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In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horriblywrong. A cloud of nanoparticles -- micro-robots -- has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolvingswiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour. Every attempt to destroy it has... (more)

Neal Stephenson Metaverse: Book 2

The Diamond Age

or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

by Neal Stephenson

In Snow Crash , Neal Stephenson took science fiction to dazzling new levels. Now, in The Diamond Age , he delivers another stunning tale. Set in twenty-first century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life-and the entire future of humanity-is about to be decoded and reprogrammed....

The First Patient

by Michael Palmer

From the blockbuster, New York Times bestselling author comes a high-concept, high-octane thriller at the crossroads of presidential politics and cutting-edge medicine. . . . Gabe Singleton and Andrew Stoddard were roommates at the Naval Academy in Annapolis years ago. Today, Gabe is a country doctor and his friend Andrew has gone from war hero to governor to President of the United States. One day, while the... (more)

The Singularity is Near

When Humans Transcend Biology

by Ray Kurzweil

For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines , he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: the union of human and machine, in which the knowledge and... (more)

Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology

Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology

by K. Eric Drexler

This brilliant work heralds the new age of nanotechnology, which will give us thorough and inexpensive control of the structure of matter. Drexler examines the enormous implications of these developments for medicine, the economy, and the environment, and makes astounding yet well-founded projections for the future.

Bohr Maker, The

by Linda Nagata

It is the most powerful technology known to humanity, microscopically small, allowing its user to control and change other's moods and emotions, and even to reprogram his or her own genetic structure. Its potential as the ultimate weapon or an instrument of peace has led to its ban by the Commonwealth. Someone has stolen this outlaw technology, the Bohr Maker, from the secret files of the Commonwealth Police, at... (more)

There Will Be Dragons

by John Ringo

In the future there is no want, no war, no disease nor ill-timed death. The world is a paradise-and then, in a moment, it ends. The council that controls the Net falls out and goes to war. Everywhere people who have never known a moment of want or pain are left wondering how to survive. But scattered across the face of the earth are communities which have returned to the natural life of soil and small farm. In the... (more)

Limit of Vision

by Linda Nagata

A beautiful young scientist lies dead in a top-secret laboratory, a victim of an illegal experiment with the forbidden nanotechnology known as "LoVs"- intelligent organisms that live at the limits of human vision. In Vietnam's Mekong Delta, a daring journalist probes mysterious cult rumored to have awesome powers. As factions across the globe race to control this strange creation, in orbit high above Earth, an... (more)

Dusk Before the Dawn

by Larry Ketchersid

An American educated Mayan sits atop a Temple in Tikal National Park, waiting. A father helplessly watches his family fall into some kind of sleep, or trance. Then he too succumbs, begging a stranger to save them. A PhD scientist awakens, remembering only hours ago she was in her nanotechnology lab, trying to work a solution to make incredibly small robots replicate. But she finds that she is now ill, or a... (more)

Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation

Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation

by K. Eric Drexler

"Devices enormously smaller than before will remodel engineering, chemistry, medicine, and computer technology. How can we understand machines that are so small? Nanosystems covers it all: power and strength, friction and wear, thermal noise and quantum uncertainty. This is the book for starting the next century of engineering." — Marvin Minsky MIT Science magazine calls Eric Drexler "Mr. Nanotechnology." For... (more)

UNBOUNDING THE FUTURE - THE NANOTECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION.

UNBOUNDING THE FUTURE - THE NANOTECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION.

by K. Eric Drexler

A book which provides a guide to nanotechnology, the science which will enable the creation of machines so small as to be measured in billions of a metre.

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by Jacek Dukaj

Peaceful Endings: The NOPOSAM Project

by Michael K Tucker

A chilling tale of Nanotechnology Peaceful Endings: The NOPOSAM Project, is a time labeled techno thriller set on the landscape of Rhode Island over two and a half days, where some doubtful government ethics go astray. When Coventry General Hospital overflows with sick patients that are dying from extremely minor injuries, trauma specialist, Dr. Marilynn Harwell, is bound and determined to stop it. Harwell's... (more)

Blood Music

by Greg Bear

Radical Evolution : The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

Radical Evolution : The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human

by Joel Garreau

Taking us behind the scenes with today’s foremost researchers and pioneers, bestselling author Joel Garreau shows that we are at a turning point in history. At this moment we are engineering the next stage of human evolution. Through advances in genetic, robotic, information, and nanotechnologies, we are altering our minds, our memories, our metabolisms, our personalities, our progeny–and perhaps our very... (more)

Imitation of Life: How Biology Is Inspiring Computing

Imitation of Life: How Biology Is Inspiring Computing

by Nancy Forbes

As computers and the tasks they perform become increasingly complex, researchers are looking to nature—as model and as metaphor—for inspiration. The organization and behavior of biological organisms present scientists with an invitation to reinvent computing for the complex tasks of the future. In Imitation of Life , Nancy Forbes surveys the emerging field of biologically inspired computing, looking at some of... (more)

Present at the Future: From Evolution to Nanotechnology, Candid and Controversial Conversations on Science and Nature

Present at the Future: From Evolution to Nanotechnology, Candid and Controversial Conversations on Science and Nature

by Ira Flatow

Veteran NPR ® science correspondent and award-winning radio and TV journalist Ira Flatow's enthusiasm for all things science has made him a beloved on-air journalist. For more than thirty-five years, Flatow has interviewed the top scientists and researchers on many NPR and PBS programs, including his popular Science Friday ® spot on Talk of the Nation . In Present at the Future , he shares the... (more)

The Future Happens Twice: The Perennial Project (Future Happens Twice)

The Future Happens Twice: The Perennial Project (Future Happens Twice)

by Matt Browne

Debrya Handsen, a 33-year-old professor in computational linguistics at the University of Minnesota, is ready for a career change. She decides to leave her academic post and move to Nevada, where she joins a top secret project that is being sponsored by the American government. Using powerful telescopes on the far side of the Moon, the project's astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet that is... (more)

Geodesica: Ascent

by Sean Williams

Geodesica: Descent concludes the compelling, space-faring adventure begun by Geodesica: Ascent . Three unlikely allies begin plotting their revenge against an artificial intelligence behind the destruction of the system of Bedlam--and fight to control the ancient labyrinth of Geodesica.

Corporate Mentality

by Steven Piziks

Lance Michaels' body is filled with nanobots, which he sends out in invisible swarms to reprogram rogue "hives" out of existence. But when he is sent to difuse a hive that has taken over an entire planet, he finds that a psychotic child with control over nanobots like his own is directing the hive and preparing to control the entire galaxy.

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by Michael Crichton

or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

by Neal Stephenson

by Michael Palmer

When Humans Transcend Biology

by Ray Kurzweil

by K. Eric Drexler

by Linda Nagata

by John Ringo

by Linda Nagata

by Larry Ketchersid

by K. Eric Drexler

by K. Eric Drexler

by Jacek Dukaj

by Michael K Tucker

by Greg Bear

by Joel Garreau

by Nancy Forbes

by Ira Flatow

by Matt Browne

by Sean Williams

by Steven Piziks