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Lin “The Silent One” Vu is a gangster and sometime private investigator living in Chinese-occupied Hanoi, in the steaming, paranoid alleyways of the 36 Streets. Born in Vietnam, raised in Australia, everywhere she is an outsider. Through grit and courage Lin has carved a place for herself in the Vietnamese underworld where Hanoi’s crime boss, Bao Nguyen, is training her to fight and lead. Bao drives her hard; on the streets there are no second chances. Meanwhile the people of Hanoi are succumbing to Fat Victory - a dangerously addictive immersive simulation.

Punktown is considered by many critics and readers to be one of the new classics of SF short story collections. In the nightmarish city they call Punktown, on a planet where countless sentient species collide, you can become a creator of clones. You can become a piece of performance art. You might even become a library of sorrows...

Twenty-one years ago, mysterious empty doorframes appeared on every street corner across the planet. No one can explain where the Frames came from or how they work. But anyone can walk through one and step out another anywhere in the world—except for Doran Scott.

Auf der Suche nach einem Ausweg aus der Stadt stoßen die Überlebenden auf unerwartete Herausforderungen und erschütternde Enthüllungen, mit denen sie nicht gerechnet hätten. Hinter dem Ausbruch der Seuche steckt mehr, als die Regierung zugeben will, und sie ist weitaus tödlicher, als irgendjemand je hätte ahnen können.

In the year 2120, the human race teeters on the brink of extinction as a disease known as M6-27 sweeps mercilessly across the globe, leaving a trail of death and decay in its wake. Only a small group known as the First Liners are immune, Sandra Nkosi among them. Desperate to escape, she seizes on the chance to join the Endocarp Program. Transported to an underground bunker, she is assigned to a stasis chamber where she will spend the next 30 years. When she is brought out of hibernation, she and her fellow First Liners will shoulder the enormous weight of rebuilding society.

It’s almost one hundred years since The Great Turning, the catastrophic meteor strike that changed the world forever. Russell Owens is a recently discharged New North Americas Army sniper who only wants to return to his home just outside of Yellowstone to resume life with his gentle husband, Ted. Russell doesn’t want to re-up and hates that he had to kill for a living.

In 2120, a virus known only as M6-17 sweeps across the planet as humanity teeters on the brink of extinction. Killing nearly a third of the world’s population, the disease is the great equalizer. It spares no one, and quickly breaks down all social barriers.

The air-boys are gone. At least that’s what people keep saying. Yet when Cameron Herrick discovers something that should not be there in a dead girl’s room, he begins to question many of the things he has been told. The world is at peace. Extreme poverty has been eliminated and a looming environmental collapse has been averted. The mighty Subah Corporation whose green technology inspired this new age is more trusted than governments. Its only remaining critics are those who lost fortunes and influence with the demise of the old petro-fueled order. There were others but the air-boys are gone.