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"Following a mysterious murder on an island off the coast of Vietnam, a research team convenes to study an octopus community that seems to be developing its own language and culture. Humans, AIs, and animals are swept up in the machinations of governments and corporations in this near-future thriller about the nature of intelligence"--

2) Do androids dream of electric sheep?

Author

Dick, Philip K

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

A masterpiece ahead of its time, a prescient rendering of a dark future, and the inspiration for the blockbuster film Blade Runner

By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can’t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. They’ve even built...

3) Rogue protocol

Author

Series

Murderbot diaries volume 3

Pub. Date

2018.

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Description

The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is. The cyborg Security Unit Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good. Is Milu, a deserted terraforming facility in space, an abandoned project of GrayCris or a cover for its recovery operations for alien remnants? -- adapted from jacket and goodreads.com...

4) Fugitive telemetry

Author

Series

Murderbot diaries volume 6

Pub. Date

2021.

Formats

Description

"When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was), how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward, at least), and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people-who knew?) Yes, the unthinkable is about to happen: Murderbot must voluntarily speak to humans! Again! A new standalone adventure in the New York Times-bestselling,...

5) Genesis

Author

Beckett, Bernard

Pub. Date

2009

Physical Desc

150 p. ; 22 cm.

6) Mindscan

Author

Sawyer, Robert J

Pub. Date

c2005

Physical Desc

303 p. ; 22 cm.

7) Exit strategy

Author

Series

Murderbot diaries volume 4

Formats

Description

"Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, The Murderbot Diaries, comes to a thrilling conclusion in Exit Strategy. Murderbot wasn't programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right? Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation,...

8) The light fantastic

Author

Lang, Jeffrey

Series

Star Trek: The Next Generation. Relaunch volume 11
Star trek the next generation
Star Trek The Next Generation. Relaunch volume 11

Pub. Date

2014

Physical Desc

370 pages ; 18 cm.

9) Wetware: a novel

Author

Nova, Craig

Pub. Date

c2002

Physical Desc

339 p. ; 22 cm.

10) All systems red

Author

Series

Murderbot diaries volume 1

Pub. Date

2017.

Formats

Description

A murderous android discovers itself in "All Systems Red", a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial intelligence. In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest...

11) The road to Mars: a post-modem novel

Author

Idle, Eric

Pub. Date

c1999

Physical Desc

309 p. ; 25 cm.

12) Neptune's brood: a space opera

Author

Stross, Charles

Pub. Date

2013.

Physical Desc

325 pages ; 24 cm

Description

After being stalked across the galaxy by an assassin, post-human Krina Alzon-114 journeys to the water-world Shin-Tethys in search of her sister.

13) System collapse

Author

Series

Murderbot diaries volume 7

Pub. Date

2023.

Formats

Description

"Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's New York Times bestselling Murderbot Diaries series. Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there's an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza...

14) Mila 2.0

Author

Driza, Debra

Series

Mila 2.0 trilogy volume 1

Pub. Date

c2013

Physical Desc

470 p. ; 22 cm.

Description

Sixteen-year-old Mila discovers she is not who--or what--she thought she was, which causes her to run from both the CIA and a rogue intelligence group.

15) Saturn's children: a space opera

Author

Stross, Charles

Pub. Date

2008

Physical Desc

323 p. ; 24 cm.

Description

Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct leaving only androids behind. Freya Nakamichi 47 is a femmebot, one of the last of her kind still functioning. With no humans left to pay for the pleasures she provides, she agrees to transport a mysterious package from Mercury to Mars. Unfortunately for Freya, she has just made herself a moving target for some very powerful, very determined humanoids who will stop at nothing to possess the...

16) The soldier

Author

Asher, Neal L

Series

Rise of the Jain volume 1

Pub. Date

2018.

Physical Desc

375 pages ; 24 cm.

Description

Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook

"In a far corner of space, on the very borders between humanity's Polity worlds and the kingdom of the vicious crab-like prador, is an immediate threat to all sentient life: an accretion disc, a solar system designed by the long-dead Jain race and swarming with living technology powerful enough to destroy entire civilizations. Neither the Polity nor the prador want the other in full control of the disc, so they've placed an impartial third party in...

17) The Perfect Wife: A Novel

Author

Delaney, Jp

Pub. Date

2019.

Formats

Description

The perfect life. The perfect love. The perfect lie. From the bestselling author of The Girl Before comes a gripping psychological thriller. . . .
“Mind-bending . . . Delaney takes domestic suspense beyond its comfort zone.”—The New York Times Book Review
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY • A COSMOPOLITAN NEW MUST-READ
Abbie awakens in a...

18) Artificial condition

Author

Series

Murderbot diaries volume 2

Pub. Date

2018.

Formats

Description

It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself Murderbot. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a research transport vessal named ART (you don't want to know what the A stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks ...

19) Network effect

Author

Series

Murderbot diaries

Pub. Date

2020.

Physical Desc

350 pages ; 22 cm

Description

"Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel, Network Effect. You know that feeling when you're at work, and you've had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot....

20) The perfect wife: a novel

Author

Delaney, JP

Pub. Date

[2019]

Physical Desc

412 pages ; 25 cm

Description