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Author
Series
Black Panther. Young prince volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Black Panther. Ruler of Wakanda. Avenger. This is his destiny. But right now, he's simply T'Challa-the young prince. Life is comfortable for twelve-year-old T'Challa in his home of Wakanda, an isolated, technologically advanced African nation. When he's not learning how to rule a kingdom from his father-the reigning Black Panther-or testing out the latest tech, he's off breaking rules with his best friend, M'Baku. But as conflict brews near Wakanda,...
2) Dealbreaker
Author
Series
The bounceback volume 2
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
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Books You May Have Missed 2021: Adult Fiction
Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
LGBTQIA Science Fiction and Fantasy
Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
LGBTQIA Science Fiction and Fantasy
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made primitive by disaster, which they must work to rebuild as we once did millennia ago....
Author
Publisher
Design Studio Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Simon Stålenhag is back. In his new artbook Things From The Flood, Stålenhag continues the stories of Tales From the Loop, memories of a Nordic childhood infused with strange machines and weird creatures from other dimensions. In Things From The Flood, Stålenhag moves his focus from the '80s to the '90s, the decade of great change when the outside world truly came to Scandinavia. These are tales of the trials of youth, of schoolyard hazings, of...
Author
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"In a near-future London, Millie Dack places her hand on her belly to feel her baby kick, resolute in her decision to be a single parent. Across town, her closest friend--a hungover Toni Munroe--steps into the shower and places her hand on a medic console. The diagnosis is devastating. In this stunning, bittersweet family saga, Millie and Toni experience the aftershocks of human progress as their children and grandchildren embrace new ways of making...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
Emily is an artificial consciousness, designed in a lab to help humans process trauma, which is particularly helpful when the sun begins to die 5 billion years before scientists agreed it was supposed to. Her beloved human race is screwed, and so is Emily. That is, until she finds a potential answer buried deep in the human genome that may save them all. But not everyone is convinced Emily has the best solution--or the best intentions. Before her...
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Born in Missouri more than a century ago and raised in a Pentecostal orphanage, the creature now calling himself Gelson Verber has changed his name countless times. He's part-werewolf, and makes his living hunting certain kinds of bad men-criminals, rapists, thugs-in an often grotesque parody of the natural order. Verber is clearly suffering from the kinds of things a werewolf would be uniquely vulnerable to in the modern world: the horror of war,...
Author
Publisher
Dpunkt.verlag
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Deutsch
Description
»Formel X« ist ein Managementbuch und Businessroman über Geschwindigkeit, Führung und organisatorischen Wandel. Viele Unternehmen kämpfen heute mit der Tatsache, dass die Welt wesentlich schneller geworden ist. Für Unternehmen und Fachleute fühlt sich das als unlösbare Lücke zwischen Qualität und Geschwindigkeit an. Aber die Welt der Formel 1 beweist, dass Geschwindigkeit nicht gleich schlechte Arbeit sein muss. Es gelingt Ronald, Protagonist...
Author
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A shattered life. A killer for hire. Can she stop? Does she want to? Her assignments were always to kill someone. That's what a hitman - or hitwoman - is paid to do, and that is what she does. Then comes a surprise assignment - keep someone alive. She is hired to protect Virginia Martin, the stunning and brilliant chief technology officer of a hot startup with an environmentally important innovation that will change the world. This new gig catches...
Author
Publisher
Stelliform Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Rylla McCracken dreams of escaping her family's trailer in the Dust States to go to college, but on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, her mother demands she drop out of school to work for Lockburn chemical refinery instead. When Rylla learns Lockburn is planning to dam the Guadalupe River--the last flowing water in Texas--she defies her mother to protest in the state capital. The protest ends in disaster, but her ensuing viral infamy gains Rylla...
11) Ancestral night
Author
Series
White space volume 1
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Halmey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators, living just on the inside of the law...usually. Theirs is the perilous and marginal existence--with barely enough chance of striking it fantastically big--just once--to keep them coming back for more. They pilot their tiny ship into the scars left by unsuccessful White Transitions, searching for the relics of lost human and alien vessels. But when they make a shocking discovery about...
12) Quotients
Author
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
"Jeremy Jordan and Alexandra Chen hope to make a quiet home together but struggle to find a space safe from their personal secrets. For Jeremy, this means leaving behind his former life as an intelligence operative during The Troubles in Northern Ireland, while for Alexandra, a vocation in image control for whole countries cannot prepare her for the challenge of guarding a beloved brother's confidences or learning more of his mysterious history. In...
13) Kraft
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Richard Kraft, a German professor of rhetoric and aging Reaganite and Knight Rider fan, is unhappily married and badly in debt. He sees no way out of his rut until he is invited to participate in a competition to be held in California and sponsored by a Silicon Valley tycoon and “techno-optimist.” The contest is to answer a literal “million-dollar question”: each competitor must compose an eighteen-minute lecture on why our world is still,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Flame Tree Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Society is sheltered indoors. The economy is in ruins. People spend their lives addicted to a breakthrough virtual reality technology, desperate for escapism in a troubled world. The Nirvana Effect has taken over. Aaron and Clarissa are members of a subculture of realists who resist the lure of a fake utopia. They watch in horror as the technology spreads across the country with willing participants who easily forgo their freedoms for false pleasures....
15) Blind spots
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Seven years ago, a mysterious virus blinded everyone in the world in a matter of months. Technology helped people adjust to the new normal, creating a device that approximates vision, downloading visual data directly to people's brains. But what happens when someone finds a way to manipulate it and change what people see? Homicide detective Mark Owens has been on the force since before The Blinding. When a scientist is murdered, and the only witness...
16) Ruse
Author
Series
Want volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Jason Zhou, his friends, and Daiyu ... play a treacherous cat and mouse game in the labyrinthine streets of Shanghai, determined on taking back what Jin had stolen"--
Jason Zhou, his friends, and Daiyu are still recovering from the aftermath of bombing Jin Corp headquarters. But Jin, the ruthless billionaire and Daiyu's father, is out for blood. When Jin has Jany murdered and steals the tech she had refused to sell him, Lingyi is the only one who...
17) Company Town
Author
Publisher
TOR/Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"New Arcadia is a city-sized oil rig off the coast of the Canadian Maritimes, now owned by one very wealthy, powerful, byzantine family: Lynch Ltd. Hwa is of the few people in her community to forgo bio-engineered enhancements, but her expertise in the arts of self-defense and her record as a fighter mean that her services are yet in high demand. When the youngest Lynch needs training and protection, the family turns to Hwa. But can even she protect...
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When T'Challa gets special permission to have his friends from America, Sheila and Zeke, come to Wakanda, he can't wait to show them his home for a change. But their tour is brought to a halt when one of T'Challa's peers, Tafari, summons dark forces in order to return Wakanda to the "old ways" before Vibranium was discovered. Tafari manages to banish the King and Queen along with all the tribal elders to an alternate dimension in exchange for the...
Author
Publisher
FC2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In The Town of Whispering Dolls by Susan Neville, the author creates stories that inhabit the rust belt of the early twenty-first century United States, where residents dream of a fabled and illusory past even as new technologies reshape their world into something new and deeply strange"--
Author
Publisher
Berger Books, an imprint of Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A new edition of the first of four thrilling volumes in this mind-bending, Eisner-nominated science fiction mystery graphic novel series! Acrophobic flight attendant Blythe has just fallen for a mysterious traveler—who may or may not be a terrorist—and she's about to embark on the strangest journey of her life. Searching for him, Blythe will crash-land into a web of technological conspiracies, dark politics and secret organizations....
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