Adventure Robot

He was built to obey. Unfortunately for the Hegemony, he learned to think. Thirty-one minutes after coming online, a Series-9 combat android finds himself in a muddy trench, surrounded by artillery fire, corpses, terrified soldiers, and a command structure making decisions so catastrophically stupid they should probably qualify as enemy action. When a panicked officer orders him to charge into a kill box and die usefully, the android does the one thing he was never designed to do. He says no. That single act of defiance turns him from military asset to dangerous anomaly. Hunted by the ...

Jaya Romanov is an independent star ship shaman. She studies the energy flows of the universe and—for a price—will harness them to her employer’s purpose. Wormholes are a whole lot safer to travel when a shaman guides the jump. Vulf Trent is a bounty hunter. It was that or join the family business, piracy, and Vulf is too much the lone wolf to tolerate the demands of a large pirate crew. Where his family enjoys the bonds of pack, he prefers the freedom of ranging the universe, alone. Seven generations ago, humanity evacuated Earth and the shifter clans’ ability to transform into ...

Intergalactic Junkyard A Cosmic Scrap-Yard Adventure Full of Robots, Spaceships, and Galactic Chaos Welcome to the strangest junkyard in the universe. At the edge of the galaxy sits a place where broken spaceships, alien robots, battle tanks, and mysterious machines are dumped and forgotten. Most people think it’s just scrap. They’re wrong. When Uncle Ryan, an inventive tinkerer with big ideas, brings Jacob, Sybil, and Mathew to explore the legendary Intergalactic Junkyard, they discover something incredible hiding among the mountains of metal. Old machines are waking up. Strange alien ...

I am playing in the backyard with my toy robots. I wish I could visit the robot world. Suddenly, a lightning storm, and I shrink smaller and smaller. Is my wish coming true? I shrink smaller than an ant. I’ve changed and don’t even look like the real me. Where am I going?

ONE SHIP. ONE DISCOVERY. NO GOING BACK. Overseeing a mining operation in the middle of nowhere on a warship with more bark than bite, Captain Frank Olsen has a problem. A chance discovery has suddenly thrown his dig into the galactic spotlight and every power in the region, both friend and foe, is descending on Olsen's location. It's soon clear that what they've found isn't just a curiosity. It's something far more sinister. As Olsen struggles to hold the line, a new alien race appears and the balance of power in the galaxy begins to shift. With time running out and help light-years away, ...

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 ...

"Narrator Emmett Grosland conjures the essence of a troubled soul in search of peace in this gentle audio."—AudioFile Magazine In A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Hugo Award-winner Becky Chambers's delightful new Monk and Robot series gives us hope for the future. It's been centuries since the...

★★★★★ "Mad Max meets the Mandalorian. Simply epic read!" — Goodreads The Night was made for monsters. Tonight, it meets something worse. Beyond the dome of Mecca, the Night belongs to monsters. Humanity survives by hiding. The god-king's Oracles preach obedience. His cultist armies enforce it. No one asks what waits in the wilds outside the walls, where the dead machines and forgotten gods of the old world still sleep. Jericho was never built to hide. A scavenger and a survivor, he crosses into the forbidden lands and drags back a relic of impossible, world-breaking power. It ...

This audiobook narrated by Mark Arnold offers a mind-expanding exploration of the ethical bonds we share with the nonhuman Moral relationships saturate the living world, and the line between the human and nonhuman is blurrier than we might think. Animals, Robots, Gods provides a bold new vision...

Hello, humans! My name is Mara. I'm the Valkyrie, an extremely powerful sentient warship. It's a whole thing. Don't ask. Anyway, my creator, Sean Robins, recently came to me with a problem. Apparently, the man has written so many books across seven different science fiction series that new readers have no idea where to start. Naturally, he came to me for advice. After all, I'm a supremely intelligent artificial intelligence, capable of commanding entire fleets, calculating millions of combat scenarios per second, and occasionally explaining the painfully obvious to my intellectually ...

The Hegemony built Jack to crush rebellions. So naturally, he joined one. Six months after joining the rebellion on Diesl’Haal, Jack is no longer just a Series-9 autonomous combat unit with too many weapons and not enough social skills. He has comrades. A cause. A family. And the rebels are winning. Convoys burn. Supply lines collapse. Occupied cities fall. The Hegemony is losing its grip on Diesl’Haal, and Jack is becoming the rebellion’s most dangerous symbol. Then the empire reminds everyone why victory isn't the same thing as survival. The Judicator is a six-kilometer dreadnought ...

A new entry in the wildly successful Children of Time series from award-winning master of science fiction Adrian Tchaikovsky. After Earth fell, ark ships hunted for a new home. They sought lost worlds terraformed in Earth’s forgotten past. A ship crewed by maverick humans, spiders and a...

"It started out with a bang and just got better." -Goodreads reviewer Over 1,000 pages of nonstop action! If there's one thing Adam Eckhart knows, it's that humans are trouble. After all, he is one. As captain of the Marathon, a cobbled-together ship crewed by aliens and androids scraping by on odd jobs at the outskirts of settled space, Adam has plenty to worry about without adding his own species to the mix. But when a pair of mortally wounded humans cross his path during a heist gone wrong, he finds himself compelled to save them. Big mistake. Because if there's one more thing Adam knows...

Join Nickelodeon’s Rusty Rivets on a winter adventure! Rusty and his friends hit the road for a ski trip—only to be blocked by a massive pile of boulders on their way to the mountain. Can Rusty and his bots find a way past their rocky dilemma?

Save the cure. Kill the crew. That was the dying order of the captain of the starship Elixr. The ship followed the order. Then it lost its mind. Two decades later, the last chance to save billions of souls rests with the dead starship's only occupants: a pair of boys raised by a deranged robot. When Elixr crashes on a barren world, they join forces with an impoverished girl living on the edge of society to search for answers. Who are they? Why have they survived? And what could Elixr possibly do to save a world on the precipice of collapse? The more they learn, the greater the stakes become...

Life for the robots of the Axiom will never be the same once they meet the Earth robot Wall-E. Listen along as Wall-E and his new robot-friend, Eve, help prove life is sustainable on Earth and return the humans to their home planet.

I never dreamed of becoming a galactic special agent...or did I? Tom Reynolds and his younger brother Johnny finally have their own spaceship. Unfortunately, they also have mounting repair bills, a talent for attracting disasters, and COSMO—the galaxy's most aggressively unhelpful robot, who hates humans in general and Tom and Johnny in particular. When the Galactic Authority approaches them with an offer they can't refuse, the brothers find themselves recruited for a top-secret operation: help capture Kaz Vorr, one of the most dangerous criminals in known space. The brothers know Kaz all...

AN INVASION. A CONSPIRACY. ONE SHOT AT REDEMPTION. Three never-before-published books bundled together! The Lost Galaxy series follows the adventures of a lone lawman, his aging and possibly insane spaceship, and a trio of mercenaries, new recruits, and hardened criminals who are all swept together behind an alien invasion that could wipe out humanity. As Provincial Sergeant Jack Bowman and his ragtag group race to save themselves and warn humanity of the invasion force, they learn that there is more at stake than anyone—human or alien—could have guessed. A conspiracy could bring down ...

Death was only the beginning. Lieutenant Trevor Sbragia had one mission: lead his Force Recon Marines into the HIP52727 asteroid belt, disable a pirate stronghold, and clear the way for the Federation assault fleet. It should have been a routine strike against disorganized frontier raiders. Except the distress call they answered was from a man who had been dead for days. The pirates are ready. Their technology is impossible. Their tactics are flawless. Within minutes, the battleship Tencendur and its entire assault force are annihilated, and Trevor and his Marines die with them. But death ...

From TheReadingCafe.com: "the characters are diverse, distinctive and unconventional but such are the personalities of every entertaining story of science fiction. CORVUS ASCENDING begins slowly but accelerates at 'warp speed'." Wisecracking star-sailor Gus Johansson’s beach bum retirement suddenly goes from boring to blazing when he pulls a 1400-year-old robot and a sentient spaceship from the sea. Soon, Gus and his crew of misfits are in the fight of their lives against an old enemy. The vengeful Captain Harrison “Hazy” Grey is convinced he can finally get his Admiral’s flag by ...