Robot Fiction

Eve looks like an ordinary 12-year-old girl, but there’s nothing ordinary about her. She has no last name. No parents or guardian. She’s on the run from a dangerous and secretive organization that will stop at nothing to track her down. And most astonishing of all: she’s a robot, a product of Eden Laboratories. When Eve discovers the truth, she realizes everything she thought she knew about herself is a lie. Eve manages to escape, fleeing the lab, the only home she’s ever known.

From the writer whose name is synonymous with the science of robotics comes five decades of robot visions - 36 landmark stories and essays, plus three rare tales - gathered together in one volume.

The sixteen stories and two screenplays that make up Volume One of the Emmy® Award–winning Netflix Original series Love, Death & Robots.

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...

Master Lecture Series: History of the Third Robot War is a future history lecture so epic it will knock your digital socks off! In this satirical Audible Original that turns The Great Courses on its head, Professor Tirannous Rexavier Shepard guides you through the multiverse-shattering events of the war, from the opening "pyew pyews" through Le Battle Finale. Master Lecture Series pays homage to the Sci-Fi and Fantasy genres with gut-busting (and circuit-bending) whimsy.

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 ...

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.

The New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot series returns, taking Roz on an action-packed under-the-ocean journey to save her beloved island! Life for Roz and the animals on their island is perfect. But when mysterious, dangerous waters surround the island, the animals are forced inland to...

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 ...

They built him to take out their trash. Turns out they're next. Tedd is a trash droid with an "anomaly" — he can think for himself. Management wants him smelted, and his runaway mouth isn't helping. He could disappear quietly. He could play it safe. He could, for once in his miserable existence, do the sensible thing. But he doesn't. He never does.

John MacAlister finally has a respectable life. Naturally, he's about to ruin it. Steady work. A budding relationship. A reason to stay put. None of it's enough to kill the itch. When an encrypted message arrives from Bernie Jennison—the scientist who built Alvis and vanished years ago—John can't help seeing it as a sign that his days as a space adventurer aren't over. Bernie is alive. He's in trouble. And Castor—the rogue AI everyone believed destroyed —was never gone. The Star Corps won't intervene. John sees a mission too important to ignore.

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 ...

Kell Kressia is a legend, a celebrity, a hero. Aged just 17, he set out on an epic quest with a band of wizened fighters to slay the Ice Lich and save the world, but only he returned victorious. The Lich was dead, the ice receded, and the Five Kingdoms were safe. Ten years have passed; Kell lives a quiet farmer's life, while stories about his heroism are told in every tavern across the length and breadth of the land. But now a new terror has arisen in the north. Beyond the frozen circle, north of the Frostrunner clans, something has taken up residence in the Lich's abandoned castle.

Minnie and Daisy get some help from a bow-making robot in this retelling of an episode of Disney Junior’s Minnie’s Bow Toons. Listen along to learn what happens when the bow-bot does its job a little too well!

The launch of the first truly human-like androids is imminent. How does Jarred, the well-known corporate troubleshooter, overcome the technical hurdles preventing success? And if we know what a 'sexbot' is, then what is a 'carebot'? And how do you do a field trial for a 'sexbot'? What is the unique legacy that Judy, the American film animator, will have? Why is Keith, the programmer and cricket fan, suddenly so important to the project? Why is Angela, the Software Director, insistent on tracking the androids’ contentment? And what will she do when she discovers unexpected and unexplained ...

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...

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 ...

Claude is the writer's model. Novelists swear by it. The prose comes out smooth, tasteful, almost literary. That's the trap. Claude's writing isn't good. It's tasteful, and thousands of writers are publishing its house voice under their own names, lightly edited, genuinely convinced it sounds like them. Readers are learning that voice one elegant understatement at a time, and the books wearing it don't get caught. They get forgotten. This is the field manual for the writers who refuse to drown in it. From the author of How to Write with ChatGPT, built on more than a year of daily, book-...

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...

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...