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Remains
(Hardcover)
Jason Anspach, Nick Cole
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R694
Discovery Miles 6 940
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In a near-future world addled by climate change and inhabited by
intelligent robots called “hums,” May loses her job to artificial
intelligence. Desperate to resolve her family’s debt and secure their
future for another few months, she becomes a guinea pig in an
experiment that alters her face so it cannot be recognized by
surveillance.
Seeking reprieve from her recent hardships and her family’s addiction
to their devices, May splurges on passes for her family to spend three
nights respite in the Botanical Garden: a rare green refuge where
forests, streams, and animals still thrive. But when her children come
under threat, May is forced to put her trust in a hum of uncertain
motives to save her family.
Written with “precision, insight, sensitivity, and compassion” (Kirkus
Reviews, starred review), Hum is a “striking new work of dystopian
fiction” (Vogue) that delves into the complexities of marriage,
motherhood, and selfhood in a world compromised by global warming and
dizzying technological advancement, a world of both dystopian and
utopian possibilities.
NOW A PRIME ORIGINAL TV SERIES Caliban's War is the second book in
the New York Times bestselling and Hugo-award winning Expanse
series. For someone who didn't intend to wreck the solar system's
fragile balance of power, Jim Holden did a pretty good job of it.
While Earth and Mars have stopped shooting each other, the core
alliance is shattered. The outer planets and the Belt are uncertain
in their new - possibly temporary - autonomy. Then, on one of
Jupiter's moons, a single super-soldier attacks, slaughtering
soldiers of Earth and Mars indiscriminately and reigniting the war.
The race is on to discover whether this is the vanguard of an alien
army, or if the danger lies closer to home. The Expanse is the
biggest science fiction series of the last decade and is now a
major TV series. Praise for the Expanse: 'The science fictional
equivalent of A Song of Ice and Fire' NPR Books 'As close as you'll
get to a Hollywood blockbuster in book form' io9.com 'Great
characters, excellent dialogue, memorable fights' wired.com 'High
adventure equalling the best space opera has to offer, cutting-edge
technology and a group of unforgettable characters . . . Perhaps
one of the best tales the genre has yet to produce' Library Journal
'This is the future the way it's supposed to be' Wall Street
Journal 'Tense and thrilling' SciFiNow The Expanse series:
Leviathan Wakes Caliban's War Abaddon's Gate Cibola Burn Nemesis
Games Babylon's Ashes Persepolis Rising Tiamat's Wrath Leviathan
Falls Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection
Isaac Asimov's Robot series - from the iconic collection I, Robot
to four classic novels - contains some of the most influential
works in the history of science fiction. Establishing and testing
the Three Laws of Robotics, they continue to shape the
understanding and design of artificial intelligence to this day.
Could a robot ever show true creativity? Is it wise to trust
self-driving cars? Will robotic body parts transform human beings
into machines? Will organic technology allow robots to become
human? The Complete Robot combines the stories in I, Robot and The
Rest of the Robots with many more found only in this collection -
including one of Asimov's masterpieces, the Hugo and Nebula
award-winning novella 'The Bicentennial Man'. Featuring Dr. Susan
Calvin, Donovan and Powell, and the detective Elijah Baley, hero of
the Robot novels, this is the ultimate collection of short stories
from a genius of the genre.
The islands of Prospera lie in a vast ocean: in splendid isolation from the rest of humanity, or whatever remains of it. . .
Citizens of the main island enjoy privileged lives, attended to by the support staff who live on a cramped neighbouring island, where whispers begin to grow into cries for revolution. Meanwhile, life for Prosperans is perfection - and when it's not, their bodies are sent to the mysterious third island: a facility named The Nursery, to be rebooted and restart life afresh.
Proctor Bennett is a Ferryman, who shepherds the soon-to-be retired into the unknown. He never questioned his work until the day he is delivered a cryptic message: "The world is not the world..."
These simple words unravel something that he has secretly suspected. They seep into strange dreams - of the stars and the sea - and the unshakeable feeling that someone is trying to tell him something important. Something greater than anyone could possibly imagine, which could change the fate of humanity itself...
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