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1) Transmission
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In a networked world, anything can change in an instant, and sometimes everything does.... Transmission, Hari Kunzru's new novel of love and lunacy, immigration and immunity, introduces a daydreaming Indian computer geek whose luxurious fantasies about life in America are shaken when he accepts a California job offer. Lonely and naïve, Arjun Mehta spends his days as a lowly assistant virus tester and pining away for his free-spirited colleague...
2) Zero days
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A deadly virus is threatening the world's computers. It's smart, fast, and developed by a group of elite hackers. It can break through the highest security, crippling any system within seconds. It's the ultimate cyber weapon. Nobody understands the mind of a hacker quite like Chuck Drayton. But he's gone offline, rocked with guilt after a failed operation cost innocent lives. When Chuck is called back into action, he soon gets caught in the perilous...
3) Blackout
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"The world's most destructive computer virus has been unleashed, and it's up to the Urban Outlaws--five tough kids dedicated to bringing justice to their city--to destroy it"--
4) Amnesia
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"When an internet virus throws open the gates at thousands of American prisons, the hacker turns out to be an unlikely young Australian woman. Has she declared cyber war on the United States or was her "Angel Worm" intended only to free the victims of Australia's immigration policies?"--
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Jim Salvatori is hired to head up the newly created Computer Security Department at Mayfair College after the school's computer system is attacked by a virus, but what people do not realize is that Jim is uniquely qualified to figure out whether Mayfair's computers fell victim to a joker or a criminal.
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After the premature death of Matthew Sobol, a legendary computer game designer, a daemon that he designed to dismantle society and bring about a new world order is activiated and it's up to an unlikely alliance to decipher Sobol's intricate plans and wrest the world from the grasp of his computer program.
8) Snow crash
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"Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states, where law-abiding citizens don't dare leave their mansions. Hiro delivers pizza to the mansions for a living, defending his pies from marauders when necessary with a matched set of samurai swords. His home is a shared 20 X 30 U-Stor-It. He spends most of his time goggled in to the Metaverse,...
9) Virus
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A computer virus is linked to a growing number of deaths, leaving only one option to stop the fatalities--but the cost might be too high.
10) Anarchy: a novel
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When an accused murderer disappears from a locked cell on her watch, Corporal "Goose" Maculloch of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police tracks the vanished girl through the wilderness of Vancouver Island.
11) Virus attack
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Arch fiends Basilisk and the Worm try to destroy the Hero Foundation by first bringing down the website from which teenagers Toby, Pete, Lorna, and Emily download their superpowers.
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Eccentric billionaire Igor Kasperov owns one of the most influential and successful anti-virus software companies in the world. But when the Kremlin orders him to unleash a catastrophic computer virus against the United States, he is forced to flee for his life. Sam Fisher and Fourth Echelon are charged with finding Kasperov and presenting the American presidents offer for political asylum. Because there are others looking for Kasperov. And the only...
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"On opening day of the new baseball season, a small model-kit airplane flies down from the stands and buzzes the mound, where a decorated veteran pilot is about to throw out the first ball. The toy plane is an exact replica of the one flown by the war hero. Everyone laughs, thinking it a good prank or a publicity stunt. Until it explodes, killing dozens. Seconds later a swarm of killer drones descend upon the panicked crowd, each one carrying a powerful...
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SearchMan, believing that MegaMan wiped out his whole battalion, comes to DenTech city looking for revenge. Unable either to defend himself or to convince SearchMan of his innocence, MegaMan seeks the help of two unlikely allies--two brothers living in the junkyard named SpoutMan and BubbleMan.