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Who hunted androids before Rick Deckard? Taking place immediately after World War Terminus ends, the problems with artificial -- androids--become apparent. The government decides they must become targets,hunted down, but who will do the dirty work? Two men are assigned: Malcolm Reed, a "special" human with the power to feel others' emotions, and Charlie Victor, who's the perfect man for the job... or is he? What secret does Victor hide? Meanwhile...
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THE PREQUEL TO ONE OF THE GREATEST SCIENCE-FICTION NOVELS EVER PUBLISHED! Volume 2 of John W. Campbell Award-nominee Chris Roberson's prequel to John W. Campbell Memorial Award-winner Philip K. Dick's DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?. Who hunted androids before Rick Deckard? Taking place immediately after World War Terminus ends, the problems with artificial life -- androids - become apparent. The government decides they must become targets, hunted...
183) Mardock Scramble 2
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Rune Balot is a prostitute who is nearly murdered by Ciel, an enigmatic casino manager, who suffers from a disease that forces him to remove and store his memories. A victim for most of her life, Rune faces a choice. While on the brink of death, she is given the opportunity to live. It is not a simple choice for a victim, but Rune takes it. A professor brings Rune back to life as a cyborg with the ability to control electronics and partners her up...
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These literary masterpieces are made easy and interesting. This series features classic tales retold with color illustrations to introduce literature to struggling readers. Each 64-page softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original classics. When seaman were sailing only wooden ships, Captain Nemo was the master of his incredible, futuristic submarine, the Nautilus, which journeyed through many strange and adventurous voyages...
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The colorful and poetic journey of a little girl who discovers a parallel world at the heart of the industrial metropolis she lives in. PUBLICATION IN 6 VOLUMES - COMPLETED SERIES. Addidas is a bright and quirky young girl who spends most of her time helping her widowed father in his job as a chimney sweep. When Addidas ventures too far into a chimney, she encounters a bizarre new friend and in the process destabilizes a long-established system. From...
186) Dust #1
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Jupiter has ignited, the Earth has turned to Dust. The rich and powerful have built a utopia underground. The rest of humanity are left to die on the surface. Those below forge a life of luxury, while those above lead a life of poverty where only the strong survive. One of these few is a girl named, Keeli. Abandoned by her family and deported to the surface, Keeli grew up tough, taking to a life of thievery to survive. At first glance, she might look...
187) Koma Vol5 : The Duel
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The colorful and poetic journey of a little girl who discovers a parallel world at the heart of the industrial metropolis she lives in. PUBLICATION IN 6 VOLUMES - COMPLETED SERIES. Addidas is a bright and quirky young girl who spends most of her time helping her widowed father in his job as a chimney sweep. When Addidas ventures too far into a chimney, she encounters a bizarre new friend and in the process destabilizes a long-established system. From...
188) Mardock Scramble 4
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Wounded in a tragic and bloody fight with Boiled, Rune is rescued and brought to Eden, a former research institution. In Eden, she finds peace... but all of that could come crashing down around her when an assassin invades the tranquil garden of her new home.
189) Magician's Rabbit #1
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NONSTOP. In a post-apocalyptic world where humanity has embraced robotic bodies to survive, one such robot begins to doubt his thoughts are really his own. Rabbit, robot 0045, is approached by a mysterious stranger known as the Magician, who begins an investigation toward a horrible truth that Rabbit could never have imagined. Perhaps this world is even more sinister than it seems.
190) Mardock Scramble 1
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"I'd rather be dead." Rune Balot was a lost girl with nothing to live for, when a man named Shell took her in and cared for her... until he tried to murder her. Standing at the precipice of death, Rune is saved by Dr. Easter, a private investigator, who uses an experimental procedure known as "Mardock Scramble 09." The procedure grants Balot extraordinary abilities and now Rune must decide whether to use her new powers to help Dr. Easter bring Shell...
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? #9 Rick Deckard is under arrest! Thanks to the notorious Nexus-6 android Luba Luft, Deckard finds himself in his biggest predicament yet. Is Deckard a human - or an android? Everything is not as it seems in this exciting issue of the Philip K. Dick masterwork that inspired Blade Runner.
192) Mardock Scramble 3
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Rune Balot is a prostitute who is nearly murdered by Ciel, an enigmatic casino manager, who suffers from a disease that forces him to remove and store his memories. A victim for most of her life, Rune faces a choice. While on the brink of death, she is given the opportunity to live. It is not a simple choice for a victim, but Rune takes it. A professor brings Rune back to life as a cyborg with the ability to control electronics and partners her up...
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San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. The World War has killed millions, driving entire species to extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can't afford one, companies build incredibly realistic fakes: horses, birds, cats, sheep...even humans. Rick Deckard is an officially sanctioned bounty hunter tasked to find six rogue androids. They're machines, but look, sound, and...
194) The Clockwork Girl
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A nameless robot girl has recently been given the gift of life from her creator, while exploring the wonders of an ordinary world she meets an amazing mutant boy and they share a friendship that must overcome their warring families.
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The Tokyo Metropolitan Government decided to introduce J-ctOS, an urban infrastructure management system developed by Blume Japan. People's lives have changed completely due to the convenience of improved infrastructure, and the ease of interconnectivity. Everything is fine, as long as they don't think too hard about what lurks in the shadows behind closed doors at the Blume corporation...
196) Nemo: heart of ice
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It's 1925, fifteen long years since Janni Dakkar first tried to escape the legacy of her dying science-pirate father, only to accept her destiny as the new Nemo, captain of the legendary Nautilus. Now, tired of her unending spree of plunder and destruction, Janni launches a grand expedition to surpass her father's greatest failure: the exploration of Antarctica. Hot on her frozen trail are a trio of genius inventors, hired by an influential publishing...
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When a long-lost army suddenly appears from beneath the clouds, one impulsive decision made by Diandra "Dee" Diesel will change her destiny forever. With only her broken-down robot and a mysterious flying engine to help her, Dee is sent on a sky bound journey that will take her from the darkest wastelands below the clouds to the brightest capital of her world. Her greatest challenge will be to look beyond her family legacy and create a destiny of...
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An explosive Sci-Fi thriller about three loners who will fight a privacy controlling system to try and preserve the best humanity has to offer. PUBLICATION IN 3 VOLUMES - COMPLETED SERIES. Forget the World Wide Web. In the future, all aspects of human interaction are done through the Flywire Network. A "Flywire" is an electronic device surgically implanted behind every citizen's ear that gives them wireless access to infinite libraries of digital...
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SKY CAPTAIN & THE WORLD OF TOMORROW burst into the sky and onto theater screens in 2004. With it came groundbreaking methods and techniques that would change the way movies were made. The real story behind the film began many years earlier and in Kevin Conrans Art of Sky Captain & The World of Tomorrow, fans will be treated to behind-the-scenes stories marking the movies unique journey to the screen. As the first of its kind, this landmark film...
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Includes forty pages of new material by Mike Mignola! Emperor Zombie is trying to take over the world once again! The Amazing Screw-On Head has been enlisted by President Lincoln to stop the evil emperor, with the help of his faithful partner Mr. Groin and his trusty canine companion Mr. Dog. Screw-On Head will have to brave ancient tombs and defeat demons from a dimension inside a turnipjust one of the strange and mischievous tales in this beloved...