Robots!

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

Updated May 23, 2024
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Annie bot : a novel
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,...
A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor: A Novel
Green, Hank
Paper Book
'A raucous, boldly inventive tale' BOOKLIST 'Provides a "Black Mirror"-like warning of new technology without the heavy feeling of dread' USA TODAY The magnificent sequel to Hank Green's #1 New York Times bestselling debut novel,...
In the lives of puppets
Klune, TJ
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune, In the Lives of Puppets is a queer retelling of the Pinocchio tale, inviting you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts.In a strange little home built into the branches of a...
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 : a novel
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Paper Book
Klara and the Sun is the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017.
Made to kill
Christopher, Adam
Paper Book
The lone employee of the Electromatic Detective Agency--except for Ada, office gal and super-computer,the constant voice in Ray's inner ear. Ray might have taken up a new line of work, but money is money, afterall, and he was programmed to make a profit. Besides, with his twenty-four-hour memory...
A prayer for the Crown-Shy
Chambers, Becky
Audiobook
Robopocalypse : a novel
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...
Set my heart to five : a novel
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,...
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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