Robot Fiction

"Приключения Электроника" - цикл детских научно-фантастических повестей Евгения Велтистова о мальчике-роботе Электронике и его двойнике - школьнике Серёже Сыроежкине приобрёл необычайную известность после экранизации первых двух повестей.

Ude i fremtiden ser verden anderledes ud. De voksne gider ikke længere stå for at opdrage børnene. I stedet sidder de hele dagen og ser fjernsyn, mens robotterne tager sig af børnene. Samantha synes, det er lige lovligt kedeligt, men det ændrer sig, da hun en dag får sig en ny robot. Den er oldgammel, og der er kludder i programmeringen, så den opfører sig overhovedet ikke, som den skal! Philip Newth (f. 1939) er en engelskfødt norsk børnebogsforfatter. Han er særlig kendt for sine bøger om robotten Matilda og har vundet flere priser for sit forfatterskab.

Ken is an EngiNerd: one of a super-smart group of friends - all nerds - who have been close since kindergarten. They may be brainiacs, but they're just like everyone else: They fight with one another, watch too much TV, eat Chinese food, and hate walking their dogs. Well, maybe not just like everyone because Ken's best friend Dan has been building robots. He then secretly sent one to each of the EngiNerds, never letting them know he's the mastermind. At first Ken is awed and delighted: What kid hasn't dreamed of having a robot all their own?

Paul würde seinen Roboterfreund Roki so gerne mit in seine Schule nehmen - aber Adam, Rokis Erfinder und "Papa", ist dagegen, nachdem der kleine Kerl schon einmal beinahe geklaut worden wäre. Als eines Tages der Schulgong verrückt spielt und seltsame Durchsagen kommen, kann Paul es kaum glauben: Roki hat sich heimlich in die Schule geschmuggelt! Doch dann passiert genau das, wovor Adam gewarnt hat: Roki wird von jemandem entdeckt, der nichts Gutes im Schilde führt. Zum Glück ist Roboter Roki so schlau und hat einen Freund wie Paul.

Frank Einstein (kid-genius, scientist, and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, along with Klink (a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity) and Klank (a mostly self-assembled and artificial almost-intelligence entity), once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and arch-rival, this time studying the science and mysteries of the universe!

The next adventures in the series await you with ghosts, magic, superpowers, sewer monsters, and more! Follow Daisy as she tries to stop a war in a hilarious way. Bite your nails while Jerry escapes some suspicious characters. See how Jeremy discovers ancient magic that tries to trap him. Get ready for more action, fun, excitement, silliness, and adventure.

Die besten Ferien, die Paul je erlebt hat: Roboter Roki rettet den Nordsee-Schatz. Paul, Roki und Valerie freuen sich ein Loch in den Bauch: Adam nimmt sie alle mit an die Nordsee, wo er eine frühere Erfindung reparieren soll, den Tauchroboter LUISE. Der Zelturlaub am Meer wird ein Riesenspaß, denn an Strand und Campingplatz ist jede Menge los. Doch so richtig spannend wird es, als Roki seine "Schwester" LUISE kennenlernt, denn sie soll einen echten Goldschatz bergen.

Paul macht Augen, als er entdeckt, was der neue Untermieter in seiner Werkstatt verbirgt: Adam Botumil ist Erfinder, und sein neuester Clou ist ein kleiner selbstlernender Roboter! Roboterkind Roki ist blitzgescheit und in Nullkommanix lernt es sprechen, laufen, aufräumen, lachen und sogar rülpsen! Als bahnbrechende Erfindung muss Roki unbedingt geheim bleiben und darf Adams Werkstatt nicht verlassen. Aber Rokis Roboterhirn braucht mehr als Gleichstrom. Es ist hungrig nach Neuem und schon bald wird dem neugierigen Knirps langweilig.

Ich bin Egon und das ist mein Forschertagebuch. Hier darf nur reinhören, wer Forscher ist. Oder wer einer werden will. Aber sonst keiner... Ganz begeistert schrauben Egon und sein bester Freund Jojo an ihrem Super-Roboter herum. Damit gewinnen sie die Wette gegen Ben bestimmt! Doch natürlich geht einiges schief und der wild gewordene Roboter büxt aus. Wie fangen sie den bloß wieder ein? Mit diesem ganz speziellen Alleskönner-Roboter ist lustiges Chaos garantiert! Die spannende Lesung mit vielen Geräuschen wird gesprochen von T. Bunke.

Causing chaos wherever they sail, the robotic Steampunk Pirates are roaming the high seas, hunting for gold! But the evil Iron Duke has other ideas. He's determined to capture the pirates in return for a handsome reward from the king. Can the mechanical marauders stay one wave ahead of their enemy?

Having achived so much, Marius don Hellespont was finding life just a little boring. But now something, or maybe someone, has stopped the dead from, well, dying. So wouldn’t you know it, it’s up to Marius, incorrigible sidekick Gerd, and Gerd’s not-dead-enough Granny, to journey across the continent and put the marching dead back in the afterlife, where they belong.

Meet Sam Thornton, collecter of souls. The souls of the damned, to be precise. Because of his efforts to avert the Apocalypse, Sam Thornton has been given a second chance: provided he can stick to the straight-and-narrow. Which sounds all well and good, but when the soul that Sam is sent to collect goes missing, he finds himself on a path leading straight to Hell.

What exactly is a robot? How do they talk and move? And what does it take to build one? Ada Twist, Scientist: The Why Files is the perfect nonfiction resource for all these questions and more. Based on the bestselling Questioneers series and the Ada Twist, Scientist Netflix show, this nonfiction series is perfect for the youngest scientists of tomorrow as they learn along with Ada.

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.

Un ragazzino geniale, appassionato di robotica, diventa amico di un robot alieno col quale crescerà vivendo avventure incredibili e lottando per salvare il mondo da pericolosi alieni. La vita, le passioni e le avventure di Joshua Russell sono raccontate in un intreccio di cospirazioni, pericoli e insidie per il nostro pianeta. Emozioni, amicizia e suspense si mescolano con argomenti importanti come l’ecologia, la guerra, i rischi della tecnologia per la vita umana ma soprattutto con l’etica e l’onore.

Shale is dying. A vast, chaotic, monster-bearing storm known only as the Roil is expanding, consuming the land. The last humans are fighting back with ever more bizarre new machines, but the Roil seems unstoppable. Whole cities have been consumed – where once there were twelve, now only four remain. It’s up to a decadent wastrel, a four thousand year-old man, and a young woman bent on revenge, to try to save their city – and the world.

Altapasaeda, capital of the Castoval, is about to be besieged by its own king - and where else would luckless, somewhat reformed thief Easie Damasco be but trapped within the city's walls? Faced with a war they can't win and a populace too busy fighting amongst itself to even try, the Castovalian defenders are left with one desperate option. Far in the northern lands of Shoan, rebels have set up the young prince Malekrin as a figurehead in their own quest to throw off the king's tyrannical rule. One way or another, the prince must be persuaded to join forces.

Exiled from the court of Queen Elizabeth for accusing a powerful nobleman of treason, swordsman-turned-spy Mal Catlyn has been living in France with his young valet, Coby Hendricks, for the past year. But Mal harbours a darker secret: he and his twin brother share a soul that once belonged to a skrayling, one of the mystical creatures from the New World.

Meet Easie Damasco: thief, liar...and lately, reluctant hero. But whatever good intentions Damasco may have are about to be tested to their limits, as the most valuable - and dangerous - object in the land comes within his light-fingered grasp. Add in some suicidally stubborn giants, an old enemy with dreams of empire, and the deadliest killer in two kingdoms on his heels, and Easie’s chances of staying honest - or even just surviving - are getting slimmer by the hour.

「僕は人間じゃない。ロボットなんだ」ユーモアと優しさに満ちた、幻想的なタッチで描かれる青春小説。第1回CRUNCHNOVELS新人賞 大賞作家デビュー作