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"Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel, Network Effect. You know that feeling when you're at work, and you've had enough of people, and then the boss walks in with yet another job that needs to be done right this second or the world will end, but all you want to do is go home and binge your favorite shows? And you're a sentient murder machine programmed for destruction? Congratulations, you're Murderbot....
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The role of robots in our lives is growing all the time. Learn about their many different shapes, sizes and uses and meet robots who do dangerous and dirty jobs, help perform surgery, look like us, show emotion like us and much more.
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Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Sometime in the twenty-third century, humanity went extinct leaving only androids behind. Freya Nakamichi 47 is a femmebot, one of the last of her kind still functioning. With no humans left to pay for the pleasures she provides, she agrees to transport a mysterious package from Mercury to Mars. Unfortunately for Freya, she has just made herself a moving target for some very powerful, very determined humanoids who will stop at nothing to possess the...
9) The soldier
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Series
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Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In a far corner of space, on the very borders between humanity's 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 nor the prador want the other in full control of the disc, so they've placed an impartial third party in...
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Publisher
Kodansha International
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Japan stands out for its long love affair with humanoid robots, a phenomenon that is creating what will likely be the world's first mass robot culture. While U.S. companies have produced robot vacuum cleaners and war machines, and U.S. filmmakers tell dark stories of robots out of control, Japan has created warm and fuzzy lifelike robot therapy pets. What can account for Japan's unique relationship with robots as potential colleagues in life, rather...
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Hodder Children's Books, a division of Hachette Children's Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Aunt Edna has created a no-nonsense nanny android to make sure Billy and Alfie don't have any fun. But then Alfie discovers how to override Auntie Anne-Droid's programming and nothing can stop them eating all the Cheeki Choko Cherry Cakes they like ...until the real aunt Edna is kidnapped!
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"When Murderbot discovers a dead body on Preservation Station, it knows it is going to have to assist station security to determine who the body is (was), how they were killed (that should be relatively straightforward, at least), and why (because apparently that matters to a lot of people-who knew?) Yes, the unthinkable is about to happen: Murderbot must voluntarily speak to humans! Again! A new standalone adventure in the New York Times-bestselling,...
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Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Beautiful but unassuming schoolgirl Kisaragi Honey has a secret--she's actually an android! Through her father's amazing technology, she can transform into the unstoppable Cutie Honey. It's a power that the nefarious criminal organization known as Panther Claw will stop at nothing to possess, even if it means destroying that which Honey loves the most. Experience the original saga of Japan's iconic super-heroine by Go Nagai, the author of Devilman!"--Back...
Publisher
Funimation
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Buried in the black murk of space, a stowed-away crew suddenly awakens from stasis aboard the castaway space ship known as the "Raza". With no memory of their pasts or why they are onboard in the first place, this rag-tag crew has no choice but to roam the frontiers of the galaxy searching for answers. On their voyage they encounter rebel space armies, a zombiefied ship crew, derelict androids, and intergalactic bounty hunters, all attempting to pull...
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Series
Publisher
Editorial Océano S.L
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Diez años después de que robots gigantescos ocasionaran estragos en Nyrata, un androide llamado Tim-21 despierta en una colonia minera situada en una de las lundas del planeta Dirishu 6. El lugar se encuentra cubierto por los despojos momificados de los humanos que alguna vez trabajaron allí. ¿Qué ocurrió mientras Tim "dormía"? ¿Cómo murieron los hibitantes de aquella colonia? Audado por dos insólitos compañeros mecánicos, Tim emprenderá...
Publisher
DreamWorks
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
It is the middle of the 21st century. Extremely sophisticated robots do everything from nannying to prostitution, supplying the illusion of feeling, but true emotion has eluded the android builders. Until Professor Hobby builds David, a robot boy who can really love. In the same manner that some people substitute pets for more demanding human relationships, the Swinton's try to fill the void left by the illness (and subsequent cryogenic animation)...
20) Blade runner
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Rick Deckard prowls the steel-and-microchip jungle of 21st-century Los Angeles. He's a "blade runner" stalking genetically-made criminal replicants. His assignment: kill them. Their crime: wanting to be human. This new version omits Deckard's voiceover narration, develops in slightly greater detail the romance between Deckard and Rachel, and removes the "uplifting" finale.
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