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  • Juris Ex Machina

    by John W. Maly ...
    With a click, the bread fell into the toaster. One circuit fired the heating coils. Others monitored bread temperature and color.Yet another circuit was quite unlike all the rest—as exotic as it was sinister;when it activated, 368 people would die.In the 22nd century, the justice system is airtight in the domed city of Arcadia. Human error has been removed. Yet somehow, a well-intentioned young ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Competition, Choice, and Incentives in Government Programs

    by Jacques S. Gansler, Jón R. Blöndal, William Lucyshyn, John R. Barker, Robert Maly, Sandra Young, Russell Lundberg, Jonathan Roberts, Anne Laurent, John J. Callahan, John Cawley, Andrew B. Whitford, Gary C. Bryner ...
    Series series IBM Center for the Business of Government
    Since the 1980s, the language used around market-based government has muddied its meaning and polarized its proponents and critics, making the topic politicized and controversial. Competition, Choice, and Incentives in Government Programs hopes to reframe competing views of market-based government so it is seen not as an ideology but rather as a fact-based set of approaches for managing government ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD

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  • A Late-Start Tamer's Laid-Back Life: Volume 1

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  • Peace on Earth

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    by Stanislaw Lem ...
    Robot armies, an arms race in space, and a brain at war with itself add up to "a futuristic version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" ( The Boston Phoenix).Anxious to avoid a war that would destroy the entire planet, the major powers of Earth have come to an ingenious compromise. Each country sends a force of adaptable, self-programming robots to the surface of the moon to play out the conflict there ... Read more

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  • Sleeping Wolves

    A Galactic Cold War Story

    by Dan Moren ...
    Series series Galactic Cold War
    After a mission on Bayern earns Colonel Harry Frayn the displeasure of his superiors, he finds himself reassigned to the headquarters of the Imperial Intelligence Service. His critical job? Rubber stamping endless reports from an office deep within the basement.But while you can take the agent out of the field, you can't take the field out of the agent. So when Frayn stumbles across intelligence ... Read more

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  • Clockwork Planet: Volume 3

    by Yuu Kamiya, Tsubaki Himana ...
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  • Hunters & Collectors

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  • The Kill Code

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    Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our February 2025 issue (#221) contains:Fiction* "Bodyhoppers" by Rocío Vega* "King of the Castle" by Fiona Moore* "We Begin Where Infinity Ends" by Somto Ihezue* "A Planet Full of Sorrows" by M. L. Clark* "The Hanging Tower of Babel" ... Read more

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  • Hoshi and the Red City Circuit

    by Dora M. Raymaker ...
    Due to their unique neurology, only the enslaved Operator caste can program the quantum computers that run 26th century Red City. When three of the caste are ritually murdered, it's up to private investigator Hoshi Archer—herself a recently liberated Operator—to help the police solve the case. Things get complicated when one of the victims turns out to be Hoshi's ex-girlfriend, and power-hungry ... Read more

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