18 books like State Tectonics
The Appeal
Carl Trudeau is very unhappy that the Mississippi court system has ruled against his chemical company. His company was accused of dumping toxic waste into the water supply of a small town thus causing a large outbreak of cancer in the community. He proceeds to buy a seat on the Supreme Court by recruiting, manipulating and financing a candidate who he hopes will be sympathtic to his company…
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The Takeshi Kovacs Collection
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW AN EXCITING SERIES FROM NETFLIX • The shell that blew a hole in his chest was only the beginning in this “tour de force of genre-bending, a brilliantly realized exercise in science fiction.”—The New York Times Book ReviewIn the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in…
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The Constant Gardener
Frightening, heartbreaking, and exquisitely calibrated, John le Carré's new novel opens with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle near northern Kenya's Lake Turkana, the birthplace of mankind. Her putative African lover and traveling companion, a doctor with one of the aid agencies, has vanished from the scene of the crime.
Tessa's much older husband, Justin, a career…
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Blade Runner
LOS ANGELES, 2009. Il detective del LAPD Cal Moreaux indaga sulla morte di una scienziata che stava lavorando a un nuovo tipo di replicante, un sospetto suicidio. Determinato a scoprire la verità su un caso apparentemente di routine, scopre una cospirazione letale all’interno della Tyrell Corporation. Ambientato dieci anni prima del celeberrimo film Blade Runner di Ridley Scott e della serie…
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A Vision of Fire
A Vision of Fire is the explosive first novel from iconic X-Files star Gillian Anderson and New York Times bestselling author Jeff Rovin: “Fans of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child will find a lot to like” (Publishers Weekly).Renowned child psychologist Caitlin O’Hara is a single mom trying to juggle her job, her son, and a lackluster dating life. Her world is suddenly upturned when Maanik, the…
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Dark Matter
One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an abandoned industrial site and injected with a powerful drug. As he wakes, a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend." But this life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife; his…
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The Winner
She is twenty, beautiful, dirt-poor, and hoping for a better life for her infant daughter when she is offered the gift of a lifetime, a $100 million lottery jackpot. All LuAnn Tyler has to do is change her identity and leave the U.S. forever.
It’s an offer she dares to refuse…until violence forces her hand and thrusts her into a harrowing game of high-stakes, big-money subterfuge. It’s a price…
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Grey Sky Blues (An Inspector Thomas Sullivan Thriller) (Volume 3)
xi, 308 pages ; 22 cm
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How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobucar
A dark, fast-moving novelette, Rich Larson's "How Quini the Squid Misplaced His Klobucar," is a Tor.com original short story about a high-tech heist in future Spain, planned by a professional thief who's interested in revenge more than money. The object in question is in the hands of a dangerous crime lord.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management…
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Invasão Capivara
Uma invasão de capivaras cyberpunk transforma uma noite tranquila em caos global. Armadas e adoráveis, essas criaturas assumem o controle do planeta com eficiência impiedosa. Este livro único combina suspense e uma dose saudável de fofura em uma distopia cyberpunk que irá mantê-lo na ponta de sua cadeira. Prepare-se para se curvar aos seus novos soberanos capivaras!
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Waking Gods
"26 years ago: A girl in South Dakota falls through the earth, then wakes up dozens of feet below ground on the palm of what seems to be a giant metal hand. 9 years ago: She is a top-level physicist leading a team of people to understand exactly what that hand is, where it came from, and what it portends for humanity. Today: with the remainder of the giant robot found and assembled, every…
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Stations of the Tide
The story of a nameless bureaucrat who is sent by the Office of Technology Transfer, charged with restricting the flow of dangerous technologies, to the planet Miranda to search for a fugitive in possession of forbidden technological knowledge. His search is complicated by his quarry's deep local knowledge and the imminence of the continent-inundating Jubilee tides, which have thrown the world…
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Black Man
Winner of the 2008 Arthur C. Clarke Award
Published as Black Man in the UK and Thirteen in North America
Carl Marsalis is a traitor, a bringer of death, a genetic freak and an unwelcome reminder of all that is dark in the human psyche – he in every sense of the word a Black Man. And right at the moment he’s beyond the UN’s jurisdiction, banged up in a Florida jail for financing an illegal…
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The emperor of shoes
"Alex Cohen, a twenty-six-year-old Jewish Bostonian, is living in southern China, where his father runs their family-owned shoe factory. Alex reluctantly assumes the helm of the company, but as he explores the plant's vast floors and assembly lines, he comes to a grim realization: employees are exploited, regulatory systems are corrupt and Alex's own father is engaging in bribes to protect the…
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Thin air
"From the moment Richard K. Morgan's dazzling debut, Altered Carbon, burst onto the scene, it was clear that a distinctive new voice had arrived to shake up science fiction. His subsequent novels--including the sequels Broken Angels and Woken Furies--confirmed him as a master of hard-boiled futuristic thrillers. Now Morgan returns to the world of SF noir with a riveting tale of crime, corruption,…
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Black Water Rising
Writing in the tradition of Dennis Lehane and Greg Iles, Attica Locke, a powerful new voice in American fiction, delivers a brilliant debut thriller that readers will not soon forget. Jay Porter is hardly the lawyer he set out to be. His most promising client is a low-rent call girl and he runs his fledgling law practice out of a dingy strip mall. But he's long since made peace with not living…
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The Rooster Bar
"Mark, Todd, and Zola came to law school to change the world, to make it a better place. But now, as third-year students, these close friends realize they have been duped. They all borrowed heavily to attend a third-tier, for-profit law school so mediocre that its graduates rarely pass the bar exam, let alone get good jobs. And when they learn that their school is one of a chain owned by a shady…
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Mirrorshades - Una Antologia Ciberpunk
"The definitive cyberpunk short fiction collection."
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