Zit took the fore. “We seem to have gotten off to a bad start. We identified your son as someone with a nonstandard public transit usage pattern,as part of a new proactive enforcement program. When we spot people whose travels are unusual , ...
ISBN: 9780307887436. SPEC, HUM Welcome to the year 2044, a grandly dystopian future where kids like Wade live a largely virtual existence thanks to global warming. Wade lives in a kind of ghetto area called the Stacks, for the stacks of ...
Presents the contemporary classic depicting the struggles of a United States airman attempting to survive the lunacy and depravity of a World War II airbase.
Lije Baley and R. Daneel Olivaw, a robot, investigate the murders of a famous robotocist, an isolated inhabitant of Solaria, and Jander Panell, an advanced robot
After the outbreak of a brutal civil war in the American Midwest stemming from the Daemon's civilization-rebuilding activities, reluctant Daemon operative Pete Sebeck leads a small band of enlightened humans in an effort to protect the new ...
A novel of life in the nineties explores the world of computer giant Microsoft, viewing it as a microcosm of modern society Microserfs: a hilarious, fanatically detailed, and oddly moving book about a handful of misfit Microsoft employees ...
In London of 1855, celebrated paleontologist Edward Mallory gets mixed up with Charles Babbage, the inventor of an advanced calculating machine run by his elite group of clackers
Vonnegut’s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a super computer and run completely by machines.
The epic novel of human transformation that inspired the Stanley Kubrick film delves into the origin of the species, alien visitation, and the future of humankind. Reissue.
In a near-future run by thousands of autonomous computer programs that control the world's wireless networks, a dormant program activates in the wake of a legendary game designer's premature death and launches a sinister effort to dismantle ...
A classic collection of interlocking tales chronicles the near-future development of the robot and features models that have the ability to read minds, experience human emotions, and take over the world--and, perhaps, render humankind ...
Chronicles the journeys, notions, and acquaintances of reluctant galactic traveler Arthur Dent, accompanied by never-before-published material from the late author's archives as well as commentary by famous fans.
With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that ...
Case, a burned out computer whiz, is asked to steal a security code that is locked in the most heavily guarded databank in the solar system
Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility to bring us the gigathriller of the information age.