Johnny B Truant
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Sometimes the safest place to hide is directly in the public eye. Someone has been glamouring Dr. Annabel Rice, and Maurice is not happy about it. Especially when he figures out what kind of information they are trying to glean. This time, hiding in the shadows isn't going to work. When a TV producer approaches Maurice about turning some unfortunate online videos of Reginald being a vampire (which the human world assumes are hilarious fakes) into...
2) Conundrum
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The truth is their only escape. Nine people, seemingly strangers, are whisked from their everyday lives and thrown together in a maze of near-identical rooms and random artifacts. As they struggle for answers, the questions mount. Why them? What could they have in common? Are aliens behind it? Is one of them privy to more information than they are letting on?Most importantly … What can they do to survive? Because it soon becomes clear that someone...
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When Nora, Orlo, Robert, Amelie, Jaden, Rohit, and Brody form a seven-person team of live-action-role-players to enter a massive three-day Vampire LARP tournament, they have no idea two real vampires will be in the mix, on a mission of their own. As the gamers play, gathering points and moving upwards through the floors of the convention center, the vampires turn on contestants, searching for a lost descendant, and the game gets gruesome and increasingly...
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From the bestselling authors of the Invasion and Yesterday's Gone series comes The Beam, a disturbing philosophical exploration of the future of our hyperconnected world. This chilling, intricately-plotted series is set in a futuristic dystopia where politics and technology have widened the gap between haves and have-nots. All of humanity is connected ... to The Beam and to the lie. In the year 2097, the only stable nation is the NAU: a dystopia exploding...
5) Annihilation
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Continue the journey with Book 4 of the blockbuster Alien Invasion series; the breakout sci-fi series with over 1000 5-star reviews. WHAT THEY HAVE LOST, WE MUST FIND… The resistance has nearly been wiped out, its numbers reduced to a scant fraction of what they once were. Meyer has fallen. With hope nearly a memory, something must turn the tide of war. A deadly weapon, known only as Thor's Hammer, brings the promise of salvation. Now, the scattered...
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The unthinkable has happened. The Beam is down. Chaos reigns. A data anomaly has shown up in the East, something strange in a place where it shouldn't exist, and something is seeking out a handful of people spread across the globe. Can Gillian Rhea find answers at the abandoned research station at Nickel Basin? Noah West is desperate to regain power and get The Beam back online, but no one dreamed he'd ever go this far. Will he unleash his worst creation...
7) Colonization
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Continue the journey with the third book in the blockbuster Alien Invasion series, the breakout sci-fi series with over 1000 5-star reviews. HUMANITY ISN'T ALL THEY LEFT BEHIND… Two years later, the world lives in fragile peace. But a clandestine search has begun … and a clock has started ticking. Two years after first contact, Astral forces have established their fragile kingdom around the globe. Motherships occupy the cities. Shuttles patrol...
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The world is holding its breath... Robots everywhere are beginning to organize, drawn toward the mysterious voice speaking to them on the burgeoning robot network. Elsewhere, robot armies are growing and proving to be a threat-not just to the individual humans they encounter, but to infrastructure and the human forces that stand against them. The board of Radius Corporation has decided to initiate a hard reset to put the world back onto its old course,...
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The war between Human and Machine is at its critical point and the entire planet is now at risk ... The Hard Reset was first botched then blocked by a brutal murder. Now President Zelda Blake and her assistant Lincoln must try and sift through the wreckage to make another attempt. Blake will do anything to convince the masses that they must rebel, even if it costs her own life. Meanwhile, Chantal and her growing army of sexbots and outcasts embark...
10) Dead City
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One drug saved the world. Now, the same drug threatens to destroy it. Rising star Ian Keys has climbed to the top rungs of pharma giant Hemisphere - creator of Necrophage, the drug that paused the necrotic outbreak and allowed the infected to live among us. Ian's new position gives him access to dangerous secrets that could ruin the company. When ominous hints from an anonymous insider set him on the hunt for the biggest secret of all, he discovers...
11) Dead Planet
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The United States and the United Kingdom are lost to the necrotic plague. Europe, desperate to keep the disease from its shores considers the most drastic of measures: nuking the US and UK to eradicate the disease entirely and start over. Meanwhile, pieces move around the puzzle inside the States until we learn that Necrosis has a natural course that, if we leave it alone, will reach a new evolutionary equilibrium instead of devolving into mindless...
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Future Proof is a stand-alone novel written in the world of The Beam: a disturbing philosophical exploration of the future of hyperconnectivity. In a world where the rich hold all the power and the poor struggle to make ends meet, Ryu and his team of rebels are determined to even the playing field. Breaking into Xenia Labs, they hope to steal a code breaker that will give the poor access to technology previously only available to the wealthy elite....
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PLUGGED is a "future history" written by fictional author Sterling Gibson (actually Truant and Platt, creators of THE BEAM): a Malcolm-Gladwell-esque work of fiction written as if it were nonfiction, exploring the sci-fi world of The Beam. Are We Who We Were? Throughout the 21st Century, our world (at least for those of us inside the NAU) has become increasingly connected. So much so that we really are now thinking as a single fluid organism, changing...
14) Resurrection
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The journey concludes here with the seventh and final book in the blockbuster Alien Invasion series; the breakout sci-fi series with over 1000 5-star reviews. ETERNITY HAS A NEW BEGINNING… With the human race decimated, only a handful of survivors still wander the planet. They've forgotten the Astrals and they've forgotten their pasts, ready for a fresh start … … or at least, that's how it was supposed to happen. In a small desert village without...
15) Gore Point
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Adrian and Ray Porter have spent their lives battling demons that claw into our world through a thin spot: a hellish and dead place with a black lake at its center, nicknamed "The Gore Point." But as the rifts begin to change and grow for the first time in decades, can they keep the planet from becoming Hell itself? Adrian and his hotshot brother Ray work for Brigade One, in the walled-off city of Fortune on the outskirts of the Gore Point. Like their...
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Robots were made to serve us. But now they have other plans ... The staff at the Lexington estate were created for only one reason: to serve their masters … literally. Their metal knees were designed for quiet bustling, befitting maids and butlers. Their fingers were made dexterous with padded tips, so they could handle fine china without dropping or scratching it. And finally - so their owners would always be able to command them no matter how...
17) Dead Nation
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The virus has evolved and is spreading again with a new wave of infections, far worse than before. Yosemite's fully-contained zombie population breaks out and now it appears that animals are carrying the infection as well. The walled-off, zombie-overrun city of Bakersfield is attacked and eventually obliterated, but still there's no going back as the virus slowly overtakes a nation hell-bent on containing it. Jordache Dale has heeded Golem's call...
18) Extinction
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Continue the journey with Book 6 of the blockbuster Alien Invasion series; the breakout sci-fi series with over 1000 5-star reviews. THE ENDING HAS BEGUN... The arrival of a metropolis-sized Astral vessel (the "Eternity ship") sounds the opening bell for the beginning of humanity's end. Judgment is over, and now the Horsemen have come to restart the planet's clock. As the final countdown begins, Meyer and his crew find themselves with only two options:...
19) Dead Zero
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Taking Grandpa to the mall wasn't supposed to be a life or death (and after death) situation. Thom Sheldon avoids visiting his aging father as much as he possibly can. Even now that Rick started taking a new experimental drug that seems to be helping his Alzheimer's, it's still an unpredictable and rarely pleasant errand. If Thom could avoid visiting his old man without getting guilt-tripped by his wife or hounded by his own conscience, he would....
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Abitha Scarborough is a psychological specialist and a junior curator in the Ministry of Decorum, the wing of the Alterian Government that deals with manners, etiquette, decorum, espionage, misinformation, and propaganda. She and her family felt secure in their position in life, until they got the news that Abitha was being transferred to Joffrey Collins, the asylum for dissenters and criminally insane. This is not a good thing for the family. In...