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Synners (S.F. MASTERWORKS)
by Pat CadiganIn Synners, the line between technology and humanity is hopelessly slim. To be a Synner is to join the online hardcore, an outlaw band of hackers, simulation pirates, and reality synthesizers hooked on artificial reality and virtual space. Now you can change yourself to suit the machines - all it costs you is your freedom, and your humanity.Synners shows us a world perilously close to our own. A constant stream of new technology spawns new crime before it hits the streets, and the human mind and the external landscape have fused to the point where any encounter with "reality" is incidental. Equal parts thrill-ride and cautionary tale, this classic novel by the Queen of Cyberpunk offers us a terrifying glimpse into the future of our race.Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for best novel, 1992
Syns: Muito além dos sonhos
by Cyril Sagot“Alguns acontecimentos nos marcam para sempre. Não estou falando da morte de alguém próximo, de um nascimento tão esperado, de um casamento tão desejado. Não; penso principalmente nessa chance que se manifesta quando não a esperamos mais, nessa pessoa que encontramos em um local bem específico e em circunstâncias curiosas [...] Essas situações que, às vezes insignificantes aos olhos dos outros, tocam-nos bem lá no fundo de nós mesmos. [...] Foi o que aconteceu comigo há alguns meses, em março, por ocasião de minhas breves estadias na capital. Eu estava terminando meu mestrado...” Sonhos de um realismo surpreendente vinham perturbar as noites de Vincent Vermont. Sua vida de estudante estremece enquanto ele se interroga sobre a enigmática Lilwen, que assombra seus sonhos. Quem é ela? De onde ela vem? Por que ela foge da polícia? E, principalmente, ela existe realmente? Quando os sonhos tornam-se pesadelos, Vincent está mais do que nunca determinado a encontrá-la. Uma busca que o levará a se conhecer melhor. A compreender por que, diferentemente de seus colegas de classe, ele tem dificuldades para se adaptar aos novos métodos de ensino. A descobrir o objetivo dos testes de inteligência a que o excêntrico professor Lassale submetia seus alunos. Pois Vincent não sabe, mas ele também é um Syn.
Synthajoy
by D.G. ComptonEdward Cadence was a brilliant man, and a dedicated scientist. He had invented Sensitape, a means of recording the thoughts and emotions of great musicians, religious figures, etc. so that others could experience at first-hand just what it was like to play a magnificent concerto, or to slip peacefully toward an untroubled death with the sure expectation that Heaven lies waiting. And he had added Sexitape, whereby people whose sex lives weren't completely satisfying could experience everything that the most compatible couple in the world felt together.For all this he was given the Nobel Prize, became enormously wealthy and famous.But finally he set to work on the ultimate application of his experiments: Synthajoy. And when the enormity of this dehumanising process became clear, he was murdered.
Synthajoy (Gateway Essentials #176)
by D.G. ComptonEdward Cadence was a brilliant man, and a dedicated scientist. He had invented Sensitape, a means of recording the thoughts and emotions of great musicians, religious figures, etc. so that others could experience at first-hand just what it was like to play a magnificent concerto, or to slip peacefully toward an untroubled death with the sure expectation that Heaven lies waiting. And he had added Sexitape, whereby people whose sex lives weren't completely satisfying could experience everything that the most compatible couple in the world felt together.For all this he was given the Nobel Prize, became enormously wealthy and famous.But finally he set to work on the ultimate application of his experiments: Synthajoy. And when the enormity of this dehumanising process became clear, he was murdered.
Synthesis and Other Virtual Realities
by Mary Rosenblum"A major new talent ... one of the strongest debuts in recent science-fiction history, " wrote Lucuis Shepard not long ago about emergent superstar Mary Rosenblum. And just as Shepard himself was the most powerful new short-story writer of the previous decade, so has Ms. Rosenblum come forth as a compelling voice in the 1990s in a sequence of nouvelles, set primarily within the near-future West Coast, exploring the persistence of humanity amid a nightmarish landscape of desiccated ecologies, disintegrating societies, and bewildering techniques: "Water Bringer, " "Entrada, " "The Centaur Garden, " "Second Chance, " "Synthesis, " "Flood Tide, " "The Rain Stone, " and "Stairway. "
Syphon's Song
by Anise RaeMayflower Mages, #1 Legends say a syphon can drain a mage dry. He'll brave the danger. Will she? Someone's playing pranks. The body of the late Casteel patriarch has been stolen and gifted to the family's enemy, the powerful Rallises. As far as Bronte Casteel is concerned, they can keep it. She hasn't spoken to her family in thirteen years, not since they exiled her from society for her lack of mage power. But she's a syphon mage, able drain another mage's power. Syphons' destinies are always the same: death by fiery stake. She hides her secret by living among the Nons--powerless humans and the lowest class in the Republic. When her family orders her to go plead for the body's return, she comes face to face with the one man who knows her secret. Colonel Vincent Rallis isn't letting his syphon get away this time. Not when she's under suspicion of body-napping and aiding anti-mage terrorists. He'll prove her innocence whether she wants him to or not, and then convince her they belong together...forever. Vincent's help comes with a steep price: Bronte must reveal her power. The inevitable ensuing witch-hunt and trial would be bad enough, but even a tough girl might buckle if her prosecutors are her own parents. CONTENT WARNING: Hot, steamy nights with the colonel's magic touch98,387 Words
Syren: Book One: Magyk, Book Two: Flyte, Book Three: Physik, Book Four: Queste, Book Five: Syren, Book Six: Darke, Book Seven: Fyre, The Magykal Papers, The Darke Toad (Septimus Heap #5)
by Angie Sage Mark ZugIn this fifth book in the Magykal series, Septimus ends up on a captivatingly beautiful island, one of seven set in a sparkling sea. He's stranded there with his badly injured dragon, Spit Fyre, along with Jenna and Beetle. There are some strange things about the island, including a Magykal girl named Syrah, a cat-shaped lighthouse that has lost its Light, and an eerie presence that sings to Septimus--can he escape the persistent call? Trouble is also brewing for Lucy and Wolf Boy, who have become entangled with some nefarious sailors at sea, and for Milo Banda, Jenna's father, who is harboring a mysterious treasure chest in his ship's hold. Charismatic storyteller Angie Sage continues Septimus Heap's Magykal journey with more laugh-out-loud adventures, more enchanting charms and spells, and an ever-deepening understanding of the interior life of a young hero.
System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries #7)
by Martha WellsA New York Times Bestseller.A Washington Post Bestseller.A USA Today Bestseller.Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series.Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there’s an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can’t have the planet, they’re sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize.But there’s something wrong with Murderbot; it isn’t running within normal operational parameters. ART’s crew and the humans from Preservation are doing everything they can to protect the colonists, but with Barish-Estranza’s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams, they’re going to have to hope Murderbot figures out what’s wrong with itself, and fast!Yeah, this plan is... not going to work.The Murderbot DiariesAll Systems RedArtificial ConditionRogue ProtocolExit StrategyNetwork EffectFugitive TelemetrySystem CollapseAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
System Failure (Epic Failure Trilogy #3)
by Joe ZiejaWar is spreading through the galaxy—and it’s becoming abundantly clear that there’s an outside force at play in this explosive and hilarious new installment of the Epic Failure series that reads like Catch-22 meets David Weber. With the galaxy thrown into chaos by mutual breaches of the Two Hundred Years’ peace, what seemed like an isolated incident on the Thelicosa/Merida border has become an epidemic. In the midst of this chaos, the Thelicosan and Meridan fleets on their respective borders have come to a sort of tense peace after the events in Book II but now it’s clear: somebody wants war. And it’s not the Free Systems of the galaxy. No. It’s a mom-and-pop convenience store gone galactic. It’s the purveyors of balloons and nachos and supplies for bowling lanes. It’s the company that made the droids and a large part of the technology that all of the Free Systems are using in their militaries. It’s Snaggardirs. And they want to snag it all.
System Overload: Herobrine?s Revenge Book Three (A Gameknight999 Adventure): An Unofficial Minecrafter?s Adventure (Gameknight999 Series #Bk. 3)
by Mark ChevertonThe Minecraft server is at risk of a devastating crash!Glitches are appearing across the Minecraft server. Blocks are flickering unexpectedly and randomly disappearing. To make matters worse, villagers are claiming that their entire villages have mysteriously vanished, and they desperately need Gameknight999’s help. What’s causing the server to overload and glitch, and where have all the NPCs gone? The User-that-is-not-a-user suspects the two questions are related, and that somehow Herobrine’s henchmen are responsible.So Gameknight999 and his friends travel deep underground, facing some of the largest monster armies ever assembled as they search for a way to avoid the end of Minecraft as they know it. But his enemies have hatched their most diabolical plan yet, and Gameknight will have to risk everything to save his friends.Sky Pony Press, with our Good Books, Racehorse and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of books for young readers-picture books for small children, chapter books, books for middle grade readers, and novels for young adults. Our list includes bestsellers for children who love to play Minecraft; stories told with LEGO bricks; books that teach lessons about tolerance, patience, and the environment, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Systemic Shock
by Dean IngWhen China and India join forces to launch a nuclear strike against the United States, one young man discovers, in the chaos that follows, that the only people who can survive in the new world order of the 1990s are killers.
Systems from Hell: Problem Definition and the Literary Portrayal of Failure in Our Public Policy and Social Institutions (SUNY series in New Political Science)
by David A. RochefortThis book approaches contemporary fiction as a medium for policy advocacy, one whose narrative devices both link it to, and distinguish it from, other forms of public discourse. Using the framework of political agenda setting, David A. Rochefort analyzes the rhetorical function of problem definition played by literary works when they document and characterize social issues while sounding the call for systemic reform. Focusing on a group of noteworthy realist novels by American authors over the past twenty years, this study maintains that fictional narrative is a potentially influential instrument of "empathic policy argument." The book closes by examining the agenda-setting dynamics through which a social problem novel can contribute to the process of policy change.
Sythid the Spider Crab: Book 17 (Sea Quest #17)
by Adam BladeA precious Merryn treasure map has been stolen, and it becomes clear that the dreaded pirate Red Eye is involved. But who is Red Eye, and what will happen if he finds all four treasures? Max and Lia must stop him!The first thrilling adventure in Sea Quest Series 5: The Chaos Quadrant. Look out for Brux the Tusked Terror, Venor the Sea Scorpion and Monoth the Spiked Destroyer!
Syzygy
by Michael G. ConeyOnce every fifty-two years Arcadia's six erratic moons come together in a constellation that plays havoc with the ecological balance of the planet.As a marine biologist at Riverside Research Centre, Mark Swindon is chiefly concerned about the effect of catastrophic tides on his precious fish pens.Then, without warning, a wave of seemingly motiveless violence sweeps through the normally sleepy colony - and Mark too feels himself drawn against his will into a mysterious cycle of death and rebirth.
Syzygy
by Michael G. ConeyOnce every fifty-two years Arcadia's six erratic moons come together in a constellation that plays havoc with the ecological balance of the planet.As a marine biologist at Riverside Research Centre, Mark Swindon is chiefly concerned about the effect of catastrophic tides on his precious fish pens.Then, without warning, a wave of seemingly motiveless violence sweeps through the normally sleepy colony - and Mark too feels himself drawn against his will into a mysterious cycle of death and rebirth.
Sátiro de las Sombras (Los Sátiros Malditos #3)
by Rebekah LewisUna historia de amor entre una ninfa y un sátiro...y el dios celoso que los separó. Hace mucho tiempo, una ninfa se enamoró de un simple mortal destinado a convertirse en un heroe legendario. Hasta que los dioses decidieron separarlos y tentar al destino. Todos han oido la historia de Daphne y Apolo, de su transformación en un árbol de laurel para escapar de su obsesion. Si tan solo fuera tan simple. Prisionera por miles de años, Daphne está cerca de la muerte hasta que alguien la rescata en el último minuto del Olimpo y la regresa con Melancton, el sátiro que ama. Melancton siempre ha preferido estar solo en las sombras y con apariencia estoica. Solo Daphne puede ser la luz en su oscuridad, y ahora que ha regresado, el miedo de perderla lo agita. Con grave peligro acechando en el horizonte, Melancton y los sátiros de El Aegean Inn se preparan para la batalla, pero la suerte no está de su lado. Mientras, Apolo enlista la ayuda de Dionisio en su determinación de recuperar a Daphne y castigar a los responsables de su desaparición. ¿Es posible sobrevivir a la furia de los dioses?
Sânge Bun
by Edwin Marian Badea Lorenzo CrescentiniCe secrete sunt ascunse între zidurile de la L1M4, institutul de cercetare care încearcă să salveze rasa umană pusă in pericol de răspândirea unei epidemii devastatoare? Cine este Dr. Masott? Între maimuțe antropomorfe și viruși înfometați, un băiat se pregătește să susțină cel mai important interviu din viața sa. Povestire clasificată pe locul al doilea la Premiul National pentru literatura stiințifico-fantastică "Kataris".
Sèrie Ninja Kid 10 - Herois Ninja! (Sèrie Ninja Kid #Volumen 10)
by Anh DoDESCOBREIX EL NINJA QUE PORTES DINS AMB L'HEROI MÉS DIVERTIT! En Nelson i en Kenny estan assajant per representar L'OBRA DE TEATRE DE L'ESCOLA. Però gràcies al nou invent de l'àvia, sense voler fan que tots els personatges cobrin VIDA! Podran tornar a ficar-los dins del llibre abans que la ciutat caigui a les mans d'un sorollós EXÈRCIT DE MOSQUITS GEGANTS?!
Sèrie Ninja Kid 11 - Ninges artistes! (Sèrie Ninja Kid #Volumen 11)
by Anh DoDESCOBREIX EL NINJA QUE PORTES DINS AMB L'HEROI MÉS DIVERTIT! La classe d’en Nelson prepara un CONCURS D’ART! Però, per error, en Nelson i el seu cosí Kenny, en lloc de PINTAR criatures mítiques als seus quadres, acaben havent-hi de LLUITAR. I ara, com aconseguiran SORTIR-SE’N, els nostres herois?
Sèrie Ninja Kid 8 - Quissos ninja! (Sèrie Ninja Kid #Volumen 8)
by Anh DoDESCOBREIX EL NINJA QUE PORTES DINS AMB L'HEROI MÉS DIVERTIT! Que estrany... Tots els animals de la ciutat HAN DESAPAREGUT! Per sort, amb l'últim invent de l'àvia, en Nelson i en Kenny poden ensumar les trifulgues CONVERTINT-SE EN GOSSOS! Però com s'ho faran per trobar els animals si no poden parar de JUGAR A CÓRRER DARRERE UN BASTÓ?!
Séance Tea Party: (A Graphic Novel)
by Reimena YeeLora wants to stay a kid forever, and she'll do anything to make that happen . . . including befriending Alexa, the ghost who haunts her house. A middle-grade graphic novel about growing up that's perfect for fans of Ghosts and Making Friends. Growing up sounds terrible. No one has time to do anything fun, or play outside, or use their imagination. Everything is suddenly so serious. People are more interested in their looks and what others think about them than having fun adventures. Who wants that? Not Lora. After watching her circle of friends seemingly fade away, Lora is determined to still have fun on her own. A tea party with a twist leaves Lora to re-discovering Alexa, the ghost that haunts her house -- and Lora's old imaginary friend! Lora and Alexa are thrilled to meet kindred spirits and they become best friends . . . but unfortunately, not everything can last forever. Reimena Yee brings to life a story about growing up, childhood, and what it means to let go. A fantastical story following lovable characters as they each realize what it means to be who you are.
Série Sabrina Strong - A Ascensão
by Gustavo Brunetti Lorelei BellSem dinheiro após a morte de seu pai, Sabrina Strong não está tão animada com a proposta de trabalhar com a Associação Norte-Americana de Vampiros. Forçada pelas contas acumuladas e por um desejo secreto de descobrir a identidade do misterioso personagem que assombrava seus sonhos, Sabrina é atacada a caminho da entrevista de emprego. Por pouco, a sua vida é salva por um vampiro que estava passando — que é estranhamente familiar. Será que foi ele quem transformou a mãe dela em vampira e marcou Sabrina como sua há muito tempo? Mas as preocupações de Sabrina são deixadas de lado depois de ser contratada para investigar o assassinato de Letitia — amante do Mestre Vampiro, Bjorn Tremayne. Sabrina é rapidamente imersa em encontros perigosos, enquanto a Associação Norte-Americana de Vampiros está sob ameaça daqueles que procuram saciar seus desejos vorazes. O primeiro livro na série Sabrina Strong, de Lorelei Bell, A Ascensão é uma fantasia urbana cheia de expectativa, dor e paixão.
T'N'T: Telzey and Trigger
by James H. SchmitzTHEY'RE DYNAMITE!<P>Telzey Amberdon is one of the most powerful xenotelepaths in the known galaxy. Trigger Argee is a crack shot, with reflexes that make lightning look lethargic, and also a top agent of the galaxy's Federation of the Hub. Separately, they have been making life miserable for human criminals, unfriendly aliens, and nefarious members of all species. But when a danger to the entire Hub civilization brought these two together, the galaxy would never be the same!
T-Bone the Drone
by Shanda McCloskeyA new tech toy brings epic trials and triumphs in this playtime adventure for fans of The Most Magnificent Thing and Iggy Peck, Architect.Lucas has a new best friend when he bring T-Bone the Drone home from the store. They enjoy playing, flying, and even recharging together--but Lucas has been spending so much time with his new toy that he's on the sidelines when he tries to join the neighborhood Wiffle ball game. When the ball sails over the fence where a scary dog lives, it's the perfect opportunity for Lucas and T-Bone to do what friends do best: work together! It turns out that they'll need help from the whole team, though, to save the day...Finding the solution takes a little ingenuity and a lot of teamwork in this companion story to Doll-E 1.0 celebrating the inventive spirit of modern play.
T. J. and the Pirate Who Wouldn't Go Home
by Carol GormanT.J. is off on another adventure when he Ms. Dougan tells him he's just about to fail sixth grade. Then he meets a pirate and things are really never the same again...