Computer whiz kid Rusty Harrington establishes a very special relationship with ARIEL, his father's top-secret artificial intelligence project, in a story of romance, industrial espionage, friendship, and state-of-the-art computer ...
Born to a rather beserk, if brilliant, programmer, a computer program has managed to escape its home computer, infiltrate others, and reach adolescence when the Pentagon finally realizes that something is upsetting their secret computer ...
Men had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar; for millennia its protective dome shutout the creeping decay and danger of the world outside.
Casimir Radon's first year at American Megaversity turns out completely different than he had imagined, with bizarre factions, cults, and feuds on campus, in a new edition of the satirical debut novel by the author of Cryptonomicon.
Owen Deathstalker, last of his line, is a quiet man, a historian, remote from the stench of corruption and intrigue surrounding the Iron Throne at the heat of the galaxy-spanning, tyrannical Empire.And then, inexplicably, Deathstalker is ...
Two roommates-one a scientist and the other a potential killer-are the subject of this futuristic novel. Also use: Shockwave Rider (1984).
"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