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Author
Series
Rogue angel volume 43
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Archaeologist Annja Creed, her friend Garin and his old mentor Roux race across Europe in a frantic quest to find an ancient butterfly key thought to activate a powerful automaton.
Author
Series
Alchemy wars volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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,...
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.
28) Only human
Author
Series
Themis files volume 3
Language
English
Description
"World War Z meets The Martian in the explosive follow-up to Sleeping Giants ("One of the most promising series kickoffs in recent memory"--NPR) and Waking Gods ("Pure, unadulterated literary escapism"--Kirkus Reviews). In her childhood, Rose Franklin accidentally discovered a giant metal hand buried beneath the ground outside Deadwood, South Dakota. As an adult, Dr. Rose Franklin led the team that uncovered the rest of the body parts which together...
29) Rogue berserker
Author
Series
Berserker series volume 17
Publisher
Baen Pub. Enterprises
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
30) I, robot
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The three laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm 2) A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. With these three, simple directives, Isaac Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when...
32) I am Baymax
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Baymax explains who he is and how he and his friends fight the evil Yokai in the city of San Fransokyo.
33) Roboteer
Author
Series
Roboteer novels volume 1
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A hard science fiction novel set in a future in which the colonisation of the stars has turned out to be anything but easy, and civilization on Earth has collapsed under the pressure of relentless mutual terrorism.--
35) Tightrope
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"An unconventional woman and a man shrouded in mystery walk a tightrope of desire as they race against a killer to find a machine that could change the world"--
36) Hard reboot
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Kas is a junior researcher on a fact-finding mission to old Earth. But when a con-artist tricks her into wagering a large sum of money belonging to her university on the outcome of a manned robot arena battle she becomes drawn into the seedy underworld of old Earth politics and state-sponsored battle-droid prizefights"--
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"--
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Retiring to a beach house at Barren Cove, a stately Victorian manor even older than he is, Sapien, searching for meaning in a world where his outdated allegiances to a time long past have left him isolated and hopeless, becomes fascinated with the family whose lives are entwined with the home.
Author
Publisher
Skybound Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
London, 2010. Grieving the loss of her lover, Swinburne museum curator Catherine Gehrig is given a special project--bring back to life an automaton whose original owner, 19th century Englishman Henry Brandling, was also confronted with the mystery of life and death.
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