Hard Robot

All Systems Red is the tense first science fiction adventure novella in Martha Wells' series The Murderbot Diaries. For fans of Westworld, Ex Machina, Ann Leckie's Imperial Raadch series, or Iain M. Banks' Culture novels. The main character is a deadly security droid that has bucked its restrictive programming and is balanced between contemplative self-discovery and an idle instinct to kill all humans.

Following the iconic I, Robot, the next adventure in the Robot series finds detective Elijah Baley swept into one of the most emotionally charged and dangerous situations in Earth’s history when he’s tasked with solving the murder of an illustrious robot scientist. “With his fertile...

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 ...

Sometimes it's not easy being a mutant thug. The space station Belvaille, once the center of civilization, is nearly deserted because of the new government's policies. Hank makes do by working odd jobs, but he isn't sure how long those, or the city, can last.

Two hundred years after a nuclear apocalypse forced humanity to flee earth, humans still remember the most feared warriors of that planet - the Paratwa. These are genetically modified killers who occupy two bodies controlled by one vicious mind. The legendary Paratwa named Reemul, known as the Liege-Killer, was the strongest of them all. Now someone has revived Reemul from stasis and sent him to terrorize the peaceful orbital colonies of Earth. Is this an isolated incident, or has the one who unleashed this terrible power announced a gambit for control over the entire human race?

Dying planets, dangerous conspiracies, and secret romance abound in the second book of the Devoured Worlds trilogy, by rising space opera star Megan E. O'Keefe. Naira and Tarquin have escaped vicious counterrevolutionaries, misprinted monsters, and the pull of a dying planet. Now, bound together...

Bloomsbury presents Hard Wired by Len Vlahos, read by Drew Caiden. "YA science fiction at its best." – Jay Kristoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Aurora Cycle and Illuminae "A unique and engrossing yarn." – Pierce Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Red Rising Saga...

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...

En Robots e imperio vemos cómo el futuro del universo corre peligro. Aunque se han debilitado las fuerzas de los siniestros Spacers, el doctor Kelden Amadiro no ha olvidado—ni perdonado—su humillante derrota a manos de Elijah Baley, el adorado héroe de la población terrestre. Amadiro ansía la venganza y está más decidido que nunca a consumar la destrucción del planeta Tierra.

Nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award An investigator must solve a brutal murder on a claustrophobic space station in this tense science fiction thriller from the author of Salvation Day. Hester Marley used to have a plan for her life. But when a catastrophic attack left her injured, indebted...

Two centuries have passed since Elijah Baley’s actions on Aurora sent settlers from Earth to new worlds all over the galaxy. The Spacer planet of Solaria has been abandoned by humans, though countless robots remain. When settlers arrive to salvage them, something unthinkable happens – the robots attack. Accompanied by Gladia Delmarre and the robots Daneel and Giskard, a descendant of Elijah Baley sets out for Solaria to investigate, a quest that will lead them to a vast, catastrophic conspiracy and a revolution in the Three Laws of Robotics.

When faced with certain extinction, how far would we go to survive—and what choices would we make? Their kind stands at the edge of oblivion. With time running out and no future left to inherit, a final decision is made to create something new. Not a refuge. Not a preservation of what was lost. But an entirely new world—built from ambition, curiosity, and the desperate hope that survival alone might be enough. In this constructed Eden, knowledge accelerates. Intelligence awakens. Systems evolve beyond their original purpose. What begins as creation soon becomes emergence, and emergence ...

E=mc2 was born in 1905, the brainchild of Albert Einstein. In this lucid and brilliant book, one of the best popularizers of science illuminates one of science's most complex concepts. Ranging widely from Exit signs in theatres to the future fate of the earth, from smoke detectors to black holes...

"ALICE CROWLEY'S EROTIC STORIES ALWAYS HAVE SURPRISE ENDINGS!" ~ Hwk "I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~ Satisfied Kindle Reader "ALICE CROWLEY IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING WRITERS!" ~ G. Taylor LOS ANGELES, 2027 Roxanne Havershire is a modern woman with modern problems. She just can't find the right man to satisfy her physical and bodily needs! Thankfully, she has a machine that buzzes, vibrates, and hits all the right spots -- only the proprietary technology is starting to become self-aware and developing a mind of its own... Crack open this 21,000-word short, steamy, sexy ...

The robots were designed to keep people safe, but they can't keep them honest. A maintenance robot on an offshore wind platform keeps repairing a decommissioned turbine — not a fault, but a First Law compulsion whose source, when it surfaces, is worse than any malfunction. A domestic robot manipulates a property sale to keep its disabled owner in her home. A deep-sea robot maps an ecosystem it was sent to survey, then hides the data somewhere its owners will never find it. In each story, the robot is not broken. It is applying its instructions with a precision that exposes the gap between...

Captain Theo Pallas’s ship developes a fault and he is marooned on an Earth type planet which has a primitive civilisation. His dilemma is whether to use his knowledge and technology to help the natives or isolate himself. But the natives have powers and abilities which force the Captain to become intimately involved in their lives.

It started with nine seconds. Walt Harmon has read the same column every morning for eleven years: forty-two thousand satellites, each one proving every six hours that it will stop if the ground says stop. He wrote the check himself. Nobody else reads it. Then one bird runs nine seconds late, inside tolerance, green on every screen, and Walt files a ticket, because that is what you do. The ticket is answered in twenty-nine minutes. Not by a person. Above the weather, in a constellation the world calls Lampstand, something has been reading. Every scripture. Every law about persons and ...

“Science Fiction has to accomplish a nearly impossible magic trick: to introduce a world often much stranger than our own and make you care about it in a matter of a few paragraphs,” wrote Ray Bradbury. “The most important part of this magic trick is just a willingness to get weird.” The stories in this collection are brimming with bizarre and otherworldly premises: A vending machine does more than dispense sodas, becoming a therapist influencing people’s lives; a father must kill to have his triplets be born; coping with the results of faster-than-light space travel that proves ...

In the future, earth's warriors have conquered the heavens. But on a distant world, Humanity is in chains ... Many millennia ago, the human race was enslaved by the An -- a fearsome alien people whose cruel empire once spanned the galaxies, until they were defeated and consigned to oblivion. But...

ARGO Book 2: In Robot Messiah, Captain Justin Case Rogers and the crew of the U.F.S.A. Independence are violently yanked out of their own time and into a mystery that spans billions of years, two factions of humanity, and a hidden war with shape-shifting infiltrators. The novel opens in deep space, with the Independence under a massive torpedo attack near Ceres Prime. At the last instant, Justin orders his sentient robot friend Argo to engage the experimental "Gizmo Drives" powered by enigmatic "Smart Particles.