Sonneborn, Scott
Summary: On the day the orphanage where he has grown up closes, J.D. discovers that he is the son of Frankenstein's monster, so he sets out to find the people that all the mismatched parts that he inherited came from--and do it before Frankenstein's creepy daughter, who wants to outdo her father, can find them.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2014
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SONCrichton, Michael
Summary: Prey tells the story of a laboratory experiment gone wrong when a mechanical plague becomes deadly and scientists are working desperately to stop it.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CRICrichton, Michael
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2002
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CRIBowman, Akemi Dawn
Summary: Murdered on the way to her high school graduation party, eighteen-year-old Nami Miyamoto finds herself in an afterlife ruled by Ophelia, a virtual assistant planning to eradicate human existence.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Pulse 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BOWThomas, Iain S.
Summary: What happens when the world's most advanced AI is prompted with the spiritual and philosophical texts that have formed the basis of human belief--and then answers our most pressing questions about life? A bold and daring endeavor, What Makes Us Human? offers a contemporary and moving exploration of what makes us humans, humans.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 128 THOHowey, Hugh
Summary: Nearly sixty teens awaken halfway through their training, stranded on a harsh alien world with few supplies, no adults, and led by a treacherous artificial intelligence, but their greatest enemy is each other.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the near future, George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI. When his wife is tragically killed in a car accident, he becomes obsessed with the impossible: bringing her back to life. Her memories have been preserved thanks to the Archive, but only for so long. In a race against time, George must defy scientific and ethical boundaries to save the one he loves most.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical Entertainment 2020
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ARCJewell, Lisa.
Summary: Lives are turned upside down when three adult siblings meet for the first time after they each discover their biological father was a sperm donor.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JEWChochois, Héloïse
Summary: "A graphic novel exploring amputation, revealing details about famous amputees throughout history, the invention of the tourniquet, phantom limb syndrome, types of prostheses, and transhumanist technologies"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Pennsylvania State University Press, Graphic Mundi 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.5 CHOSwanson, Jennifer
Summary: They fix spacecraft, dance, tell jokes, and even clean your carpet! From the tiniest robo-bees to gigantic factory machines, robotics is all around you. This technology isn't just for science-fiction anymore -- it's real and more relevant than ever. With stunning visuals and energetic, impactful design, readers won't stop until they've learned everything there is to know about robotics.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J629.892 SWASummary: Chemist Martin Hanczyc makes "protocells" in his lab, blobs of chemicals that he hopes will behave like living cells. His work demonstrates how life might have first occurred on Earth ... and how it may occur elsewhere in the universe, too. In this fascinating TEDTalk, Hanczyc describes the experiments that mix nonliving ingredients to make new structures that might have the characteristics of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Alpert, Mark
Summary: Discovering that his estranged hacker daughter is being targeted by an assassin determined to stop her from exposing Chinese secrets, Jim Pierce learns that the Chinese military has developed an artificial life form that is threatening humanity.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALPWolf Parade (Musical group)
Contents: Lazarus online (3:26) -- You're dreaming (3:38) -- Valley boy (3:40) -- Incantation (4:20) -- Flies on the sun (3:37) -- Baby blue (5:58) -- Weaponized (6:36) -- Who are ya (3:46) -- Am I an alien here (3:44) -- Artificial life (3:49) -- King of piss and paper (4:48).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK WOLContents: The Andromeda strain / Sergio Pistoi -- Virtual reality and man-machine interface in Disclosure and The terminal man / Ray Kurzweil -- Shock to the system / Steven Gulie -- Neanderthals and wendols / Ian Tattersall -- Primate behavior and misbehavior in Michael Crichton's Congo / Dario Maestripieri -- We still can't clone dinosaurs / Sandy Becker -- Crichton travels in time / Joel N. Shurkin --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 SCISummary: Zachary Quinto investigates superhumans, alien life, artificial intelligence, Atlantis, time travel, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: They fix spacecraft, dance, tell jokes, and even clean your carpet! From the tiniest robo-bees to gigantic factory machines, robotics is all around you. This technology isn't just for science-fiction anymore -- it's real and more relevant than ever. With stunning visuals and energetic, impactful design, readers won't stop until they've learned everything there is to know about robotics.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J STEM SwansonWells, Martha
Summary: A murderous android discovers itself in "All Systems Red", a tense science fiction adventure by Martha Wells that interrogates the roots of consciousness through Artificial intelligence. In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tom Doherty Associates 2017