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Perennial classic volume P 3095
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towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society⁰́₄and of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity. Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by genetic engineering and behavioral conditioning, are productive and content in roles they have been assigned at conception. Government-sanctioned drugs...
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Publisher
Harper Voyager an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"At the turn of the twenty-second century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight. Through a revolutionary method known as somaforming, astronauts can survive in hostile environments off Earth using synthetic biological supplementations. They can produce antifreeze in subzero temperatures, absorb radiation and convert it for food, and conveniently adjust to the pull of different gravitational forces. With the fragility of the body no...
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Series
Dark intercept volume 1
Publisher
Tor Teen, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"In a radiant world of endless summer, the Intercept keeps the peace. Violet Crowley, the sixteen-year-old daughter of New Earth's Founding Father, has spent her life in comfort and safety. Her days are easy thanks to the Intercept, a crime-prevention device that monitors emotion. But when her long-time crush, Danny Mayhew, gets into a dangerous altercation on Old Earth, Violet launches a secret investigation to find out what he's hiding. An investigation...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
First edition.
Description
An astonishing debut from the beloved NPR science correspondent: intimate essays about the intersection of science and everyday life. In her career as a science reporter, Nell Greenfieldboyce has reported from inside a space shuttle, the bottom of a coal mine, and the control room of a particle collider; she's presented news on the color of dinosaur eggs, ice worms that live on mountaintop glaciers, and signs of life on Venus. In this, her debut book,...
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"For Sera Wheeler, the Olympics is the reason for everything. It's why she trains thirty hours a week, starves herself to under 100 pounds, and pops Advil like Tic Tacs. For her mother, Charlene, hungry for glory she never had, it's why she rises before dawn to drive Sera to practice in a different state, and why the family scrimps, saves, and fractures. They're why when Sera's best friends reports the gymnastics doctor to the authority who selects...
7) The Circle
Pub. Date
2017
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When Mae is hired to work for the world's largest and most powerful tech and social media company, she sees it as an opportunity. As she rises through the ranks, she is encouraged by the company's founder, Eamon Bailey, to engage in a groundbreaking experiment that pushes the boundaries of privacy, ethics and ultimately her personal freedom. Her participation in the experiment, and every decision she makes begin to affect the lives and future of her...
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Series
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Darby Creek
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
When high-school senior Kai Tamura sneaks into Ms. Opal's classroom to steal the upcoming trigonometry exam, he sees her changing answers on her students' standardized tests, and he takes photos to prove it--then when no one believes him and he is suspended, Kai sets out to prove the truth, even though it means ruining a popular teacher whom he likes.
9) The signal
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Nic, his girlfriend Haley, and his buddy, Jonah, take a detour from an idyllic cross-country road trip when they are contacted by a mysterious hacker who has gained entry into MIT's most secretive networks. But after a rendezvous in an eerily isolated spot goes awry, Nic wakes to a living nightmare in an isolation unit. Interrogated by Dr. Wallace Damon, Nic soon realizes that the only way to decipher the past is to escape the present.
Publisher
HBO
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin -- exploring a world in which every human appetite, not matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged. Exploring what it means to be human through the eyes of the lifelike AI "hosts" in the park, the series investigates the boundaries of an exotic world set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past. Meticulously crafted and artfully designed. Westworld...
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Description
"You’ll be safe here. That’s what the tour guide tells the Farmer-Bowens when they visit Plymouth Valley, a walled-off company town with clean air, pantries that never go empty, and blue-ribbon schools. On a very trial basis, the company offers to hire Linda Farmer’s husband, Russell, a numbers genius, and relocate her whole family to this bucolic paradise for the .0001 percent. Though Linda will have to sacrifice her medical career back home,...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertaiment
Pub. Date
[2022].
Description
Last season, Dolores sacrified herself to free humankind from the grip of an artifical intelligence. Season Four picks up over seven years after the protracted war. Humanity is finally free...or so it seems. Maeve and Caleb suspect that Hale and a host version of the Man in Black are seeding a conspiracy to regain control.
14) Deep freeze
Author
Series
Revival (Michael C. Grumley) volume 1
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Description
The accident came quickly. With no warning. In the dead of night, a precipitous plunge into a freezing river trapped everyone inside the bus. It was then that Army veteran John Reiff’s life came to an end. Extinguished in the sudden rush of frigid water. There was no expectation of survival. None. Let alone waking up beneath blinding hospital lights. Struggling to move, or see, or even breathe. But the doctors assure him that everything is normal....
15) Westworld
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Description
A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.--imdb.com.
16) Futureworld
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
[2010, 1976]
Edition
Widescreen.
Description
"Futureworld" begins where "Westworld" left off, a magnificent computerised complex where each guests' wildest fantasies are fulfilled, and robots do all the work. Two reporters feel something is not as it appears to be, and set out to investigate.
Publisher
Alliance Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
This 90's revival series pays homage to the original 60's series and pushes the sci-fi envelope and takes you to places and worlds you never thought existed. The series deals with the consequences of such controversial and thought-provoking topics as genetic manipulation, alien visitation and life after death.
19) The Circle
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
When Mae is hired to work for the world's largest and most powerful tech and social media company, she sees it as an opportunity. As she rises through the ranks, she is encouraged by the company's founder, Eamon Bailey, to engage in a groundbreaking experiment that pushes the boundaries of privacy, ethics and ultimately her personal freedom. Her participation in the experiment, and every decision she makes begin to affect the lives and future of her...
20) Company Town
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"New Arcadia is a city-sized oil rig off the coast of the Canadian Maritimes, now owned by one very wealthy, powerful, byzantine family: Lynch Ltd. Hwa is of the few people in her community (which constitutes the whole rig) to forgo bio-engineered enhancements. As such, she's the last truly organic person left on the rig--making her doubly an outsider, as well as a neglected daughter and bodyguard extraordinaire. Still, her expertise in the arts of...
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