Scratch Monkey Charles Stross http://www.feedbooks.com/book/229 en 1993 Novels Science Fiction <p>There are standard methods for lifting material out of brains. Everyone, everywhere in human space, is riddled with nanotech Dreamtime encoders. They're in the air, in the soil, in their cells and reproducing like bacteria. They constantly monitor cerebral activity, transmitting updates of their host personality to the encoders, that upload minds into the Dreamtime when their bodies cease to support them. It even makes a neat debriefing tool, if you have the equipment to interrogate the brain encoders directly. (Only Distant Intervention, that I know of, is allowed to play with this kind of kit.)</p> Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/229.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/229.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/229.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/229.mobi The Coming Technological Singularity Vernor Vinge http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2011 en 1993 Essay Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2011.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2011.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2011.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2011.mobi The Element of Fire Martha Wells http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1952 urn:isbn:0615135714 en 1993 Novels Fantasy <p>The kingdom of Ile-Rien is in peril, menaced by magical threats and court intrigue. As the weak King Roland, misled by treacherous companions, rules the country, only his ruthless mother, the Dowager Queen Ravenna, truly guards the safety of the realm. But now Urbain Grandier, the dark master of scientific sorcery, has arrived to plot against the throne and Kade, bastard sister of the king, has appeared unexpectedly at court. The illegitimate daughter of the old king and the Queen of Air and Darkness herself, Kade's true goals are cloaked in mystery. Is she in league with the wizard Grandier? Or is she laying claim to the throne? It falls to Thomas Boniface, Captain of the Queen's Guard and Ravenna's former lover, to sort out who is friend and who is foe in a deadly game to keep the Dowager Queen and the kingdom she loves from harm.</p> Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1952.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1952.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1952.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1952.mobi