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"A visionary scientist creates a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that predicts movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund, based in Geneva, makes billions. But after an intruder breaks into his home, he has to try to discover who is trying to destroy him."--Publisher.
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Robopocalypse novels volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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730L
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Two decades into the future, humans are battling for their very survival when a powerful AI computer goes rogue, and all the machines on earth rebel against their human controllers.
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"Louis Massina is revolutionizing the field of robotics. His technological wonders are capable of locating disaster survivors, preventing nuclear meltdowns, and replacing missing limbs. After one of Massina's creations make a miraculous rescue, an FBI agent recruits him to pursue criminals running a massive financial scam--and not coincidentally, suspected of killing the agent's brother. Massina agrees to deploy a surveillance 'bot' that uses artificial...
4) Reentry
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2019.
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"After almost dying on Mars, astronaut Liz Mathieson returns to Earth, but not to a hero's welcome. America is in turmoil. The war is over, but the insurgency has just begun. Heartbroken and treated with suspicion, she finds herself caught up in the guerrilla war being waged on Earth, wondering if the AI threat is truly gone, or if it has only just begun"--
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IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
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Still trapped at the Higher Institute of Villainous Education, or H.I.V.E., evil-genius-in-training Otto Malpense is nearly assassinated and must now not only try to escape, but also find out who murdered his best friend--and save himself.
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Murderbot diaries volume 1
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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 bidder, safety isn't a primary concern. On a distant planet, a team of scientists are conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied 'droid--a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked...
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In a near-future world dominated by artificial intelligence, the country's leading scientist has programmed "ethics" into the decision-making of all machines. But when his algorithm finds that he is a threat to mankind, he must go on the run--and off the grid--to escape execution.
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A cranky, atheistic philosophy professor loves to shred the faith of incoming freshmen. He is chosen by a group of scientists to create a philosophy for a computer-generated world exactly like ours. Much to his frustration every model he introduces-from Darwinism, to Existentialism, to Relativism, to Buddhism-fails. The only way to preserve the computer world is to introduce laws from outside their system through a Law Giver. Of course this goes
...10) Bright light
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Star carrier volume 8
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Trevor Gray, at the behest of the super-AI, is sent to a remote star where he must make contact with a mysterious alien civilization using a new artificial intelligence.
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Robopocalypse novels volume 2
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Humankind thought it had triumphed over the machines... but Archos has survived. Spread across the far reaches of the world, the machine code has fragmented into millions of pieces, hiding and regrouping. As survivors, robotic and human, fight to build a new world in the wake of a devastating war, they find one another, form into groups, and react to a drastically different (and deadly) technological landscape. All the while, the remnants of Archos's...
12) The long Utopia
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Long Earth volume 4
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2045-2059. Human society continues to evolve on Datum Earth, its battered and weary origin planet, as the spread of humanity progresses throughout the many Earths beyond. Lobsang, now an elderly and complex AI, suffers a breakdown, and disguised as a human attempts to live a 'normal' life on one of the millions of Long Earth worlds. His old friend, Joshua, now in his fifties, searches for his father and discovers a heretofore unknown family history....
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Harvest of Stars series volume 4
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To keep themselves in power, machine intelligences which govern Earth, Moon and Mars claim machines have always been rulers and they point to past machine-run civilizations. But as one man finds out this is pure propaganda, those civilizations never existed. A study of the relationship between man and machine.
14) Shiva in steel
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Berserker series volume 14
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Shiva, a Berserker computer, has developed a strategy that can destroy entire worlds, and now the residents of a distant planet must struggle to save their world from Shiva's unstoppable power.
15) Womb City
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When a drug-fueled evening causes her to commit a desperate crime, daring to hope she can keep one last secret, Nelah, as the ghost of her victim hunts down the people she loves, must unravel the political conspiracy they were on the verge of exposing--or risk losing everyone.
16) Wonder
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2011.
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Caitlin Decter discovered Webmind, the vast artificial intelligence that spontaneously emerged from the World Wide Web and changed the world-from curing cancer to easing international tensions. But the Pentagon has declared war on it, recruiting hackers to delete Webmind out of existence...
17) Accelerando
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Trying to cope with the innovations that have rendered humankind nearly obsolete, three generations of one family are confronted by an unknown enemy that is systematically trying to annihilate all life forms.
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Turing Hopper mysteries volume 2
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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...
19) Crier's war
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Crier's war volume 1
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In the aftermath of a war where Automae took over the kingdom of Rabu and bent humanity to their will, Ayla takes a job as a servant in the house of the sovereign for one purpose: to get revenge for her family's death by killing his daughter. Lady Crier, the heiress, was Made to be a perfect ruler of the kingdom, but she no longer knows if that is what she wants once she discovers some of her father's cruel secrets. Between this betrayal, and a betrothed...
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Turing Hopper mysteries volume 1
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AIP Turing Hopper is in a panic. Her creator, Zack, has missed work for several days. After exhausting her resources, Truing is still far from giving up. For, unlike other AIPs, Turing is sentient--and she senses foul play. Her skills of dedution may be virtually flawless, but it'll take more than that for a digital detective to catch a flesh-and-blood criminal.....
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