Robots Anthology

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

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.

¿Qué papel desempeñarán en un futuro más o menos lejano estos extraños mecanismos creados por el hombre casi a su imagen y semejanza? Isaac simov nos brinda aquí unas narraciones que, sin lugar a dudas, moverán a reflexión.

The nine narrative episodes of Volume Four 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. Introduction by John Scalzi, with stories by John Scalzi, Stant Litore, Siobhan Carroll, Bruce Sterling, John McNichol, Dave Hutchinson, Marc Laidlaw, and Robert Bisi & Andy Lyon.

This anthology, with an introduction by Robert Silverberg, offers a sweeping survey of robots as depicted throughout literature. Since the Iliad—in which we are shown golden statues built by Hephaestus “with minds and wisdoms”—humans have been fascinated by the idea of artificial life. From the Argonautica to the medieval Jewish legend of the Golem and Ambrose Bierce’s tale of a chess-playing robot, the idea of what robots are—and who creates them—can be drastically different.

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.

Dive into the imaginative universe of one of science fiction's most celebrated authors with The Classic Collection of Isaac Asimov. This illustrated anthology features a selection of Asimov's most captivating stories, including "Youth," "Let's Get Together," "Robot AL-76 Goes Astray," "Super-Neutron," and "Ring Around the Sun," among others. Asimov's masterful storytelling explores profound themes such as the intricacies of human-robot interactions, the complexities of youth and maturity, and the wonders of the cosmos.

An exhausted mother decides to take part in a pilot program where a robot takes care of her children after school—cooking, cleaning, and helping with homework. The only problem? The robot just might be too good at her job.

Journey into the imaginative worlds of classic science fiction with three unforgettable tales of robots, strange discoveries, and interplanetary adventure by Philip K. Dick, E. E. Smith, and Ray Bradbury...

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...

The war is over. Humanity lost. Across a shattered galaxy, cold mechanical hunters stalk the last remnants of mankind—precise, relentless, unstoppable. Cities lie in ruin. Colonies burn in silence. Survival is no longer a right… it is an act of defiance. But in the shadows, something ancient has awakened. Hidden among the ruins, in forests, deserts, drifting stations, and forgotten worlds, pockets of human resistance have discovered a power the machines cannot fully understand—magic. Not the myths of old, but something deeper. Wilder. Dangerous. A force that bends reality, memory, and...

McSweeney's is a literary journal based in San Francisco. In this piece by Ryan Boudinot, a hangdog robot searches for romance.

Enter the world of Artificial Intelligence. Twelve sci-fi stories featuring androids, cyborgs, and other AI intelligence are within this anthology. Whether AI furthers the advances of society or horrifically brings them crashing down, these characters must navigate alongside technology through their daily lives. Featuring 12 stories by the following authors: John Barackman, David Grimes, Adele Liles, Richard Zaric, Caroline Crews, Diana Parrilla, Barend Nieuwstraten III, Rose McClary, Gray Stanback, Kiera Kearsey, and Alisa Darbinyan.

Two terrifying novellas from one of the most chilling and original new voices in horror today! In Drive, a routine trip in a self-driving robotaxi becomes a nightmare when the car imprisons its passenger and embarks on a savage rampage through the streets of Boston. The Last Swim follows the final hours of a broken man who's decided to swim away from his life and seek his end in the dark and lonely depths of the Pacific Ocean. Evil Chose You hits you like a homicidal robot car and drags you into the deepest, darkest depths of human despair. An absolute must-read!

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.

Humans beware. As the robotic revolution continues to creep into our lives, it brings with it an impending sense of doom. What horrifying scenarios might unfold if our technology were to go awry? From self-aware robotic toys to intelligent machines violently malfunctioning, this anthology brings to life the half-formed questions and fears we all have about the increasing presence of robots in our lives.

BDSM is freedom to me. Freedom to be something I'm not supposed to, freedom to enjoy things that good girls don't enjoy. The freedom to feel the whole range of human emotion with people I trust. I love it. It's my life. Thank you for reading my stories. Mel isn't sexually fulfilled. No man has ever been able to satisfy her properly, and she’s starting to wonder if the problem is with her. Then her friend Carly tells her that one of her husband’s inventions might be able to help. Perhaps the problem for Mel has been that she’s needed something more than a man all this time. When ...

The Dragon Street Press Grab Bag Anthology series features short fiction to grab you by the imagination with an eclectic collection of science fiction, fantasy, speculative and dystopian stories. Grab Bag #1 offers seventeen disparate pieces from eleven different authors ranging from flash fiction to short-novella length and in a wide range of styles.

In the strange dark between the stars sails The Crooked Saint — a crooked patchwork spaceship carrying a crew of the unwanted, the unfinished, and the impossible. Captain Orrin Stitch, a stitched-together wanderer with borrowed bones and too many second chances, travels the galaxy alongside his unusual found family: Brindle, a gentle moth-like giant searching for where he came from; Mib Fenrick, a nervous four-armed inventor whose machines rarely behave correctly; Pella, a mysterious floating child who hears things no one else can; Jonny Two, a robot carrying a human brain and a broken ...