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"From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara she is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous...
2) Earthborn
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Series
Homecoming saga volume 5
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
1995.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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Turing Hopper mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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When Turing Hopper, Artificial Intelligence Personality and sleuth, uncovers information tied to criminal Nestor Garcia's long-dormant credit cards, she sends her human assistants to investigate.
Author
Series
Turing Hopper mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
When her human colleague, Ray Santiago, is found murdered, Turing Hopper, an Artificial Intelligence Personality and ingenious sleuth, joins her human assistants, Maude and Tim, on a search for the killer and turns up dark secrets from Ray's past that could threaten them all. By the author of You've Got Murder.
5) Count Zero
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Series
Sprawl trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosak Corporation reactivates him for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from.
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Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Kendrick Gallmonk is a survivor of the Maze, a research facility where thousands of political prisoners were forced to be guinea pigs in experiments designed to create the perfect soldier. One day his heart stops beating and a ghost urges him to return to the source of all his nightmares....
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The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Speculative fiction novel set in post-apocalyptic Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2089, after residents have discovered how to survive with biological nanotech. Cyber Mage, the teenager moonlighting as a hacker, crosses paths with mercenary Djibrel and together they seek out the fate of the Djinn, a magical super race of genies"--
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Puppet master novels volume 1
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Louis Massina is revolutionizing the field of robotics. His technological wonders are capable of locating disaster survivors, preventing nuclear meltdowns, and replacing missing limbs. After one of Massina’s creations makes a miraculous rescue, an FBI agent recruits him to pursue criminals running a massive financial scam—and not coincidentally, suspected of killing the agent’s brother. Massina agrees to deploy a surveillance “bot” that...
10) The year 200
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Restless Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Centuries have passed since the Communist Federation defeated the capitalist Empire, but humanity is still divided. A vast artificial-intelligence network, a psychiatric bureaucracy, and a tiny egalitarian council oversee civil affairs and quash 'abnormal' attitudes such as romantic love. Disillusioned civilians renounce the new society and either forego technology to live as 'primitives' or enhance their brains with cybernetic implants to become...
11) Plum rains
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Soho
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[2018]
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English
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"2029: In Japan, a historically mono-cultural nation, childbirth rates are at a critical low and the elderly are living increasingly long lives. This population crisis has precipitated a mass immigration of foreign medical workers from all over Asia--as well as the development of refined artificial intelligence to step in where humans fall short. In Tokyo, Angelica Navarro, a Filipina nurse who has been working in Japan for the last five years, is...
12) Qualityland
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to QualityLand, the best country on Earth. Here, a universal ranking system determines the social advantages and career opportunities of every member of society. An automated matchmaking service knows the best partners for everyone and helps with the break up when your ideal match (frequently) changes. And the foolproof algorithms of the biggest, most successful company in the world, TheShop, know what you want before you do and conveniently...
13) Radiate
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Series
Lightless volume 3
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In the follow-up to Lightless and Supernova, C. A. Higgins again fuses science fiction, suspense, and drama to tell the story of a most unlikely heroine: Ananke, once a military spacecraft, now a sentient artificial intelligence. Ananke may have the powers of a god, but she is consumed by a very human longing: to know her creators. Ananke may have the powers of a god, but she is consumed by a very human longing: to know her creators. Now Ananke is...
14) Supernova
Author
Series
Lightless volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"C. A. Higgins's acclaimed novel Lightless fused suspenseful storytelling, high-caliber scientific speculation, and richly developed characters into a stunning science fiction epic. Now the dazzling Supernova heightens the thrills and deepens the haunting exploration of technology and humanity--and the consequences that await when the two intersect. Once Ananke was an experimental military spacecraft. But a rogue computer virus transformed it--her--into...
15) Counterweight
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"For fans of the worlds of Philip K. Dick, Squid Game, and Severance: An absorbing tale of corporate intrigue, political unrest, unsolved mysteries, and the havoc wreaked by one company's monomaniacal endeavor to build the world's first space elevator-from one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, whose identity remains unknown. On the fictional island of Patusan-and much to the ire of the Patusan natives-the Korean conglomerate LK...
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