18 books like Slant

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Great sky river Gregory Benford · 1984 · ★ 3.6 · 326p · ≈ 10h · Moderate From back cover Warner paperback August 2004: Nearly 100,000 years after first contact with the machines that dominate the universe, only a few hundred humans survive. Trapped on Snowglade, a barren world near the center of the galaxy, Killeen and his child Toby of the Bishop Tribe are primitive scavengers, homeless and hunted by the ruling "mechs." Then suddenly, a strange cosmic entity --… Shares Artificial Intelligence, Science Fiction
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Singularity sky Charles Stross · 2003 · ★ 3.8 · 337p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Twenty-first century, Artificial Intelligence with this book.
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The Turing option Harry Harrison · 1992 · ★ 3.7 · 409p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Classic SF Harry Harrison enthralls with the discovery, loss and re-discovery of AI. Quaint but fairly accurate predictions of modern computing power. 24 style presentation. Shares Artificial Intelligence, Science Fiction
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Not Till We Are Lost Dennis E. Taylor · 2024 · ★ 4.5 · 374p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The Bobiverse is a different place in the aftermath of the Starfleet War, and the days of the Bobs gathering in one big happy moot are far behind. There’s anti-Bob sentiment on multiple planets, the Skippies playing with an AI time bomb, and multiple Bobs just wanting to get away from it all. But it all pales compared to what Icarus and Daedalus discover on their 26,000-year journey to the… Shares Artificial Intelligence, Science Fiction
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Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems Leonard Barolli · 2017 · 877p · ≈ 29h · Moderate Shares Artificial Intelligence with this book.
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Star Hunter Andre Norton · 1961 · ★ 4.0 · 102p · ≈ 3h · Moderate On the unexplored jungle world of Jumala, former pilot turned safari guide Ras Hume schemes to collect the reward for finding a missing heir to a fortune. A busboy from local dive bar is brainwashed into believing he is the missing heir, but he soon begins to doubt his own memories. This standalone story was originally published in 1961 as part of a double title paperback by Ace Books along… Shares Science Fiction
Comtex
Comtex Comtex · 1986 Shares Artificial Intelligence with this book.
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Columbus of Space Garrett Putman Serviss · 1911 · 246p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The year was 1909 and Garrett Putnam Serviss was already a respected science writer for the Hearst newspaper group. Serviss’ reputation was such that his articles appeared in almost every major American magazine. Beginning in January of that year Frank Munsey’s All-Story magazine began the serialization of Serviss’ epic science fiction adventure A Columbus of Space. Just three months earlier the… Shares Science Fiction
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New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Kazuhiro Kojima · 2007 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Shares Artificial Intelligence with this book.
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Black Canaan Robert E. Howard · 1978 · ★ 3.6 · 31p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Shares Science Fiction with this book.
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Tarnsman of Gor John Norman · 1966 · ★ 3.5 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Moderate The first novel in the long-running sword-and-planet series set on a Counter-Earth, where warriors rise above the chaos of bondage and brutality. Tarl Cabot has always believed himself to be a citizen of Earth. He has no inkling that his destiny is far greater than the small planet he has inhabited for the first twenty-odd years of his life. One frosty winter night in the New England woods,… Shares Science Fiction
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Make Mike Senese · 2017 · 88p · ≈ 2h · Light Shares Artificial Intelligence with this book.
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The moon metal Garrett Putman Serviss · 1900 · 58p · ≈ 1h · Moderate Shares Science Fiction with this book.
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Armageddon 2419 AD Philip Francis Nowlan · 1962 · ★ 3.4 · 78p · ≈ 2h · Moderate Shares Science Fiction with this book.
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The People of the Crater Andre Norton · 2009 · ★ 3.2 · 54p · ≈ 1h · Light "Send the Black Throne to dust; conquer the Black Ones, and bring the Daughter from the Caves of Darkness." These were the tasks Garin must perform to fulfill the prophecy of the Ancient Ones . . . and establish his own destiny in this hidden land!Andre Norton's first work, originally published in 1947 under the pseudonym "Andrew North." Shares Science Fiction
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The Door into Summer Robert A. Heinlein · 1957 · ★ 4.0 · 174p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Electronics engineer Dan Davis has finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot with extraordinary abilities, destined to dramatically change the landscape of everyday routine. Then, with wild success just within reach, Dan's greedy partner and greedier fiancée trick him into taking the long sleep--suspended animation for thirty years. They never imagine that the future time in… Shares Twenty-first century, Science Fiction
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Demon Seed Dean Koontz · 1973 · ★ 3.5 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate A woman is imprisoned and tortured by her state-of-the-art computer security system--and its perverse desire... Shares Artificial Intelligence
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Surface Detail Iain Banks · 2010 · ★ 4.5 · 640p · ≈ 21h · Moderate 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 witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power is without limit. Prepared to risk everything for her freedom, her release, when it… Shares Artificial Intelligence, Science Fiction

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