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Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

• Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
  Author: Doctorow, Cory
  Publisher: Tor $ 24.95 ISBN: 0765312786 Date: 2005
  PW
  One of the leading voices of next-generation SF and author of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom returns with a miraculous novel of secrets, lies, magic, and Internet connectivity, set on the streets of modern-day Toronto.
  Updated 3.10.05
• Will@Epicwest.Com: Medicated Memoir
  Author: Grimes, Tom
  Publisher: Ludlow $ 12.95 (paper) ISBN: 0971341575 Date: 2003
  Kirkus
  In vividly compressed comic form, WILL@epicqwest.com takes the reader on a contemporary quest that is as cyberspatially and pharmaceutically fantastic as anything Ulysses encountered on his trek home from Troy.
  Updated 3.13.03
• Egg Code
  Author: Heppner, Mike
  Publisher: Knopf $ 25.95 ISBN: 0375412905 Date: 2002
  PW
  At the center of this novel is a computer, the Gloria 21169, which has taken command of the entire world network. This story, though, is not about computers but the people variously affected by this one machine, and the crisscrossing of many lives reveals how much human behavior has been altered by this quantum shift in communication.
  Updated 5/20/02
• Whole Wide World
  Author: McAuley, Paul
  Publisher: Tor $ 24.95 ISBN: 0765303922 Date: 2002
  PW
  Winner of both the Arthur C. Clarke and Philip K. Dick Awards, McAuley now presents a gripping thriller of the day after tomorrow--when the world and the Web are one.
  Updated 4/5/02
• O Pioneer
  Author: Pohl, Frederik
  Publisher: Tor Books $ 21.95 ISBN: 0312861648 Date: 1998
  Kirkus
  An immigrant to the colony world of Tupelo, a strange planet inhabited by colonists from five different alien species, Giyt Evesham uncovers a plot threatening to tear the colony apart. Now he must be willing to sacrifice his life and newfound happiness to stop it.