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2013, c2012., Vintage Books Call No: DYSTOPIA Edition: 1st Vintage Books e Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Advances in medicine have created brain implants that eradicate learning disabilities, control prosthetic limbs, and minimize neurological disorders in thousands of humans like Owen Gray, whose "amp" controls his seizures, but when the Supreme Court rules that "amplified" humans are not protected by the same basic laws society begins to unravel.
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[2017], Doubleday Call No: SCI-FI F WIL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "An epic, ingenious new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse, The Clockwork Dynasty weaves a riveting path through history and a race of human-like machines that have been hiding among us for untold centuries. In the rugged landscape of eastern Oregon, a young scientist named June uncovers an exquisite artifact--a three-hundred-year-old mechanical doll whose existence seems to validate her obsession with a harrowing story she was told by her grandfather many years earlier. The mechanical doll, June believes, is proof of a living race of automatons that walk undetected among us to this day. Ingeniously hidden inside the ancient doll is a lost message, addressed to the court of Peter the Great, czar of Russia. Russia, 1725: Peter and Elena, two human-like mechanical beings, are brought to life under the watchful guise of Peter the Great. Their struggle to serve in the court of the czar while blending in, and to survive‎ amid those who fear and wish to annihilate them, will take Peter and Elena across Russia, Europe, and, ultimately, across the centuries to modern day. The Clockwork Dynasty is Daniel H. Wilson's masterful new novel. It seamlessly interweaves past and present, exploring a race of beings that live by different principles than humans, but ultimately value loyalty. As June learns more about these beings, she is quickly drawn into a fierce battle that has spanned the centuries, and will ultimately determine the survival or extermination of this ancient race. Richly-drawn and heart-pounding, Wilson's novel expertly draws on his robotics and science background, combining exquisite characters with breathtaking technology--and unmatched action. The Clockwork Dynasty is a riveting, breakout novel"--
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2018., Vintage Books Call No: Sci Fi Fic Wilson Edition: First Vintage Books edition. Genre: Science Fiction, Science fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Anthropologist June Stefanov accidentally uncovers a powerful secret: the existence of a race of human-like machines and a war that has been raging for centuries.
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2015., Knopf Call No: SCIENCE FIC WIL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: You are standing in a room filled with books, faced with a difficult decision. Suddenly, one with a distinctive cover catches your eye. It is a groundbreaking anthology of short stories from award-winning writers and game-industry titans who have embarked on a quest to explore what happens when video games and science fiction collide.
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2012., Vintage Contemporaries Call No: NL SCI-FI F WIL Edition: 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: When an artificial intelligence begins taking over electronics and software systems around the globe, it begins the inevitable countdown to humanity's war with robots the world over.
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c2011., Doubleday Call No: DYSTOPIA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Archos, a powerful artificial intelligence, takes on the persona of a shy human boy and begins to take over the world's technology and turn it against humanity, launching a robot war that no one seems to be able to contain or stop.
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2014., Vintage, a division of Random House, LLC Call No: SC ROB Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "As real robots creep into our lives, so does a sense of fear--we have all wondered what horrifying scenarious might unfold if our technology were to go awry. This anthology brings to life the half-formed questions and fears we all have about the machines we live with. With contributions by Alan Dean Foster, Charles Yu, Hugh Howey, Daniel H. Wilson, Corey Doctorow, Ian McDonald, Ernie Cline, Jeff Abbott, Robin Wasserman, and Anna North, Robot Uprisings contains meticulously described, exhilarating trips to futures in which humans can only survive by being more clever and tenacious than the rebellious machines they have unwittinglycreated"--Provided by publisher.
