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Neuromancer / William Gibson ; series Introduction by Neil Gaiman.

Before the Internet was commonplace, William Gibson showed us the Matrix-a world within the world, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace. Henry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the Matrix, until an ex-employer crippled his nervous system. Now a new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run against an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. With a mirror-eyed girl street-samurai riding shotgun, he's ready for the silicon-quick, bleakly prophetic adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre of fiction.
Author: Gibson, William, 1948-
Published: New York : Penguin Books, 2016.
Published: ©1988
xxii, 277 pages ; 22 cm.
Penguin galaxy
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Mr murder / Dean Koontz.

THRILLER / SUSPENSE. For author Martin Stillwater, life couldn't be more perfect. He and Paige are happy together; their two daughters, Emily and Charlotte, are intelligent and healthy; and his novels are achieving long-hoped-for levels of success. So why does he feel such dread, experience sudden blackouts? The killer doesn't know his own name, only the name he uses. He has no family, no friends, no home. He cannot recall who gives him his assignments, and he doesn't know why his targets must die. Now, however, he senses that in a town he can't yet envision, a life awaits him, a place to call home, with family and friends.
Author: Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-
Published: London : Headline Book Publishing, 2016.
Published: ©1993.
436 pages ; 20 cm.

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Mistborn [electronic resource] : Secret History / Brandon Sanderson

Mistborn: Secret History is a companion story to the original Mistborn Trilogy.As such, it contains HUGE SPOILERS for the books Mistborn (the Final Empire), The Well of Ascension, and The Hero of Ages. It also contains very minor spoilers for the book The Bands of Mourning.Mistborn: Secret History builds upon the characterization, events, and worldbuilding of the original trilogy. Reading it without that background will be a confusing process at best.In short, this isn't the place to start your journey into Mistborn. (Though if you have read the trilogy—but it has been a while—you should be just fine, so long as you remember the characters and the general plot of the books.)Saying anything more here risks revealing too much. Even knowledge of this story's existence is, in a way, a spoiler.There's always another secret.
Author: Sanderson, Brandon
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Dragonsteel Entertainment, LLC, 2016
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Shadows of self / Brandon Sanderson.

"Picking up the action about a year later [from The Alloy of Law], Shadows of Self shows us much more about how the Mistborn world and society are evolving as technology and magic mix, the economy grows, democracy contends with corruption, and religion becomes a growing cultural force, with four faiths competing for believers. This bustling, optimistic, but still shaky society now faces its first instance of terrorism, crimes intended to stir up labor strife and religious conflict. Wax and Wayne, assisted by the lovely, brilliant Marasi, must unravel the conspiracy before civil strife stops Scadrial's progress in its tracks."
Author: Sanderson, Brandon
Published: London : Gollancz, 2015.
Published: ©2015.
383 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Mistborn ; 5

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Wizard's First Rule [electronic resource] / Terry Goodkind

Deep in the upper Ven Forest, close to the Boundry, woodsman Richard Cypher is intent on tracking down his father's killers. Richard has no idea of how far his quest will take him from home, nor that his world, his very beliefs, are about to be shattered... Kahlan Amnell, tormented by treachery and loss, is being hunted, pursued remorselessly by a bloodthirsty tyrant's assassins. A monstrous evil is about to be unleashed upon the world and she knows her one hope of halting it is to find the last great Wizard... Together, Richard and Kahlan have a destiny that will not be denied, a destiny that will embroil them in a war three-millennia past... a war that is about to re-ignite with world-devouring violence.
Author: Goodkind, Terry
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Head of Zeus, 2015
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Sword of Truth

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Sand [electronic resource] / Hugh Howey

The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes. Here in this land of howling wind and infernal sand, four siblings find themselves scattered and lost. Their father was a sand diver, one of the elite few who could travel deep beneath the desert floor and bring up the relics and scraps that keep their people alive. But their father is gone. And the world he left behind might be next. Welcome to the world of Sand, the first new novel from New York Times bestselling author Hugh Howey since his publication of the Silo Saga. Unrelated to those works, which looked at a dystopian world under totalitarian rule, Sand is an exploration of lawlessness. Here is a land ignored. Here is a people left to fend for themselves. Adjust your ker and take a last, deep breath before you enter.
Author: Howey, Hugh
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : NLA Digital LLC, 2014
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The Shift Omnibus [electronic resource] : Wool Series, Books 6-8 / Hugh Howey

In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platform that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event. At almost the same moment in humanity's broad history, mankind had discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall. And the ability to forget it ever happened. This is the sequel to the New York Times bestselling WOOL series.
Author: Howey, Hugh
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : NLA Digital, LLC, 2013
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Wool

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Wool [electronic resource] : Wool: Holston; Wool: Proper Gauge; Wool: Casting Off; Wool: The Unraveling; Wool: The Stranded / Hugh Howey

In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld the silo's rules for years, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: He asks to go outside. His fateful decision unleashes a drastic series of events. An unlikely candidate is appointed to replace him: Juliette, a mechanic with no training in law, whose special knack is fixing machines. Now Juliette is about to be entrusted with fixing her silo, and she will soon learn just how badly her world is broken. The silo is about to confront what its history has only hinted about and its inhabitants have never dared to whisper. Uprising. WOOL is the first novel in the bestselling Silo series that also includes SHIFT and DUST.
Author: Howey, Hugh
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : NLA Digital, LLC, 2013
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Wool

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The dirty streets of heaven / Tad Williams.

Bobby Dollar, an angel who has taken part in the long battle between Heaven and Hell, must figure out why there are suddenly an unprecedented number of souls missing from both sides and who summoned a Babylonian demon to kill him.
Author: Williams, Tad
Published: London : Hodder, 2013.
Published: ©2012
406 pages ; 20 cm.
Bobby Dollar novel ; 1

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Fahrenheit 451 [electronic resource] / Bradbury, Ray

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books. The classic novel of a post-literate future, Fahrenheit 451 stands alongside Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World as a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity. Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which, forty years on from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.
Author: Bradbury, Ray
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2013
240 pages

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Dust [electronic resource] : Wool Series, Book 9 / Hugh Howey

WOOL introduced the silo and its inhabitants. SHIFT told the story of their making. DUST will chronicle their undoing. Welcome to the underground.
Author: Howey, Hugh
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : NLA Digital, LLC, 2013
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Wool

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Fahrenheit 451 [electronic resource] / Ray Bradbury

The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books. The Classic novel of a post-literate future, Fahrenheit 451 is part of the Voyager Classic series. It stands alongside Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World as a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media, drugs and conformity. Bradbury's powerful and poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to creat a novel which, forty years on from first publication, still has the power to dazzle and shock.
Author: Bradbury, Ray
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2013
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On Stranger Tides [electronic resource] / Tim Powers

1718: Puppeteer John Chandagnac has set sail for Jamaica to recover his stolen inheritance, when his ship is seized by pirates. Offered the choice to join the crew, or be killed where he stands, he decides that a pirate's life is better than none at all. Now known as Jack Shandy, this apprentice buccaneer soon learns to handle a mainsail and wield a cutlass - only to discover he is now a subject of a Caribbean pirate empire ruled by one Edward Thatch, better known as Blackbeard. A practitioner of voodoo, Blackbeard is building an army of the living and the dead, to voyage together to search for the ultimate prize: the legendary Fountain of Youth.
Author: Powers, Tim
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Atlantic Books, 2011
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Royal Assassin [electronic resource] : The Realm of the Elderlings: The Farseer Trilogy, Book 2 / Robin Hobb

'Fantasy as it ought to be written' George R.R. Martin The second volume in Robin Hobb's internationally bestselling Farseer Trilogy. Honesty is the bedrock for any relationship. But how can Fitz – royal bastard, trainee assassin, holder of secrets crucial to the security of the kingdom – bare his soul to his beloved Molly? Danger lies all around him – from the raiders savaging the coastal towns, and from within the court. The king has been struck down by a mystery illness and his eldest son, Verity, is bound up in the defence of the realm. When Verity leaves the court in search of the mythical Elderlings, Fitz finds himself friendless apart from his wolf, Nighteyes, and the king's strange, motley-clad fool, exposed to Prince Regal's malign ambitions. He will be asked to sacrifice everything – his heart, his hope, even his life – for the sake of the realm.
Author: Hobb, Robin
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2011
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The Realm of the Elderlings: The Farseer Trilogy

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Assassin's Apprentice [electronic resource] : The Realm of the Elderlings: The Farseer Trilogy, Book 1 / Robin Hobb

'Fantasy as it ought to be written' George R.R. Martin The kingdom of the Six Duchies is on the brink of civil war when news breaks that the crown prince has fathered a bastard son and is shamed into abdication. The child's name is Fitz, and his is despised. Raised in the castle stables, only the company of the king's fool, the ragged children of the lower city and his unusual affinity with animals provide Fitz with any comfort. To be useful to the crown, Fitz is trained as an assassin; and to use the traditional magic of the Farseer family. But his tutor, allied to another political faction, is determined to discredit, even kill him. Fitz must survive: for he may be destined to save the kingdom.
Author: Hobb, Robin
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2011
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The Realm of the Elderlings: The Farseer Trilogy

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Assassin's Quest [electronic resource] : The Realm of the Elderlings: The Farseer Trilogy, Book 3 / Robin Hobb

'Fantasy as it ought to be written' George R.R. Martin The gripping finale to Robin Hobb's classic Farseer Trilogy. With the king no longer living and the heir, Verity, missing and declared dead, Prince Regal has treacherously seized the throne. Regal's torture has left Fitz more dead than alive, and more closely than ever bonded with his wolf. All who once loved him believe him dead: even Molly, now pregnant with his child. But he cannot go to her without placing her in terrible danger. With nothing to lose, Fitz sets out for Tradeford, where Regal has withdrawn, having heartlessly abandoned the north of the kingdom to the Red-Ship Raiders. His quest: to assassinate the man who has destroyed his world.
Author: Hobb, Robin
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2011
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The Realm of the Elderlings: The Farseer Trilogy

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Ender's game / Orson Scott Card.

SCIENCE FICTION. A film tie-in edition of this award-winning classic science fiction novel, to be released as a blockbuster film starring Harrison Ford on 31st October 2013. The human race faces annihilation. An alien threat is on the horizon, ready to strike. And if humanity is to be defended, the government must create the greatest military commander in history. The brilliant young Ender Wiggin is their last hope. But first he must survive the rigours of a brutal military training programme - to prove that he can be the leader of all leaders. A saviour for mankind must be produced, through whatever means possible. But are they creating a hero or a monster? This is the multiple award-winning classic ENDER'S GAME - a groundbreaking tale of war, strategy and survival.
Author: Card, Orson Scott, 1951-
Film tie-in ed.
Published: London : Orbit, 2011.
xxii, 326 p. ; 20 cm.
Ender ; 1.

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For the win / Cory Doctorow.

Not far in the future... In industrial South China Matthew and his friends labour day and night as gold-farmers, amassing virtual wealth that's sold on to rich Western players, while in th slums of Mumbai 'General Robotwallah' Mala marshalls her team of online thugs on behalf of the local gang-boss, who in turn works for the game-wners. They're all being exploited, as their friend Wei-Dong, all the way over in LA, knows, but can do little about it. Until they begin to realise that their similarities outweigh their differences, and agree to work together to claim their rights to fair working conditions. Under the noses of the ruling elites in China and the rest in Asia, they fight their bosses, the owners of the games and the rich speculators, outsmarting them all with their gaming skills. But soon the battle will spill over from the virtual world to the real one, leaving Mala, Matthew and even Wei-Dong fighting not just for their rights, but for their lives...
Author: Doctorow, Cory
Published: London : Harper Voyager, 2011.
506 p. ; 20 cm.

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The hero of ages / Brandon Sanderson.

FANTASY. Tricked into releasing the evil spirit Ruin while attempting to close the Well of Ascension, new emperor Elend Venture and his wife, the assassin Vin, are now hard-pressed to save the world. This adventure brings the Mistborn epic fantasy trilogy to a dramatic and surprising climax as Sanderson's saga offers complex characters and a compelling plot, asking hard questions about loyalty, faith and responsibility.
Author: Sanderson, Brandon
Published: London : Gollancz, 2010, c2008.
xvi, 748 p. : maps ; 20 cm.
Mistborn ; 3

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The Magicians [electronic resource] : The Magicians Series, Book 1 / Lev Grossman

NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES In a secret world of forbidden knowledge, power comes at a terrible price ... Quentin Coldwater's life is changed forever by an apparently chance encounter: when he turns up for his entrance interview to Princeton he finds his interviewer dead - but a strange envelope bearing Quentin's name leads him down a very different path to any he'd ever imagined. The envelope, and the mysterious manuscript it contains, leads to a secret world of obsession and privilege, a world of freedom and power and, for a while, it's a world that seems to answer all Quentin's desires. But the idyll cannot last - and when it's finally shattered, Quentin is drawn into something darker and far more dangerous than anything he could ever have expected ...
Author: Grossman, Lev
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Random House, 2009
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The Magicians

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The final empire / Brandon Sanderson.

A thousand years ago evil came to the land and has ruled with an iron fist ever since. The sun shines fitfully under clouds of ash that float down endlessly from the constant eruption of volcanoes. A dark lord rules through the aristocratic families and ordinary folk are condemned to lives in servitude, sold as goods, labouring in the ash fields. But now a troublemaker has arrived and there is rumour of revolt. A revolt that depends on a criminal that no-one can trust and a young girl who must master Allomancy - the magic that lies in all metals.
Author: Sanderson, Brandon
Published: London : Gollancz, 2009.
Published: ©2006.
viii, 647 pages : map ; 20 cm.
Mistborn ; bk. 1.

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Nation [electronic resource] / Terry Pratchett

On the day the world ends . . . . . . Mau is on his way home from the Boys' Island. Soon he will be a man. And then the wave comes - a huge wave, dragging black night behind it and bringing a schooner which sails over and through the island rainforest. The village has gone. The Nation as it was has gone. Now there's just Mau, who wears barely anything, a trouserman girl who wears far too much, and an awful lot of big misunderstandings . . . Wise, witty and filled with Terry Pratchett's inimitable comic satire, this is a terrific adventure that - quite literally - turns the world upside down.
Author: Pratchett, Terry, 1948-
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : RHCP, 2008
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Timeline [electronic resource] / Michael Crichton

An old man wearing a brown robe is found wandering disoriented in the Arizona desert. He is miles from any human habitation and has no memory of how he got to be there, or who he is. The only clue to his identity is the plan of a medieval monastery in his pocket. So begins the mystery of Timeline, a story that will catapult a group of young scientists back to the Middle Ages and into the heart of the Hundred Years' War. Timeline cements Michael Crichton's place as the king of the high-concept thriller, and a master storyteller to boot.
Author: Crichton, Michael
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Random House, 2008
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The road / Cormac McCarthy.

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged, nuclear landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food - and each other. 'The Road' boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: desperate tenacity, ultimate destructiveness, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
Author: McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-
Published: London : Picador, 2006.
241 p. ; 24 cm.
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