Neptune's Brood

Neptune's Brood
Author: Charles Stross
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2013
Genre: Androids
ISBN: 0425256774

After being stalked across the galaxy by an assassin, post-human Krina Alzon-114 journeys to the water-world Shin-Tethys in search of her sister.

Neptune's Brood

Neptune's Brood
Author: Charles Stross
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2013-07-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101624531

The year is AD 7000. The human species is extinct—for the fourth time—due to its fragile nature. Krina Alizond-114 is metahuman, descended from the robots that once served humanity. She’s on a journey to the water-world of Shin-Tethys to find her sister Ana. But her trip is interrupted when pirates capture her ship. Their leader, the enigmatic Count Rudi, suspects that there’s more to Krina’s search than meets the eye. He’s correct: Krina and Ana each possess half of the fabled Atlantis Carnet, a lost financial instrument of unbelievable value—capable of bringing down entire civilizations. Krina doesn’t know that Count Rudi suspects her motives, so she accepts his offer to get her to Shin-Tethys in exchange for an introduction to Ana. And what neither of them suspects is that a ruthless body-double assassin has stalked Krina across the galaxy, ready to take the Carnet once it is whole—and leave no witnesses alive to tell the tale…

Saturn's Children

Saturn's Children
Author: Charles Stross
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2008-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 144063484X

Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct, leaving only androids behind to fulfill humanity’s dreams. And, having learned well from their long-dead masters, they’ve established a hierarchical society—one with humanoid aristo rulers at the top and slave-chipped workers at the bottom, performing the lowly tasks all androids were originally created to do. Designed as a concubine for a species that hasn’t existed for two hundred years, femmebot Freya Nakamichi-47—one of the last of her kind still functioning—accepts a job from a stranger to deliver a package from mercury to Mars. Unfortunately, she’s just made herself a moving target for some very powerful, very determined humanoids desperate to retrieve the package’s contents…

South Africa, Greece, Rome

South Africa, Greece, Rome
Author: Grant Parker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 579
Release: 2017-08-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 110710081X

This book explores how since colonial times South Africa has created its own vernacular classicism, both in creative media and everyday life.

The Fountains of Neptune

The Fountains of Neptune
Author: Rikki Ducornet
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 1993-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1564781550

A lyrical exploration of memory and imagination.

The Rose and the Thorn

The Rose and the Thorn
Author: Michael J. Sullivan
Publisher: Orbit
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2013-09-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316243736

Two thieves want answers. Riyria is born. . . For more than a year Royce Melborn has tried to forget Gwen DeLancy, the woman who saved him and his partner Hadrian Blackwater from certain death. Unable to get her out of his mind, Royce returns to Medford with Hadrian but the two receive a very different reception -- Gwen refuses to see them. The victim of abuse by a powerful noble, she suspects that Royce will ignore any danger in his desire for revenge. By turning the thieves away, Gwen hopes to once more protect them. What she doesn't realize is what the two are capable of -- but she's about to find out.