Resultados para "Jam" en Cyberpunk

Deklin will become a villain to rival the gods… somebody should probably tell him. For now, Deklin's just a fourth-year magi looking for a post-midterm vacation from Earth. When a failed portal spell strands Deklin on a dangerous, massive worldshard, he unwillingly embarks on an adventure where spire climbers compete for ever higher standings, and cultivators bind magical aspects to strengthen their spirits. Transformed into a dragonblood and branded as an outlaw, Deklin is forbidden from advancing past the first threshold alongside his growing band of exiles.

Two thousand years into the future, runaway pollution has made the earth uninhabitable except in giant biodomes. The society is an anarchy, with disputes mediated through the Machiavellian Committee for the Revolution. Mars, Venus, and the moon support flourishing colonies of various political stripes. On the fringes of the solar system, in the gas planets, a strange, new, violent kind of human has evolved.

San Francisco, 2051. Baz Covane is a battle-scarred thief who sticks to small-time bots. Ria Rose is the underworld “fixer” with a big-time score that could easily get ’em both killed. ’Cuz the Fang’s psychotic kingpin Otto Rex has a vault with more security than a fusion reactor. And the glass inside is priceless—enough to set up Baz, Ria, and their crack team of cyber-misfits on the white sands of Tahiti forever. But this crime doesn’t just carry infinite VR-Prison time—it’s Baz and Ria’s last shot at redemption.

Sopravvissuto alle insidie disseminate lungo il Sentiero, Michael ha finalmente davanti agli occhi la vera faccia della realtà, una presa di coscienza che ha sconvolto quello che credeva di sapere della sua stessa vita e del mondo. È vivo per miracolo, dopo aver collaborato con il governo per sventare Kaine, il pericoloso hacker che agiva all'interno del VirtNet, la complessa realtà alternativa in cui è possibile immergersi e vivere un'esistenza parallela.

In a lab deep in the heart of China, a brilliant engineer had a breakthrough. It was the most powerful AI ever created. Ma Young believed the Jade Dragon could combat the world’s most dire challenges. There was just one problem...the president of China had other ideas. Was this their chance to conquer?

James Patrick Kelly rappresenta il lato umano del cyberpunk e "Festa a sorpresa" è la sua prima raccolta di racconti mai pubblicata in doppia lingua, inglese e italiano. Include i seguenti racconti: La casa di Bernardo, Festa a sorpresa, La promessa dello spazio, Dichiarazione, Yukui!, La scimpanzé dei papi, Una sorella, due sorelle, tre. L'autore: James Patrick Kelly ha avuto una carriera eclettica: ha scritto romanzi, racconti, saggi, recensioni, poesie e sceneggiature.

There are cowboy boots on his feet, pop-up hints appearing in his vision, and, oh yeah, there’s a mariachi band in his head. The world's not going to slow down and let him catch up though, no, it's going to throw a chrome hover car at him and hope he gets the picture.

John has failed. The apocalypse has come. But it's been awfully quiet for an apocalypse. After stopping Kythov the Eyeless, John and the gang barely managed to stabilize the world’s mana supply, only sort of poisoning the world in the process. With a farm to run, a valley to develop, and a mysterious door to another dimension to study, John is going to have his hands full. Even worse, despite the apparent peace, turmoil stirs and ancient threats have begun to surface.

Ryo was a chef, an extremely good one at that. That was until the entire universe as he knew it changed. After his spaceship is attacked and destroyed by an enemy armada, he finds himself in a situation he never could have imagined. Sent back in time and to an alternate reality, he has quite a few choices to make. Especially considering that the ruthless Kublai Khan and his Mongol Horde are just a few years away.

The small weak League of Losers has truly lived up to its name—after all, it managed to make a slew of powerful, very dangerous enemies right from the start. It is now time for Sergeant and Whiskers, his ginger kitten, to leave the sandbox for the big world. The players have leveled up enough to pass through the barrier enclosing the sandbox, but, as luck would have it, it isn't the best time to make their escape. A bitterly cold winter is drawing near, and nobody is ready for it.

Danae is not only herself. She is concealing a connection to a grieving collective inside of her body. But while she labors as a tech servant in the dangerous underwater enclave of Bloom City, her fractured self cannot mend. In a desperate escape, Danae and her lover, Naoto, hire the enigmatic ex-mercenary Alexei to guide them out of the imploding city. But for Danae to reunify, the three new fugitives will have to flee across the otherworldly beauty of the post-apocalyptic Southwest.

Havoc Joe Ballast and his team at the Haft Agency are picking their own targets and going after the worst criminals. Their first target, the bloodthirsty Red Dead gang, is terrorizing hapless refugees. Things go bad fast when Havoc and his friends are ambushed and forced to flee to the lawless Wilds. Stranded in deadly territory, the hunters must align with a secret rebel group to survive. The bounty hunters have sided with the rebels, but things go awry when the mysterious Zenith State captures two of "Havoc" Joe Ballast's closest friends.

Kris Merrill is a member of a small insurgent group operating within a multi-level metropolis that stretches from San Francisco to the Mexican border. Her attempt at rescuing Ian Miller failed, leaving her alone and her unborn son without a father. Without the trust of the insurgents, Kris is relegated to low-level assignments for them, and trying desperately to keep her pregnancy a secret. She is alone. War has started between the corporations. The people living in the lower levels of San Angeles have become the victims.

Kris Ballard is a motorcycle courier. A nobody. Level Two trash in a multilevel city that stretches from San Francisco to the Mexican border - a land where corporations make all the rules. A runaway since the age of 14, Kris struggled to set up her life, barely scraping by, working hard to make it without anyone's help. But a late-day delivery changes everything when she walks in on the murder of one of her clients. Now she's stuck with a mysterious package that everyone wants.

After recovering from near-fatal injuries sustained on a mission, Luke Porterfield is offered a second opportunity to fight terrorism by a private venture. He is stored in bleeding-edge technology before agreeing to the deal and wakes to an uncertain fate. In the vastly changed and advanced city of London, Luke is tasked to defeat a deadly and elusive terrorist group. When his mission unearths a five-decades-long conspiracy, the explosive consequences force him into a fight against the power of a demented dictator.

Der Niedergang der Menschheit scheint unausweichlich. Während um sie herum die Fundamente der Zivilisation zusammenbrechen, müssen Jack und Mia sich beeilen, um die Antworten auf die vielleicht wichtigsten Fragen aller Zeiten zu finden. Um dieses Rätsel aufzudecken, müssen die beiden eine Reise tief ins Herz einer gefährlichen außerirdischen Welt antreten und sich den Wesen stellen, die uns erschaffen haben.

Before being conscripted to fight in the Total War, Private Hector Park had a shattered family, a collection of old video games, and a promising career as a motorcycle stuntman. Now, he is dying from a virus threatening humankind with extinction. He has three days to live. When Hector’s brother contacts him after years of hostile silence, Hector goes to try and make peace. But his brother offers him something even better: the chance to cheat death by joining him in Archemi, a full-immersion fantasy VR-RPG video game.

When Clark gets the opportunity to make alliances in Japan and break into a brand-new business, it quickly becomes clear that someone doesn't want Clark and his catgirls to succeed. But there's one thing Clark knows that his enemies don't seem to understand: When the chips are down, catgirls can do it! Please note: This is a catgirl harem book where you can modify your catgirls to suit your whims while fighting an evil corporation around the world.

In the near future, the line between human and artificial intelligence blurs as AI becomes an integral part of everyday life. But when these sophisticated systems begin to malfunction in mysterious ways, it becomes clear that something—or someone—is deliberately tampering with the very fabric of digital existence. Grace Kim, a dedicated FBI Cyber Crimes agent, is thrust into the heart of this technological maelstrom.

That’s what Darkstone Industries promise: a revolutionary gaming experience, to be revealed at Gamer-Con in sunny California, the ability to play the first-person shooter World at War, based on the allied invasion of Normandy in 1944. But the experience will be like no other—Darkstone aims for nothing less than full immersion.