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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"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 the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of 'what do people need?' is answered.
But the answer...
2) Rewind
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
As far as twelve-year-old McKinley O'Dair is concerned, the best thing about living in Gap Bend, Pennsylvania, is the Time Hop--the giant party the town throws every June to celebrate a single year in history. That one day is enough to make the few things that aren't so fantastic about McKinley's life--like her crabby homeroom teacher or her super-scheduled father--worth suffering through. And when McKinley learns that this year's theme is 1993, she...
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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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 new concepts, and experiencing the entropic nature of the universe."--
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 7
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"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 can't have the planet, they're sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans,...
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Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano...
6) Beautyland
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino, Beautyland is a wise, tender novel about a woman who doesn't feel at home on Earth. At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but she reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she is different: She possesses knowledge...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool's errand -- to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. He knows it's a long shot, but Jay feels it's the only way for him to lift the weight of guilt he has carried since his dad's death by suicide the previous year. The dive begins well enough, but the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in very real jeopardy, made infinitely worse by the arrival...
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
131 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Having removed one President from office, only to make an instant mortal enemy of the new incumbent, Spider Jerusalem continues to investigate the death of his friend, campaign director Vita Severn. With the help of his filthy assistants, Spider discovers that the truth leads right to the top.
Author
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
170 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When her ex-girlfriend Kay is murdered and everyone in her old commune is a suspect, Dora, while investigating, discovers Kay's death is one of several terrible incidents and is drawn into a twisted conspiracy while trying to stop a potential war between two nefarious companies.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
266 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Clementine Chang moves from Earth to Mars for a new start and is lucky enough to land her dream job with Dr. Marcella Lin, an Artificial Intelligence pioneer. On her first day of work, Clem meets Dr. Lin's assistant, a humanoid AI named Kye. Clem is no stranger to robots--she built herself a cute moth-shaped companion named SENA. Still, there's something about Kye that feels almost too human. When Clem and Kye begin to collaborate, their chemistry...
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
142 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's election time, and that's bad news for Spider Jerusalem, the journalist who's returned to a bleakly funny future world from self-imposed exile. On one hand, there's incumbent President and Jerusalem's old bete noire, the Beast; on the other, smiling, vacuous Gary Callahan.
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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January 1918. Laura Iven was a revered field nurse until she was wounded and discharged from the medical corps, leaving behind a brother still fighting in Flanders. Now home in Halifax, Canada, Laura receives word of Freddie's death in combat, along with his personal effects--but something doesn't make sense. Determined to uncover the truth, Laura returns to Belgium as a volunteer at a private hospital, where she soon hears whispers about haunted...
13) Womb city
Author
Publisher
Erewhon, an imprint of Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This genre-bending Africanfuturist horror novel blends The Handmaid's Tale with Get Out in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman's right to her own body. Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless marriage to a policeman who uses a microchip to monitor her every move, Nelah's perfect life is precarious. After...
14) Catfish rolling
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
415 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Years after a major earthquake in Japan creates different zones in which time passes differently, Sora and her father secretly investigate the off-limit zones in order to find the answer behind the time anomalies and the disappearance of Sora's mother.
Author
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From the Hugo, Nebula, Locus and Nommo award nominated author of Shigidi and The Brass Head Of Obalufon comes a stunning new collection of stories that investigate the rapidly changing role of technology and belief in our lives as we search for meaning, for knowledge, for justice; constantly converging on our future selves. In "An Arc of Electric Skin," a roadside mechanic seeking justice volunteers to undergo a procedure that will increase the electrical...
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
136 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Prepare to be shocked as Spider Jerusalem takes us on another tour of the city's underbelly, turning over stones and generally stirring up wasp's nests. This story sees Spider, Channon and Yelena on the trail of a vicious gang of killers who are targeting the genetically "unclean".
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
139 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem, determined to expose the misdeeds of a president that sent professional assassins after him, is diagnosed with a deadly brain infection as he and his crew of assistant investigators follow the trail of corruption.
Author
Series
Publisher
Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
In this volume, Jerusalem targets three of society's most worshipped and warped pillars: politics, religion, and television. When Spider tries to shed light on the atrocities of these institutions, he finds himself fleeing a group of hitmen/kidnappers in possession of his ex-wife's frozen head, a distorted creature alleging to be his son, and a vicious talking police dog.
19) Defiant
Author
Series
Skyward (Brandon Sanderson) volume 4
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
420 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Spensa needs all the knowledge she gathered in the Nowhere to end the Superiority's quest for galactic dominance, but first she must determine how far she is willing to go for victory.
20) Julia: a novel
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Mariner Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1984, mechanic Julia Worthing, who works in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth, in one impulsive moment, sets in motion the devastating, unforgettable events of the classic story, in this imaginative, feminist and brilliantly relevant to-today journey through Orwell's now-iconic dystopia.
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