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Series
Alchemy wars volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Language
English
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"The Clakker: a mechanical man, endowed with great strength and boundless stamina -- but beholden to the wishes of its human masters. Soon after the Dutch scientist and clockmaker Christiaan Huygens invented the very first Clakker in the 17th Century, the Netherlands built a whole mechanical army. It wasn't long before a legion of clockwork fusiliers marched on Westminster, and the Netherlands became the world's sole superpower. Three centuries later,...
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Series
Murderbot diaries volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel, Network Effect. You know that feeling when you're at work, and you've had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot....
Author
Series
Alchemy wars volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 6
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling security droid with a heart (though it wouldn't admit it!) is back in Fugitive Telemetry! Having captured the hearts of readers across the globe (Annalee Newitz says it's "one of the most humane portraits of a nonhuman I've ever read") Murderbot has also established Martha Wells as one of the great SF writers of today. No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall. When Murderbot...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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"It's been a year since the horrific events at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, and Charlie is just trying to move on. Even with the excitement of a new school and a fresh start, she's still haunted by nightmares of a masked murderer and four gruesome animatronic puppets. Charlie thinks her ordeal is over, but when a series of bodies are discovered near her school bearing wounds that are disturbingly familiar she finds herself drawn back into the world of...
Author
Series
Robopocalypse novels volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 7
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there’s an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can’t have the planet, they’re sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be...
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"From critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and film critic C. Robert Cargill comes a harrowing apocalyptic adventure that explores the relationship between humans and robots, and the fight for purpose and agency in a crumbling world"--
11) Autonomous
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Judith "Jack" Chen, a scientist-turned-drug pirate, travels the world in a submarine to bring cheap medicine to the poor, but when her latest drug hack results in a trail of lethal overdoses, she is pursued by a jaded military agent and his robotic partner.
12) Iron widow
Author
Series
Iron widow volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall of China. It doesn't matter that the girls die from the mental strain. When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But when she gets her vengeance, it becomes clear that she is an Iron Widow, a rare...
14) Ron's gone wrong
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Follows the adventures of a socially awkward middle schooler and his defective and glitchy robot.
15) Meet Quickshadow
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Introduces Quickshadow, a secret agent who must learn about teamwork from the Rescue Bots.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
In a near future when life is harsh outside of Earth's last unpolluted place, Cee tries to leave an abandoned island while her sister, STEM prodigy Kasey, seeks escape from the science and home she once trusted.
17) Klara y el sol
Author
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama, S.A
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
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Description
"Klara es una AA, una Amiga Artificial, especializada en el cuidado de ninos. Pasa sus dias en una tienda, esperando a que alguien la adquiera y se la lleve a una casa, un hogar. Mientras espera, contempla el exterior desde el escaparate. Observa a los transeuntes, sus actitudes, sus gestos, su modo de caminar, y es testigo de algunos episodios que no acaba de entender, como una extrana pelea entre dos taxistas. Klara es una AA singular, es mas observadora...
Author
Series
Frank Einstein volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In his Grandpa Al's garage workshop, child genius Frank Einstein tries to invent a robot that can learn on its own, and after an accident brings wisecracking Klink and overly expressive Klank to life, they set about helping Frank perfect his Antimatter Motor until his archnemesis, T. Edison, steals the robots for his doomsday plan.
Author
Publisher
Skybound Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of Ready Player One and Black Mirror. In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, along with the discarded trash of a high-tech consumerist society addicted to a virtual-reality system. As they...
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