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1) Icarus
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Man versus machine. Anarchy versus order. Power versus love.Centuries of war have ravaged the world. Those left are sheltered under domed cities -- like the decrepit city of Kennedy -- but they're not really protected. Class warfare wages. The lower classes are kept down by the upper class that strives to eventually replace them with easily-controlled artificial intelligence. The man who created this AI is Jerrid Fieger, the most powerful man in Kennedy....
2) Icarus
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Trained KGB assassin, EDWARD GENN (code name ICARUS), finds himself in a foreign country with no one to trust. Determined to escape his muddled existence, he tries to start over. He assumes a new identity, starts a family and his own legitimate business. But when he is identified, he is forced to balance his new life as a family man and his old one as a career hitman.
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In early 2019, when playwright Kirk Wood Bromley was diagnosed with cancer, his fans and collaborators came together to fund and record three of his plays, one of which was Icarus and Aria, an "upgraded Romeo and Juliet" that was originally performed under the dramatory of Aaron Beall at the first New York International Fringe Festival in 1997. This full cast performance was directed by Joshua Spafford.
While riffing off its forerunner, Icarus and...
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This book was written to bring to everyone's attention our obsession with technology, which is destroying our planet's biosphere and will eventually, in the author's opinion, bring about the extinction of most species on Earth, both plant and animal, including, of course, our own. Clinging onto the belief that we will soon develop some new technology that will provide us with a free and unlimited source of energy and "save" us is just pure folly....
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Tickets to the Fall of Icarus charts the flight of two flamboyant characters, Icarus and Audrey, as they navigate their way through the maelstrom of modern life amidst natural disasters, pandemics, online dating and even a little self-sabotage.
In artfully executed narrative poetry, Gering deploys his inimitable style and humour to bring characters into dynamic life on the page. Few readers won't see glimmers or shards of themselves in Audrey and...
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Greystone Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"All we need to do is give animals a voice and our perception of the world could change forever. That's what author Martin Wikelski and his team of scientists believe, and this book shares their story for the first time. As they tag animals around the world with minuscule tracking devices, they link their movements to The International Space Station, which taps into the 'internet of animals': an astonishing network of information made up of thousands...
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Penguin Books
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[2024]
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English
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"From prizewinning writer Joe Fassler comes a brilliant modern reimagining of the myth of Daedalus and Icarus as a story of obsession, longing, and the radical pursuit of utopia. It's 2005, and 24-year-old Jane is miserable. Overworked, buried in debt, she senses the life she wanted slipping away--while the world around her veers badly off course, hurtling toward economic and ecological collapse. She wants to find something better. But she has no...
10) Atlas Gambit
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Tracking the Kaon dreadnought had been a challenge but Captain Sinclair Barrett and the crew of the Icarus were not ready for where it led them. Atlas Station was a massive, alien structure that was visited by their phantom enemy and could hold clues to the true intentions of the Kaon.
11) Joss Whedon's Names the Deeper Meanings Behind Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, Agents of s.h.i.e.l
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Doctor Horrible, Jayne Cobb, Oz, Fitz-Simmons, Echo, Pike, Saffron, Kaywinnet, the Groosalugg, Skip, Satsu, Dana Polk, Perfect Jheung, Icarus, the Siphon, Edna Giles, Dandelion Naizen, and especially Buffy the Vampire Slayer. With Whedon's superhero names, goddess names, flower names, saint's names, and dozens of British names, he's filling his world with references from Shakespeare to manga, delighting fans who look closer. Which names repeat the...
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Sarah Salvator is on the run from the Icarus Project, the para-military organization that implanted her with a mysterious piece of tech that increases her perception, speed, and strength. These advantages come at a tremendous cost. Using information gathered from a storage unit called Alpha Zero Two, Sarah and a team from the Resistance including: Georgia, a 16 year old tech wiz; Zoe van der Meer, an Ex-military Doctor; and Dr. Joanna Yang, a confidant...
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A king's secret daughter is swept into romance and danger in this tale of royal intrigue.
The ruler of Icarus is cunning and ruthless, yet Iliana Kracos has seen another side of Demetrius DeSante. And after an explosive night of passion together, she agrees to marry him. Yet when he reveals her true parentage-;she's heir to the throne-;it puts her bridegroom in a new light.
Iliana isn't sure how she can trust Demetrius. Does he truly love her,...
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Astronaut David Powell was one of the team of five astronauts who took on the suicide mission of destroying the Icarus2 asteroid before it could collide with Earth and annihilate all life on the planet. The team succeeded, but as a result of the explosion, David gained the ability of telekinesis, the means of moving matter with one's mind. David also lost his memories. Now back on Earth, David is traveling throughout the world, taking on different...
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Lost Sci-Fi Books 161 thru 165 -
• The Sky Was Full of Ships by Theodore Sturgeon - They tried Gordon Kent for murder–but who was really responsible?
• He That Hath Wings by Edmond Hamilton - The story of a modern Icarus - David Rand was a freak of nature, a glorious, winged freak, who had experienced the freedom of the sky and could no longer be tied to the ground.
• The Pause by Isaac Asimov - The white powder was confined within a thin-walled,...
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The Rise and Fall of One of India's Most Promising Bankers
The year was 2004, India's economy was booming and 'India Shining' seemed like a true slogan. Around the same time, a non-banking financial company applied for and received a licence to operate as a private bank. Yes Bank was born. Its rise was phenomenal and it soon became the fourth-largest private bank in the country, with approved permissions to operate in Singapore, London and Dubai....
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Get ready to hop on a mythical time machine and zoom back to ancient Greece – and trust us, it's going to be a wild ride! Buckle up, because we're diving headfirst into a world where gods and goddesses play cosmic games, heroes tackle monstrous challenges, and even the monsters have a tale or two to spin. Wave goodbye to those boring history books that feel like time machines stuck in slow motion!This book? It's a treasure trove of excitement, packed...
18) Spare keys
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Distrib Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
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Français
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Fifteen-year-old Sophie yearns to break free from her dysfunctional family. After one argument too many, she seizes an opportunity and takes the spare keys to her affluent friend Jade's house. While enjoying the spacious home she thought was empty for summer, she bumped into her friend's older brother Stephane. He, as fate would have it, was also planning on staying. Rather than insisting she leave, Step̌hane lets her into the house and his life....
20) Mambar Pierrette
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Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
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Français
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Over the past decade, Cameroonian filmmaker Rosine Mbakam has distinguished herself for her quietly observational documentary portraits of African women. With Mambar Pierrette, her feature narrative debut, Mbakam turns her documentarian's eye to the eponymous Pierrette, a gifted & beloved neighborhood seamstress who works to support her young children and mother. As a rainstorm threatens to flood her workshop one of many misfortunes Pierrette will...
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