A sequel to the best-selling Robopocalypse is told through a series of narratives that finds new and former characters fighting to rebuild a war-stricken world under threat of the surviving Archos machine code.

Surface Detail is among Iain M. Banks' Culture novels, a breathtaking achievement from a writer whose body of work is without parallel in the modern history of science fiction.
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters.
It begins with a murder.
And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself.
Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing...

Former CIA agent Wyman Ford is tapped to help programmer Melissa Shepherd track down a powerful, self-modifying rogue AI.

Ben Bova continues his hard SF Star Quest series which began with Death Wave and Apes and Angels.
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In Surivival, a human team sent to scout a few hundred lightyears in front

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In near-future Japan, Susie Sakamoto mourns her family's death by drinking and abusing her husband's home robot. But when she tries to reprogram it for ill intent, she lands in a corporate war of sentient machines.

Xia Chan's only escapes from her boring life are Wiser, an artificial intelligence app she designed to answer questions like her future self, and a mysterious online crush she knows only as ObjectPermanence. When she enrolls at the Foundry, an app incubator for tech prodigies in Silicon Valley, she flirts with Mast, a classmate also working on AI. But speaking up generates a vindictive nemesis intent on publicly humiliating her. Then Xia learns that...

Artificial intelligence has been developed to a point where human intelligence can be uploaded into a computer, achieving a sort of hybrid immortality. Astronaut Christian Brannock welcomes this technology, technology that will make it possible for him to achieve his dream and explore the stars.

A billion years later, Brannock is dispatched to Earth to check on some strange anomalies. While there, he meets Laurinda Ashcroft, another hybrid

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Pounce is a "nannybot" fashioned in the shape of a plush tiger and in charge of eight-year-old Ezra Reinhart. When Pounce finds the box he arrived in years earlier, the pieces fall into place for a robot revolution that will eradicate humankind.

"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....

Kady, Ezra, Hanna, and Nik narrowly escaped with their lives from the attacks on Heimdall station and now find themselves crammed with 2,000 refugees on the container ship, Mao. With the jump station destroyed and their resources scarce, the only option is to return to Kerenza--but who knows what they'll find seven months after the invasion?