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1) Flux
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English
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Brandon experiences his reality unraveling when he begins losing chunks of time and finding himself in an apartment he doesn't recognize, and starts to suspect his new employers have discovered time travel and are covering up violent crimes.
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2023.
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English
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"A college grad with the six-figure debt to prove it, Ethan Block views San Francisco as the place to be. Yet his job at hot new dating app DateDate is a far cry from what he envisioned. Instead of making the world a better place, he reviews flagged photoqueues, overworked and stressed out. But that's about to change. Reeling from a breakup, Ethan decides to view his algorithmically matched soulmate on DateDate. He overrides the system and clicks...
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Centenal cycle volume 3
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English
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The future of democracy must evolve or die. The last time Information held an election, a global network outage, two counts of sabotage by major world governments, and a devastating earthquake almost shook micro-democracy apart. Five years later, it's time to vote again, and the system that has ensured global peace for 25 years is more vulnerable than ever. Unknown enemies are attacking Information's network infrastructure. Spies, former superpowers,...
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Luna novels (Ian McDonald) volume 1
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English
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"The Moon wants to kill you. Whether it's being unable to pay your per diem for your allotted food, water, and air, or you just get caught up in a fight between the Moon's ruling corporations, the Five Dragons. You must fight for every inch you want to gain in the Moon's near feudal society. And that is just what Adriana Corta did. As the leader of the Moon's newest "dragon," Adriana has wrested control of the Moon's Helium-3 industry from the Mackenzie...
5) Infomocracy
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Centenal cycle volume 1
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English
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"It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority is in tight contention, and everything's on the line."--Front jacket flap.
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Luna novels (Ian McDonald) volume 2
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English
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Eighteen months after the fall of Corta Helio, one of the five family corporations that rule the Moon, shifting loyalties and political machinations between the families lead toward outright war, even as some suspect that Lucas Corta is not dead and still in the game.
7) Appleseed
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English
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"In the vein of Neal Stephenson and Jeff VanderMeer, an epic speculative novel from Young Lions Fiction Award-finalist Matt Bell, a breakout book that explores climate change, manifest destiny, humanity's unchecked exploitation of natural resources, and the small but powerful magic contained within every single apple." --
8) Firebreak
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English
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"New Liberty City, 2134. Two corporations have replaced the US, splitting the country's remaining forty-five states (five have been submerged under the ocean) between them: Stellaxis Innovations and Greenleaf. There are nine supercities within the continental US, and New Liberty City is the only amalgamated city split between the two megacorps, and thus at a perpetual state of civil war as the feeds broadcast the atrocities committed by each side....
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"Meet Mat, a tortured mercenary who has become the perfect shot, and Silvia, an idealistic woman genetically engineered to murder you to death. Together they run from the shadiest corporation in the world...and realize their messed-up brain chemistry cannot overpower their very real chemistry."--
10) The company man
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In 1919, the McNaughton Corporation is the pinnacle of American industry, sitting at the center of a shining metropolis full of the best the world has to offer. But something is rotten in the heart of the city: an underground trolley car pulls into a station with eleven dead union members inside, all seen boarding at a different station just four minutes before. Now Cyril Hayes must suss out the dark secret behind the inventions of McNaughton and...
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