Robot Fiction

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?

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.

When Tudor explorers returned from the New World, they brought back a name out of half-forgotten Viking legend: skraylings. Red-sailed ships followed in the explorers’ wake, bringing Native American goods - and a skrayling ambassador – to London. But what do these seemingly magical beings really want in Elizabeth I’s capital? Mal Catlyn, a down-at-heel swordsman, is appointed to the ambassador’s bodyguard, but assassination attempts are the least of his problems.

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.

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.

Four years after the horrific events in Leadville, a young visitor from England, Victoria Dawes, sets into motion a series of events that will lead Cora and herself out into the New Mexico desert. They are in pursuit of Anaba, a Navajo witch bent on taking revenge for the atrocities committed against her people.

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.

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.

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.”

K52 is a vast artificial intelligence with world domination on its mind.... If it succeeds in creating an artificial reality based on our own universe, it could gain enough data to allow it to alter reality itself, turning k52 into the ultimate arbiter of mankind’s fate. It’s down to Richards and Klein to stop k52 – even though the alternative could be worse!

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.

Ted Hall is worried. He's been sleepwalking, and his somnambulant travels appear to coincide with murders by the notorious Hang Wire Killer. Meanwhile, the circus has come to town, but the Celtic dancers are taking their pagan act a little too seriously, the manager of the Olde Worlde Funfair has started talking to his vintage machines, and the new acrobat's frequent absences are causing tension among the performers. Out in the city there are other new arrivals - immortals searching for an ancient power - a primal evil which, if unopposed, could destroy the world!