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Harvest of Stars volume 1
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The virtual persona of a long-dead visionary entrepreneur threatens to incite a revolution from space that could topple Earth's powerful and repressive religious-technological dictatorship in this ingenious science fiction classic.
In the future, individual freedom is a thing of the past. North America is a police state controlled by the Avantist government, a despotic, techno-religious ruling order that promises an impending transcendence for the...
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Harvest of Stars series volume 2
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Humans and their genetically altered descendants struggle to find their place in a universe controlled by a benevolent artificial intelligence in this brilliant classic of future speculation.
On a far-future Earth, a linked system of artificial intelligences called the cybercosm runs the planet and the universe far more efficiently than any flesh and blood ruler ever could, in essence rendering the human race obsolete. On the Earth's moon, genetically...
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Harvest of Stars series volume 3
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A revolt by humans against the machine intelligences which rule them. The protagonists are poet-pilot Nichol and his revolutionary girlfriend, Falaire. By the author of The Stars Are Also on Fire.
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Harvest of Stars series volume 4
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Far into the reaches of space, Anson Guthrie and a band of colonists have forged a new existence on Amaterasu not as physical beings but as downloaded consciousness watched over by the benevolent Life Mother. Yet as idyllic as their lives may be, back home on Earth the situation is growing grim.
Earth's inhabitants are now completely dependent-and so controlled-by an intelligent machine known as the Teramind. But the instinctual human desire to be...
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Harvest of Stars series volume 1
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English
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The virtual persona of a long-dead visionary entrepreneur threatens to incite a revolution from space that could topple Earth's powerful and repressive religious-technological dictatorship in this ingenious science fiction classic In the future, individual freedom is a thing of the past. North America is a police state controlled by the Avantist government, a despotic, techno-religious ruling order that promises an impending transcendence for the...
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A would-be artist is ensnared in a desperate conspiracy, born on the Earth's moon, to break free of the artificial intelligence controlling the universe Many centuries in the future, no great destiny for humankind exists on Earth. The Lunarians, genetically engineered human adaptations bred to survive on the moon, have spread out toward the stars. But not even their colony on distant Proserpina is free from the suffocating influence of the Teramind,...
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Far into the reaches of space, Anson Guthrie and a band of colonists have forged a new existence on Amaterasu not as physical beings but as downloaded consciousness watched over by the benevolent Life Mother. Yet as idyllic as their lives may be, back home on Earth the situation is growing grim. Earth's inhabitants are now completely dependent-and so controlled-by an intelligent machine known as the Teramind. But the instinctual human desire to be...
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*contains sexual situations, strong language, violence, and depictions of abuse
This has all the hallmarks of CLASSIC AMERICANA: rural small town life, poverty, dark family problems, love, and friendship. author Paul Russell Parker III
An EMOTIONAL ROLLER-COASTER. author Nikki Landis
Locklyn Gaines isn't her mother, but the residents of her small southeastern Kentucky town don't care. Her mother's secrets are Lock's shame, and every time her drunk...
9) Starlight
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A strange man has been watching Lanie as she leaves high school with her friends every day, but she is reluctant to tell her parents about this unnerving development. An only child, she is close to both of her parents, but her mother's unexplained distrust of others makes Lanie worry about sharing anything distressing with them.
When the stranger ventures closer to home, his intent is revealed, and her parents' carefully concealed past is brought...