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Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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People have long dreamed of creating machines that can carry out the same tasks as people. These dreams have led to the creation of many sci-fi books, movies, and shows that attempt to depict how people would live with robots, cyborgs, and androids. This compelling book traces the history of robotics as a science, while describing in vivid detail some of the most influential works in all of science fiction, including those by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Fritz...
2) Selling out
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Series
Quantum gravity volume 2
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A melding of science fiction and fantasy brought together in the figure of the dangerously lovely Lila Black, a 21-year-old secret agent who's had much of her body replaced with weapon-and-armor-heavy intelligent metal and who isn't sure where her mind ends and her installed AI begins. Lila's world is one where demons, elves, and elementals live alongside people. And somehow Lila and the other agents of the security agency have to provide security...
3) Going under
Author
Series
Quantum gravity volume 3
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Lila, looking to escape Faerie, is sent to the primal level where she must encounter tricksters and deal makers, but if she hopes to be free she must ask the right questions, perform a sacrifice, and find the right quarry before the winter solstice.
4) Cinder
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Series
Lunar chronicles volume 1
Language
English
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As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
5) Zero world
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"Published in rapid succession, Jason M. Hough's first three novels, The Darwin Elevator, The Exodus Towers, and The Plague Forge, earned mountains of praise and comparisons to such authors as James S. A. Corey and John Scalzi. Now Hough returns with a riveting near-future spy thriller that combines the adrenaline of a high-octane James Bond adventure with mind-blowing sci-fi speculations worthy of Christopher Nolan's Inception. Technologically enhanced...
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Series
Quantum gravity volume 4
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
For ten years now mankind has lived in Otopia - our world, but our world changed. Ever since the Quantum Bomb our dimension and realms of faerie, demonia, of the elementals and of death have been intermingled. We live alongside creatures from our myths, dreams and nightmares. Lila Black, half-robot, all attitude works for Otopia's secret service. In love with a half-elf, half-demon, and carrying the spirit of another elf inside her, her life is quite...
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Pub. Date
1970.
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English
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Helva had been born human, but only her brain had been saved and implanted into the titanium body of an intergalactic scout ship. But first she had to choose a human partner--male or female--to share her exhilarating escapades in space. Her life was to be rich and rewarding, resplendent with daring adventures and endless excitement, beyond the wildest dreams of mere mortals. Gifted with the voice of an angel and being virtually indestructible, Helva...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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When Alita awakens with no memory in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman. Ido also tries to shield Alita from her mysterious history while her street-smart new friend Hugo offers instead to help trigger her memories. But it is when the deadly and corrupt forces that run the city come after Alita that she...
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"CYBORG is a laid-back, half-teen, half-robot who's more interested in pizza, meatballs, and video games than in fighting crime. Did you know the strongest TEEN TITAN can lift a plane engine with one arm? He also has other awesome abilities and powers--arm cannons, missile launchers, a detachable head, and a popcorn making attachment!" --
11) Scarlet
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Series
Lunar chronicles volume 2
Language
English
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Scarlet Benoit and Wolf, a street fighter who may have information about her missing grandmother, join forces with Cinder as they try to stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana in this story inspired by Little Red Riding Hood.
12) Hello, gorgeous!
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Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
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English
Description
After an accident, a woman is turned into a human cyborg and must work for the eggheads who saved her life. Her first assignment is to bring in another human cyborg on the run, and when he proves to be gorgeously enhanced, she must decide whose orders to follow.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A decade has passed since John Connor helped prevent Judgment Day and save mankind from mass destruction. Now 25, Connor lives 'off the grid' with no home, credit cards, cell phones or a job. No record of his existence. No way he can be traced by Skynet - the highly developed network of machines that once tried to kill him and wage war on humanity. Out of the shadows of the future steps the T-X, Skynet's most sophisticated cyborg killing machine yet....
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"Speculative fiction novel set in post-apocalyptic Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2089, after residents have discovered how to survive with biological nanotech. Cyber Mage, the teenager moonlighting as a hacker, crosses paths with mercenary Djibrel and together they seek out the fate of the Djinn, a magical super race of genies"--
15) Deadpool 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Searching to regain his spice for life, as well as a flux capacitor, Wade Wilson must battle ninjas, the Yakuza, and a pack of sexually aggressive canines, as he journeys around the world to discover the importance of family, friendship, and flavor.
Author
Series
The Company volume 7
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Mendoza, the immortal cyborg, is grown a new body and raised to consciousness. Mendoza, and the three incarnations of her not-quite-human love, Nicholas Harpole/Edward Bell-Fairfax/Alec, are all together for the first time and now they can really begin to fight back against the Company.
18) Cress
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 3
Language
English
Description
Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they're plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and prevent her army from invading Earth. Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl trapped on a satellite since childhood who's only ever had her netscreens as company.
Author
Series
Space operas novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019].
Language
English
Description
Max is cheery xeno-archeologist from Earth, stranded and trying to find a way home.Lahra is a stern warrior of a nearly extinct race searching for her people's heir.Wheel is the couple's cybernetic pilot running from her past and toward an unknown future.On Wheel's ship, the Kettle, the trio traverses the galaxy, dodging Imperial patrols and searching ancient temples and ruins for anything they can sell. Back on the Wreck, their home and base of operations,...
20) Winter
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Princess Winter, admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, teams up with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, to defeat Queen Levana and find their happily ever afters.
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