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  • After On

    A Novel of Silicon Valley

    by Rob Reid ...
    The definitive novel of today’s Silicon Valley, After On flash-captures our cultural and technological moment with up-to-the-instant savvy. Matters of privacy and government intrusion, post-Tinder romance, nihilistic terrorism, artificial consciousness, synthetic biology, and much more are tackled with authority and brash playfulness by New York Times bestselling author Rob Reid.Meet Phluttr—a ... Read more

    Was $6.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Year Zero

    A Novel

    by Rob Reid ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLow-level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter thinks it’s a prank, not an alien encounter, when a redheaded mullah and a curvaceous nun show up at his office. But Frampton and Carly are highly advanced (if bumbling) extraterrestrials. The entire cosmos, they tell him, has been hopelessly hooked on American pop songs ever since “Year Zero” (1977 to us), resulting in the ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Avondale and Chicago's Polish Village

    by Jacob Kaplan, Rob Reid, Elisa Addlesperger, Dan Pogorzelski ...
    Series series Images of America
    Home to Chicago's Polish Village, impressive examples of architecture, and the legendary Olson Waterfall, Avondale is often called "the neighborhood that built Chicago." Images of America: Avondale and Chicago's Polish Village sheds light on the little known history of the community, including its fascinating industrial past. From its beginnings as a sleepy subdivision started by a Michigan ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reaching Reluctant Young Readers

    by Rob Reid ...
    Reaching Reluctant Young Readers features 150 middle-grade books. Each profiled title has the potential to hook the reluctant reader and lure them to read the entire book. To specifically encourage elementary and middle-school-age reluctant children to read, there is first a pitch to get the reader’s attention. That is followed by a short reading passage to “set the hook” and encourage the young ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • CockroachDB: The Definitive Guide

    Guide: Distributed Data at Scale

    by Guy Harrison, Jesse Seldess, Ben Darnell, Rob Reid ...
    CockroachDB is the distributed SQL database that handles the demands of today's data-driven applications. The second edition of this popular hands-on guide shows software developers, architects, and DevOps/SRE teams how to use CockroachDB for applications that scale elastically and provide seamless delivery for end users while remaining indestructible.Data professionals will learn how to migrate ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Practical CockroachDB

    Building Fault-Tolerant Distributed SQL Databases

    by Rob Reid ...
    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
    Get a practical introduction to CockroachDB. This book starts with installation and foundational concepts and takes you through to creating clusters that are ready for production environments. You will learn how to create, optimize, and operate CockroarchDB clusters in single and multi-region environments. You will encounter anti-patterns to avoid, as well as testing techniques for integration and ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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    Year Zero

    A Novel

    by Rob Reid ...
    Narrated by John Hodgman ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 53 min

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn alien advance party was suddenly nosing around my planet.Worse, they were lawyering up. . . .In the hilarious tradition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Rob Reid takes you on a headlong journey through the outer reaches of the universe—and the inner workings of our absurdly dysfunctional music industry.Low-level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter thinks it’s a ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    After On

    A Novel of Silicon Valley

    by Rob Reid ...
    Narrated by Sean Kenin, January LaVoy, Felicia Day, Patrick Rothfuss, John Hodgman, Tom Merritt, Jesse Cox, Leo Laporte ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 5 min

    The definitive novel of today’s Silicon Valley, After On flash-captures our cultural and technological moment with up-to-the-instant savvy. Matters of privacy and government intrusion, post-Tinder romance, nihilistic terrorism, artificial consciousness, synthetic biology, and much more are tackled with authority and brash playfulness by New York Times bestselling author Rob Reid.Meet Phluttr—a ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • 2017 Del Rey Sampler

    Excerpts from Upcoming and Current Titles

    by Katherine Arden, Callie Bates, Terry Brooks, Vic James, Rob Reid ...
    Discover the best in science fiction and fantasy with the 2017 Del Rey ebook sampler!2017 is shaping up to a big year. Kevin Hearne, who remixed our myths in The Iron Druid Chronicles, kicks off a fantasy series with an entirely new lore. A sentient social network aspires to world domination in a diabolical satire of Silicon Valley. A persecuted princess returns to her magical homeland in an ... Read more

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    Overclocked

    More Stories of the Future Present

    by Cory Doctorow ...
    Narrated by various narrators, Lloyd James, Nicola Barber, R. C. Bray, Fiona Hardingham, Jeffrey Kafer, Jim Meskimen, Emily Woo Zeller, William Hughes, Richard Powers ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 13 min

    Now available for the first time with two additional stories!Have you ever wondered what it's like to be bitten by a zombie or live through a bioweapon attack? In Cory Doctorow's collection of novellas, he wields his formidable experience in technology and computing to give us mind-bending sci-fi tales that explore the possibilities of information technology—and its various uses—run amok."Anda's ... Read more

    $22.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Autonomous

    A Novel

    by Annalee Newitz ...
    Narrated by Jennifer Ikeda ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 27 min

    From award winning tech-journalist and io9 founder Annalee Newitz comes a highly anticipated science fiction debut!Autonomous will pull listeners into a dark and dirty world that feels, at times, a bit too familiar.Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap scrips for poor people who can’t ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Implied Spaces

    by Walter Jon Williams ...
    Narrated by Kevin Kenerly ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 32 min

    Aristide, a semi-retired computer scientist turned swordsman, is a scholar of the implied spaces, seeking meaning amid the accidents of architecture in a universe where reality itself has been sculpted and designed by superhuman machine intelligence. While exploring the pre-technological world Midgarth, one of four dozen pocket universes created within a series of vast, orbital matrioshka computer ... Read more

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