Hayden and his father have been working on a formula to reverse death, but then Hayden finds his father murdered in his lab and the AI that records everything tampered with. The building goes into lockdown with the killer still inside, and Hayden, with the help of the AI, is determined to keep the formula out of their...
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When his AI god corrupted and died while Sunai was interfacing with them, it changed him, making him immortal and putting a target on his back. So far, he's escaped the notice of the governing body that forces people like him into AI mech bodies to use them for violence. But then he gets entangled with a man who could very well figure out and turn him in for his secret, and his life only gets...
Valentine needs money so he can get into the city and get hormones and surgery, so when he and his salvaging partner are offered a job to retrieve stolen androids, they take it. But between feelings for the cute AI in an android body helping them, disagreements with his partner, salt pirates, and the jerks they're working for, things could get...
Reed should be safe after everything that happened in the last book, but he keeps thinking he sees Phil Rice around town, and his paranoia and anxiety are getting worse. Meanwhile, Mazarin can't seem to fit in with humans or with the other sentient AI she meets. And both of them struggle with confusing feelings and navigating romantic...
Lately I've been trying to devote full review posts, which take more time and energy, to books I really like. So for this quick reviews post, I've got a bunch of books I did not like and rated lower than 3 stars. We can't like every book, right? For the most part, despite having quite a few issues with some of these, they're "not for me" books, not necessarily bad books. But one was quite...
It's 2065, and when beta versions of the AI in people's heads start turning hostile and people with them start dying and disappearing, Reed will have to decide what to do with his, who seems to have developed feelings for him. In the meantime, he meets his dream guy and starts embracing the Art Deco counterculture he's always...
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Nell lives in a small post-apocalyptic city in a future where computers are banned and people are born with missing body parts, which her father, the brilliant Dr. Crane, replaces with biomechanic limbs. Nell needs to think of a contribution to society that will live up to her parents', and when she finds a mannequin hand, she has the perfect idea---artificial...
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Lloyd, a 41-year-old professor, has struggled to maintain a relationship---because of his OCD and misophonia, he can't deal with the messiness and noisiness of other people---so he decides to try getting an android companion named Shaun. But Shaun starts to develop an unusual amount of sentience and emotion, and unless they can keep it hidden from the company who made him, Shaun, and their...
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An anthology featuring 15 full-color short-but-sexy comics from 15+ different creators about androids, cyborgs, robots, and artificial intelligence, including a variety of different settings, stories, and romantic/sexual...
When the US Municipal Survey is attacked, straight-laced employee Henry gets sent on a secret mission to Metropolis to figure out what's going on. Sent with him is a new technology: a projection of OWEN, an impulsive, irreverent AI. These two opposites have to quickly learn how to work together when they end up in a much more dangerous situation than they...
