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Autonomous Driving Network

Network Architecture in the Era of Autonomy

by Wenshuan Dang, River Huang, Yijun Yu, Yong Zhang ...

Aiming to outline the vision of realizing automated and intelligent communication networks in the era of intelligence, this book describes the development history, application scenarios, theories, architectures, and key technologies of Huawei's Autonomous Driving Network (ADN) solution.In the book, the authors explain the design of the top-level architecture, hierarchical architecture (ANE, ... Read more

$73.99 USD

Aiming to outline the vision of realizing automated and intelligent communication networks in the era of intelligence, this book describes the development history, application scenarios, theories, architectures, and key technologies of Huawei's Autonomous Driving Network (ADN) solution.In the book, the authors explain the design of the top-level architecture, hierarchical architecture (ANE,
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The Vela: A Novel

by Yoon Ha Lee, Becky Chambers, S. L. Huang, Rivers Solomon ...

Narrated by Robin Miles ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Vela
Unabridged

12 hours 45 min

Within a dying star system, a soldier for hire searches for a missing refugee ship and uncovers a universe-shattering secret.Orphan, refugee, and soldier-for-hire Asala Sikou doesn't think too much about the end of civilization. Her system's star is dying, and the only person she can afford to look out for is herself.When a ship called The Vela vanishes during what was supposed to be a flashy ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Within a dying star system, a soldier for hire searches for a missing refugee ship and uncovers a universe-shattering secret.Orphan, refugee, and soldier-for-hire Asala Sikou doesn't think too much about the end of civilization. Her system's star is dying, and the only person she can afford to look out for is herself.When a ship called The Vela vanishes during what was supposed to be a flashy
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Phoenix Extravagant

by Yoon Ha Lee ...

Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller ...

Unabridged

10 hours 7 min

Gyen Jebi isn’t a fighter or a subversive. Just an artist.One day they’re jobless and desperate; the next, Jebi finds themself recruited by the Ministry of Armor to paint themystical sigils that animate the occupying government’s automaton soldiers.But when Jebi discovers the depths of the Razanei government’s horrifying crimes—and the awful source of themagical pigments they use—they find they ... Read more

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Gyen Jebi isn’t a fighter or a subversive. Just an artist.One day they’re jobless and desperate; the next, Jebi finds themself recruited by the Ministry of Armor to paint themystical sigils that animate the occupying government’s automaton soldiers.But when Jebi discovers the depths of the Razanei government’s horrifying crimes—and the awful source of themagical pigments they use—they find they
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A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

A Monk and Robot Book

by Becky Chambers ...

Narrated by Em Grosland ...

Series Audiobook 2 - Monk & Robot
Unabridged

3 hours 53 min

“Tender and healing... I’m prescribing a preorder to anyone who has ever felt lost. Stunning, kind, necessary.” —Sarah Gailey on book 1: A Psalm for the Wild-Built"This hopeful listen, full of humor, illuminates a world listeners will yearn to return to." -AudioFile on A Prayer for the Crown-ShyA Prayer for the Crown-Shy is a story of kindness and love from one of the foremost practitioners of ... Read more

$15.99 USD

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“Tender and healing... I’m prescribing a preorder to anyone who has ever felt lost. Stunning, kind, necessary.” —Sarah Gailey on book 1: A Psalm for the Wild-Built"This hopeful listen, full of humor, illuminates a world listeners will yearn to return to." -AudioFile on A Prayer for the Crown-ShyA Prayer for the Crown-Shy is a story of kindness and love from one of the foremost practitioners of
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Emergent Properties

by Aimee Ogden ...

Narrated by Marnye Young ...

Unabridged

3 hours 10 min

Emergent Properties is the touching adventure of an intrepid AI reporter hot on the heels of brewing corporate warfare from Nebula Award-nominated author Aimee Ogden.A state-of-the-art AI with a talent for asking questions and finding answers, Scorn is nevertheless a parental disappointment. Defying the expectations of zir human mothers, CEOs of the world's most powerful corporations, Scorn has ... Read more

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Emergent Properties is the touching adventure of an intrepid AI reporter hot on the heels of brewing corporate warfare from Nebula Award-nominated author Aimee Ogden.A state-of-the-art AI with a talent for asking questions and finding answers, Scorn is nevertheless a parental disappointment. Defying the expectations of zir human mothers, CEOs of the world's most powerful corporations, Scorn has
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Remote Control

by Nnedi Okorafor ...

Narrated by Adjoa Andoh ...

Unabridged

4 hours 7 min

An alien artifact turns a young girl into Death's adopted daughter in Remote Control, a thrilling sci-fi tale of community and female empowerment from Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Nnedi OkoraforWinner of the AudioFile Earphones Award"Narrator Adjoa Andoh captivates listeners with a stunning new sci-fi novella set in a near-future Ghana. Andoh is perfectly in tune with Okorafor's compelling story, ... Read more

$17.99 USD

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An alien artifact turns a young girl into Death's adopted daughter in Remote Control, a thrilling sci-fi tale of community and female empowerment from Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Nnedi OkoraforWinner of the AudioFile Earphones Award"Narrator Adjoa Andoh captivates listeners with a stunning new sci-fi novella set in a near-future Ghana. Andoh is perfectly in tune with Okorafor's compelling story,
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The Mimicking of Known Successes

by Malka Older ...

Narrated by Lindsey Dorcus ...

Unabridged

4 hours 27 min

The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter, by Malka Older, author of the critically-acclaimed Centenal Cycle.On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, home to the colony’s erudite university―and Mossa’s former girlfriend, a ... Read more

$14.99 USD

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The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter, by Malka Older, author of the critically-acclaimed Centenal Cycle.On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, home to the colony’s erudite university―and Mossa’s former girlfriend, a
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To Be Taught, If Fortunate

by Becky Chambers ...

Narrated by Brittany Pressley ...

Unabridged

4 hours 30 min

“Extraordinary . . . A future sci-fi masterwork in a new and welcome tradition.” -- Joanne Harris, author of ChocolatA stand-alone science fiction novella from the award-winning, bestselling, critically-acclaimed author of the Wayfarer series.At the turn of the twenty-second century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight. Through a revolutionary method known as somaforming, ... Read more

$19.99 USD

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“Extraordinary . . . A future sci-fi masterwork in a new and welcome tradition.” -- Joanne Harris, author of ChocolatA stand-alone science fiction novella from the award-winning, bestselling, critically-acclaimed author of the Wayfarer series.At the turn of the twenty-second century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight. Through a revolutionary method known as somaforming,
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Defekt

by Nino Cipri ...

Narrated by Ramon De Ocampo ...

Series series Finna
Unabridged

4 hours 29 min

Find out if five Dereks are better than one in Nino Cipri's Defekt, the sequel to Finna, the surrealist world-hopping adventure.Derek is LitenVärld's most loyal employee. He lives and breathes the job, from the moment he wakes up in a converted shipping container at the edge of the parking lot to the second he clocks out of work eighteen hours later. But after taking his first ever sick day, his ... Read more

$12.99 USD

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Find out if five Dereks are better than one in Nino Cipri's Defekt, the sequel to Finna, the surrealist world-hopping adventure.Derek is LitenVärld's most loyal employee. He lives and breathes the job, from the moment he wakes up in a converted shipping container at the edge of the parking lot to the second he clocks out of work eighteen hours later. But after taking his first ever sick day, his
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The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles

by Malka Older ...

Narrated by Lindsey Dorcus ...

Unabridged

4 hours 58 min

INVESTIGATOR MOSSA AND SCHOLAR PLEITI REUNITE TO SOLVE A NEW MYSTERY IN THE FOLLOW-UP TO THE COZY SPACE-OPERA DETECTIVE MYSTERY THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES, WHICH HUGO AWARD–WINNING AUTHOR CHARLIE JANE ANDERS CALLED “AN UTTER TRIUMPH.”Mossa has returned to Valdegeld on a missing persons case, for which she’ll once again need Pleiti’s insight. Seventeen students and staff members have ... Read more

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INVESTIGATOR MOSSA AND SCHOLAR PLEITI REUNITE TO SOLVE A NEW MYSTERY IN THE FOLLOW-UP TO THE COZY SPACE-OPERA DETECTIVE MYSTERY THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES, WHICH HUGO AWARD–WINNING AUTHOR CHARLIE JANE ANDERS CALLED “AN UTTER TRIUMPH.”Mossa has returned to Valdegeld on a missing persons case, for which she’ll once again need Pleiti’s insight. Seventeen students and staff members have
... Read more

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A Psalm for the Wild-Built

A Monk and Robot Book

by Becky Chambers ...

Narrated by Em Grosland ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Monk & Robot
Unabridged

4 hours 8 min

**"Narrator Emmett Grosland conjures the essence of a troubled soul in search of peace in this gentle audio."—AudioFile MagazineIn A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk and Robot series gives us hope for the future.**It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse, ... Read more

$17.99 USD

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**"Narrator Emmett Grosland conjures the essence of a troubled soul in search of peace in this gentle audio."—AudioFile MagazineIn A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk and Robot series gives us hope for the future.**It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en masse,
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Edges

by Linda Nagata ...

Narrated by Nicole Poole ...

Series series Inverted Frontier
Unabridged

12 hours 15 min

From the Edge of Apocalypse:Deception Well is a world on the edge, home to an isolated remnant surviving at the farthest reach of human expansion. All across the frontier, other worlds have succumbed to the relentless attacks of robotic alien warships, while hundreds of light years away, the core of human civilization—those star systems closest to Earth, known as the Hallowed Vasties—have all ... Read more

$25.99 USD

From the Edge of Apocalypse:Deception Well is a world on the edge, home to an isolated remnant surviving at the farthest reach of human expansion. All across the frontier, other worlds have succumbed to the relentless attacks of robotic alien warships, while hundreds of light years away, the core of human civilization—those star systems closest to Earth, known as the Hallowed Vasties—have all
... Read more

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