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Two enthralling novels by Robert Silverberg about a future in which the minds of the living can be changed for a price—often with dire consequences
In To Live Again, thanks to the Scheffing Institute, death is not the end. For a hefty fee, the soul bank stores the personas of those who have died and inserts them into the brains of willing, living hosts. It’s a process that integrates the two minds, imbuing the host with...
In To Live Again, thanks to the Scheffing Institute, death is not the end. For a hefty fee, the soul bank stores the personas of those who have died and inserts them into the brains of willing, living hosts. It’s a process that integrates the two minds, imbuing the host with...
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Issue 8 of FUTURE SF is themed Medical SF and guest-edited by RM Ambrose.Table of contents: "Second Generation" by Julie Nováková (Czech Republic)"Panoptes" by Eliza Victoria (Philippines)"Keloid Dreams" by Simone Heller (Germany)"Chrysalis" by David Brin (USA)"The Post-Conscious Age" by Su Min (China) translated by Nathan Faries Non-fiction: The Other Reel review column by Paul Levinson
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Be careful what you're thinking, for you don't know who might be listening. Following a tragic loss, Tamara Hellman needed closure. Various options she tried to seek assistance and support at her time of distress only made her more agitated, and prompted more questions.A benevolent supernatural extra-terrestrial entity dialled in on her questioning thought waves, and provided her with the only thing that could bring her complete closure.Be careful...
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In an untamed garden, a woman discovers the price of freedom Aniya is a perfect creature. Using the power of the Net, she has banished all of her painful memories, allowing herself to live in a state of perfect contentment on a far-future Earth. In order to have companions, she creates two eidolons-living beings imprinted with all of Aniya's thoughts, feelings, and desires. Of the two creatures, Orielna is happy to live in her creator's shadow, but...
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"The twenty-first century, it's often remarked, will transform our knowledge of biology, in the same way that the twentieth century transformed physics. With knowledge of course, comes application. And with the application of all we are learning about genetic engineering come social and ethical questions, some of them knotty.
This is where science fiction enters, stage left. Scientific laboratories are where the new technologies are rehearsed. Science...
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This story was nominated for the 2012 Hugo and Nebula awards.
When her concerned parents investigate a treatment that could change her life forever, Hannah's world is thrown into turmoil. Unable to speak - at least not in ways most people can understand - Hannah struggles to face the question of who she really is, and who she wishes to become.
Originally published in the March 2011 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, "Movement" was marked...
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Cities are alive, shared by humans and animals, insects and plants, landforms and machines. What might city ecosystems look like in the future if we strive for multispecies justice in our urban settings? In these more-than-human stories, twenty-four authors investigate humanity's relationship with the rest of the natural world, placing characters in situations where humans have to look beyond their own needs and interests. A quirky eco-businessman...
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Sue had been though a world of pain already.
Surviving re-entry to this planet in a powerless escape pod. Learning to speak with telepathic canines that had become the dominant sentient beings on Earth. Finding she could shape-shift and cause illusions.
She brought the end to a civil war between their pack and those nearby. Peace on Earth - at least this little part.
By learning only a tiny bit of the unknown skills she possessed.
One warm summer's...
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Bett the hacker gets a personalized message on a computer he just broke into. J-Red the streamer accepts a mobster's job offer to get his belongings out of repo. Pairs of packages and pizzas arrive at the doorstep of recently unemployed Kiran.The cyberpunk world of Galleria Valley runs on corporate greed, shady mob deals, and bionic enhancements. No one survives long when playing by the rules.Let these short stories be the neon lights that guide your...
10) Schismatrix plus
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A breathtaking journey through a far-future universe in which the adherents of technological bodily enhancements violently clash with believers in genetic manipulation, from one of the godfathers of cyberpunk In the generations since humanity first began to spread itself throughout the universe, schisms have torn the race asunder. In the future, as in the past, extreme ideological differences have set man against man, causing serious tensions and...
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This fifth book in a series of short story collection brings together science fiction themes such as genetic engineering, gene altering viruses and the consequences of hunting alien monsters in the dark. These stand-alone stories occur in the same universe as Neil Mosspark's novels, shedding light on unseen characters and pivotal events. Explore the consequences of vat-grown children in Child_2.0. Observe a fisherman hunting the Kraken inside the...
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The Status Civilization is a science fiction novel by Robert Sheckley, first published in 1960. The story is set in a future society where crime and punishment are quite different from our contemporary understanding. The novel follows the journey of Will Barrent, a man who wakes up with no memory and is informed that he is a criminal who has been convicted of a terrible crime. As Barrent tries to understand his predicament and piece together his past,...
13) Tragic Fools
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Our Heroine is a hot mess of emerging abilities and inappropriate behaviour. The Daughters of Seth Prophecy is underway, and every dark entity out there is trying to stop it. It's a gong show of sexy pulse-racing, bust a gut laughing mishaps embracing their afterlife duties while gaining powers. Attachments cause drama as Ankh awaits a birth to begin training the next group of Correction survivours for their Immortal Testing. You'll be on the edge...
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Leave the safety of your space capsule for the dangers of billion-year old alien derelicts, intelligent insects with mysterious motives, espionage in an alternate 1920s Paris, and rogue reconstructed dinosaurs. These wonders and more await in the fourth volume of the Complete Science Fiction Stories of Raymund Eich. Includes stories Riddlepigs and the Cryla, Minnie and the Trekker, A Fistful of Monopoles, and Return Blessing, and speculative fact...
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The exciting two-part conclusion of The Awakening: Mutts Like Me series! Phoebe, Alison, and Marti will have to pull together with the other Mutts, as well as new allies, to save their loved ones from the Awakened. This volume includes both REBELS RESET and REBEL ALLIANCE.
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Four Piers Anthony novellas in one ebook: The thrilling science fiction saga of a female robot who becomes sentient and ultimately saves humanity from destruction With nearly two hundred published works and more than twenty New York Times bestsellers to his credit, Piers Anthony is without a doubt one of the most prolific and creative authors in science fiction and fantasy. Among his most ingenious literary creations are the four books of his remarkable...
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The Martians Are Coming! Together in one volume for the first time-H.G. Wells's seminal science fiction classic The War of the Worlds, with the contemporaneous, unauthorized, but extremely popular sequel Edison's Conquest of Mars, as well as Wells's own, much later conceptual sequel, Star Begotten. How often do you watch the sky at night? Ever see bright streaks of light exploding from the red planet? Get ready for adventurous reading as you embark...
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Discover dark matter's secrets… What is an AI's true role? Will bumbling siblings find their way home from deep space? Dark matter is judging us-are we worthy of existence? Would you step through a portal into another reality? Can the discoverer of dark matter uncover its secrets? Ten authors explore dark matter, unraveling its secrets and revealing its mysterious nature. Featuring the talents of Stephanie Espinoza Villamor, C.D. Gallant-King, Tara...
19) Untimely
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A plane crashed.A life cut short.Or was it? Imagine waking up to find out that you are not whom you thought you were? One morning Paul Harding wakes up to find out that he's a family man with a wife Zofia. But for the life of him, he can't remember ever getting married, let alone having two boisterous kids. A feeling which made him feel like he didn't belong in his current life, but belonged in another life somewhere else, with someone else, Leila.As...
20) Paingod
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Perhaps a mooring cable might also be added as necessary equipment for reading these eight wonderful stories. They not only knock you down . . . they raise you to the stars. Passion is the keynote as you encounter the Harlequin and his nemesis, the dreaded Tictockman, in one of the most reprinted and widely taught stories in the English language; a pyretic who creates fire merely by willing it; the last surgeon in a world of robot physicians; a spaceship...
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