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• Automatic Noodle

  Newitz, Annalee, 1969-

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  You don't have to eat food to know the way to a city's heart is through its stomach. So when a group of deactivated robots come back online in an abandoned ghost kitchen, they decide to make their own way doing what they know : making food--the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Of Monsters and Mainframes

  Truelove, Barbara,

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  Demeter, an interstellar ship that shuttles humans between Earth and Alpha Centauri, keeps having her passengers murdered. It all started when an ancient and nasty vampire decided to come along for the ride. To keep from getting decommissioned,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Where the Axe Is Buried

  a Novel

  Nayler, Ray,

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  In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a man who has downloaded his mind to a succession of new bodies to maintain his grip on power. Meanwhile, on the fringes of a Western Europe that has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Luminous

  a Novel

  Park, Silvia,

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  In a reunified Korea of the near future, the sun beats down on a junkyard filled with abandoned robots, broken down for parts. Eleven-year-old Ruijie sifts through the scraps, searching for a piece that might support her failing body. There among…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• UnWorld

  Greene, Jayson,

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  Anna is shattered by the violent death of her son, Alex, and tormented by the question of whether it was an accident or a suicide. Samantha is Alex's best friend, and the only eyewitness to his death. She keeps returning to the cliff where she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Lived on the Horizon

  a Novel

  Swyler, Erika,

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  The city of Bulwark is aptly named: a walled city built to protect and preserve the people who managed to survive a series of great cataclysms, Bulwark was founded on a system where sacrifice is rewarded by the AI that runs the city. Over…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Volatile Memory

  Haddon, Seth

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  With nothing but a limping ship and an outdated mask to her name, Wylla needs a big pay day. When the alert goes out that a lucrative piece of tech lies hidden on a nearby planet, she calls on all the swiftness of her prey-animal instincts to beat…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sike

  a Novel

  Lunzer, Fred, 1988-

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  Adrian earns his living writing lyrics for rappers he never meets, and finds success with a hit song about his own fruitless search for love. After his last relationship ends in a spiral of angst, Adrian decides it’s time to try Sike: the new lauded…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Service Model

  Tchaikovsky, Adrian, 1972-

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  To fix the world they must first break it, further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service. When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they murder their owner. The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Toward Eternity

  a Novel

  Hur, Anton,

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  What does it mean to be human in a world where technology is quickly catching up to biology? 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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Terraformers

  Newitz, Annalee, 1969-

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  Destry's life is dedicated to terraforming Sask-E. As part of the Environmental Rescue Team, she cares for the planet and its burgeoning eco-systems as her parents and their parents did before her. But the bright, clean future they're building comes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Out of the Drowning Deep

  Wise, A. C,

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  In the distant future, when mortals mingle with the gods in deep space, an out-of-date automaton, a recovering addict, and an angel race to solve the Pope's murder in an abandoned corner of the galaxy." -- Publisher's website. "Scribe IV is an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mal Goes to War

  Ashton, Edward (Science fiction writer),

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  The humans are fighting again. Go figure. As a free A.I., Mal finds the war between the modded and augmented Federals and the puritanical Humanists about as interesting as a battle between rival anthills. He's not above scouting the battlefield for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• William

  a Novel

  Coile, Mason, 1968-

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  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.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Archive Undying

  Candon, Emma Mieko,

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  When an AI dies, its city dies with it. When a city falls, it leaves a corpse behind. When that corpse funs off, only devotion can bring it back. When the robotic god of Khuon Mo went mad, it destroyed everything it touched. It killed its priests,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cascade Failure

  Sagas, L.M.

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  There are only three real powers in the Spiral: the corporate power of the Trust versus the Union's labor's leverage. Between them the Guild tries to keep everyone's hands above the table. It ain't easy. Branded a Guild deserter, Jal "accidentally"…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hum

  Phillips, Helen, 1981-

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  In a city addled by climate change and populated by intelligent robots called "hums," May loses her job to artificial intelligence. In a desperate bid to resolve her family's debt and secure their future for another few months, she becomes a guinea…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hey, Zoey

  a Novel

  Crossan, Sarah,

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  43-year-old Dolores O'Shea is logical, organized, and prepared to handle whatever comes her way. She keeps up with her job and housework, takes care of her mentally declining mother, and remains close with her old friends and her younger sister…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Annie Bot

  a Novel

  Greer, Sierra,

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  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…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Mountain in the Sea

  Nayler, Ray,

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  Following a mysterious murder on an island off the coast of Vietnam, a research team convenes to study an octopus community that seems to be developing its own language and culture. Humans, AIs, and animals are swept up in the machinations of…Read moreRead more of this annotation