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Author
Series
Goon Squad volume 2
Language
English
Description
"The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is "one of those tech demi-gods with whom we're all on a first name basis." Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or "externalizing" memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, "Own...
Author
Series
Monk and Robot book volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk & Robot series gives us hope for the future. It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor...
8) Replicas
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The very laws of science are called into question when William Foster, a neuroscientist, seeks to bring back his dead family members. A car accident takes everyone he loves from him, but the synthetic biologist decides to put all of his scientific knowledge to the test when his grief overwhelms him. If Foster wants to be successful though, he'll have to take on not only scientific experimentation, but a government task force out to stop him.
Author
Series
Monk and Robot book volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A Psalm for the Wild-Built A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is a story of kindness and love from one of the foremost practitioners of hopeful SF. After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent on a quest to determine what humanity really needs) turn their attention to the villages and cities of the little moon they call home. They hope to find the answers they seek, while making new friends, learning...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Thomas Hunter is a failed writer selling coffee at the Java Hut in Denver. Leaving work, he suddenly finds himself pursued by assailants through deserted alleyways. Then a silent bullet clips his head ... and his world goes black. From the blackness comes an amazing reality of another world where everything is somehow more real--and dangerous--than on Earth. In one world, he's a battle-scarred general commanding an army of primitive warriors. In the...
11) Blood wedding
Author
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Normally happy and well-adjusted, Sophie Duguet doesn't understand what's happening to her: she has begun losing things, from her recently delivered mail to the car she parked the night before. She is constantly forgetting things she's said and done, too... only to be reminded of them by her acquaintances. She's even detained by the police for shoplifting--a crime she has no memory whatsoever of having committed. But this is just the beginning. As...
12) Parakeet
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A darkly funny and warm-hearted novel about a young woman whose dead grandmother (in the form of a parakeet) warns her not to marry and sends her out to find an estranged loved one"--
13) Angela's glacier
Author
Publisher
Neal Porter Books / Holiday House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A girl grows up visiting Snæfellsjökull, the glacier near her home, but when preteen life throws her off-center she must reconnect with her icy old friend"--
Series
Consciousness literature and the arts volume Volume 51
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1978]
Language
English
Description
Altered States is the ultimate horror story-- the story of one young scientist's terrifying experiment to find the origins of consciousness. Entombed in an isolation tank, fed with a powerful hallucinogenic drug, he experiences finally the supreme moment of terror that is the beginning of life.
16) Minor premise
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Attempting to surpass his father's legacy, a reclusive neuroscientist becomes entangled in his own experiment, pitting ten fragments of his consciousness against each other.
17) Manatee summer
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Peter and his best friend, Tommy, have a goal for their last summer before middle school: finish their Discovery Journal, a catalog of the wildlife around their Florida town. When they spot a manatee in a canal, Peter knows they've found something special--and when the manatee is injured by a boat, something to protect! As Peter joins the fight to save Florida manatees, he also finds himself taking care of his ailing grandfather and facing an unwelcome...
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A poetic call for mindfulness, creativity, and analog real-world connection in an increasingly disconnected world, from Singer-songwriter Valerie June. Maps for the Modern World contains poems and insights about cultivating community, awareness, and harmony with our surroundings as we move fearlessly toward our dreams."--
19) MindGamers
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When several students create a wireless neural network that can be used to transfer information from one brain to another, they find themselves to be part of an experiment threatening to use the technology for mass control of people.
20) Tides
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"An intoxicating, compact debut novel, Tides is the story of a lost woman who walks out of her life and washes up in a seaside town by the winner of the Henfield Prize, Sara Freeman. After a sudden, devastating loss, Mara flees her family and ends up adrift in a wealthy beach town with a dead cellphone and barely any money. Mired in her grief, Mara detaches from the outside world and spends her days of self-imposed exile scrounging for food and swimming...