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41) A.I. rising
Pub. Date
[2019].
Description
On a lonely voyage into space, an astronaut is teamed up with a female cyborg to fulfill his every need. But soon, his obsession with the robot endangers the mission, and himself.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Se llama Purgatorio y está en el lado oculto de la Luna. Es la colonia espacial de tus sueños... o de tus pesadillas. Aquí conviven criminales de guerra con asesinos, pervertidos sexuales y turistas en busca de las joyas del mercado negro: desde cirugías plásticas de bajo costo hasta las drogas más codiciadas. Pero los días de gloria de Purgatorio están contados, gracias a dos visitantes. Por un lado, un policía exiliado que debe comenzar...
44) The plus one
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
When she couldn't find Mr. Right, she built him. Dating is hard. Being dateless at your perfect sister's wedding is harder. Meet Kelly. Twenty-nine, go-getter, a brilliant robotics engineer, and perpetually single. So when her younger sister's wedding looms and her attempts to find a date become increasingly cringeworthy, Kelly does the only logical thing: she builds her own boyfriend. Ethan is perfect: gorgeous, attentive, and smart--all topped...
Author
Series
Crier's war volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
In the aftermath of a war where Automae took over the kingdom of Rabu and bent humanity to their will, Ayla takes a job as a servant in the house of the sovereign for one purpose: to get revenge for her family's death by killing his daughter. Lady Crier, the heiress, was Made to be a perfect ruler of the kingdom, but she no longer knows if that is what she wants once she discovers some of her father's cruel secrets. Between this betrayal, and a betrothed...
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Series
Safehold series volume 8
Pub. Date
2015.
Formats
Description
Centuries ago, the human race fought its first great war against an alien race and lost. A tiny population of human beings fled to distant Safehold. Centuries later, their descendants have forgotten their history; for them, life has been an eternal Middle Ages, ruled by the Church of God Awaiting, whose secret purpose is to prevent the re-emergence of industrial civilization. But not all of Safehold's founders were on board with this plan. Those dissidents...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"Finn looks and acts human, though he has no desire to be. He was programmed to assist his owners, and performs his duties to perfection. A billion-dollar construct, his primary task now is to tutor Cat. As she grows into a beautiful young woman, Finn is her guardian, her constant companion-- and more. But when the government grants rights to the ever-increasing robot population, however, Finn struggles to find his place in the world"--P. [4] of cover....
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Series
First machine dynasty volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Javier is a self-replicating humanoid on a journey of redemption. Javier's quest takes him from Amy's island, where his actions have devastating consequences for his friend, toward Mecha where he will find either salvation... or death.
50) The soldier
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Series
Rise of the Jain volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
In a far corner of space, on the very borders between humanitys Polity worlds and the kingdom of the vicious crab-like prador, is an immediate threat to all sentient life: an accretion disc, a solar system designed by the long-dead Jain race and swarming with living technology powerful enough to destroy entire civilizations. Neither the Polity or the prador want the other in full control of the disc, so theyve placed an impartial third party in charge...
51) Vice
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Julian Michaels has designed the ultimate resort, where anything goes and the customers can play out their wildest fantasies with artificial inhabitants who look, think, and feel like humans. When an artificial becomes self-aware and escapes, she finds herself caught in the crossfire between Julian's mercenaries and a cop who is hellbent on shutting down the resort, stopping the violence once and for all.
Author
Series
Chobits volume 5
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Hideki continues to search for the female android named Chi, who has been kidnapped.
54) Truel1f3
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Best friends have become enemies. Lovers have become strangers. And deciding whose side you're on could be the difference between life and death. For Eve and Lemon, discovering the truth about themselves--and each other--was too much for their friendship to take. But with the country on the brink of a new world war--this time between the BioMaas swarm at CityHive and Daedalus's army at Megopolis, loyalties will be pushed to the brink, unlikely alliances...
55) BB-8 on the run
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
After BB-8 is separated from Poe, his master, he travels through the desert planet of Jakku to find the secret map to the Resistance and encounters several strangers who need his help.
Author
Pub. Date
1968
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Description
By 2021, the World War had killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature and for people who couldn't afford one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacrae: horses, birds, cats, sheep . . . even humans.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Clarkesworld publisher Neil Clarke collects a reprint anthology of artificial human-themed short fiction. The idea of creating an artificial human is an old one. One of the earliest science-fictional novels, Frankenstein, concerned itself primarily with the hubris of creation, and one’s relationship to one’s creator. Later versions of this “artificial human” story (and indeed later adaptations of Frankenstein) changed the focus to more modernist...
Author
Series
Do androids dream of electric sheep? volume 2
Pub. Date
1968.
Description
Rick Deckard is an officially sanctioned bounty hunter tasked to find six rogue androids. They are machines, but look, sound and think just like humans--clever and most of all dangerous humans.
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Description
On a world with no women, the men have created curvaceous androids called Marionettes to take their place. Falling in love with a Marionette is taboo, though, so Otaru Mamiya has a big problem when he develops a crush on Lime, a unique Saber model with a special circuit that gives her emotions.
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
The Saber Dolls regain their memories as Faust is brought back to life. The Saber Marionettes leave Otaru and Japoness, sending Otaru into a tailspin of depression. Meanwhile, Faust attacks Japoness to find Lorelei, the only real woman known to man. The Maiden Circuits resonate with Lorelei's grief as the capsule containing her is brought to Gartland and the final battle begins.