Five best friends in a high school computer club get sucked into an underground hacker's game run by a mysterious A.I. that thinks it's God; as the Game pits them against each other, it offers the ultimate promise--win and learn the meaning of life or die.

Imagine a world very much like our own, in a time that may soon be ours. A world where there are 2 Taj Mahals, bio-augmented goondas, Hollywood in India, and typical corporations. A world where metaphysical phenomena such as aural reading, astral projection, and clairvoyance are considered commonplace.Meet Tara, an IPS officer investigating a series of mysterious suicides with links to mega-company ZyraCorp. Guided by her intuition and sense of justice,...

In this national bestseller, a private detective in twenty-second-century Los Angeles fights to destroy the synthetic high that nearly ruined him Not satisfied with the thrills of being one of Greater Los Angeles' toughest cops, Jake Cardigan turns to Tek, a computerized brain stimulant which transports the user to any reality he can imagine. He's soon addicted to this fantasy-enablerand it isn't long before Cardigan is accused of dealing. When he...

When you're caught by the Chinese doing illegal stuff, and they punish you by changing the way you smell (but not in a nice way) and deport you back to the ol' U.S. of A., your employment options become extremely limited. So what's a guy to do, except take on herple farming?

Justin C. Key's "The Perfection of Theresa Watkins" is a skillful speculative exploration of the intersection of race, mental illness, and the American prison system. Darius and Theresa Watkins confronted death once as fellow cancer survivors. Their lives are full and productive, their love a shield against Darius's bouts of anxiety and Theresa's occasional flare-ups. Yet when tragedy strikes, Darius will try everything to save his wife...even against...

Un hacker minusválido, una investigadora despechada y una IA enamorada enfrentados a la conspiración definitiva. Entre las pertenencias sin valor de un cadáver anónimo se halla un disco con fragmentos de un patrón para crear una inteligencia artificial, el mismo que usó Álex para recrear a su difunto compañero Lúrquer poco antes de que se suicidara. Mientras Álex y Andrea ahondan en el misterio, un personaje enigmático ultima los preparativos...

What Does It Mean To Be Human? In a futuristic society where people were forced to leave a devastated Earth behind and set up their lives somewhere out amongst the stars. Three people wrestle with forging connections and building community in the face of intolerance and fear. RAVI has been Re-Animated, brought back to life by the government for purposes unknown. When the Resistance raid the Re-Animation Centre halfway through his welcome...

"To be built to love is to be built to dissolve. It is to be built to unbecome. It is to have the sole purpose of falling apart all in the name of someone else." Even the grandest of stories can feel small and immediate when it's just one person's life. One of the most well-known names from one of the most well-known clades on the System, the avatar of political machinations and cool confidence, has been brought low. With help coming only from Ioan...

In a post-cyberpunk future, where global economic activity is carried out in a virtual-gaming realm, a new blood-transmitted virus has become a black-market staple due to its temporary rejuvenating effects, forcing infected "Eternals" into tightly knit underground communities where they must hack the V-net for basic food and shelter. In the first book of a series that "revitalizes the cyber-fiction genre with its vivid prose and believable characters"...

Sleep State Interrupt centers around Waylee Freid, an unemployed journalist and musician with ever-worsening bipolar disorder, and her countercultural friends in the decaying city of Baltimore. Frustrated by the injustice of a system that benefits only a few, and the apathy of a population content to lose themselves in a virtual reality called BetterWorld, the group busts a notorious teenage hacker out of jail and sneaks into a closed election fundraiser...