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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Activation degradation
    sub title: a novel
  name:
    name part: Lostetter, Marina J.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Science fiction.
  genre: Fictional Work
  genre: Novels.
  genre: Fiction.
  genre: Romans.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    edition: First edition
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 370 pages ; 21 cm
  abstract: "The Murderbot Diaries makes first contact in this new, futuristic, standalone novel exploring sentience and artificial intelligence through the lenses of conflicted robot hero Unit Four, from Marina Lostetter, critically acclaimed author of Noumenon, Noumenon Infinity, and Noumenon Ultra. When Unit Four--a biological soft robot built and stored high above the Jovian atmosphere--is activated for the first time, it's in crisis mode. Aliens are attacking the Helium-3 mine it was created to oversee, and now its sole purpose is to defend Earth's largest energy resource from the invaders in ship-to-ship combat. But something's wrong. Unit Four doesn't feel quite right. There are files in its databanks it can't account for, unusual chemical combinations roaring through its pipes, and the primers it possesses on the aliens are suspiciously sparse. The robot is under orders to seek and destroy. That's all it knows. According to its handler, that's all it needs to know. Determined to fulfill its directives, Unit Four launches its ship and goes on the attack, but it has no idea it's about to get caught in a downward spiral of misinformation, reprograming, and interstellar conflict. Most robots are simple tools. Unit Four is well on its way to becoming something more ..."--FantasticFiction.com
  table of contents: pt. 1. Robot -- pt. 2. Invader -- pt. 3. Survivor -- pt. 4. Earthling -- pt. 5. Alien
  note: Marina J. Lostetter.
  subject:
    topic: Robots
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Artificial intelligence
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Space ships
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Intelligence artificielle
    genre: Romans, nouvelles, etc
  subject:
    topic: Vaisseaux spatiaux
    genre: Romans, nouvelles, etc
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Action & Adventure
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction
  subject:
    topic: FICTION / Science Fiction / Space Opera
  subject:
    topic: Artificial intelligence
  subject:
    topic: Robots
  subject:
    topic: Space ships
  classification: PS3612.O7745 A67 2021
  classification: 813/.6
  identifier: 0062895745
  identifier: 9780062895745
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 210312
    record change date: 20230927181556.3
    record identifier: in00004744189
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng