Steve Stanton
1) Freenet
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A nuanced story about artificial intelligence and digital immortality, Freenet plunges readers into the far future, when humans have closed distances in time and space through wormhole tunnels between interplanetary colonies. Consciousness has been digitized and cybersouls uploaded to a near-omniscient data matrix in a world where information is currency and the truth belongs to whoever has the most bandwidth. When Simara Ying crash-lands on the desert...
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In a post-cyberpunk future, where global economic activity is carried out in a virtual-gaming realm, a new blood-transmitted virus has become a black-market staple due to its temporary rejuvenating effects, forcing infected "Eternals" into tightly knit underground communities where they must hack the V-net for basic food and shelter. In the first book of a series that "revitalizes the cyber-fiction genre with its vivid prose and believable characters"...
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"Revitalizes the cyber-fiction genre with its vivid prose and believable characters . . . [This] should appeal to fans of Bruce Sterling and William Gibson" (Library Journal). Zakariah and Mia Davis have been infected with an alien virus that prolongs life-and as a result, their blood is a valuable black-market staple due to its rejuvenating effects. But the "eternal virus" has not affected their son Rix, and Zakariah is consumed with the search...
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Bloodlight chronicles volume 1
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In a post-cyberpunk future, where global economic activity is carried out in a virtual-gaming realm, a new blood-transmitted virus has become a black-market staple due to its temporary rejuvenating effects, forcing infected "Eternals" into tightly knit underground communities where they must hack the V-net for basic food and shelter. In the first book of a series that "revitalizes the cyber-fiction genre with its vivid prose and believable characters"...
5) Redemption
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Bloodlight chronicles volume 3
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The conclusion of the epic sci-fi series, set in a world of cloning, artificial intelligence, and battles in a virtual realm... A new blood-transmitted virus has become a black market staple due to its rejuvenating effects, forcing infected "Eternals" into a tightly knit underground where they must hack the "V-net" for food and shelter. When the leader of the Eternals, Helena Sharp, begins to lose her immortality, she flees to an old lover for strength...
6) Retribution
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Bloodlight chronicles volume 2
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The follow-up to Reconciliation blends science fiction and suspense in this tale about humans' quest for immortality-and a son's quest for justice. Mia and Zakariah Davis risked their lives to secure an activated sample of the life-prolonging "eternal virus" for their teenage son Rix-and while Zakariah survived, Mia didn't. Overcome by grief, Zakariah is determined to contact her spirit in the afterlife, while Rix wants revenge, no matter the cost....