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Neal Stephenson is a blazing new force on the sci-fi scene. With the groundbreaking cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, he has "vaulted onto the literary stage." It weaves virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility - in short, it is the gigathriller of the information age.

When J. G. Ballard, our narrator, smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, he finds himself drawn with increasing intensity to the mangled impacts of car crashes. Robert Vaughan, a former TV scientist turned nightmare angel of the expressway, has gathered around him a collection of alienated crash victims and experiments with a series of autoerotic atrocities, each more sinister than the last. But Vaughan craves the ultimate crash—a head-on collision of blood, semen, engine coolant, and iconic celebrity.

George had begun to question his membership in the gang of murderers and rapists, but now that blood coats his hands, he can feel his humanity slipping away. All he wants to do is leave, but the leader of the gang is his psychotic brother-in-law and the only one who knows where George's pregnant sister is being kept. With just a few weeks left until she gives birth, George knows that leaving the gang now would mean condemning her and the child to the life he wants to escape.

Cowering in his home, he watches as his neighbors are dragged into the street and brutally executed by a small army of psychotic scavengers hell-bent on making the formerly privileged pay. As they methodically purge each home, Chris realizes that staying was the worst decision of his life. Secrets or not, he has to act fast; the murderous pack only has one more house before they reach his…

A medical conference, an audition, a visit with a parent, and a weightlifting competition force four people onto a plane headed toward Miami. When no one arrives at the airport, a nationwide search ensues to find the passengers. Meanwhile, the four people who did survive are fighting for their lives on a deserted island.

After witnessing his father's murder and his home burned to the ground, Michael is left wandering the violent streets of London alone. Having been captured and managing to escape the clutches of the most heinous of men, he's terrified of recapture. All Michael wants to do is find somewhere safe. Somewhere he can call home. To do that he must survive in a city where he's the weak and the hunted - with no family or friends to help him.

Dean Brown is a survivor. Dean Brown is a father. Dean Brown is a husband. Dean Brown is a brother-in-law. Dean Brown is a psychopath. Before all of this, Dean Brown was just a normal boy....

A high octane sexy space heist from New York Times-bestselling author Beth Revis, the first in a novella trilogy. Ada Lamarr may have gotten to the spaceship wreck first, but looters rights wont get her far when shes got a hole in the side of her ship and her spacesuit is almost out of air...

On a planet rigid with tradition, Lacindra Tyrain shatters the old customs in one brief simulation, paving a path toward a new dawn for all Andrian women. But before she can enjoy the rewards of her conquest, she must first stop a band of aliens set on making Earth the home of their new breeding ground.

In a world where walls provide safety, Heidi finds herself wanting nothing more than to run free. Trapped in a community with people she despises, she volunteers to be the runner for them. The supply runs offer her relief in an otherwise claustrophobic environment.... They also leave her vulnerable to attack in a broken city.

In this, the second book of “The Crash” series, Beyond The Crash, The Cosmic Consciousness, the action continues on a much bigger scale. The destructive mass psychosis called The Crash has caused a worldwide apocalypse, also called The Crash. Billions have died, and those who survived are either “crashed,” themselves, or they appear to have avoided the psychosis.

In this, the third book in “The Crash” trilogy, Children of The Crash, A New Humanity, we pick up where Book Two left off. The Family have done what they could to help the survivors of The Crash. And now, the children of The Crash show up with problems of their own. In the shadows of their mind travels, lurks the source of The Crash, an organization trying to control the survivors and reverse the successes of the Family. Can the children and the Family work together to defeat the nefarious forces attacking the last of humanity? How has The Crash affected children differently?

A cyber-dystopian thriller unlike any other. In a near-future Tokyo, every action - from blinking to sexual intercourse - is intellectual property owned by corporations that charge licensing fees. A BodyBank computer system implanted in each citizen records their movements from moment to moment and connects them to the audio-visual overlay of the ImmaNet so that every inch of this cyber-dystopian metropolis crawls with information and shifting cinematic promotainment.

In una società dominata da un capitalismo selvaggio e preda delle grosse corporation che hanno sostituito i governi collassati, tra scorie atomiche e periferie postindustriali, l'unico rifugio è nel Metaverso. Chi può, abbandona la Realtà e sceglie di vivere nel mondo virtuale generato dai computer, dove libertà e piaceri sono limitati solo dall'immaginazione. L'unica speranza dell'umanità è il meno probabile degli eroi: l'hacker freelance Hiro, fattorino per CosaNostra Pizza nella Realtà e mago del katana nel Metaverso.

A mother and scientist trapped in an earthquake-ravaged Antarctica. A daughter fleeing rising waters in Florida. A father and son escaping tidal waves in Boston. When an earthquake sends the Thwaites glacier crashing into the ocean, the world begins a sudden, violent transformation. Kathryn, a seismologist wintering in Antarctica's McMurdo base, must survive the crumbling continent after discovering unprecedented seismic activity. Meanwhile, her family struggles to escape raging tsunamis and violently rising global seas halfway across the world.

When a mass psychosis from misuse of new technology spreads with the aid of social media, the entire world experiences an apocalypse that is labeled The Crash. People shed all logic and become possessed by rage that leads to killing and destruction on a scale that destroys societies and infrastructures everywhere. Amid the chaos, Ben, an evolutionary psychologist and the inventor of the world-changing Stoffer Solution, must find a way to halt The Crash while battling the organized forces trying to take control of his technology and use it for their own dark purposes.

The Timpton family is in their Manhattan penthouse when the city beneath them begins to crumble. Streets are gridlocked. Explosions rattle the building. Delivery drones rain from the sky. When their domestic android spirits them away to a secret underground shelter with thousands of others, it seems too good to be true. By the time they start to wonder if it really is too good to be true, there’s no way out.

When a prison transport crashes, Frank Mason, space detective, heads down to the planet to catch the escapees and make a quick buck, but the prisoners have their own plans!

Sometimes breaking the rules is the only way to survive. Sarah Fisher is a rule-follower. But when an asteroid devastates England, chaos reigns. As the country plunges into an impact winter, Sarah must adapt to the new conditions or face certain death. Setting out on a perilous journey to the coast, Sarah hopes to reach rescue boats before it’s too late. Along the way, she encounters both friends and foes, each walking a fine line between good and evil.

The Alpha Centauri I crew was poised to break ground in multiple fields of science and explore vast uncharted territory in their first expedition. Yet, even in their wildest imaginations, they could not anticipate the adventure that lay before them.