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Poetic Retribution From Mars
The leadership of a country under an immense pressure from the world community to reform its atrocious political system, decided to send a spaceship loaded with world-renowned scientists to undertake a make believe research programme on the moon for a period of one year. This decoy did not go as planned and the spaceship, which was largely controlled by computers from Earth, could not land on the moon. Unfortunately, an attempt to bring it back to Earth failed when it bounced off the Earth’s atmosphere and proceeded to fly away at an ever-increasing speed. The marooned scientists developed various means of passing the time while they awaited the inevitable death. However, after nearly a year of wandering through the universe the spaceship landed on a planet, which turned out to be Mars but with conditions completely at variance with what is known on Earth about this planet. What the Martians learnt about the socio-political conditions on Earth displeased them enormously. They therefore sent the scientists back with an ultimatum for the world’s leadership, asking Earth to change its ways so that an acceptable interplanetary discourse could be established. The leadership of the world threw down the gauntlet and embarked upon a secret mission to bomb Mars out of existence. This was detected by the Martians and set the two planets on a collision course, with the winner of the encounter not much in doubt.
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Pilgrim's Ark
“It was flared out as if it were a cosmic parachute.
In this firmament, where Earth was just another pinprick, an object chilled with veins of superfluid and superconductive memories traversed the final remnants of the Oort cloud.”When software specialist Mike Brazier from SETI detects the arrival of an enigmatic visitor, it triggers an evolutionary chain of events. But, with humanity on the cusp of becoming a hive mind, their linked futures need a guiding hand.
As agitators exploit tensions between the augmented and the disillusioned, the path to survival must unfold covertly or awaken revolt. Can it be navigated without the help of Earth’s emergent conscious AI?
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Parvon Zin Koban Hunter
Thought you knew about history? Think again. The dinosaurs were not killed off by an asteroid strike, the Koban in their thousands did that. They are still here, and have been throughout history, killing and eating millions.
But now there is only one shapeshifting Koban hunter left, and only he and his acid-tongued AI stand in the way of the Koban turning humans into nothing more than cattle.
Alterative history with a science fiction twist.
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Paper Snow
Noah wakes up with no conscious memory of who he is or where he came from. He discovers a pattern, others who share the exact same problem. Noah and the others discover that they are more than just people who’ve lost their memories – they are empaths. Each of them is a specific type of empath and must join forces to uncover the truth of their reality. Noah is an intuitive empath who can manifest his dreams into reality, but the more he taps into his dreams, the darker the truth becomes.
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Our Man On Mars
Will they end up killing one another? That’s what concerns the authorities as much as the scientific and technical hurdles of sending folk to Mars. So they address the human issues, as they would in an army, by appointing a chaplain.
The Church of Scotland considers this post just right for Steve McKay, one of their more wayward recruits. Steve finds he is off to a parish more remote and barren than he had ever imagined. However, he discovers that the remoteness creates a heightened awareness of the meaning of life and they share some Earth-shattering revelations.
Deep thinker he may be, but Steve is no saint. He muddles through offering his brand of care and support, both in the chaplaincy and increasingly in the Mars Bar. A misdemeanour on his part finally leads to Life on Mars in a way unforeseen by the authorities.
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Our Future Selves
Imagine waking up inside someone else’s body, and in a different century. What would you do? How would the new world around you react to you? This is what happens all the time to Zak Emblin, an editor from 21st century Birmingham, UK, and Sarah Templeman, a prison service doctor from twenty second century New Palm Springs, USA, who are ‘reincarnaters’, connected across time by a shared soul.
Imagine you are a bright, young scientist, Carmen Fry, who stumbles across the truth behind reincarnation. All you need is a subject to prove your theory to the world, but you can’t find one. Until one day, when you are chatting online, you find Zak, and are immediately attracted to him.
This is the story of three people, caught in a love triangle, sharing a secret that no-one else will believe, that when we die we form a connection with a future self, who shares our reincarnated soul. A connection so strong that sometimes we can become that future person and they can become us. We can swap bodies across time.
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odd ys e
Pronounced ‘ann iss e’, odd ys e tells of a journey through space and time of an ‘alien’ people that found their way to this world just over six thousand years ago; they called themselves ‘gann’. Being all killed in an unforeseen circumstance, they now survive in the afterlife where they have been interacting on a subconscious level with the humans of Earth in an attempt to find their way back to reality. This true story is told by kynn, a gann soul who found his way back to reality and now walks the Earth as a man named Brian. The words of ‘odd ys e’ have been written with purpose—a message left for kynn by kynn in the event he may read it somewhere in the future if reborn back into reality, hopefully speeding up an awareness of who, what and why he is. But when all is written and done, the only consideration one should put to memory is:
“Death is simply a doorway to the next life. All one has to know is what path one must travel, to retain consciousness of self.”
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No Time for Second Thoughts
A geneticist working at the forefront of genetic cloning is confronted by the desperation of a woman to have her husband’s child before his premature death. After failing every available fertility treatment, Droshky and Janson initiate the cloning of Rex to implant a genetically cloned foetus in Alexis’ uterus. Zev, and Malcolm, friends of Janson, together hatch an idea to create a colony where women can incubate cloned babies. Alexis’ baby is born, and many join the colony at Woomera under the trio’s control, their fates inextricably linked to the cloning of genetically superior people.
The words of Nostradamus and others act as a fated guide. A fast-paced story designed to make the reader think about human development and the inevitable nature of life. By weaving ancient morality with modern day technological themes together form a story that questions the boundaries of science. A psychological narrative based on potentially devastating ramifications of human genetic cloning.
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Metaverse Unfolds
As the earth’s environment and ecosystems become increasingly degraded, humans must rely on the advanced technology of the unfolding METAVERSE to survive. In this thrilling and fast-moving novel, we explore the transience of human frailty through themes of lust, jealousy, greed, betrayal, intrigue, murder, and the sacrifice of immortality for love. With the limitations of our current environment, many choose to spend much of their time in virtual reality, where they can enjoy a sense of home, family, and the beauty of nature. However, as millions flock to this virtual world, it becomes increasingly likely that we, and those around us, are simply part of a virtual journey. Will you join us in the METAVERSE?
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Masters of Life and Universe
Open provocative concepts, new challenges and new chances to swiftly exit the stone age of … today’s technology, the economy – by the way, global (cosmic) politics too – mind, and belief; do not take into consideration today’s already-old technologies and thoughts over 100 years old.
Super-fast cloning, self-replicating accelerator technology for urban, cosmological, and medical purposes; as salvage or hecatomb for an entire civilization, earth, and space.
Instant explosion speed of two-way (for macro and micro versions) development of cell, robotic mega towns for shaping our whole life, whole environment, whole planet, and whole universe; in harmony with natural cosmic technology – like a cell or big bang path of development – with needs of citizens, potentially providing support by mobile applications tools.
The book is a vision for a new definition of nature or for redefining of nature.
Really the mass self-replicating production on an unimaginable scale - not line but geometric progress productions (billion times billion more efficient) can give chance to cope or overhaul nature, take over initiative to make things matching or outperform nature structures and by the way... features like exceed limits of speed(of light) and...life.
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Master Builders
Chris finds himself in a foreign environment and form, ten light years from Earth after his untimely death. His mentor, Brian, explains the new order of things. He discovers that he is now in a mechanical shell and bemoans his loss of some body parts. Chris joins three other junior builders, that have been tasked to seed the universe with newly tailored and tested sentient beings. Chris gets into trouble with the Sentient Species Test and Evaluation Facility management but is then instrumental in saving Earth from an Orion reptilian attack. He interacts constructively with the galactic federation based in the Pleiades, leading to the resurrection of an old treaty between Earth’s United Nations and the federation.
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Marsupial Tracks
As a jaded regular in the city’s underground music scene, the only thing that mattered to Jacob Blythe was punk rock. When the arrival of a mysterious girl tempts him into seeing a vision of the world that exists beyond the confines of his cosmic nihilism, Jacob finds himself helpless to resist it.
Now, sitting alone in an unfamiliar train station, and possessing no memory of how he got there, Jacob has no choice but to piece together the scattered remnants of this fractured past before he is consumed by the sinister creature chasing him.
With time running out and one of the greatest punk bands of all time about to take the stage, Jacob has only one chance to discover the answers to life’s most complicated questions.
If only he and his friends hadn’t drunk so much first…
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