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Annihilation_Point
   Title: Annihilation Point (#3)
   Year: 2013
   Category: Novel Series   
   Series: The Techxorcist
   Author: Colin F. Barnes   
   Publisher: Anachron Press   
   Plot:
How much sacrifice should anyone have to give? Petal and Gabriel are forced to decide, as the mad, digital entity, Elliot Robertson, is determined to dominate the world. His influence, spread by an insurgent group, The Ronin, seeks to control and enslave the last of humanity. With time running out, Petal and Gabriel must travel to the far reaches of the abandoned lands in order to repair a server they believe will be the key to defeating Elliot and his ronin. All the while, Petal has a ticking time bomb inside her head: Gerry Cardle's uploaded consciousness. The code of which is mutating, but to what end? Together with their few allies, Petal and Gabriel must face either victory or total annihilation.
Apex_Cypher
   Title: Apex Cypher (#0)
   Year: 2014
   Category: Short Story   
   Series: The Techxorcist
   Author: Colin F. Barnes   
   Publisher: Anachron Press   
   Plot:
Rogue hackers Petal and Gabriel are low on food and water. Their reputation precedes them and they are no longer able to hustle the crime community for supplies. With survival becoming harder, they’re left with no other choice but to accept a risky job from a dangerous individual.
Artificial_Evil
   Title: Artificial Evil (#1)
   Year: 2013
   Category: Novel Series   
   Series: The Techxorcist
   Author: Colin F. Barnes   
   Publisher: Anachron Press   
   Plot:
In a post-apocalyptic future, humanity survives within a single domed city ruled by a shadowy organisation known as The Family. Gerry Cardle reluctantly runs the Death Lottery. It's a job he despises, yet one which keeps his name off the list. Until one day, despite his agreement with The Family, his name is inexplicably drawn next.
Assembly_Code
   Title: Assembly Code (#2)
   Year: 2013
   Category: Novel Series   
   Series: The Techxorcist
   Author: Colin F. Barnes   
   Publisher: Anachron Press   
   Plot:
Being human is no longer enough to save humanity. The fanatical Red Widows sweep destruction across the abandoned lands. Their aggression threatens to destroy the city Gerry had risked his life to save. Petal, the woman Gerry has come to love is dying. The despotic cabal, The Family, demand he brings her to them, but she's missing, running from the Widows, searching for the truth of her origins before it's too late. When their paths cross, Petal and Gerry will hold the fate of humankind in their hands—if they can survive the malevolent digital entity that stalks them from the shadows. Assembly Code is a post-apocalyptic, near-future thriller that will delight fans of The Matrix, Neuromancer, and Blade Runner.
Code_Breakers_Alpha
   Title: Code Breakers: Alpha (#1)
   Year: 2014
   Category: Novel Series   
   Series: Code Breakers
   Author: Colin F. Barnes   
   Publisher: CreateSpace   
   Plot:
Code Breakers: Alpha is a futuristic, high-stakes thrill ride. In a post-apocalyptic future, humanity survives within a single domed city run by a shadowy benefactor known only as The Family. Each week the death lottery claims more lives and Gerry Cardle, head of the lottery, inexplicably finds himself the next on the list. Something's wrong with the system. A deadly artificial intelligence has breached security. Gerry has just 7 days to live. Forced off the grid, Gerry has to do the unthinkable: willingly leave the city. What he finds in the abandoned lands will shatter his perception of what it means to be human. Everything he had been told before was a lie. In a deadly world of conspiracies, Gerry has to sacrifice everything he loves in order to save it, and time is running out.
Code_Breakers_Beta
   Title: Code Breakers: Beta (#2)
   Year: 2014
   Category: Novel Series   
   Series: Code Breakers
   Author: Colin F. Barnes   
   Publisher: CreateSpace   
   Plot:
Being human is no longer enough. The fanatical Red Widows sweep destruction across the abandoned lands. Their aggression threatens to destroy the city Gerry had risked his life to save. Petal, the woman Gerry has come to love is dying. The despotic cabal, The Family, demand he brings her to them, but she's missing, running from the Widows, searching for the truth of her origins before it's too late. When their paths cross, Petal and Gerry will hold the fate of humankind in their hands-if they can survive the malevolent digital entity that stalks them from the shadows. Code Breakers: Beta is a post-apocalyptic, near-future thriller that will delight fans of The Matrix, Neuromancer, and Blade Runner.
Code_Breakers_Delta
   Title: Code Breakers: Delta (#3)
   Year: 2014
   Category: Novel Series   
   Series: Code Breakers
   Author: Colin F. Barnes   
   Publisher: Anachron Press   
   Plot:
The fourth and final novel in the Code Breakers series. Gabriel and Petal have tracked Gabe’s mother back to Hong Kong. But to find her Gabe has to face his old gang and the ghosts he thought he had laid to rest years before. While helping him, Petal stumbles on a way of getting Gerry’s mind out of her head, but like Gabe, she too has to return to a place full of ghosts: Libertas. Enna is now the Prime Minister of the domed city, and when Petal arrives she discovers Enna has developed her transcendent technology. However, to give Gerry a new existence, they’ll need more help—help from someone within the Family. Faced with shifting loyalties and an uncertain future, Petal and Gerry will for the last time face a dire threat to their existence when Jess is kidnapped by a shadowy figure. It’s a race against time to find her and uncover the conspiracy before the Family has the last laugh.
Code_Breakers_Gamma
   Title: Code Breakers: Gamma (#4)
   Year: 2014
   Category: Novel Series   
   Series: Code Breakers
   Author: Colin F. Barnes   
   Publisher: CreateSpace   
   Plot:
The third instalment of the best-selling (#1 Cyberpunk) series. How much sacrifice should anyone have to give? Petal and Gabriel are forced to decide, as the mad, digital entity, Elliot Robertson, is determined to dominate the world. His influence, spread by an insurgent group, The Ronin, seeks to control and enslave the last of humanity. With time running out, Petal and Gabriel must travel to the far reaches of the abandoned lands in order to repair a server they believe will be the key to defeating Elliot and his ronin. All the while, Petal has a ticking time bomb inside her head: Gerry Cardle's uploaded consciousness. The code of which is mutating, but to what end? Together with their few allies, Petal and Gabriel must face either victory or total annihilation.
Rebirth
   Title: Rebirth
   Year: 2012
   Category: Short Story   
   Author: Colin F. Barnes   
   Publisher: Anachron Press   
   Plot:
Part cyberpunk, part thriller, part dysoptian Mad-Max mashup. The Techxorcist is a serialised novel. This is the first installment. Part 0.5: Rebirth It's 2153, just one million souls survived a planet-wide cataclysm. Flourishing in the hi-tech biodome, City Earth, humans have integrated with Artificial Intelligent Assistants and are inter-connected to a city-wide network under the control, and watch, of the mysterious benefactors known only as The Family: a group focussed on transhumanism and the search for the next branch in our evolution.
The_Daedalus_Code
   Title: The Daedalus Code
   Year: 2013
   Category: Short Story   
   Author: Colin F. Barnes   
   Publisher: Anachron Press   
   Plot:
When agents Phaedra and Aegeus of New Crete's Intelligent Data Enforcement Agency are tasked to find five missing Artificial Intelligence students, their single lead takes them to a notorious hacker known as 'The Cretian.' With his help, they uncover a terrible truth: Ariadne, one of the students, is involved with a rogue AI program called The Daedalus Project. The AI is out of control, people are going missing, and a great swathe of the world’s data is being secured within its digital labyrinth. Putting all their trust in the hacker, not only are the agent's careers and the student’s lives in jeopardy, but also the very freedom of the public hangs in the balance. Their only hope lies in The Cretian, a rogue hacker who's only out for himself.
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