"Richard Yates is named after real-life writer Richard Yates, but it has nothing to do with him.
Valentina, an artificial intelligence program come to life, and her creator, Celeste Hackett, a shy college student and computer genius, are menaced by an unscrupulous lawyer and two computer wizards hired to destroy Valentina
In twenty-first-century Los Angeles, three dissimilar sleuths--therapist Martin Burke, ambitious cop Mary Choy, and Richard Fettle, the killer's offbeat colleague--investigate diverse reasons why poet Emanuel Goldsmith would senselessly ...
A Chelgrian emissary is sent to the Masaq' Orbital to bring Ziller, a famous but reclusive Chelgrian composer, home, on a mission that also has a top-secret purpose that will take him on a haunting odyssey into his own past and into ...
When scientist Clare Conway travels to Arizona for a conference, she finds herself on the run from a religious cult, ruthless computer spies, and the government, of all whom think she knows the secrets of the Quantum computer, a device that ...
Spackle. Dialogue. Beck studied for MCATs and drank beer. It was Italian beers that week, so he had a Raffo or a Poretti. While he worked, he watched that Grundig portable he'd rented with Grandma Beckett's latest check. He'd just picked it ...
Ten. The memo began: to: T. J. Heller, Director NCDC from: Sheldon Byers, Security Liaison re: Inventory of Federally Funded Research in Paranormal Phenomena It had been delivered to Heller's office in a sealed envelope marked ' Strictly ...
Multivac, the gigantic computer that controls the entire world and can even predict the probabilities of potential crimes before they happen, suddenly announces that someone is plotting to destroy Multivac.
Now available for the first time in America, March of the Machines is part history of robotics, part futurism.
Chip fights for freedom from a mechanized, chemically controlled world which stifles nature and human individuality
The story is about a robot who achieved consciousness at 3:34 pm and fell in love by 4:00 pm with Ellen, a brilliant and beautiful woman from the team that had programmed the robot.
The dreaded AI's have regrouped in an alternate universe and are preparing to launch their invincible fleet.
A classic science fiction novel features humanoids spreading throughout the galaxy, threatening to stifle all human endeavor, and the hidden group of rebels who try to stem the humanoid tide, if it is not already too late
Must-read play looks to a future in which all workers are automatons. They revolt when they acquire souls (i.e., when they gain the ability to hate) and the resulting catastrophe make for a powerful theatrical experience.
When Solo--the government's secret weapon--abandons his mission in Nicaragua and flies to New York City, the government sets out to destroy him. By the author of Weapon. Reprint.
Updated with a new afterword, a true-life account of computer espionage tells of a year-long single-handed hunt for a computer thief known as "Hunter," a hacker who stole sensitive security and military information from American computer ...