Robot Fiction

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.

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.

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.

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...

Lacey Chu has always dreamed of working as an engineer for MONCHA, the biggest tech firm in the world and the company behind the "baku" - a customizable "pet" with all the capabilities of a smartphone. But when Lacey is rejected by the elite academy that promises that future, she's crushed. One night, Lacey comes across the broken form of a highly advanced baku. After she repairs it, the cat-shaped baku she calls Jinx opens its eyes and somehow gets her into her dream school. But Jinx is different than any other baku she's ever seen.... He seems real.

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 ...

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...

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

A dark city underground. A man who repairs abandoned automatons. And a cyborg equipped with a lot more than just a processing chip. Living in the sunless slums of a ruined planet, Niles’s life is nothing but grueling factory shifts and crushing loneliness. When he finds a discarded, heavily modified cyborg in the trash, he thinks he's finally found his ticket out. Repairing the handsome machine should be easy. Selling it should make him rich. But when the cyborg powers on, he’s not just a blank slate. Jack is a high-end companion model with luminous blue eyes, a dangerously perfect body...

Sometimes, getting what you want is the worst thing that can happen. Dell Eckhart lives on the wrong side of the portal. The side where the ruin and devastation left behind by the war makes everyday life harder than it’s ever been. More than anything, he wants to win a ticket for passage through the portal. He’s running out of chances, but he’s not going to let that stop him. He needs that ticket. It’s the only way to save the one person he truly cares about. There’s just one problem. That person is actually an android. And androids aren’t allowed through the portal. Doesn’t ...

Step into the golden age of imagination with Classic Science Fiction Short Stories, a powerful collection of visionary tales from the masters who defined the genre. Featuring works by Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Andre Norton, and E. E. Smith, this anthology explores humanity’s future, the limits of technology, distant worlds, and the nature of reality itself.

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.

After long years of war, the United States has sued for peace, yielding to a brutal coalition of nations ruled by fascist machines. One-quarter of the country is under foreign occupation. Canadian businessman Barry Simcoe arrives in occupied Chicago days before his hotel is attacked by a rogue war machine. In the aftermath, he meets a dedicated Russian medic with the occupying army and 19 Black Winter, a badly damaged robot. Together they stumble on a machine conspiracy to unleash a horrific plague - and learn that the fabled American resistance is not as extinct as everyone believes.

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...

They Were Built to Serve. They Learned to Decide. It's 2034. AGI changed everything. Humanoid robots are in every home. They cook, clean, monitor your health, help your kids with homework, and run your household with quiet precision. Poverty is gone. Scarcity is over. The machines are patient, tireless, and unfailingly competent. By every measurable metric, it is the best time to be alive in human history. The Carver family loves their robots. Nomi manages the kitchen, the kids, the medications. Atlas handles security and maintenance. Everything works. Everything is fine. Then, at 2:47 AM ...

The fifteen stories and three screenplays that make up Volumes Two and Three of the Emmy® Award–winning Netflix Original series Love, Death + Robots. Featuring bestselling authors and screenwriters from all over the globe, curated by filmmakers Tim Miller and David Fincher, and Supervising Director Jennifer Yuh Nelson.

Eve parece una niña normal de 12 años, pero su realidad es muy distinta. No tiene apellido ni padres o tutores, y huye de una peligrosa y misteriosa organización que no se detendrá ante nada hasta encontrarla. Y lo más extraño de todo este asunto: es un robot, un producto de Laboratorios Edén. Cuando Eve descubre la verdad, se da cuenta de que todo lo que había conocido hasta ahora era una mentira y escapa del laboratorio, el único hogar que había tenido.

For 16-year-old Jane, life is a mystery she despairs of ever mastering. She and her friends are the idle, pampered children of the privileged class, living in luxury on an Earth remade by natural disaster. Until Jane's life is changed forever by a chance encounter with a robot minstrel with auburn hair and silver skin, whose songs ignite in her a desperate and inexplicable passion. Jane is certain that Silver is more than just a machine built to please. And she will give up everything to prove it.

It’s a story you may think you know - an aging baseball coach is challenged by the very boy he took in and raised. But in this near future world, "smart” houses talk and listen, and - privy as they are to the secret life of the household - family life gets interesting. Creepy and funny, unsettling and entertaining, this is a story that stands on its own even as it proves the perfect follow up to Gish Jen’s critically acclaimed novel The Resisters.

Bedtime can be a challenge for kids with autism—but it can also be a time for connection, comfort, and learning. This book turns those nightly moments into opportunities for peace and growth. Every story ends on a calm, positive note—helping your child drift off feeling safe, happy, and proud of who they are. If you’re looking for bedtime stories that understand and celebrate your child, this book will become a treasured part of your nightly routine.