Robot Fiction

"Io, Robot" is a short story from the collection Tides from the New Worlds. Caribbean-born novelist Tobias Buckell established himself as a gifted new voice in science fiction with his stunning first novel, Crystal Rain. Now, in his first collection, Buckell demonstrates his strengths in the short form, offering readers a collection of stories that are compelling, smart, wonderfully imagined, and entertaining.

The teacher has given out an assignment for the school’s annual science fair over spring break. Carrie is up for the challenge as the school’s brightest student teams up with her friend, Brandon, to make a remarkable project. What happens when their "project" disappears inside the school? Only her dog, Roscoe, knows what happened to their new creation! Join them in this fun-filled story filled with science and heart.

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.

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 Earth Day Fair is days away, but Nate's classroom project - a robot named Mr. Butler - has disappeared. Nate the Great and his dog, Sludge, take on the unusual case, and they are soon searching high and low in and around the school. Will Nate find the robot in time for the fair?

The complete set of three short stories that set up the Sick Robot universe in which robots infected with human cancer cells become mortal, fall in love, and decide they're more than a little tired of being second-class citizens into the city they helped build. Blending cyber and steampunk to create a retro-fusion landscape where pets are 4-D printed and people travel in tubes of compressed air, these stories will transport you into a world of surreal beauty.

Robots help us understand our weather and climate. Some fly into storms to measure wind. Others dive into the ocean to learn about weather patterns. And some drive across frigid polar regions to gather climate data. How are robots helping us plan for the weather of the future? Listen to this audiobook to find out!

Jacob creates a robot out of paper. To his surprise, the robot comes to life! Listen about their adventure to the moon.

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.

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.

Charlie7 has his secrets. Every robot knows that history has a dark period where he was the only one alive, with no one to corroborate his story. That was before an old adversary, long believed dead, emerges from hiding to expose Charlie7 as a fraud. With a newfound internship mixing new robotic personalities, Rachel Eighteen stumbles across an old file in the archive that no robot can access. The data it contains could upset the underpinnings of the thousand-year-old robotic civilization.

Ever since the Great Layoff of 2030, the police have led a war against artificial intelligence. AI replaced nearly all human jobs - and mankind snapped. Riots tore apart cities, suicides claimed whole families. Civil war seemed inevitable, until a strange new drug pacified the nation. When Stanley Duncan let his cyborg livestream at a local supermarket, he unknowingly invited war to his door.

When two science-savvy girls create an entire robot world, they don’t expect the robots to come alive. But when a choice must be made, the robots might have to pay the price.

Robots are forbidden! But Jerry is not a robot. Robots were outlawed before Joel was even born, but he has been obsessed with them his whole life. That was before he saw Jerry, the giant metal man in Levi's barn. So if Jerry is not a robot, what is he? Is Jerry a robot? Get the novelette now and decide for yourself.

Diana's family is nothing like other families. In this funny science-fiction story, hear about a young girl who is brought up by a robot family. But when she meets another girl who was raised by humans, Diana discovers her own humanity and the power of friendship.

What if you had a sex-robot that decided to dominate you? Sandrine is young, rich and privileged. She wants the one thing she can't have: the handsome young man from beyond the wrong side of the tracks and all the way to a young offender's facility. Her lust for this stranger combined with a strange eighteenth-birthday present of an oddly dominant sex robot make her set off on the road to sexual experiences she never before even dared to dream of.

New to town, Bea is expecting her new best friend to be one of the girls she meets on the first day. You know the type: very cheery, very friendly, very average. But instead, the alphabet conspires to seat her next to Jonah, aka Ghost Boy, a quiet observer who hasn’t made a new friend since third grade. He’s not a big fan of people in general... but he’s willing to make an exception for her. Maybe.

Når man finder en sjov metaldims på jorden, er det nemt at få en god idé. Så Villads og hans ven, Alexander, går straks i gang med at samle metaldimser nok til at bygge en robot. Men som alle, der kender Villads ved, udvikler hans idéer sig tit lidt anderledes, end han havde forestillet sig. Villads’ mor har fødselsdag, og hvad er mere oplagt end at give hende en robot lavet af metaldimser? Men hvordan er det lige, man får dimserne til at sidde sammen? Og hvordan får man overhovedet en robot til at bevæge sig?

Explore the fascinating world of robots. With fun facts and engaging discussion topics, this short audiobook provides an inspiring look at this exciting technology.

Maven wants to be known for something great. She had been nervous about starting fifth grade after spending all summer with her little brother and baby cousins. So when her fifth-grade teacher announces a district-wide robotics competition, she jumps at the opportunity to be the class’s leader. Being in charge is better and cooler than playing make-believe, right? Many people doubt her, especially the boys in her class, but with the support of her friends and Girl Scout troop, Maven is determined to prove them wrong.