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Bellona is a city at the center of the United States. Something has happened there … the population has fled. Madmen and criminals wander the streets. Strange portents appear in the cloud-covered sky. And into this disaster zone comes a young man known only as the Kid.

In the moon's near-feudal society, you must fight for every inch you want to gain. And that is just what Adriana Corta did. Now, at the twilight of her life, Adriana finds her corporation surrounded by the many enemies she made during her meteoric rise.

A gunslinging Taoist psychopomp, Lou might not be a normal nineteen year old, but she's too busy keeping San Francisco safe from ghosts to care. When Lou hears that a bunch of Chinatown boys have gone missing somewhere in the Colorado Rockies, she decides to saddle up and investigate.

Alan is an entrepreneur in Toronto who decides to involve himself in a visionary scheme to blanket Toronto with free wireless Internet connectivity, a conspiracy spearheaded by a brilliant technopunk who builds miracles of hardware from parts scavenged from the city's dumpsters.

Decades ago, the world underwent the Change--people developed unusual powers and society fell apart. Teenage prospector Ross Juarez has just barely made it to Las Anclas alive, and he brings with him a precious artifact, an unknown power, and a whole lot of trouble.

What if the entire universe were the creation of alien minds? After a spaceship accident, the hedonistic human Lutt Hansen Jr., finds himself sharing his body and mind with a naïve alien. The two must survive dangers, schemes, and assassination attempts--and each other.

Maximum Ride and her faithful friends stand ready to face the two greatest threats that humankind has ever known--now combining forces in an unbeatable plot to destroy life as we know it once and for all. And this time, the enemy truly can't be stopped. The danger mounts just as the boy genetically engineered to be her "perfect match," Dylan, has finally worked his way into Max's heart--and just as her beloved Fang unexpectedly returns to the flock. An explosive confrontation between the two boys with a claim to Max's heart ensues, and the entire world hangs in the balance.

Fahrenheit 451 is an enduring masterwork--a chilling vision of a dystopian future built on the foundations of ignorance, censorship, and brutal repression. This collection of sixteen selected shorter works explores the origins of that darkly magnificent tale.

When a Komarran merchant fleet is impounded in Quaddiespace, Miles Vorkosigan, as the emperor's troubleshooter, must answer the call of duty. The downside of being a troubleshooter comes when trouble starts shooting back.

Since the golden age of the League of All Worlds, the people of Earth have fallen into semibarbarism and paranoia, ruled by the mind-controlling Shing. But a mysterious man with no memory may offer new hope.