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1) Bug's A-Life
Author
Publisher
Sobbing Squonk Press
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Something small and silvery-black whisked across the screen. It was gone so quickly it was as if it had somehow noticed her observing it.The homeowner scowled. "What am I looking at?"Sarah said, "You've got robots.""Oh, god," the homeowner said with a breathy exhalation. "This isn't going to be cheap, is it?"
Author
Publisher
Elizabeth Bear
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
A man has been turned inside-out.Fifty years in the future, in the sleek modern city of Bangalore, a scientist working on revolutionary bioengineering techniques has been discovered inside his own locked home, his body converted into a neat toroidal package of meat. It's up to Police Sub-Inspector Ferron to unearth the victim's complicated past and solve the crime, despite the best efforts of the mastermind behind the murder, aliens beaming signals...
Author
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In Old Earth’s clandestine world of ambassador-spies, Michelangelo Kusanagi-Jones and Vincent Katherinessen were once a starring team. But ever since a disastrous mission, they have been living separate lives in a universe dominated by a ruthless Coalition—one that is about to reunite them. The pair are dispatched to New Amazonia as diplomatic agents Allegedly, they are to return priceless art. Covertly, they seek to tap its energy supply. But...
Author
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A frontier world on the back end of nowhere is the sort of place people go to get lost. And some of those people have secrets worth hiding, secrets that can change the future–assuming there is one. . . . André Deschênes is a hired assassin, but he wants to be so much more. If only he can find a teacher who will forgive his murderous past–and train him to manipulate odds and control probability. It’s called the art of conjuring, and it’s...
Author
Series
Jacob's Ladder trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
On a broken ship orbiting a doomed sun, dwellers have grown complacent with their aging metal world. But when a serving girl frees a captive noblewoman, the old order is about to change.... Rien is the lost child: her sister. Soon they will escape, hoping to stop the impending war and save both their houses. But it is a perilous journey through the crumbling hulk of a dying ship, and they do not pass unnoticed. Because at the hub of their turning...
6) Chill
Author
Series
Jacob's Ladder trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Sometimes the greatest sin is survival.
The generation ship Jacob’s Ladder has barely survived cataclysms from without and within. Now, riding the shock wave of a nova blast toward an uncertain destiny, the damaged ship—the only world its inhabitants have ever known—remains a war zone. Even as Perceval, the new captain, struggles to come to terms with the traumas of her recent past, the remnants of rebellion...
The generation ship Jacob’s Ladder has barely survived cataclysms from without and within. Now, riding the shock wave of a nova blast toward an uncertain destiny, the damaged ship—the only world its inhabitants have ever known—remains a war zone. Even as Perceval, the new captain, struggles to come to terms with the traumas of her recent past, the remnants of rebellion...
7) Worldwired
Author
Series
Jenny Casey trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
As long as there’s an Earth to defend, Jenny Casey has a job. But she may outlast the world she was custom-built to save. . . . Give Canada’s Master Warrant Officer Jenny Casey an inch and she’ll take a galaxy. That’s just the kind of person a world on the brink of destruction needs. The year is 2063, and Earth has been brutalized. An asteroid flung at Toronto by the PanChinese government has killed tens of millions and left the equivalent...
8) Hammered
Author
Series
Jenny Casey trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
-- “A gritty and painstakingly well-informed peek at a future we’d all better hope we don’t get . . . Elizabeth Bear builds her future nightmare tale with style and conviction and a constant return to the twists of the human heart.”—Richard Morgan
9) Scardown
Author
Series
Jenny Casey trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
She wasn’t born for this mission. She was modified for it. The year is 2062, and after years on the run, Jenny Casey is back in the Canadian armed forces. Those who were once her enemies are now her allies, and at fifty, she’ s been handpicked for the most important mission of her life—a mission for which her artificially reconstructed body is perfectly suited. With the earth capable of sustaining life for just another century, Jenny—as pilot...
10) Grail
Author
Series
Jacob's Ladder trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Rife with intrigue and betrayal, heroism and sacrifice, Grail At last the generation ship Jacob’s Ladder On Grail—or Fortune, rather—Premier Danilaw views the approach of the Jacob’s Ladder with dread. Behind the diplomatic niceties of first-contact protocol, he knows that the deadly game being played is likely to erupt into full-blown war—even civil war. For as he strives to chart a peaceful and prosperous path forward for his people,...
Author
Publisher
Prime Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A compilation of short science fiction and fantasy from Elizabeth Bear-tales of myth and mythic resonance, fantasies both subtle and epic in tone; hard science fiction and speculations about an unknowable universe. This collection, showcasing Bear's unique imagination and singular voice, includes her Hugo- and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winning story "Tideline" and Hugo-winning novelette, "Shoggoths in Bloom," as well as an original, never-published...