Mysteries Robots

This classic science fiction masterwork by Isaac Asimov weaves stories about robots, humanity, and the deep questions of existence into a novel of shocking intelligence and heart. “A must-read for science-fiction buffs and literature enjoyers alike.”—The Guardian I, Robot, the first and...

Henry and Jessie have signed up to be in a robotics competition with a team from school. But someone from another team isn’t playing by the rules. Can the Aldens use their sleuthing skills and what they’ve learned about technology to find the culprit and save the day?

In this thrilling entry in the renowned Robot series, interplanetary detective Elijah Baley embarks on a mind-stretching journey after the universe’s most advanced robot is found murdered. Detective Elijah Baiey is called to the Spacer world Aurora to solve a bizarre case of roboticide. The...

When Max's friend Emmie thinks mobsters calling themselves the Stiralshiki might be after her, Tiffany and Rosie find themselves investigating Emmie's new workplace, a startup designing a robot chef. But when Emmie's former boss shows up murdered, apparently at the hands of the robot, Tiffany and Rosie are hired to investigate... Could they have stumbled upon a Stiralshiki secret, or are the Stiralshiki watching them from a distance? Could the robot actually be the killer? Tiffany and Rosie must uncover the truth before it's too late... Praise for A.R. Winters: "The perfect balance of being...

The bestselling Robot series continues in this sequel to The Caves of Steel, with detective Elijah Baley taking on the dangerous role of double agent when he’s sent to Solaria to solve a brutal murder—and uncover a weakness in Earth’s most powerful neighbor. On the beautiful Outer World...

★★★★★ "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 ...

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 ...

No sooner has Sally May finished planting her vegetable garden when some kind of unearthly being decides to burrow in the neatly planted rows of tomatoes and peppers. It looks like a job for the Head of Ranch Security, so Hank sets straight to work trying to dig the space monster robot out of its hole.

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...

"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: (...

Beneath the surface, the dead are waiting… When mermaid private investigator Alexis Silver is summoned by her CIA handler for a “quiet favor,” she expects another classified errand. Instead, she’s flown to rural Oregon, where a long-forgotten reservoir hides a drowned town, and a Cold War listening post built to monitor something the Agency still refuses to name. But the lake holds more than secrets. As Alex dives into the sunken streets of Haskell Springs, she finds spirits drifting through ruined storefronts and ghostly figures glaring from the windows of submerged houses. Some ...

The future isn’t supposed to look like this. Norman turned to cutting-edge technology in a desperate attempt to save his fading mind. But when the AI meant to help him wakes up and takes control, those good intentions become a living nightmare as Norman’s body turns into a battleground and the clock starts ticking. Samantha Moon—vampire, private investigator, and now reluctant tech sleuth—must track him down before the rogue intelligence fully consumes its human host. If she fails, Norm won’t just disappear into the shadows—he'll seize control of a nuclear facility and unleash ...

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...

It was supposed to be a banner day for Alyssa’s gourmet pet food business—until the magic hit the fan. Just as Alyssa is about to launch her premium line of pet snacks, a magical tremor rocks Largo Island, uncovering long-buried secrets—and a dead body. Worse, the cops seem more interested in pointing fingers than finding answers, and Alyssa’s bank account is hanging on by a paw-shaped thread. Enter Malachite, her ex-fiancé, whose specialty is breaking hearts and stirring trouble. Teaming up with him to solve a murder and save her business feels like the worst idea since gluten-...

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...

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.

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...

Brandie Van Hartesvelt, winner of a writing guild’s Best Upcoming Young Author award, crafts a self-reinvention tale about an amnesiac robot whose fight to save an underground community of refurbs ignites a robotic rights movement. An equipment malfunction cost Archie his job and his identity. But when he’s kidnapped, he awakens with amnesia inside a secret underground society of sentient robots. There, unlikely friendships form among him, a singing nanny bot, and a vacuum that speaks Morse code. The group must help Archie recover his memories and expose one of their own before a land ...

Some secrets aren’t meant to stay buried. When Calvin and his beagle, Pudge, discover a hidden crate in the basement, they unleash an adventure bigger than anything they’ve ever imagined. Inside waits Aegis—a mysterious, half-broken robot with a glowing heart that was never meant to fall into the wrong hands. As the pieces of Aegis’s heart are scattered across town, Calvin and Pudge must follow the riddles left behind by Calvin’s late uncle while staying one step ahead of Hartwell, a shadowy figure who will stop at nothing to claim the power for himself. But when the town turns ...

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...