John Barnes Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Giraut Leones, special agent for the human Thousand Cultures' shadowy Office of Special Plans, is turning fifty--and someone is trying to kill him.Giraut's had a long career; the number of entities that might want him dead is effectively limitless. But recently Giraut was approached by the Lost Legion, an Occitan underground linked to an alliance of illegally human-settled worlds beyond the frontier. Also, it turns out that the Lost Legion colony has a "psypyx" --a consciousness-recording--of Shan, onetime boss of the Office of Special Plans. If they have that, they have literally thousands of devastating secrets.Now, returning to his native Nou Occitan, Giraut will encounter violence and treachery from human and artificial consciousnesses alike. As bigotry and mob violence erupt throughout the rapidly destabilizing interstellar situation, Giraut will be called on the make the ultimate sacrifice, for the sake of civilization itself…

A Martian monarch has taken possession of a priceless the lifelog diary of the mysterious messiah who founded the Wager, the religion that forms the basis of all interstellar society. The Hive Intel conglomerate wants the lifelog and hires Jak to get it. It's a simple job, until other spies-including Ambassador Dujuv, Uncle Sib, and Jak's evil ex-girlfriend-arrive on Mars and turn the assignment into a wild ride of mind control, murder, and looming interplanetary war. For the lifelog contains a devastating secret that can overturn the status quo of whole worlds-a secret that Hive Intel will suppress at all costs. In the past, Jak has completed missions by betraying his friends. Now in order to succeed, Jak Jinnaka must betray the entire human race...

The sequel to A Million Open Doors and Earth Made of Glass Special agent Giraut Leones, betrayed by his superior and closest friend, swore he would never work for the Office of Special Projects again--but now he must. A new movement on Earth seeks to use the recorded personalities of the dead as helpless virtual reality playthings, and to the worlds of the Thousand Cultures--where the reborn are accepted as normal citizens--it's a monstrous crime. If Giraut cannot stop Earth from ratifying its plans, the tenuous structure of interstellar human civilization will collapse. Complicating matters, Giraut's brain now hosts a second consciousness-the revived mind of his long-dead friend Raimbaut. Together, Giraut and Raimbaut must confront their shared past while struggling with a deadly present.

This is the definitive text and reference for the new ADA 95 standard. It highlights the important changes from the ANSI 83 version: the increased support for object-oriented programming, the introduction of a hierarchical library structure and the inclusion of protected objects.

We schrijven 2028. Een militair ingrijpen van de VN wegens overtreding van artikel 14 van het Tweede Convenant leidt tot een wereldramp. Na een aanval met mini-kernbommen op illegale raketbases van het Siberisch Gemenebest dringen miljarden tonnen methaangas de dampkring binnen, het broeikaseffect neemt dramatisch toe. Tropische cyclonen en orkanen veroorzaken vloedgolven die complete eilanden en deltagebieden, waaronder ook Nederland, verzwelgen. De mondiale samenleving raakt in toenemende mate ontwricht. De Amerikaanse president 'Oma' Brittany Lynn Hardshaw en haar informele adviseurs, de meteoroloog Diogenes Callere, computer-whiz Carla Tynan en haar echtgenoot, de astronaut Louie, weigeren zich neer te leggen bij de nieuwe werkelijkheid, bij het onvermijdelijk naderende eind van de wereld zoals zij die kennen en liefhebben. Geleidelijk komen ze eensgezind tot de conclusie dat alleen een bezeten reddingspoging uitkomst kan bieden. Hoe? Dat is bekend. De oplossing ligt aan de grens van ons zonnestelsel. De vraag is alleen welke onverschrokken held bereid is zichzelf te offeren...