overall 6 votes: 
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You’ve seen the world for what it is, and you know we are in trouble. Ills beyond the reach of bankers and cops, soldiers and presidents and even kings threaten the fabric of our lives. What we need is a hero. Follow the struggle of electrician, Alex Cides as he struggles with forces that upset his balance with the . . .
overall 4 votes:
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Reinvention is a rite of passage for a teenager, and Adele, or Ivy, or whatever she’s calling herself today, is no exception. Newly shackled with a devastating family secret, she boards a bus to the City by the Bay and makes a go of it on her own—but being a runaway isn’t easy. . . .
overall 1 vote: 
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Early next year, a deadly and unexplained virus emerges on the U.S. continent. Within weeks, the entire world’s population faces extinction. Amongst the chaos and desperation of a ruined world stand a few mysteriously unaffected individuals. Lost, confused, and alone. This is the bizarre story of one of those individuals, Matthew Cahill, as he travels from Pittsburgh through the Pennsylvania . . .
overall 3 votes:
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The Data Yodeler is a twisting tale of five mid-career uber-geeks exploring the potential of a voyeuristic existence, and making that dream into a reality. It is a story about the meaning and purpose of art, a story about the value identity, and a story of coming to terms with an uncontrollable maelstrom of information. “Meet Russ.” “Russ . . .
overall 7 votes:
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A fantasy set in modern Japan, about a young woman and the kami who takes a strong interest in her. . . .
overall 9 votes:
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Marcus, a.k.a “w1n5t0n,” is only seventeen years old, but he figures he already knows how the system works–and how to work the system. Smart, fast, and wise to the ways of the networked world, he has no trouble outwitting his high school’s intrusive but clumsy surveillance systems. But his whole world changes when he and his friends find themselves . . .
overall 2 votes:
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When the purple-haired dame showed up at the agency, Flank Ploughman, private investigator, did his best to send her away. Like it said on the door, he didn’t take that kind of case. But he couldn’t resist cash when it was right in front of him like that, and soon he was caught up in the underground of Tokyo’s Seru . . .
“Tamao” is a delicate, slow-flowing story about a modern Japanese woman who brushes against the supernatural in an old Shinto shrine. She awakens something even older than the shrine and maybe something in herself.
Akiko Tanahata has an office job, a small apartment, an ambitious boyfriend and a mother who [more . . .]
I loved this story (not least because I adore snakes, but ahem). I loved it so much, in fact, that I zipped through the entire thing in one night—which is saying something, considering the length—and feel strongly enough about it to leave my first review here.
That said, I very nearly [more . . .]