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When a particle research lab is suddenly cut off from the rest of the world, journalism student Chase Adkins and the others trapped inside must band together to survive and try to find a way out. But as more inexplicable things start happening around the lab, will the growing tension turn them against each other? Why doesn't anyone remember the time between 12:26 and 1am?
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If Chairman Mao came back to life today, what would he think of Nanjings bookstore, the Librairie Avant-Garde, where it is easier to find primers on Michel Foucaults philosophy than copies of the Little Red Book? What does it really mean to order a latte at Starbucks in Beijing? Is it possible that Aldous Huxley wrote a novel even more useful than Orwells 1984 for making sense of post-Tiananmen Chinaor post-9/11 America?
In these often playful, always...
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When changing times force tween girl Kristen to leave the city for the countryside, she struggles to deal with school friends and a handsome young ranch hand. But Kristen finds comfort in a new friend: a horse! By chatting telepathically with her faithful bronco Stanford, Kristen gains the confidence she needs to face the brave new world of adolescence. Starring Patrick Muldoon and Catherine Bach, MY BEST FRIEND shows that true pals come in all shapes...
5) We
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In a utopian future society, where all social unrest has been engineered away, a man has an awakening. Starting as a happy worker drone, he meets a woman who reveals to him the reality of life outside the state's control - the glories of chaotic nature in the world and in the heart. They become entwined with a conspiracy against the state, and eventually try to escape beyond the walls of the state's control... only to meet betrayal, failure, and a...
6) Clone Ladies
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In Clone Ladies, dive into a near-future where medical advancements have made cloning not just possible, but commonplace. As technology evolves, it's not just organs that are replicated – entire humans can now be duplicated, possessing the same abilities, thoughts, memories, and skills as their originals. While this brave new world promises enhanced happiness and longevity, it also introduces unprecedented challenges. What does it mean to be truly...
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They said goodbye months ago, but he can't seem to walk away from her or her twin babies in this contemporary romance by a USA Today–bestselling author.
Delivering his ex-fiancée's twins in a snowstorm is a brave new world for innovator Royce Miller. Despite the pain in their past, he's driven to protect Naomi Steele and her babies. That means facing the mistakes they both made-and resisting the heat they still can't deny. Will forgiveness lead...
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Metaphysics explores the abstract concepts of space, time, and perception, and dwells in the amazing power of our own minds. This abstract, world-bending, psychedelic guide to metaphysical living is a mission statement for anyone who wishes to push the boundaries of consciousness with exciting esoteric knowledge of all varieties. Maggie Wilson introduces listeners to quantum theory, astral tripping, and plant spirit medicine, among many other studies...
9) Repo Men
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In a brave new world, you'll never have to die . . . as long as you keep up with the payments.
Thanks to the technological miracle of artiforgs, now you can live virtually forever. Nearly indestructible artificial organs, these wonders of metal and plastic are far more reliable and efficient than the cancer-prone lungs and fallible kidneys you were born with-and the Credit Union will be delighted to work out an equitable payment plan. But, of course,...
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This short story collection by the author of Brave New World features a novella that "stands among Huxley's most ingenious inventions" (Los Angeles Review of Books).
In "Two or Three Graces," the title novella of this collection, Aldous Huxley offers a virtuoso performance of narrative structure and character development. Beginning in Paris, music critic Dick Wilkes meets a succession of terribly entertaining bores as he travels to England. But after...
11) The Naked Law
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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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Across 1400 years and six continents (sorry, Australia), Impossible Histories examines pivotal moments in history from both sides-what happened and what would have happened had things gone differently. The results are by turns strange, hilarious, tragic…and always fascinating.
Imagine a world in which...
- Hitler builds a thousand-year Reich
- Columbus gets driven from the Americas by mounted knights
- Robespierre decapitates Caesar Augustus
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13) Dechipped: Maria
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He was the most skillful manipulator she ever met. Now she just needs to remember how he did it.
Long ago, before the war that took her life, Maria served as the driver and bodyguard for a man named Sebastian King. Charming, manipulative, and ruthless, Sebastian had taken her on the strangest of road trips – visiting cult leaders from one end of the country to the other. She didn't understand what he was doing at the time, but she needs to remember...
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From bestselling author John Crace comes a blisteringly hilarious tour through the whirlwind of post-Brexit Britain, from the ousting of Boris to the dawn of a new era . . . sort of.
O brave new world, that has such people in't. Or not. William Shakespeare clearly had never imagined a clusterf*ck on this scale. Given the state of the country right now, he would be in need of a long lie down.
Another month, another prime minister - how many have we...
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Seeing Through the Game of Life is a practical guide to spiritual enlightenment that includes sixteen powerful practice ideas on how to awaken to your authentic self, satisfy the self-fulfilling prophecy of enlightenment, discover the ultimate truth of your existence, see through your thoughts, stories, and projections . . . and cultivate mystical experiences that lead to enlightened living in a brave new world."Seeing through the game of life is...
16) AI Enlightenment
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In 2043, in an epoch of impasse where humanity teeters on the brink of extinction, groundbreaking discovery birth a new species of super-intelligent beings-the Genetechs. As they flourish and evolve, the lines between man and machine blur, transforming the world in ways we never imagined possible."AI Enlightenment" takes you on a gripping journey, from the humble beginnings of AI technology to the creation of sentient beings and the astonishing rise...
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An old-fashioned adventure of the future... It's a not-so-brave new world. Corporations rule humanity. The world is a bleak and unkind place. But then the Mitoc, powerful aliens from the distant reaches of the universe, came and things got worse. Humans found themselves unable to resist the Mitoc's call. Like sheep, they climbed aboard the vast alien spaceships, to be shipped off to the stars to fight the alien race's war for them. To die for them.Because...
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When the introduction of brothels manned by AI-powered sex robots threaten the profitability of the world's oldest profession, the street girls decide it's time to fight for their future and bring the punters back where they belong: between their legs. Hatching a drastic plan to ensure the Johns turn against erotic automatons, the whores take on the brave new world and inadvertently unleash a battle for survival as technology's finest refuse to take...
19) Doppelgangers
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A spiritual sequel to Brave New World, this dystopian novel of psychological horror is a landmark early work of hard science fiction. In the years since the psychological revolution unlocked man's consciousness, civilization has split into two halves. The people of the surface bow at the foot of Alpha, an all-powerful dictator who satisfies their every whim and uses his limitless might to keep his subjects as docile as children. But beneath the...
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Genetic science is about to radically alter our lives. Sooner than you can imagine, human beings will be capable of diagnosing their own illnesses, designating the sex of their children, even designing the food they eat -- all as easily as using a cell phone. Now is the time for every one of us to take control of our DNA, and one man is uniquely qualified to show us how: Glenn McGee, bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania, pioneer in the study...