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Forge of Mars, The eBooks
by Bruce Balfour
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Forge of Mars, The Summary
| Cayce Pollard (pronounced 'case") is a legend in the field of market research, paid handsomely to recognize cultural and social patterns that corporations can turn into cash. Google her and you find 'coolhunter," and you may see it suggested that she is a 'sensitive" of some kind, a dowserin the world of global marketing. The truth, according to her friends, is that her sensitivity is closer to allergy, a morbid and sometimes violent reactivity to the symbols of the marketplace. Hired by Blue Ant, the world's hippest ad agency, for the sort of high-corporate re-branding she's known for, a more intriguing project emerges when the head of the firm asks her to determine who's producing a mysterious series of video fragments that have gripped the imaginations of people around the world. The source of this footage, carefully concealed, has so far proven untraceable. For Cayce's worryingly brilliant employer, the footage is the most effective piece of guerilla marketing ever devised. For Cayce herself, the footage has a powerful emotional resonance as she attempts to come to terms with the apparent death of her father - a former U.S. security expert with ties to the intelligence community - in the collapse of the World Trade Center. But what if the sense of nascent meaning that she and others perceive in the footage is only an illusion of meaningfulness - in other words, faulty pattern recognition? As Cayce begins her hunt for the mysterious 'maker", she enlists the help of an odd array of characters, including a young Polish sculptor who works in primitive personal computers , an alcoholic ex-NSA guru hidden away in a rusting house-trailer in the British countryside, an attractive Chinese-American hacker-entrepreneur whose loyalty she questions, and her fellow footage-enthusiast Parkaboy, whom she's come to know (but only, so far, virtually) on a web site devoted to discussion of 'the footage". When her rivalry with a fellow worker at the advertising agency ta... |
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| A NASA scientist wants to build a new colony on Mars using smart nanotechnology, but the discovery of underground Martian ruins, and a powerful alien technology, draws him into a conspiracy that will decide the fate of the superpowers. In 2054, new life has taken root on Mars. International cooperation has resulted in Vulcan's Forge, the first permanent colony on the red planet—or so they think. Construction crews discover an ancient network of tunnels full of alien machinery that could shift the balance of power between the nations of Earth, but the key to their secrets lies within the complex mind of an alien artificial intelligence. There is only one specialist who might be able to understand the AI, and he's not interested. Tau Edison Wolfsinger, a young Navajo molecular designer, is busy fighting the NASA bureaucracy for approval to build a prototype city using microscopic nanomachines run by a powerful AI. But vast forces are lining up against Tau. Underground military installations, unused since the Cold War, are being reactivated to prepare for a new kind of threat, and shadowy international figures are using Tau as an unwitting pawn in their games of power. NASA's made a monumental discovery in the caverns of Mars—alien artifacts that have already killed the first man who touched them. Now they're sending brilliant scientist Tau Wolfsinger to unlock the secrets of the artifacts. But Tau's in for a big surprise. And not just the one waiting for him on Mars. |
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