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Author: Matthew W. Poehler Publisher: Matthew Poehler ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 289
Book Description
Battle lines are drawn to contest the fate of a world. Alliances and communication are in place between the Ceph and Humans to build widespread relationships. Projects to save not only humanity, but the world itself are advancing. The balance between secrecy and revelation is precarious, however, and a mistake will provoke disaster. Bright, the Ceph Matriarch, chosen to be Ambassador from the Ceph on Earth to the Civilization, faces a trial of self-sacrifice. Stella, her oldest friend, must choose between loyalty to her race and what she knows must happen for her race to survive. Thomas Belten, aka Ax10m the criminal hacker vowed that he would have his revenge, and he would not be stopped even by his own death. Pearl the Ansible once again must balance the demands of the future against all it has worked a billion years to build, and the children it loves but never dreamed would exist. Ideology has faced off against reason and compassion. The prize is the very existence of humanity. The world-ship, the Swimmer in Relativity, is due and with it comes judgement. A spark will kindle a blaze that could sweep the world to ash, and an enemy from beyond the grave will strike that spark.
Author: Matthew W. Poehler Publisher: Matthew Poehler ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 289
Book Description
Battle lines are drawn to contest the fate of a world. Alliances and communication are in place between the Ceph and Humans to build widespread relationships. Projects to save not only humanity, but the world itself are advancing. The balance between secrecy and revelation is precarious, however, and a mistake will provoke disaster. Bright, the Ceph Matriarch, chosen to be Ambassador from the Ceph on Earth to the Civilization, faces a trial of self-sacrifice. Stella, her oldest friend, must choose between loyalty to her race and what she knows must happen for her race to survive. Thomas Belten, aka Ax10m the criminal hacker vowed that he would have his revenge, and he would not be stopped even by his own death. Pearl the Ansible once again must balance the demands of the future against all it has worked a billion years to build, and the children it loves but never dreamed would exist. Ideology has faced off against reason and compassion. The prize is the very existence of humanity. The world-ship, the Swimmer in Relativity, is due and with it comes judgement. A spark will kindle a blaze that could sweep the world to ash, and an enemy from beyond the grave will strike that spark.
Author: Matthew Poehler Publisher: Matthew Poehler ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 639
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Revenant One person’s utopia is another’s dystopia, and discontent never dies. Ten years after the Arrival, the oceans teem with life; the air is clear, and the land is lush. Children of Earth, in all their forms, are free to live and grow. Music, the Arts, Science, and fascinating hybrids of all three flourish. Disease and hunger are part of the past. Humans work in harmony with the Ceph and the other beings of the Civilization to find their niche in a universe far greater than they thought possible. What lies beneath the surface of Earth’s idyll? A serpent lurks in the garden. Seemingly all-powerful, the Ceph and heir Ansible allies are not gods. Their past mistakes and long-forgotten arrogance created an enemy whose thirst for vengeance they can only slake with death. If anyone can be made a traitor, who can be trusted? Stella, the crew of the Money Shot, and Ansibles Pearl & Eldest lead humans and Ceph of the Alliance against beings who would inflict a slavery on Earth and the rest of the galaxy that makes slaughter seem merciful. Unexpected allies join the existential battle, while terror from within humanity threatens yet another path to doom. Will life and freedom win over conquest and death?
Author: Matthew W. Poehler Publisher: Matthew Poehler ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 742
Book Description
As the Ceph colony on Earth spreads out across the globe, the Humans and Earth-Born Ceph fight a secret battle for humanity’s survival. Our world hangs in a precarious balance between forces both subtle and terrifyingly powerful. As the Alliance strives furiously to balance its own factions, monsters both human and inhuman threaten to bring that balance crashing down. The World-Ship Swimmer in Relativity is close to arrival. It brings the galactic Ceph civilization back to Earth. If the Alliance cannot forge a relationship with human society before then, if violence is triumphant, it will mean the end of Earthlings as we know them, both Ceph and Human. Time is short, and the odds for survival are long.
Author: Matthew W. Poehler Publisher: Matthew Poehler ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 483
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The Ceph: Reborn An ancient galactic civilization rises again on Earth. How we treat their reborn colony will forge our fate. Will we rise to the challenge, or die? The Ceph Civilization seeded the galaxy's planets with life throughout history. Two of the great World-Ships arrived from the Civilization sixty-five million years ago to deliver the Ceph to their new Colony. They were gone a thousand years when the asteroid struck. The surface of the planet was seared and shattered. Survivors of the Colony adapted to any safety the broken planet’s oceans would offer. They lost the ability to walk the land and breathe the air. Nothing sleeps forever. The Ceph on Earth are Reborn, and they have called for help. Humans on Earth don't know we share this world yet. We only have a short time to learn this unsettling fact and be amicable neighbors. Humans and the Ceph can coexist with massive benefits for both races. We're related, after all. The alternative will have severe consequences for every human on Earth. We must build this relationship. It will take an Alliance of unlikely people with an extraordinary plan. Stella Uren, Captain of the fishing and dive boat Money Shot and her Crew are partnered with Bright, the Octopus Matriarch of the Colony. Together with the immortal hive-mind of the Ansible Network, they make a powerful, if unconventional, team. This Alliance will have to walk a fine line threaded through potential catastrophe to reach their goal of integrating the Colony with human society before the Swimmer in Relativity, the new World-Ship arrives. Balancing on that line will be tough, no matter how many legs you have.
Author: Paul Rabinow Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022622192X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 208
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In 1993, an American biotechnology company and a French genetics lab developed a collaborative research plan to search for diabetes genes. But just as the project was to begin, the French government called it to a halt, barring the laboratory from sharing something never previously thought of as a commodity unto itself: French DNA.
Author: Paul Rabinow Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400851793 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 212
Book Description
This collection of essays explains and encourages new reflection on Paul Rabinow's pioneering project to anthropologize the West. His goal is to exoticize the Western constitution of reality, emphasize those domains most taken for granted as universal, and show how their claims to truth are linked to particular social practices, hence becoming effective social forces. He has recently begun to focus on the core of Western rationality, in particular the practices of molecular biology as they apply to our understanding of human nature. This book moves in new directions by posing questions about how scientific practice can be understood in terms of ethics as well as in terms of power. The topics include how French socialist urban planning in the 1930s engineered the transition from city planning to life planning; how the discursive and nondiscursive practices of the Human Genome Project and biotechnology have refigured life, labor, and language; and how a debate over patenting cell lines and over the dignity of life required secular courts to invoke medieval notions of the sacred. Building on an ethnographic study of the invention of the polymerase chain reaction--which enables the rapid production of specific sequences of DNA in millions of copies Rabinow, in the final essay, reflects in dialogue with biochemist Tom White on the place of science in modernity, on science as a vocation, and on the differences between the human and natural sciences.
Author: Matthew Poehler Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 452
Book Description
The Ceph: Reborn The Ceph Civilization seeded the galaxy's planets with life throughout history. Two of the great World-Ships arrived from the Civilization to deliver the Ceph to their new Colony. They were gone a thousand years when the asteroid struck. The surface of the planet was seared and shattered. Survivors of the Colony adapted to any safety the broken planet's oceans would offer. They lost the ability to walk the land and breathe the air. The Civilization didn't hear from this planet again for sixty-five million years. Nothing sleeps forever. The Ceph on Earth are Reborn, and they have called for help. Humans on Earth don't know we share this world yet. We only have a short time to learn this unsettling fact and be amicable neighbors. Humans and the Ceph can coexist with massive benefits for both races. We're related, after all. The alternative will have severe consequences for every human on Earth. We must build this relationship. It will take an Alliance of unlikely people with an extraordinary plan. Estelle Uren, Captain of the fishing and dive boat Money Shot and her Crew are partnered with Bright, the Octopus Matriarch of the Colony. Together with the immortal hive-mind of the Ansible Network, a pair of biologists, a retired military operative, a deep-fake celebrity, and a world-wide Conspiracy Theory network they make a powerful, if unconventional, team. This Alliance will have to walk a fine line threaded through potential catastrophe to reach their goal of integrating the Colony with human society before the Swimmer in Relativity, the new World-Ship arrives. Balancing on that line will be tough, no matter how many legs you have. Humans have reacted badly to surprises in the past.
Author: K.J. Heritage Publisher: Sygasm Publishing ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 214
Book Description
Another fast-paced thrill-ride from bestselling UK author, K.J.Heritage Never, ever, let yourself never get caught… who knows what may happen? The forgotten, seedy backwater planet of Plenty (the most unfortunately-named world there ever was), is no place for a girl to grow up parentless and alone. But self-styled, femme fatale and genius gun-for hire, Quick-Kill Jane, was no normal kid. She lea