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81) Qualityland
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to QualityLand, the best country on Earth. Here, a universal ranking system determines the social advantages and career opportunities of every member of society. An automated matchmaking service knows the best partners for everyone and helps with the break up when your ideal match (frequently) changes. And the foolproof algorithms of the biggest, most successful company in the world, TheShop, know what you want before you do and conveniently...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"A visionary story of three generations of artists whose search for meaning and connection transcends the limits of life. How do we relate to--and hold--our family's past? Is it through technology? Through spirit? Art, poetry, music? Or is it through the resonances we look for in ourselves? In Artificial, we meet the Kurzweils, a family of creators who are preserving their history through unusual means. At the center is renowned inventor and futurist...
Author
Publisher
Currency
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In a groundbreaking blend of science and imagination, the former president of Google China and a leading writer of speculative fiction join forces to answer an urgent question: How will artificial intelligence change our world over the next twenty years? AI will be the defining issue of the twenty-first century, but many people know little about it apart from visions of dystopian robots or flying cars. Though the term has been around for half a century,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Ray Santiago's friends from work know him as a brilliant-but-easygoing systems engineer who spends a lot of time on his favorite online role-playing game. But the game is over for Ray: his colleagues from work, Maude, Tim, and Turing, have just found out about Ray's murder in a dark alley. He was shot, and his laptop stolen. It could be just another D.C. street crime. But if Turing's password was in that computer-and it's fallen into the wrong hands-she...
86) [Slant]
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
In the second half of the twenty-first century, nanotechnology has transformed every aspect of society. Humans can now change their abilities, their appearance, their very bodies on microscopic level. Advanced psychotherapy seems to have wiped away violence and illness. The world is sane and in balance. However, that balance teeters with the grisly murder of two prostitutes and a series of suicides. Soon, public defender Mary Cho's investigation finds...
87) Medusa uploaded
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"The Executives control Oichi's senses, her voice, her life. Until the day they kill her. An executive clan gives the order to shoot Oichi out of an airlock on suspicion of being an insurgent. A sentient AI, a Medusa unit, rescues Oichi and begins to teach her the truth--the Executives are not who they think they are. Oichi, officially dead and now bonded to the Medusa unit, sees a chance to make a better life for everyone on board. As she sets things...
88) Genesis
Author
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
2000 [i.e. 1999]
Language
English
Description
Astronaut Christian Brannock achieved immortality when he allowed his consciousness to be uploaded onto a computer. Billions of years later, when AI's called nodes control the galaxy and the survival of Earth is threatened by the expansion of the sun, Brannock is summoned to investigate the condition of humanity's home planet. He will soon meet another mind-that of a woman named Laurinda Ashcroft, who chose to merge with an Earth-based computer. Together,...
89) Shelter
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The three basic human needs are food, water...and shelter. But, in the late 21st century, compassion is a crime. You can get your memories wiped just for trying to help.
Papa Preston Walford's world doesn't allow for coincidences. Accidents. Secrets in the backs of closets. Or, the needs of his own daughter.
Meredith Preston has reason to seek shelter. She needs protection from the monsters in her mind, in her history, in her family. And, the great...
Author
Publisher
Erewhon
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Getting back together for one last mission - saving a missing and much-changed comrade and solving the mystery of their last disastrous mission - a diverse team of broken, diminished former criminals must battle their own traumas to survive a universe of sapient ageships who want them dead."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
When Zack, a workaholic computer expert, suddenly disappears, his friend, Turing, a sentient artificial intelligence personality created by Zack, begins to suspect foul play and turns sleuth to find out what happened to her creator.
92) The deep sky
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew. To save humanity, they left everything behind--except their differences. It is the eve of Earth's environmental collapse. A single ship carries humanity's last hope: eighty elite graduates of a competitive program, who will give birth to a generation...
93) Bright light
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Trevor Gray has been stripped of his starship command, but the super-AI Konstantin has a plan for him: to visit the remote star Deneb, make contact with an alien civilization, and maybe--if he can make it in time--save humanity --
94) Galatea 2.2
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Richard Powers, returns to the United States as Humanist-in-Residence at the enormous Center for the Study of Advanced Sciences. There he runs afoul of Philip Lentz, an outspoken cognitive neurologist intent upon modeling the human brain by means of computer-based neural networks. Lentz involves Powers in an outlandish and irresistible project: to train a neural net on a canonical list of Great Books. Through repeated tutorials, the device grows gradually...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anasi Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Twins Ashleigh and Aiden have always promised to protect each other, but after an accident on a school trip, Aiden starts behaving strangely. Are they just growing apart, or is something more sinister going on? In a future Australia ravaged by climate change, twins Ashleigh and Aiden Delatour have always promised to protect and be there for each other, no matter what. Their privileged upbringing and loving, wealthy parents leave them with little...
96) Providence
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Gilly, Talia, Anders, and Jackson are astronauts captaining a new and supposedly indestructible ship in humanity's war against an alien race. Confined to the ship for years, each of them holding their own secrets, they are about to learn there are threats beyond the reach of human ingenuity--and that the true nature of reality might be the universe's greatest mystery. In this near future, our world is at war with another, and humanity is haunted...
Author
Series
Medusa cycle ; 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Oichi Angelis, along with her fellow insurgents, head for the planet called Graveyard. Ancient, sentient, alien starships wait for them--three A.I.'s so powerful they remain aware even in self-imposed sleep. The race that made them are dead, but Oichi's people were engineered with this ancient DNA. A delegation must journey to the heart of Graveyard and be judged by the Three. Before they're done, they will discover that weapons are the least of what...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Riding the crest of popularity following Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Terminator Hunt continues the action where Aaron Allston's first Terminator 3 novel, Terminator Dreams left off, with an exciting original story of John Connor, Kate Brewster, and the human Resistance battling Skynet and its deadly robots.
2029 A.D.: Paul Keeley is a member of the Resistance who died over a year ago-or so everyone thinks, until he awakens in a hospital room...
99) Synapse
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"From the critically-acclaimed author whom Publishers Weekly has called a "master storyteller" comes a taut new thriller where things are not always as they appear to be ... Thirty years from now, when Kestrel Hathaway, a pastor in Cincinnati, witnesses a terror attack, she's drawn into a world of conspiracies and lies that she and Jordan, her cognizant robot, have to untangle before it's too late. With the help of counterterrorism agent Nick Vernon,...
100) Operation Sherlock
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
Five whiz kids, whose parents are working on an artificial intelligence project with computers, discover there is an evil spy out to destroy their parent's project.
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