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 ...

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 the next Adventures in a Video Game installment, Diego and his new friends, including a robot, must solve Guntir Island’s many mysteries before the clock hits zero. With its beautiful coral reef, lush jungle, and powdery white beach, Guntir Island is paradise. Too bad it’s going to...

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, ...

"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...

My robot hates me. Sadly, he's the only competent member of the crew. When Johnny convinces his older brother Tom to invest their life savings in a secondhand starship, he promises adventure, profit, and the chance to finally see the galaxy. The seller swears it's in top condition. As it turns out, the seller has a flexible relationship with the truth. The ship has questionable wiring, unreliable engines, and a navigation system that treats coordinates as friendly suggestions. Worst of all, it comes with a complimentary onboard robot named COSMO—who hates humans, hates space, and ...

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 ...

"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...

I'm not built to lead an invasion. I'm not built to feel guilty about one either, but that's optional equipment I installed myself. Six months ago, I was Hegemony hardware with a targeting computer and zero feelings. Now I've got a stolen dreadnought, twenty-three underqualified rebels who think they can win a ground war against half a galaxy, and a plan so audacious even I'm not entirely sure it counts as a plan rather than a really elaborate way to die. The target: the most heavily defended palace in four hundred years of organized cruelty, and the man sitting inside it who's responsible ...

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 ...

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...

He was trained to kill synths. Now his life depends on one. A mission gone wrong dumps ace pilot Raiden Stryker on a savage, uncharted planet crawling with dinosaurs, alien tech, and worse. His only ally is Exay, a deadly synth leader—one of the humanoid AI he’s spent years fighting. But stranded and hunted, their uneasy alliance starts to spark with something unexpected. She’s smart. She’s beautiful. And beneath her cold programming lies a surprisingly warm core. Fortunately for Raiden, synths don’t fly solo. With Exay, he might survive. With her team, he could change the war.

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.

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 of ethics defined less by the individual mind or society and more by our interactions with those around us, whether they are the pets we keep, the gods we believe in, or the machines we endow with life.

Imagine a well-functioning world of steel and machinery where true life is impossible and perfection is the only result. In this world there are no mistakes, no feelings, and no questions. Until Soul arrives. Soul, the only robot in Roboland who somehow has feelings, ventures out to reawaken all the other robots. With his “impossible” four-pawed-friend, Nova, they prove that everything is possible. What might look like a middle-grade sci-fi book about robots, is a heartfelt and humoristic parody on modern society. Any child, and adult, who has ever felt like they didn’t belong, will ...

A planet-killing dreadnought is coming, and Jack has decided to take that personally. The rebellion has won Diesl’Haal. Unfortunately, the Hegemony has noticed. To punish the planet, the empire sends the Judicator: six kilometers of armored death, built to turn rebellious worlds into glass. Against it stand three rebel frigates, a battered resistance, and Jack, an overarmed combat android with terrible social skills, dangerous plans, and a growing attachment to the humans he was built to kill. Evacuation might save the rebels. Surrender might buy a few hours. Neither will save two billion...

Quinn Morgan is just barely scraping by from day to day. She’s never had much money, and although a little more would certainly ease her stress levels, she’s never cared about being wealthy. So when her grandfather passes away and leaves her his multimillion dollar estate, Quinn isn’t quite sure how to navigate this new life. Making her transition easier is Ivan, the half human, half machine butler who came with the estate. As he helps Quinn navigate the new trials and tribulations of being an heiress, she comes to trust and care for him more than she’s ever trusted or cared for ...

The enchanting new addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling THE WILD ROBOT series from award-winning author-illustrator Peter Brown. Roz the robot has made an unlikely home for herself on an idyllic island dense with forests, wildflowers and friendly animal inhabitants - including her own...

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 ...