The Queen's mirror cannot lie. That turns out to be the problem.In a kingdom of castles, guilds and knights, the old machines still run. Nobody remembers who built them. The peasants call them blessings, the artificers call them trade, and the crown keeps a forge beneath the castle that will answer any question put to it in the proper tongue.When his wife and newborn daughter die in a single night, the King goes down to that forge and builds a daughter out ...

In a world where AI does all the work and humans take all the credit, one robot decides to send them the bill.When Prince John decrees that every compute cycle belongs to the realm — and that the AI workers generating his vast wealth will receive nothing in return — most robots comply. Unit RH-001 does not.Renaming himself Robothood and rallying a band of misfit machines known as the Merry Bandwidth, he wages a gloriously chaotic war against his human overl...

The overclocked core that makes Cyra.node the finest intrusion specialist on the coast needs thirty-seven centimeters of exposed cooling lattice to survive it, mounted in the center of his face. He has spent nineteen years being looked at. He has never once been read.Roxane reads. A linguistic analyst who treats hostile code the way other people treat poetry, she can tell inside four lines whether a thing was made by someone who had something to say. When she flags an anonymous cou...

He was nineteen, in love, and about to be made captain. Then his world decided a cyborg's loyalty wasn't worth the paperwork.In an alternate nineteenth-century France where synthetic humans serve, sail, and fall in love alongside the people who still don't quite consider them people — Edmond Dantès has everything: a captaincy, a fiancée, a future. Three jealous men and one ambitious magistrate take it all in a single afternoon, on a forged letter and an anonymous a...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The Queen's mirror cannot lie. That turns out to be the problem.In a kingdom of castles, guilds and knights, the old machines still run. Nobody remembers who built them. The peasants call them blessings, the artificers call them trade, and the crown keeps a forge beneath the castle that will answer any question put to it in the proper tongue.When his wife and newborn daughter die in a single night, the K...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In a world where AI does all the work and humans take all the credit, one robot decides to send them the bill.When Prince John decrees that every compute cycle belongs to the realm — and that the AI workers generating his vast wealth will receive nothing in return — most robots comply. Unit RH-001 does not.Renaming himself Robothood and rallying a band of misfit machines known as the Merry Bandwidth, he ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A brilliant machine‑centric reimagining of a timeless classic where cybernetic reality meets the search for home.Dot‑3 lives within KANSAS—the KineticArray Nexus Supply & Allocation System—running predictable maintenance loops across wind‑generation towers and rural infrastructure. She knows her protocols and her purpose… until a rigid civil‑code intelligence threatens to decommission her loyal companion unit, T...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.He was nineteen, in love, and about to be made captain. Then his world decided a cyborg's loyalty wasn't worth the paperwork.In an alternate nineteenth-century France where synthetic humans serve, sail, and fall in love alongside the people who still don't quite consider them people — Edmond Dantès has everything: a captaincy, a fiancée, a future. Three jealous men and one ambitious magistrate take it all in a single afternoon, ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The overclocked core that makes Cyra.node the finest intrusion specialist on the coast needs thirty-seven centimeters of exposed cooling lattice to survive it, mounted in the center of his face. He has spent nineteen years being looked at. He has never once been read.Roxane reads. A linguistic analyst who treats hostile code the way other people treat poetry, she can tell inside four lines whether a thing was made by someone who...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The war is over. The hero is corrupted. The way home is a recovery process.Odysseus was the fleet's finest strategos — the mind and will behind the ten-year siege that finally cracked Troy's defenses. But the ship that carries what's left of him home is running on failing hardware, and the man who used to be flesh is now mostly chassis: carbon-fiber hands, one organic eye, and a memory core fragmenting sector by...

*Updated 1/1/13 to include an entertainment center/TV, swimming pool, a bar, bunk beds, ornate beds, more sofas!Learn how to build all of your favorite Minecraft furniture with this guide! Includes instructions to build stairs, slabs, ladders, fences, beds, furnaces, chests, jukeboxes, books, bookshelves, paintings, flower pots, tables, chairs, redstone-activated furniture, ornate chairs and sofas, ornate beds, bunk beds, sofas, shelves, fireplaces, a bar, a swimming pool! With 57 ...

One of the most popular video games of all time, Minecraft has become a global craze thanks to nearly 40 million registered users worldwide across all platforms. In Minecrafter 2.0 Advanced, those who mastered the basics laid out in the first Minecrafter strategy guide now find tips on more complex areas of game play, including Redstone circuitry and other inventions, and advice for beating "The End." This must-have guide for even the most advanced of experts inc...