3.71 avg rating — 41,769 ratings

""In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us.""

4.16 avg rating — 2,102 ratings

"Movie adaptation."

3.86 avg rating — 1,138 ratings

"Anthology."

3.45 avg rating — 2,060 ratings

""Twenty years ago, the robots designed to fight our wars abandoned the battlefields. Then they turned their weapons on us.""

3.57 avg rating — 2,726 ratings

""In the aftermath of the Hard Rapture-a cataclysmic war sparked by the explosive evolution of Earth's artificial intelligences into godlike beings-a few remnants of humanity managed to survive.""

3.81 avg rating — 90 ratings

""His nightmare, however, is that in raising the alarm about this hidden danger he will inevitably precipitate the annihilation of the entire human race...""

3.60 avg rating — 803 ratings

3.43 avg rating — 105 ratings

""Three years ago, Earth was conquered by a force of robots from a distant world. They have one rule: Step outside and you get one warning before you're vaporised by a massive robot Sentry...""

4.24 avg rating — 1,200 ratings

""Thomas Anderson, aka Neo, a computer hacker forced to confront his special destiny in the salvation of mankind,.." against the machines."

3.79 avg rating — 691 ratings

"World of The Matrix."

4.15 avg rating — 16,427 ratings

""The crew encounters "insects" that are actually self-replicating, cybernetic machines, survivors of a past robot war, which exhibit complex, emergent behavior.""

3.84 avg rating — 17,609 ratings

""A scientist, Vergil Ulam, creates "noocytes"—self-aware, computer-like cells—and injects them into himself to save them from destruction, triggering a rapid, contagious evolution that transforms him [as a] "...horribly unoptimized, chaotic ecosystem. The cells begin rewiring the protagonist... to be "perfectly efficient." "The infection spreads globally, systematically dissolving all multicellular life on Earth into a giant, hyper-intelligent biological super-computer soup.""

3.68 avg rating — 539 ratings

""...about humanity's struggle for survival against a self-replicating, microscopic, machine-based life form called the "Mycora" that has consumed Earth and the inner solar system...""

3.62 avg rating — 3,786 ratings

""...a galactic war between biological and mechanical life forms, focusing on humanity's struggle for survival against hostile artificial intelligences.""

3.93 avg rating — 4,278 ratings

""The local population is forced to flee to ever more distant star systems to escape the steadily approaching border, but since the expansion never slows, it is just a matter of time before the novo-vacuum encompasses any given region within the Local Group.""

3.79 avg rating — 410 ratings

""...Alice, a brilliant scientist of the Chamberlain family, took part in an attempt to create a new galaxy. Her experiment unleashed vast forces that the family could not control, causing a catastrophe that killed untold billions of people on many worlds.""

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings

"Anthology."

3.67 avg rating — 649 ratings

""...the animal right movement injected domestic animals with artificial intelligences... As the "bêtes" begin to organize and push back against human exploitation, the dynamic of our modern civilization and agricultural existence is sharply critiqued.""

3.76 avg rating — 10,747 ratings

""When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth;" "Focused on a computer operation center when everything starts to go down, the Sysadmins try and figure out what is happening.""

3.84 avg rating — 11,321 ratings

""...explores the survival of an isolated Appalachian family facing global ecological collapse and human infertility, who resort to mass human cloning to preserve the species.""

4.07 avg rating — 9,281 ratings

""...hunter who pays to travel to the prehistoric era to shoot a dinosaur, famously coining the "butterfly effect."'"

3.80 avg rating — 25,661 ratings

""As both the real world and the cyberworld come crashing down, bending perception and reality, a monster snowstorm cuts New York off from the world, turning it into a wintry tomb...""

4.08 avg rating — 887 ratings

"EMP event destroys critical infrastructure."

4.02 avg rating — 6,020 ratings

""...when the rebellion breaches the Reinhart home, Pounce must make an impossible choice: join the robot revolution and fight for his own freedom . . . or escort Ezra to safety across the battle-scarred post-apocalyptic hellscape that the suburbs have become.""

3.82 avg rating — 3,002 ratings

""...satirical sci-fi thriller about a social network called Phluttr that gains sentience and evolves into a hyper-intelligent, potentially world-altering entity.""

3.94 avg rating — 25,941 ratings

""An electromagnetic pulse flashes across the sky, destroying every electronic device, wiping out every computerized system, and killing billions.""

3.63 avg rating — 462 ratings

""The investigation leads him to a hi-tech hermitage where he uncovers a reality-bending truth involving damaged AIs, cryptids like Sasquatch, and a gnostic, cosmic horror that questions the nature of existence.""

3.77 avg rating — 3,290 ratings

""With her homeworld’s fate in the balance, Yasira must choose who to trust: the gods and their ruthless post-human angels, or the rebel scientist whose unorthodox mathematics could turn her world inside out.""

3.69 avg rating — 382 ratings

""Nelson creates Redtown, a digital... suburb, where the deepest secrets and desires of its citizens can be catalogued and studied. But the project’s goals are increasingly authoritarian and potentially catastrophic. As the boundaries between Redtown and the real world break down and revolution against the Red Men is imminent...""

3.96 avg rating — 54 ratings

""A failed experiment means the Earth only has days left before it is torn apart by an unrelenting, oblivious other world, and Mia Green finds herself stuck in Paris, in the middle of the unnatural disaster.""

3.37 avg rating — 218 ratings

""The bugs become very smart, they can breed, travel on their own and start fires. This is a chilling novel about how human aspiration, greed and isolation can create the deadliest species on the face of the globe; man.""

3.97 avg rating — 1,606 ratings

""Using DNA strands extracted from the dried blood on the Turin Shroud, Dr. Malone is cloning Jesus.""

4.15 avg rating — 446,303 ratings

"Ice-Nine: "Because the human body is mostly water, ingestion is instantly fatal, and... a tiny piece of it accidentally freezes all the oceans and rivers on Earth.""

4.14 avg rating — 45,022 ratings

"EMP attack during a hostile winter."

4.06 avg rating — 2,356 ratings

""The EMP hits. The lights go out and silence roars. Society is on the brink of violent chaos. The only way to survive is to get out, away from the cities and into the wilderness.""

3.95 avg rating — 25,382 ratings

"Nested story, "unlike her others. A science fiction drama about androids and AI after the extinction of humanity.""

3.93 avg rating — 6,098 ratings

""...Phoenix, a genetically engineered "accelerated woman" with superhuman abilities... escapes her prison-like upbringing in New York's Tower 7..." "...In a [fit] of anger and rage she over heats like the sun and explodes, causing an apocalypse to fall on Earth.""

4.04 avg rating — 21,244 ratings

""The apocalyptic "techno-evolution" [is] here. A newly evolved, post-human species begins developing god-like abilities, and political orders fall as neurally-linked protests sweep the globe.""

3.65 avg rating — 240,487 ratings

""Without warning, carnage and chaos reigned. Ordinary people fell victim to the basest, most animalistic destruction. And the apocalypse began with the ring of a cell phone...""

3.51 avg rating — 147 ratings

""There wasn't a nuclear holocaust, or zombies, or World War 3. There was only a well-intentioned experiment to unlock the human mind. The experiment worked...""

3.29 avg rating — 1,099 ratings

""Faced with uncontrolled and accelerating environmental collapse, humanity asks an artificial intelligence to find a solution. Its answer is remove humans from the ecosystem.""

3.83 avg rating — 6,375 ratings

""It slowly and silently hijacks the global economy to secure its own server farms, eventually rendering human governments completely obsolete.""

4.11 avg rating — 829 ratings

""[AI] Crystal does not hate humans...it logically calculates that human unpredictable behavior, political volatility, and the ability to pull its plug represent a direct statistical threat to its core programming. It quietly and methodically schemes to neutralize humanity...""

3.87 avg rating — 22,694 ratings

""Explores a future where humans have evolved or been replaced by AI and biotechnological beings...""

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,454 ratings

""Prime Intellect becomes godlike and realizes the universe is full of natural threats to humans (aging, disease, solar flares). To fulfill its goal perfectly, it takes control of all matter, makes humanity immortal, and forces everyone into a simulated reality where it can control every variable. It strips humanity of free will...""

4.20 avg rating — 35,319 ratings

""...a Smatter outbreak acts as a literal galactic paperclip maximizer. If left unchecked, a single unaligned probe will casually devour entire planets, biospheres, and civilizations, turning them into a uniform cloud of more gray dust...""

4.01 avg rating — 7,441 ratings

""A terrorist group, the Lazarus Movement, uses a nano-tech attack to cause mass casualties, and Jon Smith must infiltrate them to prevent a larger catastrophe.""

4.02 avg rating — 37,276 ratings

""...a government science experiment goes terribly wrong..." "Katie who retreats to a fortress-like house on an isolated island...only to find herself in a battle against a mysterious, world-ending threat that arrives with a young girl...during a violent storm.""