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1) The Diabolic
Author
Series
Diabolic trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Formats
Description
Nemesis is a Diabolic, a humanoid teenager and the galaxy's most deadly weapon, who masquerades as Sidonia, a senator's daughter, and becomes a hostage of the galactic court.
2) Morgan
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
A corporate troubleshooter is sent to a remote, top-secret location, where she is to investigate and evaluate a terrifying accident. She learns the event was triggered by a seemingly innocent 'human', who presents a mystery of both infinite promise and incalculable danger.
4) Ex machina
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Caleb, a coder at the world's largest Internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a retreat belonging to the company's reclusive CEO, Nathan. But when Caleb arrives he finds that he will have to participate in a fascinating experiment with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot woman, Ava. Truths, emotions, and motives are blurred as the relationship between Caleb, Ava, and Nathan intensifies....
5) Westworld
Pub. Date
2010
Description
A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.--imdb.com.
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 7
Pub. Date
2023.
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...
7) After Yang
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
A father becomes determined to repair the android boy living with his family, who is beloved by his young adopted daughter, when he becomes unresponsive.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ana is a scoundrel by nurture and an outlaw by nature. Found as a child drifting through space with a sentient android called D09, Ana was saved by a fearsome space captain and the grizzled crew she now calls family. But D09âone of the last remaining illegal Metalsâhas been glitching, and Ana will stop at nothing to find a way to fix him. Anaâs desperate effort to save D09 leads her on a quest to steal the coordinates...
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 1
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...
Description
The one-hour drama series is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, not matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged. No rules, no laws, no judgment. Live without limits.
Pub. Date
[2022].
Description
Last season, Dolores sacrified herself to free humankind from the grip of an artifical intelligence. Season Four picks up over seven years after the protracted war. Humanity is finally free...or so it seems. Maeve and Caleb suspect that Hale and a host version of the Man in Black are seeding a conspiracy to regain control.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin -- exploring a world in which every human appetite, not matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged. Exploring what it means to be human through the eyes of the lifelike AI "hosts" in the park, the series investigates the boundaries of an exotic world set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past. Meticulously crafted and artfully designed. Westworld...
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"A missing woman receives a second chance at life, thanks to her billionaire husband--but the consequences are deadly in this gripping psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Before. Abbie awakens in a daze with no memory of who she is or how she landed in this unsettling condition. The man by her side claims to be her husband. He's an icon of the tech world, the founder of a lucrative robotics company. He tells...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
Valentine Weis is a salvager in the future wastelands of Utah. Wrestling with body dysphoria, he dreams of earning enough money to afford citizenship in Salt Lake City, a utopia where the testosterone and surgery he needs to transition is free, the food is plentiful, and folk are much less likely to be shot full of arrows by salt pirates. Earning that kind of money is a pipe dream, until he meets the exceptionally handsome Osric. Once a powerful AI...
Author
Series
Safehold series volume 3
Description
The Kingdom of Charis and the Kingdom of Chisholm have joined together, pledged to stand against the tyranny of a corrupt Church. The youthful Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm has wed King Cayleb of Charis, forging a single dynasty, a single empire, dedicated to the defense of human freedom. Yet there are things Sharleyan still does not know. Secrets Cayleb has not been permitted to share, even with her--and these secrets may threaten all they have achieved...
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Description
Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future. The transnational tech corporation DIANIMA has sealed off the remote Con Dao Archipelago, where a species of octopus has been discovered that may have developed its own language and culture. The marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen, who has spent her life researching cephalopod intelligence,...
18) Westworld
Pub. Date
1972 reprinting 2017
Formats
Description
Two businessmen are enjoying a vacation at Wild West Fantasyland when a programming error causes the life-like androids to turn deadly.