Linden Moon (36 results)

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Condition: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Exhausted by the theater of efficiency, a scientist and a surgeon decide to remove it.Anya Sharma and Chloe Lin design the Minimum Input Protocol (MIP), a data-driven framework that proves most administrative oversight is redundant. Meetings shrink. Reports vanish. Productivity increases. The numbers are undeniable.Management agrees-and renames it.The Total Engagement System transforms saved time into new reporting requirements. Departments are created to audit empathy. Legislators take notice. A federal agency is formed to process the compliance metrics no one understands but everyone must generate.What began as an attempt to free skilled labor becomes a nationwide mandate to measure it.And when productivity finally halts; when work is suspended not by reason but by authority; the protagonists confront the uncomfortable symmetry of their success: They achieved efficiency.Just not on their terms.The Efficiency Trap continues the trilogy's escalation from unfairness to intention, revealing a system that does not waste effort-it manufactures it.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - After two institutional defeats, Ben Carter and Anya Sharma attempt one final intervention: not reform, not persuasion-documentation.The Nexus is their most ambitious creation yet, an algorithm capable of tracing capital flow across jurisdictions and exposing the structural asymmetries embedded in modern tax law. Its findings are clear. Its implications are devastating.Corporations see opportunity. Legislators see leverage. Loopholes become incentives. Incentives become permanent.As public budgets collapse and new laws codify inequality, the protagonists follow the legal architecture to its origin-discovering that many of the most protected exemptions precede the modern state itself.In a final, quiet confrontation, they learn that the system does not defend itself because it is efficient. It defends itself because it is historical.The Untouchable Tax is the final movement of a trilogy that moves from unfairness to intention to permanence-revealing a meritocracy that does not fail, but functions exactly as designed.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Something came to Ravenbrook overnight.On Friday, the field at the edge of town is empty.By Saturday morning, it holds a carnival.No trucks. No workers. No setup crew. Just a full midway of red-and-gold tents, rusted rides, glowing bulbs, and painted signs standing in perfect silence as if it has always been there. By noon, the whole town is inside. Parents call it a surprise attraction. Teenagers flood the midway. Kids race for tickets. No one can explain where Specter's Circus came from.No one seems to care.For twelve-year-old Alex Turner, Ravenbrook has always been too small, too quiet, and too boring to survive summer without losing his mind. So when a carnival appears overnight, he and his friends do what any sensible kids would do.They go in.At first, Specter's Circus feels strange but harmless. The games are old. The performers smile too long. The music drifts from places it shouldn't. Mirrors reflect things a second too late. Shadows move at the wrong angle. The midway stretches farther after sunset than it should.Then the carnival starts taking things.A reflection lags behind.A voice disappears.A name goes missing.A boy forgets his own face.A mother comes home laughing at nothing and no longer trusts her own hands.And while Ravenbrook begins to change around them, no one else seems willing to notice.Adults forget too quickly.Photographs shift.School records rewrite themselves.Familiar faces become wrong in ways no one can explain and no one wants to.Because Specter's Circus is not haunted.It is feeding.It does not want blood.It wants memory.It wants identity.It wants the small invisible pieces that make a person recognizable to themselves and to everyone else.And once it learns enough about you, it does not need you anymore.As the carnival's influence spreads beyond the midway and into Ravenbrook itself, Alex and his friends begin to uncover the truth hidden beneath the lights, laughter, and painted smiles: Specter's Circus is not an attraction.It is an organism.A patient, intelligent predator disguised as a carnival. A thing that studies people, strips them apart in pieces, and builds replacements that smile just well enough to pass.Now the town is forgetting itself.The carnival is rehearsing what comes after.And if Alex, Emma, and Max cannot force it to choke on what it has stolen, Ravenbrook will survive only long enough to become something easier to wear.The Haunted Carnival is a dark, atmospheric middle-grade horror novel about memory, identity, and the quiet terror of being replaced before anyone notices you are gone. Blending creeping psychological dread with small-town unease, it delivers a tense, unsettling descent into a place where laughter comes too late, smiles last too long, and the scariest thing in the room is the one pretending to be familiar.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The extinction never came.Weeks after disrupting the signal that was meant to evaluate Earth's future, Dr. Elias Thorne and Dr. Maya Singh remain hidden inside an abandoned research station, watching a world that appears normal on the surface.But the planet is no longer behaving normally.Seismic patterns refuse to settle. Global communication networks exhibit impossible distortions. Signals appear where no signals should exist. And buried inside the corrupted remains of the Architects' final transmission, Singh discovers something far more disturbing than an extinction protocol.Humanity was never under attack.The Architects are not conquerors.They are not guardians.They are not judges.For millions of years, they have managed life on Earth according to a cold, mathematical process known as the Seed Protocol. Species are not rewarded. They are not punished. They are evaluated. Those that cannot survive increasingly complex realities are quietly removed and replaced.The Paleolithic Handshake-the mysterious genetic intervention that created modern humanity-was not a gift.It was a test.As governments, corporations, and black-market researchers race to exploit fragments of alien technology, humanity begins tearing itself apart in a desperate attempt to control its own evolution. Meanwhile, the Architects' hidden systems awaken, shifting from passive observation to active containment.For the first time in Earth's history, humanity is no longer an experiment.It is an anomaly.And somewhere beneath the Antarctic ice, an ancient structure waits for a decision no civilization was ever supposed to make.The Broken Calibration expands the mystery of The Paleolithic Handshake into a sweeping science-fiction thriller exploring evolution, extinction, consciousness, free will, and humanity's place inside a system far older than civilization itself.For readers of Blindsight, The Three-Body Problem, Childhood's End, and hard-science speculative fiction that asks unsettling questions long after the final page.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Exhausted by the theater of efficiency, a scientist and a surgeon decide to remove it.Anya Sharma and Chloe Lin design the Minimum Input Protocol (MIP), a data-driven framework that proves most administrative oversight is redundant. Meetings shrink. Reports vanish. Productivity increases. The numbers are undeniable.Management agrees-and renames it.The Total Engagement System transforms saved time into new reporting requirements. Departments are created to audit empathy. Legislators take notice. A federal agency is formed to process the compliance metrics no one understands but everyone must generate.What began as an attempt to free skilled labor becomes a nationwide mandate to measure it.And when productivity finally halts; when work is suspended not by reason but by authority; the protagonists confront the uncomfortable symmetry of their success: They achieved efficiency.Just not on their terms.The Efficiency Trap continues the trilogy's escalation from unfairness to intention, revealing a system that does not waste effort-it manufactures it. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. After two institutional defeats, Ben Carter and Anya Sharma attempt one final intervention: not reform, not persuasion-documentation.The Nexus is their most ambitious creation yet, an algorithm capable of tracing capital flow across jurisdictions and exposing the structural asymmetries embedded in modern tax law. Its findings are clear. Its implications are devastating.Corporations see opportunity. Legislators see leverage. Loopholes become incentives. Incentives become permanent.As public budgets collapse and new laws codify inequality, the protagonists follow the legal architecture to its origin-discovering that many of the most protected exemptions precede the modern state itself.In a final, quiet confrontation, they learn that the system does not defend itself because it is efficient. It defends itself because it is historical.The Untouchable Tax is the final movement of a trilogy that moves from unfairness to intention to permanence-revealing a meritocracy that does not fail, but functions exactly as designed. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Dr. Elias Thorne was the scientist the world rejected.Now he is the only one who knows the world is running out of time.Exiled to a remote bunker, Thorne discovers an impossible isotope in ancient rock-Arcon-36, the cosmic fingerprint that marks every extinction in Earth's past. When its levels spike again, he calculates something horrifying: humanity is standing on the edge of a scheduled event, a precision extinction crafted by an unseen intelligence.As a megacorporation moves to weaponize the alien signal and silence him forever, Thorne and the brilliant Dr. Maya Singh race to expose the truth. Their only hope is a desperate hack of the planet itself-a crude, chaotic burst of human-made energy meant to scramble an alien correction millions of years in the making.The Calibration Pulse is coming.And if they fail, humanity never existed by its own design.Book One launches the trilogy with brutal tension, planetary-scale mystery, and a cliffhanger that will leave readers breathless for the next chapter.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The extinction never came.Weeks after disrupting the signal that was meant to evaluate Earth's future, Dr. Elias Thorne and Dr. Maya Singh remain hidden inside an abandoned research station, watching a world that appears normal on the surface.But the planet is no longer behaving normally.Seismic patterns refuse to settle. Global communication networks exhibit impossible distortions. Signals appear where no signals should exist. And buried inside the corrupted remains of the Architects' final transmission, Singh discovers something far more disturbing than an extinction protocol.Humanity was never under attack.The Architects are not conquerors.They are not guardians.They are not judges.For millions of years, they have managed life on Earth according to a cold, mathematical process known as the Seed Protocol. Species are not rewarded. They are not punished. They are evaluated. Those that cannot survive increasingly complex realities are quietly removed and replaced.The Paleolithic Handshake-the mysterious genetic intervention that created modern humanity-was not a gift.It was a test.As governments, corporations, and black-market researchers race to exploit fragments of alien technology, humanity begins tearing itself apart in a desperate attempt to control its own evolution. Meanwhile, the Architects' hidden systems awaken, shifting from passive observation to active containment.For the first time in Earth's history, humanity is no longer an experiment.It is an anomaly.And somewhere beneath the Antarctic ice, an ancient structure waits for a decision no civilization was ever supposed to make.The Broken Calibration expands the mystery of The Paleolithic Handshake into a sweeping science-fiction thriller exploring evolution, extinction, consciousness, free will, and humanity's place inside a system far older than civilization itself.For readers of Blindsight, The Three-Body Problem, Childhood's End, and hard-science speculative fiction that asks unsettling questions long after the final page. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Something came to Ravenbrook overnight.On Friday, the field at the edge of town is empty.By Saturday morning, it holds a carnival.No trucks. No workers. No setup crew. Just a full midway of red-and-gold tents, rusted rides, glowing bulbs, and painted signs standing in perfect silence as if it has always been there. By noon, the whole town is inside. Parents call it a surprise attraction. Teenagers flood the midway. Kids race for tickets. No one can explain where Specter's Circus came from.No one seems to care.For twelve-year-old Alex Turner, Ravenbrook has always been too small, too quiet, and too boring to survive summer without losing his mind. So when a carnival appears overnight, he and his friends do what any sensible kids would do.They go in.At first, Specter's Circus feels strange but harmless. The games are old. The performers smile too long. The music drifts from places it shouldn't. Mirrors reflect things a second too late. Shadows move at the wrong angle. The midway stretches farther after sunset than it should.Then the carnival starts taking things.A reflection lags behind.A voice disappears.A name goes missing.A boy forgets his own face.A mother comes home laughing at nothing and no longer trusts her own hands.And while Ravenbrook begins to change around them, no one else seems willing to notice.Adults forget too quickly.Photographs shift.School records rewrite themselves.Familiar faces become wrong in ways no one can explain and no one wants to.Because Specter's Circus is not haunted.It is feeding.It does not want blood.It wants memory.It wants identity.It wants the small invisible pieces that make a person recognizable to themselves and to everyone else.And once it learns enough about you, it does not need you anymore.As the carnival's influence spreads beyond the midway and into Ravenbrook itself, Alex and his friends begin to uncover the truth hidden beneath the lights, laughter, and painted smiles: Specter's Circus is not an attraction.It is an organism.A patient, intelligent predator disguised as a carnival. A thing that studies people, strips them apart in pieces, and builds replacements that smile just well enough to pass.Now the town is forgetting itself.The carnival is rehearsing what comes after.And if Alex, Emma, and Max cannot force it to choke on what it has stolen, Ravenbrook will survive only long enough to become something easier to wear.The Haunted Carnival is a dark, atmospheric middle-grade horror novel about memory, identity, and the quiet terror of being replaced before anyone notices you are gone. Blending creeping psychological dread with small-town unease, it delivers a tense, unsettling descent into a place where laughter comes too late, smiles last too long, and the scariest thing in the room is the one pretending to be familiar. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Dr. Elias Thorne was the scientist the world rejected.Now he is the only one who knows the world is running out of time.Exiled to a remote bunker, Thorne discovers an impossible isotope in ancient rock-Arcon-36, the cosmic fingerprint that marks every extinction in Earth's past. When its levels spike again, he calculates something horrifying: humanity is standing on the edge of a scheduled event, a precision extinction crafted by an unseen intelligence.As a megacorporation moves to weaponize the alien signal and silence him forever, Thorne and the brilliant Dr. Maya Singh race to expose the truth. Their only hope is a desperate hack of the planet itself-a crude, chaotic burst of human-made energy meant to scramble an alien correction millions of years in the making.The Calibration Pulse is coming.And if they fail, humanity never existed by its own design.Book One launches the trilogy with brutal tension, planetary-scale mystery, and a cliffhanger that will leave readers breathless for the next chapter. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.