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1) While we run
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"It's the year 2128, and Tegan Oglietti, the world's first successfully revived cryonics patient, and her maybe-boyfriend, Abdi Taalib, are on the run from the government and from a dangerous rebel group. When they uncover shocking new information about the cryonics program, they are faced with an impossible decision that will put thousands of lives in their hands"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A cinematic, speculative debut about a woman who undergoes cryogenic preservation at the time of her death and wakes up a century later in a world where her very life is a crime. When Alabine Rivers, a politically active young woman with a bright career and romance ahead of her, finds out the devastating news that she has terminal cancer, the only thing that gives her solace is the possibility of a second life through the emerging field of cryogenics....
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 52 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. We are all going to die -- sooner or later -- but there can be great differences in how we relate to death. Death can appear frightening or leave us with grief, but it can also engage us, provide food on the table, money in the wallet or even entertain us. There are those who try to avoid it, but also others who deal with it on a daily basis. What is death, and how do we best live with it? Shot around the world on 100 locations in 25 countries...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
93 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Still new to her duties as Lady Vorkosigan, Ekaterin is working together with expatriate scientist Enrique Borgos on a radical scheme to recover the lands of the Vashnoi exclusion zone, lingering radioactive legacy of the Cetagandan invasion of the planet Barrayar. When Enrique's experimental bioengineered creatures go missing, the pair discover that the zone still conceals deadly old secrets. This novella falls after Captain Vorpatril's Alliance...
6) Cryoburn
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
345 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
When a Kibou-daini cryocorp--an immortal company whose job it is to shepherd its all-too-mortal frozen patrons into an unknown future--attempts to expand its franchise into the Barrayaran Empire, Emperor Gregor dispatches his top troubleshooter Miles Vorkosigan to check it out.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
883 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"In his youth, Richard "Dodge" Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire. Now in his middle years, Dodge appreciates his comfortable, unencumbered life, managing his myriad business interests, and spending time with his beloved niece Zula and her young daughter, Sophia. One beautiful autumn day, while he undergoes a routine medical procedure, something goes irrevocably wrong. Dodge is pronounced brain dead...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Astrid's cancer has returned. It's an "astrocytoma," a tumor in her brain. She hears about a radical technology called cryopreservation that may allow her to have her body frozen until a future time when-- and if-- a cure is available. With her boyfriend, Mohit, and her best friend, Chloe, Astrid goes on a road trip in search of that possibility. To see if it's real. To see if it's worth it. For fear of missing out on everything. -- adapted from jacket...
10) Ubik
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Glen Runciter's anti-psi security agency hires out its talents to block telepathic and paranormal crimes. But when its special team tackles a big job on the moon, something goes terribly wrong, and Runciter is seemingly killed. Now, his mourning employees are receiving bewildering messages from their boss on toilet walls, traffic tickets, product labels, and even U.S. coins.
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The imperial guard and his three traitorous childhood friends ordered to hunt him down get accidentally buried and kept frozen in time. 400 years later pass and they are defrosted continuing the battle they left behind.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Lake Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI and carrying out some experiments of his own in a vast underground network of tunnels. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with his mom again, is set to make his...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
This "thought-provoking and . . . unabashedly entertaining . . . novel defies conventional expectations and exists, brilliantly and defiantly, on its own terms" (Sarah Lotz, New York Times Book Review).
Lake Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein,...
Lake Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 22 cm
Description
When Andra went into a cryonic sleep for a trip across the galaxy, she expected to wake up in a hundred years, not a thousand. Now it's the year 3102, she woke up in a hot, dirty cave, and eveyrone keeps calling her Goddess. Worst of all, the rest of the colonists are dead. They died centuries ago, and their descendants think Andra is a deity. Zhade, the exiled bastard prince of Eerensed, has devoted himself to finding the sleeping Goddess's glass...
15) Sleeper
Pub. Date
©2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Miles Monroe enters the hospital in 1973 for a minor ulcer operation only to wake up 200 years later after being defrosted. As Miles tries to adjust to his new environment, he is re-programmed, de-programmed, chased by Big Brother-like police, and falls for Luna, an underground poet.
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