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Author
Series
Railhead volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Zen Starling, a small-time thief, and Nova, an android girl come from the Network Empire, whose stations are scattered across the galaxy and linked by the K-gates and the sentient trains travel at light speed between them--but the gate through which they just passed was a new one, and they have no way of knowing into what danger it might have led them.
Author
Pub. Date
c2015
Description
After barely beating back a Titan incursion at Wall Rose, the Survey Corps is left facing ever more mysterious questions. Yet there is no time to answer them, as humanity's mortal enemies, the Colossus Titan and the Armored Titan, suddenly and dramatically appear. Shocked at the identities of these genocidal agents, the Corps can't respond quickly enough. What seemed like one more victory on a march back to Wall Maria has now become a mad scramble...
23) Droids and Ewoks
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"The most lovable stars of a galaxy far, far away, in a complete collection of their adorable all-ages adventures! Join Wicket and his Ewok friends Teebo and Princess Kneesaa in their forest home of Endor for colorful capers filled with rainbow bridges and rites of power! And, in stories set years before they find a home with the Rebels, follow C-3P0 and R2-D2 in their search for a master! The quest will stretch across space and beyond, as a crazy...
Author
Series
Safehold series volume 8
Pub. Date
2015.
Formats
Description
Centuries ago, the human race fought its first great war against an alien race and lost. A tiny population of human beings fled to distant Safehold. Centuries later, their descendants have forgotten their history; for them, life has been an eternal Middle Ages, ruled by the Church of God Awaiting, whose secret purpose is to prevent the re-emergence of industrial civilization. But not all of Safehold's founders were on board with this plan. Those dissidents...
Author
Series
Safehold series volume 9
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
When the leaders and soldiers of the tiny island of Charis rise up behind cybernetic avatar Merlin to defend their home, a powerful Church of God Awaiting, pushed to the brink of defeat, draws on its formidable resources and forbidden technologies in an ultimate battle between freedom and oppression.
26) The Vision
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"One of the most celebrated comic books of the century, collected in full at last! Vision wants to be human, and what's more human than family? So he heads back to the beginning - to the laboratory where Ultron created him as a weapon. The place where he first rebelled against his given destiny and imagined that he could be more - that he could be a man. There, he builds them. A wife, Virginia. Teenage twins, Viv and Vin. They look like him. They...
27) Surrogates
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
People are living their lives remotely from the safety of their own homes via robotic surrogates - sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves. It's an ideal world where crime, pain, fear and consequences don't exist. When the first murder in years jolts this utopia, FBI agent Greer discovers a vast conspiracy behind the surrogate phenomenon and must abandon his own surrogate, risking his life to unravel the mystery.
Author
Series
Attack on Titan volume 34
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Eren's titanic Rumbling claims thousands of lives beyond the walls of Paradis, and the boy who once lived in fear of the Titans becomes the world's most feared man. Determined to stop the destruction wrought by their childhood friend, Armin, Mikasa, and their surviving comrades reach the Attack Titan and decide to face him head on in an ultimate showdown. Will humanity ��nally be set free from the cycle of fear, oppression, and destruction, or...
29) Chobits: Vol. 2
Author
Description
"Hideki Motosuwa, a poor student struggling to pass his college-entrance exams, discovers lying in an alley something he could never afford to buy--a 'persocom,' the personal computers of the future that look like people"--P. [4] of cover.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
The role of robots in our lives is growing all the time. Learn about their many different shapes, sizes and uses and meet robots who do dangerous and dirty jobs, help perform surgery, look like us, show emotion like us and much more.
31) Middlegame
Author
Series
Alchemical journeys volume 1
Formats
Description
"Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story. Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math. Roger and Dodger aren't exactly human, though they don't realize it. They aren't exactly gods, either. Not entirely. Not yet. Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Formats
Description
Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ready for him every night, wears the pert outfits he orders for her, and adjusts her libido to suit his moods. True, she’s not the greatest at keeping Doug’s place spotless, but she’s trying to please him. She’s trying hard. She’s learning, too. Doug says he loves that Annie’s AI makes her seem...
Author
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...
Author
Series
Attack on Titan volume 28
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"After years as a lonely double agent, Zeke finally returns to the good graces of his home island of Paradis. Still, the Survey Corps refuses to let him meet Eren--the other ingredient in the earth-shaking weapon-- for fear the explosive duo will be impossible to control. Meanwhile, the public responds badly to the military's open distrust of their hero Eren, and the detention of the Marleyan volunteers spurs an uprising. Amid the turmoil, Eren takes...
Author
Series
Attack on Titan volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"For eons, humans ruled the natural world. But a century ago, everything changed when the Titans appeared. Giant, grotesque parodies of the human form, these sexless monsters consumed all but a few thousand human beings, who took refuge behind giant walls. Today, the threat of the Titans is a distant memory, and a boy named Eren yearns to explore the world beyond the wall. But what began as a childish dream will become an all-too-real nightmare when...
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Los Angeles, 2019: Rick Deckard of the LAPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & microchip jungle of the 21st century. His job is to track down and eliminate assumed humanoids known as 'replicants.' Replicants were declared illegal after a bloody mutiny on an Off-World Colony, and are to be terminated upon detection. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 6 "skin jobs," the slang for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth....
37) Humanoid robots
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Humanoid robots can help us learn. They can go places humans can't, such as deep underwater, sending back information we never knew before. Humanoid robots can also aid in search and rescue they are able to easily cross rough landscapes and carry heavy supplies. Discover how this cutting-edge technology was first created, and explore what kind of functions humanoid robots will perform in the future.
38) Genesis
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Set on a remote island in a post-apocalyptic, plague-ridden world, this bold and ingenious thriller questions what it means to be human as philosophical questions collide with technology.
39) The simulacra
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Set in the middle of the twenty-first century, the story of an America where thw whole government is a fraud and the President is an android.