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281) Up against it
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Managing utilities on a future asteroid colony, bureaucrat-engineer Jane discovers that a water crisis may have been orchestrated by the Martian mafia and that the colony is also being threatened by a rogue artificial intelligence and a transhumanist cult.
282) Project Venom
Author
Series
Publisher
Stripes
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Secret Intelligence Agency has a new weapon - artificially intelligent robotic bugs that act as undercover agents. Operating below the radar, they can fly faster, see further and sting harder! They won't stop until they've completed their mission, no matter what it takes.
283) Dopamine
Publisher
Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Rand is a computer animator who has designed an artificial intelligent life form named Koy Koy. When forced by investors to test Koy Koy in a kindergarten classroom, Rand meets Sarah. Sparks fly, and Koy Koy becomes the catalyst for Sarah and Rand's spirited dialogue on the nature of romantic attraction and attachment, all the while getting to the root of whether love is the natural chemical our bodies produce when we fall in love or just plain courtship...
Author
Publisher
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Pub. Date
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Language
English
Description
This much-anticipated second collection of stories is signature Ted Chiang, full of revelatory ideas and deeply sympathetic characters. In "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate," a portal through time forces a fabric seller in ancient Baghdad to grapple with past mistakes and the temptation of second chances. In the epistolary "Exhalation," an alien scientist makes a shocking discovery with ramifications not just for his own people, but for all of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Gameknight999's true enemy has finally surfaced: Herobrine, an artificially intelligent virus that wants to escape Minecraft and destroy mankind with their own creation--the Internet. If he is able to escape the game and get online, Herobrine will infect millions of computer systems and turn machines and weapons on their masters, threatening all of humanity. After facing Herobrine in battle and nearly dying, Gameknight realizes he's going to need...
286) Braking Day
Author
Series
DAW book collectors volume no. 1914
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
On a generation ship bound for a distant star, one engineer-in-training must discover the secrets at the heart of the voyage in this new sci-fi novel. It's been over a century since three generation ships escaped an Earth dominated by artificial intelligence in pursuit of a life on a distant planet orbiting Tau Ceti. Now, it's nearly Braking Day, when the ships will begin their long-awaited descent to their new home. Born on the lower decks of the...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The book describes the Internet, and how Internet governance prevents it fragmenting into a 'Splinternet'. Four opposing ideologies about how data flows around the network have become prominent because they are (a) implemented by technical standards, and (b) backed by influential geopolitical entities. Each of these specifies an 'Internet', described in relation to its implementation by a specific geopolitical entity. The Four Internets of the title...
288) Terminator anthology
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Terminator: In 2029, the ruling giant super-computer, Skynet, sends an indestructible cyborg, a Terminator, back in time to 1984 to kill a woman, Sarah Connor, whose unborn son will become mankind's only hope.
Terminator 2: A lethal cyborg, the T-1000, has been sent back from 2029 A.D. to present day Los Angeles on a mission to kill the boy destined to lead the freedom fighters of the future. The original Terminator cyborg is reprogrammed and sent...
Publisher
Echo Bridge
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Puppet master / Neil Gallagher found the secret to Toulon's puppets who come to life and then killed himself. Alex and his psychic friends come to investigate and are stalked by Toulon's puppets who have a variety of strange traits including a drill for a head and the ability to spit up leeches.
Puppet master 2 / The puppets return, this time they hunt some Paranormal Researchers to take their brain fluid for the dead/living puppet master, Andre...
290) Prey
Author
Publisher
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Pub. Date
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Language
English
Description
In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles-micro-robots-has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour. Every attempt to destroy it has failed. And we are the prey.
291) The last second
Author
Series
Brit in the FBI novel volume 6
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
"It's Bastille Day in France, and the private French space agency Galactus--France's answer to Space X, owned by the eccentric treasure hunter Jean-Pierre Broussard--has just sent a satellite payload into orbit. Billed as a "communications" satellite, it harbors a frightening reality: a nuclear electromagnetic pulse has been hidden aboard. In days, when the satellite is in position, Galactus's head and Broussard's second in command, Dr. Neveah Patil,...
292) Body of lies
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The CIA's hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency's man on the ground. He moves from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. A satellite link is the agency's eye in the sky and keeps track of Ferris. The CIA's Ed Hoffman is at the other end of the real-time link. He strategizes events from thousands of miles away. Ferris nears the target and discovers trust can be just as dangerous...
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