Robot Fiction

Child genius and budding inventor Frances is in trouble. Her dreams of scientific glory were dashed when her first big experiment nearly destroyed her whole town. So when a prestigious society invites her to their symposium, Frances sees it as a chance to redeem herself. On the way there, her train is hijacked, and she and her friend Luca flee into the Black Forest. Seeking shelter with a group of orphans, Frances learns the rules of the woods: Never travel alone. Never make a sound. Because something hunts in the shadows, something with glowing eyes and sharp teeth.

Secrets kill. Perfection destroys. A hardened detective and his idealistic, young deputy investigate the attempted murder of a child and uncover a secret with earth-shattering implications. ∞ Near Halti Fell, Northern Finland, the last of humanity has survived four hundred years in a series of crumbling habitats built to last fifty. Outside, the Earth is an irradiated wasteland of sand and desolate cities known as the scour. In the scour, nothing survives. Chief Investigator Linus Halla is tired of violence and death in cramped, rusted boxes. After twenty years on the job, he’s ready to...

Finn’s best robot bud, Foggy, comes down with a weird virus while exploring a planet full of dancing robots. But he won’t let Finn help him. Foggy only wants to dance the Hokey Pokey with his new robot friends! Now Finn and Explorers Troop 301 have to find a cure before the robots attack. But can Finn also fix his friendship with Foggy? Or will his robot BFF stay on the two-stepping planet forever?

After a few early glitches in their relationship, Sammy and his 'bro-bot' E are now best friends. In fact, E is such a valued member of the family that the other electronic members of the House of Robots are feeling sorely unappreciated. And when Sammy's inventor mom becomes distracted by a top-secret project, the robots soon begin to fall into disrepair. Cue a robot revolt, with the droids wreaking harmless havoc in the house!

Together with her friends, the Space Mowgli lives on the Moon, at the topmost school in the entire Solar System. She’s a fighter and a scholar, and sometimes proves to be more knowledgeable than her professors, why not with the only truly intelligent computer at her back. She can captain the space yachts, and hopes that her equation of the future would change the world. But she has enemies, the ones who had once killed her parents and won’t stop trying. "This book altered my outlook. It was one of my favorite when I was 14." "To say that this book filled me with vivid emotions is to say...

The first of its kind. The robot teen Alex has his mysterious past and amazing abilities to overcome any challenge in life. This series is a coming of age hero story about a boy who develops amazing robotic powers and discovers the joys of life, family, friends, and school. The series picks up when a nefarious corporation out to retake him enters the fray.

Bumblebee och hans gäng med autoboter har gjort sig ordentligt hemmastadda på skrotupplaget i Crown City. Därifrån vaktar de jorden och förbereder sig på nästa strid mot de onda decepticonerna. En av de allra ivrigaste autoboterna är Sideswipe. Han tror faktiskt att han till och med skulle kunna slå den där gangstern Thunderhoof! Och när ett gäng decepticoner plötsligt dyker upp på deras radar verkar det som att han äntligen ska få chansen...

He fought to save humanity. Now he’s having second thoughts. After more than a thousand years in flight, Starship is crashing towards a new home. At its helm, a corrupted machine with unknown goals and deadly tactics. Scrappy human leftovers cluster in the middle, making plans to run if they survive the landing. War between man and machine, they believe, is inevitable. Best get away from the biggest machine in existence. For Gamma, that machine, that ship is his home, and he won’t abandon it without a fight. First up on that score, finding his friends, his partner. Arm up, take back the...

Roll! Jump! Flip! Rico has learned a lot of new skateboard tricks. Robot wants to learn too. Can Rico teach Robot, or will his skateboarding dreams disappear?

Exiled from the court of Queen Elizabeth for accusing a powerful nobleman of treason, swordsman-turned-spy Mal Catlyn has been living in France with his young valet, Coby Hendricks, for the past year. But Mal harbours a darker secret: he and his twin brother share a soul that once belonged to a skrayling, one of the mystical creatures from the New World.

Abbey Mei Otis's short stories are contemporary fiction at its strongest: taking apart the supposed equality that is clearly just not there, putting humans under an alien microscope, putting humans under government control, and more. Otis has long been fascinated in using strange situations to explore dynamics of power, oppression, and grief, and the 12 stories collected here are at once a striking indictment of the present and a powerful warning about the future.

Planet Hyman is at a lost as Hilda takes a sabbatical, she has found her "pleasure dome" and while she learns there is more to life than a new manifesto, H2 and DBO plot a coup. With Mex hungover, and Beryl shamed, there is little to stand in their way apart from a hippy colony too chilled to care, a reporter with no scruples, and a missing set of batteries. Will H2 and DBO take over the planet and run it the proletarian way? Or will Hilda rise from her wet dreams toss her dead batteries to the wind and take over from where Beryl left?

TedW was one of the greatest baseball players of his time. He was also a military hero. Upon his death, TedW’s body and head were cryogenically preserved in the hope that he could be revived someday in the future by advanced medical technology. Barwell Hollings presents a tale about a twentieth century sports and military hero who is revived hundreds of years in the future into a world that is radically different from the one he lived in before his death. Now TedW is faced with the greatest challenge of his life. Can he adapt and even thrive in this new world?

In an isolated mountain community, sometimes a child is born with two hearts. This child is called a striga and is considered a demon who must be abandoned on the edge of the forest. The child s mother must then decide to leave with her infant, or stay and try to forget. Nineteen year-old striga, Salka, and her mother, Miriat, made the choice to leave and live a life of deprivation and squalor in an isolated village. The striga tribe share the human belief that to follow the impulses of their other hearts is dangerous, inviting unspoken horrors and bringing ruin onto them all.

En esta nueva aventura, el patoso detective Amadeo Bola nos hará reír a carcajadas mientras nos adentramos en el universo de los laboratorios farmacéuticos. Amadeo tendrá que ir a buscar en el ultramoderno Laboratorio de la Pastilla, donde antes fabricaban pastillas para la tos, el prototipo de robot más avanzado del mundo con un diseño revolucionario. ¡Una auténtica inteligencia artificial!

Ullsaard has won the crown. But when he is confronted with a truth too shocking to contemplate, he has to make the impossible choice between power and honour. And now the real battle has begun, in this stunning sequel to The Crown of the Blood, packed with gargantuan battles, demonic magic, and treacherous politics.

Was fliegt wie ein Flugzeug, schwimmt im Wasser wie ein Schiff und hupt wie ein Auto? Genau, es ist das Fliewatüüt! Erfinder Tobbi und Erbauer Robbi machen sich mit diesem vielseitigen und wunderbaren Fahrzeug auf eine abenteuerliche Reise.

What happens when robots become self-aware? The Humans return to salvage robots - the METAL PEOPLE of Phobos! B-12 the moonshining Robot of Phobos (Mar's biggest moon!) finds himself at the start of a war between the humans ("The Builders") and his people -- the Metal-People! Will the robots become sentient? Will they bridge the GAP? ARE ROBOTS PEOPLE? This is book TWO of the B-12 Trilogy Scroll up and grab a copy today!

Marvo is a stage magician. His magic is real. Marvo grows up without knowing his parents, without knowing his heritage, without knowing much about life. The magicians have always been with us, since the beginning of civilisation. They fill our heads with the mist, keeping us from witnessing the stark reality of existence. But are things so bad that Marvo will bring it down on all of us, forever? Marvo begins to understand those around him, and his place in the world; he discovers that his remarkable powers can be put to good, or to evil.

After everything Leif has been through in Arena 13, it's finally time for him to fulfil his destiny and accompany his father's people beyond the barrier that imprisons all mankind. Meanwhile, Kwin, the girl he loves, is making waves in the arena as the first woman ever to grace its fighting floor. In their own ways, each of them is fighting to bring down the superhuman monsters that threaten the last people on earth. They might have picked fights they can't win. But freedom could be something worth dying for.