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1) I, robot
Author
Language
English
Description
In a brilliant, chilling series of nine related short stories, the author chronicles robot development from its crude mid-twentieth century beginnings to a state of such perfection that a hundred years later robots are running man's world for his own good. Dr. Asimov has endowed his mechanical creations with disarmingly human personalities -- from Robbie, the beloved, mute nursemaid of an eight-year-old girl, to Stephen Byerley who was elected first...
Author
Series
The Robots books volume 1
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In three stories, best friends Red Robot and Blue Robot learn about how sometimes they can make mistakes or say the wrong things yet still be friends with each other.
3) Sea of rust
Author
Language
English
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Description
"A scavenger robot wanders in the wasteland created by a war that has destroyed humanity in this evocative post-apocalyptic "robot western" from the critically acclaimed author, screenwriter, and noted film critic. It's been thirty years since the apocalypse and fifteen years since the murder of the last human being at the hands of robots. Humankind is extinct. Every man, woman, and child has been liquidated by a global uprising devised by the very...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"For Joanne, her husband Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same."--Back cover.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It was a day like any other. Except it was our last ... As Pounce ponders his suddenly uncertain future, the pieces are falling into place for a robot revolution that will eradicate humankind. His owners, Ezra's parents, are a well-intentioned but oblivious pair of educators who are entirely disconnected from life outside their small, affluent, gated community. Spending most nights drunk and happy as society crumbles around them, they watch in disbelieving...
7) Cool robots
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Master LEGO brick designer Kenney is back with original creations of Robotopolis--robots, transformers, and spaceships. Includes select model instructions, insider tips, and landscape designs for LEGO fans.
Author
Series
Murderbot diaries volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
SecUnit would rather be streaming its favorite shows than protecting the rather fragile human crew it works for, even if it has become somewhat partial to them. Unfortunately, being captured has become a matter of course for the crew's missions, and this time the kidnapping brings SecUnit face-to-face with its pseudo-creator, ART. Turns out that ART, another AI, needs SecUnit's help to rescue it from a hostile takeover by alien remnant technology....
Author
Publisher
Neal Porter Books, Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
When a wooden robot prince forgets to say the magic words that turn his sister from a log into a princess she is thrown away, so he goes on an epic journey to find her and bring her back.
12) Ungifted
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.
13) Nerdycorn
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Meet Fern! She's a smart, creative unicorn who prefers building robots and coding software to jumping through shimmering rainbows and splashing in majestic waterfalls. Even though Fern is a good friend and always willing to help others, the other unicorns tease her and call her a nerdycorn. One day, Fern has had enough and decides to stop fixing her friends' broken things. But then the confetti machine, the rainbow synthesizer, and the starlight...
Author
Series
Clockwork crow volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Orphan Seren Rhys is on her way to a new life at the remote country mansion of Plas-y-Fran when she is given a package by a stranger late at night in an empty train station. The package contains a crotchety, mechanical talking crow, which Seren reluctantly brings to her new home. But when she gets there, the happy Christmas she had hoped for turns out to be an illusion--the young son of the house, Tomos, has been missing for almost a year, rumored...
15) Friendroid
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eric Young is an android, but he doesn?t know. He does know that he?s just moved to Ashland, so it?s important to make the right kind of friends?the kind that would be interested in skateboarding and the new Slick sneakers his Uncle Martin sends him. Danny Lazio doesn?t have any friends, but he doesn?t care. Even if his classmates don?t accept him, he still has Land X, the online role play game that he?s actually really good at. But then Eric takes...
16) Chopping mall
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
High tech robots equipped with state-of-the-art security devices are the new mechanical 'night watchmen' for the Park Plaza Mall. When a lightening bolt short circuits the main computer control, the robots turn into killbots.
Author
Series
Hilo volume 5
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
193 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As D.J., Gina, Hilo and Izzy go on another adventure together, Hilo gets even closer to answering the questions of his past. But the shocking answers he gets are not the ones he expected or wanted"--
Author
Series
Zita the spacegirl volume 2
Publisher
First Second
Language
English
Formats
Description
Zita is determined to find her way home to Earth, but her exploits have made her an intergalactic megastar, and as her true self is eclipsed by her public persona, she faces a robot doppelganger, unsure of who she can trust.
Author
Series
Hilo volume 8
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
209 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The earth has been remade and magical creatures are everywhere-now Gina, DJ, and Hilo have to find the key to turn the world back to what it was"--
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