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Artificial intelligence Fiction Biotechnologie Romans, nouvelles, etc Biotechnology Environmental aspects Fiction Biotechnology Fiction Cancer Treatment Fiction Drug dealers Fiction Genetic engineering Fiction Interpersonal relations Fiction Refuse collectors Fiction Robots FictionHur, 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 HURRiddle, A. G.
Summary: Dr. Laura Reynolds had a job she loved and the respect of her peers. One day, it all went away. She saw the wrong thing, a colleague's mistake. And to escape, he framed her. Laura's only option is to join a secretive research project in Antarctica, where she hopes to keep practicing medicine and one day get her life back. But soon after arriving, she realizes that things aren't what they seem...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RIDMcAuley, Paul J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCAKotler, Steven
Summary: Hard to say when the human species fractured exactly. Harder to say when this new talent arrived. But Lion Zorn is the first of his kind--an empathy tracker, an emotional soothsayer, with a felt sense for the future of the we. In simpler terms, he can spot cultural shifts and trends before they happen. It's a useful skill for a certain kind of company. A unique blend of cutting-edge technology...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOTStross, Charles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace Books 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STRSchaeffer, Renée
Summary: Naissa Nolan is a happy child in 1850s Philadelphia until tragedy strikes while she and her family are on holiday. Alone and heartbroken, she is thrust into an immortal life she never bargained for or imagined. Naissa spends the next few centuries on Earth desperate to learn more about her condition. While working with the esteemed Oberlin Institute in Vienna, she makes an important discovery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CamCat Books 2024
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Summary: "Spiderman: Venom meets The Walking Dead with a diverse cast of teenage protagonists trying to survive the night in a town overcome by a scientific breakthrough that has rapidly gone incredibly wrong. A small town in Western Oregon becomes the epicenter of an epidemic of violence as the teenage daughters and sons of several executives who happen to work at the biotech firm nestled in the hills...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JOHVanderMeer, Jeff
Summary: "'Am I a person?' Borne asks Rachel, in extremis. 'Yes, you are a person, ' Rachel tells him. 'But like a person, you can be a weapon, too.' In a ruined, nameless city of the future, Rachel makes her living as a scavenger. She finds a creature she names Borne entangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic despotic bear that once prowled the corridors of a biotech firm, the Company, until he was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017