Maxima Library

In a near-future dystopia, a limited nuclear strike has destroyed portions of Europe, bringing the remaining nation-cities under control of the Second Alliance, a frighteningly fundamentalist international security corporation with designs on world domination. The only defense against the Alliance’s creeping totalitarianism is the New Resistance, a polyglot team of rebels that includes Rick Rickenharp, a retro-rocker whose artistic and political sensibilities intertwine, and John Swenson, a mole who has infiltrated the Alliance. As the fight continues and years progress, so does the technology and brutality of the Alliance… but ordinary people like the damaged visionary Smoke, Claire Rimpler on FirStep, and Dance Torrence and his fellow urban warriors on Earth are bound together by the truth and a single purpose: to keep the darkness from becoming humankind’s Total Eclipse—or die trying!

An omnibus of all three novels—revised by the author—of the prophetic, still frighteningly relevant cyberpunk masterpieces: , , and . With an introduction by Richard Kadrey and biographical note by Bruce Sterling.

It's the end of World War II. FDR's New Deal has redefined American politics. Taxes are at an all-time high. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has brought a fear of total annihilation. The rise of secret government agencies and sanctions on business has many watching their backs. America's sense of freedom is diminishing… and many are desperate to take that freedom back.

Among them is a great dreamer, an immigrant who pulled himself from the depths of poverty to become one of the wealthiest and admired men in the world. That man is Andrew Ryan, and he believed that great men and women deserve better. And so he set out to create the impossible, a utopia free from government, censorship, and moral restrictions on science—where what you give is what you get. He created Rapture—the shining city below the sea.

But as we all know, this utopia suffered a great tragedy. This is the story of how it all came to be… and how it all ended.

Il tema della città è stato più volte sfruttato in fantascienza, da quelle volanti di James Blish a quelle del lontano futuro di Clifford Simak. Ma nessuno, prima di John Shirley, aveva esplorato con tanta efficacia il mito della città vivente, organismo tipico del XX secolo e dintorni. Se le città hanno davvero un’anima, è possibile che sia maligna? E ammesso che si tratti di organismi senzienti, è concepibile che il rock sia l’equivalente della loro musica delle sfere? Lo scoprirà il lettore in questo thriller metropolitano ante-litteram, il libro che alla fine degli anni Settanta consacrò John Shirley come uno dei più promettenti autori di fantascienza moderna.

Further explore the world of Watch Dogs with a new story, an entirely digital novel project created inside Ubisoft in collaboration with John Shirley, prolific author and pioneer of the cyberpunk movement

John Shirley naturally transcribed Watch Dogs’ atmosphere, the world of hacking and of a not that fictional Chicago, into a thriller combining high-tech crimes and a bunch of known and new characters.

The novel introduces Mick Wolfe, a veteran, who get caught in a dangerous game in Chicago’s hyper connected and violent underground.

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