![]() ![]() ![]() Now, they’re all caught in a shadowy, deadly maze of power mongering rivalries between UDC and Fleet Strategic Operations, the Senate and Peace Lobby, and the corporate lords of both Earth and Mars. Together they had once smashed the criminal cover ups of a mining cartel. Suddenly two more faces from Dekker and Pollard’s past are shanghaied to Sol II: their occasional lovers, renegade pilots Meg Kady and Sal Aboujib. ![]() The centerpiece of a top secret war project, Dekker has just lost his entire crew in a mysterious freak accident and lost his mind to amnesia from an attempted suicide. He’s been named next of kin to a man he never wanted to even see again: Paul Dekker, a young pilot who attracts crises like dead flesh draws flies. When Pollard finds himself stranded on the Sol II battle installation without his orders, I.D., and possessions, he discovers something equally disturbing. Here the stakes are nothing less than the future of humanity. Cherryh returns to the best selling universe of Heavy Time, Cyteen, and Downbelow Station, and creates a story of multi global conspiracy, power politics, and military in fighting. In Hellburner, her newest novel, Hugo Award winner C. ![]() Then he’s forced to perform a mission of mercy and lands on an isolated, intrigue riddled space station. Ben Pollard thinks he’s traded the perils of the Belt for security as an Earth based computer jockey for United Defence Command. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() From students finagling access to clunky computer-card machines to engineers uncovering the secrets of what would become the Internet, Hackers captures a seminal period in history when underground activities blazed a trail for today's digital world. "Hacker" is often a derogatory term today, but 40 years ago, it referred to people who found clever and unorthodox solutions to computer engineering problems - a practice that became known as "the hacker ethic." In this book, Levy takes you from the true hackers of MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club to the DIY culture that spawned the first personal computers - the Altair and the Apple II - and finally to the gaming culture of the early '80s. ![]() It's a fascinating story of brilliant and eccentric nerds such as Steve Wozniak, Ken Williams, and John Draper who took risks, bent the rules, and took the world in a radical new direction. Hackers traces the exploits of innovators from the research labs in the late 1950s to the rise of the home computer in the mid-1980s. Steven Levy's classic book about the original hackers of the computer revolution is now available in a special 25th anniversary edition, with updated material from noteworthy hackers such as Bill Gates, Mark Zukerberg, Richard Stallman, and Tim O'Reilly. ![]() ![]() How do we decide the perfect balance of free will and greater good?' -Jem TugwellThe iMe series are fast paced crime thrillers set in an eerily believable near future world -think Roy Grace meets Black Mirror. 'Proximity is inspired by the fascinating possibilities of technology, AI and the law of unintended consequences.įrom my own experience, technologists are often amazed or horrified about the other uses that people imagine for their products.Ĭlive and Zoe's world might be closer than we think, but is it heaven or hell? ![]() ![]() DI Clive Lussac, without the technology he has come to rely on, must remember his old time detective skills if he and his young partner DC Zoe Jordan are to track the killer down before time runs out for the next victim. A body is found, and the killer is untraceable. ![]() You can't get away with anything, least of all kidnapping or murder. 'A vision of the future that both chills and entertains.' -Sunday Express Proximity - The People's Book Prize Finalist 2019-2020If the police always know where I am, how do I kill you?Ten years of embedded technology - 'iMe' - has led to complete control and the eradication of crime. ![]() ![]() Nothing else could match the terrifying intensity of their subject matter. Perhaps the novel seemed to artificial, too contrived for those that the war had tested to destruction. ![]() It is as if the only possible response to such carnage, from those who directly experienced it, was a visceral outpouring utilising the most concentrated form of literature we have – poetry. The War is especially renowned for the poetry it inspired – all British schoolchildren are familiar with the works of Rupert Brook, Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and many others. ![]() But it is fascinating to see how the combatants themselves responded to the unspeakable events that they were witness to, compared to later writers. The horror of the First World War inspired (if that is the right word) a great outpouring of literature and other arts. ![]() ![]() ![]() So many of the learn to read books are dreadfully boring, because it is hard to repeat words, keep the vocabulary simple, all the while creating a great story. The last is what makes this series so special. In the Elephant and Piggie books, Willems effortlessly combines elements required for this learning to read genre, like word repetition and sight word inclusion, with comedy, terrific illustrations and a great story-line. Seuss book, similar in size and feel, with a bit less text than the longer-winded Seuss books. Today I Will Fly! is the first in this welcome new learn-to-read series by Mo Willems. ![]() For all those pigeons fans out there, check out the endpapers (the inside, back cover of the books).Your young reader should be able to read it by themselves after only a few shared readings, the picture clues and vocabulary choice and repetition are that good.In a few short pages, with spare prose, Willems has created a suspenseful story that will have you and your young reader hooked from start to finish. ![]() |