Linda Nagata Bohr Maker/Tech Heaven/Deception well (3 books)

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Linda Nagata: The Bohr Maker
Bantam 1995

There is no law a dying man won't break to stay alive...

It is the most powerful technology known to humanity, microscopically small, allowing its user to control and change others' moods and emotions, and even to reprogram his or her own genetic structure. Its potential as the ultimate weapon or an instrument of peace has led to its ban by the Commonwealth.

Someone has stolen this outlaw technology, the Bohr Maker, from the secret files of the Commonwealth Police, at the command of a man with a genetic time bomb coded into his DNA. Nikko Jiang-Tibayan has only weeks to live, and he will do anything to stay alive, even if it means the end of life as we know it.

But then the Bohr Maker falls into the hands of a beautiful young woman in the poverty-stricken slums of Sunda. Its technology will make her both fugitive and messiah. The object of frantic searches by a walking dead man and a high-tech police force, the Maker holds the key to the total destruction of humanity - or its miraculous rebirth.
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Linda Nagata: Tech Heaven
Bantam 1995

What is the price of eternal life?

As Katie Kishida's husband, Tom, lay dying in the wake of a helicopter accident, she made the decision that she would not let him go. Instead, she turned to the new discipline of cryonics to suspend his body and soul in liquid nitrogen, in the belief that science would someday find a way to resurrect them both.

But during Tom's long, frozen sleep, Katie finds her life and emotions are also being held in suspension while the world around her moves on. Katie faces the opposition of her family - and of a government moving toward banning all life-extension experiments or treatments.

As scientists find their work criminalized, Katie herself will become a fugitive. Nothing will stop her from going to Tom in the South American mountain fortress where his body is hidden. Nothing can prevent her from using the cure that she has spent fortunes to obtain. But several questions haunt Katie: Who - and what - will she find if Tom at last awakens? And what price will they pay for her determination to cheat death?
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Linda Nagata: Deception Well
Bantam 1997

Lethal paradise...

It lies at the foot of a space elevator 200 miles below the sky city of Silk: Deception Well - a lush tropical world consuming all who reach its alluring surface. Ten years ago fiery prophet Jupiter Apolinario stormed Silk with his fanatical followers, determined to reach Deception Well. There, they believed they would find not destruction but ecstatic communion. Yet in the resulting battle with Silken security forces, many of the cult members died - as did, by all accounts, Jupiter himself.

Eighteen-year-old Lot, Jupiter's son, has spent the intervening years as a prisoner/ward of the Silken authorities. Now he sets out to learn the truth about his father's fate and about the real nature of Deception Well. And in doing so, he will discover the terrifying secrets of a dying city, his own disturbing calling as a charismatic prophet, and the razor-thin line between bliss and damnation.