Robot Fiction

See How the End Began!!! Prequel to the Jack Castle's Bestselling Stranger World series. First came radio, then movies and television. Virtual reality only lasted until hologram-rooms became a household name. Still, the suspension of disbelief was never enough. Then… Henry Stranger revealed his full-immersion theme parks to the world, and within a single generation more people lived, worked and played in Henry Stranger Worlds than out of them. Real or imagined, historical or fantasy: it doesn’t matter, pick any story-world you like. What could possibly go wrong? Hard to believe the end ...

Twenty-four Science Fiction Stories of Computers, Robots, Programs, and Algorithms. From artificial intelligence to the modeling of a digital soul. These stories cover the future of technology, written by the veteran hacker and master programmer, Keith P. Graham. These stories are heavily influenced by John Shirley, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.Keith P. Graham has been a programming/hacker since 1969. Keith wrote in assembly language because that was as close to silicon as a hacker could get without a soldering iron. He was a programming manager at Lockheed Martin for 15 years, and ...

So Much Can Change in Seven Short Years… President Trump and Vice President Facebook scramble in 2023 to hang onto power. Both the man and the corporation have different ideas on how to cling onto control. Meanwhile, in Chinese Detroit, Buckeye Jones, one of the last remaining human journalists, learns the deal President Trump made with China is not a good one. As the world reels from the chaos caused by seven years of lunacy, the survival of humankind depends on an unlikely cast of characters and corporations.

Monty is an inventor and aspiring astronaut, but at twelve years old, he hasn’t even left his hometown. This all changes when Monty, his sister Ivory, and their robot sidekick, Echo, stumble upon an abandoned spaceship deep in the woods after school one day… Soon, they find themselves in a countdown to liftoff…and they can’t stop it! Join Monty and his crew as they blast off into space, explore Mars, and discover a hidden secret in The Iron Heart of Mars.

In this lighthearted, sci-fi homage to the late, great, P.G. Wodehouse, Bertram Wooster stumbles upon his own, deceased doppelganger. Jeeves, upon being asked his assessment of the situation, remarks upon the body's "most unfortunate" choice of attire.

Robot and Rico are off to the beach! While Rico is busy fishing, Robot is bored. Rico wants to catch the biggest fish, but Robot may end up with a bigger surprise.

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...

In the year 2085, Benny Love is pretty used to surviving on what he and his family can scavenge on Earth. But when he wins a scholarship for a life-changing trip to visit the Lunar Taj, the first-ever resort on the moon, Benny thinks he finally has a chance to give his family a better life. Benny can't wait to fly his very own Space Runner, practice reverse bungee jumping, and explore craters on the dark side of the moon.

This is a collection of seven contemporary robot tales written by some of today's most acclaimed science fiction authors. A sentient war machine combs a beach for trinkets to create memorials for its fallen comrades in the Hugo Award-winning story, "Tideline", by Elizabeth Bear. In "Balancing Accounts", by James Cambias, a small-time independent robotic space tug is hired by a mysterious client for a voyage between two of Saturn's moons.

A Programmer's Guide to the Digital Soul. 15 Science Fiction Stories of Computers, Robots, Programs and Algorithms

Mara is teamed up with KATT, a female AI inside a super-up sports car—who is not only eager to help Mara on her missions but also eager to pleasure Mara in every way possible. Will Mara and KATT be able to stop the world's sexiest thief, Carla Santiago, and her band of beautiful criminals from committing the crime of the century? Will Mara submit to KATT's wonderfully kinky toys? And how far will she be willing to take her relationship with her new AI partner?

In a world ravaged by an AI Uprising, hope lies buried deep underground. Sarah has spent a decade in an underground vault, safe from the chaos above. But as supplies dwindle, she must confront her deepest fear: venturing into the unknown world. Thirteen-year-old Wally has never gone outside her sanctuary’s protective walls thanks to her overprotective robot father. When a deadly outbreak threatens her community, she discovers a map to a hidden vault rumored to contain a life-saving vaccine. Vacuubot, once a simple cleaning robot, is now a combat-ready drone who searches for purpose in a ...

Sci-Fi Transgender Adventures From the over-populated cities of Earth to the colonies on Mars, our brave hero does what she can to bring the bad guys to justice. Along the way, she has some strange and sexy times.

Rico is missing just one Hero Cat prize. Robot and Rico take a trip to the grocery store. With Robot's special tricks, Rico is sure he'll get the prize he wants. Even if he has to check every cereal box in the store!

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.

A generation starship can hide many secrets. When an Executive clan suspects Oichi of insurgency and discreetly shoves her out an airlock, one of those secrets finds and rescues her. Officially dead, Oichi begins to rebalance power one assassination at a time and uncovers the shocking truth behind the generation starship and the Executive clans.

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 ...

The fifth book in the award-finalist robot sci fi series by award-finalist author Cameron Coral… The robot uprising took her sister. Now she leads the fight to reclaim humanity's future. Nova finds herself in charge of the fractured human rebel forces in Chicago. Her choices will force her to confront the wounds of her past in this thought-provoking work of speculative fiction. Can she infiltrate the AI stronghold and win back the city? Defending the Last Hope After fleeing across a barren, war-torn landscape from New York to the ruins of the Midwest, Block takes refuge on a farm. He ...

Legendary warrior Kell must choose to flee the conquered land of Falanor, or take up his axe and fight for its people. However even Kell could be too late and all may be lost...for the Vachine invaders have called upon their ancient rulers, semi-immortal bloodsuckers who dwell on the edges between life and death. The vampire warlords have returned, and they will feed.

He called himself Zoot Marlowe, said he’d just blown in from Cay City, but even the wacked out surfer dudes could tell that the four-fout detective with the giant schnoz was from somewhere out of their world. Still, he could throw a mean frisbee and he said he was a private eye, and when someone decided to smash and trash all the surfing robots in Malibu just days before the biggest surfing contest of the year, Zoot was the only being around willing to track the bot beaters down. But Zoot didn’t know just how widespread a conspiracy he was about to run up against. For this first case of...