Catalog Search Results
Showing Results using Keyword index
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The Carls disappeared the same way they appeared, in an instant. While they were on Earth, they caused confusion and destruction without ever lifting a finger. Well, that's not exactly true. Part of their maelstrom was the sudden viral fame and untimely death of April May: a young woman who stumbled into Carl's path, giving them their name, becoming their advocate, and putting herself in the middle of an avalanche of conspiracy theories. Months later,...
Author
Series
Robopocalypse novels volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A sequel to the best-selling Robopocalypse is told through a series of narratives that finds new and former characters fighting to rebuild a war-stricken world under threat of the surviving Archos machine code.
23) Norton and Alpha
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Norton and his robot dog like to collect objects that they find on their walks and create new inventions, but one day they find something unlike anything they have ever seen. What is it? What can it do?
24) The silence
Author
Series
The Six (Mark Alpert) volume 3
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Adam must unravel the mystery of what the newest Pioneer, Amber, has become as she helps him deal with his new powers, despite his friends' warnings about her.
Author
Series
Zita the spacegirl volume 2
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Zita is determined to find her way home to Earth, but her exploits have made her an intergalactic megastar, and as her true self is eclipsed by her public persona, she faces a robot doppelganger, unsure of who she can trust.
26) Love, Z
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A little robot named Z finds a message in a bottle signed, "Love, Beatrice" and, unable to learn what love is from other robots, sets out on a quest to find the answer.
Author
Series
Robot series volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companions. But when a prominent Spacer is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Baley is ordered to the Outer Worlds to help track down the killer. The relationship between Life and his Spacer superiors, who distrusted all Earthmen, was strained from the start. Then he learned that...
29) Robot visions
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Contains 36 short stories and essays on robots.
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
One morning, a robot wakes up to find he is missing an arm. He and his robo buddy search inside and outside the house, through a garden, an amusement park, a library and even a candy shop, but it's nowhere to be found. Where can the arm be, and what might make a suitable replacement? A lollipop? A fish bone? How about a fork?
32) Hard reboot
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Kas is a junior researcher on a fact-finding mission to old Earth. But when a con-artist tricks her into wagering a large sum of money belonging to her university on the outcome of a manned robot arena battle she becomes drawn into the seedy underworld of old Earth politics and state-sponsored battle-droid prizefights"--
33) The siege
Author
Series
The Six (Mark Alpert) volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Adam and the other robotized teenagers in the Pioneer Project must once again battle Sigma, the rogue artificial intelligence program bent on destroying Adam and all of humanity by first corrupting the Six from the inside.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Cozy Fantasy
LGBTQIA Science Fiction and Fantasy
Read-Alikes for Cloud Cuckoo Land
Robots with Emotions
LGBTQIA Science Fiction and Fantasy
Read-Alikes for Cloud Cuckoo Land
Robots with Emotions
Description
"In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk & 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, into the wilderness, never to be seen again; centuries since they faded into myth and urban legend. One day, the life of a tea monk is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor...
Author
Series
Saga of seven suns volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The bestselling and award-winning author continues his stunning epic series: a vast panorama of galactic civilization and apocalyptic war. "A rip-roaring space opera full of mystery, adventure, and suspense."--"Science Fiction Chronicle."
Five years after attacking the human-colonized worlds of the Spiral Arm, the hydrogues maintain absolute control over stardrive fuel...and their embargo is strangling human civilization. On Earth, mankind suffers...
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself Murderbot. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a research transport vessal named ART (you don't want to know what the A stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks...
Author
Series
Hilo volume 5
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
What REALLY happened in Hilo's world before he came to Earth? D.J. and our favorite space boy, Hilo, take a DANGEROUS trip to Hilo's home planet to find out! But everything Hilo thinks he knows about his past is about to be turned inside out and UPSIDE DOWN! Hilo was supposed to save everyone...but what happens if it's Hilo that needs saving?! Is ANYONE who we think they are? Can Hilo and his friends figure out how all the pieces fit...before it's...
38) The roamers
Author
Publisher
Flame Tress Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The Pulldogs are a group of people that undergo anthropological transformations caused by nanites. This changes the way they eat and gives rise to a culture reminiscent of a creative and sustainable nomadic society. Using 3D printers and cloud computing, the Pulldogs make an impossible and anachronistic choice--is this new life really a good one?
Author
Series
Robot series volume 4
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Kelden Amadiro is determined to bring total annihilation of the planet Earth, but Lady Gladia vows to stop him at any cost and seal Earth's fate and all who live there.
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
Pounce is a "nannybot" fashioned in the shape of a plush tiger and in charge of eight-year-old Ezra Reinhart. When Pounce finds the box he arrived in years earlier, the pieces fall into place for a robot revolution that will eradicate humankind.
"From critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and film critic C. Robert Cargill comes a harrowing apocalyptic adventure that explores the relationship between humans and robots, and the fight for purpose...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request