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Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 07
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells's New York Times bestselling Murderbot Diaries series. Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there's an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza...
2) Lifel1k3
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Description
"On an island junkyard beneath a sky that glows with radiation, a deadly secret lies buried in the scrap. Seventeen-year-old Eve isn't looking for trouble-she's too busy looking over her shoulder. The robot gladiator she spent months building has been reduced to a smoking wreck, she's on the local gangster's wanted list, and the only thing keeping her grandpa alive is the money she just lost to the bookies. Worst of all, she's discovered she can somehow...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel, Network Effect. You know that feeling when you're at work, and you've had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot....
Series
DVD collection volume 1
Publisher
Bandai
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
日本語
Description
Japoness, like the rest of planet Terra II, is a land without women. In an attempt to fill this void, society has devised female androids called marionettes. But they are simply soulless machines designed to help with routine tasks. Until, that is, an ordinary young man named Otaru discovers three sleeping marionettes possessed with a special circuit that gives them the ability to have emotions.
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The year is 2307 A.D. The earth is frozen over and virtually uninhabitable. The remaining humans live underground, unable to survive the sub-arctic temperatures. With no 'man power', scientists bio-engineered humanoids that possess great strength, speed, and tolerance to extreme cold. A rouge humanoid named ASH-393 escapes from captivity and threatens to lead a humanoid rebellion against mankind.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Circuitry Man: Set in the toxic near-future, Circuitry man takes place in a world of poisoned air, subterranean cities and mutant leeches. It follows a tough female bodyguard and a pleasure-programmed android as they attempt to smuggle mind-bending computer chips. The chips are the drug of choice for programmable humans, and war is waged in the minds of the combatants. Plughead-rewired: Circuitry Man II: The future is controlled by Plughead. His pleasure...
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time a robot and a witch fell in love. What followed was a tale of the dead and the dying, of the hopeful and the lost, of the wronged and the avenged. And in the end, after both had fallen, the witch and the robot rose from their dirt and eyed each other across a field of blood and bone. Forty-five years in the making, this is the story of Scarlet Witch and the Vision. Before family, there was love. And war.
14) Exit strategy
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, The Murderbot Diaries, comes to a thrilling conclusion in Exit Strategy. Murderbot wasn't programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right? Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation,...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Albert Espinosa vuelve con una bella historia sobre los recuerdos, el perd̤n y el amor que transcurre el 23 de abril, el d̕a del libro y las rosas, entre la ciudad de Barcelona y las islas de Ischia y Menorca."--Provided by publisher.
17) Vice
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Julian Michaels has designed the ultimate resort, where anything goes and the customers can play out their wildest fantasies with artificial inhabitants who look, think, and feel like humans. When an artificial becomes self-aware and escapes, she finds herself caught in the crossfire between Julian's mercenaries and a cop who is hellbent on shutting down the resort, stopping the violence once and for all.
18) Genesis
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Deep in a subterranean silo, the last remnants of humanity are divided by a caste system that keeps politicians and scientists away from the rabble and crowd. While civilians starve, freeze, and are forced to work in a hazardous, chemically lethal environment above ground, all resources are dedicated to the construction of ABEL: a humanoid life form designed to forage, search, recover, and make contact with any other survivors.
19) Heart of iron
Author
Series
Heart of Iron volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Ana is a scoundrel by nurture and an outlaw by nature. Found as a child drifting through space with a sentient android called D09, Ana was saved by a fearsome space captain and the grizzled crew she now calls family. But D09 -- one of the last remaining illegal Metals -- has been glitching, and Ana will stop at nothing to find a way to fix him. Ana's desperate effort to save D09 leads her on a quest to steal the coordinates to...
20) Alex + Ada: 2
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The last thing in the world Alex wanted was an X5, the latest in realistic androids. But after Ada is dropped into his life, he discovers she is more than just a robot.