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21) The soldier
Author
Series
Rise of the Jain volume 1
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In a far corner of space, on the very borders between humanity's Polity worlds and the kingdom of the vicious crab-like prador, is an immediate threat to all sentient life: an accretion disc, a solar system designed by the long-dead Jain race and swarming with living technology powerful enough to destroy entire civilizations. Neither the Polity nor the prador want the other in full control of the disc, so they've placed an impartial third party in...
22) Heart of iron
Author
Series
Iron kingdom duology volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Ana, an orphan found drifting through space, joins with an Ironblood boy to find the coordinates of a lost space ship which may hold clues to her identity, as they end up discovering dark secrets in a forgotten part of the universe.
Found as a child drifting through space with a sentient android called D09, Ana was saved by the grizzled crew she now calls family. But D09-- one of the last remaining illegal Metals-- has been glitching. Ana's efforts...
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Valentine Weis is a salvager in the future wastelands of Utah. Wrestling with body dysphoria, he dreams of earning enough money to afford citizenship in Salt Lake City--a utopia where the testosterone and surgery he needs to transition is free, the food is plentiful, and folk are much less likely to be shot full of arrows by salt pirates. But earning that kind of money is a pipe dream, until he meets the exceptionally handsome Osric. Once a powerful...
Author
Series
Attack on Titan volume 9
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When the Wall Rose is breached, Titans begin streaming through the opening, a situation that leads Armin and Hange to question how the walls were built and what they can do to fix the damage.
25) Dev1at3
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a climactic battle in the ruined city of Babel, two former best friends suddenly find themselves on opposite sides of the same quest. Eve is torn between the memories of the girl she was, and the synthetic she's discovered herself to be. Together with her lifelike "siblings," Eve sets out to find the real Ana Monrova, whose DNA is the key to building an army of lifelikes. Meanwhile, Eve's best friend, Lemon, is coming to terms with...
26) Soul of stars
Author
Series
Iron kingdom duology volume 2
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Once Ana was an orphaned space outlaw. Then she was the Empress of the Iron Kingdom. Now, thought dead by most of the galaxy after she escaped from the dark AI program called the HIVE, Ana is desperate for a way to save Di from the HIVE's evil clutches and take back her kingdom. Ana's only option is to find Starbright, the one person who hacked into the HIVE and lived to tell the tale. But when Ana's desperation costs the crew of the Dossier a terrible...
Author
Series
Attack on Titan volume 8
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"The expedition outside the wall was Eren's chance to prove himself. But it failed, and the female Titan is free once more! With his squad dead, Eren faces a royal summons. Will Mikasa and Armin have to betray their king to save their friend? And can they discover the female Titan's identity before she kills again?"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Skybound Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Obsoletes is a thought-provoking coming-of-age novel about two human-like teen robots navigating high school, basketball, and potentially life-threatening consequences if their true origins are discovered by the inhabitants of their intolerant 1980s Michigan hometown. Fraternal twin brothers Darryl and Kanga are just like any other teenagers trying to make it through high school. They have to deal with peer pressure, awkwardness, and family drama....
Author
Series
Safehold series volume 7
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"For centuries, the world of Safehold, last redoubt of the human race, lay under the unchallenged rule of the Church of God Awaiting. The Church permitted nothing new--no new inventions, no new understandings of the world. What no one knew was that the Church was an elaborate fraud--a high-tech system established by a rebel faction of Safehold's founders, meant to keep humanity hidden from the powerful alien race that had destroyed old Earth. Then...
Author
Series
Attack on Titan volume 10
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"With no combat gear and Wall Rose breached, the 104th scrambles to evacuate the villages in the Titans' path. On their way to the safety of Wall Sheena, they decide to spend the night in Utgart Castle. But their sanctuary becomes a slaughterhouse when they discover that, for some reason, these Titans attack at night!"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"A Korean nine-year-old named Jesse is adopted and sent to live with a lovely couple in America. Equipped with a seemingly encyclopedic brain but socially awkward, the young girl's journey through the complexities of race, gender, and identity hits a fork in the road when she discovers she's not entirely human...yet. Adolescence just got a lot more emotional for the world's first true A.I. system." ---
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
How to Pass As Human is an attempt on the part of the world's first android to understand the irrational, unpredictable, eclectic creatures known as human beings. In this field guide, complete with sketches, graps, flow charts, and other reference amterials, Android Ø (a.k.a. Zach) has compiled a variety of useful information for future androids on how to pass undetected as human beings. Along the way, he also attempts to solve the mystery of his...
Author
Publisher
Kodansha USA
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Attack on Titan: Colossal Edition 6 is an oversized collection of Vols. 26-30 of the Attack on Titan manga series. Weighing in at over 900 pages and a 7-inch by 10.5-inch trim, Colossal Edition 6, like its predecessors, contains the same material as the original volumes, but bigger and on higher-quality paper. The best reading experience and the ultimate collector's item for any Attack on Titan fan!"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Restless Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"From beloved Cuban science fiction author Yoss comes a bitingly funny space-opera homage to Raymond Chandler, about a positronic robot detective on the hunt for some extra-dangerous extraterrestrial criminals. On the intergalactic trading station William S. Burroughs, profit is king and aliens are the kingmakers. Earthlings have bowed to their superior power and weaponry, though the aliens, praying-mantis-like Grodos with pheromonal speech and gargantuan...
Author
Series
Attack on Titan volume 34
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Eren's titanic Rumbling claims thousands of lives beyond the walls of Paradis, and the boy who once lived in fear of the Titans becomes the world's most feared man. Determined to stop the destruction wrought by their childhood friend, Armin, Mikasa, and their surviving comrades reach the Attack Titan and decide to face him head on in an ultimate showdown. Will humanity αnally be set free from the cycle of fear, oppression, and destruction, or will...
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The short stories in More human than human demonstrate the depth and breadth of artificial humanity in contemporary science fiction. Issues of passing, of what it is to be human, of autonomy and slavery and oppression, and yes, the hubris of creation; these ideas have fascinated us for at least two hundred years, and this selection of stories demonstrates why it is such an alluring and recurring conceit.
Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles, 2029. They city is under siege from Yotun's enhanced replicant army Its seawall defenses lie shattered, the LAPD Tower stands ablaze, and the streets run wild with replicants rebelling against their human masters. Meanwhile, Blade Runner Ash, now reunited with her replicant lover Freysa, has become a target of suspicion for the Blade Runner Division. As time begins to run out for Ash, she finds herself in a desparate battle to stop Yutan...
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In a postapocalyptic future, a girl and an android travel the world in search of utopia"--
"Nearly 200 years after the destruction of humanity in World War III, Roue lives a happy life exploring the ruins of civilization with her "uncle," a robot named Zett. But when their peaceful life is threatened, Roue must trust the mysterious robot Chrome to bring her family together again. After Roue accidentally activates Chrome without a base program--what...
Publisher
Titan Comics, a division of Titan Publishing Group, Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Los Angeles, 2032. The prototype REPLICANT known only as ELLE – aka THE BLACK LOTUS KILLER, has escaped from the clutches of her creator NIANDER WALLACE and headed out into the desert in search of answers to her mysterious past and a possible redemption. But deep in the desert wasteland, Elle finds herself stranded in the industrial settlement of FRACKTOWN and drawn into a deadly dispute between the town’s two warring factions that could bring...
Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
2021-
Language
English
Description
It is 2029 and Blade Runner Ash continues to hunt the streets of the rain-soaked dystopian world of Los Angeles for renegade Replicants, but this time she's trying to protect as many as she can find... Aahna 'Ash' Ashina is back with the LAPD Blade Runner Unit and has returned to the rain-soaked streets of a slowly crumbling Los Angeles, hunting for renegade Replicants. But this time she's out to save as many of them as she can. Changed by her experiences,...
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