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Jeff Bagato
Programmed by Parole, Inc, as a weapon against the rival Metatron company, Benny manages to turn against both control corporations with the help of a pack of wild dogs, technologically…
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Welcome to Mondo DC! Come along on an adventure through the Washington, DC, area’s most astonishing, inspiring, and unusual places. You’ll visit little museums, odd archives, hidden monuments, unusual tours…
In the Twenty-second Century, mankind has largely abandoned a toxic earth, spreading out across the solar system, linked by invisible electronic networks broadcast over the vast distances. An epidemic rages…
Continuing his quest to wash dishes on every inhabited colony in the solar system, Javelin Praecox heads for Venus. There, a small scientific expedition to study weather and extremophile bacteria…
Hester Featherstone thought she had life on the Ol' Smoke's filthy, dangerous streets all figured out. As a freelance toothpicker, she salvages children's teeth for the viceroy, while keeping her…
Heta dances in the royal court at Thebes, where her lover Hatshepsut has taken over as regent. The Queen’s power is threatened by Menanau and his four servants, who have…
A dancer in Hatshepsut's court and a self-taught necromancer, Heta discovers she has a twin cousin. When the Death Lord Menanau's servant kills the girl, Heta decides to retrieve her…
This collection of short stories follows the young sorceress Heta's early life with her parents through her start dancing in Hatshepsut's court. To protect her friends and lovers, Heta must…
Using power granted by the god Amun Ra, the dead pharaoh Thutmose traps Tema's soul in the underworld. To save her lover, Heta must travel to the land of the…
Javelin Praecox has one goal--to wash dishes on every inhabited planet in the solar system. His first stop, a mining base on Uranus, promises to be pretty easy, with the…
The Clangers want to smuggle screech into Mars. The cops want to stop them. The huggies want to save the Martian environment. The native Paubaubau want to protect their sacred…
This book collects poems and texts written using an imaginary language built from the letters of the nonsense phrase "all gonch." The shape and structure of the words offer clues…
The marketplace conducted by and for AI negotiation units can be fast paced, cut throat, and indifferent to human concerns-but it is always profitable for someone. Transaction agent Float Flume…
Artificially Intelligent machines are here and are already talking to each other. The poems, transactions, programs, and spells collected in this volume explore how AIs might use our language to…