cyborgs

Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg with a mysterious past, is blamed by her stepmother for her stepsister's illness while a deadly plague decimates the population of New Beijing, but when Cinder's life gets intertwined with Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle.

"Mena and the girls of Innovations Academy fight back against the men that hunt them and the woman who created them, but the discovery of a kill switch raises the stakes higher than they ever imagined"--OCLC.

"Scott and his game of techno-hackers might have destroyed the deadly online game Virtual Kombat, but they're far from safe. No longer hostedin virtual reality, there's only one place for the brutal battle to go--VK will be played in the the real world, and Scott's tech skills won't help him now. This is no longer just a game"--Publisher's description.

Scarlet Benoit and Wolf, a street fighter who may have information about her missing grandmother, join forces with Cinder as they try to stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana in this story inspired by Little Red Riding Hood.

"Eighteen-year-old Sil Sarrah is determined to die a legend. In the ten years she's been rescuing imperilled field agents for the Syntex Corporation--by commandeering their minds from afar and leading them to safety--Sil hasn't lost a single life. And she's not about to start now. She's got twelve months left on the clock before the supercomputer grafted to her brain kills her, and she's hell-bent on using that time to cement her legacy. Sil's going to be the only Mindwalker to ever pitch a perfect game--even despite the debilitating glitches she's experiencing. But when a critical mission goes south, Sil is forced to flee the very company she once called home. Desperate to prove she's no traitor, Sil infiltrates the Analog Army, an activist faction working to bring Syntex down. Her plan is to win back her employer's trust by destroying the group from within. Instead, she and the Army's reckless leader, Ryder, uncover a horrifying truth that threatens to undo all the good Sil's ever done. With her tech rapidly degrading and her new ally keeping dangerous secrets of his own, Sil must find a way to stop Syntex in order to save her friends, her reputation--and maybe even herself"--Provided by publisher.

"The cabal of anarchists, known internationally as Zeno, have stolen the plans to a Nikola Tesla's Death Ray and intend to build it and use it first on the heroes of Jekyll. Meanwhile, Tesla and his contemporaries Charles Proteus Steinmetz and Henry Ford work against the clock to come up with an improbable chance to render the weapon useless"--OCLC.

"When they become lost at sea and their best friend, Grayson Bix, goes missing, the kids from box #242 are rescued and taken to a vibrant and thriving underworld that is out of Bixonic's eye-- and one step closer to finding Grayson"--Provided by publisher.

"With a quick glance, everything seems normal. But look closer. Can you tell the difference between people and AI, cyborgs, or robots? Every day, science steps closer to creating artificial life. But how close are we--really--to replacing half our bodies with robotic parts? Can we count on robots to work for us as helpers, assistants, and servers, or are we flirting with danger just imagining the possibilities? Would there be downsides to making machines more mindful? And are there any ethical conundrums that are created as a result?"--Provided by publisher.

"Ana, a half-android, half-human employee of a futuristic fantasy theme park, the Kingdom, faces a charge of murder in a tale told through flashbacks and court transcripts"--Provided by publisher.

Contains nine short stories set in the world of the Lunar Chronicles.