Robot Fiction

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?

"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 ...

The greatest threat to humanity remains humanity. If worrying about aliens, bigfoot, reptilians, dog men, shadow people wasn't enough, we now have to go and start messing with human-made robots. It's not going to be up to us at some point on whether or not robots are going to be good or bad for humanity - after the singularity, they will decide. Once the robots have AI (artificial intelligence), self-awareness, and free will, it will be game over.

In a world of self-driving cars and big data, smart algorithms and Siri, we know that artificial intelligence is getting smarter every day. Though all these nifty devices and programs might make our lives easier, they're also well on their way to making "good" jobs obsolete. A computer winning Jeopardy might seem like a trivial, if impressive, feat, but the same technology is making paralegals redundant as it undertakes electronic discovery and is soon to do the same for radiologists.

Savant is everywhere. Alex and his team are on the run and must find a way to stop Savant's global domination.

Amy Peterson is a von Neumann machine – a self-replicating humanoid robot. But Amy is a robot unlike any other - her failsafe has broken, meaning she is no longer sworn to protect humans. She and her equally synthetic partner Javier are holed up in their own robot paradise. But the world that wanted so much to get hold of Amy - to imprison her, melt her down, or use her as a weapon - will not stay away much longer. Javier must run, to Mecha, the robot kingdom, in search of salvation…or death.

Robots build cars in factories, perform surgeries in hospitals, and take pictures while flying overhead. Find out just what these awesome machines can do.

The Adventures of Rusty Rob the Robot is a delightful and engaging children's book that follows Rusty Rob on his quest to become a superhero. Rusty Rob is not your average robot, with his charismatic and witty personality and his shiny silver body.

Alex navigates the halls of education with ease, utilizing his amazing robotic prowess to ace everything. Can a robot be accepted in school, or will the ins and outs of his new daily life be too much?

It is 2068 and humans are attempting to colonize Mars. Patricia Vicarro, director of a Mars colonization project, has selected HWR-001-046-QF Andrea to send to Mars in the first of a three-stage project to build a colony. Everything must be perfect. Andrea spent nearly three years in isolation, preparing for astronaut Adam Copelane's arrival. He will be the first human on Mars and will join Andrea in building the colony pods for the third phase. Now, with everything ready for Adam, she watches the Martian sky eagerly.

Even as he trains to be a pilot for the Resisters, 12-year-old Ethan Blackwood is still reeling from the news that aliens called the Ch’zar have taken over the world and put all the adults under their mind control. Now the Ch’zar’s mechanical bug armies are growing. The Resisters need more pilots like Ethan, kids who aren’t afraid to think for themselves. Ethan knows just where the Ch’zar send troublemakers like him - to Sterling Reform School. Can Ethan find a way to break into Sterling and recruit new fighters before the enemy discovers the Resisters’ underground base?

I’m the plus-size witch who just wants to putter around my magical-plant nursery in peace, but nooo. The universe is conspiring against me, I swear.The newbie witch down the street just went missing—five minutes before she was gonna give me a ride to our book club. Something magical is stalking through my mundane neighborhood, attacking my neighbors, and I’ve got everybody and their ghost dogs trying to “help” me out.

Laugh as your favourite characters spit in the face of danger...then run for the hills. Admire the verbal jousting and witty wordplay...or is it the other way round? Gasp as kings and queens lose their heads. "Enjoy" the groanworthy puns and suffer the slings and arrows of poorly-trained archers.

Meet Sam Thornton. He collects souls. Sam’s job is to collect the souls of the damned, and ensure they are dispatched to the appropriate destination. But when he’s sent to collect the soul of a young woman he believes to be innocent of the horrific crime that’s doomed her to Hell, he says something no Collector has ever said before... “No.”

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...

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...