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"During a risky experiment deep in a mine in Canada, Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist, accidentally pierces the barrier between worlds and is transferred to our universe, where in the same mine another experiment is taking place. Hurt, but alive, he is almost immediately re...

Caitlin Decter is a typical teen - smart, pretty, and wired...but she's also blind. She undergoes an experimental procedure to regain her sight and the results are unexpected. She "sees" but not just the way we do - for her the world wide web is a riot of colours and shapes, its ...

"Webmind is an emerging consciousness that has befriended Caitlin Decter and grown eager to learn about her world. But Webmind has also come to the attention of WATCH-the secret government agency that monitors the Internet for any threat to the United States-and they're fully awa...

"In 2059 two very different groups have their minds uploaded into a quantum computer in Waterloo, Ontario. One group consists of astronauts preparing for Earth?s first interstellar voyage. The other? Convicted murderers, serving their sentences in a virtual-reality prison. But wh...

Accepting a rollback, an experimental rejuvenation procedure, for herself and her husband in exchange for deciphering a message from aliens, Dr. Sarah Halifax is faced with a dilemma when the procedure works on her husband, but not on her.

Jake Sullivan has cheated death: he's discarded his doomed biological body and copied his consciousness into an android form. The original version of Jake, consigned to die on the far side of the moon, has taken hostages there, demanding the return of his rights of personhood. In...

While J. Robert Oppenheimer and his Manhattan Project team struggle to develop the A-bomb, Edward Teller wants something even more devastating: a bomb based on nuclear fusion--the mechanism that powers the sun. Teller's research leads to a terrifying discovery: by the year 2030, ...

Experimental psychologist Jim Marchuk has developed a flawless technique for identifying the previously undetected psychopaths lurking everywhere in society. But while being cross-examined about his breakthrough in court, Jim is shocked to discover that he has lost his memories o...

A scientist in California discovers that a series of murders is the work of an insurance company. After collecting information on the genes of policy holders, the company analyzed them to see which ones were a bad risk and proceeded to kill them. By the author of The Terminal Exp...

Some things must be learned the hard way ... Reed sees an opportunity to teach the school bully not to mess with him, but ends up mangling the lesson. Robert, an exhausted single father, gets a crash course in parenting when he buys a fancy new teddy bear to watch and entertain h...

"When Sheriff Cornelius Doyle is shot dead, his estranged son Kane sets out to find the culprit. He hopes to reconcile with a family that didn't want to know him, but soon discovers that his father's apparently honourable life was a lie. The town had rejoiced, and Cornelius becom...

In Robert Coover's Huck Out West, also "wrote by Huck," the boys escape "sivilization" and light out for the Territory, riding for the famous but short-lived Pony Express, then working as scouts for both sides in the war. They are suddenly separated when Tom decides he'd rather o...