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Summary: When Robin wakes up in a clinic with most of his memories missing, it doesn't take him long to discover that someone is trying to kill him. It's the 27th century, when interstellar travel is by teleport gate and conflicts are fought by network worms that censor refugees' personalities and target historians. The civil war is over and Robin has been demobilized, but someone wants him out of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: TORBH 0000
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Summary: Welcome to the Stasis, a clandestine, near-omnipotent organization. By mastering the mysteries of the Timegate, the Stasis has repeatedly steered mankind away from the brink of utter extinction. Through countless millennia, its members have intervened at critical junctions, reseeding the galaxy with viable potential survivors. In the process, they have reconfigured the basic structure of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Subterranean 0000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2006
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Summary: When she stumbles on a money-laundering scheme, reporter Miriam Beckstein is shocked when she is threatened with death, a situation that turns bizarre when she is transported to a parallel Earth where her family rules a powerful kingdom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor Books 2004
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Summary: Rachel Mansour, an agent for Old Earth, must join forces with a disaffected teenager calling herself Wednesday Shadowmist as she races to find out who was responsible for the destruction of the planet Moscow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2004
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Summary: "The year is 2020. It's seventeen years since the Revolution overthrew the last king of the New British Empire, and the newly reconstituted North American Commonwealth is developing rapidly, on course to defeat the French and bring democracy to a troubled world. But Miriam Burgeson, commissioner in charge of the shadowy Ministry of Intertemporal Research and Intelligence--the paratime espionage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2017
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Summary: "The arrival of vast, alien, inhuman intelligences reshaped the landscape of human affairs across the world, and the United Kingdom is no exception. Things have changed in Britain since the dread elder god Nyarlathotep ascended to the rank of Prime Minister. Mhari Murphy, recently elevated to the House of Lords and head of the Lords Select Committee on Sanguinary Affairs (think vampires), finds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Tom Doherty Associates Book 2018
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Summary: "For outstanding heroism in the field (despite himself), computational demonologist Bob Howard is on the fast track for promotion to management within the Laundry, the supersecret British government agency tasked with defending the realm from occult threats. Assigned to External Assets, Bob discovers the company--unofficially--employs freelance agents to deal with sensitive situations that may...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2012
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Summary: While recovering a missing top secret dossier that his boss is accused of stealing, British super spy Bob Howard must safely navigate Russian agents, ancient demons, and an undead entity called the Eater of Souls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2010
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Summary: In this collection of short stories, novelist Stross moves the U.S.-U.S.S.R. conflict onto a massive disk in another galaxy in "Missile Gap," offers a spam-filter solution to the Fermi paradox in "MAXOS," suggests clever bargains with the devil in a newly frozen Scotland in "Snowball's Chance," and sets the stage for appearances by Carl Sagan and Stephen Jay Gould in "The Colder War."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2005
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Summary: Sergeant Sue Smith is called in to investigate a daring Edinburgh robbery, a crime perpetrated by a band of marauding orcs with a dragon in tow in the virtual reality land of Avalon Four, and discovers that events in the virtual world could have a devastating impact on the real one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2007
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Summary: The army of the Clan finds themselves locked in a fortress under siege that coexists in two parallel universes, a situation that is further complicated by Miriam's prospects for succeeding the fallen Duke Angbard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2009
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Summary: Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinctleaving only androids behind. Freya Nakamichi 47 is a femmebot, one of the last of her kind still functioning. With no humans left to pay for the pleasures she provides, she agrees to transport a mysterious package from Mercury to Mars. Unfortunately for Freya, she has just made herself a moving target for some very powerful, very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRSummary: As the alien Xenovirus reaches Britain, Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, now gifted with extraordinary longevity, joins with Alan Turing to set up a special organization, the Order of the Silver Helix, to outmaneuver the terrifying mutations of the virus in Britain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2019
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Summary: A tale set at the end of the twenty-first century finds the planet's divided hominid population subjected to the forces of a splintery metaconsciousness that inundates networks with plans for cataclysmic technologies, prompting an unwitting jury member to participate in a grueling decision.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOCCharles Strouse
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Charles Strouse 1985
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Summary: Music from the musical Annie.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1982