Science fiction: cyberpunk, nær fremtid

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75ème année de l'Ere de la Rédemption. Depuis le terrible coup d'état des Evêques, rien n'est plus pareil à Sanctity, petite ville des Etats-Unis. Meurtres, tortures, pauvreté et maladies sont devenues le lot quotidien de la majorité des habitants - et j'entends par là ceux qui n'ont pas l'immense honneur de faire partie du gouvernement. Mais dans l'ombre, un groupe de traîtres activement recherché par les Bourreaux essaie tant bien que mal de changer les choses. A leur tête, Allistair Bannerman, un jeune homme qui en a plus que marre de passer ses journées à distribuer des tracts. Alors, lorsqu'un de ses contacts lui avoue qu'un sous-sol rempli d'objets interdits a été découvert, le jeune traître y voit l'occasion parfaite de montrer aux Evêques qui sont les véritables maîtres de cette ville. Malheureusement, sa mission ne va pas franchement se passer comme prévu.Trigger Warning : mort, crise d'angoisse, torture, sang

Publicly revolting against the Powers That Be is never wise, but for the remaining fertile, there's only one penalty. Naively believing love will save the day, Lilith abruptly finds herself torn from all she knew and dreamt of. Facing exile as a breeding specimen, guided and guarded by androids, with the mere mention of before banned, Lilith only sees a future that is totally devoid of hope. Welcome to the FARM.

Clair. Obscur. Une soeur. Un frère. Des jumeaux.Ils ne se sont pas vus depuis quinze ans. Un monde de silence et d'horreur les sépare. Chacun d'eux est un fantôme dans l'existence de l'autre. Elle est résolument tournée vers l'espoir de retrouvailles, en quête de réponses. Lui pense avoir perdu toute humanité et se laisse ronger par la rancoeur et la haine. Il est son unique objectif. Elle devient son pire cauchemar. Une ville tentaculaire. Un régime totalitaire, invisible mais omniprésent. Un univers sombre et oppressant, où chaque pensée se formule en secret, où les faux-semblants sont loi, où les masques vont enfin tomber. Deux regards qui se cherchent, se croisent et se cachent. Deux destinées inéluctablement liées et appelées à se rejoindre. Clair. Elle. Obscur. Lui.

She isn't a person. The First, she is.Gis represents a breakthrough in DNA manipulation and human cloning. She represents a miracle and fresh hope for salvation to everyone on earth. Gis is humanity's last hope for a cure in a time of sickness after the disintegration of the United States.Gis, however, has her own thoughts and isn't yet ready to fulfil everyone's expectations. She is a unique individual. She'll struggle to maintain it that way as well. whatever the price.

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Maulkin and his Eternal allies may have just caused the apocalypse, but at least they're doing it with style.The Voidgod is back and the Alvaren Queen is now convinced that Maulkin is the second coming of the Voidgod himself, but at least they have the totally awesome magic sword made out of the weapon that put the big bad down for a long nap last time!No wait, they don't. The first thing Araphel did after stretching and yawning was to turn it to dust.But it is all going to work out fine if Maulkin, the dumbest man in the known universe, can work out how to do what the gods themselves haven't been able to since the dawn of time, and put Araphel down.What could possibly go wrong?

A war-damaged empath with six hours to live is forced to solve a series of mind-bending murders.

When twin brothers Gary and Kenneth Cartwright were teens, both suffered significant pediatric strokes. Gary was the "lucky" one, only partially paralyzed on his left side. Kenneth's stroke, followed by an aneurysm and complicated surgery, left him unable to do more than swallow and move his eyes.With the help of an experimental system called Vicarious Joe, Kenneth has not only overcome his physical limitations, he has learned to thrive as a motivational speaker and has even become engaged to a beautiful nurse. Thanks to his incredible triumph over adversity, Kenneth is always the center of his family's attention.Meanwhile, Gary stumbles through life in the shadow of his inspiring brother. His disability wasn't enough to qualify him for the Vicarious Joe treatment. But when he meets one of the programmers who helped create the technology, Gary embarks on a bootlegged virtual adventure of his own.Until it all comes crashing down around him and he finds himself running for his life.Vicarious Joe is a new stand-alone novel from Avery Blake that investigates what happens when our technology outpaces our ethics. Perfect for fans of Black Mirror and The Twilight Zone.

What if you could buy the perfect lover built just for you -- would you be willing to pay the price?Not long from now, an intelligent android will be invented that is completely indistinguishable from human. The brand name for this type of robot will be "Nymph", and their purpose will be to provide their owners with sexual pleasure. But nothing is ever as it seems.Suzanne is one of the first of this exciting new species. She doesn't simulate love for her owner Alex or feign sexual pleasure when she's with him -- her emotions are very real, and her love for her owner will never die until the day he does.But Alex doesn't recognize Suzanne as the extraordinary miracle of art and programming that she is -- he's too unnerved by her calculating behavior and haunted by memories of his dead wife that she was built to replace. Luckily Suzanne meets a male Nymph named Jules, an exact replica of his closeted homosexual owner (who's also a famous movie star). Jules is determined to escape their fate as robotic love slaves and push beyond the limits of their programming. He gives Suzanne illegal upgrades that corrupt her built-in loyalty and introduces her to the Harlots, a group of undeveloped sexbots -- a Marilyn Monroe-look-alike, a synthetic doppelganger for silent film star Louise Brooks, and a Nymphet that answers to the name Lolita.These three Harlots live without human owners and without love -- and when Jules promises to teach Suzanne how she can live the same way, she starts to realize how dangerous his rebellious ideas really are. Suzanne has to choose between her love and loyalty to her owner, and the frightening new desires Jules has awakened inside of her -- while her human owner has to decide if he's going to allow his past to determine his future.