A Fighting Man of Mars
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
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The Master Mind of Mars
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
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The Chessmen of Mars
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Thuvia, Maid of Mars
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
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The Warlord of Mars
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Fallen Angels
Author: Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven and Michael Flynn
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One minute the two space Hab astronauts were scoop-diving the atmosphere, the next they’d been shot down over the North Dakota Glacier and were the object of a massive manhunt by the United States government.

That government, dedicated to saving the environment from the evils of technology, had been voted into power because everybody knew that the Green House Effect had to be controlled, whatever the cost. But who would have thought that the cost of ending pollution would include not only total government control of day-to-day life, but the onset of a new Ice Age

Stranded in the anti-technological heartland of America, paralyzed by Earth’s gravity, the „Angels” had no way back to the Space Habs, the last bastions of high technology and intellectual freedom on or over the Earth. But help was on its way, help from the most unlikely sources ….

Join # 1 national bestsellers Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle and Michael Flynn in a world where civilization is on the ropes, and the environmentalists have created their own worst nightmare.

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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Author: Cory Doctorow
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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….

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Earthweb
Author: Marc Stiegler
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Someone Out There really hated humans. Twenty years have passed since Shiva I first swept aside Earth’s crude defenses and rained down destruction. Now Shiva V has entered the Solar System, more powerful than any of its predecessors.

The Shiva cannot be destroyed by fleets of ships: we tried, and it was the fleets that were destroyed. It cannot be defeated by a clandestinely developed super-weapon based on new principles of physics: no such weapon exists. It cannot be defeated by a forceful American President and his faithful generals: they do not know what to do.

There is only one way to defeat a Shiva: get inside and kill it. Once again, in the personae of five champions, four billion of us are about to do just that.

„A high-voltage adventure story”and an intriguing look at what the worldwide web may become.”
—Vernor Vinge

„A brilliant vision of our future networked intelligence.”
—Max More, Ph.D., President of the Extropy Institute and the Extropy Newsletter

„Why read expensive industry newsletters to puzzle out the future of the Web Read Earthweb to pull way ahead of today’s Web pundits.”
—Christine Peterson, Executive Director, The Foresight Institute

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In the Year 2889
Author: Jules Verne
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In the Year 2889 was first published in the Forum, February, 1889. It was published in France the next year. Although published under the name of Jules Verne, it is now believed to be chiefly if not entirely the work of Jules Verne’s son, Michel Verne. In any event, many of the topics in the article echo Jules Verne’s ideas.

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Anthem
Author: Ayn Rand
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Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Ayn Rand, first published in 1938. It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered another dark age as a result of the evils of irrationality and collectivism and the weaknesses of socialistic thinking and economics. Technological advancement is now carefully planned (when it is allowed to occur at all) and the concept of individuality has been eliminated (for example, the word „I” has disappeared from the language). As is common in her work, Rand draws a clear distinction between the „socialist/communal” values of equality and brotherhood and the „productive/capitalist” values of achievement and individuality.

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Doc Sidhe
Author: Aaron Allston
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Harris came up off his jumping foot and brought the same leg up before him in extension—a flying side kick straight out of tournament demonstrations. The huge man felt like Jell-O, but he still fell over backwards. Harris hit the ground hard, too, but scrambled up instantly. „Gaby ”

The bag the man had dropped said, „Harris ” and her arm stretched out of it.

The old man said, „Mine.” He stepped out of the way. „Phipps, I need this young man removed. Adonis, get up.”

„Gaby, get the hell out of here!”

The third man pulled something from under his armpit. Harris felt fear clutching at him, but he charged and side-kicked just as Phipps got his revolver out into the open. The kick connected, knocking the man clean off his feet.

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Pagan Passions
Author: Randall Garrett & Laurence Mark Janifer
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The Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Greece and Rome had returned to Earth — with all their awesome powers intact. Overnight, Earth was transformed. War on any scale was outlawed, along with boom-and-bust economic cycles, and prudery. No change was more startling than the face of New York, where the Empire State Building became the Tower of Zeus.
In this totally altered world, William Forrester is an acolyte of Athena, Goddess of Wisdom, and a teacher of history. Only Maya Wilson, one of his students and a worshipper of Venus, Goddess of Love, had a different sort of grading in mind. Maya is the first of the many Trials of Forrester, every bit as mighty and perilous as the Labors of Hercules. In love with Gerda Symes (like him, a devotee of Athena and a frequenter of the great Temple of Pallas Athena — formerly known as the 42nd Street Library) and dedicated to the pleasures of the mind — Forrester falls under the soft, compelling pressure of soft, compelling devotees of Venus and Bacchus. He’s going to be in need of all the strength that he and his Goddess, the beautiful and intellectual Athena, can muster!

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The Ware Tetralogy
Author: Rudy Rucker
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Category: Novels, SF

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Your Guide to the 21st Century!

It starts with Software, where rebel robots bring immortality to their human creator by eating his brain. Software won the first Philip K. Dick Award.

In Wetware, the robots decide to start building people —and people get strung out on an insane new drug called merge. This cyberpunk classic garnered a second Philip K. Dick award.

By Freeware, the robots have evolved into soft plastic slugs called moldies —and some human “cheeseballs” want to have sex with them. The action redoubles when aliens begin arriving in the form of cosmic rays.

And with Realware, the humans and robots reach a higher plateau.

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Digital Knight
Author: Ryk Spoor
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When freelance information specialist Jason Wood found that a suspected drug kingpin didn’t appear on photographs, he decided to investigate, suspecting that the kingpin was actually a vampire. But things wouldn’t turn out to be that simple, and he soon found he was in danger from the last person he would have suspected. Trying to survive in a bizarre night world, Jason learns not only that vampires and werewolves really exist, but that they are part of a universe stranger than he ever imagined. . .

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The Right People
Author: Adam Rakunas
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Category: Novels, SF

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Imagine what high school would have been like if dealing drugs had been legal when licensed, mobile social networking had been ubiquitous and the in-crowd had more leverage than most political parties… what would the smart-but-slightly-crazy outcasts end up doing?

In Adam Rakunas’s novella “The Right People”, they’re in the lucrative but precarious position of selling clandestine bootleg sex toys to the overachievers, but the rug is about to be pulled out from under their operation…

It’s simultaneously a slice of full-bore gonzo science fiction blended with a Brat Pack movie, and a timely metaphor for the present presidential tussle, and Futurismic is very proud to present “The Right People” as Adam’s first fiction sale – in fact, I think we’re lucky to have found him first!

Do be warned, though – this one’s definitely not for the very young or the easily offended!

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