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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"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. In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots -- fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They're a family,...
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"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....
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The stranger-than-fiction story of the creation and loss of an artificially intelligent android of science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Readers get a fascinating inside look at the scientists and technology that made this amazing android possible.
6) Life l1k3
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When Eve learns she can destory machines with her mind, she becomes a target for a group of puritanical fanatics, and with her new android best friend Ezekiel, faces cyborg assassins.
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Valentine Weis is a salvager in the future wastelands of Utah. Wrestling with body dysphoria, he dreams of earning enough money to afford citizenship in Salt Lake City--a utopia where the testosterone and surgery he needs to transition is free, the food is plentiful, and folk are much less likely to be shot full of arrows by salt pirates. But earning that kind of money is a pipe dream, until he meets the exceptionally handsome Osric. Once a powerful...
10) Cog
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"After an accident leaves him damaged and separated from his scientist caregiver, a young android recruits four robot accomplices and embarks on a cross-country road trip to reunite with her"--
11) Heart of iron
Author
Series
Iron kingdom duology volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Ana, an orphan found drifting through space, joins with an Ironblood boy to find the coordinates of a lost space ship which may hold clues to her identity, as they end up discovering dark secrets in a forgotten part of the universe.
Found as a child drifting through space with a sentient android called D09, Ana was saved by the grizzled crew she now calls family. But D09-- one of the last remaining illegal Metals-- has been glitching. Ana's efforts...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
The enchantment continues... The universe of the Lunar Chronicles holds stories - and secrets - that are wondrous, vicious, and romantic. How did Cinder first arrive in New Beijing? How did the brooding soldier Wolf transform from young man to killer? When did Princess Winter and the palace guard Jacin realize their destinies? With six stories - two of which have never before been published - and an exclusive never-before-seen excerpt from Marissa...
Author
Series
In the City of Time volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Willa and nonbinary android Saudade travel back to 1891 Italy to find the editbook and prevent whatever caused the cataclysm, but Faraz is hot on their heels with plans of his own.
Author
Series
In the City of Time volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After an experiment goes wrong, three science prodigies from two differnet time periods meet in a strange, seemingly adandonded city, and burdened with a glitchy time machine, an android time cop hot on their trail, and some tangled temporal mechanics to unravel, they set out to save the Earth.
15) Crier's war
Author
Series
Crier's war volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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...
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The Marvel universe boasts a huge and diverse array of heroes and villains -- many of who share surprising, essential characteristics. Scott classifies key and unsung Marvel characters, revealing the fundamental properties that bind them, the unique catalysts that created them, and the chain reactions that energize them. -- adapted from back cover
Author
Series
Descender volume 5
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The universe is on the brink of war and the young android TIM-21 has somehow found himself at the center of it all. As his allies and enemies gather above the ocean planet, Mata, nothing can prepare TIM for the secrets that lie hidden below the alien seas."--Page 4 of cover
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After Sherlock Holmes is brought back from the dead, he is rejuvenated to that of a 25 year-old to help good friend Inspector Beth Lestrade battle an unprecedented crime wave wreaking havoc on this peaceful future. To assist Holmes, the personality of his loyal friend and companion, Dr. John Watson, is programmed into the brain of an android. They quickly lock wits once again with the consummate criminal: Professor James Moriarty, the only adversary...
20) Soul of stars
Author
Series
Iron kingdom duology volume 2
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Once Ana was an orphaned space outlaw. Then she was the Empress of the Iron Kingdom. Now, thought dead by most of the galaxy after she escaped from the dark AI program called the HIVE, Ana is desperate for a way to save Di from the HIVE's evil clutches and take back her kingdom. Ana's only option is to find Starbright, the one person who hacked into the HIVE and lived to tell the tale. But when Ana's desperation costs the crew of the Dossier a terrible...
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