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Very few of us have gone through childhood without reading at least one storybook or seeing one cartoon which depicted humans coexisting with anthropomorphic vehicles. Now, what would life in such a society actually be LIKE? If you've ever worked with large animals, you might already have a faint inkling. Add an engine to that, and you will understand why humans might want to step lightly around, say, a cranky, sleep-deprived helicopter. 250 years in the future, the last bastion of mankind's technological might has been preserved in series of tube like cities suspended over the dense clouds that enveloped the surface. Here, the first truly independent A.I. is created, and lost. When the A.I. resurfaces years later, it makes an enemy of the CEO that runs the corporation, after she accesses his highly classified files. On the run with her three children, Sophia decides that in order to survive, they must flee their digital world for that of flesh and bone. With the help of her creator, they grow human bodies and genetically encode them with their digital memories. Growing human bodies was the easy part, getting away in one piece is the challenge. 29p preview of River Runs Red by Jeffrey Mariotte A CNN journalist kidnapped by insurgents in Iraq is held in a cavern prison, where he sees strange glowing images on the wall at night. A reporter for a local independent weekly in El Paso, TX, finds herself strangely thrilled to cover murder stories, even while her beloved brother is dying in a nearby hospital room. A CIA agent assigned to run Operation Moon Flash, the agency’s covert psychic investigations program, has to step in when his psychics start to die, one by one. An anthropologist searches an ancient rock art site near a small Texas town on the Rio Grande, hoping to find clues to her father’s disappearance. When these characters come together, they will confront their own pasts and each other, as combatants in a supernatural war spanning the eons and the continents, all linked by the raging currents of the world’s rivers… River Runs Red is the second book in a loose trilogy, linked by theme and setting, following Missing White Girl and coming before 2009’s Cold Black Hearts. It’s a big, ambitious epic of a supernatural thriller combining elements of spy fiction (and fact) with flat-out horror. Character-driven and fast moving, River Runs Red has more unexpected twists and turns than a mountain stream. To find out more about River Runs Red, please visit http://www.jeffmariotte.com/river/ To purchase this release, go to http://mg.booksense.com/NASApp/store/Product;jsessionid=bca93WuvT2i2zdjGgvaVr?&s=showproduct&affiliateId=JJM&isbn=9780515144772 A collection of short stories pulled from the mind of creator Ryan Andrew Brandt. Action, horror, drama, comedy...all that AND a bag of chips! Okay, maybe not a bag of chips. But you get everything else! Stories in this volume: A Happier Place, My Little Babies, Marcus Midnight versus the Irradiated Lizard, Ranger Dan Danger in "Fighting the Fire", Lone Slinger in "Draw Your Shuriken, Sheriff", Ranger Dan Danger in "Taking Down Wild Animals" and The Little Things. To purchase the print edition of this release, please visit ComiXpress For more information on Tales From The RABverse: Vol. 1 and other comics by Ryan Brandt, visit him on MySpace A 33p excerpt of The Long-Timers by G.M. Lupo. Published by PublishAmerica in 2007. This is the story of Victoria Wells, a woman who goes from being a prostitute in the East End of London to a wealthy philanthropist in New York City. Victoria is a long-timer, a person with an extremely long lifespan. After learning about herself, she meets Charles and Renee Fox, two long-timers who have been married for more than a thousand years. Victoria is taken in by another long-timer, Bergeron, a shadowy figure who may be Jack the Ripper. The story follows Victoria from her first meeting with Bergeron, through her relocation to New York and into the current day. It also takes Charles and Renee from their earliest times through their marriage and into the present, touching on some of the historical events in which they have participated. To purchase The Long-Timers, go to PublishAmerica.com and enter the search term "lupo". For more information on this release and others, please visit G.M. on MySpace. Crime Does Not Pay (formerly Silver Streak Comics No. 1-21) No. 22, June, 1942 - No. 147, July, 1955 From http://goldenagecomics.co.uk
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