Robot Fiction

Watch out, Brussells Academy - this robot will outwit you all! If super-high-tech android Dotty can spend an entire year masquerading as a 12-year-old schoolgirl, she could win a multi-million-pound prize that will enable her creators to continue their ground-breaking work in the development of AI. Easy-peasy, right? As Dotty navigates the social expectations of year 7, she gets into a series of hilarious scrapes and encounters numerous ethical dilemmas both at school and at home.

Drew is a service robot. He’s as happy as a service robot can reasonably expect to be, until he discovers porn - and decides to construct the vital part he’s missing. Meanwhile, tech geek Dennis can’t work out who is letting his dog crap on his doorstep, until he stumbles on the secret to looking back in time.

Stevie is a kiler. But she brings her victims back to life again, to demand, "What Do You See?" Now she's about to find out for herself. After an accident in which her mother dies, Stevie has a near-death experience, and finds herself in a room full of people - everyone she's ever annoyed. They clutch at her, scratch and tear at her. But she finds herself drawn back to this place, again and again, determined to unlock its secrets. Which means she has to die, again and again. And Stevie starts to wonder whether other people see the same room...when they die.

In Soul to Soul, Jon, Simon and Lyn continue to trip and stumble across the universe in search of the ultimate margarita and a possible date for their friend Gilbert. As usual, they become tangled up with the universal forces of confusion, female androids are added into the mix, abstract consciousness is discovered in soup bowl, late night cable movies are discussed, insane theories win out and, as always, an ample amount of alcohol is consumed along the way. All this for your reading entertainment. This novel supports Amazon’s ‘look inside’ feature so if you like witty dialogue and ...

Norby è un robottino davvero unico. E non solo perché ha l'aspetto di un barilotto. I meccanismi che lo compongono provengono da una misteriosa astronave aliena e questo dettaglio gli permette di sottrarsi alle tre leggi della robotica. Può quindi rifiutarsi di obbedire agli ordini; essere un fifone sempre preoccupato di farsi male; e addirittura lottare contro i cattivi. Questo lo rende imprevedibile, buffo e... incredibilmente umano. Insieme al suo amico e proprietario, il cadetto spaziale Jeff Wells, dovrà affrontare l'odioso Ing l'Ingrato, deciso a diventare Imperatore della Terra.

This is the story of Mouse, a young man who is accidentally drawn into a struggle for the heart and soul of future technology. He helps upgrade the mind and body of an AI named G Hephaestus 22 with the technology invented by a rogue computer scientist named Yance Van Winkle and a super AI named Mizuki. Mouse pays a dangerous price for his involvement, and Hephaestus becomes the only link to his survival. The story of Mouse, Mizuki and Yance is concluded in book three of the Mizuki Trilogy.

The Retribution’s race to save L6 is almost overFirst Officer Johnson has used every scarp of math and heart she has in one desperate attempt to save L6 only to watch helpless as Night Sprinter destroys the first gravity mine. Now with the death of hundreds on her hands Charlie faces more than her conscious. Buy your copy today!

An NFL Team Rescues the Future from the Tyranny of Technology. ULTRA BOWL is an adventure fable about the dangers of our Digital Age and the dystopian future toward which we may be heading. Flying home from the Super Bowl, the New York Knights are “time-napped”—transported 100 years into the future, where the global balance-of-power is decided in a football game played by robots. The Knights have been “drafted” to play for the United States in the Ultra Bowl, unaware that they are expendable pawns in a brilliant technocrat’s diabolical plot to rule the world. Despite the ...

Halvor Cullen, a genetically-engineered and technology implanted ex-soldier, doesn't see himself as a hero. After getting out of the service, all he's interested in is chasing the adrenaline rush his body was designed to crave. Hal knows he won't live long anyway; vat soldiers like him are designed to die early or will be burnt out from relentlessly seeking the rush. His best friend and former CO, Tyce, is determined not to let that happen and distracts him by work salvaging crashed ships in the Edge.

Narrated by Rupert Degas, and behind-the-scenes diaries narrated by the author and screenwriter Mark Stay. This audiobook also features exclusive sound-effects from the film. To find his father, one boy must defy an empire....Three years ago, Earth was conquered by a force of robots from a distant world. They have one rule: stay in your homes. Step outside and you get one warning before you're vaporised by a massive robot Sentry, or a crawling Sniper, or a flying Drone.

Sally vil gerne være en robot til fastelavn, og selvom hun egentlig helst vil købe kostumet, går far straks i gang med at bygge det selv. Og det bliver faktisk ret flot. Der er bare det, at Sally ikke kan bevæge armene, når hun har det på, og hvordan skal hun så slå katten af tønden? Da Sallys far dukker op til festen, bliver det endnu værre. For far har nemlig sin helt egen og knap så heldige løsning på Sallys problem.

The sequel to Sixty-One Nails. "There's been an accident. It's your daughter." But Alex isn't dead. She's been snatched because she came into her magical power early. Her father, Niall Petersen, must use his own wayward magic to track her down and save her from the madness of Bedlam. Mike Shevdon lives in Bedfordshire, England, with his wife and son, where he pursues the various masteries of weapons, technology, and cookery.

イギリスからアメリカ、日本、パラオ。三十代のダメ男とぽんこつ男の子ロボットの冒険を描く、抱きしめたいほどかわいくて切ない物語。ベルリン国際映画祭で「映画化したい一冊」に選ばれ、世界中がタング

Alex has been saved from the fate that awaited her in Bedlam, but in freeing her, Niall has released others of their kind into the population. Now, as Warder, he must find them and persuade them to swap their new-found liberty for security in the courts - but is the price of sanctuary to swap one cage for another?

Grimlock är en jättestor dinobot som ääälskar att KROSSA saker! Han var en av de onda, men gick sedan med i autoboternas team för att hjälpa till att fånga de kriminella decepticonerna. Men, i ett farligt möte med en decepticon hypnotiseras Grimlock till att förstöra ALLT. Can autoboterna rädda både Crown City och Grimlock? HASBRO och dess logga, TRANSFORMERS ROBOTS IN DISGUISE och alla tillhörande karaktärer är Hasbros varumärken och används med tillåtelse. © 2020 Hasbro. All Rights Reserved. Licensierad från HASBRO.

"Nikki, the Mowgli girl, is caught in the strife of the two global forces. Her only way to survive is to ruin their game and turn into the third global force. Her young shoulders are pressed down by the unbearable weight of decisions that would shape the future of the human race. If, in order to save the world, you have to forfeit your love and sacrifice the life of your best friend – is it worth it?" “One of the most interesting books in AstroNikki. It’s written for young adults, but is of great interest for the young and the grown-up people. It’s a piece of educational fiction ...

Nikki, the Space Mowgli, her valiant Jerry and their friends are in the process of building the new world of justice. The world of AstroNikki is still true to the facts of science, still filled with adventures amid the metallic fogs and “electric dragons” of Venus and the nitrogen geysers of Triton. Yet what can be more important than to find your love, the only and eternal one… Dzintara becomes the President of the World and finds a clue to immortality. Almost every person can now live forever, yet Nikki’s brain rejects the immortality procedure. One day Nick Gorkavyi, an ...

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 ...

Investigative reporter Lana Wallace has covered many crimes of passion in 10 years. But nothing will prepare her for the dark secrets of... The Dolls.

Can a space pirate be a good guy? Captain Gore: The outerworld shipping lanes are slim picking lately for pirate Captain Gore. He takes an Operator assignment that puts his broken-down ship, The Black Pearl, and hid degenerate crew in the path of the Mechanurge drones and quite possibly a hideous death on their Harvester ship. Operator Throd: Despite being betrayed by Gore, Throd-an infamous Operator who is half cybernetics-sets up a scenario using the pirates to help him get his assignment completed with the goal of leveling up. But this assignment could mean a gruesome death for the lot ...