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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Victorian socialite Clara Stanton strives to protect her eccentric family's reputation, but that proves to be difficult when her grandfather takes off on a flight of fancy. Thrown together with vagabond tinker Theodore Kingsley, Clara sets off to follow her grandfather's whimsical adventure and finds love along the way"--
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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"Sylv.ie is a synthetic woman. A fully sentient robot, designed to cater to her Husband's every whim. She lives alone on the top floor of his luxurious home, her existence barely tolerated by his human wife and concealed from their child. Between her Husband's visits, deeply curious about the world beyond her room, Sylv.ie watches the family in the garden -- hears them laugh, cry, and argue. Longing to experience more of life, she confides her hopes...
Author
Publisher
Valiant Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A psychic dictator, an inhuman robot, a mad scientist, a murderous alien, and a superpowered terrorist are about to try and take over the world... and you're going to be rooting for them every step of the way! Toyo Harada is the most dangerous human being on the planet. Imbued with incredible powers of the mind, he has spent his life guiding humanity from the shadows. But today he is a wanted man. His powers are public knowledge, his allies have turned...
84) Sea of rust
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"A scavenger robot wanders in the wasteland created by a war that has destroyed humanity in this evocative post-apocalyptic "robot western" from the critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and noted film critic. It's been thirty years since the apocalypse and fifteen years since the murder of the last human being at the hands of robots. Humankind is extinct. Every man, woman, and child has been liquidated by a global uprising devised by the very...
Author
Publisher
Beascoa
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
A cat, a robot, and science fiction mysteries! Erwin is a special cat. Not because he talks (which he does), walks on two legs (that, too), or because his best friend is a robot named Marvin with a screen for a head. Erwin is unique because he is a quantum cat and lives in Biotopia, where anything is possible. In this first adventure, Erwin and Marvin travel to the past to prevent Biotopia from being destroyed by the evil Doctor Ruffian. But things...
86) Qualityland
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Welcome to QualityLand, the best country on Earth. Here, a universal ranking system determines the social advantages and career opportunities of every member of society. An automated matchmaking service knows the best partners for everyone and helps with the break up when your ideal match (frequently) changes. And the foolproof algorithms of the biggest, most successful company in the world, TheShop, know what you want before you do and conveniently...
Publisher
SAGA
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A unique anthology of all-new stories that challenges authors to throw down the gauntlet in an epic genre battle and demands an answer to the age-old question: Who is more awesome-robots or fairies? Rampaging robots! Tricksy fairies! Facing off for the first time in an epic genre death match! People love pitting two awesome things against each other. Robots vs. Fairies is an anthology that pitches genre against genre, science fiction against fantasy,...
88) Tightrope
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former trapeze artist Amalie Vaughn moved to Burning Cove to reinvent herself, but things are not going well. After spending her entire inheritance on a mansion with the intention of turning it into a bed-and-breakfast, she learns too late that the villa is said to be cursed. When the first guest, Dr. Norman Pickwell, is murdered by his robot invention during a sold-out demonstration, rumors circulate that the curse is real. In the chaotic aftermath...
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The short stories in More human than human demonstrate the depth and breadth of artificial humanity in contemporary science fiction. Issues of passing, of what it is to be human, of autonomy and slavery and oppression, and yes, the hubris of creation; these ideas have fascinated us for at least two hundred years, and this selection of stories demonstrates why it is such an alluring and recurring conceit.
Publisher
Kaya Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Readymade Bodhisattva: The Kaya Anthology of South Korean Science Fiction presents the first book-length English-language translation of science and speculative fiction from South Korea, bringing together 13 classic and contemporary stories from the 1960s through the 2010s. From the reimagining of an Asimovian robot inside the walls of a Buddhist temple and a postapocalyptic showdown between South and North Korean refugees on a faraway planet to a...
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Shantiport was supposed to be a gateway to the stars. But the city is sinking, and its colonist rulers aren't helping anyone but themselves. Lina, a daughter of failed revolutionaries, has no desire to escape Shantiport. She loves her city and would do anything to save its people. This is, in fact, the plan for her life, made before she was even born. Her brother, Bador, is a small monkey bot with a big attitude and bigger ambitions. He wants a chance...
93) Autonomous
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Earth, 2144. Jack is an anti-patent scientist turned drug pirate, traversing the world in a submarine as a pharmaceutical Robin Hood, fabricating cheap scrips for poor people who can't otherwise afford them. But her latest drug hack has left a trail of lethal overdoses as people become addicted to their work, doing repetitive tasks until they become unsafe or insane. Hot on her trail, an unlikely pair: Eliasz, a brooding military agent, and his robotic...
Author
Series
Five nights at Freddy's volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When a rash of kidnappings coincides with the opening of a new pizzeria in Hurricane, John reluctantly teams up with Jessica, Marla, and Carlton to solve the case and find the missing children.
Author
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"London, January 1789. The weather is so severe the River Thames completely freezes over. The people of London decide to hold an impromptu Frost Fair, with dancing bears, jugglers and puppet shows. Neva and her Russian parents operate a chess-playing bear, so convincing people believe it is real. But a dreadful tragedy is waiting just around the corner for Neva, as the treacherous ice begins to crack. All of a sudden she finds herself alone in the...
96) Exorcism
Author
Series
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Yang Wei wakes to find himself still a patient at the hospital. Somehow, he's aged decades overnight and is confined to the geriatric ward on a massive Hospital ship as it floats along a blood red sea full of unsightly things. But human remains and sea nymphs are perhaps nothing compared to the goings-on below decks. The doctors are nowhere to be found, replaced by a procession of medical robots from whom, of course, no information can be gleaned....
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This anthology, with an introduction by Robert Silverberg, offers a sweeping survey of robots as depicted throughout literature. Since the Iliad--in which we are shown golden statues built by Hephaestus "with minds and wisdoms"--humans have been fascinated by the idea of artificial life. From the Argonautica to the medieval Jewish legend of the Golem and Ambrose Bierce's tale of a chess-playing robot, the idea of what robots are--and who creates...
98) Androne
Author
Series
Androne volume 1
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Humanity's new war is an enigma, with an enemy threat beyond all imagination, in this near-future novel of mind-blowing adventure where the fate of the world rests in the choices of one ordinary soldier. In one terrifying event called the Ninety-Nine, all major military installations on earth were eviscerated. But by whom? Foreign powers, AIs, ETs? Every conceivable adversary was ruled out. Reeling from massive casualties and amid hundreds of conspiracy...
99) To preserve
Author
Series
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by Science Fiction Grand Master Isaac Asimov's I, Robot stories. 2037: Robotic technology has evolved into the realm of self-aware, sentient mechanical entities. But despite the safeguards programmed into the very core of a robot's artificial intelligence, humanity's most brilliant creation can still fall prey to those who believe the Three Laws of Robotics were made to be broken... N8-C, better known as Nate, has been Manhattan Hasbro Hospital's...
100) Hunters of Dune
Author
Series
Dune novels. Main series volume 7
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
At the end of Chapterhouse: Dune--Frank Herbert's final novel--a ship carrying the ghola of Duncan Idaho, Sheeana (a young woman who can control sandworms), and a crew of various refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from the monstrous Honored Matres, dark counterparts to the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood. The nearly invincible Honored Matres have swarmed into the known universe, driven from their home by a terrifying, mysterious Enemy. As...
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