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28th April 2014
Amazon.com Kindle books:-
The Game (The Game is Life) by Terry Schott
NOTE:- Very intertesting plot, but this book is the first part in a series and needs warnings for spelling & grammer problems.
PART 1 of 4
"What if life as we know it was just a game?
What if, instead of traditional schools, children learned by participating in a virtual reality simulation, one that allowed them to experience "life" from birth to death -- multiple times?
What if one player, on his final play, could change the world forever...?"
28th April 2014
Amazon.co.uk Kindle books:-
Breakers (Book 1) by Edward W. Robertson
In New York, Walt Lawson is about to lose his girlfriend Vanessa. In Los Angeles, Raymond and Mia James are about to lose their house. Within days, none of it will matter.
When Vanessa dies of the flu, Walt is devastated. But she isn't the last. The virus quickly kills billions, reducing New York to an open grave and LA to a chaotic wilderness of violence and fires. As Raymond and Mia hole up in an abandoned mansion, where they learn to function without electricity, running water, or neighbors, Walt begins an existential walk to LA, where Vanessa had planned to move when she left him. He expects to die along the way.
Months later, a massive vessel appears above Santa Monica Bay. Walt is attacked by a crablike monstrosity in a mountain stream. The virus that ended humanity wasn't created by humans. It was inflicted from outside. The colonists who sent it are ready to finish the job--and Earth's survivors may be too few and too weak to resist.
The Chronicles of Riddick: Ghosts of Furya by S.M. Welles
First Sergeant Jade Waters and her squad have been deployed to investigate rumors surrounding Necromogers and what took place when they invaded Furya years ago. Many rumors exist but whatever the truth is, they need answers so they can better protect themselves in the inevitability that the Necromongers will discover Earth one day.
9th February 2014
Amazon.com Kindle books:-
Fiction:-
Dark Space by Jasper T. Scott
Ten years ago the Sythians invaded the galaxy with one goal: to wipe out the human race.
Now the survivors are hiding in the last human sector of the galaxy: Dark Space--once a place of exile for criminals, now the last refuge of mankind.
The once galaxy-spanning Imperium of Star Systems is left guarding the gate which is the only way in or out of Dark Space--but not everyone is satisfied with their governance.
Freelancer and ex-convict Ethan Ortane is on the run. He owes crime lord Alec Brondi 10,000 sols, and his ship is badly damaged. When Brondi catches up with him, he makes an offer Ethan can't refuse. Ethan must infiltrate and sabotage the Valiant, the Imperial Star Systems Fleet carrier which stands guarding the entrance of Dark Space, and then his debt will be cleared. While Ethan is still undecided about what he will do, he realizes that the Imperium has been lying and putting all of Dark Space at risk. Now Brondi's plan is starting to look like a necessary evil, but before Ethan can act on it, he discovers that the real plan was much more sinister than what he was told, and he will be lucky to escape the Valiant alive. . . .
Glitch by N.M. Lombardi
Gabriel, an android, is surrendered for reconditioning after a lifetime of experimental abuse at the hands of a sadistic and psychotic owner.
Responsible for his physical repair, Marguerite must also address the obvious psychological scarring on a device -- or is it a person? -- she just barely believes has feelings at all.
21th January 2014
Amazon.com Kindle books:-
Fiction:-
Buried Hope (Spes) by XJ Selman
The world is dead... and for a thousand years, they've hidden.
The citizens claim they love Spes, the underground city where they evade the deadly toxins of the surface world, but the walls never end and the guards never cease to watch. There is a longing to escape, and a hope that someday the world might live again.
But how do the people know what they are told is truth? How far will they go to trust the unknown, and how much will they fight for that they cannot have?
1st January 2014
Amazon.com Kindle books:-
Fiction:-
The Mysterious Island (Illustrated Classics) by Jules Verne
Too Much Information by David Haskell
In a world overshadowed by the impendence of terrorism, with pandemics threatening an equal measure of havoc, Thermo-Magnetic Imaging machines represent a seemingly perfect solution. But as privacy and health concerns grow ever more complex, this cutting edge technology delivers more than anyone had bargained for. While the forces behind the scenes fight to conceal their true agenda, the public struggles to cope with a new paradigm so invasive their innermost secrets are laid bare under its powerful lens.
Rob Folsom is a civil liberties activist, a staunch defender of privacy rights. Rosa Perez, a government agent specializing in surveillance, seems an unlikely candidate for him to represent. As Rob is pulled into her world of high-tech spying, corporate intrigue, and black ops government agencies, he becomes caught in a perilous game of cat and mouse. As the target of interest switches from client to advocate, Rob has to find a way to stop them before they sabotage everything he has worked for...
How to Succeed in Evil by Patrick E. McLean
(Editor's Note: 3rd edition, professionally edited, updated 1/7/2012)
How to Succeed in Evil is the story of Edwin Windsor, Evil Efficiency Consultant. He tries to help supervillains be more villainous. Or at least more profitable and sensible about the business side of Evil.
Along with his very proper and English secretary Agnes and his hench-lawyer Topper, he struggles to make the world of superpowered people make sense. But this is very difficult because, while Edwin's advice is excellent, all of his clients are too egomaniacal to listen. There is, it must be said, a bit of comedy in this work.
Edwin struggles with a cast of characters including, Dr. Loeb, a trust fund child who desperately wants to be an Evil Genius, but has none of the talent. Dr. Loebâ's hideous mother, Iphagenia - who's evil scheme is to foment a second Southern Rebellion, beginning with Lower Alabama. And the Cromogoldon, a brute with forehead villainous low and quite possibly the strongest creature on the planet.
Inevitably, Edwin's unique clientele lead him into direct conflict with the greatest superhero of them all, Excelsior. And so, the quiet, restrained intellectual is pitted against heroic force.
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