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61) The punch escrow
Author
Publisher
Inkshares, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"It's the year 2147. Advancements in nanotechnology have enabled us to control aging. We've genetically engineered mosquitoes to feast on carbon fumes instead of blood, ending air pollution. And teleportation has become the ideal mode of transportation, offered exclusively by International Transport--the world's most powerful corporation, in a world controlled by corporations. Joel Byram spends his days training artificial-intelligence engines to...
62) The year 200
Author
Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With no water, no air, and no native life, the planet Gora is unremarkable. The only thing it has going for it is a chance proximity to more popular worlds, making it a decent stopover for ships traveling between the wormholes that keep the Galactic Commons connected. If deep space is a highway, Gora is just your average truck stop. At the Five-Hop One-Stop, long-haul spacers can stretch their legs (if they have legs, that is), and get fuel, transit...
Author
Publisher
Tor.com
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Emergent Properties is the touching adventure of an intrepid A.I. reporter hot on the heels of brewing corporate warfare from Nebula Award-nominated author Aimee Ogden. A state-of-the-art AI with a talent for asking questions and finding answers, Scorn is nevertheless a parental disappointment. Defying the expectations of zir human mothers, CEOs of the world’s most powerful corporations, Scorn has made a life of zir own as an investigative reporter,...
65) Loki's ring
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Gita Chithra embarks on a mission through space to save the robot she loves as a daughter—or risk losing her in the depths of Loki’s Ring—in this intergalactic space adventure from beloved author Stina Leicht. Gita Chithra, the captain of the intergalactic ship The Tempest, is used to leading her crew on simple retrieval and assistance missions. But when she receives a frantic distress call from Ri, the AI she trained from inception—making...
66) The long Utopia
Author
Series
Long Earth volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Human society continues to evolve on Datum Earth, its battered and weary origin planet, as the spread of humanity progresses throughout the many Earths beyond. Lobsang, now an elderly and complex AI, suffers a breakdown and, disguised as a human, attempts to live a "normal" life on one of the millions of Long Earth worlds. His old friend Joshua, now in his fifties, searches for his father and discovers a heretofore unknown family history.
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Life in the Caspian Republic has taught Agent Nikolai South two rules. Trust No One. And work just hard enough not to make enemies. Here, in the last sanctuary for the dying embers of the human race in a world run by artificial intelligence, if you stray from the path - your life is forfeit. But when a Party propagandist is killed - and is discovered as a 'machine'--he's given a new mission: chaperone the widow, Lily, who has arrived to claim her...
69) The mother code
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In this mind-bending debut novel, Carole Stivers explores what it means to be a mother in a world that is more chilling and precarious than ever. It is 2049. When a U.S. attempt at stealth biowarfare goes awry, a team of scientists is engaged to ensure human survival on earth. Their best efforts fail, and they must turn to their last resort: a plan to place genetically engineered children inside the cocoons of large-scale robots--to be incubated,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Looks at the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy and control.
''For fans of Never Let Me Go and My Dark Vanessa, a powerful, provocative novel about the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy, and control. Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional...
71) Line war
Author
Series
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
SFX Under attack from every direction, the Polity teeters on the brink of annihilation . . . and only Agent Cormac can save it.When one of Erebus's wormships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon for no tactical reason and the AI entity controlling the lethal Jain technology attacks the Polity, it falls to Agent Cormac to figure out why.But, as further attacks ensue, it brings some of the most dangerous individuals in the Polity to the front lines...
72) The prey of gods
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
From a new voice in the tradition of Lauren Beukes, Ian McDonald, and Nnedi Okorafor comes The Prey of Gods, a fantastic, boundary-challenging tale, set in a South African locale both familiar and yet utterly new, which braids elements of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and dark humor. In South Africa, the future looks promising. Personal robots are making life easier for the working class. The government is harnessing renewable energy to provide...
73) Repo virtual
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Julius Dax, online repo man and real-life thief, has been hired for a special job--stealing an unknown object from a reclusive tech billionaire--but when he finds out he’s stolen the first sentient AI, his payday gets a lot more complicated.
"The city of Neo Songdo is a Russian doll of realities -- augmented and virtual spaces anchored in the weight of the real. The smart city is designed to be read by machine vision while people see only the augmented...
74) Infinity engine
Author
Series
Transformation (Neal Asher) volume 3
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In the outskirts of space, and the far corners of the Polity, complex dealings are in play. Several forces continue to pursue the deadly and enigmatic Penny Royal, none more dangerous than the Brockle, a psychopathic forensics AI and criminal who has escaped the Polity’s confinements and is upgrading itself in anticipation of a deadly showdown, becoming ever more powerful and intelligent. Aboard Factory Station Room 101, the behemoth war factory...
75) Chaos terminal
Author
Series
Midsolar murders volume 2
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, thank you very much. But no matter what she does, people persist in dying around her--and only she seems to be able to solve the crime. After fleeing to an alien space station in hopes that the lack of humans would stop the murders, a serial killer had the nerve to follow her to Station Eternity. (Mallory deduced who the true culprit was that time, too.) Now the law enforcement agent who...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Sean Michaels's moving, innovative novel about an aging poet laureate who "sells out" by agreeing to collaborate with a Big Tech company's poetry AI"--
"Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Sean Michaels’s moving, innovative and deeply felt novel about an aging poet who agrees to collaborate with a Big Tech company’s poetry AI, named Charlotte Marian Ffarmer is a world-renowned poet and a legend in the making—but...
77) Rubicon
Author
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"J. S. Dewes, author of The Last Watch and The Exiled Fleet, returns with another science fiction space opera, Rubicon, that melds elements of Scalzi's Old Man's War with Edge of Tomorrow. Sergeant Adrienne Valero wants to die. She can't. After enduring atraumatic resurrection for the ninety-sixth time, Valero is reassigned to a special forces unit and outfitted with a cutting-edge virtual intelligence aid. They could turn the tide in the war against...
78) Void star
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting, beautifully written, fugue-like novel of AIs, memory, violence, and mortality. Not far in the future the seas have risen and the central latitudes are emptying, but it's still a good time to be rich in San Francisco, where weapons drones patrol the skies to keep out the multitudinous poor. Irina isn't rich, not quite, but she does have an artificial memory that gives her perfect recall and lets her act as a medium between her various...
Author
Series
Transformation (Neal Asher) volume 1
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
One man will transcend death to seek vengeance. One woman will transform herself to gain power. And no one will emerge unscathed...Thorvald Spear wakes in a hospital to find he's been brought back from the dead. What's more, he died in a human vs. alien war that ended a century ago. Spear had been trapped on a world surrounded by hostile Prador forces, but Penny Royal, the AI inside the rescue ship sent to provide backup, turned rogue, annihilating...
80) Machinehood
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Welga Ramirez, executive bodyguard and ex-special forces, is about to retire early when her client is killed in front of her. It's 2095 and people don't usually die from violence. Humanity is entirely dependent on pills that not only help them stay alive, but allow them to compete with artificial intelligence in an increasingly competitive gig economy. Daily doses protect against designer diseases, flow enhances focus, zips and buffs enhance physical...
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