Wells, Martha
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2017
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Summary: "Sergeant Adrienne Valero wants to die. She can't. After enduring a traumatic 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 intelligent machines dedicated to the assimilation, or destruction, of humanity. When her VI suddenly achieves sentience, Valero...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A Tor Book, published by Tom Doherty Associates/Tor Publishing Group
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Summary: "Tim and Tito are best friends whose world gets upended when a time-traveling T-Rex named Oskar suddenly appears in Tim's backyard. That's right, a time-traveling T-Rex, who knows too much for his or Tim and Tito's good. Sure, Oskar's prehistoric spaceship is awesome. But when Tim mistakenly gulps down something called Impossible Juice, the boys find themselves not only battling a loony,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED MAISinger, P. W. (Peter Warren)
Summary: "America is on the brink of a revolution, one both technological and political. The science fiction of AI and robotics has finally come true, but millions are angry and fearful that the future has left them behind.After narrowly stopping a bombing at Washington's Union Station, FBI Special Agent Lara Keegan receives a new assignment: to field-test an advanced police robot. As a series of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SINHur, Anton
Summary: In a near-future world, a new technological therapy is quickly eradicating cancer: The body’s cells are entirely replaced with nanites—robot or android cells that not only cure those afflicted but leave them virtually immortal. At the same time, literary researcher Yonghun teaches an AI how to understand poetry and creates a living, thinking machine he names Panit, meaning "Beloved," in honor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Via, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HURKhoury, Jessica
Summary: "Bullied at school and home, Ash finds respite from his unhappy life in virtual reality games. One night, he spends his meager savings to help a stranger, who thanks him with a copy of an old fantasy game called The Glass Realm. While exploring the game, Ash meets a seemingly humble shopkeeper named Ruby. But from the start, Ruby seems different than the other townsfolk--especially when she and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KHOWalden, Mark
Summary: Otto races against the clock to rescue his friends from a rival organization, but as he desperately fights for his friends' lives, he ends up facing a deadly enemy who is a twisted product of his own bloodline.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WALReeve, Philip
Summary: In a world of drones and androids Zen Starling is a human thief, but mostly he just likes to ride the Interstellar Express, the sentient trains that travel through the K gates from planet to planet, something only the Guardians understand--but now the mysterious Raven wants him to steal the Pyxis, an object that could either open up a new gate, challenging the Guardians, or put the entire gate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Switch Press, a Capstone imprint 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC REEWinn, Claire
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Asa flees her domineering father to prevent her sister's mind from being reprogrammed, but she must ally with a smuggler named Riven to outwit a bounty hunter, a criminal syndicate, and a monster lurking in the city's circuits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WINOliver, Ben
Summary: "Luka Kane has spent 736 days wrongfully imprisoned inside the Loop awaiting his execution. Each day is the same. Each day is torturous. But things are starting to change. Whispers of war are circulating. Strange things are happening to the prisoners. And the warden delivers a message: Luka, you have to get out ... Now Luka must decide whether breaking out of the Loop is his only way to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OLIWells, Martha
Summary: "Sci-Fi's favorite antisocial AI is back on a mission. 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. And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2018
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2018
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Summary: Caitlin Decter, a formerly blind sixteen-year-old math genius, desperately wants to protect her friend, Webmind--the consciousness that sprang from the infrastructure of the World Wide Web--but the Pentagon views him as a threat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAWOliver, Ben
Summary: "In the final installment of ... [the] Loop trilogy, all of humanity hinges on the greatest escape yet ... [The] escape sets in motion a race against time as Happy's plans to release planet-eating nano-bots into the world draw[s] nearer. The Loop team must reassemble, survive Happy's final attempts to rid the world of the rebels, and figure out how to halt the apocalypse before humanity is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House, Scholastic Inc. 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OLILostetter, Marina J.
Summary: "The Murderbot Diaries makes first contact in this new, futuristic, standalone novel exploring sentience and artificial intelligence through the lenses of conflicted robot hero Unit Four, from Marina Lostetter, critically acclaimed author of Noumenon, Noumenon Infinity, and Noumenon Ultra. When Unit Four--a biological soft robot built and stored high above the Jovian atmosphere--is activated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOSWinterson, Jeanette
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINO'Sullivan, Colin
Summary: In near-future Japan, Susie Sakamoto mourns her family's death by drinking and abusing her husband's home robot. But when she tries to reprogram it for ill intent, she lands in a corporate war of sentient machines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2018
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Summary: "Humanity has established a SETI library on the moon to decipher and interpret the many messages from alien societies we have discovered. The most intriguing messages are from complete artificial intelligences. Ruth, a beginner Librarian, must talk to alien minds who have aggressive agendas of their own. She opens doors into strangeness beyond imagination and in her quest for understanding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENSawyer, Robert J.
Summary: A sentient World Wide Web entity known as Webmind has befriended Caitlin Decter and grown eager to learn about her world. But Webmind has also come to the attention of WATCH--the secret government agency that monitors the Internet for any threat to the United States-and they're fully aware of Caitlin's involvement in its awakening. WATCH is convinced that Webmind represents a risk to national...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAWSchwabauer, Daniel
Summary: "Military journalist Raymin Dahl thinks he's finally getting the story of a lifetime. Secret peace talks on a remote tropical moon are about to surrender five colonized worlds--and six hundred million civilians--to a ruthless enemy. But when his commanding officer, Captain Ansell Sterling, is fatally wounded before the negotiations can begin, Dahl can no longer just report on the mission. He's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enclave Publishing, an imprint of Third Day Book, LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCHRosnay, Tatiana de
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay's Flowers of Darkness explores how artificial intelligence tampers with love, sex, and the basis of artistic creation in a new future Paris. CASA is a brand new artist residency in an ultra-modern apartment, with a view of all of Paris. A dream for any novelist in search of tranquility. But is this residency a dream or a nightmare? Since...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSCoile, Mason
Summary: "Henry is a brilliant engineer who, after untold hours spent in his home laboratory, has achieved the discovery of his career-he has created artificially intelligent consciousness. He calls the half-formed robot William. No one knows about William. Not yet anyway. Henry's agoraphobia keeps him inside the house, and his fixation on William keeps him up in the attic, away from everyone, including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLECargill, C. Robert
Summary: Pounce is a "nannybot" fashioned in the shape of a plush tiger and in charge of eight-year-old Ezra Reinhart. When Pounce finds the box he arrived in years earlier, the pieces fall into place for a robot revolution that will eradicate humankind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021