Warren Ellis
3) Orbiter
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Three specialists investigate when a space shuttle returns to Earth after a disappearance of ten years with its pilot mentally deranged, the rest of its crew missing, and with Martian sand in its landing gear.
4) Normal
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"A smart, tight, provocative techno-thriller straight out of the very near future--by an iconic visionary writer Some people call it "abyss gaze." Gaze into the abyss all day and the abyss will gaze into you. There are two types of people who think professionally about the future: Foresight strategists are civil futurists who think about geoengineering and smart cities and ways to evade Our Coming Doom; strategic forecasters are spook futurists, who...
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"Under control of the seemingly unstable Weatherman, the veterans of StormWatch fight their own convictions while facing opponents whose scale of power is beyond even theirs. Doubly dangerous is the fact that both sides appear to be converging on the same goal: an invaluable resource known as the Nevada Garden. Each side prepares trump cards and sacrifices in a standoff whose outcome will be the fate of the world ..."--Inside front cover flap.
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"It's the beginning of a new era for Iron Man! Renowned scribe Warren Ellis joins forces with acclaimed illustrator Adi Granov to redefine the armored Avenger's world for the 21st century--a landscape of terrifying new technologies that threaten to overwhelm a fragile mankind! What is Extremis, who has unleashed it, and what does its emergence portend for the world?"--Page 4 of cover.
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Injection volume Volume 2
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"Consulting detective Vivek Headland, originally of the group that caused the release of a haunted artificial intelligence into the world, lives and works in New York, dealing with all the strangeness that very strange city can throw at him. But a case involving a stolen ghost and human deli meat causes him to call for help, as the details of the investigation reveal a new battleground between humanity and The Injection."--Amazon.
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"May be destined to become one of the great underground classics of the twenty-first century." —Lansing State Journal
Burned-out private dick Michael McGill needs to jump-start his career. What he gets instead is a cattle prod to the crotch. The president's heroin-addicted chief of staff wants McGill to find the Constitution—the real one the Founding Fathers secretly devised for the time of gravest crisis. And with God, civility,...
Burned-out private dick Michael McGill needs to jump-start his career. What he gets instead is a cattle prod to the crotch. The president's heroin-addicted chief of staff wants McGill to find the Constitution—the real one the Founding Fathers secretly devised for the time of gravest crisis. And with God, civility,...
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Planetary volume 4
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" ... The team encounters an abandoned alien spacecraft, but will the heroes beat their rival, Jacob Greene of the villainous 'Four, ' to the ship? Then, Elijah Snow begins to pull back from his allies, acting increasingly in secret. Will he be able to draw the last of the Four out of hiding, and can he act before his teammates lose their faith in him?"--Publisher description
13) Red
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"Paul Moses was quietly retired--until his former employers decided he was too dangerous to live. But while the CIA might have forgotten his training, Moses hasn't. When a kill team interrupts his solitude, he changes his status from green to red. As the bodies pile up, the men who set this ruthless killer back into action sit safe in their Langley offices. At least, that's their intention--Moses has a different plan"--Publisher description.
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Stormwatch volume 1
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StormWatch, the United Nations Special Crisis Intervention Team, was formed to act as powerful police force on a global scale. But Weatherman Henry Bendix, the controller of the super-hero team, has decided that this course of action is no longer effective. Recruiting the electric Jenny Sparks, the lethal assassin Rose Tattoo, and the city-symbiote Jack Hawksmoor, the Weatherman transforms the once reactive team into a proactive, take-no-prisoners...
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Transmetropolitan volume 7
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"The truth hurts. That's old news to outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem, but what's changed is how high the stakes have become. Long a thorn in the side of the powerful and hypocritical, Jerusalem has made an enemy of the new President of the United states-- a man who happens to be crazier than a rabid rattlesnake, and twice as mean. Now, driven underground with his loyal (and filthy) assistants, deprived of all his comforts and hunted like a rabbit...
20) X-Men: Storm
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"Will the sins of her past drag her down? Long ago, Storm won leadership of the underground mutant community know as the Morlocks. But her reign was a distant one, and Storm's neglected subjects grew increasingly embittered. Ultimately, the mad Mikhail Rasputin swept the Morlocks away into another dimension-- a harsh realm where time ran much faster than normal. There, the next generation of Morlock children came of age, hard and cold and bitter....