Robot Fiction

Después de aprender a vivir en una isla lejana y salvaje, ahora Roz se encuentra atrapada en la granja de la familia Shareef. Su nueva vida le impone otro tipo de riesgos, como los tornados o los ataques de lobos. Desesperada por escapar de la granja y volver a su vida en la isla con Diamantino, Roz inicia una travesía en busca de la libertad a través del bosque silvestre y luego por la bulliciosa ciudad, donde se enfrentará a criaturas aún más peligrosas: los humanos.

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.

After bloody civil unrest, environmental disaster, and the Third World War, benevolent corporations have replaced governments and delivered peace, prosperity, and equality to a grateful human race. Max Carmichael is an agent in the Cryptics Bureau, whose duty is to protect the corporations that govern the world. But when he’s given a secret mission to find a mysterious woman linked to acts of sabotage, he discovers she was part of a MIM*X experiment that links human brains to artificial intelligence.

"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.

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.

Jimmy Roberts' favourite sport to watch is Robot Races, where drivers and their high-tech robot vehicles compete. When the races' founder announces a special version of the competition just for children, Jimmy and his robot, Cabbie, were thrilled to qualify. After finishing second in the first race, they're out to win the next challenge, in the Amazon rainforest - but Jimmy's enemy Horace has other ideas.

Aprile 2000, villaggio di Jenovac, Kosovo meridionale: durante una missione di peace keaping gli ispettori Nato Monaldi e Leclerc s’imbattono in una fossa comune che ospita, tra decine di corpi, i resti di uno strano soldato senza mostrine. Sospettano si tratti di un Militech, una sorta di “ravenant” ottenuto assemblando parti di cadavere e poi rianimato grazie a una tecnologia avanzatissima di cui nessuno conosce l’origine. La prima generazione di questi droidi da combattimento comparve dal nulla durante la seconda guerra mondiale.

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.

A poignant tale of humans and robots and the meaning of life.

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

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!

Everyone in Peter Powers' family has super awesome superpowers - except Peter. All he can do is make ice cubes and flash freeze little stuff. At least his brother and sister have finally stopped picking on him - mostly. But at school, an even more menacing bully has it out for Peter and his friends. As if that wasn't enough, Boulder City is being raided by robots! When his parents are captured, will Peter and his siblings be able to work together and save the day? Or will the town - and possibly the world - be iced? Join Peter Powers and his fantastic family for their second adventure.

Il progresso tecnologico avanza spedito, la popolazione invecchia e non gli sta dietro. Per questo Laura Annibali, una mezza genia nel campo informatico, arrivata ai cinquant’anni ha deciso di fondare la Huf, un’associazione no profit con la missione di sostenere le persone tecnologicamente inabili.

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.

En fångtransport från planeten Cybertron har kraschlandat på jorden och livsfarliga, kriminella robotar - decepticoner - har rymt. Det är upp till ett team med autoboter att hitta dem och föra dem tillbaka in i kryosömn. Poliskommissarie Bumblebee, den rebelliska Sideswipe och polisaspiranten Strongarm har tagit Markbron från Cybertron till jorden för att spåra upp dem. Scuzzard är inte den första boten Team Bee slagits mot, men det blir svårare än väntat att fånga in denna hemska best ...

Bumblebee och hans gäng med autoboter har gjort sig ordentligt hemmastadda på skrotupplaget i Crown City. Därifrån vaktar de jorden och förbereder sig på nästa strid mot de onda decepticonerna. En av de allra ivrigaste autoboterna är Sideswipe. Han tror faktiskt att han till och med skulle kunna slå den där gangstern Thunderhoof! Och när ett gäng decepticoner plötsligt dyker upp på deras radar verkar det som att han äntligen ska få chansen...

A boy tries to save his best friend that was infected with a parasite by robotic dogs. He then goes to the planet the dogs are living on, trying to annihilate them using an electromagnetic pulse generator and destroying the food source of the organic computers they are using, with the help of intelligent evolved dinosaurs. This is the 13th of a multi-volume series, each book building on a new adventure.

A boy discovers he has become infected with a dangerous parasite that he got while visiting a remote planet. After being sent on a dangerous mission, he realizes that robots are attempting to take over the human population. He must return in an attempt to right what was wrong. This is the eighth of a multi-volume series, each book building on a new adventure.

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.