong beliefs on both government and self defense. Get it book now.
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The Other Side of the Earth-The Alliance Book Reviews
Goran PrendjovIf you want real advanced technology translated into a novel where, in the same time, many of the historic events of humanity are explained, than this is the right book for you. Re...
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The God In The Clear Rock Book Reviews
Lucian RandolphIn 50 hours, the world as we know it will end! Like a celestial alarm clock, the sun is about to enter a cycle of giant storms that will decimate life on Earth and destroy our mode...
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Preserving Hope Book Reviews
Alex AlbrinckIt was his mission to save her life. But first... he'd need to convince her that hers was a life worth saving. Will Stark finds himself on a mission. He must use his new Energ...
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The Colors of Space Book Reviews
Marion Zimmer BradleyBart Steel is a graduate of the Space Academy and prepares to take over his father’s business, a fleet of spaceships for interstellar travel. In this future, humans and Lhari, an a...
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Wormhole Theater Book Reviews
Ed ThrushA personal journal of attending the wormhole theater reveals unforseen events. The theater allows views into the random past, but something happens...
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The Color of Silence Book Reviews
Mandy BroughtonAIMii is a stateoftheart robot caregiver, ready for any medical emergency. So when Lucee, her charge, succumbs to a terminal illness, AIMii is sent to find a cure. But as the AI st...
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Infiltration Book Reviews
James BaileyJohn is a prospector on the moon of Callisto. While on a surveying trip he finds a derelict ship at the bottom of a valley. Checking out the wreck he realises that this vessel has ...
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Unnatural Book Reviews
Anthony DiGiovanniIn the developed world, year 2062, the human body is obsolete. Those too poor to be rid of this handicap, such as wouldbe pathologist Dennis Uriah, are called Organics. Fed up with...
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The Divine Dissimulation Book Reviews
Martin LundqvistWhen God dies, A villain takes his place! In the distant future, the wealthy villain Abraham Goldstein funds a topsecret project to travel to heaven and meet God. Upon reaching hea...
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E-i-pi Book Reviews
David ThomasLast summer 14 year old Andy Green found an electronic game on a visit to a dinosaur dig. What he couldn’t know is that the game was lost 65 million years ago by a child from an al...
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The Trilisk Ruins Book Reviews
Michael McCloskeyTelisa Relachik studied to be a xenoarchaeologist in a future where humans study alien artifacts but haven't ever encountered live aliens. Of all the aliens whose extinct civi...
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The Searching Soul Book Reviews
Ronald ZastreGravity is the last force of nature yet to be discovered. We know it’s there, we know what it does. We know it’s necessary to the very existence of the Universe. We, however, have ...
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Deathforger Book Reviews
K.Z. FreemanSaul Gramatix knew it would come to this. He had foreseen it. The reason he knew wasn’t rooted in divination or prescience on his part. The reason was actually quite simple. He had...
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Arcadia Mars Book Reviews
Doug CookAfter thirteen months in space, the Aquila Mission’s crew has returned safely to find Earth in peril. Rising sea levels have already claimed hundreds of the world’s coastal communi...