artificial intelligence

Hideki finds a "persocom"--a personal computer shaped like an attractive, female android--seemingly discarded in an alley and takes it home, hoping to reactivate it. While he tries to teach "Chi" how to get along in the everyday world, he and his friends attempt to solve the mystery of her origins.

The Dark Forces make a bid to destroy DenTech City, and Megaman suddenly appears.

MegaMan tries to use his new ability to "beast out" against Gregar in the Net and in the real world.

Fifteen-year-old Elijah, in the company of a group of freedom fighters, attempts to cross the Andes Mountains, while pursued by troops of the paramilitary force known as the Propater which is trying to take control of the world in the wake of a devastating pandemic.

As the Closure virus begins to mutate, Sophie and Kenji continue to fight Propator forces and protect a Chinese political leader.

"2045-2059. Human society continues to evolve on Datum Earth, its battered and weary origin planet, as the spread of humanity progresses throughout the many Earths beyond. Lobsang, now an elderly and complex AI, suffers a breakdown, and disguised as a human attempts to live a "normal" life on one of the millions of Long Earth worlds. His old friend, Joshua, now in his fifties, searches for his father and discovers a heretofore unknown family history. And the super-intelligent post-humans known as "the Next" continue to adapt to life among "lesser" humans. But an alarming new challenge looms. An alien planet has somehow become "entangled" with one of the Long Earth worlds and, as Lobsang and Joshua learn, its voracious denizens intend to capture, conquer, and colonize the new universe--the Long Earth--they have inadvertently discovered.".

Contacted by an alien civilization that invites them to join the interstellar community, The Next struggle to get help from the industrious human race to build an artificial intelligence called The Machine.

In a future South Africa made prosperous by personal robots, renewable energy, and the booming economy due to the success of the genetic engineering industry of Port Elizabeth, a young Zulu girl is the only hope against the challenges and threats of a new hallucinogenic drugs, an AI uprising, and an ancient demigoddess out for blood--if only she can band together with a queer teen with mind reading abilities, and a pop diva and politician with parent issues.

Careers in wearable electronics introduces six exciting careers and features sidebar activities that invite readers to Imagine that! and dig deeper!.

"Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling series, The Murderbot Diaries, comes to a thrilling conclusion in Exit Strategy. Murderbot wasn't programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right? Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation, Murderbot is heading home to help Dr. Mensah--its former owner (protector? friend?)--submit evidence that could prevent GrayCris from destroying more colonists in its never-ending quest for profit. But who's going to believe a SecUnit gone rogue? And what will become of it when it's caught?"--Provided by publisher.