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x2020_Visions
   Title: 2020 Visions
   Year: 2004
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Jamie Delano   
   Publisher: Speakeasy Comics   
   Plot:
Jamie Delano's tour de force follows the lives of a disjointed family, struggling to survive in the morally and socially decadent United States of 2020. From symbiotic venereal diseases to exclusive human breeding facilities, the future never looked so bleak, or so hopeful.
City_Of_Silence
   Title: City Of Silence
   Year: 2004
   Category: Comics   
   Author: Warren Ellis   Gary Erskine   
   Publisher: Image   
   Plot:
The future is bad for you. In a place where everyone has the technology to create brand-new, weird sciences ten times a day, there are policemen who will hunt you down for having a bad idea. They are the Silencers. And the investigation of a dead kid with a silicon pentagram on his neck opens up a whole box of bad ideas upon a city that only survives through silence... Plus: Special pin-up gallery featuring artwork by Chris Weston, Dougie Braithwaite, John McCrea, Andi Watson, Steve Pugh, Simon Fraser, Dom Regan, Kev Hopgood, Jon Haward, and Matt Greg.
Doktor_Sleepless
   Title: Doktor Sleepless
   Year: 2004
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Warren Ellis   
   Publisher: Avatar   
   Plot:
When the promise of a bright technological future is corrupted by conspiratorial authorities, a mad scientist-turned-cultural icon named Doktor Sleepless leads a guerilla revolution.
GITS_SAC_Comics
   Title: Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex
   Year: 2004
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Yu Kinutani   Junichi Fujisaku   
   Publisher: Kodansha   
   Plot:
Stand Alone Complex takes place in the year 2030, in the fictional Japanese city of New Port. The story follows the members of Public Security Section 9, a special-operations task-force made up of former military officers and police detectives. The manga presents individual cases that Section 9 investigates, along with an ongoing, more serious investigation into the serial killer and hacker known only as "The Laughing Man."
Global_Frequency
   Title: Global Frequency
   Year: 2004
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Warren Ellis   
   Publisher: Wildstorm   
   Plot:
Miranda Zero, the mysterious leader/benefactor/recruiter of Global Frequency is a woman with a mission. She saves people. She and 1,000 others make up the most diverse team of specialists the planet has ever seen. Their job? To save the world, usually before anyone else notices there's a problem.
Market_Forces
   Title: Market Forces
   Year: 2004
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Richard K. Morgan   
   Publisher: Ballantine Books   
   Plot:
A coup in Cambodia. Guns to Guatemala. For the men and women of Shorn Associates, opportunity is calling. In the superheated global village of the near future, big money is made by finding the right little war and supporting one side against the other–in exchange for a share of the spoils. To succeed, Shorn uses a new kind of corporate gladiator: sharp-suited, hard-driving gunslingers who operate armored vehicles and follow a Samurai code. And Chris Faulkner is just the man for the job.
Pluto
   Title: PLUTO
   Year: 2004
   Category: Comics Series   
   Series: Pluto
   Author: Naoki Urasawa   Takashi Nagasaki   Osamu Tezuka   Makoto Tezuka    
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
In a distant future where sentient humanoid robots pass for human, someone or some thing is out to destroy the seven great robots of the world. Europol's top detective Gesicht is assigned to investigate these mysterious robot serial murders; the only catch is that he himself is one of the seven targets.
Reload_MEK
   Title: Reload/MEK
   Year: 2004
   Category: Comics   
   Author: Warren Ellis   
   Publisher: Wildstorm   
   Plot:
Featuring two independent and diverse tales from the mind of one creator, RELOAD/MEK is a highly imaginative volume of sci-fi action and political intrigue. In the action-packed espionage thriller Reload, Secret Service Agent Chris Royal must find a way to take out the woman who has murdered the President before her rampage destroys the nation's capital. In the futuristic tale of revenge Mek, the woman who is responsible for the society-decaying trend of elective robotic enhancements investigates the murder of her former lover in a bizarre and deadly world of cyborg hooligans.
River_Of_Gods
   Title: River Of Gods
   Year: 2004
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Ian McDonald   
   Publisher: Simon & Schuster   
   Plot:
The novel follows a number of different characters' viewpoints on and around the date of 15 August 2047, the centenary of India's partition and independence from the colonial British Raj. This future India has become balkanized into a number of smaller competing states, such as Awadh, Bharat, and Bangla. The global information network is now inhabited by artificial intelligences, phonetically called aeais in the novel, of varying levels of intelligence.
Sewer_Gas_And_Electric_The_Public_Works_Trilogy
   Title: Sewer, Gas And Electric: The Public Works Trilogy
   Year: 2004
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Matt Ruff   
   Publisher: Grove Press   
   Plot:
High above Manhattan android and human steelworkers are constructing a new Tower of Babel for billionaire Harry Gant, as a monument to humanity’s power to dream. In the festering sewers below a darker game is afoot: a Wall Street takeover artist has been murdered, and Gant’s crusading ex-wife, Joan Fine, has been hired to find out why. The year is 2023, and Ayn Rand has been resurrected and bottled in a hurricane lamp to serve as Joan's assistant; an eco-terrorist named Philo Dufrense travels in a pink-and-green submarine designed by Howard Hughes; a Volkswagen Beetle is possessed by the spirit of Abbey Hoffman; Meisterbrau, a mutant great white shark, is running loose in the sewers beneath Times Square; and a one-armed 181-year-old Civil War veteran joins Joan and Ayn in their quest for the truth. All of whom, and many more besides, are caught up in a vast conspiracy involving Walt Disney, J. Edgar Hoover, and a mob of homicidal robots.
Singularity_7
   Title: Singularity 7
   Year: 2004
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Ben Templesmith   
   Publisher: IDW   
   Plot:
With the Earth laid waste by an assault from microscopic nanites, humanity hides in underground cities. But those cities are being destroyed by the 'Gosiodo' machine beings engineered to convert the remnants of humanity to the will of the nanites. It's up to seven men and women, seemingly immune to the nanotechnology, to fight back before there's nothing left to fight for.
Terminator_Rewired
   Title: Terminator Rewired
   Year: 2004
   Category: Comics Series   
   Series: The Terminator Graphic Novels
   Author: Various   
   Publisher: iBooks   
   Plot:
A collection of Terminator tales by some of the comic industry's most popular and award-winning writers and artists.
The_Zenith_Angle
   Title: The Zenith Angle
   Year: 2004
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Bruce Sterling   
   Publisher: Del Rey   
   Plot:
Derek "Van" Vandeveer is a young, well respected, computer scientist who we find enjoying breakfast in his new home with his wife and young son. He is rich with stock options and heady with his own success when his whole world is suddenly and forever changed as the planes begin crashing into the World Trade Center. Within months his fortune is gone to an Enron-like scandal, and his wife and son have moved west to work on a new telescope being developed by a billionaire entrepreneur.
Transmetropolitan_0
   Title: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 0: Tales of Human Waste
   Year: 2004
   Category: Comics Series   
   Series: Transmetropolitan (Collected Editions)
   Author: Warren Ellis   Darick Robertson   
   Publisher: Vertigo   
   Plot:
TALES OF HUMAN WASTE completes the TRANSMETROPOLITAN library, collecting the two Prestige-format one-shots TRANSMETROPOLITAN: I HATE IT HERE and TRANSMETROPOLITAN: FILTH OF THE CITY, as well as the 8-page Christmas story from VERTIGO: WINTER'S EDGE 2. Written by Warren Ellis, this collection features a host of one and two-page pieces from comics' finest artists illustrating excerpts from the Word columns of crazed outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem.
Transmetropolitan_10
   Title: Transmetropolitan, Vol. 10: One More Time
   Year: 2004
   Category: Comics Series   
   Series: Transmetropolitan (Collected Editions)
   Author: Warren Ellis   Darick Robertson    
   Publisher: Vertigo   
   Plot:
The final volume in the saga of outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem written by comics superstar Warren Ellis. At last, it’s the final showdown between Spider and the absolutely corrupt President of the United States in this new printing of the finale to the classic dystopian saga from Vertigo.
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