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A fast-paced literary thriller that recalls dystopian classics such as 1984 and Fahrenheit 451, from the award-winning author of The Last Town on Earth. Zed is an agent from the future. A time when the world's problems have been solved. No hunger. No war. No despair. His mission is to keep it...

Erik Bren is a genius, a mystic, and the reclusive inventor of futuristic flying machines. When his old NASA colleague, ex-astronaut Jared Plummer, becomes a candidate for president, Bren is drawn into a swirl of political intrigue, sabotage, and betrayal.

Unsere Erde in naher Zukunft. Eines Tages tauchen am Himmel gewaltige Raumschiffe auf, die der Menschheit eine Botschaft übermitteln: „Ihr habt 30 Tage Zeit, um die Antarktis zu erreichen. Jeder, der es bis dahin nicht schafft, wird vernichtet.“ Diejenigen, die diesen Wettlauf gegen die Zeit gewonnen haben, erwartet ein hartes Schicksal in der eisigen Kälte.

Attach electrodes to the fingers of five six-month-old babies. Then create new neural networks and program the brains of these children to process data at an extremely fast rate. Neuraldine is the corporation conducting this experiment to aid those with learning disabilities, one of which is handicapped with Downs Syndrome, (Number One). Nobody knew because there was no way to know that Number One was a savant.

Things are disappearing. Parts of buildings, parts of people, parts of the whole world - they’re here today, gone tomorrow. Old Shellback thinks he needs glasses. But all he really has to do is open his eyes...and see the light. Or so says George Smiley - otherwise known as the Messiah. George claims that the reason things are vanishing is because he wants them to go away. He has no more use for the world...and so it goes. Say goodbye. But Old Shellback has a different idea, and since he is the most stubborn man in the universe, you might want to hear him out.