children of the new world
Children of the New World introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made primitive by disaster, which they must work to rebuild as we once did millennia ago.
| ✔ | saying goodbye to yang |
| ✔ | the cartographers |
| ✔ | heartland |
| ✔ | excerpts from the new world authorized dictionary |
| ✔ | moksha |
| ✔ | children of the new world |
| ✔ | fall line |
| ✔ | a brief history of the failed revolution |
| ✔ | migration |
| ✔ | the pyramid and the ass |
| ✔ | rocket night |
| ✔ | openness |
| ✔ | ice age |
dark matter
Jason Dessen, a quantum physicist, once had a brilliant research career ahead of him. But after a girlfriend's unexpected pregnancy and the birth of a son, this future was derailed. Now Jason is a professor at a small Chicago college, content with his warm and loving family life until he's abducted into a world in which his quantum many-worlds theory has become a fully realized technology for inter-dimensional transfer. In this world, Jason didn't marry his girlfriend and never had a son. Jason is determined to get back to his family and his own world, but nefarious powers in the alternate reality conspire to stop him from revealing the criminal lengths they have gone to create the world-hopping technology.
the handmaid's tale
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now...
helter skelter
Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and horrifying cases of the twentieth century: the cold-blooded Tate-LaBianca murders carried out by Charles Manson and four of his followers. What motivated Manson in his seemingly mindless selection of victims, and what was his hold over the young women who obeyed his orders? Here is the gripping story of this famous and haunting crime.
kill process
By day, Angie, a twenty-year veteran of the tech industry, is a data analyst at Tomo, the world's largest social networking company; by night, she exploits her database access to profile domestic abusers and kill the worst of them. She can't change her own traumatic past, but she can save other women. When Tomo introduces a deceptive new product that preys on users' fears to drive up its own revenue, Angie sees Tomo for what it really is--another evil abuser. Using her coding and hacking expertise, she decides to destroy Tomo by building a new social network that is completely distributed, compartmentalized, and unstoppable. If she succeeds, it will be the end of all centralized power in the Internet. But how can an anti-social, one-armed programmer with too many dark secrets succeed when the world's largest tech company is out to crush her and a no-name government black ops agency sets a psychopath to look into her growing digital footprint?
meanwhile, elsewhere
Twenty-five new science fiction and fantasy short stories by transgender writers from the US, Canada and beyond. Adding to the body of LGBT literature that straddles politics and entertainment, Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers, represents the arrival of a new perspective in genre fiction.
| ✔ | control |
| ✔ | delicate bodies |
| ☐ | what cheer |
| ☐ | satan, are you there? it's me, laura |
| ☐ | it can grow!!! |
| ☐ | rent, don't sell |
| ☐ | no comment |
| ☐ | control shift down |
| ☐ | after the big one |
| ☐ | using a treadmill, you can run until exhaustion without moving |
| ☐ | notes from a hunter boy |
| ☐ | themyscira |
| ☐ | cybervania |
| ☐ | under the rainbow |
| ☐ | heat death of western human arrogance |
| ☐ | thieves and lovers |
| ☐ | matchmaker |
| ☐ | schwaberow, ohio |
| ☐ | it's called fashion |
| ☐ | gamers |
| ☐ | imago |
| ☐ | kid ghost |
| ☐ | the gift |
| ☐ | visions |
| ☐ | angels are here to help you |
palo alto
this is literally a part of oprah's stories we love. way to go franco, you've finally made it!!!
| ☐ | halloween |
| ☐ | lockheed |
| ☐ | american history |
| ☐ | killing animals |
| ☐ | emily |
| ☐ | camp |
| ☐ | chinatown |
| ☐ part i, vietnam | |
| ☐ part ii, headless | |
| ☐ part iii, caffe buon | |
| ☐ | april |
| ☐ part i, the rainbow goblins | |
| ☐ part ii, wasting | |
| ☐ part iii, april | |
| ☐ | tar baby |
| ☐ | i could kill someone |
| ☐ | jack-o' |
| ☐ | yosemite |
the power
In The Power the world is a recognisable place: there's a rich Nigerian kid who larks around the family pool; a foster girl whose religious parents hide their true nature; a local American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But something vital has changed, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power - they can cause agonising pain and even death. And, with this small twist of nature, the world changes utterly.
the universe in your hand
Imagine if The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy were a real handbook... Internationally renowned astrophysicist Christophe Galfard takes us on a wonder-filled journey through the past, present and future of the universe - a journey into science fact.The Universe in Your Hand is a popular science book that aims to explain Quantum Mechanics, General Relativity and String Theory using storytelling instead of graphs and equations. It transports us to the surface of our dying Sun, flies us to distant galaxies and puts us into the deathly grip of a Black Hole, and explains the mysteries of physics in language that will leave no reader behind.