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  by dh1994 & 9 users

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Scott Westerfeld

Tags: future utopia ugly pretty operation

2008-08-07

  by admaddy

• Current

Type: technical

Status: —

Author: unknown

Tags: development future of engineering product outsourcing, outsourced

Description: The future of outsourcing relies on the efficiency, customer service and additional profitThe future of outsourcing relies on the efficiency, customer service and additional profit provided by having a job outsourced offshore and the way outsourcing is benefiting many companies, the future will definitely create additional market for outsourcing, not to mention additional benefits for the buyers....

2008-07-30

  by osamabinrobin & 7 users

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: liked

Author: Nancy Farmer

Tags: future thriller scifi childrens adventure ya nba newbery 2002 printz latinos

Description: One of the most fantastical science fiction books I have ever read. OPIUM? That was just brilliant,One of the most fantastical science fiction books I have ever read. OPIUM? That was just brilliant, Farmer. Well done....

2008-07-14

  by yennick & 350 users

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: George Orwell

Tags: future freedom sci-fi big_brother distatorship

Description: In a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the ThoughtIn a grim city and a terrifying country, where Big Brother is always Watching You and the Thought Police can practically read your mind, Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. He knows the Party's official image of the world is a fluid fiction. He knows the Party controls the people by feeding them lies and narrowing their imaginations through a process of bewilderment and brutalization that alienates each individual from his fellows and deprives him of every liberating human pursuit from reasoned inquiry to sexual passion. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be....

2008-02-24

  by betweenthelines & 8 users

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: to read

Author: Ray Bradbury

Tags: fantasy future

2008-02-23

  by ncspirit & 8 users

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Ray Bradbury

Tags: future

2008-02-23

  by luciferlight & 350 users

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: George Orwell

Tags: future 1984 dystopian satire

Description: typically scary of George Orwell to conjure this up. Really, if I had read this just aftertypically scary of George Orwell to conjure this up. Really, if I had read this just after he had published it way back then, I would've been way too terrified to anticipate the coming of the year 1984. Privacy forfeited and complete dictatorship, men and women lost and hiding their real characteristics from the all-seeing big brother--the elements of the best satrical novel i've ever read....

2008-02-03

  by katie & 5 users

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: neutral

Author: unknown

Tags: future war space science_fiction artificial_intelligence species

Description: One of those terribly complicated sci-fi books, set in a future with life across galaxies,One of those terribly complicated sci-fi books, set in a future with life across galaxies, war between species -- over the right to create artificial intelligence.... a love story in there, of course... Dwellers -- a species that live in slow time, contrasted with aHumans and rHumans who live in Quick time... the study of other species as a profession...

Nowhere near as good as Sylvia Engdahl's book... (title escapes me....)...

2007-12-27

  by userajf

• Current

Type: scientific

Status: I recommend

Author: Mark McCutcheon

Tags: future historical philosophy physics astronomy theory culture space educational nonfiction cosmology time einstein non-fiction relativity universe quantum non_fiction gravity sciencehistory scientific newton quantum_mechanics

Description: New science theory laying claim to the much sought after Theory Of Everything in physics. VeryNew science theory laying claim to the much sought after Theory Of Everything in physics. Very compelling!...

2007-10-30

  by macewoman

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: finished

Author: J.D. Robb

Tags: fantasy future mystery series 2007

Description: Discovered that I had missed this one in the Eve Dallas series, and since I'm a big fanDiscovered that I had missed this one in the Eve Dallas series, and since I'm a big fan I just had to read it.
A bartender is bludgeoned to death and Eve gets the case. It turns out that the bartender is a cop, but no one at the bar knew that. If he was just trying to earn extra money to support his family, why did he keep his badge a secret? And what does IAB have to do with this? While I love these mysteries and watching Eve work, I really read them for Roarke. Oh, my!
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2007-08-11