Strange Little Band is the ongoing story of Addison and Shane, two self-centered, amoral psychics who work for the cut-throat Triptych Corporation. Their insular, comfortable lives are disrupted when, due to Triptych’s machinations, they become unlikely parents. How can they raise a child when they can’t trust each other? . . .
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All over the world, Knights are appearing. They have swords. They ride horses. They wear shining armour. They’re causing trouble. Nobody knows where they came from or why they’re here—even the Knights themselves are pretty vague on the matter. However, they’re not about to let that get in the way of their crusading. They have a Law to uphold. . . .
Eva thought she could outrun the plagues, but she was wrong. The bio-hackers that ripped the world raw are targeting her hometown of Prague, and this time there may be no escaping it. Now, hunted by police who think she’s a hacker herself, Eva must brave the rotting city streets to find her mother before it’s too late. But . . .
Strange Little Band is the ongoing story of Addison and Shane, two self-centered, amoral psychics who work for the cut-throat Triptych Corporation. Their insular, comfortable lives are disrupted when, due to Triptych’s machinations, they become unlikely parents. How can they raise a child when they can’t trust each other? . . .
As the years roll by, the world changes from that which we know. Even in spite of impressive new strides in technology and what long seemed a forgiving end to further climate change, the various nations and unions of the Earth . . . not to mention the land itself . . . still bear the almost incalculable burden of ever increasing human population. Bach Kanavagh, a quietly . . .
In an alternate present the minds of teen offenders are uploaded into computers for rehabilitation—a form of virtual wilderness therapy. Zach is a homo cognoscens, one of the new humans who can navigate the Fulgrid. Though still a high school student, he is indentured to the Fulgur Corporation as a counsellor. Laura is a homo sapiens. Their story is part . . .
LITMUS isn’t sure what he thinks about people, but science—that is an affair capable of sustaining him indefinitely. There’s only one problem, he’s already dead. Everybody is. “Not dead,” corrects Mace. “Almost dead, it’s a different thing altogether. Plucked from the edge and thrown back into life. Shouldn’t you be working?” Near fatal accidents, intentional incidents with electrical . . .
In just one morning the neatly organised world of Cory Wilson falls apart. The sun has been extinguished, plunging the Earth into total darkness. Terror reigns. Unable to think of anything else to do, Wilson places his faith in Billionaire Barry Castle’s radio announcement of a Doomsday Dome being constructed in rural Montana – a sanctuary where all who can . . .
In the near future a message is received from Proxima Centauri 4.3 light years away. A massive operation is put into action to build a ship to send a crew of six to investigate the signal. They arrive after 150 years only to discover that the signal came from a very obscure and unexpected source. . . .
Caveat: I haven’t read all of Street, but I have read all of Year 1: Empathy.
The beginning instantly grabbed me. Crisp, clear, to the point.
I like that.
The story itself starts [more . . .]
Strange Little Band is one of the sexiest stories on the internet, and how can it not be when you are looking at two supervillains navigating their way through parenthood and romance? The wonderfully adversarial relationship between Addison and Shane creates a dark comedy of errors inside of a top secret society that may or may not be on the [more . . .]