The Artificial Intelligence Contagion: Can Democracy Withstand the Imminent Transformation of Work, Wealth, and the Social Order?

Artificial intelligence/robotics: Have we opened a Pandora's Box? 
As AI and robotics eliminate jobs across the spectrum, governmental revenues will plummet while the debt increases dramatically. This crisis of limited resources on all levels--underfunded or nonexistent pensions, health problems, lack of savings, and job destruction without comparable job creation--will drive many into homelessness and produce a dramatic rise in violence as we fight over shrinking resources.

Computers & Technology

David Barnhizer

Daniel Barnhizer

Computer Science

Skyboat Media and Blackstone Publishing

Artificial intelligence/robotics: Have we opened a Pandora's Box? As AI and robotics eliminate jobs across the spectrum, governmental revenues will plummet while the debt increases dramatically. This crisis of limited resources on all levels--underfunded or nonexistent pensions, health problems, lack of savings, and job destruction without comparable job creation--will drive many into homelessness and produce a dramatic rise in violence as we fight over shrinking resources.

The Terrorizers (The Matt Helm Series)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Donald Hamilton

Thrillers & Suspense

Warlocks Augum, Bridget, and Leera are finally able to relax after a grueling ordeal in Bahbell. But their fugitive mentor, the legendary Anna Atticus Stone, tasks them with a dangerous new quest--sneak into an ancient library and research an artifact that could devastate the Legion, and turn the tide in the war. Their substitute mentor Leopold Harvus, however, is an obsessive and petty man with a distaste for anything untoward, particularly Augum and Leera's affections for each other. As their studies suffer from his meddling, Harvus finally pushes Augum too far--leading to a brazen act of rebellion that plunges the trio and their quest into mortal peril, for Harvus quickly proves he is not a man to be trifled with.

Clash (The Arinthian Line Series)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Sever Bronny

Fantasy

An insidious cabal has decided to change the direction of the United Alliance of Stars (UAS) with a coup d'etat--but not through a military takeover. They have devised a subtler coup: the manipulation of the Committee, the fifteen-star system that sets policy for the UAS. This group of terrorists, calling itself WEP--for "We the People"--have issued an ultimatum: revise the UAS Constitution, or they will kill those who oppose the change. And good to their word, shortly afterward, Committee delegates are being killed. The UAS Committee enlists their de facto troubleshooter, Anna Paulus, to shut down the cabal, but they insists she leave the NIA and manage UAS Committee Security. For Anna it's a nightmare scenario, leaving her safe and comfortable world for a completely new environment dominated by macho men with years of combat experience. Adding to her concerns, she can imagine herself WEP's prime target. Anna soon realizes that things are not what they seem, and the cabal is quick to recognize her involvement as a potential problem. To make matters worse, the cabal is only months from succeeding--and only Anna and her red-headed krait stand in their way.

Coup D'Etat (The Red Angel Series)

C. R. Daems

Science Fiction

Burn the Ashes (The Dystopia Triptych)

Various, Authors

Old enough to be used Young enough to be broken Sassinak was twelve when the raiders came. That made her just the right age: old enough to be used, young enough to be broken. Or so the slavers thought. But Sassy turned out to be a little different from your typical slave girl. Maybe it was her unusual physical strength. Maybe it was her friendship with the captured Fleet crewman. Maybe it was her spirit. Whatever it was, it wouldn't let her resign herself to the life of a slave. She bided her time, watched for her moment. Finally it came, and she escaped. But that was only the beginning for Sassinak. Now she's a Fleet Captain with a pirate-chasing ship of her own, and only one regret in her life: not enough pirates.

Sassinak (The Planet Pirates Series)

Elizabeth Moon

ANNE MCCAFFREY

Blood Money: A Nolan Novel (The Nolan Series)

MAX ALLAN COLLINS

Mystery

Blood Money: A Nolan Novel (The Nolan Series) (Nolan, 2)

The first new Nolan novel in thirty-three years from one of the masters of the genre, Max Allan Collins, award-winning author of Road to Perdition. The onetime world-class thief Nolan--now happily gone straight with his own restaurant/nightclub--whisks his longtime lover Sherry off to Vegas for a trip to a wedding chapel and a honeymoon stay. But an eye-in-the-sky security cam at a casino spots Nolan, whose past catches up with him when he's thought to be casing the joint. An old "friend" sees Nolan as the perfect patsy for a scheme to heist the weekly skim haul, and when the former thief's young frequent accomplice, Jon--a musician in the casino's house band--finds the couple mysteriously, suspiciously missing, it's up to Nolan's Best Man to keep wedding bells from tolling a funeral march.

Skim Deep: A Nolan Novel (The Nolan Series)

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