Robot Fiction

"Look, Brigadier! It's growing!" screamed Sarah. The Brigadier stared in amazement as the Robot began to grow...and grow...swelling to the size of a giant! Slowly the metal colossus, casting its enormous shadow upon the surrounding trees and buildings, began to stride towards the Brigadier. A giant metal hand reached down to grasp him.

N8-C, better known as Nate, has been Manhattan Hasbro Hospital's resident robot for more than 20 years. A prototype, humanoid in appearance, he was created to interact with people. While some staff accepted working alongside an anthropomorphic robot, Nate's very existence terrified most people, leaving the robot utilized for menial tasks and generally ignored. Until one of the hospital's physicians is found brutally murdered with Nate standing over the corpse, a blood-smeared utility bar clutched in his hand.

En fångtransport från planeten Cybertron har kraschlandat på jorden och livsfarliga, kriminella robotar - decepticoner - har rymt. Det är upp till ett team med autoboter att hitta dem och föra dem tillbaka in i kryosömn. Poliskommissarie Bumblebee, den rebelliska Sideswipe och polisaspiranten Strongarm har tagit Markbron från Cybertron till jorden för att spåra upp dem. Scuzzard är inte den första boten Team Bee slagits mot, men det blir svårare än väntat att fånga in denna hemska best ...

Livvy and Jayden are the stars of their school's robotics team. Livvy is especially enthusiastic because her own mother works in a robotics lab and experiments with artificial intelligence. To impress her mom, Livvy and Jayden build a robot. Livvy wants to name their robot "Francine", but Jayden thinks that's too silly for their creation. Desperate to win, Livvy and Jayden "borrow" an artificial intelligence module. They soon realize they've made a terrible mistake. Francine has too much brain power. She's alive! And using this newly gained brain power to dream up a deadly contest!

In the vast, domed cities of Earth, artificial intelligence is strictly controlled; in the distant Outer Worlds, colonists and robots live side by side. A Spacer ambassador is found dead and detective Elijah Baley is assigned to find the killer. But with relations between the two cultures in the balance, the Spacers insist that he work with a partner of their choosing – a robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw. Baley has never seen a robot like Daneel before – and soon, though the Three Laws of Robotics should render the crime impossible, Baley’s partner becomes his prime suspect.

The robots are here and they're not happy, at all. After accidentally releasing the robot villains from Super Bot World 3 into the real world, Jesse Rigsby's got to figure out a way to make everything right before anyone gets hurt. He'd usually rely on his friend Eric to help him with this sort of thing, but he's gone missing. To find Eric, Jesse will have to survive rickety mine carts, sewer piranhas, mysterious men in suits, and a 100-foot-tall robot named Goliatron. This is Jesse's most dangerous adventure yet because this time the video game is real.

The thrilling robot sci fi series continues with the third installment by award-nominated author Cameron Coral… As the enemy AI grows stronger, the world becomes more deadly for a timid robot and his found family. Block, the CleanerBot who has risked everything to protect Wally, the little girl he cares for, must now do everything in his power to track her down. But how does a harmless robot infiltrate the deadly SoldierBots who hold her captive in this action-packed science fiction adventure? A Desperate Race Against Human and AI Foes Block and his motley crew of renegade robots journey ...

Kell Kressia is a legend, a celebrity, a hero. Aged just 17, he set out on an epic quest with a band of wizened fighters to slay the Ice Lich and save the world, but only he returned victorious. The Lich was dead, the ice receded, and the Five Kingdoms were safe. Ten years have passed; Kell lives a quiet farmer's life, while stories about his heroism are told in every tavern across the length and breadth of the land. But now a new terror has arisen in the north. Beyond the frozen circle, north of the Frostrunner clans, something has taken up residence in the Lich's abandoned castle.

Cog looks like a normal 12-year-old boy. But his name is short for “cognitive development”, and he was built to learn. After an accident leaves him damaged, Cog wakes up in an unknown lab - and Gina, the scientist who created and cared for him, is nowhere to be found. Surrounded by scientists who want to study him and remove his brain, Cog recruits four robot accomplices for a mission to find her. Cog, ADA, Proto, Trashbot, and Car’s journey will likely involve much cognitive development in the form of mistakes, but Cog is willing to risk everything to find his way back to Gina.

In "The Robot Who Looked Like Me," a busy man and a busy woman find a way to carve out time to romance each other—by having look-alike robots made to do the job—who then run away together.

**HONORABLE MENTION IN THE HOLLYWOOD BOOK FESTIVAL** From IndieReader.com review: "CRYO-MAN is an interesting look at a future where robots and humans battle for survival in the aftermath of a great war. Niko’s adventures through this wasteland to recover his lost memories set the stage for an unusual look at life after an apocalypse. The world of CRYO-MAN is rich with detail and ripe for a series." Nikolas Edwards has a lone memory: he follows his young son around their house, playing and laughing, as any normal father would with his boy. But Nikolas is very sick and the memory ends with...

Ricky Ricotta and his mighty robot always watch out for each other - that's what friends are for! This time, they've managed to mangle the Ricotta family's minivan. Somehow they have to find a way to make up for their mistake. When a mean little Martian named Major Monkey invades Earth, Ricky and his robot race to save the day once more. But Major Monkey has a plan to get rid of Ricky's robot so that no one will be able to stop him! Now it's up to Ricky to rescue his friend and keep Major Monkey from menacing mousekind!

Terra, a teenage girl grieving the death of her mother, is forced to move across country to live with her estranged father, who owns a dilapidated junk yard known as Junk City. She tries to move on with her life, but the circumstances of her mother’s death keep forcing its way back into her life. Terra unearths a conspiracy to cover up her mother’s death, finding her mother’s consciousness in a computer program along the way. With the help of her father, they must build a body out of junkyard parts to house the program before the company that did this to her mother come looking for her.

After achieving a decisive victory over the ruthless Ipis who rule the galaxy, Dante Carloman negotiated a treaty that saved all humans from extinction. The treaty allowed the humans and their allied species to become a semi-autonomous sector on the fringe of the Ipis empire—as long as the current Ipis empress, Fravashi, remains alive. This arrangement does not sit well with the Ipis nobility. Humanity, and especially its usurper leader, Dante, must be destroyed, and they will not allow anything to impede that endeavor. Over the next ten years, ethnocentric Ipis aristocrats put in place a...

This box set collection contains all four cozy mysteries in the Dream Droids series. Dream Droids is the premier robotics company specializing in sentient humanoids. Not only can they create the perfect human companion, but they can also create the perfect disaster. From undercover agents to sabotage, there's always a mystery and romance brewing when Dream Droids is involved. Set contains the complete paranormal cozy mystery / sweet sci fi romance series...many of them with a holiday twist that can be enjoyed any time of the year! The four books included in this boxed set are: Built for a ...

Pris dans ouragan, un cargo fait naufrage et sa cargaison de robots échoue sur une île. Ils arrivent tous en morceaux, sauf un. Rozzoum unité 7134, alias Roz. Après avoir subi un violent orage et échappé à l'attaque d'un ours féroce, Roz réalise qu'elle doit aller à la rencontre des animaux qui peuplent l'île. Pourra-t-elle survivre dans la vie sauvage et se fera-t-elle des amis ? Elissa Alloula nous hâpe dans les aventures pleines d'humour et de tendresse de Roz, et prête une voix propre à chaque personnage de ce récit captivant.

Millionaire and His Muse…but with Complications! Randy knew he was playing with fire when he first laid eyes on Jessica, his business partner’s most precious asset. Despite their age gap and difference in status, the savvy and successful businessman couldn't resist the magnetic pull he felt towards the vivacious young woman. Though they came from vastly different worlds, Jessica's youthful spirit and zest for life lit a spark in Randy's heart that he thought had long faded. At first, stolen glances and shy smiles were exchanged as they worked together, neither brave enough to make the ...

Everyone wants something. Snark wants Seasprite, owned by Anna, who seeks the Destiny Stone. Jamie wants Anna, but she’s obsessed with the Stone, so he wants the Stone to give to her. Warspite wants to end the secrecy of his presence on Seasprite. The enigmatic and evil Brotherhood want the Stone, and don’t care how many die in the process. Jane cares how many die, but is busy building her Kingdom, making alliances across four sectors, ensuring Duke Fred sorts out Cat World issues, and enlisting her AI brethren to stave off boredom, and join in the quest for the Stone. The big news ...

Evelyn has a constant need for perfection that’s blown some fuses among her robotics teammates, and she’s worried nobody’s taking the upcoming competition seriously. Allie is new to school, and she’s had a history of short-circuiting on teachers and other kids. So when Allie is assigned to the robotics team as a last resort, all Evelyn can see is just another wrench in the works!

The Owl war is over, but for Snark, normal isn’t what it used to be. He's on his way home from seeing Jane crowned Queen, and the Kingdom of Hunter's Run come into being. The war might be over, and the trade deal he made at the end of it might finally be enough for this wayward cat to be allowed back into cat society. The only thing faster than human ships, is the stories about their entry into sector ten, which ripple into the adjacent sectors. On the Cat Homeworld in sector eight, this triggers long awaited, and long stifled change. For a Warlord in sector nine, human tech would allow ...