"So why is it cool to meld detective stories, where things add up, and science fiction, where they (typically) don’t? The melding has been around for decades now, even before the first Blade Runner. Maybe ‘cause when they meld, those lousy prognostications might finally make some sense? Call it Space Noir? Which brings me to Hadrian’s Fall, Ian Roumain’s astonishingly imaginative novel, set on Mars and with one of the best opening lines since “Call Me Ishmael”. Forget whether in reality Mars wo...
SciFi’s favoUrite antisocial A.I. is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is. And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good. Martha Wells' Rogue Protocol is the third in the Murderbot Diaries series, starring a human-like android who keeps getting sucked back into adventure after adventure, though it just wants to be lef...
Dust Freaks & Demigods (Dome City Investigations, #1)
by Milo James Fowler
Fears of a weaponized blockchain become reality when a software developer races to deactivate the rogue smart contract targeting him for assassination. Life is comfortable for a prominent, if schlubby, developer at a New York City blockchain company. That is, until FBI Special Agent Diane Duménil seeks his help against a bewildering threat: The Delphians, worshippers of the god Apollo, have launched a rogue program on a blockchain. It’s offering a crypto bounty to assassinate a European archae...
The Strange Adventures of a Private Secretary in New York (Cryptofiction Classics - Weird Tales of Strange Creatures)
by Algernon Blackwood