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1) THX 1138
Summary
"Like all other drones in the sprawling subterranean technocracy, he has a designation: THX 1138. He's the product of a number-crunching, soul-numbing society. But there's a flaw: He's human and wants out."--Container.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Summary
A sci-fi thriller that explores the realms of family, evolution, and, ultimately, the survival of the human race. Molly Woods is an astronaut trying to readjust to life on Earth. But slipping back into her role as wife and mother gets complicated when her doctor discovers that, after a year-long solo mission, Molly is inexplicably pregnant. Adding to her stress, Molly struggles to reconnect with her 'son, ' a humanoid robot created by her engineer...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Summary
Buried in the black murk of space, a stowed-away crew suddenly awakens from stasis aboard the castaway space ship known as the "Raza". With no memory of their pasts or why they are onboard in the first place, this rag-tag crew has no choice but to roam the frontiers of the galaxy searching for answers. On their voyage they encounter rebel space armies, a zombiefied ship crew, derelict androids, and intergalactic bounty hunters, all attempting to pull...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Summary
Escape is not freedom. Welcome back to Westworld, the Emmy-winning drama series that follows the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. In Season Three, the real gods are coming and they are very angry. Born into a world of pain, Westworld's android hosts were never allowed to go or see one place: the world. But now, at the end of the game, they're here.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Summary
Devastated by the loss of her husband and humanich robot son, Ethan, astronaut Molly Woods is involuntarily committed to a "rest facility". Believing her confinement is part of a conspiracy to keep her quiet about the presence of aliens, Molly escapes, but she's stricken by an unknown illness...one she believes may be related to the mysterious space encounter that left her pregnant.
8) Vice
Pub. Date
2015
Summary
Julian Michaels has designed the ultimate resort, where anything goes and the customers can play out their wildest fantasies with artificial inhabitants who look, think, and feel like humans. When an artificial becomes self-aware and escapes, she finds herself caught in the crossfire between Julian's mercenaries and a cop who is hellbent on shutting down the resort, stopping the violence once and for all.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Summary
Set in the near-future, this series follows employees and patrons of Westworld, a vast theme park modeled after America's Wild West. Over the course of three seasons, Westworld's android "hosts" begin to display aberrant behavior that explodes in violence, and takes the battleground between humans and hosts into the real world.
10) After Yang
Pub. Date
[2022]
Summary
When his young daughter’s beloved A.I companion malfunctions, Jake uncovers details of the robot’s previously unknown life hidden in the android's interior core. A secret stash of video memories suddenly leads Jake to surprising discoveries about himself and his family in this mysterious and haunting sci-fi film. Scored by Ryuichi Sakamoto in one of his final films & based on the short story "Saying Goodbye to Yang" by Alexander Weinstein.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Summary
Welcome back to Westworld, where the puppet show is over and the newly liberated 'hosts' are coming for humankind. In Season Two, Dolores takes charge, Maeve is on a mission and the Man in Black is back. Chaos takes control in this dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness, the birth of a new form of life, and the evolution of sin.
Pub. Date
?2010
Summary
Fifty-eight years before the events of Battlestar Galactica, mankind is wrestling with the question of what makes one human, and sealing its own fate of certain destruction. Alliances are made, secrets are revealed, and lives are forever changed while the conflict between man and machine takes shape. As the season races towards its stunning conclusion, the seeds are sown for the inevitable, brutal clash between the newly born Cylon race and its human...
Pub. Date
2010
Summary
The Battlestar Galactica phenomenon continues with this undeniably compelling look at where the real conflict between humans and the Cylons began, in a vibrant world remarkably like our own: Caprica. Fifty-eight years before Battlestar takes off, two powerful families, the Graystones and the Adamas, find their destinies irrevocably intertwined after a devastating explosion.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Summary
"What does it mean to be human?" In Los Angeles, November 2019, it means depressed, alcoholic, hard-boiled cop Rick Deckard is hunting Replicants. Again. A group of Replicant escapees from off world is leaving bodies in their wake. Lethally cool ex-soldier Roy Batty leads the group of dim, brutal Leon, sexy Zhora, and gymnastic Pris, which is why they are so dangerous. On Earth illegally, Roy and Pris are in love, and desperate to find a way to circumvent...
