Behemoth Peter Watts http://www.feedbooks.com/book/973 urn:isbn:0765307219 en 2007 Novels Science Fiction Lenie Clarke-rifter, avenger, amphibious deep-sea cyborg-has destroyed the world. Once exploited for her psychological addiction to dangerous environments, she emerged in the wake of a nuclear blast to serve up vendetta from the ocean floor. The horror she unleashed-an ancient, apocalyptic microbe called ßehemoth- has been free in the world for half a decade now, devouring the biosphere from the bottom up. North America lies in ruins beneath the thumb of an omnipotent psychopath. Digital monsters have taken Clarke's name, wreaking havoc throughout the decimated remnants of something that was once called Internet. Governments have fallen across the globe; warlords and suicide cults rise from the ashes, pledging fealty to the Meltdown Madonna. All because five years ago, Lenie Clarke had a score to settle. But she has learned something in the meantime: she destroyed the world for a fallacy. Now, cowering at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, rifters and the technoindustrial "corpses" who created them hide from a world in its death throes. But they cannot hide forever: something is tracking them, down amongst the lightless cliffs and trenches of the Midatlantic Ridge. The consequences of past acts reach inexorably towards the very bottom of the world, and Lenie Clarke must finally confront the mess she made. Redemption doesn't come easy with the blood of a world on your hands. But even after five years in purgatory, Lenie Clarke is still Lenie Clarke. There will be consequences for anyone who gets in her way-and worse ones, perhaps, if she succeeds. . . . Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/973.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/973.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/973.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/973.mobi Maelstrom Peter Watts http://www.feedbooks.com/book/975 urn:isbn:0312878060 en 2001 Novels Science Fiction An enormous tidal wave on the west coast of North America has just killed thousands. Lenie Clarke, in a black wetsuit, walks out of the ocean onto a Pacific Northwest beach filled with the oppressed and drugged homeless of the Asian world who have gotten only this far in their attempt to reach America. Is she a monster, or a goddess? One thing is for sure: all hell is breaking loose. This dark, fast-paced, hard SF novel returns to the story begun in Starfish: all human life is threatened by a disease (actually a primeval form of life) from the distant prehuman past. It survived only in the deep ocean rift where Clarke and her companions were stationed before the corporation that employed them tried to sterilize the threat with a secret underwater nuclear strike. But Clarke was far enough away that she was able to survive and tough enough to walk home, 300 miles across the ocean floor. She arrives carrying with her the potential death of the human race, and possessed by a desire for revenge. Maelstrom is a terrifying explosion of cyberpunk noir by a writer whose narrative, says Robert Sheckley, "drives like a futuristic locomotive." 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However, her banal life as a cubicle worker by day and tinkerer by night is interrupted when she discovers that her employer’s computer system has been invaded. Jack enlists the help of her only friends – her co-worker, Gilles and Adrian, an online friend she’s never met – to help her track down the source of the invasion. Her investigation leads her to a shadowy group called the Red, where Jack learns that not everyone lives a life of quiet servitude. Even though she believes that the Red are responsible for a series of gruesome attacks, Jack begins to become attracted to their worldview. In her search for the people responsible for the attacks, she confronts the leaders of the group as well as her own burgeoning sense of self-awareness. science fiction thriller computers ai mystery cyberpunk future women http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2548.png http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2548.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2548.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/2548.mobi Starfish Peter Watts http://www.feedbooks.com/book/974 urn:isbn:0312868553 en 2000 Novels Science Fiction A huge international corporation has developed a facility along the Juan de Fuca Ridge at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to exploit geothermal power. They send a bio-engineered crew--people who have been altered to withstand the pressure and breathe the seawater--down to live and work in this weird, fertile undersea darkness. Unfortunately the only people suitable for long-term employment in these experimental power stations are crazy, some of them in unpleasant ways. How many of them can survive, or will be allowed to survive, while worldwide disaster approaches from below? Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/974.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/974.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/974.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/974.mobi Blindsight Peter Watts http://www.feedbooks.com/book/976 urn:isbn:0765312182 en 2006 Novels Science Fiction Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright surveillance by agents unknown. Two months of silence, while a world holds its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions on an intelligence with motives unknown, maybe unknowable? Who do you send to meet the alien when the alien doesn't want to meet? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound, so compromised by grafts and splices he no longer feels his own flesh. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed, and the fainter one she'll do any good if she is. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there, a conduit through which the Dead Center might hope to understand the Bleeding Edge. You send them all to the edge of interstellar space, praying you can trust such freaks and retrofits with the fate of a world. You fear they may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. But you'd give anything for that to be true, if you only knew what was waiting for them... 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It was originally written as a series of novelettes and novellas, all published in Asimov's Science Fiction magazine in the period 2001 to 2004. The first three stories follow the character of "venture altruist" Manfred Macx starting in the early 21st Century, the second three stories follow his daughter Amber, and the final three focus largely on her son Sirhan in the completely transformed world at the end of the century. According to Stross, the initial inspiration for the stories was his experience working as a programmer for a high-growth company during the dot-com boom of the 1990s. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/228.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/228.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/228.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/228.mobi The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories John Kessel http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3189 en 2008 Short Fiction Science Fiction Collections An ex-con finds himself falling, once more, under a seductive, amoral woman's spell. A hidden door in a summer house leads to a land of plenty. An inventor's life converges with the pulp fiction he reads. In "Pride and Prometheus," the Bennett sisters encounter Dr. Frankenstein and his monster. And, in his acclaimed and award-winning Lunar Quartet, Kessel explores the gender dynamics, politics, and long-term sustainability of a matriarchal lunar colony. This astonishing collection ranges from science fiction to the surreal while intersecting with Frank L. Baum's Oz and the characters of Flannery O'Connor, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen. By turns satirical, horrific, funny, and generous, these stories showcase the manifold gifts of a modern-day master. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3189.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3189.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3189.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3189.mobi Password Incorrect Nick Name http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127 en 2008 Short Fiction Collections 25 short, sometimes funny and sometimes mean stories ideal to rediscover the joy of reading a book as shiny and beautiful as a brand new cell phone. A look from a distance at the absurdity of our present day lives: fights with the less and less comprehensible equipment, pursuit of the latest technological news, pitfalls of our modern lifestyle, useless inventions and issues racing in all directions at a breakneck speed. A lot of entertainment and a little food for thought. Just perfect for the moment when you're finally bored with exploring the alarm settings on your new iPhone. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3127.mobi Uxo, Bomb Dog Eliot Fintushel http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2823 en 2008 Short Fiction Science Fiction Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2823.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2823.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2823.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2823.mobi My Own Kind Of Freedom Steven Brust http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2217 en 2007 Novels Science Fiction Set in the universe of Firefly. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2217.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2217.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2217.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2217.mobi The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind James Boyle http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3471 urn:isbn:0300137400 en 2008 Non-Fiction Essay In this enlightening book James Boyle describes what he calls the range wars of the information age—today’s heated battles over intellectual property. Boyle argues that just as every informed citizen needs to know at least something about the environment or civil rights, every citizen should also understand intellectual property law. Why? Because intellectual property rights mark out the ground rules of the information society, and today’s policies are unbalanced, unsupported by evidence, and often detrimental to cultural access, free speech, digital creativity, and scientific innovation. Boyle identifies as a major problem the widespread failure to understand the importance of the public domain—the realm of material that everyone is free to use and share without permission or fee. The public domain is as vital to innovation and culture as the realm of material protected by intellectual property rights, he asserts, and he calls for a movement akin to the environmental movement to preserve it. With a clear analysis of issues ranging from Jefferson’s philosophy of innovation to musical sampling, synthetic biology and Internet file sharing, this timely book brings a positive new perspective to important cultural and legal debates. If we continue to enclose the “commons of the mind,” Boyle argues, we will all be the poorer. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3471.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3471.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3471.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/3471.mobi The Ant King and Other Stories Benjamin Rosenbaum http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2872 urn:isbn:1931520534 en 2008 Short Fiction Science Fiction Fantasy Collections A dazzling, postmodern debut collection of pulp and surreal fictions: a writer of alternate histories defends his patron’s zeppelin against assassins and pirates; a woman transforms into hundreds of gumballs; an emancipated children’s collective goes house hunting. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2872.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2872.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2872.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2872.mobi Graveyard of Dreams Henry Beam Piper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/373 en 1958 Short Fiction Science Fiction Despite Mr. Shakespeare, wealth and name are both dross compared with the theft of hope-- and Maxwell had to rob a whole planet of it! Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/373.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/373.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/373.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/373.mobi Oomphel In The Sky Henry Beam Piper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/382 en 1960 Short Fiction Science Fiction Since Logic derives from postulates, it never has, and never will, change a postulate. And a religious belief is a system of postulates ... so how can a man fight a native superstition with logic? Or anything else...? Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/382.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/382.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/382.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/382.mobi Naudsonce Henry Beam Piper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/380 en 1962 Short Fiction Science Fiction Bishop Berkeley's famous question about the sound of a falling tree may have no standing in Science. But there is a highly interesting question about "sound" that Science needs to consider... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/380.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/380.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/380.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/380.mobi When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth Cory Doctorow http://www.feedbooks.com/book/335 urn:isbn:1560259817 en 2006 Short Fiction Science Fiction The heroic exploits of "sysadmins" — systems administrators — as they defend the cyber-world, and hence the world at large, from worms and bioweapons. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/335.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/335.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/335.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/335.mobi Don Quixote Miguel Cervantes http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183 urn:isbn:B001AAWVRY en 1615 Novels Humor/Satire Don Quixote, errant knight and sane madman, with the company of his faithful squire and wise fool, Sancho Panza, together roam the world and haunt readers' imaginations as they have for nearly four hundred years. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/183.mobi Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom Cory Doctorow http://www.feedbooks.com/book/194 urn:isbn:076530953X en 2003 Novels Science Fiction Jules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see the cure for death and the end of scarcity, to learn ten languages and compose three symphonies...and to realize his boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World.Disney World! The greatest artistic achievement of the long-ago twentieth century. Now in the keeping of a network of "ad-hocs" who keep the classic attractions running as they always have, enhanced with only the smallest high-tech touches.Now, though, the "ad hocs" are under attack. A new group has taken over the Hall of the Presidents, and is replacing its venerable audioanimatronics with new, immersive direct-to-brain interfaces that give guests the illusion of being Washington, Lincoln, and all the others. For Jules, this is an attack on the artistic purity of Disney World itself. Worse: it appears this new group has had Jules killed. This upsets him. (It's only his fourth death and revival, after all.) Now it's war.... Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/194.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/194.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/194.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/194.mobi The Cosmic Computer Henry Beam Piper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/311 urn:isbn:B00171G1IQ en 1963 Novels Science Fiction Conn Maxwell returns from Terra to his poverty-stricken home planet of Poictesme, “The Junkyard Planet”, with news of the possible location of Merlin, a military super-computer rumored to have been abandoned there after the last war. The inhabitants hope to find Merlin, which they think will be their ticket to wealth and prosperity. But is Merlin real, or just an old rumor? And if they find it will it save them, or tear them apart? Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/311.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/311.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/311.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/311.mobi Space Viking Henry Beam Piper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/312 urn:isbn:B00171AF38 en 1962 Novels Science Fiction The murder of his wife-to-be on their marriage day sets Lucas Trask on a quest for revenge. With the purchase of a space ship, Trask enters the world of Space Vikings, and begins raiding worlds while simultaneously searching for his beloved's killer. Realizing that raiding is a waste of resources, Trask begins to trade, begins to build a galactic empire, and begins to face the despotic power of his wife's killer. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/312.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/312.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/312.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/312.mobi Four-Day Planet Henry Beam Piper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/310 urn:isbn:B001713C4W en 1961 Novels Science Fiction Fenris isn't a hell planet, but it's nobody's bargain. With 2,000-hour days and an 8,000-hour year, it alternates blazing heat with killing cold. A planet like that tends to breed a special kind of person: tough enough to stay alive and smart enough to make the best of it. When that kind of person discovers he's being cheated of wealth he's risked his life for, that kind of planet is ripe for revolution. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/310.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/310.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/310.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/310.mobi Uller Uprising Henry Beam Piper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/307 urn:isbn:1604249188 en 1952 Novels Science Fiction The story of a confrontation between a human overlord and alien servants, with an ironic twist at the end. Like most of Piper's best work, Uller Uprising is modeled after an actual event in human history; in this case the Sepoy Mutiny -- though not a mere retelling of the Indian Mutiny, but rather an analysis of an historical event applied to a similar situation in the far future. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/307.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/307.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/307.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/307.mobi Scroogled Cory Doctorow http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1670 en 2007 Short Fiction Science Fiction Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1670.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1670.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1670.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1670.mobi Omnilingual Henry Beam Piper http://www.feedbooks.com/book/308 urn:isbn:1428073124 en 1957 Short Fiction Science Fiction To translate writings, you need a key to the code--and if the last writer of Martian died forty thousand years before the first writer of Earth was born ... how could the Martian be translated...? Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/308.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/308.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/308.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/308.mobi Little Brother Cory Doctorow http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2466 urn:isbn:0765319853 en 2008 Novels Young Readers Science Fiction Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves caught in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco. In the wrong place at the wrong time, Marcus and his crew are apprehended by the Department of Homeland Security and whisked away to a secret prison where they’re mercilessly interrogated for days. When the DHS finally releases them, Marcus discovers that his city has become a police state where every citizen is treated like a potential terrorist. He knows that no one will believe his story, which leaves him only one option: to take down the DHS himself. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2466.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2466.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2466.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/2466.mobi I, Robot Cory Doctorow http://www.feedbooks.com/book/337 urn:isbn:1560259817 en 2005 Short Fiction Science Fiction "I, Robot" is a science-fiction short story by Cory Doctorow published in 2005. The story is set in the type of police state needed to ensure that only one company is allowed to make robots, and only one type of robot is allowed. The story follows single Father detective Arturo Icaza de Arana-Goldberg while he tries to track down his missing teenage daughter. The detective is a bit of an outcast because his wife defected to Eurasia, a rival Superpower. Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country. http://www.feedbooks.com/book/337.png http://www.feedbooks.com/book/337.pdf http://www.feedbooks.com/book/337.epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/337.mobi