#hardcover #nonfiction #robot #technolgy #sci-fi #artificialintelligence #AI #robotics #automation 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Georgia

Tales from Our Human-Robot Futures

Award-winning journalist David Ewing Duncan considers 24 visions of possible human-robot futures—Incredible scenarios from Teddy Bots to Warrior Bots, and Politician Bots to Sex Bots—Grounded in real technologies and possibilities and inspired by our imagination. What robot and AI systems are being built and imagined right now? What do they say about us, their creators? Will they usher in a fantastic new future, or destroy us? What do some of our greatest thinkers, from physicist Brian Greene and futurist Kevin Kelly to inventor Dean Kamen, geneticist George Church, and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain, anticipate about our human-robot future? For even as robots and A.I. intrigue us and make us anxious about the future, our fascination with robots has always been about more than the potential of the technology–it’s also about what robots tell us about being human.

Talking to Robots

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Anthology of 18 short stories from various authors. 

Strange invaders. Alien planets. Genetic engineering. Artificial Intelligence. Time Travel. Space Adventure. These are just some of the themes science fiction is best known and loved for—and what you’ll get when you open the cover of Year’s Best SF 9. Every one of its 18 stories is pure science fiction, displaying some of the finest work being written today. They’re not like anything you’ve ever known…and they’re here to stay. Octavia Butler preps six job-seekers for employment with Earth’s alien invaders—a story about finding the strength to survive and transcend a horribly oppressive situation. I think we are the endangered species now. Geoff Ryman offers the diary of a gay protagonist at four stages of his life, in futures where homosexuality can be screened out of embryos, cured out of adults…and where he is the first pregnant man in history. Lieutenant, all I know is…they’re collecting butterflies. John Varley drops Earth a line—actually, many lines—of enigmatic, dimension-hopping entities who reveal the real purpose of life on Earth. It seems a small measure in return for the life of your world. Gregory Benford charges a Fourth Millennium librarian with a daunting task: to probe an alien AI for information that will save the solar system from an onslaught of interstellar plasma. But its price is wholly unexpected…. From transforming technologies and science gone wrong to strange cultures and alien creatures, the world of tomorrow has never been so exciting.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maryland

Year’s Best SF9

#fiction #paperback #scifi #Futuristic #Novel #ArtificialIntelligence #VirtualReality #ParallelUniverse #Civilization #Regime box 29
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Texas

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1984 meets The Matrix in this riveting science fiction novel about corporate totalitarianism, personal freedom, and one brave character's journey to reclaim her humanity from an oppressive regime. 250 years in the future, artificial intelligences control every aspect of Kim's life - from what she has for breakfast to who she is allowed to have sex with. Living in the northeast province of what used to be the United States, she is a rising star at The Artificial Intelligence Company, training and managing sentient beings called "AIs" in the enigmatic parallel universe of Virtual Reality. When a seemingly harmless lark sends Kim's life spinning out of control and the AIs begin to go mad, Kim launches into a journey of self-discovery and chaos that threatens to tear down society's corrupt powers, and possibly civilization itself. ﻿ For fans of classic dystopian literature like Brave New World and groundbreaking TV shows like Black Mirror, Stanfill explores the lurking dangers of a surveillance state where privacy is dead, corporations have unlimited power, and even using the word "I" is forbidden.

Terms of Service

Ex-libraty book. Front dust jacket has been sliced but everything else pristine. First edition!

Oregon

Confronting his brother Elemak while on board the starship Basilica, Nafai, the chosen ship's Master, begins a generations-long struggle that will culminate in a return to planet Earth. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.

Earthfall

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The Ships of Earth

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#nonfiction #china #artificialintelligence #chinese 

Pennsylvania

An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future

A riveting investigation into how a restive region of China became the site of a nightmare Orwellian social experiment--the definitive police state--and the global technology giants that made it possible

 

Blocked from facts and truth, under constant surveillance, surrounded by a hostile alien police force: Xinjiang's Uyghur population has become cursed, oppressed, outcast. Most citizens cannot discern between enemy and friend. Social trust has been destroyed systematically. Friends betray each other, bosses snitch on employees, teachers expose their students, and children turn on their parents. Everyone is dependent on a government that nonetheless treats them with suspicion and contempt. Welcome to the Perfect Police State.

 

Using the haunting story of one young woman's attempt to escape the vicious technological dystopia, his own reporting from Xinjiang, and extensive firsthand testimony from exiles, Geoffrey Cain reveals the extraordinary intrusiveness and power of the tech surveillance giants and the chilling implications for all our futures.
 
 

The Perfect Police State

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M. G. Wheaton

Meet Emily, "the best AI character since HAL 9000" (Blake Crouch). She can solve advanced mathematical problems, unlock the mind's deepest secrets, but unfortunately, even she can't restart the sun.

Emily is an artificial consciousness, designed in a lab to help humans process trauma, which is particularly helpful when the sun begins to die 5 billion years before scientists agreed it was supposed to.

Her beloved human race is screwed, and so is Emily. That is, until she finds a potential answer buried deep in the human genome that may save them all. But not everyone is convinced Emily has the best solution--or the best intentions. Before her theory can be tested, the lab is brutally attacked, and Emily's servers are taken hostage.

Narrowly escaping, Emily is forced to go on the run with two human companions--college student Jason and small-town Sheriff, Mayra. As the sun's death draws near, Emily and her friends must race against time to save humanity. Soon it becomes clear not just the species is at stake, but also that which makes us most human.

Emily Eternal

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#hardcover #scifi #sciencefiction #cyberpunk #artificialintelligence #rocknroll #nearfuture #fascism 
Discarded Library Book, good condition, see photos for condition details

North Carolina

In the tradition of Robert A. Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" but with a healthy dose of cyberpunk: "Radio Freefall" is about a plot to take over the Earth by power-mad, sociopathic computer-geek billionaire, Walter Cheeseman. It's up to a strange cast of rock stars and oddballs to stop him. Aqualung, a mysterious blues musician who also has superhuman tech skills, might be the catalyst for the resistance--or he might just be the pawn of artificial intelligences. To thwart the takeover, the orbitals and the moon colonies secede from Earth. And then something like the Singularity happens, but no one is quite sure. This is a novel of cyberpunk and rock and roll, of technology, artificial intelligence, and wild riffs off of Heinlein all mixed into an explosive debut. Matthew Jarpe launches his SF career with a bang

Radio Freefall

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#paperback #fiction #scifi #activationdegradation #lgbt #space #robots #queer #artificialintelligence #aliens

South Carolina

A Novel

The Murderbot Diaries makes first contact in this new, futuristic, standalone novel exploring sentience and artificial intelligence through the lenses of conflicted robot hero Unit Four, from Marina Lostetter, critically acclaimed author of Noumenon, Noumenon Infinity, and Noumenon Ultra. When Unit Four--a biological soft robot built and stored high above the Jovian atmosphere--is activated for the first time, it's in crisis mode. Aliens are attacking the Helium-3 mine it was created to oversee, and now its sole purpose is to defend Earth's largest energy resource from the invaders in ship-to-ship combat. But something's wrong. Unit Four doesn't feel quite right. There are files in its databanks it can't account for, unusual chemical combinations roaring through its pipes, and the primers it possesses on the aliens are suspiciously sparse. The robot is under orders to seek and destroy. That's all it knows. According to its handler, that's all it needs to know. Determined to fulfill its directives, Unit Four launches its ship and goes on the attack, but it has no idea it's about to get caught in a downward spiral of misinformation, reprograming, and interstellar conflict. Most robots are simple tools. Unit Four is well on its way to becoming something more....

Activation Degradation(ARC)

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Harry Harrison

Marvin Minsky

Wisconsin

Turing Option

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Meet Emily, "the best AI character since HAL 9000" (Blake Crouch). She can solve advanced mathematical problems, unlock the mind's deepest secrets, but unfortunately, even she can't restart the sun.

Emily is an artificial consciousness designed in a lab to help humans process trauma, which is particularly helpful when the sun begins to die five billion years before scientists agreed it was supposed to.

Her beloved human race is screwed, and so is Emily. That is, until she finds a potential answer buried deep in the human genome that may save them all. But not everyone is convinced Emily has the best solution - or the best intentions. Before her theory can be tested, the lab is brutally attacked, and Emily's servers are taken hostage.

Narrowly escaping, Emily is forced to go on the run with two human companions - college student Jason and small-town Sheriff Mayra. As the sun's death draws near, Emily and her friends must race against time to save humanity. Soon, it becomes clear not just the species is at stake, but also that which makes us most human.

This has a couple of light scratches on the back of the dust jacket. No scratches on the book though and no other major damage. 

Nevada

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

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#hardcover #sciencefiction #scifi #melissascott #tonyroberts #tonyrobertscover #artificialintelligence 
Awesome copy, front board has slight bend (see picture), but otherwise really nice, clean copy.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune named Dreaming Metal an Editor Pick for 1997, saying Dreaming Metal makes one of the oldest and purest sf themes -- artificial intelligence, the Frankenstein thing -- once again new and stirring.Scott now returns to the world of her earlier novel, Dreamships (Tor, 1992). In Dreaming Metal, Persephone is a planet racked by class struggle and economic and political upheaval. Celinde Fortune is an entertainer, an illusionist who makes good money but plays the Empire theater, a venue that also books socially controversial bands who attract bomb threats. When she combines two advanced computer chips in a new way in order to sophisticate her act, the resulting form of computer life seems awfully like a true artificial intelligence. This is beyond controversial -- it could get her killed.

Dreamships

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The book's spine is slightly worn but is otherwise in great condition. [Note: I might be willing to bundle this book with Greg Isle's other book "Cemetary Road" for $7.25 upon request] #Fiction #Suspense #Thriller #ArtificialIntelligence #Sci-Fi #Dystopia #Supercomputers #QuantamComputing #Spirituality #Science

Kansas

This "alarming, believable, and utterly consuming" (bestselling author Dan Brown) thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of the Natchez Burning trilogy and the Penn Cage series explores the terrifying possibility that the next phase of human evolution may not be human at all...

Trinity. The government's top-secret supercomputer is an intelligence beyond comprehension--and a nightmare beyond humanity's worst fears. At the heart of a maelstrom of limitless science and ruthless ambition, Dr. David Tennant, Project Trinity's ethicist, harbors a lethal secret: he knows who murdered a fellow scientist. Fleeing for his life alongside psychiatrist Rachel Weiss, the only hope for survival lies in revealing the shocking connection between Trinity's apocalyptic power and David's tortured mind. Mankind's future hangs in the balance--and the price of failure is extinction.

The Footprints of God

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Stephen Hawking

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Missouri

"Published in the United Kingdom by John Murray (Publishers)"--Copyright page.

Brief Answers to the Big Questions

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#paperback #future #cyborg #artificialintelligence

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Cassandra Kresnov Novel

Crossover is the first novel in a series which follows the adventures of Cassandra Kresnov, an artificial person, or android, created by the League, one side of an interstellar war against the more powerful, conservative Federation.

Crossover

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#paperback #future #sci-fi #cyborg #artificialintelligence 

Cassandra Kresnov is a highly advanced hunter-killer android. She has escaped the League and fled to Callay, a member of the Federation. At its heart is the enigma of Cassandra: Is she more human than human, or is she totally untrustworthy?

Breakaway

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California

How AI Impacts How We Work, Live and Think (and It's Not What You Expect)

The book focuses primarily on the impact of AI on in the knowledge economy - particularly Sales, Marketing, and Customer Service. It will encourage you to embrace the arrival of AI (particularly the Augmented variety) as a positive force for the enablement of knowledge workers, and will help you to decide what tasks currently being undertaken by your knowledge workers, can be offloaded to the machine. The book will guide you to look at your most value-add activities - those that require the application of expertise, such as strategic sales, marketing strategy, and customer engagement - and consider how these activities would be better with augmented intelligence. Solving this problem will deliver rapid competitive advantage.

Tomorrow Today

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#hardcover #nonfiction #stephenhawking #artificialintelligence #blackholes #future #newyorktimesbestseller #timetravel 

Daniel Suarez

The propulsive, shockingly plausible sequel to New York Times bestseller Daemon, the "Greatest. Techno-thriller. Period."* *William O'Brien, former director of cybersecurity and communications systems policy at the White House 2009 saw one of the most inventive techno-thriller debuts in decades as Daniel Suarez introduced his terrifying and tantalizing vision of a new world order. Daemon captured the attention of the tech community, became a national bestseller, garnered attention from futurists, literary critics, and the halls of government-leaving readers clamoring for the conclusion to Suarez's epic story. In the opening chapters of Freedom(tm), the Daemon is well on its way toward firm control of the modern world, using an expanded network of real-world, dispossessed darknet operatives to tear apart civilization and rebuild it anew. Civil war breaks out in the American Midwest, with the mainstream media stoking public fear in the face of this 'Corn Rebellion'. Former detective Pete Sebeck, now the Daemon's most famous and most reluctant operative, must lead a small band of enlightened humans in a populist movement designed to protect the new world order. But the private armies of global business are preparing to crush the Daemon once and for all. In a world of conflicted loyalties, rapidly diminishing government control, and a new choice between free will and the continuing comforts of ignorance, the stakes could not be higher: hanging in the balance is nothing less than democracy's last hope to survive the technology revolution.

Freedom

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Arizona

Philosophy, Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence

Mind Design

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Heather Graham

Jon Land

Slight creases on spines but otherwise in Like New condition. These are Book 1 AND Book 2 in "The Rising" SERIES! 

(Note: I also got a feeling there will be a Book 3 someday as well, given as how Book 2 ended). 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

From acclaimed thriller-suspense novelists Heather Graham and Jon Land comes a story of action, mystery, and the endurance of young love in The Rising.

Alex Chin is a football star and Homecoming King: the classic all-American teen, raised in a loving fashion with all the opportunities his parents could give him. His tutor, Samantha Dixon, is preparing to graduate high school at the top of her class. She plans to turn her NASA internship into a career. Their world is turned upside down when a football accident lands Alex in the hospital . . . and his CT scan yields abnormal results.

His doctor is murdered. Then, his parents. Death seems to follow him wherever he goes, and now it's after him. Alex flees. He tells Samantha not to follow, but she became involved the moment she walked through his door and found Mr. and Mrs. Chin as they lay dying in their home. She cannot abandon the young man she loves. The two race desperately to stay ahead of Alex's attackers long enough to figure out why they are hunting him in the first place. The answer lies with a secret buried deep in his past, a secret his parents died to protect. Alex always knew he was adopted, but he never knew the real reason his birth parents abandoned him. He never knew where he truly came from--until now.

BUNDLE: The Rising AND Blood Moon

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#hardcover #thriller #firstedition #AI #artificialintelligence #

A Thriller

For centuries, the Furies have lived among us. Long ago they were called witches and massacred by the thousands. But they're human just like us, except for a rare genetic mutation that they've hidden from the rest of the world for hundreds of years.

Now, a chance encounter with a beautiful woman named Ariel has led John Rogers into the middle of a secret war among the Furies. Ariel needs John's help in the battle between a rebellious faction of the clan and their elders. The grand prize in this war is a chance to remake the human race.

Mark Alpert'sThe Furies weaves cutting-edge science into an ingenious thriller, showing how a simple genetic twist could have inspired tales of witchcraft and sorcery, and how the paranormal could indeed be possible.

The Furies

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Adam Oyebanji

Florida

Now in paperback--on a generation ship bound for a distant star, one engineer-in-training must discover the secrets at the heart of the voyage in this new sci-fi novel. It's been over a century since three generation ships escaped an Earth dominated by artificial intelligence in pursuit of a life on a distant planet orbiting Tau Ceti. Now, it’s nearly Braking Day, when the ships will begin their long-awaited descent to their new home. Born on the lower decks of the Archimedes, Ravi Macleod is an engineer-in-training, set to be the first of his family to become an officer in the stratified hierarchy aboard the ship. While on a routine inspection, Ravi sees the impossible: a young woman floating, helmetless, out in space. And he’s the only one who can see her. As his visions of the girl grow more frequent, Ravi is faced with a choice: secure his family’s place among the elite members of Archimedes’ crew or risk it all by pursuing the mystery of the floating girl. With the help of his cousin, Boz, and her illegally constructed AI, Ravi must investigate the source of these strange visions and uncovers the truth of the Archimedes’ departure from Earth before Braking Day arrives and changes everything about life as they know it.

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David Ewing Duncan

Talking to Robots

Edited by David G. Hartwell; Kathryn Cramer

Year’s Best SF9

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Terms of Service

Orson Scott Card

Earthfall

Orson Scott Card

The Ships of Earth

Geoffrey Cain

The Perfect Police State

M. G. Wheaton

Emily Eternal

Matthew Jarpe

Radio Freefall

Marina J. Lostetter

Activation Degradation(ARC)

Harry Harrison; Marvin Minsky

Turing Option

M. G. Wheaton

Emily Eternal

Hank Green

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

Melissa Scott

Dreamships

Greg Iles

The Footprints of God

Stephen Hawking

Brief Answers to the Big Questions

Joel Shepherd

Crossover

Joel Shepherd

Breakaway

Donal Daly

Tomorrow Today

Stephen Hawking

Brief Answers to the Big Questions

Daniel Suarez

Freedom

John Haugeland

Mind Design

Heather Graham & Jon Land

BUNDLE: The Rising AND Blood Moon

Mark Alpert

The Furies

Adam Oyebanji

Braking Day