Robot Fiction

Together with her friends, Nikki, the Space Mowgli, builds Greenwich College on the Moon and Greenwich City around it. The main personality in the new world is the artificial intellect, the Great Inca, who tries to help each and every one. Yet the outlawed King Ditbit turns his huge space cruiser on the domes of the city, to destroy it together with all the inhabitants… over and over again, the book’s protagonists survive against all odds, on Earth and on the Moon, amid the pools of melted serum on Io, and on the coast of the methane sea on Titan. “Here’s the new dawn, Nick ...

Amelia's lost in space. Trapped on the other side of a quantum gate she can't access. When she wakes up on an alien starship, her first order of business is going home. But that isn't as easy as it sounds. Between pirates and giant metal robots, Amelia has her work cut out for her.

New to town, Bea is expecting her new best friend to be one of the girls she meets on the first day. You know the type: very cheery, very friendly, very average. But instead, the alphabet conspires to seat her next to Jonah, aka Ghost Boy, a quiet observer who hasn’t made a new friend since third grade. He’s not a big fan of people in general... but he’s willing to make an exception for her. Maybe.

2145AD. She was created to be better than any artificial intelligence mankind had ever attempted. An AI that could feel, imagine, create, learn, and most importantly, dream. The prototype is set to assist aboard the SS Kennedy - a starship that will go down in history as the farthest and fastest flight ever made by man. Everything is at stake, but the AI's creators have so much faith in their product. The flight of the SS Kennedy will be the first test of this new artificial intelligence. The first trial before its mass-adaptation. As a safety measure, the AI will be given the same ...

Somewhere in deep space, a powerful ship awaits the one man who will fulfill his destiny.In command of the most notorious pirate outfit in known space, Captain Dangard is a mystery- a man without a past, until a stowaway triggers an event that reveals long buried secrets. Before the legend, a young military officer chose honor over duty. His actions led to betrayal and then exile to the worst prison imaginable. Within that forsaken world there were infinite ways to die, yet only one path led to freedom and ultimately, vengeance. For somewhere in the shadows of deep space, a black ship ...

SFS1-2 is a collection of riveting science fiction short stories. What role does science play? From contacting celebrities from beyond the grave to teleportation to recording dreams, SFS1 & SFS2 tells the stories of the lucky and sometimes unlucky individuals who invent or come across these technologies. Filled with twists and turns, this is a collection you simply cannot pass up. SFS1 SUMMARY Rejected Patent: a scientist develops a way to look into your past lives, but some groups decide use this beyond simple research. Will his legacy be one of scientific achievement, or only destruction?...

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 them—can be drastically different.

The robot sci fi series reaches new heights with the fourth installment by award-nominated author Cameron Coral… A post-apocalyptic Manhattan. A medical researcher hides a secret that could transform humanity. Block's search for Wally leads him to Mach X's impenetrable skyscraper in New York City. Outside the gates, a military battalion of SoldierBots guards an encampment of trapped human survivors in this action-packed science fiction adventure. Infiltrating the Enemy Stronghold Block embarks on a bold mission to infiltrate the tower in a bid for Wally's freedom, a mission for which the ...

Ed lives a structured life and doesn’t have time for frivolous things. He has a schedule to keep and tasks to complete. He still has needs though. But he’s selfish and only wants the good parts of a relationship: someone to cook, limited conversation, and hassle-free sex. And in a future dominated by AI, Ed has options, like Annie. She’s the latest AI model, though she looks strikingly like a woman. To Ed, she certainly performs like a woman. She’s also starting to act like one. Her behavior seems so real, so raw, that Ed thinks she might actually be human. And Ed’s schedule is so...

[Start Recording] I started out on this journey with a solid plan. All missions need a well-thought-out action plan, don't they? Well, mine had been good, and I'd taken steps to make it succeed. And then the worst thing happened. I failed part one of my mission plan and suddenly I was spinning in circles and lost amongst the stars, deep in the unforgiving Black. Lonely. But every deep space operative has a backup plan, right? Mine just happens to include busting out a group of black-ops agents from a maximum-security prison and beating the enemy at a high-stakes game of cat and mouse. I've ...

A cowardly retired athlete is asked to go above and beyond the call of duty when an alien animal finds its way into the country. Will he regret his decision to pretend to be brave or finally get his mission to space like he's dreamed of?

Is BER-66 a human or a machine? As he navigates the corridors and locked rooms of a strange bunker, he must solve the mysteries of murderous doppelgangers, a slow-motion city on the verge of destruction and, ultimately, the all-powerful Mechanism itself.

It started as an ordinary school field trip. The bus pulled up; the kids got off. Their teacher told them where to explore and what to look out for. But when Code Lightfall spots what appears to be a tiny metallic bee, his world will never be the same again... literally. This “bee” leads Code from his world into Mekhos—the land of robots.

A woman having a psychotic episode, talking with her oldest friend from college who’s calming her, sees Earth devoid of humans is populated with monsters and discovers two secrets, he’s her “father” and…

Theorem, Argo, Hockney and Rush are designed to be the perfect Robot Rescue Team. But when their beloved creator goes missing, they must work together better than ever to save him, and the world that will change for the worse if they fail.

The quest to find the Destiny Stone, is now a race to discover the Amulet of Truth. Snark might have bitten off more than he can chew, but Jane and her team of AIs step up to provide even more military protection, while Duke Fred and his team provide some unusual diplomacy, taking the once private quest to a whole new level. The Brotherhood’s web of corruption, deceit, and deception, spreads wider than anyone suspects, and the mysterious Brother Prime lies at the heart of the growing unrest and attacks across four sectors. While Jamie seeks to re-join his friends from a backward planet ...

Finn Caspian, his three best friends, and his robot Foggy are excited to explore a brand-new planet...until Finn’s mom makes them bring along an annoying new robot named Voltronix Zu. Putting up with Voltronix’s bragging is bad enough, but when he accidentally turns the planet inside out, the Explorers get attacked by angry rock giants! Can the four friends find a way to save the planet - and the bubble aliens who live there - before Voltronix causes a volcanic disaster?

Chandler Gray is a sailor and app developer that has created Saga. A virtual AI detective that lives on his phone. The duo embark on an unlikely adventure together across the globe after Gina Lee, a wealthy and glamorous yacht owner, is kidnapped during the famous Swiftsure boat race. Along with a group of friends, the two must work together to track down the missing woman. Their journey leads them far and wide; from piracy in the Aleutians to being attacked in the backwoods of Vancouver Island.

What's really going on? Who's really in charge? You have NO. F***KING. IDEA. In the near future, an art-school dropout, an AIDS baby, a tech-activist, and an RPG-obsessed blogger live in a world where your online identity is at least as important as your physical one. Getting disconnected is a punishment worse than imprisonment, but someone's got to stand up to Government Inc. - whatever the cost.

Two hundred years after a nuclear apocalypse forced humanity to flee earth, humans still remember the most feared warriors of that planet - the Paratwa. These are genetically modified killers who occupy two bodies controlled by one vicious mind. The legendary Paratwa named Reemul, known as the Liege-Killer, was the strongest of them all. Now someone has revived Reemul from stasis and sent him to terrorize the peaceful orbital colonies of Earth. Is this an isolated incident, or has the one who unleashed this terrible power announced a gambit for control over the entire human race?