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The Great War is over. The Robots have won. The humans who survived have two choices--they can submit and serve the vicious rulers they created or be banished to the Reserve, a desolate, unforgiving landscape where it's a crime to be human. And the robots aren't content--following the orders of their soulless leader, they're planning to conquer humanity's last refuge. With nothing left to lose, Six, a feisty, determined young woman whose family was...
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"From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara she is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous...
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Tor
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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Even in Empire City, a town where weird science is the hope for tomorrow, it’s hard for a robot to make his way. It’s even harder for a robot named Mack Megaton, a hulking machine designed to bring mankind to its knees. But Mack’s not interested in world domination. He’s just a bot trying to get by, trying to demonstrate that he isn’t just an automated smashing machine, and to earn his citizenship in the process. It should be as easy as...
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Alchemy wars volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"Jax, a rogue Clakker, has wreaked havoc upon the Clockmakers' Guild by destroying the Grand Forge. Reborn in the flames, he finally makes it across the border to New France. There he begins his life as a free Clakker, but liberation proves its own burden. Berenice, formerly the legendary spymaster for the King of New France, mastermind behind her nation's attempts to undermine the Dutch Hegemony has been banished from her homeland and captured by...
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Skybound Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"A thought-provoking coming-of-age novel about two human-like teen robots navigating high school, basketball, and potentially life-threatening consequences if their true origins are discovered by the inhabitants of their intolerant 1980s Michigan hometown"--
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Explore the capabilities of robots and the computers that control them, from space rovers to drones, from robotic toys to robots that perform surgery, and meet Pepper, the first robot able to show and understand human emotion. What is a robot? Will robots take over the future? Robot Universe gives young readers a look at the past, present, and future of artificial intelligence."--Amazon.com.
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Set in an alternate present-day world in which the Internet does not exist, and has never existed. Rather, a wholly different species of interactive technology--a 'flesh-and-bone robot' called the Curio--has dominated both the market and the cultural imagination since the late 1980s. Belt Magnet, who as a boy in greater Chicago became one of the lucky first adopters of a Curio, is now writing his memoir, and through it we follow a singular man out...
10) Going somewhere
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Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2021.
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IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Otto and Pip are off on an adventure to somewhere, but to Pip's surprise they end up nowhere.
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Holiday House
Pub. Date
2021.
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IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When a wooden robot prince forgets to say the magic words that turn his sister from a log into a princess she is thrown away, so he goes on an epic journey to find her and bring her back.
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Robopocalypse novels volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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A sequel to the best-selling Robopocalypse is told through a series of narratives that finds new and former characters fighting to rebuild a war-stricken world under threat of the surviving Archos machine code.
17) Robot builders!
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Mason Crest
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Build a robot that can help a blind person see! Design a machine that can read to chidren, build a car, or walk on Mars! Robot builders and designers are creating new and amazing robots every day. They are finding ways to put robotics into every part of human life.
18) Dev1at3
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Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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In the wake of a climactic battle in the ruined city of Babel, two former best friends suddenly find themselves on opposite sides of the same quest. Eve is torn between the memories of the girl she was, and the synthetic she's discovered herself to be. Together with her lifelike "siblings," Eve sets out to find the real Ana Monrova, whose DNA is the key to building an army of lifelikes. Meanwhile, Eve's best friend, Lemon, is coming to terms with...
19) Rogue berserker
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Berserker series volume 17
Publisher
Baen Pub. Enterprises
Pub. Date
c2005
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English
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Frank Einstein volume 1
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Español
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Un día, mientras Frank hacía un experimento un poco rarito, un rayo cayó sobre su laboratorio y dio vida a su último invento: ¡los robots Klink y Klank! Aunque no son para nada lo que Frank imaginaba, con la ayuda de estos robots estará chupado crear un Motor Antimateria y ganar con él el Premio de Ciencias de Midville. O al menos eso parece, hasta que entra en juego su archienemigo T. Edison..
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