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  Mortal Vestige The: A Tech Noir...

  Zachry Wheeler

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  Book Three of the award-winning tech noir series. 
  The world writhes as a remorseless terror sweeps across the planet. The age of immortals is drawing to a close and the vestige of humanity lies in tatters. 
  Jonas, the failed leader of the human resistance, is adrift in a world that rejected him. 
  Having witnessed the cold cruelty of annihilation, he spent hours in a state of debilitating shock. But now he must venture back to the ruins of civilization in search of hope. 
  Praise for the Immortal Wake: 
  "Exceptionally well-written, thought-provoking." —Lex Allen, Readers' Favorite 
  "A fascinating take on the vampire mythos." —Keith Lane, TG Geeks 
  "A philosophical and cultural foray." —Victor Acquista, Podfobler Productions 
  "The world-building ... is simply amazing." —Geoff Habiger, Artemesia Publishing 
  "Gripping suspense that keeps you reading." —S.E. Sasaki, author of The Grace Lord Series

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  Game of Serfs: Book Three

  Michael Anderle

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  Not everyone is happy with what Benjy and Marty are building. Rather, they're unhappy that they're not the ones in charge. 
   
   
   
  The birth pangs of a new community are hard enough to navigate, but what happens when jealousy leads to a rivalry that could strangle this newborn wonder? 
   
   
   
  While others scheme, Benjy and Marty have a kingdom to establish, mouths to feed, and shelter to provide. There are raiders to repel, secrets to uncover in the dungeons, and subjects to appoint to the kingdom's offices. 
   
   
   
  The right royal mason will raise strong walls, but the wrong one could send them crumbling with one fell stroke of hammer on chisel. 
   
   
   
  The crown may be heavy, but that doesn't mean one man must bear it all alone. Trusting people is a necessary vulnerability, and they must choose wisely. The dragons have changed the world forever, and now they are searching for dominions to claim as their own. 
   
   
   
  Benjy's and Marty's experiment in self-government looks like a tasty treat to snatch up while it is still so young and tender. 
   
   
   
  Can our heroes protect the safe haven for humanity they've created? Or will the overwhelming odds of internal plotting and fire-breathing enemies at their door prove too much to handle?

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  The Blazing World

  Margaret Cavendish

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  'I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security.'
  
  Part romance, part adventure story, The Blazing World is a seventeenth century classic, and a prime example of proto-science fiction.
  
  Often considered an early feminist work, Cavendish compellingly chronicles how a young Lady became a powerful empress of a fantastical parallel kingdom. Captured by a lustful merchant in the hope of marrying the young woman, we first find our protagonist travelling towards the North Pole, unsure of her future. But soon the merchant and his crew freeze to death, allowing the young Lady to escape and discover a pole to an alternative land: the Blazing World. Here, the laws of science and nature are upturned: peculiar hybrid creatures – with animal bodies but minds like humans – inhabit the kingdom. Believed to be a goddess by the Emperor of Paradise city, the young woman soon becomes betrothed to the leader of the strange land, and is able to rule and govern the world as she pleases. This audiobook edition is brilliantly brought to life by Karen Cass.
  Margaret Cavendish (1632 – 1673), Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, was a successful poet, playwright, scientist and philosopher. She was one of the first women of her time to publish extensively under her own name, and used her work to explore topics such as gender, marriage and courtship.

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  Lester del Ray: The Dwindling...

  Lester del Ray

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  Would you like to be practically immortal? No longer to count your years singly nor in decades but in centuries instead? Would such a prospect sound promising to you? 
  Lester del Ray’s short story The Dwindling Years, which was first published in 1956, is set in a world in which humans have found the key to a seemingly everlasting life by tapping the memory of the human cells and using it for rejuvenating the complete body over and over again and thus expanding life by centuries. What, however, are the side effects of this apparent gain in longevity? For starters, human relations are wearing thin because after seventy or a hundred years your attachment to another individual, even to your own children or parents, will cool off. Another side effect is that people’s readiness to take risks, and be they ever so unspectacular, has utterly declined, partly because the danger of losing a leg or an arm in an accident is more horrible if you know that the consequences will have to be borne for centuries now; and partly because why should you take a risk to bring about a change – e.g. by testing a new technology – if you have all the time in the world to see if you cannot achieve your aim in a less dangerous way. The result of this mindset is an increase in safety measures and a very conservative attitude towards change in general.

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  Bastard

  Alexey Osadchuk

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  In a former life, Jack was gifted, meaning he possessed peculiar abilities. If rich folks found themselves in a jam, Jack could use his talents to get them out of it. Where others were sure to fail, Jack's aristocratic clientele could always count on him to finish jobs cleanly, efficiently, and leave no trace, for which his services commanded a hefty fee. 
   
   
   
  But one day, Jack picked a fight with the wrong man and his old life came to an end. But, as it turned out, his story was far from over. 
   
   
   
  A mysterious supernatural being whisked Jack's consciousness away and into the body of a young nobleman living in a different world in the multiverse—a magical one. 
   
   
   
  In it, he must play the part of Max Renard, illegitimate son of a traitor who was recently executed on orders from the king, which caused Max to lose his home and be forced to dwell in a small town on the western outskirts of the kingdom. 
   
   
   
  And now this new life—his last life—is the one he must lead . . .

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  Lazarus Come Forth

  Ray Bradbury

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  "Lazarus Come Forth" by Ray Bradbury is a science fiction short story.
  The Morgue Ship had gleaned information from space that would end the three hundred year war, knowledge that would defeat the aggressor Martians—if Brandon could carry it to Earth…

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