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At the Movies
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Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Staff Pick Snow Crash is one of my favorites. It's an epic cyber-punk tale that contains elements that are both fantastical and very realistic. The characters are richly imagined, even the villains. It is fast paced and well embellished, containing elements of... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson Publisher Comments In Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson took science fiction to dazzling new levels. Now, in The Diamond Age, he delivers another stunning tale. Set in twenty-first century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Neuromancer by William Gibson Publisher Comments One of the most important and influential novels of our time. Neuromancer is the multiple award-winning novel that launched the astonishing career of William Gibson. The first fully-realized glimpse of humankind's digital future, it is a shocking... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick Publisher Comments Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was published in 1968. Grim and foreboding, even today it is a masterpiece ahead of its time. By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard Synopsis The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernist thought... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Pattern Recognition by William Gibson Publisher Comments Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, she is offered a secret assignment: to investigate some intriguing snippets of video that have been appearing on the Internet. An entire subculture of... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Art of the Matrix by Spencer Lamm and Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski Publisher Comments To create his epic Avatar, James Cameron and his crew had to invent the tools needed to achieve a transforming vision. The story of their journeyfrom Avatars conception to its realization on the screenis an epic in itself. The Making of Avatar... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $27.50 Used - Hardcover
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We Can Build You by Philip K Dick Publisher Comments Louis Rosen and his partners sell people--ingeniously designed, historically authentic simulacra of personages such as Edwin M. Stanton and Abraham Lincoln. The problem is that the only prospective buyer is arapacious billionaire whose plans for the... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Matrix: The Shooting Script by Larry Wachowski and Andy Wachowski Publisher Comments Includes detailed scene notes by Paul Oosterhouse, assistant to the Wachowskis throughout the making of the movie.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and the Religion in the Matrix by Glenn Yeffeth Publisher Comments ** COMPLETELY UNAUTHORIZED ** This thought-provoking examination of "The Matrix" explores the technological challenges, religious symbolism, and philosophical dilemmas the film presents. Essays by renowned scientists, technologists... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real by William Irwin Publisher Comments If the world as we know it is nothing more than our dream of it, does this make the dream real? If we had the choice to step out of our world into a more-real but less-pleasant one—to take the red pill—would it be a moral failure not to do so?... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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