Robot Fiction

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.

Kalan Mars yearned to escape the cunning familiarity of small town life. He was labelled a clone. The bullet whizzed past his head. Kalan was thrown into a harrowing race for survival. Was he human, or was he a replica? The truth will unleash chaos.

Planet Hyman is at a lost as Hilda takes a sabbatical, she has found her "pleasure dome" and while she learns there is more to life than a new manifesto, H2 and DBO plot a coup. With Mex hungover, and Beryl shamed, there is little to stand in their way apart from a hippy colony too chilled to care, a reporter with no scruples, and a missing set of batteries. Will H2 and DBO take over the planet and run it the proletarian way? Or will Hilda rise from her wet dreams toss her dead batteries to the wind and take over from where Beryl left?

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?

Mara Keoni is a sexy Navajo special agent of the IJF - Independent Justice Foundation. She travels the country righting wrongs and using amazing high-tech gadgets. But she never expected the IJF’s latest invention would become her new partner and the source of ultimate sexual pleasure! Mara is paired up with KATT - Kaito Automotive Twin Turbo. An incredibly advanced female AI inside a black Phoenix turbocharged GTX sports car.

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.

MISIEK I SZWAGIER POWRACAJĄ W BRAWUROWEJ KOMEDII POMYŁEK, W KOŃCU SZWAGIER TO JEDNA, WIELKA POMYŁKA. JAZDA PO WŁOSKU: BEZ TRZYMANKI I "NA KRECHĘ". EFEKT MOŻE BYĆ TYLKO JEDEN: TOTALNA KATASTROFA. W DODATKU NA ŻYWO! "Misiek" Wilkoński nie wie chyba, że nie wchodzi się dwa razy do tej samej rzeki. Niepomny zdarzeń z ubiegłego roku, kiedy to Szwagier nieomal zrujnował całej rodzinie święta Bożego Narodzenia, decyduje się na jego propozycję wspólnego wyjazdu na narty w myśl zasady, że darowanemu koniowi nie zagląda się w zęby.

As the excitement from the last mystery the One and Onlys solved is starting to dwindle, Shanks, Peephole, and Paul worry that their town is back to being boring old Bellwood. But as plans for a shiny town makeover get underway, they realize that the "old Bellwood" is anything but. The glee over "New Bellwood" is palpable, and it's hard not to get swept away by the flashy new milkshake joint and other developments that are quickly making their small town unrecognizable. But the One and Onlys can't deny that something nefarious seems to be afoot.

Abbey Mei Otis's short stories are contemporary fiction at its strongest: taking apart the supposed equality that is clearly just not there, putting humans under an alien microscope, putting humans under government control, and more. Otis has long been fascinated in using strange situations to explore dynamics of power, oppression, and grief, and the 12 stories collected here are at once a striking indictment of the present and a powerful warning about the future.

Marius dos Hellespont and his apprentice, Gerd, are professional looters of battlefields. When they stumble upon the corpse of the King of Scorby and Gerd is killed, Marius is mistaken for the monarch by one of the dead soldiers and is transported down to the Kingdom of the Dead. Just like the living citizens, the dead need a king - after all, the king is God’s representative, and someone needs to remind God where they are. And so it comes to pass that Marius is banished to the surface with one message: If he wants to recover his life he must find the dead king.

Ullsaard has conquered the known world. All have fallen before his armies. Now it's time to take the long journey home, back to the revered heart of the great Empire he had helped create for his distant masters. But when he returns to the capital, life there is so very different from what he had believed. Could it be that everything he has fought for, has conquered and killed for, has been a lie? Gav Thorpe works from Nottingham, England and has written more than a dozen novels and even more short stories.

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.

When Lincoln Middle School’s beloved lion mascot costume disappears just days before the big homecoming game, chaos erupts. Without the school spirit icon, the pep rally is in jeopardy—and so is the entire football season. The student body is divided, the cheer team is in crisis, and the principal is desperate to keep things under control. That’s when seventh-grade android Atlas, designed to look and act like a normal kid, steps in with his advanced intelligence, hidden gadgets, and a determination to solve the mystery before the final whistle blows. Together with his best friends ...

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.

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!

In an isolated mountain community, sometimes a child is born with two hearts. This child is called a striga and is considered a demon who must be abandoned on the edge of the forest. The child s mother must then decide to leave with her infant, or stay and try to forget. Nineteen year-old striga, Salka, and her mother, Miriat, made the choice to leave and live a life of deprivation and squalor in an isolated village. The striga tribe share the human belief that to follow the impulses of their other hearts is dangerous, inviting unspoken horrors and bringing ruin onto them all.

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.

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!

"Written in Purple," follows the lives of several teens and adults facing a strange, robotic America. The newly implemented robotic teacher program sends several teens into a carefully planned attempt to rebel, led by a senior at Robotics Readiness High by the name of Jason Fontenot. However, their plans are interrupted with the onset of a major hurricane. Jason and his friend, Carson, are surprised when unexpected visitors arrive and complicate their initial plan. The mysterious woman, Nicole Thibodeaux, and her granddaughter, Princess, become an integral part of the plan after arriving to...

The Warrior Prince (A Prequel Novella to The Red Tomorrow) Prepare to embark on an adrenaline-fueled journey into the heart of mechanized warfare in "The Warrior Prince," a gripping prequel novella to the acclaimed series, "The Red Tomorrow." Set one year before the epic events of "The Red Frontier," this thrilling tale introduces you to the fearless Prince Tristan, a prodigious exo-mech pilot with a destiny entwined with the fate of the Zeltan Kingdom. In a world where colossal exo-mechs dominate the battlefield, Tristan faces a monumental challenge: to prove his mettle not only to his ...