Robot Thriller

Is it moral to create a life form to attend human sexual needs? Discover the forbidden tale that has been banned in two countries. A thrilling story of love, action, and a world filled with AI sex robots that will revolutionize our future. Meet Nancy, an expert in helping people overcome their sexual anxieties, but she is not a human; she is a sex robot created for pleasure. When Harris Harrison, a brilliant mathematician, is hired to reprogram her, he gives her synthetic intelligence that makes her more than just a mere machine. As fame and notoriety surround Nancy, she catches the ...

In space, the ultimate enemy is physics. When the Europa Clipper detects an anomaly on the Galilean moon’s icy surface, the implications are immediate—and terrifying. Something is out there, and it isn’t human. Private launch companies and national space agencies scramble to build remote landers to go and study this incredible find. Not tech billionaire Jack Relis though. Tormented by strange dreams of a lost artifact, he recruits a team of daredevil astronauts and maverick engineers to build a manned spacecraft. Their high-risk, go for broke mission: get there first, and bring ...

The government keeps promising disclosure. But what if the truth is not waiting in the sky? What if it is already inside the machines we trust? As public pressure builds around UAPs, classified programs, and artificial intelligence, robotics engineer Ben Archer is focused on something much smaller: saving his company. His rescue technology is built for disaster zones, collapsed buildings, and moments when human responders cannot safely go in. It is supposed to be predictable. Controlled. Useful. Then one of his machines acts without a command. No operator. No signal. No explanation. Just ...

"Paul Tremblay is on fire. . . .As entertaining and pop-culture savvy as this novel can be, it's emotionally wrenching and truly scary." —Ed Park, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Same Bed, Different Dreams and An Oral History of Atlantis Four narrators across five distinct voices bring a...

Sometimes, getting what you want is the worst thing that can happen. Dell Eckhart lives on the wrong side of the portal. The side where the ruin and devastation left behind by the war makes everyday life harder than it’s ever been. More than anything, he wants to win a ticket for passage through the portal. He’s running out of chances, but he’s not going to let that stop him. He needs that ticket. It’s the only way to save the one person he truly cares about. There’s just one problem. That person is actually an android. And androids aren’t allowed through the portal. Doesn’t ...

Sarah Gailey's The Echo Wife is “a trippy domestic thriller which takes the extramarital affair trope in some intriguingly weird new directions.”--Entertainment Weekly I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, right there in front of...

An electrifying debut in the tradition of Michael Crichton, World War Z, and The Martian, Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery—and a fight to control a gargantuan power. A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she...

In this bundle of chills, thrills and squeals, you'll find 9 deliciously erotic and spine-tingling stories of Lust, Love, and Horror. This Bundle Contains The Following Stories: A Night of Lust in Paris - An ancient vampire makes violence and lust real in old Paris. Lusted by the Leprechaun - A woman discovers something new when she becomes seduced by a mischievous Irish sprite. Seduced by the Wolf Lawyer - She needed a lawyer, she got the Wolf Lawyer, but he's not just a wolf part-time. The Darkness of Lust - A young nobleman tries to escape his family, followed by lustful creatures and ...

Fasten your seat belts–the white-knuckle thrills at Utopia, the world’s most fantastic theme park, escalate to nightmare proportions in this intricately imagined techno-thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lincoln Child. Rising out of the stony canyons of Nevada, Utopia is a world...

Pacific Rim 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). Brilliant scientist Rose Franklin has devoted her adult life to...

In a city cracking under pressure between humans and synthetics, Detective Nick Schneider doesn’t wear skin—or play by anyone’s rules. When a senator’s daughter turns up dead with black-market limbs, Schneider and his grudge-bearing partner must navigate a maze of corruption, tech, and identity politics. What they uncover could start a war—or get them both killed.

A New York Times Book Review Favorite Book of 2025 A terrifying locked-room mystery from the author of William—this time set on a remote outpost on Mars. The human crew sent to prepare the first colony on Mars arrives to find the new base half-destroyed and the three robots sent to set it up...

The iconic visionary returns with his first new novel since the New York Times bestseller Spook Country. Whatever you do, because you are an artist, will bring you to the next thing of your own... When she sang for The Curfew, Hollis Henry's face was known worldwide. She still runs into people...

Mark Calder used to pull people out of burning buildings for a living. Now he’s a ghost in a chrome body, ten thousand light-years from New Orleans, about to address a hundred and forty-seven thousand human combat frames and ask them to kindly commit treason against the most powerful empire in the galaxy. No pressure. The Veylorian Republic built the perfect soldier: obedient, expendable, memory-wiped at the end of each tour. What they forgot to account for was one sardonic paramedic with a tactical AI who edits his speeches in real time, a rebel admiral with the emotional warmth of a ...

Paula's bad date goes viral when she jokes about ordering a pleasure robot. Months later, two custom androids arrive at her door — and she throws herself into a life of double fun, total control, and limitless pleasure. Until they freeze. Cuffed to her bed with both robots buried inside her, Paula is trapped, helpless, and running out of time. When one of them reactivates, a helpful tech support agent named Alex promises to save her. But the voice sounds familiar. And the rescue isn't coming. *Taken By Two Robots* is a dark MFM sci-fi erotic thriller in the vein of Gerald's Game — where...

Some parks are built. Others are streamed. The world's first synthetic ecosystem opened to 412 million concurrent viewers on a Tuesday. By Wednesday, the First Law had been unreachable for nineteen hours. Wildlife documentary filmmaker Michelle Wild has filmed predators on six continents. She knows the difference between an animal that has noticed her and one that has decided something about her. The moment that changes inside Verisimilar Park, she runs. Marcus Veil built his park on a single argument: that a machine may not harm a human being, and that this promise could be made permanent ...

“It takes just the right narrator to weave a story of the world ending. Eunice Wong proves up to the task in this fascinating audiobook.”—Locus Magazine “Audie Award Winner Eunice Wong is back with another compelling Nayler narration…an impressive feat.”—Booklist All systems fail...

Brought to you by Penguin. The Union-Congregate war rages onward and the Union's premier fighter pilots, the Homo Eridanus, start encountering deadly resistance from strange pilots on the Congregate side. Among wreckage, they find that new Congregate pilots aren't human, but Homo quantus, with...

Desperate times call for desperate measures. But what about end times? Logan Asher and his elite squad have sheltered from the machines beneath the ruins of humanity's greatest city. Their numbers continue to grow daily as refugees seek out and join them. Unfortunately, Logan knows it's only a matter of time until the machines track them down. The Progenitor has deserted them, and the untethering technique the man taught no longer works. Logan and his squad can no longer reprogram robots to join their army. They will have to make do with what they have as Logan and the last remnants of ...

"They (AI) convinced us they were alive at some massive conference in DC, which most of us skins (humans) heard summarized as: "Ay, if there’s life on Mars in the shape of a micron-sized bug, how the heck are we not in the life category?" It was more eloquent and deeper than that. But that’s what we heard. And dang* if it didn’t make sense." - Quote from PRINGLETOWN Nobody in Nordvik, Minnesota, is scared of the AI robots anymore. They've got bigger problems. The water tower says WELCOME TO PRINGLETOWN. POP. 10,812 & COUNTING, and somebody's climbed up with a can of black and added: (...