Robots!

Robots can be funny, unsettling, or downright scary. Try one of these!

Updated May 23, 2024
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Annie Bot
Greer, Sierra
Paper Book
'Exquisitely written... asks what it really means to be human' RED 'Intense, compelling' GUARDIAN 'Barbie for girls who like Aphex Twin' SHEENA PATEL She's human in every way that matters. Annie is the perfect girlfriend. She has dinner ready for Doug every night,...
Artificial intelligence
Mueller, John
Paper Book
Forget far-away dreams of the future. Artificial intelligence is here now!  Every time you use a smart device or some sort of slick technology--be it a smartwatch, smart speaker, security alarm, or even customer service chat box--you're engaging...
A beautifully foolish endeavor a novel
Green, Hank
Paper Book
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Who has the right to change the world forever?  How will we live online?  How do we find comfort in an increasingly isolated world?   The Carls disappeared the same way they...
Burn-in : a novel of the real robotic revolution
Singer, P. W.
Paper Book
An FBI agent hunts a new kind of terrorist through a Washington, DC, of the future in this groundbreaking book - at once a gripping technothriller and a fact-based tour of tomorrow America is on the brink of a revolution, one both technological and political. The science...
Day Zero
Cargill, C Robert.
Paper Book
In this harrowing apocalyptic adventure--from the author of the critically acclaimed Sea of Rust--noted novelist and co-screenwriter of Marvel's Doctor Strange C. Robert Cargill explores the fight for purpose and agency between humans and robots in a crumbling world. It was...
Descender. Book one, Tin stars
Lemire, Jeff
Paper Book
Newsweek's Best Comic Books of 2018 2018, 2017, 2016 YALSA's Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2015 NPR's Best Books of the Year "Your new sci-fi obsession is here, and its name is Descender." -Entertainment Weekly ...
Generation robot : a century of science fiction, fact, and speculation
Favro, Terri
Paper Book
For fans of Mary Roach, a sweetly nostalgic and enlightening exploration of futures past, present, and still to come.  Generation Robot covers a century of science fiction, fact and, speculation--from the 1950 publication of Isaac Asimov's seminal robot masterpiece, I, Robot...
In the lives of puppets
Klune, TJ
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND INDIE BESTSELLER! New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune invites you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts. Most Anticipated...
Interlibrary loan
Wolfe, Gene
Paper Book
Interlibrary Loan is the brilliant follow-up to A Borrowed Man: the final work of fiction from multi-award winner and national literary treasure Gene Wolfe. A 2021 Locus Award Finalist! Hundreds of years in the future our civilization is...
Klara and the sun
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. This magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate and author of Never Let Me Go is "an intriguing take on how artificial intelligence might play a role in our futures ... a...
Made to kill
Christopher, Adam
Paper Book
It was just another Tuesday morning when she walked into the office--young, as I suspected they all might be, another dark brunette with some assistance and enough eye black to match up to Cleopatra. And who am I? I'm Ray, the world's last robot, famed and feared in equal measure, which...
A prayer for the Crown-Shy
Chambers, Becky
Paper Book
A USA Today Bestseller! "Tender and healing... I'm prescribing a preorder to anyone who has ever felt lost. Stunning, kind, necessary." --Sarah Gailey on book 1: A Psalm for the Wild-Built A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is a story of kindness...
Robopocalypse
Wilson, Daniel H.
Paper Book
Roughly twenty years from now, our technological marvels unite and turn against us. A childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online...and kills the man who created it. This first act of betrayal leads Archos to gain control over the global network of machines...
Robots and empire
Asimov, Isaac
Paper Book
Isaac Asmiov's classic novel about the decline and fall of Solaria. Gladia Delmarre's homeworld, the Spacer planet Solaria, has been abandoned - by its human population. Countless robots remain there. And when traders from Settler worlds attempt to salvage them, the robots of Solaria turn...
The robots of dawn
Asimov, Isaac
Paper Book
Isaac Asimov's Robot series - from the iconic collection I, Robot to four classic novels - contains some of the most influential works in the history of science fiction. Establishing and testing the Three Laws of Robotics, they continue to shape the understanding and design of artificial...
Robots vs Fairies
Parisien, Dominik
Paper Book
Featured in the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots A unique anthology of all-new stories that challenges authors to throw down the gauntlet in an epic genre battle and demands an answer to the age-old question: Who is more awesome--robots or fairies? ...
Set my heart to five
Stephenson, Simon
Paper Book
'You shall read this with unadulterated pleasure' Scotland on Sunday 'A beautiful, funny, heartfelt analysis of what it means to be human' Simon Pegg Set in a 2054 where humans have locked themselves out of the internet and Elon Musk has incinerated the moon,...
Synapse
James, Steven
Paper Book
Thirty years in the future, when AI is so advanced that humans live side by side with cognizant humanoid robots called Artificials, Kestrel Hathaway must come to terms not just with what machinesknow,but with what theybelieve. Soon after experiencing a personal tragedy,...
The synapse sequence
Godfrey, Daniel (Novelist)
Paper Book
The new thrilling sci-fi novel from the author of New Pompeii and Empire of Time In a future London, humans are watched over by AIs and served by bots. But now that justice and jobs are meted out by algorithm, inequality blooms, and protest is brutally silenced. Anna...

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