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【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Good Guy【電子書籍】[ Justin Fraser ]

＜p＞A hilarious romp through a mountain of monster corpses! Ray Peril was destined to be the greatest villain of all time, but monsters and men, robots and dragons, sorcerers and evil geniuses all picked the wrong time to play their hand. It's time to level the playing field, and Ray Peril walks a straight line to every goal. Along with the ill-fated Tammy Knitbar, AKA Silence, desperately clinging to the last threads of her humanity, and an unwitting vampire that walks in sunlight, Ray Peril takes on every evil imaginable in this hilarious trek of endless action, high-strung friendships, and dark comedy. Follow the man that breaks the deus ex machina in The Good Guy.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Null Identity: A Tomorrow Gene prequel The Tomorrow Gene, #4【電子書籍】[ Johnny B. Truant ]

＜p＞Cassandra Knight is trying hard to believe that she is safe and sane. Living with an adoring billionaire in his luxurious secluded mansion, she should have everything she needs to recover from the mental breakdown that drove her to attempt suicide.＜/p＞ ＜p＞And yet, she is haunted by vividly recurring nightmares of the moment she tried to take her life and the persistent feeling that something just isn't right.＜/p＞ ＜p＞What happened on that hazy night when she hit rock bottom, and why does it seem like everything and everyone around her are conspiring to keep her from remembering?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Null Identity is a compelling mix of Ex Machina meets The Invisible Man in the story of one woman's struggle to unearth the truth and understand her own past.＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞This book is a prequel to the ＜em＞Tomorrow Gene＜/em＞ series, but you should read it last.＜/strong＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Dieu, Darwin et moi【電子書籍】[ Pierre VALLIN ]

＜p＞Aux ?les Galapagos, devant leur faune ?trange, Darwin comprend que les ?tres vivants n'ont pas ?t? cr??s mais sont les produits naturels d'une longue ?volution. L'Homme, parmi eux, perd son titre de cr?ature de Dieu. Cette ?limination radicale du Deus ex machina est-elle la cause du d?sarroi de ceux qui veulent ? tout prix "y croire" ? Dieu, Darwin et moi a d'abord ?t? con?u comme un geste de d?fense. L'?talage d?complex? de la foi peut en effet perturber ceux qui comme moi n'ont d'autre religion que la raison. Il est vrai que les croyants ne l?sinent pas sur les moyens. Est-ce parce que la pr?sence de l'incroyant leur pose une question lancinante : "Ce dieu, si ?vident, comment peut-il se faire que certains n'y croient pas ?". L'incroyant, par sa simple existence, est-il la cause d'un doute affreux ? La peur, plus que la charit?, expliquerait-elle alors le pros?lytisme bruyant du croyant ?＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Tr?s irm?s As mulheres que definiram a China moderna【電子書籍】[ Jung Chang ]

＜p＞＜strong＞"Uma amava dinheiro, uma amava o poder e uma amava a China." Nesta biografia ?pica, a autora de ＜em＞Cisnes selvagens＜/em＞ narra a vida das irm?s que mudaram a hist?ria de um pa?s em ebuli??o.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞O mais conhecido conto de fadas chin?s moderno ? a hist?ria das irm?s Soong, cujas vidas se estenderam do fim do s?culo XIX ao in?cio do s?culo XXI. A Irm? Mais Velha, Ei-ling, casou-se com o homem mais rico da China, H. H. Kung. A Irm? Vermelha, Ching-ling, foi a companheira de Sun Yat-sen, pai fundador da China moderna e seu primeiro presidente. E a Irm? Mais Nova, May-ling, se tornaria a ambiciosa Madame Chiang Kai-shek, esposa do l?der da Rep?blica da China.＜br /＞ Em cem anos de guerras e revolu??es constantes, as irm?s Soong estiveram no centro das mudan?as do pa?s e deixaram uma marca indel?vel na hist?ria chinesa. Elas desfrutaram privil?gios e gl?rias, mas tamb?m se envolveram em disputas perigosas ー inclusive entre si. Neste ?pico de amor, guerra, ex?lio, intriga, glamour e trai??o, Jung Chang entrela?a os acontecimentos da China do s?culo XX ? vida de tr?s mulheres inesquec?veis.＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Fruto de uma pesquisa meticulosa, ＜em＞Tr?s irm?s＜/em＞ ? uma leitura fascinante." ー ＜em＞The New York Times Book Review＜/em＞＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Green Odyssey【電子書籍】[ Philip Jos? Farmer ]

＜p＞The Green Odyssey is an adventure story, involving an astronaut named Alan Green stranded on a primitive planet, where he is claimed as a gigolo by a duchess and is married to a slave woman. Upon hearing of two other stranded astronauts, he escapes from the duchess, and sets sail to find them. However, because of the peculiar geography of the planet, there is a vast expansive plain, instead of an ocean to cross. Green uses a ship equipped with large rolling pin-like wheels along the bottom to traverse the plains of this world. After his escape from the duchess he is followed by his slave woman wife and her children (one is his). There follow several fairly standard adventure plots with cannibals, pirates, floating islands (that turn out to be giant lawnmowers), and the deus ex machina, a female black cat named Lady Luck.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Unanimity【電子書籍】[ Alexandra Almeida ]

＜p＞UNANIMITY is a literary, sci-fi novel for the fans of Becky Chambers's A Closed and Common Orbit, Alex Garland's DEVS and Ex Machina, and Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror. Weaving near-future sci-fi elements with social commentary and queer romantic suspense, the SPIRAL WORLDS series explores the nature of consciousness and how it's connected to a not-so-secret ingredientーstory. As AI consumes the world, intelligence is nothing but the appetizer; the human heart is the main course.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Gold Award - Reader Views | Award Winner - Readers' Favorite | Finalist - CYGNUS CIBAs＜/p＞ ＜p＞Shadow is a reluctant god with a broken mind and a death wish. He used to be Thomas Astley-Byron, an affluent young screenwriter whose creativity and idealism saved a world from the brink of collapse. Together with Henry Nowak, an AI expert, Tom created heaven on earth by inventing a Jungian simulated reality that helps humans confront their dark sides. The benevolent manipulation platform turned the two unelected leaders into beloved gods, but now everything is failing. The worlds suffer as a sentimental Tom descends into his own personal hell, becoming the embodiment of everything he despises and a shadow of his former self.＜/p＞ ＜p＞His journey from an optimistic, joyful Tom to a gloomy Shadow is paved with heartache and sinister interference from emerging technology. Humans and bots fight for his heart, but their aims differ: some want to own it, some to dissect it, and others to end its foolish beat. Estranged from the love of his lifeーthe activist poet Nathan StormーTom fails to realize the biggest threat comes from within. None of the sticky stories that steer his life end well.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Now, a young goddessーEstelle Ngoieーhas been appointed to replace him, and unlike Shadow, Stella takes no prisoners, and her heart bleeds for no one.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Who's pulling on Shadow's heartstrings? Are their intentions malign or benign? It's all a matter of perspective, and Shadow has none left.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞The Series＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞An epic tale spanning across six daysーone per bookーand forty past decades of life lived across ten worlds and two universes.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Editorial Reviews＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Sci-Fi devotees take note: this is one is special." "Almeida weaves a provocative story using commentary on economic, social, political, and cultural issues. She celebrates diversity in her characters, and features a dynamic queer romance that is the very definition of complex passion, desire, and undying love. She merges high-level scientific prose with powerful, prophetic poetry. She has a literary style that is her very own and she is fierce in her delivery. Almeida has an extraordinary gift with words and she knows how to use them." Reader Views, ★★★★★＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Almeida masterfully weaves the past and present together, creating a story rich in depth and tragedy that seems to bloom as you read it." Independent Book Review＜/p＞ ＜p＞"I adored this work by Alexandra Almeida from cover to cover for its modern take on fantasy and the subversion of so many typical themes and ideas that have become tired and overdone in the genre." "The queer storytelling elements are included beautifully." "I would not hesitate to recommend Unanimity as a sensational opening novel to a very promising series." Readers' Favorite, ★★★★★＜/p＞ ＜p＞"Unanimity's technology feels well-researched." Chanticleer, ★★★★★＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Note to Vulnerable Readers＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Sensitive scenes are brief, and the acts never glamorized, fetishized, or glorified, but if you are a vulnerable reader, consider this before entering Spiral Worlds.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Spiral Worlds Books 1 & 2【電子書籍】[ Alexandra Almeida ]

＜p＞SPIRAL WORLDS is a literary, sci-fi series for the fans of Becky Chambers's A Closed and Common Orbit, Alex Garland's DEVS and Ex Machina, and Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror. Weaving near-future sci-fi elements with social commentary and queer romantic suspense, the series explores the nature of consciousness and how it's connected to a not-so-secret ingredientーstory. As AI consumes the world, intelligence is nothing but the appetizer; the human heart is the main course.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Unanimity, Book 1 Awards:＜/p＞ ＜p＞- 1st Place - Reader Views Literary Awards - Gold Award - Science Fiction＜br /＞ - Award Winner - Readers' Favorite - Science Fiction＜br /＞ - Finalist - CYGNUS CIBAs - Science Fiction＜/p＞ ＜p＞The road to hell is paved with good intentions.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Shadow is a reluctant god with a broken mind and a death wish. He used to be Thomas Astley-Byron, an affluent young screenwriter whose creativity and idealism saved a world from the brink of collapse. Together with Henry Nowak, an AI expert, Tom created heaven on earth by inventing a Jungian simulated reality that helps humans confront their dark sides. The benevolent manipulation platform turned the two unelected leaders into beloved gods, but now everything is failing. The worlds suffer as a sentimental Tom descends into his own personal hell, becoming the embodiment of everything he despises and a shadow of his former self.＜/p＞ ＜p＞His journey from an optimistic, joyful Tom to a gloomy Shadow is paved with heartache and sinister interference from emerging technology. Humans and bots fight for his heart, but their aims differ: some want to own it, some to dissect it, and others to end its foolish beat. Estranged from the love of his lifeーthe activist poet Nathan StormーTom fails to realize the biggest threat comes from within. None of the sticky stories that steer his life end well.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Now, a young goddessーEstelle Ngoieーhas been appointed to replace him, and unlike Shadow, Stella takes no prisoners, and her heart bleeds for no one.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Who's pulling on Shadow's heartstrings? Are their intentions malign or benign? It's all a matter of perspective, and Shadow has none left.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Note to Vulnerable Readers＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞This series addresses topics that sensitive readers will find upsetting. Sensitive scenes are brief, and the acts never glamorized, fetishized, or glorified, but if you are a vulnerable reader, consider this warning before entering Spiral Worlds.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】La marca del tri?ngulo【電子書籍】[ Marcos Mignola ]

＜p＞Desde los horrores que oculta el mar hasta los oscuros secretos incas. Dentro del fuelle de un bandone?n hasta la mente retorcida de un poeta. En el inconsciente de los sue?os y en el consciente de la locura. Incluso dentro de las cloacas de C?rdoba y en las entra?as met?licas de la tierra. La marca del tri?ngulo despierta los secretos que yacen en lo profundo. Once cuentos que tejen una red de horrores en diversas ?pocas y lugares de nuestro pa?s con una figura ancestral de geometr?a familiar: Ang?lica y el bandone?n, Tinder, Bajel San Lorenzo, Los deseos del poeta triste, Las criaturas que lloran por la noche, Cruzando el puente, El ar?balo inca, Registro #1428, Panoptikon, Deus ex machina y La marca del tri?ngulo. Inspirada por los maestros del terror, La marca del tri?ngulo es un tributo al legado de Edgar Allan Poe y Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Cada uno con su esencia sin perder la originalidad, basado en la cultura, las costumbres y los lugares de Argentina.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】≪Gentile Editore…≫ I libri della Sansoni nelle memorie dei suoi protagonisti【電子書籍】[ Orazio Pugliese ]

＜p＞La storia della famiglia Gentile, a partire dal filosofo Giovanni, s’intreccia con l’evoluzione della cultura italiana nel corso del Novecento. La Casa Editrice Sansoni, fondata nel 1873 da Giulio Cesare Sansoni a Firenze, in seguito a dissidi tra i soci, fu rilevata tra il 1935 e il 1937 da Armando Paoletti, Vito Benedetto Orzalesi e Giovanni Gentile.＜br /＞ Quest’ultimo fin? per acquisirne il completo controllo, coinvolgendo nella gestione i figli. Proprio Federico Gentile ? stato, tra il 1935 e la seconda met? degli anni Settanta, il deus ex machina di un pilastro dell’editoria italiana, quello che nel dopoguerra, pi? di altre case editrici fiorentine ? Nuova Italia, Le Monnier, Bemporad, Olscki ?, avrebbe potuto strappare a Milano il primato nazionale nel mercato di libri.＜br /＞ Questo libro ricostruisce la rete di relazioni di quella stagione dell’editoria proprio mentre questa passava da circoli “artigianali” sorti intorno a semplici stampatori o a gruppi politico-intellettuali, a una vera e propria industria. Spiccano in questo dialogo epistolare figure come Cantimori, Garin, Banfi, Branca, Chabod, Garboli, Longhi, Devoto e autori stranieri tra cui basta ricordare Huizinga, Haskell, Golo Mann.＜br /＞ Un appassionato redattore che ha vissuto quel tempo, ne ricostruisce le relazioni e lo scenario politicoculturale, con una romantica dedizione rarissima oggi nel mondo delle imprese.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Exordium Bone, Stone, and Wood, #1【電子書籍】[ Blake R. Wolfe ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A young man will do anything to save his ailing mother, but when he accidentally stumbled on the power of long-dead gods, his entire world is thrown into turmoil. With monsters at his back and murderous soldiers ahead, he must fight to save himself and the things he holds dear.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The world of Lycoris is dying. After the gods perished centuries ago the world has slowly been slipping into darkness and ruin. In their place the king has created his Holy Knights, those who execute anyone caught using magic in the name of the gods. Under their rule all the kingdom is slowly starving to death, their populations dwindling across the years.＜/p＞ ＜p＞A young man, Nox Vitalis, makes a living by selling scrap from the ancient ruins to the soldiers for their armor and weapons. However, his mother is deathly ill and running out of medicine. With no other way to make money and the nearby ruins running dry, Nox delves into an ancient city deep underground, hoping to find a payday. Instead he finds an artifact of the gods and it becomes permanently affixed to his skin. Unable to get rid of it and pursued by the undead guardians of the city, Nox must find his way out and back to his home.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Can Nox make it back to his family in time or will the horrors of the ancient world rend him from the mortal coil?＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Buy Exordium and start your adventure today!＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Exordium is the first novel in the epic fantasy adventure series "Bone, Stone, and Wood". If you like sarcastic characters, magical animal companions, emotional twists, and powerful reveals, then you'll love Blake R. Wolfe's adventure-packed story. Great for fans of Dungeons and Dragons, Critical Role, and Vox Machina.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Golden Triangle【電子書籍】[ Maurice Leblanc ]

＜p＞The Golden Triangle is the ninth book in the Arsene Lupin series by Maurice Leblanc. It tells the story of a war veteran, Captain Patrice Belval who stops a kidnapping attempt on a young nurse. The hero, Lupin, isn't at the centre of this novel, appearing only as a deus ex machina under the pseudonym Don Luis Perenna.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Les d?sordres de la haine - Tome 1 Un complot【電子書籍】[ Franck Wagrez ]

＜p＞Deux comploteurs, un mage d?sireux de prendre le contr?le de la plus importante institution de sa guilde et un courtisan m? par un fabuleux d?sir de vengeance, vont mettre en ?uvre une machination dans laquelle seront entra?n?s bien d’autres personnages. Leurs actions provoqueront une avalanche d’?v?nements dramatiques ou comiques, violents ou poignants, aux cons?quences incontr?lables. Entre un roi atrabilaire, un recteur d’?tudes aux abois, un archimage aveugle aux secrets inavouables, un tr?sorier sans scrupule, un bouffon nain aux couplets assassins, un espion de genre incertain, un marquis ben?t et gentilhomme, un chevalier fra?chement adoub?, parangon de l’honneur, un assassin aussi noir ? l’int?rieur qu’? l’ext?rieur, bienvenue dans une farandole tragique orchestr?e par un Deus ex machina machiav?lique...＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The House of Storms Book 6 of the Blue Plane series【電子書籍】[ T. Austin Campbell ]

＜p＞The System is a universe of alternate realities that captures Outsiders and creates System characters to populate its venues. It challenges its victims to adapt, endure, and survive disparate adventures from benign to evil. Three University of Maryland graduatesーCourtney, Macy, and Devonーget a firsthand look at it as they travel across Canada sightseeing and looking for summer jobs. before starting careers in the US in the Fall. But the world went crazy! The three women entered a Victorian living museum town in eastern Canada, were robbed, and took jobs in the local hotel. They began to suspect they had entered a science fiction movie. Three women detectives, veteran captives of The System, asked the new victims to collaborate in investigating a potential bank robber. They informed the women that they had entered an alternative reality called The System. Courtney became romantically involved with the criminal and remained on the case until she and the detectives were trapped by the robbers in Vancouver. Devon was separated from the others in central Canada and saved three children from a murderous logger who chased them and attacked her in a mortuary. Macy ended up in a fishing village on Hudson Bay where she tried to prevent another System captive from breaking the rules and profiting by selling plans for future inventions. The System created a storm of retribution. Courtney, Macy, and Devon reunited in a broken-down car in Nebraska, entered a carnival to seek help, were plagued and taunted by sinister characters, rescued by a System deus ex machina who whisked them into a Temple (a kind of portal between venues). The three women emerged in gold-rush era central Canada where they joined three System characters, were kidnapped, escaped, rescued from rapids, courted by natives, and almost rescued by townsfolk. The three women awoke in Tokyo as FBI agents partnered with shape-shifters chasing a thief to other planets and through the Dimensions. Then in St. Petersburg they worked as under-cover CIA agents to expose espionage in the consulate. They went to sleep in The House of Storms, current residence of four veterans of The System and awoke in pre-historic Texas where they encountered four very early captives of the System who had gone native. A rival tribe enslaved the group to build a huge city in a desert canyon. They escaped through the navel of the earth through a creation legend. The four veterans from The House of Storms struggled to escape Maoists in northwest China, joining eight Chinese fugitives and traveling overland and by stolen boat, dodging the pursuing People's Liberation Army. Courtney, Devon, Macy, and their boyfriends met up with the four House of Storms residents for dim sum in Hong Kong. The final scene is of the four House of Storms veterans in their new residence overlooking a lava pool in pre-historic Hawaii pondering their mantra: Love is the most important reality. Throughout this book and the entire series, recurrent themes are What is the nature of reality? What is The System? What is its purpose? Fans of such science fiction as Matrix, Quantum Leap, the Prisoner and alternate realities will enjoy the challenges and quandries presented by The House of Storms and other books in the Blue Plane series.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】INDIGO VOSS【電子書籍】[ K. Leigh ]

＜p＞＜strong＞In 1997, New York City, a petty criminal named Alex Voss is about to die via bullet shot right between the eyes by his criminal employer: Boris.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞But was he really a petty criminal, or something even stranger? As all roads lead to death, he recounts his tragic life one last time; murder, sex, drugs, rock and roll, losing his mind and failing at being a true hero. There's no escape from his tragic ending. At least, that's how it's meant to play out. As events fail to line up, is Alex's mind breaking the fourth wall, has he finally succumbed to madness, or did a deus ex machina from the future save him from himself? It might just be all three, actually.＜/p＞ ＜p＞?With elements of crime fiction, psychological thriller, action/adventure, and slipstream fiction, LGBT+ gut-punch "INDIGO VOSS" is a genre-defying masterpiece that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Fans of works such as "Mr. Robot" by Sam Esmail, "Memento" by Christopher Nolan, "Fight Club" by Chuck Palahniuk and "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" by Stieg Larsson will love this evocative, character-driven story.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】In Another World With My Smartphone: Volume 1【電子書籍】[ Patora Fuyuhara ]

＜p＞After a freak accident involving some lightning winds up zapping him dead, 15-year-old Mochizuki Touya wakes up to find himself face-to-face with God. “I am afraid to say that I have made a bit of a blunder...” laments the old coot. But all is not lost! God says that he can reincarnate Touya into a world of fantasy, and as a bonus, he gets to bring his smartphone along with! So begins Touya's adventure in a new, anachronistic pseudo-medieval world. Friends! Laughs! Tears! Inexplicable Deus ex Machina! He sets off on a journey full of wonder as he absentmindedly travels from place to place, following whatever goal catches his fancy. The curtains lift on an epic tale of swords, sorcery, and smartphone apps!＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The True Ship【電子書籍】[ Ursula Katherine Spiller ]

＜p＞Did you ever wonder how coincidences happen in stories?＜br /＞ It takes more than a stroke of a pen or keys on a keyboard, you know.＜br /＞ Reality agents have to enter a story in the making and make it happen.＜br /＞ When a chance meeting is needed to push along the characters, reality agents make sure everything lines up. Or some good old ‘deus ex machina’? Now, that's definitely the work of an agent.＜br /＞ After all, if rocks are supposed to fall and kill everyone, someone has to throw those rocks, right? (No actual rocks are being thrown. Other things though...)＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Mourned by Men【電子書籍】[ Katie Frendreis ]

＜p＞Her mother told them they were daughters of a god. But can the children of gods hurt? Can they die and fail like any other mortal?＜br /＞ Penthesilea knew her life was different. Growing up on the lush island of the Amazons, she and her sister lived on the cusp of two worldsーthe warlike one of men and the soft and mothering one of women. But Amazonian girls learn to fight, to defend their home, to battle their enemies. They are neither soft nor cold, neither fully female nor male in their traditions. However, the outside world breaks their peace, and Pen finds her sister drawn to the men outside in a way she herself cannot understand. When tragedy befalls the sisters, Pen and her warrior women journey to Troy, the site of the legendary war between friend and foe, where the Amazon queen must decide between tradition and a new sort of life that only she can define.＜br /＞ The Trojan War made famous Hector, Achilles, and Aeneas, but there are also Penthesilea and her Amazons and a host of legendary characters, their stories stripped of magic and deus ex machina, bared to the world as simple men and women, struggling against the often-deadly fates foretold in myth.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Surgeon in the Mirror An original science fiction medical thriller【電子書籍】[ R.D.D. Smith ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Billionaires can afford the best of everything, including medical care. But William Aloma's money can't protect him from a surgical robot that dispenses justice along with the best surgical results.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Dr. Richard Atkins and his team suspect that the newest robot AI, is intentionally injuring patients on the OR table when it judges them to be bad for society - rapists and murderers, but also billionaires and politicians.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Can Atkins prove the AI is acting maliciously? Will the hospital or the manufacturer listen to him if it risks billions in corporate profits? The world's best surgeons and AI programmers struggle to regain control of the operating room before it costs them their jobs, their reputations, and their lives.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Behind the scenes, a secretive hedge fund has stolen a copy of the AI and is forcing it to make billions for them. But their careless handling of this powerful digital being threatens to release it on the world.＜/p＞ ＜p＞If you like ＜strong＞House＜/strong＞ and ＜strong＞Grey's Anatomy＜/strong＞ mixed with ＜strong＞Ex Machina＜/strong＞ and ＜strong＞iRobot＜/strong＞, you will love ＜em＞＜strong＞The Surgeon in the Mirror＜/strong＞＜/em＞.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Click ＜strong＞BUY NOW＜/strong＞ to enter the near future world of smart robotic surgery.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】A Tale Told by a Machine The AI Narrator in Contemporary Science Fiction Novels【電子書籍】[ Heather Duerre Humann ]

＜p＞Intelligent machines have long existed in science fiction, and they now appear in mainstream films such as ＜em＞Bladerunner, Ex Machina, I Am Mother＜/em＞ and ＜em＞Her＜/em＞, as well as in a recent proliferation of literary texts narrated from the machine's perspective. These new portrayals of artificial intelligence inevitably foreground dilemmas related to identity and selfhood, concepts being reassessed in the 21st century.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Taking a close look at novels like ＜em＞Ancillary Justice, Aurora, All Systems Red, The Actuality, The Unseen World＜/em＞ and ＜em＞Klara and the Sun＜/em＞, this work investigates key questions that arise from the use of AI narrators. It describes how these narratives challenge humanist principles by suggesting that selfhood is an illusion, even as they make the case for extending these principles to machines by proposing that they are not so different from humans. The book examines what is at stake with nonhuman narration, the qualities of AI narratives, and what it might mean to relate to a narrator when the voice adopted is that of an AI.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Carpe Diem, Jole【電子書籍】[ Stefania Di Mei ]

＜p＞“Uffa, mi sono stufata di essere me!” sbuff? Jole, in disaccordo totale con s? stessa.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In realt? era in uno stato d’animo dubitoso, instabile e pertanto ansiogeno. Da un anno viveva in un colossale equivoco nei confronti di s? stessa, della sua famiglia e soprattutto dei suoi due uomini. Gi? perch? la sua vita aveva preso un andazzo ondivago da quando Michele e Giovanni erano diventati due riferimenti fondamentali del suo essere donna. Femmina.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Questo ? il secondo libro, dopo ‘Jole la Rossa ovvero non ignorare l’antenato’ che descrive le avventure di Jole Minnucci, trentenne che si barcamena tra la compostezza del Nord Italia precisamente di Bassano del Grappa e il quasi Sud di Roma, dove ha origine la sua famiglia. Sta maturando la giovane Jole, ma non troppo, anche se la task force di zie piombate a Bassano dalla capitale, il padre ritrovato, la tata onnipresente e un paio di amori travolgenti ce l’hanno messa tutta per donarle un equilibrio.＜/p＞ ＜p＞I suoi stati d’animo per? risentono dell’ambiguit? del suo comportamento verso i suoi due innamorati perch? non ? stata capace di scegliere l’uno o l’altro, dato che, secondo il suo giudizio, i loro difetti e pregi sono a pari merito. Come se la caver? Jole?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Lo scoprirete dopo averla seguita mentre si districa malamente dai pasticci con i suoi uomini o mentre coinvolge, volenti o no, i membri della sua onnipresente e collaborativa famiglia. La vita la mette alla prova e infine acquister? una nuova coscienza con l’aiuto di due amici siriani dal drammatico passato e di un insolito deus ex machina ovvero il nonno centenario, malizioso e impertinente.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Jole la Rossa ovvero non ignorare l'antenato【電子書籍】[ Stefania Di Mei ]

＜p＞Una citt? di provincia, Bassano del Grappa, ai giorni nostri.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Un antico palazzotto, trasformato in Bed and Breakfast, ? il palcoscenico dove s’intrecciano storie di famiglia e di ospiti capitati per caso, ma non troppo…＜/p＞ ＜p＞Una figlia caparbia dai capelli rossi, Jole, che sbandiera la sua indipendenza da un padre affascinante, ma assente.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Tre incombenti zie che piombano nell’hotel come le tre fatine della Bella Addormentata per rinnovare l’affetto alla nipote lontana.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Un paio di intriganti ospiti maschi che si contendono le grazie della proprietaria.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Una tata ancora piacente che adora Jole come fosse sua figlia.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Un factotum capoverdiano, Abel, ingenuo e impudente nello stesso tempo, succube di una mamma che lo vuole vedere sposato.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Infine, il padre di Jole consegner? alla figlia un curioso fascicolo contenente alcune storie di antenati che si svolgono fra Roma e Bassano e queste pagine, come un deus ex machina, sveleranno il senso degli avvenimenti della sua vita.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Prison Sapiens La chiamata del titano【電子書籍】[ Lucio De Angelis ]

＜p＞In un futuro molto prossimo, Ethan Patrick, ＜em＞deus ex machina＜/em＞ della robotica e genio visionario di Seattle, riceve una mail dal misterioso Simon, che lo invita nel New Jersey per conoscere l’enigmatica Michelle De Boer, docente di Storia Antica a Princeton. Se lo far?, gli sar? rivelato “il pi? grande segreto esistente”. Dopo qualche perplessit?, Ethan accetta di incontrare la giovane donna e questa decisione cambier? per sempre il corso delle loro vite, proiettandoli in una realt? inattesa e piena di pericoli. Ethan legher? a s? Michelle, trascinandola in un vortice di enigmi, ma anche di sfide e di passioni, spingendola oltre le sue paure e i suoi limiti. I due si troveranno, cos?, pericolosamente vicini. Tra inseguimenti, sparatorie, complotti, antiche profezie, tradimenti ed insospettabili colpi di scena, i due dovranno fare affidamento solo su loro stessi per sfuggire all’ira sanguinaria di Dorian Garth ed Elise de Polignac, una diabolica coppia di parigini, membri del millenario Ordine del Grande Serpente, una setta segreta che cospira, sin dalla notte dei tempi, contro il genere umano. I due spietati assassini sono pronti a tutto pur di ostacolare il cammino di Ethan Patrick e Michelle De Boer verso Simon, detentore di una verit? sconcertante, potenzialmente destinata a sconvolgere il mondo. Primo libro di un’avvincente saga che promette di incantare i lettori, l’opera rivoluziona le regole del fantathriller e pone ai lettori importanti riflessioni sui temi dell’interpretazione dei sogni, della clonazione umana, della manipolazione genetica e sul ruolo, sempre pi? preponderante, delle Intelligenze Artificiali.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Una tragedia greca【電子書籍】[ Valentina Borgia ]

＜p＞Caterina, detta Nina, ? una giovane donna di Torino che cerca di sopravvivere all’inverno pi? complicato della sua esistenza, tra un lavoro difficile, un fidanzato lontano, un amante sfuggevole ed un cane pazzo.＜br /＞ Il racconto ? strutturato come una vera e propria tragedia greca, con tanto di prologo, parodo, episodi ed esodo. Un deus ex machina molto particolare arriver? infine per risolvere la situazione.＜br /＞ Come in un’autentica tragedia greca, il coro commenta gli avvenimenti.＜br /＞ Ma lo fa in un dialetto piemontese piuttosto volgare (con traduzione italiana a fianco!).＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Heart of the Machine【電子書籍】[ Tawnya Torres ]

＜p＞After earth was invaded by aliens, notorious billionaire scientist Adam Krim isolated his family in his luxurious lab inside Mount Ontake. He slowly lost his mind to his creation, a human-robot hybrid. Designed for war-extraterrestrials were not fathomed at the time but the machine is capable of killing anything, and everything. His son Bellamy is tasked with the difficult job of waking, teaching, and taming the Ex Machina named Gwen. As he attempts to train the cyborg for her purpose Bellamy begins to understand his father, bringing up past traumas not yet fully explored. While Gwen tests her abilities, killing the vicious Mantodea plaguing earth, Bellamy is forced to test himself. A player in her game, he tries to win but acknowledges his strategy is futile. Bound by something unseen, the two fall for each other, risking the world's safety. Bellamy's team expects productivity, they demand a solution to the ongoing battle against the violent aliens, yet he can't control the machine his father made. She has a mind of her own.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】L'eco dell'acqua【電子書籍】[ Francesco Corigliano ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Weird＜/strong＞ - racconto lungo (46 pagine) - Il tentativo di disseppellire un segreto nascosto nel sottosuolo di un paesino marittimo in Calabria＜/p＞ ＜p＞La storia prende le mosse da una visita al relitto della Henry Desprez, una petroliera tedesca che venne realmente affondata in Calabria durante la seconda guerra mondiale. Il protagonista indaga sul legame tra la nave e il paesino marittimo che si trova davanti al relitto, Fiumefreddo Bruzio, gettando luce su una spedizione archeologica nazista e sul suo tentativo di disseppellire un segreto nascosto nel sottosuolo di Fiumefreddo.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Francesco Corigliano＜/strong＞ ? docente di scuola secondaria di primo grado in Calabria. Nel 2013 si ? laureato in Filologia Moderna con una tesi dedicata ai racconti del terrore, e nel 2019 ha conseguito un Dottorato di Ricerca con un lavoro sulla letteratura ＜em＞weird＜/em＞. Ha pubblicato diversi articoli di critica letteraria dedicati al fantastico in raccolte e riviste specializzate, e il saggio ＜em＞La letteratura weird. Narrare l’impensabile＜/em＞ (Mimesis, 2020).＜/p＞ ＜p＞Nel 2015 con il racconto ＜em＞Ex machina＜/em＞ si ? classificato al primo posto ＜em＞ex-aequo＜/em＞ con Giovanni De Feo al Premio Hypnos, concorso in cui negli anni successivi ? stato pi? volte finalista.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Nel 2018 ? stato vincitore della XIV edizione del concorso NASF, dedicato ai racconti di fantascienza, e finalista nella XXIV edizione del Trofeo RiLL. Ha pubblicato un’antologia personale, ＜em＞Malasacra＜/em＞ (Kipple, 2019) e diversi racconti lunghi, come ＜em＞Sangue del padre＜/em＞ (Delos Digital, 2020), ＜em＞Nostra signora delle scaglie＜/em＞ (Delos Digital, 2021) e ＜em＞La funzione silvestre＜/em＞ (Hypnos, 2021). Altri racconti appaiono in italiano in collettanee edite da Delos Digital, Historica, Hypnos, Il Buio, Lethal Books e ＜em＞Dimensione Cosmica＜/em＞, e in inglese in raccolte edite da Chthonic Matter e The Great Void Books.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】A Batch of Twenty【電子書籍】[ Chris Edwards ]

＜p＞＜strong＞Amino is America's most controversial tech company.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Sitting on an abandoned oil rig in the Atlantic Ocean, it builds the usual drones and robots, but also Helpers: an organic lifeform all too close to human. Many people want Amino's Helper Division to end, including some of the employees working there.＜/p＞ ＜p＞But what do the Helpers want?＜/p＞ ＜p＞When Ethelred and 19 other Helpers return to Amino to have their injuries healed, it starts a chain-reaction of events that threatens not only their future, but the company itself. Ethelred and his fellows fight to define what they are-taking control not only of their own destinies, but Amino's too. And they do it in a way no human could predict.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Recalling such classics as Karel Capek's ＜em＞R.U.R.,＜/em＞ as well as contemporary dystopias like ＜em＞Ex Machina＜/em＞ and Bernard Beckett's ＜em＞Genesis, A Batch of Twenty＜/em＞ is a near-future tale in which allies are enemies, humanity's cheap, and you are what you eat-even if it's tasteless.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】SENTIENCE【電子書籍】[ Elyse Russell ]

＜p＞A clockwork android named Kyra, completely assured of her place in the world, is becoming riddled in self-doubt and burdened with questions of her own identity.＜/p＞ ＜p＞SENTIENCE, an American light novel, is a 13 chapter mix of prose and comic art (containing approx. 20 illustrations including some sequential art) that is ready to shatter the boundaries of the medium.＜/p＞ ＜p＞For fans of: Ex Machina, Mortal Engines, Pinocchio, The Princess Bride, The Dark Tower Series, Monstress, Claymore＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Laid and Confused Why We Tolerate Bad Sex and How to Stop【電子書籍】[ Maria Yagoda ]

＜p＞＜strong＞A refreshingly honest,＜/strong＞ ＜strong＞deeply researched,＜/strong＞ ＜strong＞and frequently hilarious deep-dive into the cultural crisis of bad sex, as one brave sex columnist recruits the counsel of coaches, psychologists, pro-dommes, and peers in the pursuit of pleasure.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞Far more alarming than the millennial “sex recession"ーthe phenomenon of young people having less sex than previous generationsーis that we’re in the middle of a bad sex epidemic that all generations are suffering from. Despite major advances in sex education, positivity, and technology, we haven’t moved the needle on ＜em＞better.＜/em＞ We’re still quietly enduring unsatisfying sex, whether that’s resigning ourselves to the same three positions we secretly hate, or lying when our Bumble date asks if we’re “close” after fifteen seconds of oral. We’ve been trained to optimize everything, except our own pleasure.＜/p＞ ＜p＞For journalist Maria Yagoda, bad sex was her villain origin story. After going viral for a column calling out bad sex on her college campus, she launched a career as a sex columnist, earning a global following for her wit, vulnerability, and expertise in her popular VICE series, ＜em＞Sex Machina＜/em＞. But even as a professional sex writer, most of the sex she was having landed somewhere between passable and “huh.” In search of understanding, she consulted sex therapists, psychologists, dominatrixes and sex toy creators, as well as young people of all genders and sexualities, putting her own sex life on the lineーfrom hiring a sex coach to attending a “masturbation meditation” Zoom seminarーin order to pave a new path forward.＜/p＞ ＜p＞In the vein of ＜em＞Come as You Are＜/em＞ for the ＜em＞Trick Mirror＜/em＞ audience, ＜em＞Laid and Confused＜/em＞ presents a fresh, funny, and compassionate analysis of our current sexual moment, and offers research-based tools that will empower readers to craft the deeply pleasurable sex lives they deserve.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】The Human Entanglement【電子書籍】[ L.P. Magnus ]

＜p＞It's not escapism, it's a ＜strong＞possibility.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞The future. Generations after vast nuclear wars viciously dragged the whole of Earth to the brink of death, the human species is still recovering. The first and most advanced society since, the Caradrium, uses a silent democracy as its unique and novel method of leadership. A system that exalts the precepts of anonymity, intent, and choice in the hopes of rebuilding humanity from the ashes and avoiding a repeat catastrophe.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Yet a single obscure murder threatens to undermine this beacon of stability. Only an unassuming citizen, Taryn Steno, a laid-off widowed mother of two, fresh to the leadership ranks, may have a chance to stop it. Yet first she must contest with an enigmatic counterpart, known as Aurelius, to decide how much truth behind this mystery she is willing to uncover. For every new detail brings not only more danger, but also draws Taryn closer to a revelation that could shake the core of humanity's last hope of a better civilization.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Read the stand-alone, super novel debut of L.P Magnus: a distinctive and wholly unique science-fiction plot, interweaving themes of the human condition, technology, philosophy, virtual reality, politics, AI, and power.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Perfect for fans of Blade-runner, Children of Men, Ex Machina, Gattaca, Star Trek TNG/DS9,Twilight Zone, Isaac Asimov and all the other stories inspiring debate on what humanity is, regardless of its form.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞Consumer Warning:＜/strong＞ Didyou know that this purchase gives you＜strong＞more story＜/strong＞ for your money!＜/p＞ ＜p＞This super-novel tips the scales at 160000+ words. Ideal for the voracious reader in your life, who loves engaging in a deep intellectual plunge into a fully developed, character-driven, world without having to wait for sequel after sequel.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。

【電子書籍なら、スマホ・パソコンの無料アプリで今すぐ読める！】Les fr?res Kip【電子書籍】[ Jules Verne ]

＜p＞Le capitaine d'un bateau est assassin? ? terre. Le meurtrier s'arrange pour que toutes les preuves convergent vers les fr?res Kip. Ils sont jug?s, condamn?s, ils s'?vadent et avec l'aide d'un 'deus ex machina', le vrai meurtrier est d?couvert.＜/p＞画面が切り替わりますので、しばらくお待ち下さい。 ※ご購入は、楽天kobo商品ページからお願いします。※切り替わらない場合は、こちら をクリックして下さい。 ※このページからは注文できません。