Robot Fiction

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.

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?

Dramatized reading with sound effects of four spin-off children's short stories starring the amazing robotic dog, K9. These stories were originally published in 1980, to tie in with K9’s appearances, and are read by the original actor, John Leeson, the voice of K9.

The planet had fallen off the map. Lost on an unknown and forgotten planet, scientist Karl Allman discovers himself hunted by an ancient race. The descendants of earlier colonists have reverted to a savage tribal culture of sacrifice, pillage and violence. When Karl falls in love with an outcast girl, he has only one goal: Escape. But escape is a distant dream on this nightmare planet.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

In beautiful, lyrical text actress Kirby Howell-Baptiste tells the story of one Black girl and her limitless potential as she pursues her dream of robotics. Determined to have her robot ready for the school fair, getting everything done in time won’t be easy, but this little Black girl knows she is destined to shine and is not going to let anything hold her back from achieving her dream. With bright, bold plans in mind she begins to sketch and build her robot.

A family and their friends frantically battle legions of zombies in a major American East Coast city. This family has one advantage, and that is its ability to innovate new technologies, including robots, to increase their chances of survival. Through the use of the robots, they are able to reclaim some of their lost world, but zombies are not their only worry. Other survivors are often just as dangerous. Finding sources of food and water prove to be equal and ongoing challenges for them.

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!

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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.

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 ...

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!

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.

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.

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.