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AI_Apocalypse
   Title: A.I. Apocalypse
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novel   
   Author: William Hertling   
   Publisher: Liquididea Press   
   Plot:
Leon Tsarev is a high school student set on getting into a great college program, until his uncle, a member of the Russian mob, coerces him into developing a new computer virus for the mob’s botnet - the slave army of computers they used to commit digital crimes.
Amped
   Title: Amped
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Daniel H. Wilson   
   Publisher: Doubleday   
   Plot:
As he did in Robopocalypse, Daniel Wilson masterfully envisions a frightening near-future world. In Amped, people are implanted with a device that makes them capable of superhuman feats. The powerful technology has profound consequences for society, and soon a set of laws is passed that restricts the abilities—and rights—of "amplified" humans. On the day that the Supreme Court passes the first of these laws, twenty-nine-year-old Owen Gray joins the ranks of a new persecuted underclass known as "amps." Owen is forced to go on the run, desperate to reach an outpost in Oklahoma where, it is rumored, a group of the most enhanced amps may be about to change the world—or destroy it.
Android_Mimic
   Title: Android: Mimic (#2)
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novel Series   
   Series: Identity
   Author: Mel Odom   
   Publisher: Fantasy Flight Games   
   Plot:
New Angeles Detective Drake 3GI2RC is not your average Bioroid. First, he’s one of the New Angeles Police Department’s few android cops, and second, he’s haunted by another man’s memories. But even as Drake investigates a very public crime, he must look inward for answers. After all, where does his programming end, and his own personality begin?
C791
   Title: C791 (#1)
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novel Series   
   Series: Cyborgs: More Than Machines
   Author: Eve Langlais   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
Machines aren’t supposed to feel, but this cyborg can’t help falling in love. Assigned as a specimen collector for a captured cyborg, Chloe is intrigued by the machine disguised as a man. Kidnapped during his daring escape, he shows her that despite the chip in his brain, his humanity is not completely lost.
Cinder
   Title: Cinder
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Marissa Meyer   
   Publisher: Feiwel & Friends   
   Plot:
The story is set in a futuristic new Beijing, where the various countries have re-organized to form various new empires and alliances and the moon has been colonized. The protagonist, Linh Cinder is a cyborg that operates a small mechanic’s stall at a local street market in New Beijing, and lives under the guardianship of her stepmother. Early in the book, she meets Prince Kai who requests her to fix a personal android. Cinder’s stepsister falls sick with a plague after accompanying Cinder to a junkyard to collect spare parts for a repair. In anger, Cinder’s stepmother “volunteers” Cinder for plague research. When Cinder is injected with the plague, she shows an immunity to it. Dr Erland, the plague researcher, starts to do research on Cinder’s immunity, which leads to research on Cinder’s unique physiology, her cyborg implants, and eventually to Cinder’s life prior to becoming a cyborg at the age of 11, of which Cinder has no memory.
Cyberpunk_Women
   Title: Cyberpunk Women, Feminism and Science Fiction
   Year: 2012
   Category: Other   
   Author: Carlen Lavigne   
   Publisher: Mcfarland & Co   
   Plot:
This analysis of cyberpunk science fiction written between 1981 and 2003 positions women's cyberpunk in the larger cultural discussion of feminist issues. It traces the origins of the genre, reviews critical reactions, and outlines the ways in which women's cyberpunk advances specifically feminist points of view. Novels are examined within their cultural contexts; their content is compared to broader controversies within contemporary feminism, and their themes are revealed as reflections of feminist discourse at the end of the 20th century. Chapters cover topics such as globalization, virtual reality, cyborg culture, environmentalism, religion, motherhood and queer rights. Firsthand interviews with feminist cyberpunk authors are provided, revealing both their motivations for writing and their experiences with fans. The study treats feminist cyberpunk as a unique vehicle for examining contemporary women's issues and analyzes feminist science fiction as a complex source of political ideas.
F814
   Title: F814 (#2)
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novel Series   
   Series: Cyborgs: More Than Machines
   Author: Eve Langlais   
   Publisher: Eve Langlais   
   Plot:
She thought herself a robot, defective and unique among her kind, until he taught her how to live again. F814 exists to serve the humans until they decide to terminate her. An instinct for survival makes her fight, but when she achieves freedom, she discovers she cannot throw off the chains of habit. Everything changes when another flesh covered droid arrives, a cyborg he calls himself, who teaches her she is more than a machine.
High-Opp
   Title: High-Opp
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Frank Herbert   
   Publisher: WordFire Press   
   Plot:
This is FRANK HERBERT’s never-before published dystopian novel, written between his classics The Dragon in the Sea and Dune. EMASI! Each Man A Separate Individual! That is the rallying cry of the Seps engaged in a class war against the upper tiers of a society driven entirely by opinion polls. Those who score high, the High-Opps, are given plush apartments, comfortable jobs, every possible convenience. But those who happen to be low-opped, live crowded in Warrens, facing harsh lives and brutal conditions. Daniel Movius, Ex-Senior Liaitor, rides high in the opinion polls until he loses everything, brushed aside by a very powerful man. Low-opped and abandoned, Movius finds himself fighting for survival in the city’s underworld. There, the opinion of the masses is clear: It is time for a revolution against the corrupt super-privileged. And every revolution needs a leader.
Memoria
   Title: Memoria
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Alex Bobl   
   Publisher: Sky Bridge   
   Plot:
In a futuristic bombed-out New York, the almighty Memoria Corporation helps people erase their traumatic memories. What else would you need in the world finally free from wars and crime? But the bubble bursts when a humble lawyer Frank Shelby becomes a murder suspect on the run. Betrayed by his friends and hunted down by mysterious killers, Frank has to penetrate Memoria and find evidence of their real plans before it's too late for all of us.
Nexus
   Title: Nexus (#1)
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novel Series   
   Series: Nexus
   Author: Ramez Naam   
   Publisher: Angry Robot   
   Plot:
In the near future, the experimental nano-drug Nexus can link humans together, mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who want to eradicate it. And there are others who just want to exploit it.
Omega_Point
   Title: Omega Point (#2)
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novel Series   
   Series: Richards & Klein
   Author: Guy Haley   
   Publisher: Osprey Publishing   
   Plot:
The powerful artificial intelligence designated k52 has a plan to take over the world. If it were to create an artificial reality based on our own universe it could theoretically gain enough data to be able to alter reality itself, turning k52 into the ultimate arbiter of mankind's fate. It’s down to Richards and Klein to stop k52 – even though the alternative could be worse!
Prototype
   Title: Prototype
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Cassandra Ormand   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
Angelique Hunter works for a cutting edge robotics company programming and designing some of the most lifelike robots in the world. She's spent her life working to achieve her goals, only to realize that her skills have been used to build a killing machine. Now she's running for her life, hiding in plain sight, and praying that no one discovers her secret.
Psycho-Pass_Inspector_Shinya_Kogami
   Title: Psycho-Pass! Inspector Shinya Kogami
   Year: 2012
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Midori Goto   Natsuo Sai   
   Publisher: Dark Horse   
   Plot:
The manga prequel to the acclaimed anime series! The Psycho-Pass made a better future society possible: a universal fitness app that tracks people's emotional health. But when crime becomes rare, it also becomes stranger and more dangerous than ever...and in the 22nd century the only "safe" job for a person on the borderline is as a cop--kept on a virtual leash as they hunt down the criminals they may soon become themselves! Kogami's team has learned that the hospital where patients have died due to a genetic timer set in them decades ago was a "privileged" residence for the emotionally unfit. In searching for clues, they discover just how their society perfected itself by pushing things into the shadows...and the underground network dedicated to keeping those things alive!
Psycho-Pass_Inspector_Akane_Tsunemori
   Title: Psycho-Pass: Inspector Akane Tsunemori
   Year: 2012
   Category: Comics Series   
   Author: Hikaru Miyoshi   
   Publisher: Shueisha   
   Plot: N/A
Rebirth
   Title: Rebirth
   Year: 2012
   Category: Short Story   
   Author: Colin F. Barnes   
   Publisher: Anachron Press   
   Plot:
Part cyberpunk, part thriller, part dysoptian Mad-Max mashup. The Techxorcist is a serialised novel. This is the first installment. Part 0.5: Rebirth It's 2153, just one million souls survived a planet-wide cataclysm. Flourishing in the hi-tech biodome, City Earth, humans have integrated with Artificial Intelligent Assistants and are inter-connected to a city-wide network under the control, and watch, of the mysterious benefactors known only as The Family: a group focussed on transhumanism and the search for the next branch in our evolution.
RoboCop_Road_Trip
   Title: RoboCop: Road Trip
   Year: 2012
   Category: Comics Series   
   Series: Dynamite Entertainment's RoboCop
   Author: Rob Williams   Unai De Zarate   
   Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment   
   Plot:
This graphic novel shows the dystopian, deeply satirical, and all-out violent world of Robocop.
Shadowrun_Neat
   Title: Shadowrun: Neat (Book #1.1)
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novella Series   
   Author: Russell Zimmerman   
   Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs   
   Plot:
James Kincaid is the type of guy who might be described as down on his luck, if only he’d had some luck to begin with. Like so many people in the shadows of Seattle, he’s trying to get by with what he has. In his case, that includes a lively spirit, a sadly diminished magical talent, quick wits, and good knowledge of the twists and turns of Seattle’s dingy streets and back alleys. He puts all that to the service of whatever clients he can dig up, solving whatever cases they’re willing to pay him to take on. With any luck, he’ll scrape up enough nuyen to buy a few rounds of his favorite drink—whiskey, neat.
Strictly_Analog
   Title: Strictly Analog
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Richard Levesque   
   Publisher: N/A
   Plot:
Ted Lomax does his best to get by as a private detective in a society where almost nothing is private any more. He lives in a near-future California that has gained independence from the economically collapsed United States and where everyone is constantly linked into the web. Almost everyone. Because of injuries sustained during California’s border war, Ted is locked out of the technological culture that surrounds him. But that’s his edge: his business card reads “Strictly Analog,” and he markets himself as a man able to skirt the technological landscape without leaving a trail. It works nicely for him until he gets the most important case of his life.
Sub-Human
   Title: Sub-Human (#1)
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novel Series   
   Series: Post-Human
   Author: David Simpson   
   Publisher: Post-Human Media   
   Plot:
Before he was Old-timer, he was Craig Emilson, a young doctor, sucked into military service at the outbreak of World War III. Enlisting to become a Special Forces suborbital paratrooper, Craig is selected to take part in the most important mission in American military history—a sortie into enemy territory to eliminate the world’s first strong Artificial Intelligence. The mission is only the beginning of Craig’s story, and for the story of humanity as well, as they accelerate towards a world that is post-human.
Tears_In_Rain
   Title: Tears In Rain (#1)
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novel Series   
   Series: Bruna Husky
   Author: Rosa Montero   
   Publisher: Thomas & Mercer   
   Plot:
As a replicant, or “technohuman,” Detective Bruna Husky knows two things: humans bioengineered her to perform dangerous, undesirable tasks, and she has just ten years on the United States of Earth before her body automatically self-destructs. But with “antitechno” rage on the rise and a rash of premature deaths striking her fellow replicants, she may have even less time than she thought.
Terminator_Robocop_Kill_Human
   Title: Terminator/Robocop: Kill Human
   Year: 2012
   Category: Comics Series   
   Series: Dynamite Entertainment's RoboCop
   Author: Rob Williams   P.J. Holden   
   Publisher: Dynamite   
   Plot:
The ultimate killing machine meets the future of law enforcement! In the future, humanity has been wiped out and the machines are triumphant. Traumatised by his Skynet-influenced actions, Robocop looks to travel back in time and change the course of history. But when he emerges in the middle of Jon and Sarah Connor's assault on Cyberdyne Systems, he comes face-to-face with the second time-travelling Terminator. Bullets will fly! And the T-1000 can't be far behind! Collecting the four-issue series in one volume along with bonus material, and a cover gallery with art by Walt Simonson and Tom Feister.
The_Arcane_Side_Of_Life
   Title: The Arcane Side of Life (#3)
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novel Series   
   Series: Cyberpunk Elven Trilogy
   Author: Jess C. Scott   
   Publisher: jessINK   
   Plot:
A high elf’s relationship with a human girl is put to the test as they combat a dark elf’s assembly of an undead army.
The_Bionics
   Title: The Bionics (Bionics #1)
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novella Series   
   Author: Alicia Michaels   
   Publisher: Clean Teen   
   Plot:
All I ever wanted was to be a normal girl. I had dreams of joining the ranks of the Military Police and making my family proud. But the nuclear war that laid waste to our country destroyed any hope I had of being normal ever again. They took everything away from me, including my humanity. I am now half-human, half-machine, part of the never-ending freak show that is the Restoration Project.
The_Darker_Side_Of_Life
   Title: The Darker Side of Life (#2)
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novel Series   
   Series: Cyberpunk Elven Trilogy
   Author: Jess C. Scott   
   Publisher: jessINK   
   Plot:
A hybrid elf child combats a dark elf’s scheme to exploit and turn a virtual reality system into a weapon of mass destruction.
The_Hydrogen_Sonata
   Title: The Hydrogen Sonata (#10)
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novel Series   
   Series: Culture
   Author: Iain M. Banks   
   Publisher: Orbit   
   Plot:
They are, truly, probably, End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, they helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier & were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding not to join only at the last moment. Now they've made the collective decision to follow the well-trodden path of millions of other civilizations; they are going to Sublime, elevating themselves to a new & almost infinitely more rich & complex existence. Amidst preparations though, the Regimental High Command is destroyed. Lieutenant Commander (reserve) Vyr Cossont appears to have been involved, & she is now wanted--dead, not alive. Aided only by an ancient, reconditioned android & a suspicious Culture avatar, Cossont must complete her last mission given to her by the High Command--find the oldest person in the Culture, a man over 9000 years old, who might have some idea what really happened all that time ago. Cossont must discover the truth before she's exiled from her people & her civilization forever--or just plain killed.
The_Northern_Star_Trilogy
   Title: The Northern Star Trilogy (#1-3)
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novel Series   
   Series: The Northern Star
   Author: Mike Gullickson   
   Publisher: Lightside/Darkside Entertainment LLC   
   Plot:
2058. As superpowers squabble over the remaining oil, and civilization limps on in a virtual universe, a cunning and ruthless genius uses the digital connectivity of our world to manipulate governments, subliminally sway the masses - and even kill - in his quest for immortality. The first bionic soldier­ - now mentally broken, a prodigy hacker abused as a weapon, a psychopath seeking redemption, and the CEO who created the cyber universe - and unwittingly - the means to rule both, are all that stands in his way.
Virtually_True
   Title: Virtually True
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Adam L. Penenberg   
   Publisher: Wayzgoose Press   
   Plot:
True Ailey is a journalist in a strange land, exiled by his network to a damp Southeast Asian republic gouged out a war-ravaged peninsula weeping monsoon tears. When his friend is murdered, True sets out to find the killers, and in the process untangles a vast conspiracy that threatens to upend the global balance of power. Set in the near future, Virtually True takes readers on a wild ride through a world where nothing is what it seems, corporations rule, technology has been woven into the fabric of people's lives, and information can be both weapon and life-saver.
vN
   Title: vN (#1)
   Year: 2012
   Category: Novel Series   
   Series: The Machine Dynasty
   Author: Madeline Ashby   
   Publisher: Angry Robot   
   Plot:
Amy Peterson is a von Neumann machine, a self-replicating humanoid robot. For the past five years, she has been grown slowly as part of a mixed organic/synthetic family. She knows very little about her android mother’s past, so when her grandmother arrives and attacks her mother, little Amy wastes no time: she eats her alive.
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