18 books like Vortex
Murderworld
Perry Dunne, San Francisco corporate lawyer, is forced by his bullying boss to play the world's most popular game, the vast, ultra-real, blood-drenched simulation MURDERWORLD. His task: enhance his legal firm's prestige by earning five kills during the current tournament—or get fired.
When Perry crosses paths with homicide virtuoso Mari Night, he seizes the chance to hire her as his mentor, not…
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Follow your heart
The concepts in this book ring true with practical, applicable advice, and Matthews's lucid writing and witty stories help bring his message into sharp focus. Follow Your Heart is everything you could ask for in a self-help book. It is about doing what you love, dealing with bills and disasters, discovering your own power, and finding peace of mind. Start down the road to changing your life…
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Ready Player One
In the year 2044. reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines--puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can…
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Isaac Asimov's Robot City 1 - Odyssey
Beyond Aurora awaits a brave new world...of robots! A man without memory is stranded in a world-enveloping city filled with robots gone wild. At his side is a mysterious young woman who claims to know who he is but refuses to tell him. According to the Three Laws of Robotics, "A robot may not injure a human being," which narrows the suspects dramatically when the robots find a dead human body.…
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Robots and Empire
Esta quinta novela de la «Serie de los robots» supone un sensacional hito en la galaxia de ciencia ficción de Asimov y constituye la apasionante continuación del bestseller Los robots del amanecer .
En Robots e imperio vemos cómo el futuro del universo corre peligro. Aunque se han debilitado las fuerzas de los siniestros Spacers, el doctor Kelden Amadiro no ha olvidado -ni perdonado- su…
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Neuromancer
The first of William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, Neuromancer is the classic cyberpunk novel. The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer was the first fully-realized glimpse of humankind’s digital future — a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about our technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our…
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PopularMMOs Presents A Hole New World
An accidental trip into the underworld sends Pat and Jen on an adventure, but their attempts to flee puts them face-to-face with the most evil villain of all, Evil Jen.
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The Complete Adventures of Charlie and Willy Wonka (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory / Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator)
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Opening Moves
The Earth is changing. The alien invasion brought social upheaval, advanced technology, and an armada of peacekeeping robots. But Alan, a college student pursuing a now-useless degree, cares little about all of this. He has only one thing on his mind: the Game.A fully immersive virtual reality, the Game appears to be a major part of the invading civilization. Alan can't wait to play, recklessly…
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How To Stop Worrying And Start Living
Stop Worrying ...
Slow Down...
Enjoy Life!
Dale Carnegie's proven techniques have helped millions to adopt new mental attitudes leading to security and happiness, teaching them to break the worry habit —forever:
• Practical, tested formulas for conquering anxiety
• How to eliminate 50 percent of business worries immediately
• How to reduce financial worries
• How to turn criticism to your…
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Staying On The Path
The wit and wisdom of Dr. Wayne Dyer is reflected in this extraordinary collection of inspirational quotes and observations. Whether you're already on "the path" or just doing your best to get there, this audio book will give you the impetus to keep moving forward. Sample quote: The measure of your life won't be in what you accumulate; it will be in what you gave.
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The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
Includes a bonus excerpt of Robin Sharma's upcoming The Secret Letters of the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari.
With more than four million copies sold in fifty-one languages, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari launched a bestselling series and continues to help people from every walk of life live with far greater success, happiness and meaning in these times of dramatic uncertainty.
The Monk Who Sold His…
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三体
Cixin Liu's trilogy-opening novel about first contact with aliens and the clandestine struggle with them over Earth's future, and its scientific progress in particular.
Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space in an attempt to make contact with aliens—and they succeed. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures…
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Lunyu
"Formulated in the ruins of a society that had been founded on untenable spiritualistic concepts of governance, Confucius' philosophy postulated a humanistic social order that has survived as China's social ideal ever since." "Confucius' teachings are very literary in nature. The Analects is made up of dialogues, stories, and anecdotes, always aphoristic and full of poetic turns of…
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The Sirens of Titan
"His best book," Esquire wrote of Kurt Vonnegut's 1959 novel The Sirens of Titan, adding, "he dares not only to ask the ultimate question about the meaning of life, but to answer it." This novel fits into that aspect of the Vonnegut canon that might be classified as science fiction, a quality that once led Time to describe Vonnegut as "George Orwell, Dr. Caligari and Flash Gordon compounded into…
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The Martian Chronicles
This is a collection of science fiction short stories, cleverly cobbled together to form a coherent and very readable novel about a future colonization of Mars. As the stories progress chronologically the author tells how the first humans colonized Mars, initially sharing the planet with a handful of Martians. When Earth is devastated by nuclear war the colony is left to fend for itself and the…
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The Terminal Man
The classic thriller and "New York Times" bestseller is reissued with a new look. Prone to violent seizures, Harry Benson undergoes an experimental procedure that implants electrodes in his brain, sending soothing pulses to the brain's pleasure canyon. However, Harry learns how to control the pulses and increase their frequency. Harry then escapes--a homicidal maniac loose in the city--and…
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Your Word Is Your Wand
"La palabra del hombre es una varita cargada de magia y poder. Jesucristo insistió en el poder de la palabra: "Por tus palabrás serás justificado y por tus palabras serás condenado", y "La Muerte y la Vida están en el poder de la lengua". Así, el hombre tiene el poder de cambiar una situación adversa al utilizar la varita mágica que es su palabra."--P. [4] of cover.
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