Godlike Machines

Godlike Machines

Author: Jonathan Strahan

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 9781616647599

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Original novellas by six science fiction authors, each involving the concept of a mechanism or device so large and complex that it is difficult for humans to grasp all its implications and functions.


The Lives of Machines

The Lives of Machines

Author: Tamara S. Ketabgian

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2011-03-22

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0472051407

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DIVExpanded views of the connection between humans and machines in the Victorian era/div


Rabbit & Robot

Rabbit & Robot

Author: Andrew Smith

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Published: 2019-09-24

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 1534422218

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“This provocative jaunt…dissects society, technology, othering, and what makes humanity human.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “An unpredictable, gross, and prescient rumination on modernity, media consumption, and machine-aided communication.” —Booklist (starred review) Told with Andrew Smith’s signature dark humor, Rabbit & Robot tells the story of Cager Messer, a boy who’s stranded on the Tennessee—his father’s lunar-cruise utopia—with insane robots. To help him shake his Woz addiction, Billy and Rowan transport Cager Messer up to the Tennessee, a giant lunar-cruise ship orbiting the moon. Meanwhile, Earth, in the midst of thirty simultaneous wars, burns to ash beneath them. And as the robots on board become increasingly insane and cannibalistic, and the Earth becomes a toxic wasteland, the boys have to wonder if they’ll be stranded alone in space forever. In Rabbit & Robot, Andrew Smith, Printz Honor author of Grasshopper Jungle, makes you laugh, cry, and consider what it really means to be human.


The Machines of God

The Machines of God

Author: Steven E. Beres

Publisher: Booklocker.Com Incorporated

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781591134671

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John is desperately driven to seek answers to his questions, unknowingly leaving behind a wake of death and destruction. Is it free will, or is he just a machine of God? Eight short stories, each a vision of the future.


Machines

Machines

Author: Raymond Henri

Publisher: BHC Press

Published: 2021-04-29

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1643972189

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Three years after the Battle of Rift Ridge, Mink is still struggling as he adjusts to his new life as a Machinist in the high-tech world of Freeland. Two goals push him to keep going: developing his newly discovered affinity for metal and avenging his lost love. Both will require him to break the law. Mink’s unique talents are illegal to use but his skill of manipulating metal soon catches the attention of a clandestine revolutionary group, who offer to help him achieve his objectives in exchange for sharing his abilities. When a plot to destroy his former home is discovered, Mink will have no choice but to trust an unknown ally and hope that his newly acquired skills will be enough to save them before his past catches up to him.


Gods and Robots

Gods and Robots

Author: Adrienne Mayor

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2018-11-27

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 0691183511

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Traces the story of how ancient cultures envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices and human enhancements, sharing insights into how the mythologies of the past related to and shaped ancient machine innovations.


Apocalyptic AI

Apocalyptic AI

Author: Robert M. Geraci

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-11-29

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0199964009

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Apocalyptic AI, the hope that we might one day upload our minds into machines and live forever in cyberspace, is a surprisingly wide-spread and influential idea. Robert Geraci points out that the rhetoric of 'Apocalyptic AI' is strikingly similar to that of the apocalyptic traditions of Judaism and Christianity.


Oceanic

Oceanic

Author: Greg Egan

Publisher: Greg Egan

Published: 2009-07-14

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 192224015X

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Oceanic is a collection of twelve stories, including the Hugo-award-winning “Oceanic”: “Lost Continent” “Dark Integers” “Crystal Nights” “Steve Fever” “Induction” “Singleton” “Oracle” “Border Guards” “Riding the Crocodile” “Glory” “Hot Rock” “Oceanic”


Now Will Machines Hollow the Beast

Now Will Machines Hollow the Beast

Author: Benjanun Sriduangkaew

Publisher: Prime Books

Published: 2020-12-01

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1607015412

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Vishnu’s Leviathan: a half-beast, half-machine warship famed for its speed and might. The great prize that armies across the galaxies will kill to possess. Admiral Anoushka was once a ghost. Now she's the universe's most brutal commander with a debt to a godlike AI. To repay it—and to complete her long revenge—she’s set her sights on the leviathan. Neither the warship’s flesh horrors nor its ruthless ruler will stand in her way. But all her plans couldn't prepare her for what waits in the belly of the beast: a foe that matches her in ferocity and thirst for vengeance . . . and a deep treachery that may prove her undoing. Set in the same universe as And Shall Machines Surrender.