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"Due to a fluke of quantum mechanics, no one can remember Nat Morgan for more than a minute after he's gone. It's a useful ability for his career as a CIA agent, even if he has to keep reminding his boss that he exists. Nat's attempt to steal a quantum chip prototype is thwarted when a former FSB agent, Yelena Semyonova, attempts to steal the same technology for the Russian mob. Along with a brilliant Iranian physicist who wants to defect, Nat and...
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Objective, unbiased and hyperrational, the Vulcan 3 should have been the perfect ruler. The omnipotent computer dictates policy that is in the best interests of all citizens--or at least, that is the idea. But when the machine, whose rule evolved out of chaos and war, begins to lose control of the "Healer" movement of religious fanatics and the mysterious force behing their rebellion, all Hell breaks loose.
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"When Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala investigate a mass stranding of aquatic life in the Indian Ocean, they accidentally uncover a much deeper mystery. A strange figure soon steals NUMA's findings, forcing a high-speed chase -- someone really didn't want them examining those dead whales. But who, and why? A cryptic text through the NUMA satellite network makes things still stranger: These odd phrases and numbers look like NUMA codes. But who could be...
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Belisarius series volume 4
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Baen
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©2000
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English
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Link, a supercomputer from a future that should not exist, has used terror and gunpowder to forge the Malwa Empire in the 6th century. Aide, a human soul embodied in a jewel, has come back to halt evil's progress. Aide's ally Belisarius, the greatest general of the age, faces overwhelming numbers in a ring tightening about them. There is no room for maneuver and no safety in defeat. The armies gathered in Mesopotamia will decide the fate of the world-and...
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Belisarius series volume 6
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Baen Pub. Enterprises
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c2006
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English
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Belisarius series volume 3
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Baen
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©1999
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English
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A time-traveller arrives in 6th century Rome with information on advanced weaponry so the empire can defeat its enemies and change history. That means defeating the Malwa who will not be able to conquer the time-traveller's people.
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Simon & Schuster
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2015.
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English
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A witty political satire ripped from the headlines and written by Congressman Steve Israel, who's met the characters, heard the conversations, and seen the plot twists firsthand. Meet Morris Feldstein, a pharmaceutical salesman living and working in western Long Island who loves the Mets, loves his wife Rona, and loves things just the way they are. He doesn't enjoy the news; he doesn't like to argue. Rona may want to change the world; Morris wants...
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Lübbe
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[2022]
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Deutsch
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The year 2029, the climate catastrophe is here, and humanity is struggling to survive. The Climate Alliance, an alliance of the major power blocs, wants to prevent chaos and hunger wars. Their most important tool: a supercomputer. But then the quantum computer falls into the hands of a criminal who is as brilliant as he is obsessed.