The Repossession Mambo

Author : Eric Garcia
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061802836

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Thanks to the technological miracle of artiforgs, now you can live virtually forever. Nearly indestructible artificial organs, these wonders of metal and plastic are far more reliable and efficient than the cancer-prone lungs and fallible kidneys you were born with—and the Credit Union will be delighted to work out an equitable payment plan. But, of course, if you fall delinquent, one of their dedicated professionals will be dispatched to track you down and take their product back. This is the story of the making—and unmaking—of the best Bio-Repo Man in the extraction business, who finds his soul when he loses his heart . . . and then he has to run.

Author : Eric Garcia
Publisher : Scribe Publications
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781921372810

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The Repossession Mambo by Eric Garcia Pdf

THE REPOSSESSION MAMBO is set in a near future when people live virtually forever, rarely dying of disease or old age. There's big money to be made in the 'artiforg' business-the buying and selling of artificial organs that promise to prolong life. Companies are only too happy to extend credit to anyone with the proper financial means. But buyer beware: if you fall too far behind in your payments, your artiforgs will be repossessed.Like many former US soldiers, Remy makes his living reclaiming organs from debtors who can no longer afford them. He's one of the best, and business is good until Remy finds himself being hunted by the same people he once worked with, and quickly running out of places to hide.Now he's holed up in a deserted building, writing his life story on a beat-up typewriter in the hopes of getting it all down on paper before the Bio-Repo Man shows up to collect on his debts. And what a story it is . . .THE REPOSSESSION MAMBO is a fast-paced, funny and intelligent triller that is also a meditation on our future, our use of technology and society's ills.

Author : Eric Garcia
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061938665

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Repo Men by Eric Garcia Pdf

In a brave new world, you'll never have to die . . . as long as you keep up with the payments. Thanks to the technological miracle of artiforgs, now you can live virtually forever. Nearly indestructible artificial organs, these wonders of metal and plastic are far more reliable and efficient than the cancer-prone lungs and fallible kidneys you were born with—and the Credit Union will be delighted to work out an equitable payment plan. But, of course, if you fall delinquent, one of their dedicated professionals will be dispatched to track you down and take their product back. This is the story of the making—and unmaking—of one of the best Repo Men in the extraction business, who finds his soul when he loses his heart . . . and then he has to run.

Author : Eric Garcia
Publisher : Villard
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307819451

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Anonymous Rex by Eric Garcia Pdf

"What would the world be like if the dinosaurs hadn't gone extinct? As this very funny book shows, for one thing, L.A. would be even weirder than it is now." --Dave Barry Vincent Rubio, a Los Angeles private investigator, is down on his luck: He's out of work. His car's been repossessed. His partner has died under mysterious circumstances. And his tail just won't stay put. Vincent is a dinosaur--a Velociraptor, to be precise. It seems the dinosaurs faked their extinction 65 million years ago and still roam the earth, disguised in convincing latex costumes that help them blend perfectly into human society. A heightened sense of smell allows the dinos to detect one another--Vincent's got an odor like a tasty Cuban cigar. When Vincent is called to investigate a two-bit case of arson at a hip dino nightclub, he discovers something much more sinister, which lures him back to New York City--the scene of his partner's death and a dangerous nexus of dinosaur and human intermingling. Will Vincent solve the mystery of his partner's death? Will a gorgeous blond chanteuse discover his true identity, jeopardizing both their lives? Will Vincent be able to conquer his dangerous addiction to basil, or will he wind up in Herba-holics Anonymous? Will he find true love, or resort to crumpled issues of Stegolicious? Somewhere between Jurassic Park and L.A. Confidential lies Eric Garcia's Anonymous Rex, one of the smartest, wittiest, and most entertaining debuts this side of the Ice Age.

Author : McQueen Sean McQueen
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474414395

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Deleuze and Baudrillard by McQueen Sean McQueen Pdf

Sean McQueen rewrites and re-envisions Gilles Deleuze's and Jean Baudrillard's relationship with Marxism and with each other, from their breakdowns to their breakthroughs. He theorises shifts in and across critical approaches to capitalism, science, technology, psychoanalysis, literature and cinema and media studies. He also brings renewed Marxian readings to cyberpunk texts previously theorised by Deleuze and Baudrillard, and places them at the heart of the emergence of biopunk and its relation to biocapitalism by mapping their generic, technoscientific, libidinal and economic exchanges.

Author : William T. Vollmann
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1988-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015015233664

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You Bright and Risen Angels by William T. Vollmann Pdf

A bold allegorical epic that hovers somewhere between the surreal and the incredible. Vollmann tells of the battle for power between the inventors and developers of electricity and the insect world.

Author : Ben Bova
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429969888

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Mars Life by Ben Bova Pdf

Mars Life is an exciting, action-packed addition to the space opera series of Planet novels from the award-winning author Ben Bova Jamie Waterman discovered the cliff dwelling on Mars, and the fact that an intelligent race lived on the red planet sixty-five million years ago, only to be driven into extinction by the crash of a giant meteor. Now the exploration of Mars is itself under threat of extinction, as the ultraconservative New Morality movement gains control of the U.S. government and cuts off all funding for the Mars program. Meanwhile, Carter Carleton, an anthropologist who was driven from his university post by unproven charges of rape, has started to dig up the remains of a Martian village. Science and politics clash on two worlds as Jamie desperately tries to save the Mars program and uncover who the vanished Martians were. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Carolyn E. Fick
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0870496670

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The Making of Haiti by Carolyn E. Fick Pdf

"The present work is an attempt to illustrate the nature and the impact of the popular mentality and popular movements on the course of revolutionary (and, in part, postrevolutionary) events in eighteenth-century Saint-Domingue." --pref.

Author : Ben Bova
Publisher : Dutton Childrens Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Commandments of the church
ISBN : 0525292977

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End of Exile by Ben Bova Pdf

Born and brought up on a space ship that is slowly deteriorating, Linc discovers its secrets and the way to get the remaining occupants to their ultimate destination.

Author : Ben Bova
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429968874

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The Return by Ben Bova Pdf

From the six-time Hugo Award-winning author of the Voyagers series comes the next installment, book four, Ben Bova's The Return In the 1980s, an alien starship visited Earth. While investigating what appeared to be a sarcophagus bearing the preserved body of its builder, astronaut Keith Stoner was trapped and cryogenically frozen. After his body was eventually returned to Earth and revived, Stoner discovered that he had acquired alien powers. Using these new powers, he built a new starship and left Earth. Now, after more than a century of exploring the stars, Keith Stoner returns to find that the world he has come back to does not match the one he left. The planet is suffering the consequences of disastrous greenhouse flooding. Most nations have been taken over by ultraconservative religion-based governments, such as the New Morality in the United States. With population ballooning and resources running out, Earth is heading for nuclear war. Stoner, the star voyager, wants to save Earth's people. But first he must save himself from the frightened and ambitious zealots who want to destroy this stranger—and the terrifying message he brings from the stars. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Ben Bova
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812503197

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Cyberbooks by Ben Bova Pdf

Computer genius Carl Lewis has invented the "Cyberbook", an electronic device that instantly and inexpensively brings the written word to the masses. But not everyone warms to Carl's ideas. Add corporate spies, authors threatening to strike, and a wave of mysterious murders, and you have Ben Bova at his best.

Author : Ben Bova
Publisher : Tor Teen
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781429910668

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City of Darkness by Ben Bova Pdf

He's passed his college entrance exams with flying colors. He can do pretty much whatever he wants. But what teenager Ron Morgan wants most is for his father to quit telling him what to do. Quit running his life. What better way to unwind than having a last blowout on Labor Day in the domed playground of Fun City: Manhattan. Inside the dome, however, Ron loses his wallet and identity card. Worse, he's trapped when the dome closes for the season. There's no way out. Gangs roam the street. Food is scarce. Ron is on his own. All Ron wanted was some fun. He'll be lucky to escape New York alive.... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Robert Goddard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Coma
ISBN : OCLC:1036814272

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Out of the Sun by Robert Goddard Pdf

A man in England learns he is the father of a mathematical genius who is lying comatose after an insulin overdose. When he discovers the overdose was not an accident, David Venning takes it on himself to unmask the people responsible. He uncovers a conspiracy to silence scientists who worked on a new mathematical theory. A novel of mathematics.

Author : Ben Bova
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312872186

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Saturn by Ben Bova Pdf

A novel of the ringed planet-and the humans who explore her

Author : Ben Bova
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0722117930

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Star Watchman by Ben Bova Pdf